:00:11. > :00:14.The top stories. South Korea plans to break up its
:00:15. > :00:20.Coast Guard is the president apologises for the ferry disaster
:00:21. > :00:25.that left hundreds dead. TRANSLATION: I could not sleep in
:00:26. > :00:31.anguish, thinking of the pain that many students who have not bloomed
:00:32. > :00:35.yet. The final was possibility is placed on me.
:00:36. > :00:38.Serbia and Bosnia call for international help to rescue people
:00:39. > :00:43.trapped by the worst flooding since records began.
:00:44. > :00:48.An evacuation is under way in way in Vietnam as paging brings its
:00:49. > :00:52.citizens home following a wave of anti-Chinese riots.
:00:53. > :00:55.And, how one artist is writing in the sand to express her feelings
:00:56. > :01:17.about her homeland. Hello, welcome.
:01:18. > :01:22.South Korea's president has announced plans to break up the
:01:23. > :01:29.Coast Guard in the wake of the ferry disaster. More than 300 people, most
:01:30. > :01:32.schoolchildren, died when the Sewol sank. She formally apologised for
:01:33. > :01:44.the sinking and said that a new safety agency would handle any
:01:45. > :01:49.rescue difficulties. She has made a tearful apology, but it is a month
:01:50. > :01:54.on, why has it taken so long? That is a question that a lot of South
:01:55. > :01:58.Koreans will be asking. She has apologised before, personally, to
:01:59. > :02:03.families, but to make this national address does appear to come rather
:02:04. > :02:12.late. It looks like a damage limitation exercise, her party and
:02:13. > :02:18.approval rating has taken a huge hit in the polls, her approval rating is
:02:19. > :02:23.down from 70% to below 50%. In this address, she has tried to show that
:02:24. > :02:29.she is in tune with the public mood. She had tears in her eyes. She has
:02:30. > :02:34.also tried to offer changes, the breaking up of the coastguard
:02:35. > :02:39.agency, but also, talking about the problem that Koreans are aware of,
:02:40. > :02:43.the collusion between big business and government and bureaucrats. She
:02:44. > :02:48.is proposing some concrete measures which will try to get to grips with
:02:49. > :02:51.what many people see a fit with the problem. It is a desperately sad
:02:52. > :02:56.event, so many people on board, still 18 people whose bodies are
:02:57. > :03:03.missing, the ship is still under water. Yes, the death toll is
:03:04. > :03:07.approaching 300, there is a fear that some of the bodies will never
:03:08. > :03:12.be recovered, because the ship went down in very fast currents, and some
:03:13. > :03:17.of the bodies were found quite a long way away. The reaction has been
:03:18. > :03:22.an extraordinary show of collective grief in South Korea. People are
:03:23. > :03:26.asking, how could this happen in such a developed country? Although
:03:27. > :03:33.she is talking about the Coast Guard, and a lot of people believe
:03:34. > :03:37.the real cause was the shipping company and the collusion with
:03:38. > :03:39.bureaucrats and regulators, who allowed it to be overloaded, who
:03:40. > :03:44.allowed modifications to the structure, which seem to have
:03:45. > :03:53.destabilised it. It went down in coastal waters on a routine trip,
:03:54. > :03:57.the weather was not especially bad. At least five people have been
:03:58. > :04:03.killed and dozens injured in a car bomb attack in northern Nigeria. The
:04:04. > :04:10.blast in Kano targeted a popular restaurant strip in the mainly
:04:11. > :04:14.Christian area. It has previously been targeted by Boko Haram, and it
:04:15. > :04:20.comes a day after Nigeria and its neighbours agreed to coordinate
:04:21. > :04:26.action against the group. It was a fairly powerful car bomb,
:04:27. > :04:31.not much left of the vehicle, other than the engine, that is the power
:04:32. > :04:39.of it. A lot of injured people taken off to the hospitals. Boko Haram has
:04:40. > :04:44.hit Kano before, and car bombs are a popular choice of the use of force
:04:45. > :04:49.by the fighters, the Islamist militant group. Kano had been pretty
:04:50. > :04:55.quiet for over a year, there had been a fairly strong security
:04:56. > :04:59.presence there, there were vigilante groups and self defence groups set
:05:00. > :05:02.up following other attacks, and there have been some terrible
:05:03. > :05:08.attacks there in recent years, the biggest of which, at the beginning
:05:09. > :05:13.of 2012, more than 150 people were killed in a series of attacks across
:05:14. > :05:19.the city. So Kano has seen terrible bombings before, but people there
:05:20. > :05:23.will be very worried, because they had thought that their city was
:05:24. > :05:28.again safe. Any update on the fate of those missing girls, and
:05:29. > :05:33.generally, the international response and the Nigerian government
:05:34. > :05:39.response? Not a word on whether there has been any progress on
:05:40. > :05:42.locating them. The latest information is that this British
:05:43. > :05:47.surveillance aircraft is on its way to the region. It will be based out
:05:48. > :05:51.of the Ghanaian capital, and over the next two days, it should begin
:05:52. > :05:58.to fly over the north-east to help in the search for the missing girls.
:05:59. > :06:02.They are believed to be held in the dense bushy areas of the north-east.
:06:03. > :06:06.Some people will say that the aircraft really would have been very
:06:07. > :06:10.useful when the ministers were driving these girls around the
:06:11. > :06:14.north-east in trucks, that is when it would have been easy to locate
:06:15. > :06:19.them and see the movement of these vehicles moving the gills around the
:06:20. > :06:24.north-east. But even if the aircraft manages to locate them and the
:06:25. > :06:28.position where they are being held, it will be difficult for any
:06:29. > :06:32.military operation by the Nigerian forces to go in and rescue them, so
:06:33. > :06:40.some people are still pinning their hopes on a negotiation, an agreement
:06:41. > :06:44.to try to release some of them. A large international aid operation
:06:45. > :06:47.is under way in Bosnia and Serbia following the worst flooding there
:06:48. > :06:54.since records began. The River Slava, which flows from Croatia,
:06:55. > :06:57.through Bosnia and into Serbia, burst its banks after the equivalent
:06:58. > :07:04.of three months rain fell in just three days. The town of Obrenovac
:07:05. > :07:08.has borne the brunt of the flooding. More than 35 people have died and
:07:09. > :07:13.thousands of people have lost their homes. Helicopters sent by the
:07:14. > :07:18.European Union and the United States and Russia have been trying to
:07:19. > :07:25.evacuate people from the area, local volunteers are also helping to
:07:26. > :07:29.distribute food, clothing and water. We have already seen tens of
:07:30. > :07:35.thousands of people having to leave their homes, both in Serbia and in
:07:36. > :07:40.Bosnia, also reports of eastern Croatia, flooding there. There is a
:07:41. > :07:44.massive effort, emergency services from those countries, but there has
:07:45. > :07:44.also been cooperation. You will see flags from
:07:45. > :07:49.from those countries, but there has also been cooperation. You places
:07:50. > :07:55.like Macedonia and Slovenia, joining in their former Yugoslav countries
:07:56. > :07:59.in these rescue efforts, as well as wider efforts from the international
:08:00. > :08:09.community, planes arriving from Russia, the EU, the United Nations.
:08:10. > :08:18.My guest lives south of Belgrade, he told me about the flooding outside
:08:19. > :08:24.the capital. Outside the area and inside and in
:08:25. > :08:30.the West, they are even bigger. Some areas are not in danger, but the
:08:31. > :08:37.whole area is a disaster, and those people are in chaos, they suffered
:08:38. > :08:44.from a huge earthquake three years ago, and they are now suffering from
:08:45. > :08:54.floods. What else could be facing them? Escaping from Kosovo, an
:08:55. > :09:01.earthquake, then floods. One man, his clothes were all in mud, is wife
:09:02. > :09:10.was crying, looking at the furniture being given away. We have got
:09:11. > :09:17.pictures, the water looks pretty high, how high are the waters? What
:09:18. > :09:20.are people doing? Are they just leaving completely? Are they trying
:09:21. > :09:28.are people doing? Are they just to rescue their belongings? It is a
:09:29. > :09:38.huge mess. They are going back home. They are trying to save what is
:09:39. > :09:44.possible to be saved. Most of those people are trying to take any
:09:45. > :09:51.belongings from their homes, but it is mostly ruined and damaged,
:09:52. > :09:53.belongings from their homes, but it unfavourable condition. How much
:09:54. > :10:00.help you getting from the government? It is a huge disaster,
:10:01. > :10:00.and it is obvious there is a lack of organisational skills amongst the
:10:01. > :10:09.authorities. People say it would organisational skills amongst the
:10:10. > :10:13.silly to complain, but you decide to help.
:10:14. > :10:19.silly to complain, but you decide to people being evacuated, where
:10:20. > :10:21.silly to complain, but you decide to they going? They mostly have
:10:22. > :10:30.relatives around, and there are a couple of centres. They are getting
:10:31. > :10:39.all they need in their centres, drinkable boards, hygiene, and
:10:40. > :10:44.something like food, they will be more than grateful for that,
:10:45. > :10:49.especially in these areas that have no roads at all.
:10:50. > :10:53.The first defence witness has started giving evidence at the trial
:10:54. > :10:59.of the former Bosnian Serb military commander that, ditch. He is on
:11:00. > :11:02.trial in the Hague, accused of genocide, crimes against humanity
:11:03. > :11:09.and war crimes committed during the conflict in the 1990s. The witness
:11:10. > :11:12.gave evidence on the use of snipers in Sarajevo. He denied that his
:11:13. > :11:17.soldiers had access to rivals with magnifying sites.
:11:18. > :11:20.In other news, the Libyan government has called for an end to military
:11:21. > :11:23.action following a weekend of violence which culminated in the
:11:24. > :11:27.storming of the parliament building in Tripoli by a heavily armed
:11:28. > :11:33.militia. Two people were killed and more than 50 injured when the
:11:34. > :11:35.attempted coup happened. They are calling for those responsible to be
:11:36. > :11:40.prosecuted. Two Chinese workers in Myanmar have
:11:41. > :11:45.been kidnapped by anti-mining activists. A statement said the
:11:46. > :11:49.men, working for a subcontractor, were taken from a region in the
:11:50. > :11:54.north of the country on Sunday, along with a Burnley 's colleague.
:11:55. > :11:59.Three people arrested in Turkey by police investigating the mining
:12:00. > :12:03.disaster are facing a charge of causing multiple deaths. They are
:12:04. > :12:07.among 16 people still being questioned by the prosecutors. The
:12:08. > :12:11.expression and fire on Tuesday said carbon monoxide into the tunnels,
:12:12. > :12:18.claiming 300 lives. Stay with us, much more to come.
:12:19. > :12:21.Concerns carved in the shifting sands, why one artist fears Crimea
:12:22. > :12:29.could be slipping through her fingers.
:12:30. > :12:32.The president of South Sudan has told the BBC his country faces
:12:33. > :12:40.famine unless the current conflict comes to an end. Speaking on Hard
:12:41. > :12:51.Talk, Salva Kiir said it is -- said the central aid agencies are allowed
:12:52. > :12:54.to work freely. He has accused his colleague of increasing tension
:12:55. > :12:55.between the peoples. The World Food Programme director
:12:56. > :12:58.said it is no longer a question of said it is no longer a question
:12:59. > :13:04.whether people buy of hunger in South Sudan, it is a question of how
:13:05. > :13:10.many. He is concerned that your government does not understand how
:13:11. > :13:19.serious this is. We understand. It is not our making. It is a man-made
:13:20. > :13:33.disaster. This is why we won the war to stop, so that we allow the
:13:34. > :13:37.humanitarian access. The population is going to face one of the worst
:13:38. > :13:44.famine that has ever been witnessed in South Sudan. This is the time
:13:45. > :13:52.coming. You are using the word famine? Yes, people will starve to
:13:53. > :13:58.death. You sit here is the president and you tell me that you believe
:13:59. > :14:02.your people are facing famine? How do you feel about that? Is that not
:14:03. > :14:09.something which suggests you have failed? Do you want me to deny that
:14:10. > :14:16.if this thing continues, there will be no famine? I cannot deny it.
:14:17. > :14:23.Facts are facts. We have to stop this fighting so that we save the
:14:24. > :14:30.people's lives, so the people do not die. Of hunger.
:14:31. > :14:38.The South Korean national coastguard is to be disbanded because
:14:39. > :14:41.of its failure to save more lives in last month's ferry disaster.
:14:42. > :14:46.Serbia and Bosnia call for international help to rescue people
:14:47. > :14:54.from inundated areas after the worst flooding since modern records began.
:14:55. > :14:59.Two Chinese passenger ships have been in Vietnam, to evacuate Chinese
:15:00. > :15:06.Hundreds of people were taken out of Vietnam by sea - more than 3,000
:15:07. > :15:10.Two Chinese workers were killed and more than 100 injured
:15:11. > :15:13.when a number of Chinese-owned factories were attacked
:15:14. > :15:16.in the wake of a territorial dispute in the South China Sea.
:15:17. > :15:32.With me is Giang Nguyen from the BBC's Vietnamese Service.
:15:33. > :15:40.Why has a dispute in the water escalated to a problem on the land?
:15:41. > :15:48.I think first of all, in Vietnam, as we all know, from scenes at the end
:15:49. > :15:51.of the Vietnam War, the relationship with the northern neighbours China
:15:52. > :15:58.have not been very smooth. There have been some clashes, military,
:15:59. > :16:04.and also a border conflict in 1979. 25 years later, now we have a
:16:05. > :16:09.dispute over the place where the Chinese moved in to what they think
:16:10. > :16:14.is their waters, to set up an expensive oil rig. And that has
:16:15. > :16:21.caused a lot of anger within Vietnamese society. It has also
:16:22. > :16:27.affected parts of the government. They want the Chinese to move back.
:16:28. > :16:32.So, they feel this is Chinese aggression? Yes, that is the way
:16:33. > :16:42.they see it. And then the riots last week cost a number of deaths. Last
:16:43. > :16:46.weekend, people in Vietnam, they were demonstrating in London, in
:16:47. > :16:51.front of the Chinese diplomatic headquarters, or embassy, or
:16:52. > :16:55.consulate, to protest against what they see as Chinese aggression. Now,
:16:56. > :16:58.the Chinese have sent in ships to bring about 3000 workers from a
:16:59. > :17:04.particular factory in the centre of Vietnam, to go home. Are there are a
:17:05. > :17:09.lot of Chinese people working in Vietnam? We do not know the exact
:17:10. > :17:14.figure. The problem is, a lot of Asian companies, like from Taiwan or
:17:15. > :17:17.Hong Kong, they have had factories in Vietnam, but then they bring in
:17:18. > :17:23.Chinese workers to work for them, because they share a common
:17:24. > :17:28.language. And the Vietnamese do not like it, they want a job for
:17:29. > :17:35.themselves. So, a we will have to leave it there. Rochdale indeed.
:17:36. > :17:38.At the start of the year, a safe "baby hatch"
:17:39. > :17:41.was opened in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, giving parents
:17:42. > :17:45.a place to anonymously abandon children they couldn't care for.
:17:46. > :17:47.Just six weeks later, the government had to close
:17:48. > :17:51.the site, after it was overwhelmed with 262 children - all of them
:17:52. > :18:07.Our correspondent Celia Hatton travelled to Guangzhou.
:18:08. > :18:14.If all had gone according to Plan A few weeks ago, these parents would
:18:15. > :18:18.have given away their only child. The child was born with serious leg
:18:19. > :18:22.and spinal deformities, with a large hole in her mouth, making swallowing
:18:23. > :18:26.difficult. Every day she grows thinner. With no money and no
:18:27. > :18:29.government health care, this couple faced a heart-wrenching choice -
:18:30. > :18:34.hold onto their daughter or hand her over to the state, where, in theory,
:18:35. > :18:37.she would receive treatment. They decided to take her to an
:18:38. > :18:44.orphanage. TRANSLATION: Nobody
:18:45. > :18:45.orphanage. away, at least she would have a slim
:18:46. > :18:51.chance of life. I wanted to away, at least she would have a slim
:18:52. > :18:57.after her myself, but my husband asked, what if our daughter dies
:18:58. > :19:02.because we cannot care for her? Fate intervened. Overwhelmed with sick
:19:03. > :19:05.infants, the local children's home stopped accepting new babies just
:19:06. > :19:09.hours before the family arrived. So the child stayed in her mother 's
:19:10. > :19:14.arms. But she is far away from a cure. The abandoned children living
:19:15. > :19:19.in this private foster home in Beijing face a very different set of
:19:20. > :19:22.circumstances. Local orphanages send their most serious cases here. This
:19:23. > :19:27.boy is recovering from a liver transplant. In many ways, these
:19:28. > :19:33.children are the lucky ones. They have access to top notch care. But
:19:34. > :19:38.these kids have also lost a lot as well. Many will never know their
:19:39. > :19:45.biological parents, that is because most children in China are abandoned
:19:46. > :19:49.with slips of paper listing only their birth date. On the streets of
:19:50. > :19:54.Beijing, this father is determined to keep his family intact. He has
:19:55. > :19:57.launched a rare public campaign, pledging to
:19:58. > :20:03.launched a rare public campaign, life for anyone who can fund
:20:04. > :20:06.launched a rare public campaign, a bone marrow transplant is her only
:20:07. > :20:08.launched a rare public campaign, hope, and a donor
:20:09. > :20:10.launched a rare public campaign, But her parents cannot pay for the
:20:11. > :20:17.$96,000 operation. But her parents cannot pay for the
:20:18. > :20:19.from all my relatives, I But her parents cannot pay for the
:20:20. > :20:23.I died, But her parents cannot pay for the
:20:24. > :20:34.because more people would care for us. This couple are relieved that
:20:35. > :20:38.chance kept their daughter with them. But now, this couple is
:20:39. > :20:44.relying on luck, like many other families, to keep her alive.
:20:45. > :20:46.Vladimir Putin has ordered troops currently stationed near Russia's
:20:47. > :20:48.border with Ukraine to withdraw to their permanent bases.
:20:49. > :20:52.In a statement issued by the Kremlin,
:20:53. > :20:55.Mr Putin is quoted as announcing the end of military training exercises.
:20:56. > :20:58.Russia has made similar statements in the past, only for NATO to
:20:59. > :21:02.Tensions remain high in eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian militia
:21:03. > :21:05.like these here near Slaviansk continue to enforce road blocks.
:21:06. > :21:07.Several pro-Russian demonstrations were held over the weekend
:21:08. > :21:16.in eastern Ukrainian cities, where some groups are calling
:21:17. > :21:20.Later this week, Vladimir Putin is flying to Beijing to try to secure
:21:21. > :21:25.Russia's economy is heavily reliant on exports of oil and gas,
:21:26. > :21:28.but its main customer, Europe, wants to reduce its use of Russian
:21:29. > :21:31.energy, especially since the beginning of the crisis in Ukraine.
:21:32. > :21:47.Our Moscow correspondent, Steve Rosenberg, has more.
:21:48. > :21:52.Many economists will tell you that the recipe for a sustained,
:21:53. > :21:57.successful economy is simple - do not put all your eggs in one basket.
:21:58. > :22:00.In other words, diversity is the key. Have an economy which is based
:22:01. > :22:04.on a lot of different things, for example, manufacturing and
:22:05. > :22:10.agriculture and farming. They be new technologies, IT and software? And,
:22:11. > :22:15.for some countries, tourism is a very important source of income. But
:22:16. > :22:21.diversity is not something the Russian economy is known for. Russia
:22:22. > :22:27.has placed all its economic eggs in one basket. It is heavily reliant on
:22:28. > :22:31.one thing - exporting energy, selling its oil and gas. Most of
:22:32. > :22:37.that has been going to Europe. In fact, gas sales to Europe generate
:22:38. > :22:42.80% of the revenue of the Russian energy giant Gazprom. But now there
:22:43. > :22:48.is a problem. Tension over Ukraine means friction with Russia's main
:22:49. > :22:52.customer. European governments are already looking to reduce their
:22:53. > :22:55.dependency on Russian energy. Now, that will not happen overnight, but
:22:56. > :23:01.it is pushing Russia to seek alternative markets and new
:23:02. > :23:06.customers. So, if President Putin can clinch an energy deal with
:23:07. > :23:10.Beijing this week, very soon, Russian gas could be heading to
:23:11. > :23:13.China. It is an agreement the two countries have been talking about
:23:14. > :23:17.for years, but they have been unable to agree on the price. If it is
:23:18. > :23:20.signed, that would be good for China, which has an insatiable
:23:21. > :23:24.appetite for energy to feed its growing economy. And it would allow
:23:25. > :23:28.Russia to turn around to the west and say, you do not want our energy,
:23:29. > :23:32.that is fine, we have found someone else to buy it. Russians have been
:23:33. > :23:37.scrambling to finalise the deal with China, because they know that
:23:38. > :23:43.serious cracks have emerged in Moscow's relationship with the West.
:23:44. > :23:46.Now from eggs to illustrate the repercussions of the Ukraine
:23:47. > :23:52.One Ukrainian artist, Kseniya Simonova, is using her talent with
:23:53. > :23:55.sand and a light box to make her own protest against the violence which
:23:56. > :24:21.As a person of art, I never thought of weapons and war as a way to talk
:24:22. > :24:26.to each other. Never. After everything that has happened, my
:24:27. > :24:30.only message is love. Whatever it is, Ukraine, Russia, Venus, Mars,
:24:31. > :24:36.Jupiter, or the moon, is, Ukraine, Russia, Venus, Mars,
:24:37. > :24:39.Jupiter, or the really, for me, it will still be an amazing place, my
:24:40. > :24:52.beloved city, the city I will never give up. And I will always be happy
:24:53. > :25:01.here, whatever country it is. When I looked at the events which happened,
:25:02. > :25:05.for example, in the West parts of Ukraine, or actually anyplace, when
:25:06. > :25:17.I occasionally see the news, I get upset. First of all, as a mother,
:25:18. > :25:22.because I have a son, and I cannot see him as a person who is engaged
:25:23. > :25:27.in violence. I am sure that all the mothers, of Ukraine, of Russia, of
:25:28. > :25:31.anyplace, they do not want to see their sons and daughters to be
:25:32. > :25:39.engaged in these things and to be killed. I am trying not to watch the
:25:40. > :25:46.news but of course I know what is going on. We are people, not
:25:47. > :25:50.monkeys, not dogs. We are given the greatest treasure of language. We
:25:51. > :26:01.always should speak. We are all brothers - and sisters. For me,
:26:02. > :26:08.things like this are horrible. We have beautiful Ukrainian songs, on
:26:09. > :26:13.which I create sand animation. We have varying cresting Tatar songs,
:26:14. > :26:19.which I use as well. And we have an amazing Russian heritage, with fairy
:26:20. > :26:24.tales, on which I create this animation, too. I am just trying to
:26:25. > :26:31.show the diversity of us. We should look at each other very attentively
:26:32. > :26:40.and understand that each of us is a person who carries the great
:26:41. > :26:46.inheritance. Absolutely amazing, still dazzled by the work of Kseniya
:26:47. > :26:51.Simonova there. Some news coming in from South Korea of an explosion on
:26:52. > :26:57.a subway station, south of Seoul town, which has apparently left 11
:26:58. > :27:01.people injured. Much more coming up on BBC News throughout the day.