20/05/2014 BBC World News

A passenger train hits a freight train in Russia,

Soldiers in Thailand take up positions around the capital

The Army says all sides have to sit down and talk.

At his murder trial, Oscar Pistorius is sent for 30 days

He is an outpatient at the hospital on 26th of May 20 14th at nine a.m..

Angelina Jolie talks to us about her latest film.

There are reports that up to four people have been killed

when a freight train crashed into a passenger train near Moscow.

15 people were reported injured at Bekasovo train station, around

The train was en route from Moscow to the Moldovan capital, Chisinau.

Daniel Sandford is in Moscow following the story for us.

What details are coming in? We have seen the first pictures from the

scene. What appears to have happened is the goods train started to derail

some 16 of the wagons on the goods train seemed to have come off the

rails. At that point, the train from Moscow, a long-distance train was

passing, and the derailed goods wagons have ripped off the sides of

two of the passenger trains carriages. The casualties figures

are unconfirmed at the moment. Reports of three or four dead and 15

injured. The passenger train seems to have stayed on the line. The

problem is that the goods train tore through the side of the train. It

all happened as a town to the south-west of Moscow, about 50, 60,

it is to be south-west of Moscow. Emergency vehicles are on their way

to be seen. The first of the Russian emergency service teams have arrived

there. We will get more information later. The head of military in

Thailand says it will remain in place until peace and order have

been restored. He has called for all sides to talk after declaring

martial law in the early hours of the morning.

place until peace and order have been restored. He has called for He

has been meeting government officials to iron out the details

but insists it is not a coup. After seven months of turmoil, Thailand 's

army has acted. Troops appeared early this morning, blocking roads,

occupying television stations and surrounding the major protest site

of the Government 's redshirt supporters. The army commander, who

has repeatedly stated the military cannot resolve Thailand 's political

deadlock, said he was invoking martial law to protect peace and

stability. He urged the rival groups to stop mobilising but insisted

other business should continue as normal. This is not yet a coup. The

Government insists that although it was not consulted, it is still in

power. Why has the Army act now? -- acted. The anti-government movement

had threatened another final push this week in another attempt to

force the Cabinet from office. They have promised many such final pushes

before. Despite the fall /resignation of the Prime Minister

two weeks ago, they have been unable to unseat the rest of her

government. -- the forced resignation. Much depends on the

response of the pro-government redshirt movement. They have

confined their wellies to the outskirts of Bangkok, avoiding

clashes with rivals. For now, they are urging followers not to confront

the military. They have always said a coup, in any form, would provoke

an angry, possibly armed, reaction from strongholds in the north and

north-east of the country. More analysis on Thailand 's martial law

later in the programme. A South African court has ruled that Oscar

Pistorius will undergo a month of psychiatric tests as an outpatient

before his trial for can continue. The judge has adjourned the case

until the end of next month. She explained what the four

psychiatrists would be trying to establish. Enquire into whether the

accused, by reason of mental illness or mental defect, was, at the time

of the commission of the offence, criminally if -- criminally

responsible for the offences charged, whether he was capable of

appreciating the wrong fullness of his act or acting in accordance with

an appreciation of the wrong fullness of his act. That was the

voice of the judge. Our correspondent told me more from the

court in Pretoria. She arrived late into the courtroom and started

giving details in the order she gave last week that Oscar Pistorius will

be sent to a medical observation centre for a period of 30 days. She

said the centre would be a psychiatric hospital. He will be

observed by three psychiatrists and a psychologist. He must report their

on observed by three psychiatrists and

a psychologist. He 26th of May from 9am to 4pm daily as an outpatient.

Do we know what the tests will be and why is it happening now at this

stage of the trial? This is for Oscar Pistorius to be mentally

evaluated, whether the condition known as generalised anxiety

disorder had any effect of him on 14th of February lasting when he

shot and killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. That is the purpose

of the information that was requested by the prosecutor. That is

what we expect for Oscar Pistorius to happen now. On 26 of May, he will

report to the psychiatric hospital and that will run for 30 days. The

court will resume here in Pretoria on the 30th of June at 9:30 a.m.. In

other news, China has summoned the American ambassador over Washington

's decision to charge five Chinese military officials with economic

cyber espionage. Beijing denies allegations its officers hacked into

American companies to steal trade secrets. Abu Hamza has been

convicted by a jury in New York of 11 terrorism charges. He could now

face life in prison. The Egyptian born cleric lived for many years in

London before being deported to the US EPA has been found guilty of

involvement in the abduction of 16 tourists in Yemen and of providing

material to support Al-Qaeda, assisting the Taliban and sending

material to support Al-Qaeda, terror recruits to Afghanistan. The

BJP has started putting together a new government by formally choosing

a Prime Minister. The move follows a resounding victory in national

elections last week. He will now meet the Indian president. Credits

wheeze has pleaded guilty to helping clients dodge US taxes. -- Credit

Suisse. It agreed to pay a fine. It could lose its US banking licence.

More from Washington. The outcome was a victory for the Justice

Department. Credit Suisse is the biggest bank to be guilty to

criminal charges in the US in more than 20 years. The US Attorney

General said the bank helped American clients to dodge US taxes.

The course of these activities, Credit Suisse to seed the IRS, the

Federal Reserve as well as the United States Department of Justice.

The bank went to elaborate lengths to shield itself from accountability

for criminal actions. The Swiss financial giant will not lose its

banking licence in the US but net profit will be reduced by $1.8

billion in the second quarter. The chief executive of Credit Suisse

said, in a statement, we deeply regret the past misconduct that led

to the settlement. Having the matter fully resolved as an important step

forward for us. We have seen no material impact on our business in

the past several weeks. He already apologised in February to the US

Congress. Then, lawmakers rebuked the Department of Justice for

failing to identify tax dodgers. The department now feels it has made big

strides in addressing that. They are with a great deal of information to

determine to determine where the accounts went, how many cans they

had, the size of the accounts. There is going to substantial amount of

information we will get to enable us to find out who the counter will

disarm and take the appropriate action. No question there is a

bigger target and that is the banks. There has been the perception that

the perception that US comment has failed to crack down on the bad

behaviour of banks in the last decade, at least because of their

role in the financial crisis. With this guilty plea from a major

international bank, it is clear it is a perception they are trying to

water. -- altar. The countdown is under way to European elections next

week. The polls are neck and neck in France. Orange was once the cradle

of the French steel industry. An urban landscape, defined by its past

glory. The steel plant was the heart and soul. Life was a daily pattern

of eight hour shifts. The men that poured through the gates

manufactured steel for the French railway. As the Eurozone imploded,

the owners shut the surviving firmness. With it when the spirit of

the town. -- furnace. Workers told me of broken promises from

successive governments. Is it any wonder the town has the right?

Eleanor Chris steel towns like this were an the beginning -- steel towns

like this were there at the beginning of the dream. Now it is

not the showcase it once was. In this global race, people here feel

forgotten, ignored. They are left behind. The high street is dying.

Two thirds of people here earn so little they are not even liable for

income tax. A growing number are dependent on a charity food bank.

This former steelworker comes here every week.

TRANSLATION: We are suffering and yet we are competing with

immigrants. The French need help as well. Two months ago, the town

turned to the new mayor. Polls suggest half the industrial workers

in eastern France will also vote for the far right in these upcoming

European elections. The vote must send a message, he says, that Europe

is no longer working. The success is a particular threat to the

centre-right UMP. Voters know that jobs and growth lie within the

European Union. Tell that to the people here. People do not

understand that everything was sold to the concept of competition.

Competition is important. We have to be competitive. At what cost,

socially speaking? In this region, they once stood for you -- Europe

but no more. It is about Patrick Chisholm and returning to old

boundaries and old certainties. -- patriotism. Much more to come on BBC

News. What is inside an Egyptian mummy? Medical scans reveal the

secrets beneath the bandages. Could it be the most expensive divorce in

history? A court in Geneva has awarded $4.5 billion to the ex-wife

of a Russian billionaire. His former wife, who is not the woman standing

next to him in that picture, she won the pay-out after a six-year

dispute. He owns the French football company a S Monaco. He is known as

the fertiliser king after making a fortune mining potash. It will cost

him around half his estimated wealth. I think, if you live in

Switzerland with someone who is worth a lot of money, the courts

have been very fair. It is 50/50 with this one. Elena has woken up

with a settlement of $4.5 billion. It is more than Credit Suisse was

fine this morning for encouraging tax evasion. It is a vast sum of

money and some prime real estate in Switzerland. This is the fashion

centre of the Alps and also the most expensive part of Geneva. Why did

she deserve so much of the fortune? She has been at his side for 24

years. The last six years have been acrimonious over the last fortune.

Like many acrimonious over the last fortune.

countries now, the Swiss legal system is trying to look at marriage

as a partnership in which, if only one works in a really full on job,

fertiliser king, I think he had a demanding job, his wife was by his

side. She contributed to that fortune. That is or was the argument

made in these cases and it was split 50/50.

This is BBC World News, the latest headlines.

A passenger train has hit a freight train in Russia 60 kilometres

from Moscow, at least four people are believed to have died.

Soldiers in Thailand have taken up positions around the capital

a coup and that all sides have to sit down and talk.

Let's stay with that story, the imposition of martial law

The Thai military has a long history of coups, so many analysts are

questioning whether the announcement is a coup in all but name.

is writer and broadcaster Rachel Harvey,

who worked in Thailand for many years.

The army are insisting it is not a clue, but when you have curves and

freedoms of speech, the army clue, but when you have curves and

up a special council and appointing the head of the military to its

head, ENIAC government agencies being called in for meetings, it

looks and feels like a clue. It could yet become a formal coup if

the general decides that the current caretaker government has to go, but

we will have to see what is next move will be. For those

we will have to see what is next know the country as well as you, how

have we got here? Well, know the country as well as you, how

why we have got here now is because the two groups

why we have got here now is because years, one is currently on the

outskirts of Bangkok, years, one is currently on the

broadly supportive of the current government

broadly supportive of the current Shinawatra. They are in one

broadly supportive of the current Bangkok. Anti-government protesters

have been trying to bring down this government for the past six months,

they are in the centre of Bangkok, and the military feared they could

be a direct confrontation between the groups. It probably felt that it

would be called in to sort out that violence further down the road if it

did not act now. It is kind of the lesser of

instability in Thailand, and it matters in the region. It does,

Thailand has been a Bastian of democracy for so long and a key ally

of Western nations, including the United States. It is one of the

fastest-growing economies in the region, and it is important that

Thailand remain stable, but it does not been since the last military

coup of 2006. The military says it has moved now to try and impose

stability to prevent further bloodshed and impose some kind of

order, but having made that move, it is now incumbent on the military to

try and chart a course forward. That is not it all clear, it is not a

position that the general wanted to be in. He has rejected this. Time. I

suspect he would not have done it unless someone had asked him to all

the Palace had given at least tacit approval.

Here in Europe, Bosnia says more than a quarter of its entire

population has been left without clean water

following the worst flooding since modern records began.

The country's Foreign Minister has described the damage as terrifying.

Help is arriving from Europe, America and Russia.

The pictures we are seeing now have just been released by rescue workers

They airlifted a baby from its flooded house in the Bosnian

You can just see the baby being pulled up.

They say the rest of the baby's family was evacuated later on.

For more on the situation in the region, here's Alpa Patel.

consuming roads, homes and whole villages.

Here in Bosnia, the conditions are presenting formidable challenges.

This team swooped in to rescue a frightened elderly woman

who has now lost her home and all her possessions.

But it's not just the flooding that is causing alarm.

The landslides are absolutely destroying the country.

We have registered about more than 2000 landslides.

If I just tell you that we have about 9400 minefields,

which altogether have over 120 mines, under landslides.

He went on to compare the damage to the civil war which ended in 1995.

Officials believe about 1 million people

live in the worst affected areas alone.

Communities are being tested, but they are coming together too

to do what they can for their neighbours and other survivors.

In neighbouring Serbia, the pictures tell a similar story.

The country's Prime Minister seemed overwhelmed

when asked about the cost of the damage.

We cannot seriously and responsibly estimate

and make a real assessment of the damage.

But I can say it is hundreds of millions.

A large international aid operation is in full swing

with help from the European Union, United States and Russia.

with people in desperate need of essentials.

Officials in Bosnia say about 1 million people,

that's a quarter of the country's population,

Now, she is an award-winning actress, a film director and UN

ambassador and the mother of six young children, one of whom appears

in latest film. Angelina Jolie is playing the role of a witch who

places a curse on Sleeping Beauty. Louise Minchin caught up with her to

talk about the movie. Well, well! Maleficent, was she one

of your favourite characters when you were growing up? She is the

baddie, really, of Sleeping Beauty. Yes, and when I was little, I did

like her more than I liked Sleeping Beauty. I thought Sleeping Beauty

was, in that version, in the 1950s, she was a very 1950s Princess,

waiting for Prince Charming to save her. I thought Maleficent was so

elegant and powerful and deliciously wicked. Your humanitarian work is

well-known, you are very dedicated to that. It started with Lara Croft

in Cambodia, is that right? I... It was the first time I was in

Cambodia, I think we all have a moment when we kind of question how

much we know in our education and what we have been told, and we

realise that we have to do our own digging and our own research and

realise that we have to do our own digging and our own research find

out what the truth is really for us. And

digging and our own research find out what the truth is at the time

there was a lot of violence in Sierra Leone, so I did a lot of

research, and then I asked to go to Sierra Leone. I went, and it was the

first time I was in that kind of a situation. My whole life changed, I

realised how sheltered and fortunate I was, and I felt horrible, for ever

having been self-destructive or self pitying, because in comparison to

what people really go through. I am so blessed, and I just felt a

responsibility to be a better person. Lot of people will want to

know how you are health-wise, are you well? It is very nice that they

would be concerned, I am doing very well. I feel very happy that I made

the choice I made, and I will follow up with the other surgery at some

point, because my brother had breast and ovarian cancer. And I am very

happy to have started, you know, my life now... I meet so many women, we

talk about these issues. So many people have done what must be a

tough decision because of what you have done, is that a weight on your

shoulders? I have received a letter the other day from a woman who said

that she got checked and found out that she had it, and she had already

been through the surgery, she is home and with her kids. Just for

that letter, just for that one, it is very moving to me. It has been a

pleasure, thank you very much. Thank you.

Angelina Jolie, looking stunning there talking to Louise Minchin.

For thousands of years, their identities have been a mystery.

But now researchers at the British Museum can reveal

the secrets beneath the bandages of eight Egyptian mummies.

New scans can tell their age, what they ate,

the diseases they suffered from and how they died.

Researchers probed them to build up a three definition

sites which were used as mustering points for the military personnel

who came to fight in the Second World War. I'm not sure what they

made of all that! A reminder of our main news this hour. Thailand's

military says martial law will remain in place until peace and

order restored. remain in place until peace and

patrolling the streets of Bangkok and key locations outside the

capital, but the army insists it has not staged a coup. This is BBC World

News, we are back, of course, throughout the day. See you soon.

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