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:00:12. > :00:14.main headlines... Thailand's military chief moves to strengthen

:00:15. > :00:19.his grip on power one day after staging a coup. The former Prime

:00:20. > :00:31.Minister has answered a summons to appear at an army base.

:00:32. > :00:36.The International Criminal Court sends a former Congolese militia

:00:37. > :00:39.leader to prison for war crimes. A second person dies in Turkey after

:00:40. > :00:41.clashes between produced and protesters angry at last week's

:00:42. > :01:16.mining disaster. Hello. 24 hours after staging a

:01:17. > :01:20.military coup in Thailand, the country has -- the military has

:01:21. > :01:25.moved quickly to strengthen its grip on power. The military leader has

:01:26. > :01:28.declared himself Prime Minister. He has already summoned the former

:01:29. > :01:34.Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to an army base. Our reporter has

:01:35. > :01:40.more. On this, the second day of the coup, Thailand's political leaders

:01:41. > :01:44.were summoned to a military building in the centre of Bangkok. Amongst

:01:45. > :01:50.them, the former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. The Army

:01:51. > :01:57.ordered them to attend a meeting here or face arrest, and said they

:01:58. > :02:01.cannot leave the country. The worrying thing from the point of

:02:02. > :02:05.view as the Army is that they want to prevent the establishment of any

:02:06. > :02:08.form of opposition overseas, or any form of exile government or

:02:09. > :02:13.opposition internally, so they are going to crackdown on political

:02:14. > :02:18.actors. In another key step to exert their control, troops this morning

:02:19. > :02:21.took down the protest camps of the pro and anti-government groups who

:02:22. > :02:26.have been demonstrating on the streets of Bangkok for months,

:02:27. > :02:30.causing political deadlock. The military seems determined to prevent

:02:31. > :02:34.any opposition to the coup developing, even though its takeover

:02:35. > :02:39.has been condemned by some of Thailand's most important allies.

:02:40. > :02:45.The Secretary of State has said there is no he has called for the

:02:46. > :02:50.immediate restoration of civilian authority. I might add, Secretary

:02:51. > :02:54.Kelly has called for a review of all US assistance and engagement with

:02:55. > :03:00.Thailand, especially with the Thai military. These initial days of the

:03:01. > :03:05.coup have remained peaceful so far, with live seeming to go on quite

:03:06. > :03:07.normally. Although schools are closed and both national and

:03:08. > :03:13.international broadcasters have been taken off the air here.

:03:14. > :03:17.TRANSLATION: At first I was surprised and I thought it would

:03:18. > :03:23.affect my life in many ways. But after several we thinks, I realised

:03:24. > :03:26.military protection makes me safe. I do not feel anything that affected

:03:27. > :03:34.if to happen anyway, it was just a matter of when. The army generals

:03:35. > :03:36.who seized power incest their goal is to stabilise the country and

:03:37. > :03:44.implements the form. But it is a very high risk strategy which could

:03:45. > :03:48.easily backfire. -- insist. Certainly, the streets of Bangkok

:03:49. > :03:53.have been mostly calm, but just half an hour ago, our correspondent Jonah

:03:54. > :03:58.Fisher found a small demonstration calling for the Army to stand down.

:03:59. > :04:02.I am in the centre of Bangkok at the moment. Up until now, the military

:04:03. > :04:06.government has managed pretty much to stop there being any public shows

:04:07. > :04:17.of resistance against the military takeover of power here. But in the

:04:18. > :04:26.last 10- then 15 minutes, there is a sitting down protest through there.

:04:27. > :04:34.And then, if you look around this way, more demonstrators. And up

:04:35. > :04:37.here, this is the sky train. Those of you who have been to Bangkok will

:04:38. > :04:45.know that this runs right through the centre. Just a short while ago,

:04:46. > :04:49.we had soldiers around here, because this demonstration is now illegal

:04:50. > :04:55.and the rules which have been brought in by the coup authorities

:04:56. > :04:59.have made it so. There was a bit of a stand-off, they attempted to

:05:00. > :05:03.negotiate with the demonstrators, and it was quite remarkable, what we

:05:04. > :05:10.saw, the demonstrators pushed back against the soldiers, the soldiers

:05:11. > :05:21.were outnumbered, and they shouted out, elections, elections, give us

:05:22. > :05:27.back our power! If we come back through here, the official protest

:05:28. > :05:31.camps have really been disbanded now, and this is a different group

:05:32. > :05:38.of people, in many ways, expressing their frustration. What will be

:05:39. > :05:42.interesting to see is how long the military will allow this. It is also

:05:43. > :05:47.interesting looking at the pictures which you are sending us that there

:05:48. > :05:51.are no red shirts or yellow shirts, no colours to signify who these

:05:52. > :05:57.people are, might they be from both sides of the political divide? No, I

:05:58. > :06:02.do not think they are from both sides. They are certainly not from

:06:03. > :06:06.what we would broadly call the yellow shirt movement. Most of the

:06:07. > :06:11.people here are actually wearing black, they have got candles being

:06:12. > :06:16.used in that little memorial down there, I think this is more of a

:06:17. > :06:21.wake for democracy than anything else. Very brave in many ways for

:06:22. > :06:27.these people to have come out like this, because all gatherings of more

:06:28. > :06:31.than five people are now in legal in Thailand, and the military could

:06:32. > :06:35.very well decide it does not want to tolerate this. Because of the media

:06:36. > :06:41.censorship in the country, how much of this will get around the country,

:06:42. > :06:44.do you think? Through the main television stations, next to

:06:45. > :06:50.nothing, they have been taken over by the military. Some of it will be

:06:51. > :06:53.aborted in the newspapers. But it is through social media, nothing

:06:54. > :06:59.effective has yet been done to shut down social media, so pictures of

:07:00. > :07:06.this will no doubt be circulating on Facebook and Twitter. It has to be

:07:07. > :07:12.said, not a big demonstration but a show of defiance against the

:07:13. > :07:15.military leadership, and who knows, possibly something which other

:07:16. > :07:21.people will see and want to replicate for themselves. Some other

:07:22. > :07:25.stories - reports from Syria say rebels have shelled supporters of

:07:26. > :07:30.President Assad at an election gathering, killing at least 20

:07:31. > :07:34.people, many of them civilians. Syrian state media says the

:07:35. > :07:38.president was not at the gathering. The US Coastguard has announced it

:07:39. > :07:42.will be suspending the search for four British sailors if nothing is

:07:43. > :07:46.found by Friday night. The crew of the Cheeki Rafiki were sailing back

:07:47. > :07:50.to the UK from Antigua when it went missing last week.

:07:51. > :08:02.Russia has accused the West of triggering the Ukraine crisis, one

:08:03. > :08:08.day after 14 Ukraine soldiers were killed. A top general said Moscow

:08:09. > :08:13.would respond to what he described as increased NATO activity near its

:08:14. > :08:18.border. The International Criminal Court has

:08:19. > :08:21.sentenced the four Congolese military leader Germain Katanga to

:08:22. > :08:25.12 years in prison for war crimes. He is responsible for the massacre

:08:26. > :08:30.of hundreds of civilians in an attack in 2003, and has been found

:08:31. > :08:37.guilty of war crimes. He is only the second person to be convicted by the

:08:38. > :08:42.ICC since it was set up in 2002. It took the judges one hour to reach

:08:43. > :08:46.the sentencing pointed. He has been sentenced to 12 years for war crimes

:08:47. > :08:52.and crimes against humanity. The judges pointed out he has already

:08:53. > :08:56.spent 6.5 years in custody, and that time will be deducted. During the

:08:57. > :09:01.sentencing, they referred to some of the attacks, and it was one attack

:09:02. > :09:05.on a village in the early hours of the morning, when many villagers

:09:06. > :09:11.were still asleep, when these militia attacked with their machetes

:09:12. > :09:16.and guns, and the judge said the attackers literally carved up their

:09:17. > :09:20.victims limb by limb. At the end they talked about the mitigating

:09:21. > :09:25.circumstances, the fact that Germain Katanga was so young at the time, 24

:09:26. > :09:30.years old, and the fact that he has a young family, six children. Those

:09:31. > :09:33.are some of the things they discussed before reaching this

:09:34. > :09:39.second sentence in the history of the ICC. This was in 2003 - did the

:09:40. > :09:43.court discuss at all whether he may have any supporters back at home,

:09:44. > :09:55.and do we know what their potential reaction might be? The situation

:09:56. > :09:59.back in the village is of course important. This village was wiped

:10:00. > :10:04.out. The judge said their intention was to wipe the village off the map.

:10:05. > :10:07.They spoke about how many of the villagers did not want to return,

:10:08. > :10:12.all of the homes were burned down and looted, the militia stole the

:10:13. > :10:18.rules of the houses, the animals in the yard. So there are not people

:10:19. > :10:25.there now who will remember this happening. They say Germain Katanga

:10:26. > :10:30.has still got the potential to reform, and that is why they have

:10:31. > :10:36.given him what many will see is a relatively small sentence. Although

:10:37. > :10:41.we have heard from one victims group which has said that this will act as

:10:42. > :10:46.a warning that these crimes cannot go unpunished. A court in China has

:10:47. > :10:52.sentenced to death a former mining tycoon who was charged with running

:10:53. > :10:56.a Mafia style gang. He is one of China's richest men, who is thought

:10:57. > :11:04.to have right to a former security chief who is under house arrest. He

:11:05. > :11:08.and his brother were found guilty of running a criminal gang which

:11:09. > :11:12.controlled gaming machines. Before the football World Cup gets under

:11:13. > :11:16.way in Brazil, there is still the small matter of the final of the

:11:17. > :11:24.Champions League. It takes place in Lisbon on Saturday evening. If you

:11:25. > :11:28.like to bet, bet on the fact that Madrid will win! It is the first

:11:29. > :11:31.time in footballing history that two teams from the same city meet in the

:11:32. > :11:37.final of a major European competition. Real Madrid and

:11:38. > :11:44.Atletico Madrid face-off in the final of this season's Champions

:11:45. > :11:47.League. With their home ground here in the south of the city, Atletico

:11:48. > :11:51.Madrid won the Spanish league title last weekend for the first time in

:11:52. > :11:59.nearly two decades. The club have never won European foot will's top

:12:00. > :12:07.prize. Just four miles away, in the north of Madrid, at the burn about

:12:08. > :12:17.stadium, Real Madrid fans are hoping to win this trophy for the 10th

:12:18. > :12:21.time. Two clubs, two sets of fans, and generally speaking, it is not

:12:22. > :12:31.just a north-south divide. Real Madrid fans are generally known to

:12:32. > :12:36.be a bit more posh. Atletico is more associated with Madrid's working

:12:37. > :12:45.class. Like this fruit and veg shop owner. Atletico Madrid, they are a

:12:46. > :12:49.little brother, they are never winning anything. We were even

:12:50. > :12:54.feeling bad for them. That was something they did not like, they

:12:55. > :12:59.hated it. TRANSLATION: Real Madrid is all about money, they buy players

:13:00. > :13:04.worth 100 million euros, Gareth Bale, Cristiano Ronaldo. They their

:13:05. > :13:09.team. We have a team which is made, that is what makes us proud. For

:13:10. > :13:16.some in this city, football is a love hate relationship. Like this

:13:17. > :13:22.couple. TRANSLATION: Real Madrid fans are a

:13:23. > :13:27.bit pompous, they go to the games, sit down quietly, eat snacks, they

:13:28. > :13:33.do this a bit. They do not cheer very much. They are boring.

:13:34. > :13:37.TRANSLATION: Real Madrid has always been a club with a great history.

:13:38. > :13:38.Atletico has always been a club which is fighting, with little

:13:39. > :13:49.money. Once the game is over, one half of

:13:50. > :13:54.Madrid will celebrate. That is the City Hall. It is here where Real

:13:55. > :14:00.Madrid fans will hope to be party income the final whistle. But just

:14:01. > :14:12.500 metres south down this famous avenue, this is the place where

:14:13. > :14:24.Atletico Madrid fans hope they will be celebrating late into the night.

:14:25. > :14:30.Stay with us - still to come... He has been rubbing shoulders with

:14:31. > :14:35.Hollywood royalty at the Cannes Film Festival for more than 14 years. We

:14:36. > :14:54.will hear some of the secrets, hopefully!

:14:55. > :15:00.machines like this one to film sweeping aerial shots, but

:15:01. > :15:03.scientists are developing the next generation of robots. They are

:15:04. > :15:09.drawing inspiration from nature. They may be used for anything from

:15:10. > :15:12.military surveillance to search and rescue.

:15:13. > :15:16.They may not look like birds but these robots are behaving in a very

:15:17. > :15:21.birdlike way. Researchers have designed each of these drones with

:15:22. > :15:25.an on-board computer which can work out its position relative to the

:15:26. > :15:30.others. This means they can make collective decisions about where to

:15:31. > :15:35.go. The drones are flocking. It is one example of bio inspired

:15:36. > :15:39.robotics, which is taking technology of drones to the next level. This

:15:40. > :15:44.does not look like anything I have ever seen in nature, but when it

:15:45. > :15:49.comes to taking robots from something like this to something we

:15:50. > :15:55.can use in our everyday lives, nature has a huge role to play in

:15:56. > :16:02.inspiring design. The sensors on this quad copter, for example, are

:16:03. > :16:10.based on insect dies. They help the robot to see and avoid obstacles.

:16:11. > :16:16.This one's arms are based on a bird of prey's halons. They can grasp

:16:17. > :16:21.objects mid flight. They will enable drones to navigate urban

:16:22. > :16:23.environments or deliver goods. There are a lot of tasks you can do.

:16:24. > :16:28.Aerial photography is one of the are a lot of tasks you can do.

:16:29. > :16:33.simplest ones but also observing pollution in forests and wildlife.

:16:34. > :16:40.There is a huge field of applications. Scientists are now

:16:41. > :16:44.working closely with regulators to make sure these multitasking robots

:16:45. > :16:54.can be operated safely in our airspace.

:16:55. > :16:59.You are watching BBC World News. An update on the headlines. Thailand's

:17:00. > :17:04.army chief moves to tighten his grip on power after Thursday's army coup.

:17:05. > :17:09.He is expected to meet the King later today. The international

:17:10. > :17:12.criminal court has sentenced the former Congolese militia leader

:17:13. > :17:20.Germain Katanga to 12 years in prison for war crimes.

:17:21. > :17:23.The consulate in the city of Herat in Afghanistan has been

:17:24. > :17:28.The consulate in the city of Herat gunmen. Insurgents stormed nearby

:17:29. > :17:35.houses to fire on the compound. India's Foreign Ministry says all of

:17:36. > :17:41.its staff are safe. Residents woke up to the sound of

:17:42. > :17:46.gunfire. Heavily armed suicide attackers launched a predawn attack

:17:47. > :17:54.using this house to attack the nearby Indian Consul. Guards from

:17:55. > :17:58.the Indian mission engaged the attackers until security forces are

:17:59. > :18:05.right. For several hours, both sides engaged heavy fire. Police say all

:18:06. > :18:10.the insurgents were killed. This man's house was broken into.

:18:11. > :18:13.TRANSLATION: One of my family members said people were moving in

:18:14. > :18:18.our building. When I went to the kitchen I sobbed three people in

:18:19. > :18:23.civilian clothes in our backyard. They were wearing suicide vests and

:18:24. > :18:28.were all armed. Today's attack is the latest in a string of attacks

:18:29. > :18:32.against Indian targets in Afghanistan in recent years. India

:18:33. > :18:37.is one of Afghanistan's key allies, investing hundreds of millions of

:18:38. > :18:43.dollars in health, education and security sectors.

:18:44. > :18:48.United Nations Security Council has approved sanctions the Nigerian

:18:49. > :18:54.militia group Boko Haram, five weeks after it kidnapped 200 schoolgirls.

:18:55. > :19:00.The sanctions include travel bans, an asset freeze and an arms embargo.

:19:01. > :19:11.The EU ambassador said it was an important step to defeat Boko Haram.

:19:12. > :19:15.A short while ago, a BBC editor in the Nigerian capital Abuja told us

:19:16. > :19:22.how the move was being seen in Nigeria.

:19:23. > :19:26.I think for the Nigerian government, it is a very important step because

:19:27. > :19:32.by declaring Boko Haram a terrorist group that is linked to Al-Qaeda, I

:19:33. > :19:35.think the Nigerian government can argue to the international community

:19:36. > :19:40.that they have the responsibility to come in and help Nigeria in the

:19:41. > :19:44.fight against Boko Haram. But on the other hand, I think for Boko Haram

:19:45. > :19:48.there is little significance on what it can actually do to the group

:19:49. > :19:51.because one, the finances of this group are not through official

:19:52. > :19:56.channels. They are not even known. What is known as they do Raid banks

:19:57. > :20:04.and steal money from local banks. They do use cash. The official

:20:05. > :20:12.financial routes for their finances. The second thing is, the

:20:13. > :20:17.way they get their arms. This is not officially known by the government.

:20:18. > :20:21.They raid military barracks and police stations. That is somehow

:20:22. > :20:26.where they get most of their arms. There is little significance on what

:20:27. > :20:32.it can actually do to the group itself, Boko Haram. Very briefly,

:20:33. > :20:37.what is the latest on the search for the missing schoolgirls? At the

:20:38. > :20:40.moment, the government is saying they have sent in troops to search

:20:41. > :20:45.for these girls but there is little information that is coming out on

:20:46. > :20:50.how far the government has gone. We know that the United States says it

:20:51. > :20:59.has deployed 18 military men in Chad itself to in order to help with this

:21:00. > :21:06.surveillance and using aeroplanes. The United Kingdom also have sent in

:21:07. > :21:10.a plane which is based in Ghana. A second person has died from

:21:11. > :21:16.injuries in Turkey after being hit by a grenade during clashes between

:21:17. > :21:18.police and protesters in Istanbul. The protests are now

:21:19. > :21:27.police and protesters in Istanbul. second day. The other victims, 30

:21:28. > :21:30.odd man was shot in the head. Security has been tightened in

:21:31. > :21:36.China's Northwest region after an attack on Thursday which left 31

:21:37. > :21:40.people dead. Two off-road vehicles drove straight into a crowd of

:21:41. > :21:45.shoppers which was followed by several explosions. The region has

:21:46. > :21:49.seen a number of similar incidents which have been blamed on Muslim

:21:50. > :21:52.extremists. Scientists in the United States say

:21:53. > :21:59.they are step closer to developing an effective malaria vaccine. They

:22:00. > :22:04.have developed a vaccine which works on mice. They have developed it by

:22:05. > :22:09.testing it on children from Tanzania who are naturally immune to the

:22:10. > :22:14.disease. More tests are needed before they can begin trials on

:22:15. > :22:19.humans. At the moment, we are beginning nonhuman primate trials.

:22:20. > :22:27.If those are successful, the next step would be clinical trials. It

:22:28. > :22:37.began in 2002 with the work of Patrick Duffy and there were ten

:22:38. > :22:41.children who were monitored to see how many malaria parasites they had

:22:42. > :22:46.in their bodies. Using that information, we were able to

:22:47. > :22:54.identify very resistant children and very susceptible children. We did

:22:55. > :22:58.some what we call DNA gymnastics. They use parasite genes which are

:22:59. > :23:02.only recognised by antibodies in the resistant children but not the

:23:03. > :23:06.susceptible children. That is how we discovered this new vaccine

:23:07. > :23:12.candidate. Only about 6% of children in our cohort had this antibody and

:23:13. > :23:16.wear resistant to severe malaria. They develop it naturally through

:23:17. > :23:21.being exposed to parasites over the course of their lifetime. Some of

:23:22. > :23:25.the children are able to develop this protective antibody response

:23:26. > :23:29.and the trick was finding out what was the target of this antibody

:23:30. > :23:34.response. That was Doctor Jake Curtis.

:23:35. > :23:39.People have been injured in Russia after a hot water pipeline exploded

:23:40. > :23:45.under a passenger bus. A section of the road in a Siberian city caved in

:23:46. > :23:49.under the passing vehicle. You can see the passengers rushing to get

:23:50. > :23:53.off the bus. That was because of smoke and water pouring out of the

:23:54. > :23:58.vehicle. Some people suffered heavy skin burns. They were treated in a

:23:59. > :24:01.local hospital. We can go to Istanbul and speak to

:24:02. > :24:14.our correspondent James Reynolds about the second death in Istanbul.

:24:15. > :24:19.Do we know who threw a grenade? We do not. The second person died as a

:24:20. > :24:27.result of injuries from hand grenade or fragmentation grenade. That is a

:24:28. > :24:35.fairly unusual in tree -- injury that we have seen in these protests.

:24:36. > :24:41.The first protester died yesterday. In fact, I should correct myself

:24:42. > :24:46.there, he was attending a funeral. He was a bystander. He was shot and

:24:47. > :24:49.died at the scene. Is there anyway for the Prime Minister's government

:24:50. > :24:54.to deal with anti-government protests? It seems to be

:24:55. > :25:01.confrontation from the government in terms of how it deals with the

:25:02. > :25:05.people on the streets. It is difficult to generalise. We need to

:25:06. > :25:09.describe or looking to the circumstances of what happened

:25:10. > :25:11.yesterday. There was a funeral of this working class neighbourhood in

:25:12. > :25:16.Istanbul. We understand after the funeral there was a protest. We are

:25:17. > :25:20.not sure how linked it was to the funeral. A number of people started

:25:21. > :25:24.confronting the police. The police moved in and this 30-year-old man

:25:25. > :25:27.was shot. The government has promised an enquiry that I think

:25:28. > :25:36.people who oppose the government here will be extremely worried by

:25:37. > :25:39.the sudden escalation of violence and by police tactics which appear

:25:40. > :25:45.to have a pattern of using tear gas and water cannon very quickly

:25:46. > :25:48.against protesters. The casualty was shot by a bullet. We will have to

:25:49. > :25:53.see from the postmortem if that was true. Does it make it more important

:25:54. > :25:55.for the government to get to the bottom of what happened at the same

:25:56. > :25:57.mine as bottom of what happened at the same

:25:58. > :26:04.mine quickly as possible? That is all part of it. -- the Soma mine.

:26:05. > :26:08.More than 300 people were killed last week. They were also shouting

:26:09. > :26:14.in memory of a protester who was killed in last year's protest in May

:26:15. > :26:14.and June. There are plenty of sparks of

:26:15. > :26:18.and June. There are plenty of sparks anger among protesters.

:26:19. > :26:25.Thank you. You are watching BBC World News. A brief reminder of our

:26:26. > :26:27.top story. It comes from Thailand. Following Thursday's military coup,

:26:28. > :26:36.top story. It comes from Thailand. Following Thursday's military more

:26:37. > :26:44.than 100 military leaders have been summoned to a summit. There has been

:26:45. > :26:44.one small protest which our correspondent Jonah

:26:45. > :26:52.summoned to a summit. There has been one small protest Fisher was

:26:53. > :26:56.reporting on I are going. -- Jonah Fisher. You're watching BBC World

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