28/05/2014 BBC World News

Hello. I'm Geeta Guru-Murthy with BBC World News. Our top stories:

French riot police evict hundreds of people from a makeshift camp near

Calais. Hundreds of migrants flood into a

Spanish enclave near Morocco. Thailand's military readers have

released 120 critics of the government but the military crisis

continues. Faction split from the Pakistani

Taliban on accusing it becoming an un-Islamic paid killers.

Hundreds of migrants from around the world are being evicted

by riot police from illegal camps outside the French port of Calais.

Many have been camped there for months

and some have tried to smuggle themselves into Britain on trucks.

French authorities say an outbreak of scabies and a lack of

running water pose a health risk - and the site needs to be bulldozed.

Our correspondent Paul Adams is at the site and has been following

The police have been here about an hour now and they're just starting

to make their second sweep through the camp. This is the Syrian camp

right next to the port. The police are working their way through my

tent by tent, looking inside, seeing who is in there. There have been

announcements on loudspeakers telling people that they need to

move on. Nobody knows where they're supposed to go. There are buses

parked on the road behind the camp. Nobody knows where the buses are

going to take them. But in the meantime, the police, quite quietly

working through, looking in the tense, checking to see if anyone is

still in there. At some point, we expect this whole camp to be

bulldozed. ANNOUNCEMENT OVER LOUDSPEAKER.

She's basically saying that they have to do this immediately. They

have to go immediately. But there is this terrific uncertainty about

where people are supposed to go. Some of the migrants are huddled by

a feeding station on the other side of the road, thinking they can maybe

stay there safely, and the buses are waiting there. But in the meantime,

this slow, steady process of clearing up the camp, which has been

expected for the last couple of days, continues. This is the first

time this has happened. We had the clearing of the Sangatte camp back

in 2002. Other makeshift camps around Calais have been erected on

the demolished over the years. This is the latest in a series of

repeating episodes. This camp has expanded dramatically in the last

few months, to the point where the authorities clearly believe that it

poses a danger to public health. There is talk about an outbreak of

scabies and we've seen people being treated for that. But the

authorities feel that the time has come for this large camp to be

removed and any of those health dangers to be removed with it. But

with that operation comes this terrific level of uncertainty.

Paul Adamson Calais. The daily movement of people searching Sibley

for a better life continues in North Africa. About 1000 people have tried

to storm the border between Morocco and Spanish on clave. The Spanish

authorities say 400 people managed to climb a fence and enter the

Spanish territory and they will now stay at an immigration centre. Some

might be transferred to the Spanish mainland but authorities say most

will eventually be returned to their countries of origin in sub-Saharan

Africa. Our Madrid correspondent has more.

We were in the enclave in the last few weeks and we crossed from their

into Morocco. We went into the hills to these makeshift camps where tens

of thousands of migrants originally from sub-Saharan African countries

are living in basic conditions. The thing is is important to note is

that they are determined to cross into Europe and Spain. They have to

scale a border fence of around six metres high, with barbed wire. In

recent weeks, there has been more pressure on that border and what we

saw this morning is that large groups of the migrants, in their

hundreds, go down to the border fence and essentially storm it. They

have to scale this large border fence and this morning, latest

reports are estimating that about 2000 migrants attempted crossing and

police in that part of Spain say 400 were successful.

Those pictures speak volumes, the images we're looking at, Tom, of

people claiming the fences. But I've interviewed many people who have

crossed from all over the world to try to get into Europe and they

leave behind family, home, because they are desperate to do any kind of

work possible to get money. And that huge flow cannot be stopped by

fences and gates, can it? It can't and Spanish authorities have

invested more money on the border fence to try to deter some of the

migrants trying to scale it but it hasn't worked because we've seen

these pictures on numerous occasions over the last few weeks and months.

Spain says it needs more help from the EU to bolster up the border and

they say that more work needs to be done to tackle the Mafia is that

they say traffic the migrants from their countries of origin in

sub-Saharan Africa up to Morocco, from where they tried to make the

crossing into Europe. They say more work needs to be done in those

countries of origin to educate the migrants about the realities of life

when you get here. What we saw is that the migrants, although they

live in this temporary immigration centre at the expense of the Spanish

taxpayer, none of them can work illegally and most of them don't

work. Some end up washing cars on the streets but essentially, they

are in limbo. They stay there. There are long, lengthy bureaucratic

processes to try to present their claims and some may make it to the

Spanish mainland but most will make it back to their countries of

origin. The Thai Army says it's released

124 people who were taken into One of the conditions

for their release is that they must avoid any political activity, and

tell the military of any travel. The army summoned around 253

people over the last week. You can see this convoy bringing

prominent political figures, activists and academics to

a military facility. The army says 76 are still

in custody. Thailand's former prime minister,

Yingluck Shinawatra, has been released but she's still

under some restrictions. But red shirt leaders who support

Yingluck are still being held. The military junta broadcast

these pictures today of them to There is still scepticism

about the total number of people in custody, with reports

of more widespread detentions. But leaders of the two main

anti-government movements - Buddhist monk Luang Buddha Issara, seen here,

who's the leader of the Chaeng Watthana movement, and Suthep

Thaugsuban, who's the leader of the People's Democratic Reform

Committee, which is the largest protest group -

have also now been released. The Army gave a press conference

this morning in which they announced that of the 250 people they've

summoned over the last week, 124 have come in, been detained and then

released. A group had chosen not to report about 50 of them. There were

76 people still in custody with the military. In the last few minutes,

we've learned, perhaps more significantly, that the leadership

group of one of the protest movements here, broadly known as the

Read Shirt movement, their leadership was taken as the coup was

taken last Thursday, and have now been released. It isn't clear

exactly what will happen to them. Yesterday, when the PDR see, the

anti-government group, were released, they were taken straight

to court and charged with insurrection. We will have to see

what happens to these leaders from the other movement. We tried to

speak to some of them but they don't want to talk. There are restrictions

associated with being released. We'll have to see whether they are

genuinely free or are also taken to court.

STUDIO: The restrictions sound pretty severe. The government is

obviously still very fearful. Yes, they don't want an organised

opposition to this military takeover gathering strength. So we don't know

for certain what conditions these people have agreed to on their

release. We've been told that in the case of Yingluck Shinawatra, she had

to agree to take a step back from politics and inform the military of

all her movements. We understand that similar conditions are being

applied to others when they are being released. Certainly, of those

people who have been in detention over the last week or so, none of

them have really wanted to talk about their experience or comment on

what is happening politically, so one would imagine they have been

given a pretty stern warning in military detention not to come out

and be active politically, not to criticise what's been happening.

With me is Michael Bristow from the BBC World Service. What does this

all mean? Well, the army, to my mind, appears to be giving the

impression that it is releasing these people and life is getting

back to some kind of normality, that they will not be too Draconian. But

as we just heard in that report, people have been released but have

been very quiet, suggesting they've been put under some kind of

restrictions or pressure. So even though they're out of military

control, they are not free to do what they want to do - to organise

protests, speak out against a military coup and that kind of

thing. So while the army might be giving the impression these people

are free, they're not really freak. The army is still very much under

control. -- not really free. What do people think about the fact there is

this very strong military rule? People are quite divided, along the

lines that they were divided before the military coup. Those who want an

end to the government of Yingluck Shinawatra are quite happy. They see

the Army as a saviour who have come to sort out Thailand's political

problems, bring stability where there was none, but many people -

and some of them have staged small protests - say this is the end of

democracy and they want elections to come back as soon as possible. They

think the military taking over is a step backwards and a return to

dictatorship. Is there any prospect of that? So far, the General who has

taken over control of the country has given vague assurances that

reforms will come in and there will be elections down the line but he's

given no real firm undertakings about when that will happen. In

fact, two journalists who pressed him at a press conference quite

vigorously about the timetable of how the Army was controlling the

country, he told them to stop asking aggressive questions. The Army is in

control and we're not sure what they will do with the power they've got.

According to new research, nearly a third of people in Britain

The information from the British Social Attitudes survey

shows 30% of those questioned describe themselves as either

"very" or "a little" prejudiced against people of other races.

The figures show wide variations - with people in London reporting the

The US State Department has warned American citizens in Libya to leave

the country immediately, saying that the situation there is

The US has already announced it's deploying an amphibious assault ship

for any possible evacuation of American embassy personnel.

Gunmen have killed four police officers in Tunisia in an attack

on the home of the interior minister in the capital Tunis.

A ministry spokesman said the minister was not at home

Stay with us. Much more to come. It's Pharell Williams, producer to

the stars, talking to us about being a global sensation.

There have been more anti-World Cup protests in Brazil - with the

The latest violence was in the capital Brasilia, where

around 1,000 people clashed with police in a demonstration against

Around 1000 homeless workers and indigenous groups from central

Brazil marched towards the huge stadium in the capital, Brasilia.

Dressed in traditional costumes, some with bows and arrows, the

protesters were met in the middle of the highway by armed riot police,

head to toe in protective body armour. As troops opened fire with

tear gas and stun grenades, protesters scattered. Some turned to

fire their primitive weapons as they fled. Seven World Cup games will be

played in the Brasilia Stadium, the most costly of Brazil's 12 venues

which, according to some reports, has cost $900 million to build.

That's money, say protesters, that should have been directed elsewhere

- to social housing and other projects - especially as Brasilia

doesn't even have a major football team to use the stadium after the

World Cup. More worryingly for the Brazilian government, these events

perhaps confirm their concerns that there will be relatively small, but

the surfer, protests during the World Cup itself. And how Brazil's

military police deal with such demonstrations under the gaze of the

world's beauty is a big question. Now I can show you an amateur video

that has emerged of a tornado in It ripped through a trailer park,

injuring at least nine people, It was filmed near Watford City

on Monday, by a resident from a neighbouring camp, who quite smartly

got in his car to drive away. This is BBC world News. The top

stories: Migrants have been evicted from their camp in France, many are

being treated for scabies. Around 1000 people have tried to storm the

border between Morocco and Spanish conclave. The authorities said

around migrants managed to claim offence there. A fire at a hospital

in South Korea has killed 21 people and injured many others. The fire

was in the southwestern county. Most of the patients were elderly, one is

being questioned on suspicion of arson.

This was meant to be a place of safety for the aged. The elderly

residents of this hospital, the sick, the senile, stroke victims,

were woken by fire on Wednesday morning. Those on the upper floors

bore the brunt of the smoke. One of the nurses was also found dead. The

total number of dead is 21. Six were heavily injured, one has a minor

injury. 34 people in total were on that floor. This is the second time

this week Koreans have watched a fire take the lives of their

countrymen. A blaze at a bus terminal north of the capital left

seven people dead. Divers are searching for the bodies of those

killed in the ferry disaster last month, which claimed 300 lives. The

president blamed it on a lack of checks and safety procedures and

vowed to make South Korea a safer place to live.

Boeing has begun for a third day in Egypt, where voters are choosing

their president. The election has been extended to try to boost

turnout, which has been bad. The response from the voters is not very

encouraging. More than three hours ago, the polling stations have

opened their doors, and yet the number of photos who have shored up

are very few, despite the fact that the electoral commission has

extended the voting for one extra day. So far we have seen that this

decision has not encouraged voters to show up, Cass the vote and choose

the next president. The turnout has been going down gradually. On the

first day it was pretty crowded. It went down on the second day, and to

day -- today it is very quiet. We have spoken to the electoral

representatives and he said the turnout in this city is around 40%.

Here we have 3 million eligible voters, it is the second-largest

city in Egypt, but we are getting mixed reactions concerning this

decision of extending the voting. The Hamdeen Sabahi campaign said

this is a political manipulation and they are aware of vote rigging, on

the other hand there is a suggestion that this gives the impression the

turnout is low and they believe this is not true. A murder mystery is

gripping Japan. These have been searching the apartment of a

Japanese- Brazilian woman in Tokyo after the body of a 29-year-old

nurse was found in a storage locker nearby. The body of Rika Okada had

been sent to an address in Tokyo from Osaka in a parcel. This is one

of the last pictures of 29-year-old Rika Okada before she disappeared in

late March. On her Facebook page she said she was going to see an old

friend she had not seen for at least a decade. Over a month later, her

body was found stuffed into this storage locker on the outskirts of

Tokyo, more than 400 kilometres from her home in Osaka. Even more

bizarre, her body had apparently been posted here from Osaka in a two

metre long parcel labelled as containing a doll. The postage had

been paid with her own credit card. The story gets even stranger. This

apartment being searched in Tokyo was home to a Japanese -Brazilian

woman, an old schoolmate of Rika Okada, and now the chief suspect.

After she disappeared, a woman fitting the suspect's description

went to this passport office in Osaka and applied for a new passport

in her name. Earlier this month, that woman used the passport to

leave Japan and fly to Shanghai. Once there, she continued to use her

credit card, reportedly racking up bills of at least 10,000 dollars.

To Pakistan next, where the Taliban insurgents eight may be splitting. A

commander has left the organisation because of differences over

negotiations with the government. The group says it is in favour of

the stocks -- discussions regarding peace. This is a split group, the

head has support of tribesman. Remember, when the umbrella group

was formed in 2007, most of the foot soldiers were from this trade. Two

of the leaders came from the leaders came from this tripe, but in

November there was a struggle for the top slot. -- from this tribe.

Since then, we have been hearing reports of infighting within the

Pakistani Taliban. Today they came out openly, this group has a lot of

supporters and this is being seen as a major blow to the strength of the

Pakistani Taliban. A little bit of light relief before we go, because

Pharrell Williams has been releasing lots of hits and is behind a lot of

them. He has released lots of them in the past year, but it is not just

about the music, as the BBC discovered.

Listening to your album, a lot of it reminds me of things, there is huge,

sweeping orchestral moments in it that are wildly romantic. The

strings are all done and arranged by Hans Zimmer. It was written to left.

You said it is written to left. If there is anything that can lift

anybody it is Happy. It was written for a movie, and I ended up writing

nine different attempts for that scene and nothing worked. 48% of the

success is the animation team for pushing me, they would say it was

close, but no cigar. So when I finally got to ten, and they liked

it, I attributed it to them pushing me. The thing I notice from your

latest songs is you really love women. Who doesn't? They have been

good to me over the past 20 years. There is a lot that they go to that

we as men will never be able to understand. We can read about it, we

can study it, but until we walk in your shoes we do not know what it is

like. For me, I want to talk about that little bit and spread some of

that message on my album, and just try and push your fight. There is

one woman we have not spoken about, Hillary Clinton. Would you like to

see a female president? I would love to. Would you support her? Of

course. Why would you feel strongly about that? There will be a lot of

people who say politics should not be gender specific, but women are

not treated equally in politics, definitely not in society, and what

would a world be like if we had 75% of world leaders or prime

ministers, presidents, female? That would be very different. I think

that it is a change that is going to come and I think she would be

perfect. Do you look back over the last couple of years now and think,

did that all really happen? I am just as shocked to do this interview

with you because I know how much of a big deal this is, what this means

in this country. I am ever so grateful because I never expected

any of this, the only thing I expected to do was to continue to be

the guy standing next to the guy, but for whatever reason, you guys

have offered me the opportunity to express myself as an artist, and the

people were very patient with me and I will be loyal to the grooves and

things that feel good. Thank you from all of us. That is brilliant.

Thank you. Pharrell Williams. Get in touch with us to let us know what

you think. A reminder of the top story, the French authorities have

cleared hundreds of people from illegal migration camps because of

bad sanitation and no running water. The people they said they had

nowhere else to go. Goodbye.