:00:00. > :00:11.A televised address by Spain's King Juan Carlos is expected
:00:12. > :00:15.shortly after his decision to abdicate the throne was announced
:00:16. > :00:27.Of TRANSLATION: I want to tell you that I found the King completely
:00:28. > :00:30.sure that this is the best moment for the change in government and the
:00:31. > :00:33.handing over of the Crown to the Prince.
:00:34. > :00:36.A US-Taliban prisoner swap deal is condemned by the Afghan government
:00:37. > :00:38.and senior Republicans after the handover of five militants
:00:39. > :00:44.Pro-Russian separatists launch a sustained attack on border guards
:00:45. > :00:54.And how this Cuban made it to the US across shark-infested waters...on
:00:55. > :01:18.Spain's King Juan Carlos is abdicating.
:01:19. > :01:21.The announcement was made by the Spanish Prime Minister Mariano
:01:22. > :01:30.Rajoy, although we are expecting to hear from the king himself shortly.
:01:31. > :01:34.It could be in about ten minutes. If you do start speaking, we will bring
:01:35. > :01:38.you that statement when it happens. Mr Rajoy said Crown Prince Felipe
:01:39. > :01:41.will take over the throne, but a constitutional amendment will
:01:42. > :01:44.need to be proposed to allow 76-year-old King Juan Carlos has
:01:45. > :01:48.ruled the country since 1975, overseeing Spain's transition
:01:49. > :01:56.from General Franco's dicatatorship Mr Rajoy described King Juan Carlos,
:01:57. > :02:00.who's been suffering from ill health recently
:02:01. > :02:13.as "a symbol of Spanish freedom". The King's legacy is as a staunch
:02:14. > :02:21.defender of Spanish democracy. This was an attempted coup in 1981.
:02:22. > :02:25.Paramilitary police seized control of the country's parliament. But
:02:26. > :02:28.instead of unravelling back to military control, the young King
:02:29. > :02:35.stood firm with this television appeal to the nation. The coup was
:02:36. > :02:41.defeated and the King's popularity soared. The Royal Family had fled
:02:42. > :02:44.Spain during the civil war. Later, General Franco allowed one call us
:02:45. > :02:52.to return and then nominated him as his successor, expecting him to
:02:53. > :03:00.continue his military dictatorship. But on Franco's death in 1975, King
:03:01. > :03:03.Juan Carlos chose to begin Spain's transition to a modern Parliamentary
:03:04. > :03:06.democracy. In recent years, there has been a growing gap between
:03:07. > :03:12.ordinary Spaniards and the monarchy. The King's deputation and health
:03:13. > :03:16.have deteriorated. At a time of austerity, many were dismayed at his
:03:17. > :03:19.expensive elephant hunting trip to Botswana, and there has been
:03:20. > :03:24.frustration over a long-running corruption investigation into the
:03:25. > :03:27.King's daughter and her husband. Despite this, there was surprise
:03:28. > :03:34.when the abdication announcement came. TRANSLATION: His maddest demon
:03:35. > :03:37.macro has just informed me of his desire to renounce the throne -- his
:03:38. > :03:49.Majesty, King Bicking assured me that this is the
:03:50. > :03:56.best time for change. That is the to the throne, Crown Prince Felipe, a
:03:57. > :03:59.former Olympic yachtsman. He married a television presenter and has two
:04:00. > :04:01.daughters. He is popular and is expected to do much to improve the
:04:02. > :04:04.royal image. The Afghan Government has condemned
:04:05. > :04:06.a prisoner swap that freed an American soldier in exchange
:04:07. > :04:09.for five senior Taliban militants The prisoners have been released
:04:10. > :04:17.into Qatar's custody, The American soldier,
:04:18. > :04:23.Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, is recovering at a military hospital
:04:24. > :04:26.in Germany after spending nearly Senior Republicans are also
:04:27. > :04:30.concerned The Republican senator John McCain,
:04:31. > :04:35.who spent just over five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam,
:04:36. > :04:53.says the released Taliban figures I understand the joy and happiness
:04:54. > :04:58.of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl's family and friends, and we are all grateful
:04:59. > :05:03.that he is returned. I think there are legitimate questions about these
:05:04. > :05:08.individuals who are being released and the conditions under which they
:05:09. > :05:14.will be released. These are the hardest of the hard-core. These are
:05:15. > :05:18.the highest risk people. Others that we have released have gone back into
:05:19. > :05:22.the fight. That has been documented. It is disturbing to me that the
:05:23. > :05:27.Taliban are the ones that named the people to be released.
:05:28. > :05:30.Well, let's take a closer look at the five released Taliban men.
:05:31. > :05:32.The first, Mohammed Fazl, was the Taliban's deputy defence
:05:33. > :05:36.minister and is accused over the murder of thousands of
:05:37. > :05:43.Khirullah Khairkhwa, who was the organisation's interior
:05:44. > :05:46.minister, was alleged to have been close to Osama Bin Laden and he is
:05:47. > :05:51.considered to be one of the founding members of the movement.
:05:52. > :05:54.Abdul Haq Wasiq was the Taliban's Deputy Intelligence
:05:55. > :05:59.Minister and formed alliances with other Islamist groups.
:06:00. > :06:04.Mullah Norullah Noori was a senior Taliban military commander
:06:05. > :06:08.in Mazar-e-Sharif and is accused of a role in mass murders of
:06:09. > :06:15.Mohammad Nabi Omari was Chief of Security in the southern town
:06:16. > :06:20.of Qalat and was allegedly involved in the killing of foreign troops.
:06:21. > :06:25.And we can now go to Kabul to hear from our correspondent
:06:26. > :06:36.They are extremely angry about this. They say it violates international
:06:37. > :06:45.law. Presumably, they are worried about these men returning to active
:06:46. > :06:50.Taliban service? First of all, the Afghan government was not involved
:06:51. > :06:55.at all about the swap. It only came to know after everything had taken
:06:56. > :07:07.place. So that is grievance number one. The Afghan government says that
:07:08. > :07:10.if these men had moved to Qatar to stay with their own families, they
:07:11. > :07:14.welcomed that. But if they were handed over to a third country as
:07:15. > :07:19.prisoners, that is not acceptable because Afghanistan is obliged to
:07:20. > :07:23.look after its citizens. That is not a view shared by Afghan intelligence
:07:24. > :07:30.officials, who see these five men as dangerous Taliban leaders and
:07:31. > :07:34.commanders. This was very much will Omar's cabinet. These were Taliban
:07:35. > :07:39.leaders and commanders who had the trust and confidence of the Taliban
:07:40. > :07:42.leader. The deputy intelligence leader, who was one of those
:07:43. > :07:47.released, was a liaison with Al-Qaeda. He was the one dividing
:07:48. > :07:54.protection for Osama Bin Laden in 1998, even arranging hunting trips.
:07:55. > :07:56.So this is a bit of a security nightmare for the Afghan
:07:57. > :08:01.intelligence and security officials. They fear that if these men make it
:08:02. > :08:06.to Afghanistan or Pakistan or even if they manage to stay in contact,
:08:07. > :08:11.they could prove very dangerous, especially if they can get funding.
:08:12. > :08:16.The Taliban propaganda machine is already using this as a victory. We
:08:17. > :08:25.have already seen videos showing the five business arriving in Qatar.
:08:26. > :08:28.They have been praised as heroes. Reports from eastern Ukraine say
:08:29. > :08:34.hundreds of insurgents have attacked a border guard camp in Lugansk.
:08:35. > :08:39.Ukraine's border guard service says at least seven guards have been
:08:40. > :08:42.injured. These are the latest pictures of the base being attacked.
:08:43. > :08:46.They have not been independently verified, but it does seem to be
:08:47. > :08:52.that order post. There was danger gunfire for several hours by
:08:53. > :08:59.militants armed with automatic weapons. Our correspondent in Kiev
:09:00. > :09:04.gave me the latest. The Ukrainian border guard service has said that
:09:05. > :09:09.five of the separatists were killed and eight wounded. They also said
:09:10. > :09:13.seven of their own border guards were wounded. This cannot be
:09:14. > :09:17.independently verified, but these are the first figures from this
:09:18. > :09:23.attack, which they say is ongoing. They also provide the number of 500
:09:24. > :09:28.separatists attacking the base. Again, we can't say if this is true
:09:29. > :09:32.or not, but if this is the case, it is a very major attack indeed. The
:09:33. > :09:38.head of the Ukrainian border guard service has given an interview to
:09:39. > :09:45.local television. He said the militants are crossing in from
:09:46. > :09:52.Russia. And they are crossing and engaging the border guards on a
:09:53. > :09:57.daily basis, he said. So if this is going on to this extent, it is a
:09:58. > :10:03.major battle happening in Lugansk. This is the eastern region, which
:10:04. > :10:07.the separatists partially control. And some reports suggest that the
:10:08. > :10:13.fighters themselves have come across from Russia in a special brigade.
:10:14. > :10:18.Tell us more about that? It is difficult to say exactly where they
:10:19. > :10:21.came from, but there are reports from Ukrainian officials. The border
:10:22. > :10:27.guard service had himself said they do come regularly. This has been an
:10:28. > :10:31.issue for the Ukrainians for some time. We spoke to the Foreign
:10:32. > :10:36.Minister last week, he was saying that militants are coming over the
:10:37. > :10:41.border. There are Russian militants fighting here. The separatists
:10:42. > :10:47.themselves have said they have had deaths and they have wee Patriot in
:10:48. > :10:50.Russian citizens back to Russia. -- they have repatriated Russian
:10:51. > :10:53.citizens. Israeli warplanes have attacked
:10:54. > :10:57.targets in the Gaza Strip after Palestinian militants fired rockets
:10:58. > :11:02.into Israel. The Israeli raid took place hours before a new Palestinian
:11:03. > :11:05.unity government takes office in Ramada on Monday. It is dominated by
:11:06. > :11:13.the Fatah party, but also includes Hamas, after a reconciliation deal.
:11:14. > :11:16.The BBC's Quentin Somerville joins us now. Israel are furious about
:11:17. > :11:24.this. We know the make-up of this government and the split between
:11:25. > :11:29.Fatah and Hamas? President Mahmoud Abbas has created a government which
:11:30. > :11:34.he says is a government of technocrats, so it does not have
:11:35. > :11:39.allegiances to Fatah or Hamas. That is a bit of nifty footwork, and the
:11:40. > :11:43.Israelis say it is a trick in the world should not fall for it,
:11:44. > :11:47.because Hamas is viewed as a terror organisation. Israel says the world
:11:48. > :11:53.should not recognise this government. In a ceremony that
:11:54. > :11:56.finished in the last half-hour, 17 government ministers including the
:11:57. > :12:00.prime minister was sworn in. There is a new unity government here,
:12:01. > :12:04.which will be welcomed by Palestinians. There are challenges
:12:05. > :12:08.for that government. It might seal a seven-year split between Hamas and
:12:09. > :12:12.Fatah, but it does not solve many of their problems. The ceremony today
:12:13. > :12:17.almost did not go ahead because there was a dispute over prisoners.
:12:18. > :12:23.The deal happened because Gaza is broke, so Hamas need to do deal.
:12:24. > :12:27.Gaza is blockaded by Egypt and Israel, so Mahmoud Abbas did this
:12:28. > :12:30.deal with Hamas because he needs a builders will win after the failure
:12:31. > :12:37.of those peace negotiations with Israel last month. But the
:12:38. > :12:44.consequences of this for Israel mean that it is not even prepared to try
:12:45. > :12:47.and restart those peace talks? That is right, it would be unconscionable
:12:48. > :12:53.for Israel to have anything to do with Hamas, an organisation intent
:12:54. > :12:57.on Israel's destruction and one which will not renounce violence.
:12:58. > :13:01.Renouncing violence and accepting the state of Israel are the
:13:02. > :13:05.conditions for any peace negotiations, of course. Though that
:13:06. > :13:08.will be a real challenge. Israel is already considering sanctions.
:13:09. > :13:13.Today, three of the ministers who were coming to the ceremony were not
:13:14. > :13:19.allowed to attend. They were not allowed to leave Gaza. There may be
:13:20. > :13:22.greater sanctions against Mahmoud Abbas as the Palestinian president.
:13:23. > :13:27.Mahmoud Abbas will leave here in the next few days to go to Jordan, where
:13:28. > :13:31.he will meet US Secretary of State John Kerry. John Kerry will be
:13:32. > :13:34.looking for reassurances that this government will not be dominated by
:13:35. > :13:41.Hamas and that it will not embrace terrorism.
:13:42. > :13:45.This is BBC World News. Still to come: Pushing the boundaries of
:13:46. > :13:50.green energy. A solar powered plane completes its first test flight
:13:51. > :13:58.ahead of a land so can not a novice globe. Looking at the speed, it will
:13:59. > :14:02.take quite a while. A bomb has exploded in north-eastern
:14:03. > :14:06.Nigeria, killing at least 14 people. It is in an area where there have
:14:07. > :14:09.been repeated attacks by Boko Haram, the Islamist group that abducted
:14:10. > :14:16.more than 200 schoolgirls. The violence has led to the closure of
:14:17. > :14:26.many schools in an area where 11 million children get no access to
:14:27. > :14:33.mainstream education. There is no mistaking the hunger for education.
:14:34. > :14:39.You find children who are not enrolled who will put spec it to the
:14:40. > :14:43.door and get ahead and get a bit of an education. Some 11 million
:14:44. > :14:44.children are believed not to be getting any basic education. Many
:14:45. > :14:52.are getting getting any basic education. Many
:14:53. > :14:56.but not the kind of classes you get in a primary or secondary school.
:14:57. > :15:05.There are a mixture of lessons going on here. Here they are learning
:15:06. > :15:08.English, the present continuous tense. Let's hear some of the
:15:09. > :15:26.present continuous tense. jumping. Over here is a maths class
:15:27. > :15:32.going on. They are going through all the drills of the numbers. Another
:15:33. > :15:37.maths class here. Many of them are very young and girls as well,
:15:38. > :15:40.maths class here. Many of them are to get an education. Now a lesson in
:15:41. > :15:45.the local language. There are efforts going on to try and really
:15:46. > :15:49.boost the education in northern Nigeria and the hope is, by
:15:50. > :15:54.improving education, it will bring more stability. A lack of education
:15:55. > :15:55.that then leads to poverty is seen as a root cause of the conflict in
:15:56. > :16:02.the North. Spain's King Juan Carlos is to
:16:03. > :16:18.abdicate after almost 40 years He'll be succeeded by his son,
:16:19. > :17:07.Prince Felipe. Minister was making. He is calling
:17:08. > :17:13.for more coordination. They believe there is a network
:17:14. > :17:17.for more coordination. They believe is one of the biggest
:17:18. > :17:19.for more coordination. They believe the moment. These people were
:17:20. > :17:21.arrested quite early this morning in dawn raids. No direct link.
:17:22. > :17:28.Certainly in response to the arrest dawn raids. No direct link.
:17:29. > :17:31.yesterday in Marseille, we do not know because the minister was not
:17:32. > :17:35.particularly forthcoming why they were arrested. Whether you're in
:17:36. > :17:36.particularly forthcoming why they same circle? Did they have
:17:37. > :17:45.connections or do they fit same circle? Did they have
:17:46. > :17:48.profile? I suspect we will see more arrests like this over the coming
:17:49. > :17:53.days as they widen the investigation.
:17:54. > :17:56.Organisers of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar will meet FIFA
:17:57. > :17:58.investigator Michael Garcia later, amid growing calls for the
:17:59. > :18:01.Gulf State to be stripped of the right to hold the tournament.
:18:02. > :18:04.Qatar denies any wrongdoing but there is increasing pressure
:18:05. > :18:08.Britain's Sunday Times newspaper claimed that a former FIFA
:18:09. > :18:10.executive, Mohamed bin Hammam, who's from Qatar,
:18:11. > :18:13.paid several million dollars to football officials to back the bid.
:18:14. > :18:15.A former British Sports Minister, Richard Caborn,
:18:16. > :18:18.who supported England's bid to host the 2018 World Cup, says FIFA needs
:18:19. > :18:29.the same sort of reform as the International Olympic Committee.
:18:30. > :18:35.It was merely two years ago when Michael Garcia, an eminent lawyer,
:18:36. > :18:41.was asked to investigate the process both for Russia and Qatar on the
:18:42. > :18:46.awarding of the 2018, 2022 world cups. That is what you is doing. I'm
:18:47. > :18:52.hoping the Sunday Times will pass all the new evidence over to Garcia
:18:53. > :19:00.who will then be able to factor that into his report which, I say, is due
:19:01. > :19:04.just after the World Cup in Brazil. That will reveal whether the process
:19:05. > :19:08.was sound or not. It also begs a bigger question. That is the whole
:19:09. > :19:14.governance of football by FIFA. There has been an ethics committee
:19:15. > :19:20.report on the procedures and they are asking for fundamental reforms
:19:21. > :19:26.of FIFA. I hope that is what he will be saying as well. What do we think
:19:27. > :19:29.about the governance of FIFA? There have been so many allegations, not
:19:30. > :19:37.just about this but other allegations of corrupt practices. Do
:19:38. > :19:41.you think there needs to be a root and branch reform of senior
:19:42. > :19:45.management within FIFA? That is what the ethics committee is looking at.
:19:46. > :19:50.Out of that report came the need to investigate the process of awarding
:19:51. > :19:59.the two world cups to Russia and Qatar. That is now under
:20:00. > :20:05.investigation, or in the process. That is what Garcia is doing. He
:20:06. > :20:09.reports in a few weeks time. Then the FIFA executive will decide what
:20:10. > :20:12.they will do. There is a parallel to this. When you look at what happened
:20:13. > :20:18.with the International Olympic Committee after salt lake, though a
:20:19. > :20:22.very serious allegations made. Jack rock came into the IOC and clearly
:20:23. > :20:28.has removed the tarnished image of the five rings by fundamentally
:20:29. > :20:34.changing the culture as well as the organisation of the IOC for the
:20:35. > :20:38.better. To some extent, FIFA is at that crossroads now, with the ethics
:20:39. > :20:41.committee report which they have partly implemented and also now
:20:42. > :20:44.awaiting the last see a report on the bidding process and whether
:20:45. > :20:54.there has been any wrongdoing in that process. -- the Garcia. If they
:20:55. > :20:59.do not do this, not only will football be questioning the
:21:00. > :21:02.integrity of FIFA but also the big sponsors and television companies
:21:03. > :21:07.will be asking whether they want to be associated with a tarnished sport
:21:08. > :21:11.and the time it organisation. FIFA has to take but ever has come out
:21:12. > :21:16.and will come out very seriously indeed.
:21:17. > :21:18.President Obama is due to unveil new environmental rules aimed
:21:19. > :21:21.at dramatically cutting emissions that contribute to global warming.
:21:22. > :21:23.Individual states will be given targets and will have
:21:24. > :21:28.It's the first ever US limits on carbon dioxide emissions
:21:29. > :21:30.and could involve the closure of coal-fired power plants.
:21:31. > :21:40.Aleem Maqbool now reports from coal country in West Virginia.
:21:41. > :21:45.America produces more greenhouse gashes than any other country in the
:21:46. > :21:50.world but in fact produces more than double per person than China does.
:21:51. > :21:54.Around 40% of the greenhouse emissions comes from energy
:21:55. > :21:58.production. This power plant alone in West Virginia earns an incredible
:21:59. > :22:03.15,000 tonnes of coal each day when it is working at full capacity,
:22:04. > :22:07.providing electricity to around 2 million homes. President Obama is
:22:08. > :22:10.about to announce rules which are the most significant in American
:22:11. > :22:15.history in terms of trying to limit climate change forced he will talk
:22:16. > :22:20.about trying to cap the amount of carbon dioxide that is produced by
:22:21. > :22:23.power plants like this. That is something that has greatly pleased
:22:24. > :22:28.environmentalist but has upset many in coal industry. In West Virginia,
:22:29. > :22:33.it is not just about power production. This beautiful state,
:22:34. > :22:37.and a lot of it looks just like this, sits on huge coal reserves.
:22:38. > :22:45.The worry here is with the amount of coal that is burnt in America, if it
:22:46. > :22:50.is decreased because that is the real way to bring down carbon
:22:51. > :22:53.dioxide emissions, and thousands will lose their jobs. It is very
:22:54. > :22:58.clear that President Obama wants it as part of his legacy that he did
:22:59. > :23:02.something about climate change. His point is this will create more
:23:03. > :23:05.opportunities in other sectors like renewable energies. Having spoken to
:23:06. > :23:09.people here in West Virginia over the last couple of days, it seems
:23:10. > :23:10.they are not going to give up on what is becoming an increasingly
:23:11. > :23:17.bitter fight. For years, Cubans have been risking
:23:18. > :23:20.their lives to flee to the United States, often journeying
:23:21. > :23:22.across shark-infested waters. Jorge Armando Martinez decided to
:23:23. > :23:24.make the treacherous journey He's told the BBC how he survived
:23:25. > :23:47.on a sip of water a day I am 28 years old and I came to the
:23:48. > :23:55.US on a surfboard from Cuba. My life in Cuba was very different. I had to
:23:56. > :24:02.find a better life for my daughter. So I started to train as the
:24:03. > :24:09.windsurfer, to get ready to come to the US. I had to sell almost all my
:24:10. > :24:13.belongings. I only kept my bed and the windsurfer Kit. There was a
:24:14. > :24:19.group of us with the same idea. All we had to do was train hard and get
:24:20. > :24:26.ready for the unknown. We did not really know what to expect on the
:24:27. > :24:31.Florida Straits. I was only carrying a bottle of water and around ten
:24:32. > :24:46.streets. The trip was supposed to take about six hours. I knew I could
:24:47. > :25:13.reach speeds of up to 50, 60 kilometres an hour with the board. I
:25:14. > :25:26.did not expect to have so many problems. After four days at sea, I
:25:27. > :25:34.began to get used to it. I rationed my water and had a sip every day.
:25:35. > :25:45.One night I started to hallucinate. I thought I was in a forest. I was
:25:46. > :25:58.quite confident about my route thanks to a compass I had on my
:25:59. > :26:05.wrist which kept me on the right path. There was a beach and that is
:26:06. > :26:12.where someone found me. Some fishermen were passing by very close
:26:13. > :26:19.to me. They saw me and they asked me if I was a rafter. I said, no, I am
:26:20. > :26:26.just very thirsty. They got me some water and called the Coast Guard.
:26:27. > :26:32.They took me by boat to an ambulance which was waiting in Key West and
:26:33. > :26:38.then I went straight to hospital. I was in very bad shape, dehydrated. I
:26:39. > :26:41.think everything will go well for me here because I enjoy working. I like
:26:42. > :26:43.the challenge of being in a developed country which gives you
:26:44. > :26:44.the opportunity to work honestly and to live like a person.
:26:45. > :26:44.A solar-powered plane, that will try to fly around the world next year,
:26:45. > :26:44.has successfully completed its first test flight in Switzerland.
:26:45. > :26:45.Solar Impulse 2 is an upgraded version of the aircraft
:26:46. > :26:45.The plane set a number of world records, including
:26:46. > :26:45.the longest manned solar-powered flight at 26 six hours.
:26:46. > :26:45.The pilots, Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg,
:26:46. > :26:45.say they want to push the boundaries for alternative energy.
:26:46. > :26:46.The carbon-fibre aircraft has a wider wingspan than a Boeing 747,
:26:47. > :26:46.but is only a fraction of the weight.
:26:47. > :26:54.Juan Carlos is to abdicate after almost 40 years on the throne. He
:26:55. > :26:57.will be succeeded by his son. We're expecting a statement in a few
:26:58. > :27:01.minutes. Stay with us