:00:08. > :00:09.Nine Palestinian militants are killed in Israeli air strikes
:00:10. > :00:12.on Gaza, after a wave of rocket fire was aimed at Southern Israel.
:00:13. > :00:14.The last Soviet foreign minister, Edward Shevardnadze,
:00:15. > :00:21.who became President of Georgia, dies after a long illness.
:00:22. > :00:24.Australia returns more than 40 asylum seekers to the Sri Lankan
:00:25. > :00:44.authorities at sea - critics say it violates international law.
:00:45. > :00:52.We speak to the relatives of those lost in the missing Malaysian
:00:53. > :00:57.flight. Nine Palestinian militants have been
:00:58. > :00:59.killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza, after a wave of rocket
:01:00. > :01:03.fire was aimed at Southern Israel. Hamas says seven
:01:04. > :01:06.of its fighters died in a single The Israeli military says
:01:07. > :01:12.the air strikes are in retaliation for more than 20
:01:13. > :01:18.rocket attacks launched from Gaza. Tensions in the region have become
:01:19. > :01:21.even higher since the murder of three Israeli teenagers,
:01:22. > :01:26.whose bodies were found a week ago. They were abducted while
:01:27. > :01:30.hitch-hiking in the West Bank. Then Palestinian teenager
:01:31. > :01:36.Mohammed Abu Khdair was kidnapped His funeral in East Jerusalem on
:01:37. > :01:42.Friday triggered repeated clashes between police and Palestinian
:01:43. > :01:46.youths there and in Arab-Israeli Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
:01:47. > :01:53.Netanyahu promised to bring to justice the killers of
:01:54. > :01:56.Mohammed Abu Khdair. We will not allow extremists,
:01:57. > :02:00.it doesn't matter from which side, to inflame the region
:02:01. > :02:06.and cause bloodshed, Hamas' military wing meanwhile has
:02:07. > :02:09.threatened to retaliate against the air strikes, saying Israel
:02:10. > :02:14.would "pay a tremendous price.? Our correspondent, James Reynolds,
:02:15. > :02:30.is in Jerusalem. We understand that nine Palestinian
:02:31. > :02:38.militants have been killed. Seven were from Hamas, the Islamic armed
:02:39. > :02:43.movement which rules Gaza Strip. Part of that Palestinians want for
:02:44. > :02:48.the future of the Palestinian state. Two militants were from another
:02:49. > :02:53.group. We understand 14 sites were targeted by the Israeli military.
:02:54. > :02:56.They said they were going after rocket launching sites or
:02:57. > :03:00.warehouses. We have been hearing a knot in recent days about the kidnap
:03:01. > :03:04.and murder of the three Israeli teenagers and then the murder of the
:03:05. > :03:10.Palestinian teenager. These rocket attacks have been going on for a
:03:11. > :03:17.while longer, haven't they? This is a wider context. Of course. If you
:03:18. > :03:21.want to widen the focus entirely, you will see that Hamas and Israel
:03:22. > :03:29.have repeatedly fought skirmishes and battles over recent years. Hamas
:03:30. > :03:34.rules Gaza and Israel in next -- is next door. Hamas fires rockets in
:03:35. > :03:37.retaliation to what it sees as Israeli attacks on Israel fires
:03:38. > :03:44.missiles to deter future attacks. Essentially, part of the context is
:03:45. > :03:49.peace talks which broke down in April. There has not been any peace
:03:50. > :03:55.process to sustain or counter the kinds of exchanges we have seen at
:03:56. > :04:01.the moment. Given that backdrop, Israel is acting very tough against
:04:02. > :04:08.attacks from Gaza. It is taking very seriously the killing of this
:04:09. > :04:14.Palestinian teenager. Yes. Yesterday, Israel informed us that
:04:15. > :04:18.six Jewish suspects, we do not know anything more than that, have been
:04:19. > :04:22.arrested in connection with the murder of the Palestinian teenager
:04:23. > :04:25.who was killed on Wednesday. We do not have any more information about
:04:26. > :04:29.their identity, why they might have done it, about whether they have the
:04:30. > :04:33.right to defend themselves and so on. Very clearly, the Prime Minister
:04:34. > :04:36.and the president yesterday were saying that murder is murder and
:04:37. > :04:45.they will try to hunt down murderers on all sides. There is a political
:04:46. > :04:47.advantage. They will hope to try to damp down some of the Palestinian
:04:48. > :04:50.protests in recent days. World leaders have expressed sorrow
:04:51. > :04:53.over the death of former Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze,
:04:54. > :04:55.who succumbed to a long illness The ground-breaking
:04:56. > :04:58.Soviet Foreign Minister and later president of independent
:04:59. > :05:01.Georgia is best known for his role in the final years of the
:05:02. > :05:04.Soviet empire, helping topple the But his career ended in humiliation
:05:05. > :05:17.and he was forced into retirement. A short time ago I spoke to
:05:18. > :05:20.the BBC's News and Development Editor Olexiy Solohubenko
:05:21. > :05:35.about the key role he played. He was one of those members of the
:05:36. > :05:42.politburo who openly sided with Mikhail Gorbachev. He was supported
:05:43. > :05:47.off -- supportive of him in all his efforts. He was appointed Foreign
:05:48. > :05:50.Minister of the soviet union that he did not have any international
:05:51. > :05:54.experience before that. He shared the vision with Mikael Gorbachev,
:05:55. > :06:01.the vision of a more liberal, or reformed, Soviet Union and informed
:06:02. > :06:05.Eastern Europe. When the uprisings began in Soviet satellite states in
:06:06. > :06:10.Eastern Europe, he refused to allow the soviet union to step in. He
:06:11. > :06:16.wanted to negotiate. He believed that divided nations cannot be
:06:17. > :06:21.divided for a long period of time. He believed that repression does not
:06:22. > :06:26.necessarily work. He himself had a history of being in the security
:06:27. > :06:31.services. He was the Interior Minister at one stage. He did know
:06:32. > :06:36.what the Soviet repressive machine was but did not want to accept it.
:06:37. > :06:41.He was representative of the liberal wing. A lot of the change that
:06:42. > :06:43.happened in the soviet union and ultimately one can argue the demise
:06:44. > :06:48.of the soviet union was because of the liberal attitude that he shared
:06:49. > :06:55.with Mikael Gorbachev. If you want to call it his prize for being so
:06:56. > :06:59.key a figure, he became president of the newly independent Georgia. He
:07:00. > :07:06.swept in with 70% of the vote and that support was soon eroded. It for
:07:07. > :07:12.a number of reasons. There was the clap -- the collapse of the Soviet
:07:13. > :07:16.economy. Georgia was hit very hard. They were in a privileged position
:07:17. > :07:22.for many years. It was a favourite place for holiday-makers, for
:07:23. > :07:26.investment. It retained a degree of independence that no other Soviet
:07:27. > :07:32.republic had. It had Georgian as its official language. Places like
:07:33. > :07:35.Ukraine and the Baltics are not allowed to have this in their
:07:36. > :07:39.constitution. There was a degree of autonomy. The separatist movement
:07:40. > :07:47.started to bite him. Some argued that Russia was playing a role in
:07:48. > :07:53.other places. His tenure was nine years. By the end of his support was
:07:54. > :07:58.very small. There were claims of corruption on his part as well. He
:07:59. > :08:02.was not an ideal president. No one is ideal. Something that he
:08:03. > :08:07.certainly will be remembered for is that he was the key person.
:08:08. > :08:14.Basically with the kale Gorbachev and the Cold War. The world we're
:08:15. > :08:17.living in now, is very much because of his efforts to avoid
:08:18. > :08:22.confrontation, bloodshed and find other means.
:08:23. > :08:24.The Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, has told a local newspaper
:08:25. > :08:29.that he wished the three jailed Al Jazeera journalists had been
:08:30. > :08:38.The journalists were each handed seven-year jail terms by an Egyptian
:08:39. > :08:41.court last month for aiding a terrorist group
:08:42. > :08:54.I'm joined now by the BBC's Sally Nabil in Cairo.
:08:55. > :09:03.Talitha bit more about what the president has been saying. -- tell
:09:04. > :09:07.us a bit more. Yesterday he was in a round table meeting with local
:09:08. > :09:11.newspapers. One of the editors in chief quoted as saying, he regrets
:09:12. > :09:16.the fact the three generalists have been sentenced to at least seven
:09:17. > :09:21.years in prison. He preferred that they would have been deported,
:09:22. > :09:27.rather than prosecuted. The president also said he totally
:09:28. > :09:31.realises how damaging this case has been to the reputation of eejit to
:09:32. > :09:46.broad. He also tried to distance itself from the verdict. -- Egypt
:09:47. > :09:49.abroad. It raises questions about the possibility of a presidential
:09:50. > :09:55.pardon being issued to set free the journalist. There were some
:09:56. > :09:58.speculations that the president might issue a presidential pardon
:09:59. > :10:04.but according to the law he cannot do that unless the verdict is final.
:10:05. > :10:09.The journalists still can appeal the verdict in front of a higher court.
:10:10. > :10:25.I have followed this case very closely and have attended most of
:10:26. > :10:28.the hearing. What I got from the these serious charges and
:10:29. > :10:34.fabricating news. They aren't leading public opinions. According
:10:35. > :10:39.to the lawyers, there was no evidence -- they aren't eluding
:10:40. > :10:49.public opinions. According to the lawyers, there was no evidence. The
:10:50. > :10:55.headlines: In Iraq, security has been tightened in Baghdad as there
:10:56. > :11:04.are fears of a bombing campaign by ISIS. Four people were killed in an
:11:05. > :11:07.attack in Shia neighbourhood. Fighting has killed 2500 people in
:11:08. > :11:13.the past month and falls in million to flee their homes. Pope Francis
:11:14. > :11:19.has been holding meetings with six victims, sexually abused by police
:11:20. > :11:24.-- priests. Some have argued the encounter should have happened
:11:25. > :11:30.sooner. Pope Francis has said dealing with sexual abuse by priests
:11:31. > :11:35.is vital in terms of credibility of the Church. The murder trial of
:11:36. > :11:39.Oscar Pistorius has resumed. Lawyers for the South African athletes have
:11:40. > :11:42.condemned the leaking of a video which they commissioned, which shows
:11:43. > :11:46.Oscar Pistorius re-enacting events on the night he shot and killed his
:11:47. > :11:56.girlfriend. He claims he mistook her for an intruder. Now to Pakistan.
:11:57. > :11:59.Imran Khan has called for the Army to allow aid agencies to help
:12:00. > :12:05.thousands of people forced to leave their homes because of the military
:12:06. > :12:11.operation against the Taliban. Speaking to the BBC, he says his
:12:12. > :12:14.party 's regional government cannot deal alone with the unfolding human
:12:15. > :12:18.tragedy. Three quarters of a million people have left their home since
:12:19. > :12:35.the operation started just three weeks ago. Most have arrived in the
:12:36. > :12:38.town of Bannu. Yellow rag it is three weeks since -- it is three
:12:39. > :12:43.weeks since the operation was launched. There are lots of children
:12:44. > :12:49.in this particular hospital. We have been looking at children and women
:12:50. > :12:52.who have been coming here for help. There are lots of cases of
:12:53. > :13:00.gastroenteritis. Lots of the children are unwell. Health is a
:13:01. > :13:09.major challenge. What is the problem? What will you do about it?
:13:10. > :13:19.The original government had no idea. We were caught unprepared and then
:13:20. > :13:26.baked expected 100,000 IVP is. 700,000 have been registered so far.
:13:27. > :13:40.There are huge shortages. There is a problem with not enough doctors and
:13:41. > :13:50.facilities. Everyone is going to have -- we have demanded money from
:13:51. > :13:57.the federal government. I will ask the army chief. This will be a huge
:13:58. > :14:10.human tragedy. There are 350,000 children. It is beyond the
:14:11. > :14:16.capacity. We still need professionally trained people. Your
:14:17. > :14:23.party governs the North West province. You have seen with your
:14:24. > :14:28.own eyes the challenge that is unfolding, the Unitarian crisis. He
:14:29. > :14:36.accepts the Government does not have enough sources to cope. He is
:14:37. > :14:40.calling on international help. Just over the border in Afghanistan,
:14:41. > :14:43.preliminary results are expected imminently in the presidential
:14:44. > :14:47.elections. There have been accusations of fraud from both
:14:48. > :14:49.camps. In a hopeful sign, it has been reported that
:14:50. > :14:52.camps. In a hopeful sign, it has been representatives of both the
:14:53. > :14:59.candidates have begun talks to try to resolve the dispute. We will
:15:00. > :15:04.bring you more on that as we get it. Stay with us, plenty more to come.
:15:05. > :15:08.We are in Indonesia for their presidential poll on Wednesday,
:15:09. > :15:09.hearing from the minority Chinese community on their hopes and fears
:15:10. > :15:17.ahead of that election. Three people have died in Mexico,
:15:18. > :15:19.following a stampede All three were in their twenties and
:15:20. > :15:23.were crushed when a wall collapsed. The incident appears to have started
:15:24. > :15:40.after a brawl between fans, Security cameras caught the moment
:15:41. > :15:44.of the tragedy in the early hours of Sunday morning. With hundreds of
:15:45. > :15:49.people surging forward to escape a fight in the crowd, the pressure on
:15:50. > :15:55.the wall becomes too great and part of it collapses. Somewhere in the
:15:56. > :16:00.melee, three people are crushed. The morning light revealed the scene of
:16:01. > :16:08.the tragedy. Onlookers blamed a lack of safety precautions. There was
:16:09. > :16:12.only one exit for a crowd of around 10,000. TRANSLATION: The exit used
:16:13. > :16:17.to evacuate people was not enough. This is what caused the collapse of
:16:18. > :16:24.the wall. The concert was billed as a night to make history. It featured
:16:25. > :16:28.several groups. Emergency workers said several people began to rush
:16:29. > :16:32.out of the dance area when a fight broke out after the show. Witnesses
:16:33. > :16:38.said people began to panic after shots were fired. TRANSLATION: We
:16:39. > :16:43.evacuated the most critical patients. Some of them were treated
:16:44. > :16:48.at the Red Cross hospital but one of them unfortunately died. Local
:16:49. > :16:51.authorities denied they were at fault saying they had inspected
:16:52. > :16:56.safety measures before the show. They blamed the deaths on those who
:16:57. > :17:04.started the fighting. Further investigations are continuing.
:17:05. > :17:11.If you want to get any more on any of our stories, you can go to our
:17:12. > :17:20.website. Don't forget, you can follow me on Twitter. I would love
:17:21. > :17:29.to hear from you. This is BBC World News.
:17:30. > :17:35.Nine Palestinian militants are killed in Israeli air strikes in
:17:36. > :17:39.Gaza. The former Georgian president and
:17:40. > :17:43.Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze has died. His personal
:17:44. > :17:47.assistant said the 86-year-old passed away after a long illness.
:17:48. > :17:52.Now we can take you to Ukraine. Ukraine's government says its forces
:17:53. > :17:55.have retaken two more eastern cities The rebels have re-grouped
:17:56. > :17:57.in other locations, including Ukraine has ordered
:17:58. > :18:15.a complete blockade of that city Smoke rises over the suburbs of Lou
:18:16. > :18:23.Hants. The city, now of the focus between a key battle between Soviet
:18:24. > :18:28.forces -- forces and pro-Ukrainian rebels. It is the people who live
:18:29. > :18:33.here who are paying the price, as are their homes, businesses and
:18:34. > :18:38.cars. Ukrainian government say they have reclaimed string of cities over
:18:39. > :18:42.the past few days, in their fight against pro-Russian rebels. The most
:18:43. > :18:48.significant is the city of Sloviansk which had been held by the rebels
:18:49. > :18:53.for almost three months. It had been considered a focal point of the
:18:54. > :18:59.rebellion. The rebels insist this was a tactical withdrawal and they
:19:00. > :19:03.still hold key areas and cities in the East. Including the city of
:19:04. > :19:07.Donetsk, which is strategically important to both sides. It is
:19:08. > :19:12.currently under rebel control and that is the way the rebels wanted to
:19:13. > :19:18.stay. Other that is the way the rebels wanted to
:19:19. > :19:22.to Donetsk to reinforce numbers. Against Ukrainian army who are
:19:23. > :19:27.blockading the city. But the Army is facing resistance, from large
:19:28. > :19:34.numbers of people who support the rebels. TRANSLATION: I would take up
:19:35. > :19:40.arms tomorrow. Better die under a barricade than under the Ukrainian
:19:41. > :19:45.hoof. Therein lies the central problem in this crisis. We taking
:19:46. > :19:49.territory from the rebels lay in the short term be the easy part for the
:19:50. > :19:54.Ukrainian army. But more fighting will lead to more bloodshed and that
:19:55. > :19:55.will only deepen divisions and make it more difficult to win over hearts
:19:56. > :20:03.and minds. Australian immigration authorities
:20:04. > :20:05.have confirmed they returned more than 40 asylum seekers to the
:20:06. > :20:09.Sri Lankan Navy - at sea. Their ship was intercepted near
:20:10. > :20:12.the Cocos Islands, an Australian territory in the
:20:13. > :20:15.Indian Ocean. The move has been criticised
:20:16. > :20:18.by refugee groups. I've been speaking to the
:20:19. > :20:35.BBC's Phil Mercer in Sydney who had We understand this vessel was
:20:36. > :20:38.intercepted by the Australians near the Cocos Islands, which lie about
:20:39. > :20:43.halfway between the Australian mainland and Sri Lanka, sometime
:20:44. > :20:52.last week. We are also told that over the weekend, on Sunday, 41
:20:53. > :20:57.asylum seekers were transferred from Australia's care, into the care of
:20:58. > :21:03.the Sri Lankan navy. Australia is telling us that they had their
:21:04. > :21:07.refugee claims assessed and the vast majority had those refugee claims
:21:08. > :21:12.rejected. Therefore, they are on their way back to Sri Lanka. It has
:21:13. > :21:15.caused a political storm in Australia with critics saying the
:21:16. > :21:20.Australian government is not only violating human rights, it is also
:21:21. > :21:25.breaching international law. The question must be, how can Australia
:21:26. > :21:40.assess the Justin Lee properly asylum seekers claims if they are
:21:41. > :21:45.doing it at sea? -- how can you genuinely explore a person's Asylum
:21:46. > :21:49.applications while they are bobbing about on the high sea. The
:21:50. > :21:55.Australians are saying that those claims were examined by video link.
:21:56. > :21:59.Critics do not buy that. They think it is a quick fix by the Australians
:22:00. > :22:03.to get rid of a nasty problem, as they would see it, given that the
:22:04. > :22:11.Australian government has made it its mission to stop a steady flow of
:22:12. > :22:13.asylum seeker boats coming into its northern waters. Phil Mercer with
:22:14. > :22:18.the latest on that story. Indonesians go to the polls
:22:19. > :22:20.on Wednesday to elect The candidate gaining ground
:22:21. > :22:23.in the polls, Prabowo Subianto, is a former general who's seen to
:22:24. > :22:26.have strong ties to the regime that Chinese Indonesians, a minority
:22:27. > :22:30.group in the majority Muslim nation, often faced discrimination
:22:31. > :22:35.during the dictatorship. Alice Budisatrijo reports
:22:36. > :22:47.from Jakarta. Jakarta's Chinatown, a vibrant
:22:48. > :22:53.economic centre, home to much of the city's half a million ethnic Chinese
:22:54. > :22:58.minority. Here, you can find some Chinese books, Chinese Indonesian
:22:59. > :23:03.dictionary and some incense for religious rituals. These are the
:23:04. > :23:06.things you can find in Chinatowns around the world, but here in
:23:07. > :23:12.Indonesia, it was not always like this. Some of these items were
:23:13. > :23:16.banned and the Chinese Indonesians faced much worse atrocities. 16
:23:17. > :23:19.years ago, Chinese homes and businesses were looted and burned to
:23:20. > :23:25.the ground in deadly riots. They were targeted because of their
:23:26. > :23:32.perceived wealth. This man's family were one of many who suffered. It
:23:33. > :23:39.eldest daughter, Jasmine's house, was set on fire. This was a month
:23:40. > :23:47.after your daughter's house was burned? What does this letter say?
:23:48. > :23:51.It implied that the burning of Jasmine's house was targeted so he
:23:52. > :23:57.needs to remember that this time it is just his daughter's house but
:23:58. > :24:01.next time it could be his head. The entire family fled to the United
:24:02. > :24:06.States but a few years ago they decided to come back and they saw a
:24:07. > :24:17.different Indonesia. Fine macro the discrimination policy changed into
:24:18. > :24:25.more accommodating policy. At least legally the Chinese have the
:24:26. > :24:33.protection. Sociological leak, -- social logic in a... He warns that
:24:34. > :24:40.despite progress his community is still vulnerable. As long as the
:24:41. > :24:46.society is still divided and there is a lot of poverty, and there is a
:24:47. > :25:01.lot of discrepancy in income, the sensitivity is there still. There
:25:02. > :25:05.could be a crisis. Chinese Indonesians can embrace their
:25:06. > :25:13.identity. Learning this language was forbidden in the old days. Indonesia
:25:14. > :25:18.needs an even hand to ensure that history is not repeated.
:25:19. > :25:21.Tuesday will mark four months since Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 went
:25:22. > :25:25.There are still very few clues as to what happened.
:25:26. > :25:27.Now many of the families are in Kuala Lumpur,
:25:28. > :25:29.for an exhibition focusing on the search for the plane.
:25:30. > :25:37.They spoke to the BBC's Jennifer Pak.
:25:38. > :25:46.This is the mother of a Chinese passenger on board MH 370. She tried
:25:47. > :25:51.to an furl a banner in front of reporters. This is a picture of her
:25:52. > :25:55.being dragged out from the press conference in one lump. Families
:25:56. > :26:00.were initially very reluctant to speak to the media but even here at
:26:01. > :26:03.this photo exhibit, there are two families of cabin crew members who
:26:04. > :26:12.are here because they are starting to feel that their stories are
:26:13. > :26:21.slowly being forgotten. Which one is your dad? We can see them, but not
:26:22. > :26:30.face-to-face. Every time we looked at their photos we feel sad. When I
:26:31. > :26:34.look at it I feel sad so I tried to nor photos actually. You said one of
:26:35. > :26:39.the ways you tried to cope was to call your husband and asked him
:26:40. > :26:46.where he is. Do you still do that? Yes. My grandson also. He looks on
:26:47. > :26:53.my phone for a photograph of his grandfather and clicks on it and we
:26:54. > :26:54.wait for the call and we just start calling grampa, grandpa, where are