:00:14. > :00:21.This is BBC World News today. Syria finally allows humanitarian aid
:00:21. > :00:25.into that devastated District of Baba Amr. The UN's humanitarian
:00:25. > :00:32.envoy makes a brief visit to Homs and calls for better access for aid
:00:32. > :00:41.agencies. It's not that easy to deal with some of the concerns out
:00:41. > :00:49.there but we are working on it. knockout blow. Why can't Mitt
:00:49. > :00:53.Romney win the fight. Clear evidence of ballot rigging in
:00:53. > :00:58.Russia's presidential election. was on the verge of crying when I
:00:58. > :01:05.saw such complete lawlessness but I realised there was no way to stop
:01:05. > :01:11.Can my nap: Helping some of the world's poorest people but should a
:01:12. > :01:18.growing economy like India still get aid from Britain.
:01:18. > :01:28.And, please don't step on my new Billy -- suede shoes. Prince Harry
:01:28. > :01:34.
:01:34. > :01:40.shows off his reggae routine in Hello and welcome. The United
:01:40. > :01:46.Nations humanitarian chief has visited the Syrian city of Homs and
:01:46. > :01:52.the devastated District of Baba Amr. Government forces bombarded the
:01:53. > :01:57.district for nearly a month, killing dozens. Officials say Baba
:01:57. > :02:01.Amr was largely deserted today as many residents have already fled to
:02:01. > :02:09.areas where they can get humanitarian aid.
:02:09. > :02:18.Before setting off for the troubled city of Homs, the -- the UN
:02:18. > :02:25.humanitarian chief had a meeting. It wasn't clear whether Valerie
:02:25. > :02:30.Amos was hoping to see for herself the massive destruction which
:02:30. > :02:33.besieged Homs for a month. The Syrian Red Crescent has just been
:02:33. > :02:37.allowed in but not the international Red Cross. It has
:02:37. > :02:43.been waiting nearby since the last Friday was a huge clear-up
:02:43. > :02:51.operation has been going on. Valerie Amos also went seat seems
:02:51. > :02:56.like this. And verifiable petite -- footage showing patients at peak
:02:56. > :03:01.hospital apparently blindfolded and showing signs of torture. That is
:03:01. > :03:06.why many people wounded by security forces are not being taken to state
:03:06. > :03:11.hospitals. This makeshift field clinic is in another quarter of
:03:12. > :03:19.Homs which has seen much violence. People are patched up as best they
:03:19. > :03:25.can using any materials to hand. Valerie Amos is also not the only
:03:25. > :03:29.visitor in town. The lack the Russians, the Chinese want to see
:03:29. > :03:33.dialogue and the Syrian solution, not regime change imposed from
:03:33. > :03:38.outside. But as the situation worsens, the Chinese do not want to
:03:38. > :03:44.get caught out as they were in Libya last year. We have evacuated
:03:44. > :03:49.most of our workers from Syria. There are only about 100 personnel
:03:49. > :03:53.left. We will go back to those projects when the situation
:03:53. > :03:59.stabilises and There are conditions for peace for construction and
:03:59. > :04:04.development. The most crucial visit will be that of the UN Arab League
:04:04. > :04:08.envoy, Kofi Annan. He has the stature and experience and balanced
:04:08. > :04:14.approach that might just succeed against the odds. If he can't do it
:04:14. > :04:20.probably nobody else can. The dilemma about what can and
:04:20. > :04:27.cannot be done has been discussed in Washington today during tense
:04:27. > :04:31.exchanges. John McCain has clashed with Leon Panetta, the US Secretary
:04:31. > :04:40.of Defence. Can you tell us how long the killing will have to
:04:40. > :04:50.continue and how many civilian lives will be lost before military
:04:50. > :04:56.measures we propose. How many more have to die? I think the question,
:04:56. > :05:01.as you stated yourself, Senator, is the effort to try to build an
:05:01. > :05:06.international consensus as to what action we do take. That makes the
:05:06. > :05:13.most sense. What doesn't make sense is to take unilateral action. We
:05:13. > :05:18.are not divided here and we are not holding back. This administration
:05:18. > :05:23.has led in Iraq, Afghanistan and in the war on terrorism. We lead in
:05:23. > :05:28.Libya and we are leading in Syria. Let us look at the day's other
:05:28. > :05:33.news: Six British soldiers have been killed by a huge explosion in
:05:33. > :05:39.southern next than a stun. That deaths take the number of British
:05:39. > :05:45.personnel to over 400 -- Afghanistan. The vehicle has now
:05:45. > :05:49.been recovered. Prosecuted -- prosecutors in Norway
:05:49. > :05:53.have a formally charged Anders Behring Breivik who stands accused
:05:53. > :05:59.of terrorism and premeditated murder of 77 people. He is due to
:05:59. > :06:06.go on trial next month. The founder of the fresh company --
:06:06. > :06:11.French company which distributed Silicon gel which was of industrial
:06:11. > :06:16.strength has admitted the gel had not been medically proved but
:06:16. > :06:22.wasn't dangerous, he insisted. Apple has just unveiled a new I pat
:06:22. > :06:28.three which it says will take tablet like this to a whole new
:06:28. > :06:32.level. It will have a speedier process, sharper screen and an
:06:32. > :06:38.option for faster wireless broadband access.
:06:38. > :06:45.Let us get more on the fall-out of the Super Tuesday primaries held
:06:45. > :06:49.across America in the last 24 hours. No outright winner at all. Mitt
:06:49. > :06:56.Romney came through but not with a knockout blow to see him through
:06:56. > :07:01.with momentum or making the obvious contender to take on President
:07:01. > :07:05.Obama in November. Let us get the latest report.
:07:05. > :07:11.Smiles from the two leading candidates but this was a deeply
:07:11. > :07:16.split verdict. In Ohio, Mitt Romney one but only just after a nail-
:07:16. > :07:21.biting night. And after spending nearly four times as much as his
:07:21. > :07:24.main rival, Rick Santorum. We are counting at the delegates and it
:07:24. > :07:31.looks good and we are counting down the days until November and that
:07:31. > :07:39.looks even better. We have won races all over this country.
:07:39. > :07:47.Against the odds. When they thought, OK, he is finished, we keep coming
:07:47. > :07:54.back. The battle for the Republican nomination is set to drag on with
:07:54. > :07:59.voters torn between Mitt Romney, the strongest challenger, and Mr --
:07:59. > :08:05.Rick Santorum. How can Mitt Romney clinch the nomination? If he moves
:08:05. > :08:08.to the right to use -- Europe Conservative votes he might
:08:08. > :08:12.alienate their Republican centre ground. Rick Santorum could become
:08:12. > :08:18.his running mate but that would need a big dose of love and
:08:18. > :08:23.forgiveness on both sides after the bitterly fought campaign. The
:08:23. > :08:27.deadline is fast approaching. August is the Republican convention
:08:27. > :08:32.which decides the presidential candidate. Normally, the party has
:08:32. > :08:38.made up his mind well beforehand. Many Republicans worry that many --
:08:38. > :08:44.none of the candidates has their charisma to outshine Barack Obama.
:08:44. > :08:50.Some may even wish for an unknown challenged or to emerge and save
:08:50. > :08:57.the day -- challenger. Let us discuss the results. With
:08:57. > :09:02.their spokesperson for the tea- party .net. With me is an is Dorian
:09:02. > :09:11.of the United States. If I could come to you first, Kevin Jackson.
:09:11. > :09:16.Who does the tea party support given the for contenders? For the
:09:16. > :09:25.most part, we were not make an announcement of who we support but
:09:25. > :09:30.want the process to play out. Many in the organisation, certainly ours,
:09:30. > :09:35.will not make the announcement until the person wins. Would that
:09:35. > :09:41.not be a sensible and grown-up thing to do in the best interests
:09:41. > :09:46.of the Republican Party? Isn't it doing damage to your party?
:09:46. > :09:53.wouldn't say it is doing damage but it is doing their proper vetting of
:09:53. > :10:00.the candidate, something that had not occurred when Barack Obama got
:10:00. > :10:04.elected in 2008. When we look back to looking at the primaries, the
:10:04. > :10:09.real squeamish thing we will see his on the side of the left and the
:10:09. > :10:16.Democrats. Barbara Bush says it is the worst Prime re campaign she has
:10:16. > :10:26.ever witnessed. What do you make of it? Barbara Bush has said that of
:10:26. > :10:27.
:10:27. > :10:32.almost every primary campaign. But she represents the Romany, a
:10:32. > :10:39.moderate side. If you look at who voted for Mitt Romney yesterday, it
:10:39. > :10:44.is people who are over 65 and earn over $100,000 a year and have a
:10:44. > :10:49.college education. That is my tinnies on a yacht and that wing of
:10:49. > :10:53.the party. Rick Santorum is attracting independence and
:10:53. > :11:01.Democrats and those amongst poorer people. The problem with the
:11:01. > :11:09.process is the longer they delay on spending their money on Barack
:11:09. > :11:14.Obama, they wear down each other. That is the point, isn't it? You
:11:14. > :11:22.need to focus all the guns on President Obama and pick somebody
:11:22. > :11:28.who can realistically beat him? is right on a couple of things. If
:11:28. > :11:33.the other candidates had faced Barack Obama earlier on, I don't
:11:33. > :11:38.think either Mitt Romney or Rick Santorum... The any person to have
:11:38. > :11:41.the naughty bits to face a Obama would probably have been newt
:11:41. > :11:49.Gingrich but he is right in one respect that we are spending time
:11:49. > :11:53.away from a bomber. I think that is a good thing. -- Barack Obama. At
:11:53. > :11:58.the appropriate time, we should start bombarding the nation with
:11:58. > :12:02.the facts about him and I think that is the problem for the left is
:12:02. > :12:11.that he has no way to run and hide. I will ask the question and I know
:12:11. > :12:15.the answer, there are no people on the right to are saying now, I
:12:15. > :12:21.would love to vote for Barack Obama because he has done such a great
:12:21. > :12:26.job. There are many defectors on his side. Isn't the uncomfortable
:12:26. > :12:31.truth that the tea party movement has Pete? No, people like to say
:12:31. > :12:38.that but it is far from the truth. The movement has evolved into
:12:38. > :12:42.something interesting. We have gotten away from the valleys and
:12:42. > :12:52.people thing that is the way to judge the movement. But that is
:12:52. > :13:02.like asking a senior to be judged from a show rather than an album.
:13:02. > :13:04.
:13:04. > :13:11.Quite frankly, the talk of Capitol Hill on a daily basis... 10, --
:13:11. > :13:15.team. That is their problem for them. They won the political
:13:15. > :13:22.argument in 2010 and they got the energy for the Republicans to get
:13:22. > :13:27.control of the house. But what does it do next? It has to rely and the
:13:27. > :13:33.establishment. The tea party has not provided us with any serious
:13:33. > :13:42.presidential candidates. They have peaked politically in the sense
:13:42. > :13:47.that it now has to rely on the t o p to deliver and it can't. The tea
:13:47. > :13:51.party refuses to compromise, doesn't it? Tim believes the tea
:13:51. > :13:55.party has picked because we do not have a candidate but Mitt Romney
:13:55. > :14:05.should have had be sown at given that he has other Republican
:14:05. > :14:05.
:14:05. > :14:13.machine behind him for some time. Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich...
:14:13. > :14:19.As far as issues go, but he party is the reason why it politics in
:14:19. > :14:25.America has changed. We have thwarted much of the legislation.
:14:25. > :14:30.None of these Candy It's, after this long war, are going to be able
:14:30. > :14:38.to challenge Barack Obama and is it time to bring in a white knight to
:14:38. > :14:46.come around from behind a boulder? No one knows who that will be.
:14:46. > :14:52.Chris Christie, it won't be him. Jet Bush has calculated rightly he
:14:52. > :14:57.is too moderate for the Republicans now. The any candidate in the last
:14:58. > :15:02.24 hours who has said they will not rule themselves out his Sarah Palin.
:15:02. > :15:06.If there is a white knight, it has to appeal to the tea party base and
:15:06. > :15:11.not someone who moves the Republicans to the centre but can
:15:11. > :15:17.reach out at a convention. How does the return of Sarah Palin strike
:15:17. > :15:21.you? I don't think it is a possibility. What will tips this
:15:21. > :15:26.process more than anything is the selection of the price -- vice-
:15:26. > :15:33.presidential candidate on the side of the right. Names being kicked
:15:33. > :15:37.around dark Alan West, and pundits here say that the vice presidential
:15:37. > :15:42.candidate doesn't have that type of impact but I would disagree. This
:15:42. > :15:50.election will be so different in so many ways. The other thing people
:15:50. > :15:56.haven't conceded is that Barack Obama will appear to be stale bread.
:15:56. > :16:06.Nobody really has a lot of respect for one the vice presidential
:16:06. > :16:07.
:16:07. > :16:17.candidate. There is not a cabinet position that one nominee they have
:16:17. > :16:23.
:16:23. > :16:29.I cannot wait for this to shift. That the pattern have to confront
:16:29. > :16:34.the Republican machine. -- the tea party. The any side we can side
:16:34. > :16:40.with is the Republicans at this moment. Trust me, that Paul is
:16:40. > :16:43.coming. Kevin Jackson, we must leave it there. Thank you. Tens of
:16:43. > :16:48.thousands of people have marched in South Africa protesting against key
:16:48. > :16:51.government economic policies. The marches, organised by the Congress
:16:52. > :16:54.of South African Trade Unions, or COSATU, took place in more that 30
:16:54. > :16:57.town and cities with the largest in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban.
:16:57. > :16:59.Demonstrators are angry at plans for more expensive tolls on roads
:17:00. > :17:02.between Johannesburg and the capital, Pretoria, and also want
:17:02. > :17:08.authorities to rein in the practice known as labour-brokering, under
:17:08. > :17:18.which agencies offer workers short- term contracts at lower pay. From
:17:18. > :17:20.
:17:20. > :17:23.Johannesburg, Milton Nkosi reports. Today is the day the city of
:17:23. > :17:27.Johannesburg came to a standstill. These protesters are sending a
:17:27. > :17:31.clear message to government. These scenes are reminiscent of the anti-
:17:31. > :17:37.apartheid demonstrations of the eighties and nineties, except today,
:17:37. > :17:40.they are marching against their own government. We are in the centre of
:17:40. > :17:46.Johannesburg. We are surrounded by thousands and thousands of poor --
:17:46. > :17:50.of protesters. These big laugh from the Congress of South African Trade
:17:50. > :17:57.Unions. They are here today to make a statement against the
:17:57. > :18:06.government's programme of electronic tolling systems. Today,
:18:06. > :18:13.COSATU is saying, enough is enough. I live in Pretoria. I work in
:18:13. > :18:22.Johannesburg and I use that route every day. I pay a high tax rates.
:18:22. > :18:28.It is ridiculous. I cannot afford it. I am here to make my mark.
:18:28. > :18:31.protest is about the gap between the haves and have-nots. They also
:18:31. > :18:37.came to protest against labour brokers. They are the
:18:38. > :18:41.intermediaries who hire staff on behalf of companies, and they do
:18:41. > :18:47.not want to pay benefits. The police were out in full force to
:18:47. > :18:53.make sure the match goes slowly and swears lay. Surely this must come
:18:53. > :19:02.as a wake-up call for the governing ANC? These people are not from the
:19:02. > :19:05.opposition parties. Opponents of Vladimir Putin have
:19:05. > :19:12.branded his election victory on Sunday as an insult to the Russian
:19:12. > :19:15.people. The League of Voters say they'll press on with
:19:15. > :19:17.demonstrations against him despite his triumph in Sunday's election,
:19:17. > :19:24.and the detention of hundreds of people at post election rallies.
:19:24. > :19:33.Daniel Sandford reports. A man walks up to a ballot box and stuffs
:19:33. > :19:39.them at least 10 ballot papers. One of many examples of intellectual
:19:40. > :19:46.fraud last Sunday. In the early hours of Monday morning, Moscow's
:19:46. > :19:50.polling station Number 2247, the election count was going well. The
:19:50. > :19:56.voter looked close. Observers thought the pars for Vladimir Putin
:19:56. > :20:02.and his rival looked about the same. It was what we thought just a
:20:02. > :20:10.technical procedure of counting how many vote on each pile. That is
:20:10. > :20:14.where it turned out to be very different from hour visual
:20:14. > :20:20.understanding and our counting. When the chairman formerly filled
:20:20. > :20:24.in the result, the official count gave Putin twice as many votes. No
:20:24. > :20:30.matter how many -- how much the observers complained, there were
:20:30. > :20:33.not able to get it revised. It is stories like this that led Russia's
:20:33. > :20:39.new monitoring group, the League of Voters, to say it would not
:20:39. > :20:45.recognise the election result and that it was an insult to society.
:20:45. > :20:50.TRANSLATION: Our country finds itself in an alarming situation, in
:20:50. > :20:57.which a large and active part of society had the doubt or refuses to
:20:57. > :21:01.acknowledge the legitimacy of the parliament and the President.
:21:01. > :21:06.woman from the polling station were only 230 residents were registered,
:21:07. > :21:10.but almost 1,000 voters were added to the list less than 24 hours
:21:10. > :21:15.before the poll. She film them arriving large rooms. The station
:21:15. > :21:20.recorded one of the highest vote of Vladimir Putin anywhere in Moscow.
:21:21. > :21:26.TRANSLATION: I was on the verge of crying when I saw such complete
:21:26. > :21:30.lawlessness. At the same time, I realised there was no law to stop
:21:30. > :21:34.it. They lead of 30 his estimate that the official 63 % that
:21:34. > :21:40.Vladimir Putin was awarded was wrong by about 10 percentage points.
:21:40. > :21:44.They believe he got 53 %. That means he still won the election in
:21:44. > :21:46.the first round. Should a nation which has its own
:21:46. > :21:50.nuclear and space programme and a growing economy receive generous
:21:50. > :21:55.international aid? It's a question being asked about the British
:21:55. > :21:57.government's policy of donating $450 million to India. The UK is by
:21:57. > :22:02.far the largest donor, spending nine times more than the United
:22:02. > :22:04.States does. But as David Loyn reports from the state of Bihar,
:22:04. > :22:06.Britain's International Development Department says it's moving away
:22:07. > :22:16.from providing handouts and into investing in the private sector and
:22:17. > :22:17.
:22:17. > :22:22.public services. This is a scheme to help Indians
:22:22. > :22:30.apply for Indian government services. It is paid for by British
:22:30. > :22:34.aid money. It is even paying for a call centre. Estate helpline. This
:22:34. > :22:40.approach has its critics in India, who said that if Britain wants to
:22:40. > :22:45.help, I should give money to charity, not to fund Indian state
:22:45. > :22:48.services. India does not need British aid. There are Indians who
:22:48. > :22:52.need British aid. One solution could be for the British government
:22:52. > :22:57.to give aid directly to charities that are active on the ground,
:22:57. > :23:03.working with people. The complex dilemmas of India need more than
:23:03. > :23:06.charity. A country of great inequality, and are merging its --
:23:06. > :23:12.an emerging nuclear-armed superpower, but still home to a
:23:12. > :23:16.third of the poorest people in the world, malnourished children. Until
:23:16. > :23:20.recently, the government here Bihar was infamous for corruption. It has
:23:20. > :23:26.cleaned itself up and welcomes British technical support in making
:23:26. > :23:36.this work. I think it fulfils a very important role, which other
:23:36. > :23:37.
:23:37. > :23:43.government programmes does not. It is very worthwhile. In the
:23:43. > :23:53.countryside, most of these farmers earned less than $1.25 a day, below
:23:53. > :23:53.
:23:53. > :23:57.the globally defined poverty line. Transports gobble up their costs.
:23:58. > :24:03.This man's son died of polio. His earnings are Robson's a small
:24:03. > :24:08.production company emerged to buy his vegetables. It is hoping to win
:24:08. > :24:13.investment from British aid money. Soon, about half of Britain's large
:24:13. > :24:17.aid budget to India could going to projects like this. Investing in
:24:17. > :24:23.vegetable production. It is a radical departure from more
:24:23. > :24:27.traditional aid priorities such as health and education. It is paid
:24:27. > :24:33.but not as we know it. The test will be whether it cuts the number
:24:33. > :24:36.of India's poor. Prince Harry has scaled down his
:24:37. > :24:40.activities in Jamaica as a mark of respect to the six British troops
:24:41. > :24:44.killed in Afghanistan. He spent part of the day with the Jamaican
:24:44. > :24:53.Defence Force, watching them abseil and taking part in target practice.
:24:53. > :24:59.Peter Hunt sent this report. This was Captain Wales rather than
:24:59. > :25:06.Prince Harry, at a Jamaican army base. A serving officer had been
:25:06. > :25:11.told about the latest losses in Afghanistan. At the camp, a chance
:25:11. > :25:16.for a reunion with a fellow Sandhurst trainee. The Jamaican
:25:16. > :25:20.army was keen to show the Prince their new tower for training
:25:20. > :25:29.soldiers in at saving. Prince Harry was meant to be joining in here. In
:25:29. > :25:32.the words of one of his officials,... The British deaths in
:25:32. > :25:37.Afghanistan have, understandably, changed the tone of the visit.
:25:37. > :25:43.Harry still went to the firing range. Anyone with a camera want to
:25:43. > :25:47.stand at the other end? He is the soldier prince who has recently
:25:47. > :25:51.qualified as an Apache helicopter pilot, who wants to serve again in
:25:51. > :25:56.Afghanistan. Last night at a state dinner, the Prince paid tribute to
:25:56. > :26:00.the woman who is still Queen of Jamaica. She combines all her
:26:00. > :26:07.virtues as a leader and as the head of state with those of being a
:26:07. > :26:12.wonderful, caring grandmother. Their grandchildren are utterly
:26:12. > :26:19.devoted to her. It was Harry the Royal representing his wonderful
:26:19. > :26:26.grandmother who visited this youth project. Into the groove, he was
:26:26. > :26:28.soon on to the dance floor. A reminder of our main news:
:26:28. > :26:31.The United Nations humanitarian chief, Valerie Amos, has visited
:26:31. > :26:37.the Syrian city of Homs, including the devastated district of Baba Amr,
:26:37. > :26:39.after earlier meeting Syrian officials in Damascus. Syrian Red
:26:39. > :26:42.Crescent officials say Baba Amr is mostly deserted, with many
:26:42. > :26:52.residents having already fled to areas where they could get
:26:52. > :27:01.
:27:01. > :27:06.humanitarian aid. After what has been a pretty cold
:27:06. > :27:10.day but frequent showers, tomorrow is looking more settled. They will
:27:10. > :27:16.be brighter skies around. Still breezy but with winds slowly easing,
:27:16. > :27:21.it will feel milder. High-pressure is starting to build through the
:27:21. > :27:25.next few days. It will block a lot of our weather fronts. Through
:27:25. > :27:35.Thursday, we will see a weather front feeding in a fair bit of
:27:35. > :28:09.
:28:09. > :28:13.Fairly grey skies for Scotland. Damp and drizzly for western