:01:07. > :01:17.There's collapsing support for the two main political parties. Raymond
:01:17. > :01:24.
:01:24. > :01:30.AU Brack dies in Paris at the age of 97.
:01:30. > :01:35.Fierce fighting is continuing for a second day between Sudanese and
:01:35. > :01:45.South a Sudanese protesters. They are reported to have taken control
:01:45. > :01:46.
:01:46. > :01:56.of a large board a tame -- border town in Heglig. The African Union
:01:56. > :01:56.
:01:56. > :02:01.has demanded South Sudan withdrawal from the airfield. -- withdraw.
:02:01. > :02:11.This is far more than just a squabble over oil. The fighting is
:02:11. > :02:38.
:02:38. > :02:43.South Sudan says the fighting began when his troops were attacked from
:02:43. > :02:51.the air and on the ground and they were merely defending themselves.
:02:51. > :02:58.We are not interested in escalating the situation. The people of south
:02:58. > :03:04.Sudan and the people of Sudan have no interest in getting into a plea
:03:04. > :03:09.to kit -- politic war. A few weeks ago, negotiators from both
:03:09. > :03:14.countries signed a non-aggression pact following talks. That delve --
:03:14. > :03:19.that deal now seems worth less. Fighting between people from the
:03:19. > :03:24.areas now known as Sudan and South Sudan dates back hundreds of years
:03:24. > :03:32.but intensified during Africa's longest civil war. South Sudanese
:03:32. > :03:35.voted in a referendum for a peace deal. Its separation left key
:03:35. > :03:42.issues unresolved and intensive negotiations have lit -- made
:03:42. > :03:48.little progress. Sudan and South Sudan have fought
:03:48. > :03:55.back from the brink times before. This pattern of occasion clashes is
:03:55. > :04:00.likely to continue. The seriousness of this fighting in Heglig means a
:04:00. > :04:10.return to outright war is a step closer.
:04:10. > :04:11.
:04:11. > :04:14.I am joined by a ambassador Wellens and press attache at the Sudanese
:04:14. > :04:21.embassy. The African Union has called on
:04:21. > :04:30.your forces to withdraw from Heglig. Why aren't you? Esme clarify one
:04:30. > :04:40.thing. It is not Heglig, it is the corruption of the name. It belonged
:04:40. > :04:42.
:04:43. > :04:48.to the self. The only reason why it is... We are not saying that we
:04:48. > :04:56.would want to keep it, but we will not allow any aggressive forces to
:04:56. > :05:04.be based there. We have to stop aerial bombardment and that is the
:05:04. > :05:14.reason we are not occupying it. We are not claiming it by force. It
:05:14. > :05:20.would be negotiated as it has been previously. Let us make that clear.
:05:20. > :05:26.Her you were the aggressors in that and they are just reaction? They
:05:26. > :05:34.are occupiers. The African Union issued a statement today saying
:05:34. > :05:40.that it will not allow the occupation of the leak by a South
:05:40. > :05:45.Sudan and calls for the immediate withdrawal. Is that an error in
:05:45. > :05:55.terms of the actual location? problem is historically this has
:05:55. > :06:05.
:06:05. > :06:12.not been put into perspective. They know that. The Court of Arbitration
:06:13. > :06:19.in the Hague in 2009 placed Heglig in Sudan. You accept that, do you?
:06:19. > :06:29.We accept that they should do with straw. In a sense, Khartoum cannot
:06:29. > :06:34.be allowed to accept the PCA and they want to be the judge and not
:06:34. > :06:43.to the victim. What we are saying is these issues need to be resolved
:06:43. > :06:48.peacefully. Neither side is talking at the moment. It cannot be allowed
:06:48. > :06:54.to be the springboard of attacking our population. There has been
:06:54. > :07:01.aerial bombardment which the -- which has to stop. We are
:07:01. > :07:06.requesting that the Sudanese Government stops the bombardment.
:07:06. > :07:10.Hillary Clinton has placed the blame fairly and squarely on the
:07:10. > :07:16.shoulders of Sudan in terms of harassment and bombardment as well.
:07:17. > :07:22.There is no harassment or bombardment on the side of the
:07:22. > :07:28.Sudan. They have not crossed the border and occupied parts of
:07:28. > :07:34.southern Sudan. Have you been engagement in aerial bombardment of
:07:35. > :07:42.south Sudanese forces? Of course not? -- of course not. Why should
:07:42. > :07:46.we do that? We have a mature and responsible manner and have
:07:46. > :07:56.sacrificed the 5th of the population and the 4th of the
:07:56. > :07:56.
:07:56. > :08:02.landmass to get peace for the two people. Can we save that a place
:08:02. > :08:12.was bombed yesterday and five people were killed. Is that not the
:08:12. > :08:13.
:08:13. > :08:20.Sudan Armed Forces? You are denying that? We repel of the attack. Why
:08:21. > :08:26.do you bomb the areas? What is happening is that the southern
:08:26. > :08:31.Sudanese have got two battalions in the north and they have not
:08:31. > :08:37.withdrawn them, they have not decided to implement the
:08:37. > :08:42.demobilisation. You are both guilty of arming militias and that has
:08:42. > :08:47.been clearly documented or do you deny that? If what is happening is
:08:47. > :08:52.these forces should have been demobilised and that did not happen.
:08:52. > :09:01.Are you still arming militias which are fighting in the south and do
:09:01. > :09:11.you accept you are arming militias as well? Our position, it is unfair
:09:11. > :09:11.
:09:11. > :09:21.to ask. There are two battalions are in our territory. Yes or no?
:09:21. > :09:23.
:09:23. > :09:28.am saying, no. We have been respecting the territory of Sudan
:09:28. > :09:34.and halting to agreement what we have signed. They have not held to
:09:34. > :09:40.their books and therefore they are not able to answer. The truth is we
:09:40. > :09:44.need to go back to peace. They need to stop bombarding. This has been
:09:44. > :09:50.dragging on for the last month. Ban Ki-Moon is calling for political
:09:50. > :09:54.leadership on both sides. Why aren't you negotiating? This
:09:54. > :09:59.follows a civil war where hundreds of thousands of people have been
:10:00. > :10:05.displaced. Why can't you sort this out? You are both dependent on oil
:10:05. > :10:10.and at the moment, it is one long continuous battle. This is the most
:10:11. > :10:14.reasonable thing to say. It is going through a transitional period
:10:14. > :10:22.from a guerrilla army and from people who have been fighting in
:10:22. > :10:28.the Porsche and have been fighting for cabinet positions. In order to
:10:28. > :10:32.establish proper Government in which the army is controlled by the
:10:32. > :10:42.civilian Government... They are not fit for Government at the moment?
:10:42. > :10:42.
:10:42. > :10:52.If they are in a transitional position. We think it should
:10:52. > :10:54.
:10:54. > :11:01.continue. We have to get into a guerrilla mentality. Is it
:11:01. > :11:10.predicated on guerrilla tactics? have the most disciplined and we
:11:10. > :11:17.have shown that to the world and Khartoum knows about that. Our army
:11:17. > :11:24.is very disciplined but they would not accept being aggressive all the
:11:24. > :11:31.time. For the sake of all the people in Sudan and self Saddam,
:11:31. > :11:35.were you get back to the negotiating table? -- South Sudan.
:11:35. > :11:45.Of course. If they don't withdraw, our army will force them to
:11:45. > :11:46.
:11:46. > :11:56.withdraw. So, it is war? necessarily. It is not necessary.
:11:56. > :11:56.
:11:56. > :12:05.It is their delegation who left from the meeting. They should come
:12:05. > :12:08.back to the table. Paying due both. -- thank you both.
:12:08. > :12:13.So could he forces his area have continued shelling opposition areas
:12:13. > :12:20.using tank and artillery fire. State TV said they will stop on
:12:20. > :12:23.Thursday morning while remaining on a lead. Kofi Annan travelled to
:12:23. > :12:32.Iran to ask for their support in pressure rising at Damascus to
:12:32. > :12:38.abide by his peace plan. Many have taken refuge in Turkey. Fergal
:12:38. > :12:44.Keane sent this report. Waiting for news from the country
:12:44. > :12:49.they fled. This is an area where arrivals are processed before being
:12:49. > :12:54.sent on to other camps. We didn't meet anybody who expressed optimism
:12:54. > :13:01.but a few were willing to give the benefit of the doubt. Is there
:13:01. > :13:09.going to be peace? TRANSLATION: I hope for that but they have talked
:13:09. > :13:13.before and it has come to nothing. I do hope for peace. From here, you
:13:13. > :13:23.can see Syria. It is calm but other parts have become precarious in the
:13:23. > :13:33.past few days. Syrian forces had fired across, hitting Refugees.
:13:33. > :13:38.
:13:38. > :13:44.Here, shooting to stop solders from Inside Syria, the last days have
:13:45. > :13:49.seen a furious fighting. In Homs, troops have pounded opposition
:13:49. > :13:53.districts with tank fire and mortars. No sign here of any
:13:53. > :14:00.military withdrawal. In parts of the city, there is little left to
:14:00. > :14:06.fight over. The activist filming this burning shopping-centre calls
:14:06. > :14:13.out, "are you watching Kofi Annan? Where is the international
:14:13. > :14:16.community?" such images have accompanied Kofi Annan. He is
:14:16. > :14:21.insisting on the possibility of a ceasefire.
:14:21. > :14:26.If everyone respects it, by 6 o'clock on Thursday 12th, 6 o'clock
:14:26. > :14:31.in the morning of Thursday 12th, we should see much improved situation
:14:31. > :14:36.on the ground. As tanks were on the move in Homs,
:14:36. > :14:39.Kofi Annan could only hope and -- in the assurances he had been given.
:14:39. > :14:44.This evening, the Government insisted it would stop fighting
:14:44. > :14:49.tomorrow that it reserved the right to retaliate if attacked.
:14:49. > :14:54.I am confident my Government is committed to his plan bet at the
:14:54. > :14:58.same time, since the violence, I can only guarantee our side. I
:14:59. > :15:03.cannot guarantee the violence from the armed groups and those
:15:03. > :15:13.countries harbouring them. Be the Free Syrian Army refuses to
:15:13. > :15:15.
:15:15. > :15:19.believe anything the Government TRANSLATION: I do not believe our
:15:19. > :15:23.forces will stop shooting because the other side will not stop. If
:15:23. > :15:27.the other side stopped the Syrian people would march on the
:15:27. > :15:30.President's palace on the same day. This means the regime want stop.
:15:30. > :15:35.is possible that the violence across the border may died down
:15:35. > :15:39.when the deadline runs out tomorrow morning. But there is no likelihood
:15:39. > :15:43.of a permanent cessation. Of the regime and opposition believe this
:15:43. > :15:52.is a fight to the finish. That is the logic that has undermined the
:15:52. > :15:57.Kofi Annan mission from the start. A senior Middle East adviser is
:15:57. > :16:02.with us now from Washington. Kofi Annan stoically continuing with his
:16:02. > :16:09.optimism. How important do you think his visit to Iran was today,
:16:09. > :16:14.given that it is one of Syria's strongest allies? It was important
:16:14. > :16:19.that Kofi Annan visited Iran. Syria is one of Iran's strongest allies.
:16:20. > :16:25.I find it unlikely that he will get Iran to budge in any meaningful way,
:16:25. > :16:28.she performed. The Arabs Spring and the dear little -- you political a
:16:28. > :16:32.lining that is taking place Zeynel has left Tehran feeling very
:16:32. > :16:38.uncertain about its place in the region. One of the few certainties
:16:38. > :16:42.that Iran has is its close alliance with the Al Assad regime in Ceri
:16:42. > :16:46.and they don't want to jeopardise that in any shape or form. In many
:16:46. > :16:51.ways area is around's on a strategic ally in the Arab world
:16:51. > :16:56.left. They will continue to fund such area, they will continue to
:16:56. > :17:03.provide military equipment. In many ways, Iran is acting as something
:17:04. > :17:11.like a lifeline for Ceri up. Syria is depleting cash reserves as this
:17:11. > :17:17.fighting goes on. They do not want to be on the losing side. We have
:17:17. > :17:24.seen some action from Sept -- Russia and China. I think Iran
:17:24. > :17:28.understands that there is always one winner here and that is the Al
:17:28. > :17:34.Assad regime. That is the only group that they can imagine winning
:17:34. > :17:38.this. They cannot imagine a loss here because of the Toulouse, the
:17:38. > :17:43.uprising, the people taking part in the uprising, I so turned off by
:17:43. > :17:47.what Iran has been doing. Their chance on the streets of Damascus
:17:47. > :17:52.and other cities had been debt to Iran. The other aspect of this is
:17:52. > :17:56.that we have seen as sectarian element in this fight as well. We
:17:57. > :18:03.are starting to seek guitar and Saudi Arabia and Turkey form of
:18:03. > :18:11.something that looks like a Sunni Axis verses Iran which is leading a
:18:11. > :18:16.Shi'ite axis. This is not entirely as Sunni verses Shi'ite battle.
:18:16. > :18:21.This is a battle for power. there is a Sunni majority in Syria.
:18:21. > :18:26.I absolutely right. There is a majority Sunni population. The
:18:26. > :18:32.conflict as it goes on it is taking on increasingly sectarian tones in
:18:32. > :18:38.Ceri and that is troubling for Syria. It is also troubling fireman.
:18:38. > :18:43.Ceri are. They do not want to take on the default Shi'ite power in the
:18:43. > :18:49.sectarian battle. But they are targeting people like you and other
:18:49. > :18:52.commentators. Looking ahead over the next few days, there was no
:18:52. > :18:55.mention in the Ministry of Defence of Syria of the Kofi Annan peace
:18:55. > :19:03.plan and their remaining on alert. How optimistic are you that there
:19:03. > :19:07.will be fighting tomorrow? I think of anyone is able to cobble some
:19:07. > :19:12.Sutton deal together it will be Kofi Annan. He is the superstar of
:19:12. > :19:18.peacemaking. However, I cannot see any kind of diagram in which the
:19:18. > :19:26.interests of Syria, the Government and the interest of their activists
:19:26. > :19:32.come together. He has talked about the position in which Bashar al-
:19:32. > :19:36.Assad can stay NPower. I am afraid this is going to continue and I am
:19:36. > :19:43.afraid this peace plan seems to be destined for failure. Thank you
:19:43. > :19:47.very much for joining us. For thousands of people it had
:19:47. > :19:53.initially threatened to be a terrible reminder of the tsunami of
:19:54. > :19:59.2004. The initial quick with a magnitude of 8.6 m people running
:19:59. > :20:03.from buildings, many fleeing from vehicles. The first quick to place
:20:03. > :20:13.off the coast of Aceh were tens of 1000 died eight years ago. And
:20:13. > :20:14.
:20:14. > :20:21.elect was issued for the area. Relief came were a few hours later.
:20:21. > :20:28.This report from Rachel Harvey. The terror on their faces speaks
:20:28. > :20:33.volumes. They know all too well what an earthquake and two. In Aceh,
:20:33. > :20:39.the 2004 tsunami is not ancient history. The memories are still
:20:39. > :20:43.fresh, still painful. You do not forget the loss of more than
:20:43. > :20:49.200,000 lives. Antedate the Earth issued another powerful reminder of
:20:50. > :20:55.this region's volatile foundations. The response - visceral fear. But
:20:55. > :20:59.this time there was purpose within the panic. A mass movement to
:20:59. > :21:03.higher ground and the safety, Moss, one of the few buildings to survive
:21:03. > :21:12.their sunny seven years ago. Local knowledge learned from bitter
:21:12. > :21:16.experience. The same reaction in the West Coast. Locals guiding
:21:16. > :21:23.holidaymakers to safety. The heard the siren, followed the signs, knew
:21:23. > :21:27.what to do. Lessons have been learned. Today's earth cake was
:21:27. > :21:34.hugely powerful, felt as far away as Bangkok and southern India. So
:21:35. > :21:41.y'know tsunami this time? In 2004, the one tectonic plate slipped
:21:41. > :21:46.beneath another displays and a huge volume of whether -- water. Today's
:21:46. > :21:51.earthquake was lateral. But less likely to spill huge waves.
:21:51. > :21:56.Nevertheless expose the issue -- the decision to issue an alert was
:21:56. > :21:59.justified. You never know what kind of earthquake it is. This is when
:21:59. > :22:04.you analyse the data are arriving all over the world, you can find
:22:04. > :22:09.out what kind of earthquake it was, what the mechanism was. But when
:22:09. > :22:13.they sent a warning that, they have no idea of that. No room for
:22:13. > :22:19.complacency and no sign of it in action. Just help for those who
:22:19. > :22:29.could not help themselves. Increasingly urgent warnings. A
:22:29. > :22:30.
:22:30. > :22:38.desperate prayer, and this time, tragedy avoided.
:22:38. > :22:42.Greece's technocrat Prime Minister Lucas Papademos has called an early
:22:42. > :22:47.General Election Fahmy sex. The election will be the first since
:22:47. > :22:54.the debt crisis exploded at the end a 2009, dragging the country into
:22:54. > :22:58.its worst recession since the Second World War. There was talk of
:22:58. > :23:00.the spawning it a little bit, but the feeling was that Greece is
:23:01. > :23:05.going through such intense pain at the moment with the austerity
:23:05. > :23:09.measures, such deep financial changes that the filling was it was
:23:10. > :23:12.the right moment to give the voice to the people here in order for a
:23:12. > :23:16.Government to be elected with a proper mandate in order to put
:23:16. > :23:20.through the changes that Greece needs in order to continue
:23:20. > :23:24.receiving international bail-out money. Today look as Aberdeen last
:23:24. > :23:30.the Prime Minister family requested that Parliament be dissolved and he
:23:30. > :23:33.is now making their exit from the political scene for now. He has
:23:33. > :23:43.headed an interim Government here in Greece since November last year
:23:43. > :23:44.
:23:44. > :23:49.when he took over from happen draw. Last month, after much haggling
:23:49. > :23:54.here behind the scenes in Greece, Greece managed to secure the second
:23:54. > :23:57.bail-out. That bail-out was worth 130 billion euros. It was reached
:23:57. > :24:01.after the country reached a separate deal with private
:24:01. > :24:05.creditors, European banks and hedge funds to write off at least 50% of
:24:05. > :24:10.the debt that there eight owed by the Greek Government. Now with the
:24:10. > :24:13.task done, with Greece avoiding bankruptcy, Lucas Papademos went to
:24:13. > :24:19.see the present this morning and has formally announced that they
:24:19. > :24:22.election will be held on Sunday May 6th. One to the chances of them not
:24:22. > :24:29.forming a coalition. The polls suggest there has been a slump in
:24:29. > :24:32.support for the Conservatives. it is possible. There is a real
:24:32. > :24:37.fragmentation of the votes this time round. That is because the two
:24:37. > :24:42.main parties who have been in Government pushing through the
:24:42. > :24:47.austerity measures have lost a lot of popularity. Those austerity
:24:47. > :24:49.measures are deeply unpopular, it is the most punishing austerity
:24:49. > :24:53.programme in modern history. So they are likely to lose ground to
:24:53. > :25:00.the smaller parties that are running on and the austerity plans,
:25:00. > :25:04.they are riding on a wave of social discontent. The opinion polls show
:25:04. > :25:09.there are five parties, it could contain 5 - 99 parties after the
:25:09. > :25:12.elections. That will mean any party would have difficulty forming an
:25:12. > :25:16.effective national Government, let alone a Government that can steer
:25:17. > :25:20.this country through the worst recession in its modern history.
:25:20. > :25:23.Their EU and IMF wants to make sure her crease Alexa Government which
:25:23. > :25:27.will stick to the austerity programme in order to honour its
:25:27. > :25:34.commitments, but with the anti- austerity programme parties gaining
:25:35. > :25:38.ground, that does appear possibly in doubt.
:25:38. > :25:42.France's mourning the death of Raymond Aubrac, one of the
:25:42. > :25:48.country's last great resistance heroes whose exploits, together
:25:48. > :25:51.with his wife Lucie, became the stuff of legend. He was 97.
:25:51. > :25:57.He was one of the earliest members of the Resistance and one of its
:25:57. > :26:03.last survivors. He began in Lyon, setting up an underground network
:26:03. > :26:08.and then liaising with another emissary as the created what became,
:26:08. > :26:18.as the Secret Army. But in 1943, disaster struck as they were
:26:18. > :26:23.arrested together by the Gestapo at this House in Lyon. One died after
:26:23. > :26:30.torture, Raymond Aubrac survived. Our spartan my memory is after a
:26:30. > :26:37.couple of hours interrogation, you are brought back into your cell in
:26:37. > :26:44.the evening. You know it will go on the next morning. You do not know
:26:44. > :26:48.whether you will be able not to talk. A more grammar awaited. A few
:26:48. > :26:53.weeks later, he was able to skate on the Germans, thanks to a daring
:26:53. > :26:58.attack mounted by his wife Lucie on the convoy carrying him to jail.
:26:58. > :27:05.Resistance fighters to alongside the first up and shot the driver.
:27:05. > :27:13.The three remaining German soldiers jumped out of the truck and began
:27:13. > :27:17.running. But they were surrounded, three of them were killed. One was
:27:17. > :27:25.wounded and one managed to escape. And 14 prisoners were freed,
:27:25. > :27:30.including myself. Raymond and Lucie Aubrac escaped to London. All live
:27:30. > :27:34.longways after their while, was a dying in 2002. They were happy to
:27:34. > :27:40.talk about the wartime role, inspiring new generations with
:27:40. > :27:49.their tales of devotion and a sacrifice.
:27:49. > :27:59.The day of Raymond Aubrac at the age of 87. -- the death. -- at the
:27:59. > :28:04.
:28:04. > :28:10.Hello, we had fairly widespread showers across the UK today. As
:28:10. > :28:15.some were outlook for tomorrow, again sunny spells and scattered
:28:15. > :28:18.showers. The reason for the showers is low pressure sitting turn north-
:28:18. > :28:23.east, driving colder air down from the north. As the April sunshine
:28:23. > :28:27.gets to work, the cold air will last and the warmth from the ground
:28:27. > :28:30.will cost the shower clouds to build and develop. It is through
:28:30. > :28:34.the mid- morning and early afternoon that we will have some of
:28:34. > :28:38.her heavy showers. Through tomorrow morning, much of England and Wales
:28:38. > :28:43.will have these heavy downpours. But as usual they are hit and miss.
:28:43. > :28:49.Between the showers, lengthy spells of sunshine. Some places may stay
:28:49. > :28:53.dry altogether. Western areas of Cornwall and western fringes of
:28:53. > :29:02.wills, inland, we are likely to see frequent heavy downpours. The odd
:29:02. > :29:06.rumble of thunder likely. In contrast, over Northern Ireland and
:29:06. > :29:12.much and are then Scotland, and dry outlet for their stay. Sunny skies