:00:10. > :00:16.This is BBC World News Today with me, Tim Willcox. Greece swears in a
:00:16. > :00:19.new Parliament - but only for one day - as fresh elections loom.
:00:19. > :00:21.After 16 years on the run and countless months of legal
:00:21. > :00:28.preparation, the trial of former Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic
:00:28. > :00:34.is adjourned after just 48 hours. A new row over an old dispute.
:00:34. > :00:39.Queen Sofia of Spain cancels a visit to Britain over Gibraltar.
:00:39. > :00:43.Gibraltar is like a colony in Spain and for it's not good business to
:00:43. > :00:48.have a colony now. Also coming up in the programme:
:00:48. > :00:58.Handover complete - the Olympic torch is on its way to London after
:00:58. > :01:02.the flame is passed over to the British delegation in Greece.
:01:02. > :01:12.And the end of a voice synonymous with the disco era of the 1970s and
:01:12. > :01:20.
:01:20. > :01:23.'80s - Donna Summer dies at the age Hello, and welcome. As the turmoil
:01:23. > :01:26.over its economy intensifies, Greece swore in 300 Members of
:01:26. > :01:29.Parliament today - including 21 members of Golden Dawn - one of the
:01:29. > :01:39.most extremist nationalist parties to take seats in a European
:01:39. > :01:39.
:01:40. > :01:44.Parliament since the Second World War. But none of those MPs will be
:01:44. > :01:46.in power for more than 24 hours - as no party has enough votes to
:01:46. > :01:49.form a government. Greece's political chaos coincides with
:01:49. > :01:59.growing alarm about capital flight, with reports of hundreds of
:01:59. > :02:03.
:02:03. > :02:08.millions of euros being withdrawn from banks. Matthew Price reports.
:02:08. > :02:12.It is a government with little part in a country with dwindling options.
:02:12. > :02:17.They swore in a cabinet of technocrats, whose task is to guide
:02:17. > :02:22.priest to its second election in as many months. This is becoming too
:02:22. > :02:28.much of a ritual and one which has cost increase time. For two years,
:02:28. > :02:33.Greeks have been withdrawing large sums for -- from their banks, to
:02:33. > :02:37.pay bills and also to try to ensure the money is safe if the country is
:02:37. > :02:43.forced out of the euro. It is not to run on the banks, but some fear
:02:43. > :02:49.that is not far off. We hear so many scenarios, this man said, we
:02:49. > :02:58.just don't know what the truth is. I don't have any hope, another said,
:02:58. > :03:02.things are just going to get worse. This afternoon, is seen yet EU
:03:02. > :03:06.leaders held a conference call, among them the new French President.
:03:06. > :03:12.There are signs that Francois Hollande is prepared to be bowled
:03:12. > :03:16.in reshaping Europe's response to this crisis. British prime minister
:03:17. > :03:24.David Cameron, before that call had told the eurozone to find a
:03:24. > :03:30.solution at, and fast. Five that Europe has a effective eurozone
:03:30. > :03:34.with an effective fireball, as system of fiscal burden sharing and
:03:34. > :03:40.supportive Monetary Policy, for we are in uncharted territory which
:03:41. > :03:45.carries huge risks for everybody. In New York, the President of the
:03:45. > :03:48.European Commission address the United Nations Assembly. He called
:03:48. > :03:56.for continued economic reform in Europe but also for renewed
:03:56. > :04:03.investment in transport, energy. P caution those predicting the break-
:04:03. > :04:13.up of the EU. The EU is more than just a construction, it is the
:04:13. > :04:17.product of peace which is... It political project is what unites us
:04:17. > :04:22.beyond momentary difficulties. in Spain today, those momentary
:04:22. > :04:25.difficulties were increasing. The government had to pay more to
:04:25. > :04:30.borrow money. Not helpful in a country where the banking system is
:04:30. > :04:33.in need of massive government funding to stay afloat. Spain's
:04:33. > :04:39.leaders believe the longer the great crisis goes on, the greater
:04:39. > :04:43.the chance that they and others will be dragged down further. This
:04:44. > :04:47.is a slow-moving story. No one knows where it is heading. It is
:04:47. > :04:51.that which is so unnerving. Panagiotis Gripios is a Partner at
:04:51. > :05:01.a Greek company, Solar Production, in Athens. He joins me now via a
:05:01. > :05:02.
:05:02. > :05:07.webcam. How worried are you today? I am not
:05:07. > :05:11.as worried as every creek that lives in the country, but I believe
:05:11. > :05:16.all European people of forehead as well because this crisis is a
:05:16. > :05:26.global phenomenon. Is it better for Greece to be in or out of the
:05:26. > :05:35.eurozone? I believe that we should state in the European Community,
:05:36. > :05:38.with the EU -- with the euro currency. The banks need to help
:05:38. > :05:44.the people and they need to communicate and co-operate with
:05:45. > :05:48.each other among the European countries. So, you are prepared to
:05:48. > :05:56.take the austerity, but Europe needs to be more patient with
:05:56. > :06:06.Greece? Of course. Greece has proved that it can do whatever it
:06:06. > :06:06.
:06:06. > :06:12.needs to get better and better. However, we all need to be together
:06:12. > :06:17.as one European team, I believe. How is this crisis affecting your
:06:17. > :06:27.business? I do find it difficult to raise money, or to pay your
:06:27. > :06:29.
:06:29. > :06:39.employees? It is difficult to get the funds from the banks. They do
:06:39. > :06:45.
:06:45. > :06:50.not give as easily as they used to give money to people. We now
:06:50. > :06:57.construct small plants for production from electricity. So
:06:57. > :07:03.banks need to provide the necessary money, that funds, for that. But
:07:03. > :07:08.they don't. They are very suspicious of the project, even
:07:08. > :07:14.though this project is a renewable energy project which is the future
:07:14. > :07:20.of the world, I believe. It does seem as if hundreds of millions,
:07:20. > :07:26.maybe even 1 billion euros has been withdrawn from banks by a Greek
:07:26. > :07:32.people, worried that about what might happen. Had he taken cash out
:07:32. > :07:35.and transferred it to bounce outside Greece? No, I have not. I
:07:35. > :07:41.believed in Greece and I want to believe that the banks will change
:07:41. > :07:48.their attitude to people and we all need to help Greece get better. You
:07:48. > :07:53.may as well, the British and other European countries. Thank you very
:07:53. > :07:56.much indeed for joining us. Now a look at some of the day's
:07:56. > :08:00.other news. Ministers in France's new Socialist government have cut
:08:00. > :08:03.their own pay by 30%. President Hollande, whose salary is also cut,
:08:03. > :08:06.had promised the reduction during his election campaign, saying it
:08:06. > :08:10.was intended to set an example. At their first cabinet meeting, the
:08:10. > :08:12.new government made its main concern to tackle the European debt
:08:12. > :08:15.crisis. Two days after his controversial
:08:15. > :08:18.re-election, the head of Syria's main opposition bloc, Burhan
:08:18. > :08:21.Ghalioun, is resigning. He led the Syrian National Council by
:08:21. > :08:24.consensus rather than being elected, since it was founded in October
:08:24. > :08:27.last year. Ghalioun was re-elected as the main opposition group's
:08:27. > :08:30.chief in a vote held in Rome on Tuesday.
:08:31. > :08:34.In Georgia, three people have been arrested after a gay-rights march
:08:34. > :08:37.in the capital Tbilisi turned violent. It was the first such
:08:37. > :08:41.protest in Georgia and marked the International Day Against
:08:41. > :08:45.Homophobia. But dozens of members of a conservative religious group
:08:45. > :08:48.blocked their way and a fight broke out.
:08:48. > :08:51.Medical experts in Britain have suggested everyone over the age of
:08:51. > :08:55.50 be given the cholesterol- reducing drugs known as statins.
:08:55. > :08:59.The move comes after a new study in the Medical Journal the Lancet
:08:59. > :09:02.found they could reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes by such a
:09:02. > :09:06.margin that even healthy people would benefit.
:09:06. > :09:09.Just two days after it started, the war crimes trial of Ratko Mladic
:09:09. > :09:12.has been delayed indefinitely through a prosecution error. The
:09:12. > :09:15.presiding judge made the decision after it emerged that the
:09:15. > :09:20.prosecution had not passed some 7,000 pages of evidence to Ratko
:09:20. > :09:24.Mladic's lawyers. The defence has asked for six months to process the
:09:24. > :09:31.material. Mr Mladic faces 11 charges of war crimes and crimes
:09:31. > :09:41.against humanity arising from the Bosnian conflict. This report from
:09:41. > :09:42.
:09:42. > :09:48.the BBC's Allan Little in the Hague. Today was devoted to the most
:09:48. > :09:57.notorious massacre of the entire war, the killings in Srebrenica in
:09:57. > :10:01.four days in 19... They swat and will remain genocide. He listened
:10:01. > :10:05.we ate reaction as the prosecutor said that the facts of the crime
:10:05. > :10:11.had not been in dispute. The case would focus on his criminal
:10:11. > :10:17.responsibility. The Srebrenica on Clive had been surrounded for three
:10:17. > :10:25.years. By the summer of 1995, 40,000 people were crowded into the
:10:25. > :10:32.town. Serb forces overran the wrong place on July 11th. The court saw
:10:32. > :10:38.video of the main street. 7000 Muslim men and boys were rounded up.
:10:38. > :10:47.In three days, 7000 were murdered by firing squad and their bodies
:10:47. > :10:49.disposed of in mass graves. The B R S carried out then murderous orders
:10:49. > :10:55.with incredible discipline, organisation and military
:10:55. > :11:02.efficiency. The court heard that in January this year for the employers
:11:02. > :11:06.submitted a plea of alibi on the Srebrenica massacres, claiming that
:11:06. > :11:10.when the massacres took place, at the general what in Belgrade at a
:11:10. > :11:14.wedding. The prosecutor said it was inconceivable that killing on that
:11:14. > :11:20.scale could have taken place without his knowledge and advice he
:11:20. > :11:27.gave authority. General Mladic sat passively, listening carefully,
:11:27. > :11:30.listening carefully throughout. It's a tiny outcrop of rock on the
:11:30. > :11:33.southernmost point of Spain, but the issue of who should own
:11:33. > :11:36.Gibraltar has sparked another in a long series of diplomatic spats
:11:36. > :11:40.between Madrid and London. Gibraltar was handed to Britain by
:11:40. > :11:43.Spain as part of the Treaty of Utrecht almost 300 years ago, but
:11:43. > :11:47.many Spaniards believe it should be handed back. The latest dispute has
:11:47. > :11:50.caused Queen Sofia to cancel a visit to the UK on Friday for a
:11:50. > :11:58.lunch celebrating Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee. The BBC's Tom
:11:58. > :12:04.Burridge reports from Madrid. It is eight years old Royal
:12:04. > :12:09.celebration in Britain. And Queen Elizabeth will next host fellow
:12:09. > :12:14.heads of state for lunch this Friday. But Spain's Queen has now
:12:14. > :12:19.pulled out at the last minute over a growing row between London and
:12:19. > :12:25.Madrid. The dispute is over a tiny slice of land on the southern tip
:12:25. > :12:29.of Spain. Spain and Gibraltar to Britain in 1713. People here tell
:12:29. > :12:33.you they are very British and if you are from mainland Britain, it
:12:33. > :12:38.can seem like home. However, the Spanish government believes the
:12:38. > :12:44.land should be handed back to Spain. That is why when British royals
:12:44. > :12:48.planned to visit the territory, it angers Madrid. Spain's foreign
:12:49. > :12:54.minister had publicly criticised the trip of Princess Ed -- Prince
:12:54. > :12:59.Edward then next month. Some think the Government should have other
:12:59. > :13:06.priorities. TRANSLATION: It is not something I get worked up about.
:13:06. > :13:12.What is true is that in historic terms it is Spanish territory.
:13:12. > :13:15.me it is a good idea not to go to London for the celebration because
:13:15. > :13:21.Gibraltar is like a colony in Spain and for me it is not a good
:13:21. > :13:26.business to have a colony now. TRANSLATION: In cities response to
:13:26. > :13:30.a pass provocation from the British government or the royal family, in
:13:30. > :13:35.normal times it would be the right way to react, but I think Spanish
:13:35. > :13:40.people have something bigger to worry about witches unemployment
:13:40. > :13:44.and the financial situation. Now a row over fishing in the waters
:13:44. > :13:49.surrounding Gibraltar has escalated the dispute, with Queen Sofia
:13:49. > :13:53.announcing she will not attend the lunch at winter council. It seemed
:13:53. > :13:59.the Queen was leant on by Spain's government because it felt the trip
:13:59. > :14:02.to London was not appropriate. The Interior Ministry says Spanish
:14:02. > :14:08.police will escort Spanish fishermen in the water around
:14:08. > :14:14.Gibraltar. People living in Gibraltar will welcome the royal
:14:14. > :14:19.visit but some people here in Spain wished that they would stay away.
:14:19. > :14:24.We can speak to Stephen Constantine, who specialises in Gibraltar at the
:14:24. > :14:28.University of Lancaster. It is the latest in a series of disputes but
:14:28. > :14:32.do you detect a hardening of attitude under the new government
:14:32. > :14:36.in Spain? I think the new government also coincide with the
:14:36. > :14:41.worsening of the situation inside Spain so it is reasonable to
:14:41. > :14:46.suppose that the government, in that situation, is ratcheting up,
:14:46. > :14:51.just as Franco had done in the past, the differences that Spain and
:14:51. > :14:54.Britain have in relation to Gibraltar. We should relate the two
:14:54. > :14:59.things very closely together. Britain says it is up to the people
:14:59. > :15:06.of Gibraltar to decide and it seems the people of reporter are adamant
:15:06. > :15:16.that it should remain British. Does that cut any ice in Spain, up when
:15:16. > :15:19.
:15:19. > :15:29.you consider other islands on the I think the reference is often
:15:29. > :15:30.
:15:30. > :15:35.raised by people from Gibraltar. They have a very specific identity.
:15:35. > :15:45.There are many people from Britain but a considerable number of people
:15:45. > :15:48.
:15:48. > :15:55.go back centuries. There has also been a strong relationship between
:15:55. > :16:01.Spain, the mainland and Gibraltar. That relationship was rather more
:16:01. > :16:05.intimate than people care to remember. There has been an
:16:05. > :16:12.association with Gibraltar before which many of the Spanish
:16:12. > :16:22.dignitaries had attended. The people of Gibraltar and the
:16:22. > :16:22.
:16:22. > :16:31.Governor of Gibraltar were close to Spain but things changed
:16:31. > :16:38.dramatically after the Second World War. 1958 was the first time that
:16:38. > :16:44.Frankel indicated displeasure. That became obvious when the Queen
:16:44. > :16:49.herself in 1954 it made a visit to Gibraltar as Queen of Gibraltar,
:16:49. > :16:58.that did spark off a massive dispute between Britain and Spain.
:16:58. > :17:05.The people of Gibraltar were caught in the middle of that. The
:17:05. > :17:11.strangeness has always been there. Princess Anne visited end 2004 and
:17:11. > :17:19.that caused another controversy. The King of Spain did not attend
:17:19. > :17:24.the wedding of Prince Charles and Diana. Are there issues of
:17:24. > :17:29.Conservatives been about smuggling, cigarettes and other contraband?
:17:29. > :17:34.There are. That has always been an issue between the people of
:17:34. > :17:43.Gibraltar and Spain. There is a long tradition of smuggling across
:17:43. > :17:48.the frontier. The police here themselves try to control that. The
:17:48. > :17:54.there has been co-operation between the police forces on either side
:17:54. > :18:00.but when the politics of this situation hot up they find that the
:18:00. > :18:05.controls over the passage of people to and from Gibraltar and Spain
:18:05. > :18:11.becomes more intense. At the Mall and there is a lot of searching of
:18:11. > :18:17.the vehicles going to and from. A lot of time this is genuinely
:18:17. > :18:27.searching for contraband. Sometimes it is just pressure. We are out of
:18:27. > :18:27.
:18:27. > :18:30.time but I'm due for joining us. The Olympic flame is now in British
:18:30. > :18:33.hands. It was passed to the Princess Royal, Princess Anne,
:18:33. > :18:40.herself a former Olympic athlete, at a ceremony in Athens. The BBC's
:18:40. > :18:48.Chris Eakin is at the Panathenaic Stadium. The Olympic flame better
:18:49. > :18:52.get used to this. It was an damp send off from Athens. Despite that,
:18:52. > :19:01.the London 2012 delegation insist it will not dampen the impact of
:19:01. > :19:05.the arrival of the claim in the UK. This is an amazing moment for us,
:19:05. > :19:08.it is blighting the touch paper of the 70 defuse that is going to
:19:08. > :19:14.detonate with the great pyrotechnics of the opening
:19:14. > :19:19.ceremony. As the president of the British Olympic Association the
:19:19. > :19:28.Princess Royal has been a central figure in the preparations for the
:19:28. > :19:32.London Games. Back in 1976, Princess Anne became the first
:19:32. > :19:38.member of the Royal Family to compete in the Olympics in Montreal.
:19:38. > :19:44.She is known as a fierce competitor, proud of her sporting heritage. I
:19:44. > :19:50.presume you would have loved to have competed in a home Olympics?
:19:50. > :19:56.would have found it very difficult I suspect to do it on my home patch.
:19:56. > :20:03.I would take to be doing it now, it has gotten worse. Because of the
:20:03. > :20:10.pressures? I think so, so much, for many, the pressures. I think it has
:20:10. > :20:14.got into some of the athletes. Tomorrow, the flame starts its
:20:14. > :20:21.journey back to the UK now in British hands. Could this be the
:20:21. > :20:25.moment when the Olympic Games really take off? The Queen of Disco,
:20:25. > :20:29.Donna Summer, famous for such 70's classics such as Love To Love You
:20:29. > :20:33.Baby, has died in Florida. She was 63. She became a star just as disco
:20:33. > :20:43.was taking off, and came to define the era with a string of hits.
:20:43. > :20:50.
:20:50. > :20:57.David Sillito looks back at her life and her music. It was in 1977
:20:57. > :21:05.the sound of the future. The synthesisers with Donna Summer's
:21:05. > :21:12.voice was the birth of electronic dance music. Donna Summer had grown
:21:12. > :21:18.up in Boston and then moved to Germany. It was there she met a
:21:18. > :21:26.music producer experimenting with synthesisers. This song was, for
:21:26. > :21:32.its time, more than racy. It was sexy, and fabulous to dance to.
:21:32. > :21:40.became known as the queen of this goal. She had one of the key
:21:40. > :21:46.records in electronic dance music. She had 29 hit singles and today
:21:46. > :21:52.her family said she was a woman of many gifts, the greatest being her
:21:52. > :21:58.face. Her Christian faith help her recover from the pressures of fame
:21:58. > :22:07.during the disco era and made her uncomfortable with some of her
:22:07. > :22:11.older songs. There was some anti- gay controversy but as the years
:22:11. > :22:17.went on all was forgotten and she performs some of her old songs
:22:17. > :22:27.again. She would remain the Queen of this goal. Donna Summer who has
:22:27. > :22:30.
:22:30. > :22:34.died at the age of 63. For the first time in the United States
:22:34. > :22:42.ethnic-minority babies make-up the majority of those born in the
:22:42. > :22:47.country. They made up more than half of the babies born in the
:22:47. > :22:54.first half of 2011. Birth rates are falling sharply among white
:22:54. > :23:00.Americans who had 10% fewer babies than in 2010. That is compared to a
:23:00. > :23:09.decline of 6% for minorities. All were all, ethnic minorities now
:23:09. > :23:12.make up more than 36 % of the US population. We are joined by the
:23:12. > :23:18.Corps Director of Immigration Studies at New York University. How
:23:18. > :23:25.important a tipping point is this, do you think? It is significant in
:23:25. > :23:31.terms of a symbolic moment pointing to a very different American future.
:23:31. > :23:36.That is in terms of demography, ethnicity and in terms of the
:23:36. > :23:44.immigrant origin groups that now it will very firmly constitute the
:23:44. > :23:49.American majority, moving forward. What is white now, then? When we
:23:49. > :23:54.read that white babies are in the minority, who are we talking about?
:23:54. > :24:00.We are talking about the old European origin and United States.
:24:00. > :24:06.The English, Irish, Scots, Germans. Those were really be big immigrant
:24:06. > :24:12.groups over the last 200 years. Their descendants came to enter
:24:12. > :24:17.this broad category that we call quite. I think we are seeing an new
:24:17. > :24:23.America that is increasingly off quite with the New ethnicities and
:24:23. > :24:29.immigrant origin groups constituting a larger share of the
:24:29. > :24:36.population. You look at, for example, Hispanic birth rates and
:24:36. > :24:42.they do seem to be rising, don't they? Yes, they do. However, half
:24:43. > :24:48.of all Hispanics in the US consider themselves white. Also, the story
:24:48. > :24:54.in the US is that immigrant groups, over time, their fertility rates
:24:54. > :25:00.tend to gravitate towards those of the majority population. Hispanics
:25:00. > :25:05.now have larger families but this is true warmly of one generation.
:25:05. > :25:09.Moving forward, they will, like all other Americans, have similarly
:25:09. > :25:15.declining fertility rates. Do we see that in the black American
:25:15. > :25:20.fertility rates as well? The black American fertility rate is
:25:20. > :25:26.relatively stable. The most fascinating story in terms of the
:25:26. > :25:32.black American evolution is that today, here in New York City, half
:25:32. > :25:37.of all black people are immigrant origin. Over the last two
:25:37. > :25:42.generations twice as many blacks have come to the US as immigrants
:25:42. > :25:47.as during the entire slavery period. Looking ahead, we are not looking
:25:47. > :25:54.at a dominant non-white adult population yet but what do you for
:25:54. > :25:57.a seat for 50 or 100 years down the line? We need to be careful because
:25:57. > :26:04.there is a difference between science and science fiction.
:26:04. > :26:14.Predicting what will happen to populations 100 years of -- 100
:26:14. > :26:19.
:26:20. > :26:29.years from now, that is just imagination. Today's Gate shows
:26:29. > :26:34.that in deep child and emerging adult population it is already dead
:26:34. > :26:42.case but America will be the Orly post-industrial democracy in the
:26:42. > :26:51.world where shortly have of the adult population will be applauded
:26:51. > :27:01.city of languages and graces. -- plus city of languages and braces.
:27:01. > :27:07.
:27:07. > :27:12.That is all from us here for now. Goodbye. A low. Plenty of rain
:27:12. > :27:18.across the country tonight. There will be a killer feel in the
:27:18. > :27:21.freshening easterly breeze. This weather front will give damp
:27:21. > :27:26.conditions to parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern
:27:26. > :27:27.England. To start Friday the north England. To start Friday the north
:27:28. > :27:33.England. To start Friday the north of Scotland and England will be
:27:33. > :27:38.bright but cloud will be thickening as we go on into the afternoon.
:27:38. > :27:43.Still some damp conditions in the North of England in the afternoon
:27:43. > :27:48.but further south it should be drier and brighter. Some sunshine
:27:48. > :27:53.in the east. There will be rain moving up from the south after 4
:27:53. > :27:58.o'clock. Cloud will break in the South West to bring brightness or
:27:58. > :28:03.sunshine. Plenty of cloud in Wales but again hence of sunshine if you
:28:03. > :28:07.are lucky. For Northern Ireland it is mainly dull and damp with
:28:08. > :28:12.disappointing temperatures. The far north of Scotland will continue to