:00:07. > :00:10.This is BBC World News Today with me, Zeinab Badawi.
:00:10. > :00:14.The social media website ask.fm faces criticisms after the death of
:00:14. > :00:17.a British teenager who had used their site.
:00:17. > :00:22.Her father has said she killed herself after being targeted with
:00:22. > :00:25.anonymous taunts. Now companies have withdrawn advertising from the
:00:25. > :00:28.site. An acid attack on two teenage
:00:28. > :00:38.British girls doing charity work in Zanzibar - they have been flown to
:00:38. > :00:44.
:00:44. > :00:47.Dar es Salaam for medical treatment. Also coming up - we bring you the
:00:47. > :00:50.story of the ten-year-old bricklayer Jeeni to see how life
:00:50. > :00:52.has improved for her and the other child workers since we first met
:00:52. > :00:54.her. And 50 years on from Britain's
:00:54. > :01:04.Great Train Robbery, we ask why this crime so captured the
:01:04. > :01:07.
:01:07. > :01:09.imagination and even passed into Hello and welcome. A social
:01:09. > :01:13.networking website that is based upon encouraging anonymous comments
:01:13. > :01:16.is now facing a very public backlash. The website has been
:01:16. > :01:19.linked to the suicide of a British teenager who was bullied on the
:01:19. > :01:21.website. Now major advertisers are pulling their support from the site
:01:21. > :01:25.based in Latvia. Its terms and conditions say members should never
:01:25. > :01:35.use the feature to ask things that are mean or hurtful, but clearly
:01:35. > :01:39.
:01:39. > :01:40.that has not prevented this particular tragedy.
:01:40. > :01:43.The 14-year-old girl from Leicestershire, Hannah Smith,
:01:43. > :01:46.hanged herself at home on Friday last week after being bullied and
:01:46. > :01:48.encouraged to kill herself by anonymous posters on the website.
:01:49. > :01:58.Today the Prime Minister David Cameron says his government is
:01:59. > :01:59.
:01:59. > :04:00.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 121 seconds
:04:00. > :04:07.looking at ways to help parents And what do you know about the
:04:07. > :04:13.website? They promote this future of being able to anonymously target
:04:13. > :04:22.people. When I say it anonymously, it you can place any information
:04:22. > :04:32.about them. You are been delivered a be used without any way of being
:04:32. > :04:33.
:04:34. > :04:40.able to verify where it is coming The other problem is the more abuse
:04:40. > :04:45.and things they promote on their website, the more revenue they earn.
:04:45. > :04:55.Do you think Averill industry-wide approach backed by government or
:04:55. > :05:20.
:05:20. > :05:27.legislation will be the kind of recommendations. We need governments
:05:27. > :05:37.around the world to put pressure on the social networks but also the
:05:37. > :05:54.
:05:54. > :06:03.advertising networks. If you go completely off-line, you are
:06:03. > :06:10.excluded and are a outcast. Thank you very much for talking to is
:06:10. > :06:16.about that. Two young British tourist have had acid thrown on the
:06:16. > :06:26.in Zanzibar. The young women were working as charity volunteers on the
:06:26. > :06:31.
:06:31. > :06:37.island, which defends Hall on the tourist trade. This was the
:06:37. > :06:45.emergency operation to take two Englishwomen of the island of
:06:45. > :06:50.Zanzibar on to mainland Tanzania. One was splashed with acid. Both
:06:50. > :06:58.were in pain and shock after the sudden and vicious attack. British
:06:58. > :07:02.Consulate staff help them get to hospital. The pair are both 18. They
:07:02. > :07:07.were two weeks into a three-week trip working as volunteers for a
:07:07. > :07:14.charity and booked through a United Kingdom travel company when they
:07:14. > :07:19.were attacked. The city is a major to list attraction, but the foreign
:07:19. > :07:23.office warns that violent and armed time is increasing. The ghettos were
:07:23. > :07:29.walking up this area when two men need mopeds stopped and flung acid
:07:29. > :07:39.in the faces. They then sped away. Paul rushed to help. It also
:07:39. > :08:18.
:08:18. > :08:26.happened so fast. The police do not And consular staff were arranging
:08:26. > :08:30.emergency flights. Both families are extremely upset and distressed
:08:30. > :08:35.at this unprovoked attack on their lovely daughters. We understand
:08:35. > :08:40.they will be flying home overnight. We appreciate all the interest and
:08:40. > :08:45.support we have received from the media, but we ask that we are left
:08:45. > :08:50.alone and to we are reunited with our daughters. The authorities say
:08:50. > :08:54.nothing like this has happened before and the police are still
:08:54. > :09:01.tracking the two men to find that what was behind this vicious and
:09:01. > :09:06.unexpected attack. News just in. The US State
:09:06. > :09:16.Department has announced that direct talks between Israel and
:09:16. > :09:17.
:09:17. > :09:22.Palestine will take place in Jerusalem next week. That is news
:09:22. > :09:25.just in, giving us a progress report on the US-brokered Middle
:09:25. > :09:28.East peace talks. The head of Spain's train operating
:09:28. > :09:30.company has announced new rules for how train drivers use their phones.
:09:30. > :09:33.He was answering questions from a special hearing in parliament over
:09:33. > :09:43.the deadly high speed train crash near Santiago de Compostela two
:09:43. > :09:45.
:09:45. > :09:49.weeks ago. 79 people were killed and more than 200 injured.
:09:49. > :09:55.Members of Congress gathered to get preliminary information on the
:09:55. > :10:01.crash. There was a minute's silence at the start of the session in
:10:01. > :10:05.memory of the victims of Spain's worst rail accident for four
:10:05. > :10:15.decades. Chief executives of the rail company were there to shed
:10:15. > :10:20.light on the accident. We have activated a work security protocols
:10:20. > :10:25.to increase safety in a work rail network. At the moment they is an
:10:25. > :10:29.investigation carried out by the Commission for investigating
:10:29. > :10:37.railway accidents. We are preparing a comprehensive report on the
:10:37. > :10:42.accident. The heads of both the top two railways each defended the
:10:42. > :10:46.quality of Spain's well Network, detailing the Investment it has
:10:46. > :10:51.received and the technology that runs it. They also said there was
:10:51. > :10:56.no apparent technical reason for the crash.
:10:56. > :11:00.TRANSLATION: Along the entire group there are no recordings of any
:11:00. > :11:05.communication from the train to be monitoring centres to report any
:11:05. > :11:11.breakdown or abnormality during the journey. By some politicians accuse
:11:11. > :11:16.them of being too quick to blame the accident on the train's driver
:11:16. > :11:22.Francisco Jose Garzon Amo. He faces charges of manslaughter, having
:11:22. > :11:26.admitted he was distracted and was going too fast. On Friday it will
:11:26. > :11:29.be the turn of the public works minister to appear before the
:11:29. > :11:31.congressional committee. International flights have resumed
:11:31. > :11:33.from Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi.
:11:33. > :11:37.East Africa's largest airport was forced to close yesterday after it
:11:37. > :11:39.was engulfed in a huge fire. It's a vital gateway to the region and
:11:39. > :11:49.handles around 16,000 passengers a day. Emmanuel Igunza sent this
:11:49. > :11:57.
:11:57. > :12:04.report from Nairobi. The morning after the day before.
:12:04. > :12:09.The arrival lounge and Africa's biggest transport harp was gutted
:12:09. > :12:18.by fire. It is not known how long it will take to fix. The damage is
:12:18. > :12:23.pretty expensive. It has gone through the electrical system, the
:12:23. > :12:31.mechanical systems are down. It is huge. The work that will be needed
:12:31. > :12:37.to refurbish it to something that is operational will be huge. This
:12:37. > :12:41.tent now serves as a departures terminal. Questions are being asked
:12:41. > :12:45.about the speed of the emergency response and the number of fire
:12:45. > :12:50.engines which attended the scene. The design of the airport made it
:12:50. > :12:56.extremely difficult and you can just look at that structure. It is
:12:56. > :13:02.difficult to even hose water. There was a real challenge. Although some
:13:02. > :13:06.flights began yesterday, commercial fruits are flown on passenger
:13:06. > :13:13.planes, so governments are losing money and government are losing out
:13:13. > :13:16.on air taxes. It says normal services will resume soon. It has
:13:17. > :13:21.been a frustrating wait for many passengers. I believe they have
:13:22. > :13:30.been overwhelmed to try to accommodate everyone, but it is
:13:30. > :13:36.taking too long. My flight is meant to be 10:25pm tonight to get back
:13:36. > :13:39.to the United States. I might be here for a while. Even if for
:13:39. > :13:44.services to resume, passengers could find themselves here for
:13:44. > :13:47.quite some time yet. Now to a story of hope for a ten-
:13:47. > :13:50.year-old girl whose childhood has simply been stolen. A few weeks ago
:13:50. > :13:55.we brought you the story of Jeeni, who worked and lived in a Pakistani
:13:55. > :14:05.brick factory, and she is not alone. It's believes 25 million children
:14:05. > :14:06.
:14:06. > :14:11.and teenagers are not in school. However, since our first report,
:14:11. > :14:21.things have changed for Jenni. Orla Guerin has returned to southern
:14:21. > :14:26.
:14:26. > :14:30.Deep in the cotton fields, Jeeni is at work. A child up shouldering the
:14:30. > :14:40.burdens of an adult. But if this looks like hard labour, it remember
:14:40. > :14:40.
:14:40. > :14:45.what she left behind. This brick kiln was her home and effectively
:14:45. > :14:51.her prison. She and her entire family toiled here. They were
:14:51. > :15:01.bonded labourers, enslaved by debt. But after we featured her story,
:15:01. > :15:07.that debt was suddenly forgiven. We were taken to see the small Rhian
:15:07. > :15:11.Jeeni shared with 14 family members. This campaigner from the child
:15:11. > :15:17.rights group SPARC said she would have been liable for her parents'
:15:17. > :15:24.debt. She would have had to work her entire life to work off the
:15:24. > :15:29.loan. She would not be able to pay it, not even in her whole life.
:15:29. > :15:37.owner of the killer claims he treaties workers well, they are
:15:37. > :15:41.bonded labour it is illegal. He says Jeeni's father owed him nearly
:15:41. > :15:46.$8,000, which you wrote off out of compassion.
:15:46. > :15:53.TRANSLATION: After the BBC report, campaigners came to me and I said I
:15:53. > :15:59.have be given the debt. I have children too. I took pity on theirs.
:15:59. > :16:06.For Jeeni and her family, this new- found freedom means a chance of a
:16:06. > :16:12.better life. Still poor, but no longer trapped. Her father says
:16:12. > :16:16.with what they earn picking cotton, he hopes to send Jeeni and her
:16:16. > :16:25.brothers to school. She is hoping for that as well and tells me she
:16:25. > :16:30.likes it here, working the land. TRANSLATION: We spend all day in
:16:30. > :16:39.the mud making bricks. Now we only work four hours a day. We are
:16:39. > :16:45.better off here. This is another advantage of their new location.
:16:45. > :16:50.For Jeeni life looks different. Here, at least for a time, she can
:16:50. > :16:54.set work aside and simply be a child, but the biggest change is
:16:54. > :16:58.that she can look forward to taking her place in the classroom, to
:16:58. > :17:05.having a chance to learn. That is something that seemed impossible
:17:05. > :17:15.before. Millions of children in Pakistan never get to school, but
:17:15. > :17:27.
:17:27. > :17:34.for Jeeni and her siblings and the bad boy has acknowledged for the
:17:34. > :17:38.first time that errors were made in the election last week. About
:17:38. > :17:44.300,000 people were turned away from polling booth and 200,000 were
:17:44. > :17:49.swayed in the choice of candidate. But they said these anomalies did
:17:49. > :17:56.not affect the election of President Mugabe. This is the first time that
:17:56. > :18:03.grave mistakes have been admitted. They say that nearly 305,000 voters
:18:03. > :18:06.were turned away from polling stations and that 206,000 received
:18:06. > :18:12.assistance from election officials, the implication being that many of
:18:12. > :18:17.these people would be influenced in the choice of candidate. Most of
:18:17. > :18:22.those were turned away from the capital had Ali, clearly defeated
:18:22. > :18:28.opposition candidate is particularly strong support. The numbers are
:18:28. > :18:33.maybe not strong enough, but was which was a landslide victory for
:18:33. > :18:38.President Mugabe. But local election monitors say the figures are far
:18:38. > :18:43.higher. They say up to 1 million people where disenfranchised by
:18:43. > :18:50.being left of the voters roll or being turned away from polling
:18:50. > :18:55.stations. The defeated candidate is launching an appeal against the
:18:55. > :19:02.election result, calling it a sham and a fraud. He is likely to use
:19:02. > :19:08.these figures to back his case to the courts. The problem is the
:19:08. > :19:12.courts are stuffed with supporters of President Mugabe. Few expect him
:19:12. > :19:20.to have success in turning over these results. The chances of him
:19:20. > :19:30.having another term in office are growing by the day. Africa's oldest
:19:30. > :19:30.
:19:30. > :19:40.leader will hit 94 years of age by the end of his term of office.
:19:40. > :19:46.Israel has opened the airspace after a temporary closure this afternoon.
:19:46. > :19:49.They said that all incoming flights had been diverted due to security
:19:49. > :19:52.grounds but had given no more other details.
:19:52. > :19:57.Syria has denied reports of an attack on the convoy of President
:19:57. > :20:00.Bashar al-Assad as he was on his way to a mosque in Damascus to take part
:20:00. > :20:03.in prayers for the end of Ramadan. State television has shown pictures
:20:03. > :20:06.of Mr Assad arriving at the mosque, despite reports from activists and
:20:06. > :20:12.local residents that a number of mortars landed in the area. Some
:20:12. > :20:14.reports say his convoy was hit. Pope Francis has signed a decree
:20:14. > :20:22.aimed at tackling concerns about money laundering and terrorist
:20:22. > :20:26.financing through the Vatican Bank. It is the latest in a series of
:20:26. > :20:31.moves by the Pope to stamp out abuses at the bank, which handles
:20:31. > :20:40.funds for the Catholic church. Last month, the Vatican froze the account
:20:40. > :20:43.of a senior cleric suspected of involvement in money-laundering. For
:20:43. > :20:53.nearly two decades, the Italian police have been surging for a Mafia
:20:53. > :20:53.
:20:53. > :20:59.boss, Domenico Rancadore. But now he has been caught. But the surprise
:20:59. > :21:03.as he has been living in London for 20 years and is married to in
:21:03. > :21:07.Englishwomen. Leaving court after hearing the husband and father been
:21:07. > :21:16.described as the head of a Mafia family. He has been caught after
:21:16. > :21:23.nearly 20 years on the run from Italian police. This is 64-year-old
:21:23. > :21:27.Domenico Rancadore, who is alleged to have run the Mafia in Sicily. He
:21:27. > :21:32.has lived in Axbridge for 20 years and was convicted in his absence in
:21:32. > :21:38.Italy of being a Mafia boss. He was arrested last night and now faces
:21:38. > :21:43.extradition proceedings. I am surprised that he chose Oxbridge.
:21:43. > :21:51.is not a very glamorous place. Now we know, you sort of get the
:21:51. > :21:55.picture. He has got all the ACC TV cameras and when he first arrived,
:21:55. > :22:00.he pretend all the big hedge. I remember the neighbours at the time
:22:00. > :22:10.did not like it. But I guess that you would want privacy if you are on
:22:10. > :22:11.
:22:11. > :22:19.the run. When he appeared in court, the court heard that when police
:22:19. > :22:24.arrived last night, Domenico Rancadore tried to escape out of the
:22:24. > :22:30.back door, but a police officer was awaiting the four. The Tories said
:22:30. > :22:40.to him, we know who you are. Last night 's arrest was big news in
:22:40. > :22:43.
:22:43. > :22:48.Italy and brought this news from the Deputy Prime Minister. C I am
:22:48. > :22:57.delighted to see that police in London have arrested Domenico
:22:57. > :23:00.Rancadore. This case is far from over. The court was told he was
:23:01. > :23:05.deficiencies in the extradition warrant. There are no talks going on
:23:05. > :23:09.between prosecutors in London and Italy. It means the family will be
:23:09. > :23:17.back in court tomorrow. The lawyers are now going over the extradition
:23:17. > :23:27.report. The wife and daughter blew kisses to him as he was taken down.
:23:27. > :23:41.
:23:41. > :23:45.Now, here is hot news for chocolate the "crime of the century".
:23:45. > :23:49.50 years ago, a gang of robbers held up a Royal Mail train carrying bank
:23:49. > :23:52.notes from Scotland to London. They got away with �2.6 million, the
:23:52. > :23:55.equivalent today of $71 million. The Great Train Robbery has passed into
:23:56. > :23:59.British folklore, yet what is often overlooked is the fact that the gang
:23:59. > :24:09.used brutal force on both the driver Jack Mills and workers in the mail
:24:09. > :24:22.
:24:22. > :24:25.carriage. The robbery was a mixture of audacity and violins. The gang by
:24:25. > :24:28.fixing their signals. They then hit the driver Jack Mills to force them
:24:28. > :24:30.to move his train to this bridge where the rest of the gang were
:24:30. > :24:33.waiting. They formed a human chain to bring more than 100 meals thanks
:24:33. > :24:35.down here. They took about two and a half million pounds, the equivalent
:24:35. > :24:39.today of �40 million. The country were stunned at the police were
:24:39. > :24:45.baffled. When I asked them what sort of deal we were talking about, he
:24:45. > :24:53.said it could be up to �5 million. Gordon was part of the gang. Now 84
:24:53. > :24:57.and living in Spain, he knew it was an epic raid. I was not unaware of
:24:57. > :25:07.the consequences. You are going up against the Queen and stealing the
:25:07. > :25:13.Royal Mail. It is like as being modern-day Dick Turpin 's. But for
:25:13. > :25:20.the train driver Jack Mills, the robbers were anything but Lammers
:25:20. > :25:28.highwaymen. The gang drove 30 miles away and Ted at the farm. He police
:25:28. > :25:31.officer was a local bobby who was sent to check out the farm. This is
:25:32. > :25:39.one of the outlying buildings. As soon is he alive, he became
:25:39. > :25:42.suspicious. I spotted in an alcove of the kitchen area a trapdoor. I
:25:43. > :25:48.could see partial wrappings, banknote wrappers and consignment
:25:48. > :25:54.notes, albeit in the names of our famous high Street banks. I think I
:25:54. > :25:59.knew then that I was in the hideout of the great train robbers. This
:25:59. > :26:04.monopoly set, no one easy, was also found here. The gang had played
:26:04. > :26:14.using real money from the raid. It all adds to the mythology of the
:26:14. > :26:17.claim. The start of an eager and the end of an era. It was the last of
:26:17. > :26:21.the Greek cops and robbers claims. Even the American press were saying
:26:21. > :26:29.it was the claim of the century. There have been much bigger robbery
:26:29. > :26:36.since. But 50 years on, it is Great Train Robbery the which has slipped
:26:36. > :26:42.into folklore and notoriety. 50 years ago today, the great train
:26:42. > :26:49.robbery. Our main news, the website link to a death of a British
:26:49. > :26:54.teenager says it does not condone bullying of any claim. Hannah Smith
:26:54. > :27:04.was found dead in her bedroom last week. It is believed to be the
:27:04. > :27:07.
:27:07. > :27:11.result of cyber bullying. That is tonight. A lot more cloud around. As
:27:11. > :27:18.a result, it will not be quite so chilly as a last couple of nights.
:27:18. > :27:25.The code is because of this weather front approaching Julian the day.
:27:25. > :27:30.This is brought in rain across Northern Ireland and expanded into
:27:30. > :27:35.Scotland and northern England. So, a gay and damp start to Friday. But
:27:35. > :27:39.most places will brighten up quite nicely. There will be some afternoon
:27:39. > :27:45.showers, particularly in the likes of Lincolnshire and East Anglia. But
:27:45. > :27:52.in the sunny spells, temperatures into the all 20s. Perhaps slightly
:27:53. > :27:56.cooler than today. After a restart, a few parts of south west and Wales
:27:56. > :28:03.will have some nice spills of sunshine in the afternoon. Generally
:28:03. > :28:06.drive for all others. Sunny spells also in Northern Ireland in the
:28:07. > :28:12.afternoon, with the small chance of the odd shower. There will still be