:00:05. > :00:14.This is BBC World News Today with me Zeinab Badawi. Confirmation from
:00:14. > :00:20.Syria's resident Bashar al-Assad says he will hand them over but
:00:20. > :00:24.Syria's resident Bashar al-Assad if the Americans remove their threat
:00:24. > :00:29.of using force. This will not happen unilaterally. It is a two sided
:00:29. > :00:35.process. Waste firstly on America stopping its threats to Syria.
:00:35. > :00:42.President's comments come as John Kerry meets his Russian counterpart
:00:42. > :00:49.agreement on Syria. Is Washington having to follow Moscow's lead in
:00:49. > :00:54.animals. Now Africa's vultures themselves are under threat because
:00:54. > :01:00.they are dying from poachers that -- poisons the poachers used to kill
:01:00. > :01:05.elephants and rhinos. It is easy to see why vultures get such bad pub
:01:05. > :01:16.But the threat to their existence is a real worry and the problem is
:01:16. > :01:26.We have a and liftoff. And it is armed with rock music and a message
:01:26. > :01:28.from President Nixon, so what has happened to the Voyager spacecraft
:01:28. > :01:42.in outer space nearly 40 years after Hello, and welcome. Syria's resident
:01:42. > :01:45.Bashar al-Assad says he will put his country's chemical weapons under
:01:45. > :01:50.international control but only if the enough to know -- United States
:01:50. > :01:53.stop threatening military action and if other countries supporting the
:01:53. > :01:57.rebels in Syria also abide by the agreement. His comments come as
:01:57. > :02:06.rebels in Syria also abide by the US Secretary of State John Kerry and
:02:07. > :02:14.counterpart Sergei Lavrov week in welcomed the ideas put forward by
:02:14. > :02:17.Syria but he said the process was not a game and that Syria's actions
:02:17. > :02:23.had to be real, competitive and timely. We are serious, Mr prime
:02:23. > :02:40.Minister, we are serious as you Russia, based on that, has bought
:02:40. > :02:54.pressure on the Assad regime. Only Russia, based on that, has bought
:02:54. > :03:11.the Assad regime to acknowledge Russia, based on that, has bought
:03:11. > :03:13.Russian, and he said the Syrians wanted to make comprises. Transition
:03:13. > :03:20.macro I am not prepared with the wanted to make comprises. Transition
:03:20. > :03:29.extended statements with the Syrian problem because our fridges are
:03:29. > :03:32.clear, and they are stated in the president's article in the New York
:03:32. > :03:49.Times and I am convinced you have have decided not to lay out the
:03:49. > :03:54.position here. I am sure that the American position showed they would
:03:54. > :04:01.like to find mutual consensus and hope we will achieve all of these
:04:01. > :04:09.excesses. Earlier today, in an officially for the first time, that
:04:09. > :04:13.Syria has chemical weapons. He said the key to this process is that
:04:14. > :04:20.Russia is involved, and he does the key to this process is that
:04:20. > :04:27.TRANSLATION: I want to say this clearly. This will not will not
:04:27. > :04:31.happen unilaterally. It is based on America stopping its threats to
:04:31. > :04:37.Syria and also the extent to which fulfilled. When we see that the
:04:37. > :04:38.Syria and also the extent to which wants stability in our region and
:04:38. > :04:43.stops threatening us and preparing supplying terrorists with weapons,
:04:43. > :04:46.we will be able to finalise all supplying terrorists with weapons,
:04:46. > :04:50.necessary processes and they will be acceptable from a Syrian point of
:04:50. > :04:54.view. It is not one-sided. Russia has the most important role. We
:04:54. > :04:55.view. It is not one-sided. Russia no links and no trust with the US.
:04:55. > :05:05.Russia is the only country that no links and no trust with the US.
:05:05. > :05:11.fulfil this role now. Our diplomatic correspondent is in Geneva and joins
:05:11. > :05:19.us now. Those two gentlemen have minutes, we gave a taste of what
:05:19. > :05:23.they had to say, you have been listening, anything else you wish to
:05:24. > :05:27.imports to us about what the two men remarkable. First they were speaking
:05:27. > :05:30.ahead of a really tough negotiation remarkable. First they were speaking
:05:30. > :05:36.that we expect to go on for a couple of days. There was an attempt at
:05:36. > :05:54.warmth from both of them, John Kerry kneeling, Sergei Lavrov said there
:05:54. > :05:57.was no need for a threat of military force. On the other side, John Kerry
:05:57. > :06:21.declaration of the chemical weapons made clear that he thought that
:06:21. > :06:30.declaration of the chemical weapons case, that -- tonight John Kerry was
:06:30. > :06:31.declaration of the chemical weapons men between the two days about the
:06:31. > :06:35.politics and the practicalities men between the two days about the
:06:35. > :06:40.following up on what has for them being a relatively positive start.
:06:40. > :06:45.The admission by President Assad that he is finally cleared to accept
:06:45. > :06:53.the conditions of the chemical disarmament. There is a real gap in
:06:54. > :06:59.inclined to say this shows good intention, let's allow this process
:06:59. > :07:06.to unfold. The Americans are saying credibility and we have too called
:07:06. > :07:09.him to account and keep the threat of military force held over him
:07:09. > :07:15.him to account and keep the threat case he should fail to keep these
:07:15. > :07:20.promises. We have also had the year-end and that the UN and Arab
:07:20. > :07:26.League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi talking to John Kerry, what was discussed?
:07:26. > :07:31.This was really important. I cannot shed much light on the content of
:07:31. > :07:36.these private talks but what is important is the symbolism and where
:07:36. > :07:39.it might lead. Lakhdar Brahimi is central to the political process
:07:39. > :07:44.which is designed, however distant that prospect may seem, designed to
:07:44. > :07:52.bring a resolution to the civil that prospect may seem, designed to
:07:52. > :07:58.transitional government which could command the respect of the large
:07:58. > :08:01.majority of Syria's people. That is a big mission. The fact that Lakhdar
:08:01. > :08:05.Brahimi has been involved means a big mission. The fact that Lakhdar
:08:05. > :08:10.both sides say they are committed to reviving a much wider process of
:08:10. > :08:18.bringing peace to Syria, not just dealing with the issue, however
:08:18. > :08:30.important, it's chemical weapons. Thank you very much for that. Let's
:08:30. > :08:34.discuss this some more. In Moscow tonight we have Dimitry Babich,
:08:34. > :08:43.political analyst for Voice of Russia radio, and with me here in
:08:43. > :08:48.Dormandy, . First of all, this is important for Russia, it is also
:08:48. > :08:54.important for Russia that they tried to steal a march on the Americans,
:08:54. > :09:01.isn't it? Maybe, but I think the main purpose of Russia in this
:09:01. > :09:13.that Lakhdar Brahimi became first situation is to avert the bombing of
:09:13. > :09:16.that Lakhdar Brahimi became first Saint Petersburg where he tried
:09:16. > :09:17.that Lakhdar Brahimi became first influence the G20. And now he is
:09:17. > :09:25.participating in this peace process in Geneva. The main thing for Russia
:09:25. > :09:28.is that the military strike seems to have been averted for the moment.
:09:28. > :09:49.humiliating for the Americans that have been averted for the moment.
:09:49. > :09:59.United States tried to come up with various parties together. We have
:09:59. > :10:03.have political negotiations, that is the solution, and it has been unable
:10:03. > :10:08.to come to pass. The Americans say the only way to force the Syrians to
:10:08. > :10:12.the table is through force. The Russians say, no no, the Syrians are
:10:12. > :10:19.quite serious about this and are not willing to take the next step. This
:10:19. > :10:23.is one more indication, and we will learn a lot over the knot couple of
:10:23. > :10:30.days as to whether the Syrians are serious this time. And are the
:10:30. > :10:32.Russians serious. The Russians have staked their credibility on Bashar
:10:32. > :10:35.al-Assad, he has got to do what staked their credibility on Bashar
:10:35. > :10:38.said he is going to do, and not staked their credibility on Bashar
:10:38. > :10:42.all of these conditions, it is only if people stop supporting rebels or
:10:42. > :10:46.America backs down on its threat of force, if you does not deliver it
:10:46. > :10:53.will that bad for -- look bad for Russia. The process has to be two
:10:53. > :11:00.sided, come from both sides. The idea behind Geneva was that the
:11:00. > :11:03.Russians will bring Bashar al-Assad to the negotiating table and the
:11:03. > :11:08.Americans would bring the Syrian opposition to the table. Bashar
:11:08. > :11:12.al-Assad al-Sadr, bad as he is, agreed to come to this negotiation
:11:12. > :11:19.several months ago. The problem agreed to come to this negotiation
:11:19. > :11:22.with the Syrian coalition which refused to negotiate. They have
:11:22. > :11:25.with the Syrian coalition which refused the offer, the Russian
:11:25. > :11:32.offer, turned down a proposal by Russia to hand over chemical weapons
:11:32. > :11:34.in Syria. I think part of the lane for future failure, if it happens, I
:11:34. > :11:40.hope it will not, -- the blame, for future failure, if it happens, I
:11:40. > :11:48.be on the Syrian radical opposition. But the international community
:11:48. > :11:52.be on the Syrian radical opposition. it was Bashar al-Assad's weapons
:11:52. > :11:58.that were used, and the states Convention therefore there is a
:11:58. > :12:13.greater burden for it to do as the Petersburg, we saw a lot of states,
:12:13. > :12:16.not only Russia and China but also Brazil, Italy, Germany, and the
:12:16. > :12:23.other countries, were sceptical about the proposal of air strikes
:12:23. > :12:26.against the Syrian government. They version about the Syrian government
:12:26. > :12:39.otherwise for any kind of military using these weapons until the UN
:12:39. > :12:40.otherwise for any kind of military strike. In a way, that Russian's
:12:40. > :12:42.otherwise for any kind of military diplomatic initiative has got the
:12:42. > :12:48.Americans off the hook, given Obama time? Everyone wants the long-term
:12:48. > :12:52.solution which is peace in the region, that is the region that
:12:52. > :12:54.solution which is peace in the are all working towards. How do
:12:54. > :13:07.solution which is peace in the get there? What we are dealing with
:13:07. > :13:15.independent in some respects from chemical weapons so we are now
:13:15. > :13:19.independent in some respects from this broader effort to bring peace
:13:19. > :13:28.to the region. Everyone has to do is solution. The question is, how do we
:13:28. > :13:33.deal with this? What has become abundantly clear, Assad was not
:13:33. > :13:39.willing to come to the table until forced might be used. Nobody wants
:13:39. > :13:44.to use force, we would much prefer to use other instruments. But if it
:13:44. > :13:47.is necessary, it is what it should be used to prevent the slaughter.
:13:47. > :13:51.And you think that might push into the negotiating table? The Americans
:13:51. > :13:56.do not want to use force is, it the negotiating table? The Americans
:13:56. > :14:07.not their first choice. But if that To other news, and North Korea has
:14:07. > :14:12.been threatening to restart its Yongbyon nuclear facility for months
:14:12. > :14:16.at images have emerged that these threats might be in the process
:14:16. > :14:17.at images have emerged that these being carried out. According to
:14:17. > :14:20.at images have emerged that these US Institute, steam has been seen
:14:20. > :14:27.rising from a reactor used to make plutonium and the Russia authorities
:14:27. > :14:32.say we could now be looking at a This picture shows the Yongbyon
:14:32. > :14:35.complex in April last year. You This picture shows the Yongbyon
:14:35. > :14:42.see construction taking place where American researchers say the latest
:14:42. > :14:47.image shows steam rising above this turbine building at the Yongbyon
:14:47. > :14:53.site. It might signal operations have started again. The reactor
:14:54. > :14:58.looks like it either is or will within a matter of days be fully
:14:58. > :15:04.happens, it will start producing plutonium. What North Korea will
:15:04. > :15:15.probably do is wait for a long period of time and pull the fuel out
:15:15. > :15:18.Yongbyon has been suspended twice under international agreements.
:15:18. > :15:20.Yongbyon has been suspended twice spent fuel rods it produces can
:15:20. > :15:25.Yongbyon has been suspended twice used to make plutonium for use in
:15:25. > :15:28.nuclear bombs. Five years ago, North Korea blew up the cooling tower
:15:28. > :15:28.nuclear bombs. Five years ago, North as a side of its commitment to
:15:28. > :15:39.vowed to restart it. Officials in peace. But as tensions with the
:15:39. > :15:44.vowed to restart it. Officials in South Korea today refused to comment
:15:44. > :15:47.on the new photographs. TRANSLATION: Sometimes it is not helpful to let
:15:47. > :15:48.on the new photographs. TRANSLATION: you know the information we have.
:15:48. > :15:51.Therefore we cannot confirm the you know the information we have.
:15:51. > :15:56.Therefore we cannot confirm the report. However, let me clearly
:15:56. > :16:02.Therefore we cannot confirm the the related movement of North Korea.
:16:02. > :16:03.Therefore we cannot confirm the signal a test or worse a man-made
:16:03. > :16:06.Therefore we cannot confirm the accident. Many on both sides of
:16:06. > :16:07.Therefore we cannot confirm the Pacific will be worrying that it
:16:07. > :16:08.Therefore we cannot confirm the signals another step towards a North
:16:08. > :16:22.Korean nuclear arsenal. In Some signals another step towards a North
:16:22. > :16:23.Iran's Park macro new envoy to the UN nuclear agency says he will
:16:23. > :16:38.co-opt rate with it to resolve UN nuclear agency says he will
:16:38. > :16:49.-- remaining issues. -- Iran's Park Muslim rebels have attacked another
:16:49. > :16:53.town in the Philippines. There has been fighting in the port city of
:16:53. > :17:01.Zamboanga for the past four macro days and it has now spread to the
:17:01. > :17:03.island of Basilan. The rebels are from the Moro National Liberation
:17:03. > :17:11.Front, which has been left out of announced plans to privatise the
:17:11. > :17:18.postal service. The sale of Royal mail is expected to raise up to
:17:18. > :17:21.postal service. The sale of Royal shares will be given to staff. The
:17:21. > :17:35.University of Nottingham opposes the move and will ballot its members on
:17:35. > :17:40.Officials at Kensington Palace see the Duke of Cambridge is considering
:17:40. > :17:49.various options for public service after leaving the military this
:17:50. > :17:57.year. They described this as a It is a moment he has always known
:17:57. > :18:05.it was inevitable, when he has to operational office and step into a
:18:05. > :18:10.full-time role in support of his grandmother and the Royal family. It
:18:10. > :18:12.means that Flight Lieutenant William Wales has flown his last mission as
:18:12. > :18:16.an RAF search and rescue pilot, Wales has flown his last mission as
:18:16. > :18:21.role for which he started to train nearly five years ago. During his
:18:21. > :18:25.time with the RAF he has taken part in more than 150 rescue operations
:18:25. > :18:30.and saved a good many lives. It in more than 150 rescue operations
:18:30. > :18:36.job he loves, as he made clear earlier this year. To be able to see
:18:36. > :18:44.a son or a daughter's face when earlier this year. To be able to see
:18:44. > :18:47.bring back somebody to them, it earlier this year. To be able to see
:18:47. > :18:53.quite powerful, and we have a good time doing it, flying is exciting,
:18:53. > :18:58.so it is a great job. Duty of a different kind is calling now.
:18:58. > :19:02.William's life has undergone one fundamental change with the birth of
:19:02. > :19:10.his and his wife's son George. One fundamental change with the birth of
:19:10. > :19:13.his and his wife's son George. One supporting nature conservation in
:19:13. > :19:24.foreign tours, pointing the way Africa. William will also do more in
:19:24. > :19:24.foreign tours, pointing the way towards the day, many years hence
:19:24. > :19:37.public engagements William fulfils towards the day, many years hence
:19:37. > :19:41.public engagements William fulfils over the next 12 months. He is
:19:41. > :19:52.public engagements William fulfils future public service and there
:19:52. > :19:56.public engagements William fulfils wants to spend more time on projects
:19:56. > :19:58.public engagements William fulfils like conservation work in Africa and
:19:58. > :20:03.public engagements William fulfils right now he and the Duchess of
:20:03. > :20:09.in London where the work of five charities is being highlighted,
:20:09. > :20:12.including a South African group helping to preserve vultures. The
:20:12. > :20:16.giant birds are under threat from poachers. It is not that the birds
:20:16. > :20:33.are being hunted, they are dying from eating dead elephants and
:20:33. > :20:41.From the mountains they approach. Step by step and they cautiously
:20:41. > :20:44.home in on their meal of the day. Their job is to clean the flesh
:20:44. > :20:52.home in on their meal of the day. the bones that nature leaves lying
:20:52. > :20:53.of these Cape vultures in the world and it is human activity threatening
:20:53. > :21:04.their numbers. When you see the and it is human activity threatening
:21:04. > :21:09.carcasses of dead animals, it is easy to see why vultures get such
:21:10. > :21:16.bad publicity. But the threat to their existence is a real worry
:21:16. > :21:18.bad publicity. But the threat to the problem is getting worse. Over
:21:18. > :21:24.600 rhinos have been poached in South Africa this year. Poachers
:21:24. > :21:32.lace the carcasses with poison, killing the vultures so they do
:21:32. > :21:38.lace the carcasses with poison, VulPro vulture sanctuary they are
:21:38. > :21:42.trying to help. This poisoned bird will be let back into the wild as
:21:42. > :21:48.soon as it recovers but staff here fear they are fighting a losing
:21:48. > :21:55.battle. All you need is one poisoned rhino or elephant and you can kill
:21:55. > :22:09.600 vultures. During breeding season is potentially their chicks as well.
:22:09. > :22:14.You are looking at 1200 birds. It is not just vultures suffering. People
:22:14. > :22:21.don't realise the ecological role the environment we will feel the
:22:21. > :22:28.impact. There will be a number of human health issues. They come from
:22:28. > :23:16.first time that a human made object Asia, where rabies has decreased
:23:16. > :23:20.first time that a human made object has left the solar system. Hello
:23:20. > :23:24.from the children of planet Earth. It carries recordings of children
:23:24. > :23:30.saying hello, there is classical and rock music and a welcome message
:23:30. > :23:33.from President Nixon. Who knows rock music and a welcome message
:23:33. > :23:36.any alien species will stumble across it and what they would make
:23:36. > :23:41.of all that. To talk about this across it and what they would make
:23:41. > :23:47.our science correspondent. Explain what we mean I this being the first
:23:47. > :23:54.man-made object to leave the solar system. -- mean by this being. This
:23:54. > :24:00.is, but Katie. The solar system system. -- mean by this being. This
:24:00. > :24:09.defined by anywhere that is affected by the sun. -- this is complicated.
:24:09. > :24:16.It gets to a point where particles from the Sun start to meet particles
:24:16. > :24:20.being held out from other galaxies. When the two me there is a boundary
:24:20. > :24:30.and it crossed that on the 25th When the two me there is a boundary
:24:30. > :24:46.interstellar space? I can't even see spacecraft is 19 billion kilometres
:24:46. > :24:51.unimaginable distance. It set off in 1977 so it has been on an epic
:24:51. > :24:54.journey. It was originally put up in space to study planets in our solar
:24:54. > :24:58.system and it could have passed space to study planets in our solar
:24:58. > :25:06.by and kept on going and going and going until it has crossed this
:25:06. > :25:10.boundary. We think this is a cold, dark place, interstellar space,
:25:10. > :25:11.boundary. We think this is a cold, of gas and asked from exploded stars
:25:11. > :25:27.gas and dust. It is a long time of gas and asked from exploded stars
:25:27. > :25:32.space. Yes, it has inspired a lot of people. It passed Jupiter and saw
:25:32. > :25:37.the incredible big red spot on Jupiter and found that this was
:25:37. > :25:39.actually an enormous raging storm across the planet, which is kind of
:25:39. > :25:46.incredible. It went past Saturn across the planet, which is kind of
:25:46. > :25:57.gave the first images of its rings. These images inspired a generation
:25:57. > :26:07.can we see, what can we find? For information back? It has just made
:26:07. > :26:11.interstellar space and it only has a few more years before its power
:26:11. > :26:25.goes. It is powered by plutonium and that is running out. After that
:26:25. > :26:25.goes. It is powered by plutonium and that message? I can't remember.That
:26:25. > :26:47.Russian Foreign Minister Sergei that message? I can't remember.That