:00:00. > :00:15.This is BBC world News today. The mysterious case of the young girl in
:00:16. > :00:23.Greece. Aroma couple appear in court charged with her abduction. -- a
:00:24. > :00:28.Roma couple. The couple said they adopted her as a baby and loved and
:00:29. > :00:34.cared for her. The hunt for her real parents begins. A female suicide
:00:35. > :00:37.bomber attacks are bash -- at tax a bus in Russia. Will this raise
:00:38. > :00:43.concerns ahead of the Winter Olympics? Coming up: A weather
:00:44. > :00:51.warning in Australia. High wind is forecast. Three wildfires threaten
:00:52. > :00:56.to merge into one. This meeting of the Central committee... 50 years
:00:57. > :01:00.on, we look back in the archives to see what it was like for the first
:01:01. > :01:15.BBC correspondent to report from behind the Iron Curtain.
:01:16. > :01:23.Welcome. She is blonde, blue-eyed and her name is Maria. The
:01:24. > :01:29.authorities in Greece want to know how she ended up in a Roma community
:01:30. > :01:34.in the country being raised by a couple who are unrelated to her as
:01:35. > :01:40.DNA tests proved. Today, the couple were charged with her abduction
:01:41. > :01:44.They say they adopted her, but questions remain as to her true
:01:45. > :01:47.identity, and there are also has been questions about the issue of
:01:48. > :01:55.child trafficking in Greece. She was discovered during a raid last week.
:01:56. > :02:00.Loving adopted parents or the abductors of Maria? The first images
:02:01. > :02:05.today of the couple suspected by police of kidnapping a little girl
:02:06. > :02:10.for unknown reasons. They have now appeared in court to face charges
:02:11. > :02:15.that they deny. Maria was, they say, given to her by someone who could
:02:16. > :02:18.not look after her. Members of the Roma community rallied in their
:02:19. > :02:23.defence. The house where they lived was locked up today. No answer at
:02:24. > :02:28.the door. Just signs of a child s life strewn across the front porch.
:02:29. > :02:32.A neighbour said the couple was taking care of her well, she was
:02:33. > :02:39.crying when the police took her So what if she was blonde? In the next
:02:40. > :02:44.workshop, this shop owner said he phoned her presents unusual. He did
:02:45. > :02:47.not know how she ended up here. We tried to film in the larger Roma
:02:48. > :02:52.community over there but we were attacked and chased away. They
:02:53. > :02:57.believe they are marginalised and negative stereotypes of them will
:02:58. > :02:59.only be reinforced. Many Greeks say it is the involvement of some of
:03:00. > :03:08.them in illegal activity which created that perception. Either way,
:03:09. > :03:15.the case has exposed the lack of social integration. What now of the
:03:16. > :03:19.search for her biological parents? She's one of 250,000 children who go
:03:20. > :03:25.missing in Europe every year. An international appeal to find her
:03:26. > :03:28.family is gathering pace. She is very happy, feeling well,
:03:29. > :03:35.communicating and playing with her toys. We will try to see if there
:03:36. > :03:39.are specifically that would be useful for the police. There are
:03:40. > :03:42.probing questions. How a seemingly out of place little girl lived here
:03:43. > :03:51.so long? What there is something sinister involved? How far across
:03:52. > :03:58.this community doesn't stretch? I am joined in the studio by the Chief
:03:59. > :04:03.Executive of a missing Persons Charity. What is the likelihood of
:04:04. > :04:11.Maria's true mother or father being found? We would hope with the
:04:12. > :04:15.extensive publicity, which, for any missing child is absolutely key to
:04:16. > :04:19.get the message out there, and somebody watching broadcast
:04:20. > :04:26.somewhere is going recognise her. I know that smile of the child, who
:04:27. > :04:31.are looking after her, have received thousands of calls. There has been
:04:32. > :04:39.called across Europe and it shows you the pan-European response. Build
:04:40. > :04:44.up a picture. Typically, in Europe and beyond, what are the numbers of
:04:45. > :04:54.missing children? What age are they? Or are they teenagers? Viewers might
:04:55. > :04:58.be surprised to know that 250,0 0 missing children are reported across
:04:59. > :05:07.Europe every year, in the UK, 140,000 go missing. Do we make up
:05:08. > :05:12.140,000 of 250,000? It is an interesting statistic. We need to
:05:13. > :05:17.look across Europe to make sure the data collection is synchronised We
:05:18. > :05:23.are a member of an organisation which makes to appeal for children
:05:24. > :05:31.and provide helpline services and we are calling for some kind of
:05:32. > :05:34.synchronisation of that data. This 250,000 children who go missing are
:05:35. > :05:41.the abducted or do they run away of their own accord? The reasons are
:05:42. > :05:47.quite extensive. It is unusual of a child of this age to go missing
:05:48. > :05:54.Many of these are young people who have ran away from home. Some of
:05:55. > :05:57.those are classed as abduction, and we collect that information in
:05:58. > :06:00.different ways. Some of the children have been abducted either by
:06:01. > :06:05.appearing to someone known to them, or in some cases by a stranger. We
:06:06. > :06:13.cannot comment on this because we do not have the exact facts, what the
:06:14. > :06:22.Roma couple say they adopted her. That is not child trafficking as
:06:23. > :06:27.such but is illegal. There are theories and speculation. We do not
:06:28. > :06:30.know the details. Looking at the photos, we have an honourable girl
:06:31. > :06:35.who has been missing. We need to find and reconcile her with her
:06:36. > :06:40.natural parents and find out. Does it raise questions about the issue
:06:41. > :06:44.of child trafficking? I think it does. Any missing children raises
:06:45. > :06:49.that. We know this is a global issue. Some of the children who go
:06:50. > :06:53.missing will have been the victim of trafficking. In this case it is
:06:54. > :07:00.usually the other way round. Impoverished Roma families will give
:07:01. > :07:03.up a child to other families. It is interesting this is the other way
:07:04. > :07:10.round. It is, and it is quite unusual. It is usually the other way
:07:11. > :07:16.round. We do not know where they are. This turns it around. We did
:07:17. > :07:22.not even touch on the issue of missing adults. Thank you for
:07:23. > :07:25.talking to us. Now to the growing issue of migrants risking their
:07:26. > :07:30.lives crossing the Mediterranean to reach Europe. Today in Italy, a
:07:31. > :07:34.commemoration ceremony was held for the hundreds who died when their
:07:35. > :07:43.boat sank near the tiny island of Lampedusa. There was anger for some
:07:44. > :07:46.who broke through the gates of their detention centre when they were told
:07:47. > :07:52.they could not attend the event in Sicily. It fell short of the state
:07:53. > :07:56.funeral promised by the Prime Minister. The recent tragedy has
:07:57. > :08:01.highlighted the plight of thousands of migrants desperate to escape for
:08:02. > :08:04.a new life in Europe. All this week on BBC world News we are reporting
:08:05. > :08:10.on the perilous journey they face and the challenge for European
:08:11. > :08:13.governments. Some migrants begin their journey from war-torn
:08:14. > :08:21.countries like Syria, they head for Egypt or Olivia hoping to board a
:08:22. > :08:31.vessel to Italy, Malta or Greece. -- Libya. Rough seas lash the shore in
:08:32. > :08:37.Alexandria. This is the only escape route for many Syrian refugees.
:08:38. > :08:43.Smugglers take them on a perilous voyage. Some pay with their lives.
:08:44. > :08:48.For others, the dream of a new life has ended in police stations like
:08:49. > :08:55.this one, where we managed to film covertly. Hundreds have been
:08:56. > :09:01.detained without charge. Among them, this baby. He has been held by
:09:02. > :09:09.Egyptian police for the past month. Half of his short life. This woman
:09:10. > :09:14.is stranded here, a prisoner of her grief. Wrapped in white, the bodies
:09:15. > :09:23.of three of her daughters. They died in a shipwreck ten days ago. I was
:09:24. > :09:30.kicking and kicking and trying to stay afloat. I looked over and I saw
:09:31. > :09:36.my handicapped daughter was gone. She went under the water and did not
:09:37. > :09:42.come. Goodbye, my child. My other daughter held onto my neck and said,
:09:43. > :09:46.where is my sister? Did she drowned? I had to tell her she was
:09:47. > :09:52.saved. Suddenly, water came on top of us. I saw three white lights I
:09:53. > :10:00.did not know then my third daughter was also gone. Across town is
:10:01. > :10:08.another police station, war-weary citizens are jammed in. Egypt's says
:10:09. > :10:12.the refugees are treated decently. Critics say they are treated like
:10:13. > :10:18.convicts. Human rights activists claim they are, in effect, forcibly
:10:19. > :10:23.deported, sometimes back to Syria. We have cases where even they do not
:10:24. > :10:30.get the food aid, or get the food at all. They stay for two days without
:10:31. > :10:37.food. There is pressure to find ways to leave the country. In recent
:10:38. > :10:46.months, more and more Assyrians have been fleeing these shores. --
:10:47. > :10:49.Syrians. They said everything changed when President Mohammed
:10:50. > :10:55.Morsi was ousted. They have been accused of backing the Muslim
:10:56. > :11:03.Brotherhood. Many refugees say they have no choice but to risk their
:11:04. > :11:06.lives and go. This is one of them. We are concealing her identity
:11:07. > :11:15.because she still has family in Damascus. The 23-year-old student is
:11:16. > :11:20.ready to risk everything. I think the sea will be more merciful to us
:11:21. > :11:27.than the people here, she says. Once you get to Europe, you become a
:11:28. > :11:31.human being. Now we are not human. She knows she could be cheated by
:11:32. > :11:36.the traffickers, arrested by the police, or drowned at sea. But
:11:37. > :11:44.better death, she says, than life without dignity.
:11:45. > :11:50.That report on the difficulties for migrants. Now to Russia, where a
:11:51. > :11:54.suspected suicide bomb attack on a bus in the southern Russian city of
:11:55. > :11:59.Volgograd has killed six people and injured more than 30. We can now
:12:00. > :12:05.show you these pictures, which I should warn you are distressing
:12:06. > :12:11.They were captured on a dashboard camera in a car behind the bus.
:12:12. > :12:12.Anti-terrorism officials said an explosive device was detonated by a
:12:13. > :12:22.female suicide bomber. She is from the province of Dagestan
:12:23. > :12:26.in the North Caucasus. This has raised concern ahead of the Winter
:12:27. > :12:36.Olympics in such a, which is at the western end of the Caucasus. --
:12:37. > :12:46.Sochi. We are joined by the Russian ambassador. The authorities were
:12:47. > :12:52.quick to name this bomber. -- Russian commentator. There was a
:12:53. > :12:57.quickness to this, but they probably had some clue to the identity. It is
:12:58. > :13:00.definitely a disturbing element because we have not had such
:13:01. > :13:09.terrorist acts in Russia for quite some time, apart from Dagestan and
:13:10. > :13:14.the neighbouring province, where you have a low intensity guerrilla war
:13:15. > :13:22.going on between the state and the Islamists. I think that this is
:13:23. > :13:28.something that gives you food for thought. This is what you could call
:13:29. > :13:38.an attack on the Russian mainland. Do you think coming ahead of the
:13:39. > :13:48.Winter Olympics in 2014 the security forces will be raising their game?
:13:49. > :13:55.It looks like our commentator has frozen. The joys of the webcam, I'm
:13:56. > :14:00.afraid. We will just try one more time. He seems to have disappeared.
:14:01. > :14:14.He did give a rather full and so right at the beginning, from Moscow.
:14:15. > :14:18.-- answer. The suicide bomber who killed 16 and injured 32. It is one
:14:19. > :14:24.of the worst disasters in New South Wales for decades. A blisteringly
:14:25. > :14:29.warm spring made conditions perfect for bushfires. Hundreds have already
:14:30. > :14:33.lost their homes and weather forecasters say worse could be
:14:34. > :14:44.coming. High wind is making it harder for the firefighters. The
:14:45. > :14:49.badgers have reached 37 Celsius The worst threat in the area is the Blue
:14:50. > :14:53.Mountains. It is feared that two huge blazes could merge together.
:14:54. > :15:03.New South Wales has declared a state of emergency. Around the clock,
:15:04. > :15:11.firefighters here are battling for control. But the task is massive.
:15:12. > :15:17.The biggest fire in the Blue Mountains has a perimeter stretching
:15:18. > :15:23.almost 200 miles. This is probably one of the biggest fires around here
:15:24. > :15:31.in the 24 years I have been working. Here, we have fire on all sides of
:15:32. > :15:37.you. Some of the site is being carried out by the error. On the
:15:38. > :15:45.ground, thousands of firefighters, most of them volunteers. What they
:15:46. > :15:49.are doing here is back burning fighting fire with fire, basically
:15:50. > :15:52.controlling fires to burn of vegetation before the dangerous
:15:53. > :15:57.fires can get here. What they are worried about is if several of these
:15:58. > :16:04.huge blazes merge into one big fire later in the week. The weather is
:16:05. > :16:08.not helping. Temperatures today rose into the high 30s. The real fear is
:16:09. > :16:14.the arrival of strong winds, forecast from Wednesday. Many living
:16:15. > :16:20.here have been watching nervously to see if the fires can be held at bay.
:16:21. > :16:23.I have been really anxious for them to burn it because we can then stop
:16:24. > :16:34.worrying about it. We have been watching the fire for two days,
:16:35. > :16:39.creeping this way. It is not just his home under threat. Nearby,
:16:40. > :16:45.firefighters discovered a pet possum, injured but still alive It
:16:46. > :16:50.is not known what damage it has wreaked on this country 's wildlife.
:16:51. > :16:56.Hundreds of houses have already been lost. Families have been left with
:16:57. > :17:05.nothing. Many more homes could go before this emergency is over. 0
:17:06. > :17:08.miles away, Sydney, Australia 's biggest city is cloaked in smoke. A
:17:09. > :17:16.reminder that these fires are uncomfortably close. All this before
:17:17. > :17:20.a summer has even started. Nuclear power is controversial. It
:17:21. > :17:24.stirs passionate debate amongst its advocates and critics. In Britain,
:17:25. > :17:27.nuclear power is part of the energy mix and today Hinkley Point C, the
:17:28. > :17:31.first nuclear power station to be built in Britain for a generation,
:17:32. > :17:36.was given the go-ahead. Hinkley Point C will take ten years to
:17:37. > :17:39.build. It will generate 7% of the UK's electricity supply. It is
:17:40. > :17:44.expected to create around 25,00 jobs during construction. I'm joined
:17:45. > :17:49.now by Ian Fells, Emeritus Professor of Energy Conversion at the
:17:50. > :18:00.University of Newcastle. He has also worked as an energy consultant
:18:01. > :18:04.including British Nuclear Fuels Caroline Lucas from the Green party
:18:05. > :18:10.says the money would have been better spent on energy efficiency
:18:11. > :18:14.and renewable energy? Energy efficiency is a very good thing
:18:15. > :18:20.Renewable energy, we are going at it as hard as we can and it is very
:18:21. > :18:23.heavily subsidised. But there is no way that renewable energy can
:18:24. > :18:27.provide for all of our future needs as far as electricity is concerned.
:18:28. > :18:33.It just cannot be done. I used to be the chairman of that so I can tell
:18:34. > :18:39.you with some authority, we will never be able to produce more than
:18:40. > :18:46.20% of our renewable electricity from renewables. We need nuclear
:18:47. > :18:51.power and actually, in terms of this, it is more reliable than
:18:52. > :18:55.renewables. When the wind does not blow, it has to be backed up from
:18:56. > :19:00.somewhere else, and secondly, the subsidy for renewables is much
:19:01. > :19:07.bigger than the subsidy that will come in as a result of this deal
:19:08. > :19:17.with nuclear power. When you look at other major European countries
:19:18. > :19:21.saying, we don't want nuclear energy. Even in France weather has
:19:22. > :19:25.been a lot of nuclear energy, even they are receiving from that so it
:19:26. > :19:31.is with those who are more reluctant to use nuclear energy? As far as
:19:32. > :19:37.Germany is concerned, they had a very successful nuclear programme
:19:38. > :19:43.providing about 32% of their electricity and then as a result of
:19:44. > :19:50.Fukushima, they behaved, in my view, quite hysterically. They suddenly
:19:51. > :19:53.said, we will not use nuclear power any more. This was disastrous for
:19:54. > :19:59.the people around the nuclear power stations who lost millions of
:20:00. > :20:03.euros. They found, although they have a lot of renewable energy,
:20:04. > :20:07.there is no way that can replace them, so what are they doing? They
:20:08. > :20:14.are building five coal-fired power stations. When you look at the cost
:20:15. > :20:19.of Hinkley Point C, they have quadrupled from the original
:20:20. > :20:26.estimate of ?4 billion, that will put a lot of people of nuclear
:20:27. > :20:32.energy? It might well put the investors off! I have to say that it
:20:33. > :20:38.started off with a price tag of ?5 billion and then it rose to ?14
:20:39. > :20:43.billion up to two days ago and now the price tag has been increased to
:20:44. > :20:51.?16 billion. I find that extremely unsatisfactory. Newly emerging
:20:52. > :20:54.nations around the world are beginning to look at building their
:20:55. > :21:00.own generation of nuclear power is. Do you see the attraction for
:21:01. > :21:07.emerging nations like this to go down that path, in other words we
:21:08. > :21:12.will see nuclear energy absolutely chipped there in stone before the
:21:13. > :21:17.world? There are 450 nuclear and actors around the world at the
:21:18. > :21:20.moment, providing about 18% of the world 's electricity. There is
:21:21. > :21:26.nothing new about it. It is just going to grow. The alternative is
:21:27. > :21:31.burning more gas and burning more coal and the price of gas has gone
:21:32. > :21:37.up and up and up and we have a real problem with that in the UK. It does
:21:38. > :21:44.seem to me that as far as the future is concerned, it will be a big slice
:21:45. > :21:47.of nuclear power. France has summoned America's
:21:48. > :21:49.ambassador in Paris in response to newspaper reports that the US
:21:50. > :21:55.National Security Agency secretly recorded millions of phone calls in
:21:56. > :21:58.France. The interior minister has described the allegations carried in
:21:59. > :22:02.the newspaper, Le Monde, as shocking.
:22:03. > :22:06.Two people have been shot dead and two more are injured in a shooting
:22:07. > :22:09.at Sparks Middle School in Nevada. Students from the middle school and
:22:10. > :22:13.next-door elementary school were evacuated to the nearby high school
:22:14. > :22:16.and classes were cancelled. The European Court of Human Rights
:22:17. > :22:19.says Russia has failed to explain why it kept key files secret when it
:22:20. > :22:26.investigated in 1940 Katyn massacre of more than 20,000 Polish war
:22:27. > :22:29.prisoners. But the court said it cannot rule on the case because
:22:30. > :22:32.Russia only signed up to the European Convention of Human Rights
:22:33. > :22:37.in 1998, eight years after it began the investigation.
:22:38. > :22:41.Reports from South Sudan say the number of people killed in a
:22:42. > :22:47.massacre on Sunday in Jonglei state has risen to 78. 24 children have
:22:48. > :22:50.apparently been abducted. Survivors blamed members of the Murle ethnic
:22:51. > :22:55.group linked to the rebel leader, David Yau Yau.
:22:56. > :22:59.A German bishop who has been widely criticised for lavish spending has
:23:00. > :23:02.met the Pope in Rome to discuss his behaviour. Franz-Peter
:23:03. > :23:08.Tebartz-van-Elst who has been labelled the Bishop of Bling has
:23:09. > :23:11.faced calls to resign. He has been accused of lying about the cost of
:23:12. > :23:18.his official residence in Limburg along with a first-class flight to
:23:19. > :23:22.India to visit the poor. He was the man who went into the
:23:23. > :23:25.cold during the height of the Cold War. 50 years ago, Erik de Mauny
:23:26. > :23:27.became the first resident Moscow correspondent for the BBC after the
:23:28. > :23:31.Communist authorities eased censorship. Our current Moscow
:23:32. > :23:34.correspondent, Steve Rosenberg, looks back at the life and
:23:35. > :23:44.adventures of a Cold War correspondent.
:23:45. > :23:51.It was the BBC 's Russian Revolution. 50 years ago, Erik de
:23:52. > :23:56.Mauny became the BBC 's first resident correspondent in Moscow.
:23:57. > :24:05.The Soviet union had relaxed censorship and he was allowed behind
:24:06. > :24:10.the iron curtain. Erik de Mauny once said he felt sheer exhilaration when
:24:11. > :24:15.he arrived here but reporting from Russia in 1963, that was challenging
:24:16. > :24:19.to say the least. Back then, foreign correspondents were not allowed to
:24:20. > :24:22.travel more than a few kilometres out of Moscow without special
:24:23. > :24:25.permission. They had little choice in where they wanted to live and
:24:26. > :24:29.getting to know ordinary Russians was incredibly difficult with the
:24:30. > :24:39.KGB breathing down your neck. Coverage was not all cold war. My
:24:40. > :24:47.wife and I will be watching the show together. They seem to have produced
:24:48. > :24:54.extremely well-designed clothes Some excellent men's clothes also.
:24:55. > :25:01.At the microphone, Erik de Mauny was always calm and cool, sometimes very
:25:02. > :25:07.cool. Off-camera though, his life in Moscow was as thrilling as John
:25:08. > :25:12.McCarry novel. One of the many adventures he had took place right
:25:13. > :25:17.here. This is the residence of the British ambassador in Moscow. It
:25:18. > :25:21.used to be the British embassy building and this is where he came
:25:22. > :25:24.one morning after he had landed a giant scoop. He had managed to track
:25:25. > :25:32.down the former British intelligence officer turned spy who defected to
:25:33. > :25:38.the USSR. The two men spent six hours drinking together the night
:25:39. > :25:43.before. Erik de Mauny decides not to put his story in London. He comes
:25:44. > :25:48.here, scribbled down on a piece of paper, I just met him and I thought
:25:49. > :25:51.you might like to know about it He spirited away to speak to the
:25:52. > :25:57.ambassador. A couple of days later, Erik de Mauny is at home when
:25:58. > :26:02.suddenly someone hands him a note. It is from the British ambassador
:26:03. > :26:09.about Kim Philby. London advises, brick of contact. 50 years on,
:26:10. > :26:19.Moscow correspondence are still chasing spies. Espionage did not end
:26:20. > :26:23.when the Cold War did. When I read his memoirs, what struck me most is
:26:24. > :26:26.what has not changed here in 50 years. It is still at times
:26:27. > :26:30.incredibly hard to do with officialdom and many Russian
:26:31. > :26:42.officials still are suspicious of Western journalists. As we try to do
:26:43. > :26:46.our job, reporting on Russia. That's all from the programme. Next,
:26:47. > :26:58.the weather. From me and the rest of the team, goodbye.
:26:59. > :27:02.There was plenty of rain across the country today and there is much more
:27:03. > :27:06.to come this week. A classic October week with spells of rain often
:27:07. > :27:20.accompanied by a strong and gusty wind. These weather fronts will
:27:21. > :27:30.continue to throw rain across the UK. A wet start in most areas.
:27:31. > :27:33.Perhaps a dry in the East. Brighter for Northern Ireland by the
:27:34. > :27:44.afternoon but for much of northern England, it will be great with
:27:45. > :27:47.further outbreaks of rain. A wet start probally for the South West of
:27:48. > :27:48.England but as you can see, the