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This is BBC World News Today with me, Zeinab Badawi. | :00:08. | :00:15. | |
The UN gives the go-ahead to more French and African troops with a | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
We speak and the EU's Humanitarian Affairs | :00:22. | :00:40. | |
Further reform in the Catholic church - A new committee is set up | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
Also coming up: A powerful storm hits north-western Europe. | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
Thousands are evacuated as a huge tidal surge threatens | :00:50. | :01:31. | |
doubling the number of troops in the Central African Republic to 1200 and | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
African union forces are being posted to 3500. This comes after the | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
UN Security Council backed their deployment earlier today. They have | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
been given a stronger mandate to use all forced necessary to protect | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
lives and an arms embargo has also been introduced. The trip's main | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
mission is to protect civilians in the face of the violence which has | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
been sweeping the Central African Republic. Today, 100 people have in | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
killed in the capital, the ayes have it, the ayes have it, according to | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
UN official. The latest chaos started when a Muslim rebel group | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
overthrew the president, Francois Bozize, earlier this year. Since | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
March, many civilians have been under attack and there has been | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
retaliation from Chris Chin fighters. 400,000 people are thought | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
to have fled their homes. That is about 10% of the population, but it | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
is not known how many have died. about 10% of the population, but it | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
is not known how many have died Our Africa correspondent says the | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
conflict is taking on a religious tone. | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
There has been heavy fighting for several hours this morning | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
and there was real concern for the civilians caught up in this witty. | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
This conflict has increasingly taken on a religious tone. | :02:47. | :02:48. | |
We seem to see Christian groups attacking rebel | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
This is happening as the French prepare for a huge new deployment | :02:51. | :03:00. | |
of forces into this country to try and create stability here. | :03:01. | :03:12. | |
Well, Andrew Harding has also been speaking to the | :03:13. | :03:14. | |
UN Special Representative to the Central African Republic, | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
who spelt out his fears about the actions of the former | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
She's the European Commissioner for International Cooperation, | :03:20. | :04:00. | |
Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response. | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
instruments, not even mattresses on the beds. That means enormous | :04:04. | :04:50. | |
suffering for people. Even in Bangui, it was not stable. We need | :04:51. | :05:00. | |
to recognise that the Central African Republic has been abandoned | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
by the world for decades. And the price people are paying is one of | :05:05. | :05:05. | |
neglect of their own government. But neglect of their own government But | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
also of the international community. On the humanitarian | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
side, we have never left the central African republic. But it is not good | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
enough to put plaster on the wounds of people. We have to engage. It is | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
crucial to restore security, crucial to protect the population. At we | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
also need to think of a longer term engagement to turn the fate of this | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
country around. Commissioner, tell us what you have been doing. I know | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
you have been sharing sessions. You have also been working close you | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
with the United Nations humanitarian affairs boss, Valerie Amos. What | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
exactly are you doing together at both the UN level and the EU? Our | :05:54. | :06:04. | |
aim is to bring more resources and to have a much more systematic | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
engagement in the fate of the Central African Republic. Since our | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
joint visit with Valerie Amos, we have seen a quadruplet of | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
humanitarian funding, and that allows crucial assistance to be made | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
available to the population that has nothing. If I were born in the | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
Central African Republic, my life expectancy would have been under 50 | :06:29. | :06:36. | |
years. 20% of kids there do not live to be five years of age. So we have | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
a very dramatic situation even without the fighting, but the | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
fighting has made this much worse. For the first time in the history of | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
the country, Christians and Muslims are killing each other. That has | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
never been the case before. So our effort has been directed to mobilise | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
life-saving support, but more importantly, to bring attention to | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
the plight of the local people. Are you satisfied that you have managed | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
to get that international attention that you so desperately see the | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
country needs? We are finally seeing the United Nations Security Council | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
voting to restore stability, not a second too soon. I am grateful to | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
France for taking the lead on that. We have also seen more resources in | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
the country. But I want to stress again, when the cameras are off the | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
Central African Republic, we must stay for years. | :07:45. | :07:58. | |
With me in the studio is the French ambassador to the United Kingdom. | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
What is the focus going to be of these French troops, their numbers | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
now doubled in the Central African Republic? Firstly, we are | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
intervening at the request of the international community. A | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
resolution has been adopted unanimously in the Security Council. | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
So we now have a clear mandate for an African operation in Bangui in | :08:22. | :08:29. | |
the central African republic. The purpose is to restore peace and | :08:30. | :08:30. | |
order and protect the civilians. purpose is to restore peace and | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
order and protect the civilians The order and protect the civilians. The | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
commission has said we are in a tragic situation in the Central | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
African Republic, and our objective is to make sure we are going to | :08:39. | :08:46. | |
support the African forces. That is the mission of the French forces. So | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
you have in given the mandate under chapter seven of the United Nations | :08:54. | :08:55. | |
to use all forced necessary to protect civilians? We will be | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
abiding by the terms of the mandate, of course. We have a | :09:00. | :09:07. | |
mission of stabilising the country and protect things civilians -- | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
protecting civilians. It is complete chaos, with killing everywhere. So | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
we hope these forces will bring back peace and stability in order to lead | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
to a political transition as well. So far, the French troops have been | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
concentrated around the airport and French interests. Are they going to | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
venture further afield? We will see. Obviously, securing the airport | :09:37. | :09:44. | |
is a key dimension, protect the foreign community as well, and | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
making sure we can secure the key roads. It is important to have these | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
objectives, and the mission will be organised. Some people have observed | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
that perhaps Bangui, the capital, can be secured, but it is the most | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
remote areas where God knows what is going on. That is the real worry, | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
that the troops will not go that far, because you need around 9000 | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
troops. You are right, we have had killings all around the country. The | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
killings all around the country The Central African Republic is twice | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
the size of the UK, with only 4 5 million inhabitants. That is why a | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
key dimension will be to make sure the main roles are secure. But for | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
the rest of it, you are right. Killings and riot are taking place | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
all around the country. So the mission will be a very important | :10:42. | :10:49. | |
one. The forces have the support of the international community. All the | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
European countries are mobilised under this important mandate. We are | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
all together to make sure it will be a success. Your Foreign Minister has | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
said the country is on the verge of genocide. Is that the case? Well, | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
they said it was a risk of genocide. There have been killings | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
all around the country, and we need to make the violence stop. | :11:22. | :11:31. | |
To Yemen now, where a series of deadly attacks at | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
the defence ministry have left 9 people dead and many more injured. | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
A suicide car bomb blew up at the gates of the complex in Sanaa's Bab | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
al-Yaman district while people were heading to work. | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
The BBC's Shaimaa Khalil reports from Sanaa. | :11:45. | :12:02. | |
A suicide car bomb blew up at the gates of the complex in Sanaa's Bab | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
al-Yaman district while people were heading to work. | :12:06. | :12:45. | |
scene holds up a bit of shrapnel. Some remains, he says. The suicide | :12:46. | :12:47. | |
bombing comes at a critical time here. The government is currently in | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
talks with different political parties to draw a road map for | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
Yemen's future. This is a city in a state of high alert. Checkpoints, | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
armoured vehicles everywhere you go. Security is Yemen's biggest | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
challenge and the government wanted to send a message that at least it | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
was in control of the capital. But today's explosion showed that this | :13:10. | :13:19. | |
is far from the case. The reputation of the Roman Catholic | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
Church has been badly damaged by years of scandal of child sexual | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
abuse. The Pope has signalled that he wants to do something about this | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
and he has called on the article community to tackle sexual abuse of | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
children in the Catholic Church as well as offer help to victims. | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
Critics point out that the announcement comes just days after | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
the Vatican refused a request from the United Nations for information | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
on alleged use by priest 's, nuns or monks. The father has decided to | :13:45. | :13:52. | |
establish a commission for the protection of children so that the | :13:53. | :14:01. | |
commission will be able to advise the father about protection of | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
children and the Pastoral care for the victims of abuse. | :14:09. | :14:37. | |
They have proved in the past that they have wanted to keep control of | :14:38. | :14:47. | |
any type of any investigation. In 1994, 2001 and 2007 2009, 2010, they | :14:48. | :15:07. | |
have had papal letter reinforced... He does not seem to be able to let | :15:08. | :15:36. | |
go of control over the issue. What he should be doing is hand control | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
over to independent authorities such as the police, and civil authorities | :15:43. | :15:50. | |
in each country. He should be directing the priests and bishops | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
through the world to hand over allegations of abuse to civil | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
authorities, rather than the secrecy of the canon law system. If you look | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
at the allegations of sexual abuse, there has been a great deal of | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
emphasis placed on the judicial aspects of all this, and what it | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
means to the Catholic church. Now you need an emphasis on the Pastoral | :16:17. | :16:24. | |
and spiritual a lot more. Why should both issues not run side-by-side? We | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
do not know how many priests, how many ships have colluded to cover up | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
child abuse cases in the past. We have not had access to the | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
documentation which is kept by the Vatican, and was overseen for more | :16:40. | :16:48. | |
than 20 years by the previous Pope. David Greenwood, we have to leave it | :16:49. | :16:49. | |
there. all rail services have been shut | :16:50. | :17:28. | |
down in Scotland, and 64,000 homes in Scotland are without power | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
because of the disruptions by the storm. The storm is heading towards | :17:32. | :17:48. | |
the East and Northern Europe. Parts of the Netherlands are on red | :17:49. | :18:01. | |
alert. More than 80 for KLM flights have been cancelled from Amsterdam | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
airport. I mentioned a storm surge. What exactly is that? Well, for a | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
storm surge to occur you need several elements to come into play | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
at once. You need a deep area of low pressure, around that some strong | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
winds swirling and independent of them both you need some high tides | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
around the coast, and that is what has been occurring. On Thursday, a | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
deep area of low pressure passes to the north of the UK in the direction | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
of Northway. Low pressure systems are effectively zones of rising air. | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
The air is rising, producing rain clouds. If you think about it, if | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
the air is rising at any great rate you are lifting a little bit of | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
weight off the Earth's surface and the impact is greatest over open | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
water. It is around the centre of the low-pressure system where the | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
air is rising you get a bulge forming, where the sea level rises | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
higher than the sea around it. Low-pressure strong winds then push | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
that bulge in the direction of the coast, and in the North Sea that can | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
have a huge impact. Certainly on Thursday into Friday, strong winds | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
through the North Sea pushing the bulge further south. It meets the | :19:04. | :19:05. | |
land straightaway across Holland, but between East Anglia and the | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
Netherlands you get a narrowing of the North Sea, squeezing the water | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
into a tight space causing the levels of the sea to rise even more. | :19:13. | :19:27. | |
That is why, not only are we seeing high sea levels across much of the | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
eastern coast, it is towards East Anglia and the south-east, that | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
squeezing of the North Sea, where sea levels will have the greatest | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
impact and perhaps cause the greatest amount of flooding. Amount | :19:37. | :19:38. | |
of flooding. Matt Taylor explaining what we are | :19:39. | :19:53. | |
experiencing in northern Europe Two months ago, tragedy struck when a | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
boat of asylum seekers overturned near Italy. Now the European union | :20:00. | :20:07. | |
has got the proposals to stop another event from happening. | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
Matthew Price report from Sicily. To find the dead, you must first | :20:15. | :20:29. | |
drive into the heart of Sicilian territory. Emotional, yes. To the | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
cemetery at San Biagio Platani, where Alem Mariah, an Eritrean | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
living in Germany, has come to mourn at the grave of his brother. | :20:40. | :20:55. | |
Bimnet Araya, 37 years old, once a basketball player for the Eritrean | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
basketball squad. Why did he want to come to Europe? | :20:59. | :21:11. | |
They tried to go out from Eritrea to have a life in Europe or other | :21:12. | :21:13. | |
countries, but their life ended When their boat sank, 157 survived. | :21:14. | :21:41. | |
366 did not. So, Sicily's tombs are being used to store whole families. | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
Some have pictures placed here by relatives living in Europe who could | :21:45. | :21:45. | |
come. Most have simply a number. Their | :21:46. | :21:54. | |
families cannot get here to identify them. It's the anonymity in death | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
which is so sad here, and, along with those above ground, others have | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
been buried beneath it. These are their numbers. They are being washed | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
away as if they are already being forgotten. When the ship sank, the | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
Italian government promised it would do all it could to help the | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
relatives of the relative of the victims, yet weeks later there is | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
still very little progress being made on getting these people back | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
home for the proper burial they deserve. A massive DNA testing | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
programme is needed. Alem has the money to come here and do this, but | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
he says the whole process is painfully slow. The problem is, the | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
Italian government is not ready to help us. The situation is very, very | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
difficult, and they know that also, but I don't think they are ready to | :22:48. | :22:57. | |
help me quickly. The government would not comment. Alem believes | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
local officials are doing what they can, but for those whose relatives | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
died out in the Mediterranean, it's not enough. | :23:05. | :23:14. | |
The tragedy and the aftermath of the tragedy in Italy. Fans of Japanese | :23:15. | :23:26. | |
food note that there is more to Japanese food than sushi. You will | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
be delighted to know that Japan s cuisine has been awarded cultural | :23:33. | :23:40. | |
heritage status by UNESCO. The only other country recognised in that way | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
is France. In Japan, great care and attention is taken to preparing the | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
food. It is a process known as... Washoku. We are so excited. Did I | :23:50. | :24:22. | |
say it right? What does that mean? It means Japanese food. There is a | :24:23. | :24:34. | |
whole thing behind it. It is not. It takes a long time to train and also | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
to care about it, and all of us. takes a long time to train and also | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
to care about it, and all of us We are looking here at this beautiful | :24:46. | :24:54. | |
plate, this bowl of sushi that you brought us. The presentation is | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
remarkable. That is an important thing. It is very important. We | :24:58. | :25:08. | |
enjoy appearance, and we wanted to feel like summer how do you stay so | :25:09. | :25:21. | |
slim? It is satisfying. It is incredibly healthy food as well. It | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
takes a very long time to prepare. This bowl here of various bits of | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
sushi, how long will that take to make? It is simple to make, but you | :25:31. | :25:40. | |
need to soak it in the rice for a couple of hours. It comes down, with | :25:41. | :25:50. | |
a vinegar mixture. You make the sushi rice. Then on the other hand, | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
you have two prepare the sushi, fresh fish... The fish has to be | :25:55. | :26:06. | |
fresh. It is unique. It is not like anybody other food in Asia. It is | :26:07. | :26:16. | |
about art. We so care about where the food comes from, how to present. | :26:17. | :26:24. | |
It is all cultures. It takes quite a long time. What do you like to eat | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
other than Japanese food? Peter? long time. What do you like to eat | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
other than Japanese food? Peter X Mac I like all types of food X Mac | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
pizza and chips is my X Mac I don't believe that. Yuki Gomi, thank you. | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
That is it from world news today. From ask, it is more on -- it is | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
goodbye. Now the weather. After a day of ferocious gales | :26:51. | :27:02. | |
across Scotland, coastal communities around East Anglia are experiencing | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
a threat of serious flooding. It will be making its journey to the | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
south here, across parts of the north coast of East Anglia, down | :27:16. | :27:16. |