:00:09. > :00:14.This is BBC World News Today with me Zeinab Badawi.
:00:15. > :00:17.In South Sudan, thousands of civilians flee a key town as
:00:18. > :00:20.government troops prepare to attack rebel soldiers in control of the
:00:21. > :00:22.area. Many are crowding into the UN
:00:23. > :00:26.compound in Bentiu in the oil-rich Unity State.
:00:27. > :00:32.We look at the balance of power between government and rebel forces.
:00:33. > :00:37.Create traffic mayhem to punish a political rival. New Jersey's
:00:38. > :00:42.Governor Chris Christie says sorry for the actions last year of his
:00:43. > :00:48.deputy chief of staff. IM embarrassed and humiliated by the
:00:49. > :00:59.conduct of some of the people on my team.
:01:00. > :01:02.And the reality behind the headlines of the young binge drinkers. Why the
:01:03. > :01:07.rise of the young non-drinkers is making them seem pretty sober
:01:08. > :01:11.compared to older people. And find out about the latest rising music
:01:12. > :01:26.star in our list of movers and shakers, the ones to watch in 2014.
:01:27. > :01:35.Hello and welcome. There doesn't seem to be much unity in Unity State
:01:36. > :01:38.these days in South Sudan. Its capital Bentiu is the latest battle
:01:39. > :01:41.ground in the vicious struggle for power between President Salva Kiir
:01:42. > :01:46.and his rival, the former deputy president Riek Machar. Now
:01:47. > :01:49.government troops are advancing towards Bentiu whilst the rebels
:01:50. > :01:52.seem to have withdrawn from the front line, apparently destroying
:01:53. > :01:55.ammunition they can't take with them. In a moment we'll be assessing
:01:56. > :01:58.the balance of military strength on the ground between the two warring
:01:59. > :02:01.sides with a former adviser on African affairs to the National
:02:02. > :02:11.Security Council in the US. First, this report.
:02:12. > :02:15.People in South Sudan know when trouble is coming. They have been
:02:16. > :02:23.running from war for decades. This dusty town is the capital of a state
:02:24. > :02:28.rich in oil and rebel held, but even the soldiers who have switched sides
:02:29. > :02:34.know that the wind is changing. Thousands fled here to the safety of
:02:35. > :02:38.the UN compound, where the town fell two weeks ago, when which tribe you
:02:39. > :02:47.were from suddenly became a question of life or death. They come in our
:02:48. > :02:51.home in the night. When we replied to the questions, they started
:02:52. > :02:58.shooting. They have food and clean water, but supplies are short. It is
:02:59. > :03:02.no place for a baby to be born. I am worried about fighting and I am
:03:03. > :03:08.worried about staying here. How long will we stay here? And the fighting
:03:09. > :03:12.is humming to Bentiu again. The front line suddenly shifted. We
:03:13. > :03:20.thought the battle had begun all stop but this was the rebels,
:03:21. > :03:25.destroying ammunition they could not retreat with. More people in need of
:03:26. > :03:31.help. But with food running low here, the UN decided to take a risk.
:03:32. > :03:36.A mission in the town, to fetch supplies from a warehouse, as
:03:37. > :03:41.civilians continue to flee. This is a compound in the centre of Bentiu.
:03:42. > :03:45.They came here to pick up food to take to the camp before fighting
:03:46. > :03:51.started. Overnight, more than 1000 people came into this compound to
:03:52. > :03:55.try and get shelter for the -- from the fighting, and now they have
:03:56. > :03:59.become the priority. The UN is going to take these people and get them
:04:00. > :04:04.out, hopefully before the fighting starts. With gunfire already heard
:04:05. > :04:12.nearby, they have to move fast. There is never enough time when an
:04:13. > :04:16.opportunity like this comes long, and they took what they could and
:04:17. > :04:20.will return for the rest. They reached the camp safely, but a
:04:21. > :04:27.mission for food brought only more people. The historical rift between
:04:28. > :04:30.tribes has been reopened by this crisis. While talks about peace
:04:31. > :04:39.going nowhere, the fear is that more fighting will come.
:04:40. > :04:42.Cameron Hudson until recently advised the National Security
:04:43. > :04:44.Council on Africa. He's now Policy Director at the Centre for the
:04:45. > :04:50.Prevention of Genocide in Washington.
:04:51. > :04:55.He joins us now. First of all, give us a brief overview of the relative
:04:56. > :05:02.strength of the two warring factions, President Kiir and Riek
:05:03. > :05:07.Machar. It is interesting, because we are seeing the forces of Riek
:05:08. > :05:12.Machar being the forces of the government as well, forces that left
:05:13. > :05:16.the government and align themselves with Riek Machar, so it is really
:05:17. > :05:24.two parts of the same Army. Riek Machar has been augmented by rebel
:05:25. > :05:29.forces of his ethnic group. There has been some forced conscription
:05:30. > :05:35.and soldier virtue -- recruitment of children that we have heard about.
:05:36. > :05:41.One side probably contains more heavy artillery will stop the
:05:42. > :05:44.government -- artillery. The government probably has more
:05:45. > :05:50.artillery and can reinforce their positions, whereas the rebels
:05:51. > :05:54.cannot. The order of battle is roughly equivalent, which is why we
:05:55. > :05:58.have seen certain key cities change hands in the course of the fighting
:05:59. > :06:04.over the last three weeks. What about the discipline? You say Riek
:06:05. > :06:14.Machar has got people from the Army, but can it operate as a disciplined
:06:15. > :06:18.side? He has shown that he can and he has shown that he can take
:06:19. > :06:22.territory and hold it, which suggests he has a certain degree of
:06:23. > :06:27.command and control over those troops right now. I think the answer
:06:28. > :06:32.is, yes, he can do that, but for how long? He has a difficult time
:06:33. > :06:35.sustaining himself. It is not clear that he is getting outside support.
:06:36. > :06:43.President Bashir came down this weekend I just support to Kiir, not
:06:44. > :06:46.the rebels. If Riek Machar is cut off from outside assistance, there
:06:47. > :06:52.is only so long his forces will be able to sustain this onslaught. A
:06:53. > :06:56.characteristic of the conflict in South Sudan, and also other parts of
:06:57. > :07:01.Africa that we have seen, is that civilians are terrorized as part of
:07:02. > :07:06.the conflict. The competing ethnic groups. How far does that worry
:07:07. > :07:11.you? It is terribly concerning. We have seen some reporting of gross
:07:12. > :07:15.human rights abuses and allegations of crime against humanity and war
:07:16. > :07:18.crimes being committed by both sides. One of the problems that the
:07:19. > :07:25.international community faces right now is that we have a graduated 78
:07:26. > :07:31.workers that would normally be able to bear witness to these kinds of
:07:32. > :07:36.crimes. -- evacuated aid workers. We do not have a sense of what is going
:07:37. > :07:40.on in these key cities where fighting is occurring. I think it
:07:41. > :07:43.will be after the fact, when others are able to access these areas, that
:07:44. > :07:50.we are really going to find out the true scale and scope of the
:07:51. > :07:55.conflict. Do you think this battle can be won on the battlefield? You
:07:56. > :08:01.feel too much blood has passed? I think that there will be a
:08:02. > :08:04.negotiated solution at some point. The battlefield fighting going on
:08:05. > :08:10.right now is, I think, a demonstration of a posturing that is
:08:11. > :08:14.going on at peace talks that are happening right now. I think it will
:08:15. > :08:17.take several more weeks of fighting. Unfortunately, the
:08:18. > :08:22.international community has been weighing very heavily on both sides
:08:23. > :08:26.to engage more heavily in the peace talks. There has been a loss of
:08:27. > :08:31.posturing. Leaders right now are choosing to fight rather than talk.
:08:32. > :08:35.-- a lot of posturing. That won't happen until there is a decisive
:08:36. > :08:40.shift of the military balance on the ground. I do not see that happening
:08:41. > :08:49.in the immediate future. Thank you so much for joining us.
:08:50. > :08:55.A senior Pakistani police official has been killed in a Taliban suicide
:08:56. > :08:58.attempt in Karachi. He was well-known for campaigning against
:08:59. > :09:02.Taliban militants and had survived several previous attempts on his
:09:03. > :09:08.life. A car carrying explosives smashed into his convoy.
:09:09. > :09:12.Two media's Islamist Prime Minister has announced he is stepping down to
:09:13. > :09:16.hand over power to a caretaker administration. The interim
:09:17. > :09:19.government will lead the country into fresh elections. His
:09:20. > :09:24.resignation as part of a deal with the opposition to the country's
:09:25. > :09:29.transition democracy back on track. A tycoon who is accused of
:09:30. > :09:34.multibillion-dollar fraud is facing extradition from France, but it is
:09:35. > :09:39.not yet clear where he will be sent. He is wanted by Patrick Stamm,
:09:40. > :09:44.Russia and Ukraine and allegations that the stroll up to $6 billion
:09:45. > :09:51.from his former bank, which operated in all three countries. -- that he
:09:52. > :09:56.stole. For him at 75 years, a German war
:09:57. > :10:00.planes layette the bottom of the sea of the south coast of England. --
:10:01. > :10:09.late at. It is believed that the last remaining Dornier aircraft is
:10:10. > :10:17.being restored. It looks like a crumpled wreck, but
:10:18. > :10:24.gradually, every part of the last remaining Dornier bomber is being
:10:25. > :10:26.brought back to life. The engine is beginning to look recognisable
:10:27. > :10:37.again. The barnacles and seaweed washed away by citric acid, simple
:10:38. > :10:39.lemon juice. Cleaning the aircraft is a labour-intensive job. The wreck
:10:40. > :10:50.had been covered in tonnes of sand and Marine debris. It will be at
:10:51. > :10:54.least two years before the craft can begin to be rebuilt. We put the
:10:55. > :11:00.subject at that onto the metal. The problem is, it is like cement left
:11:01. > :11:03.by the life, and that is stopping the liquid getting to the metal
:11:04. > :11:08.surface. We are trying to mechanically remove it with a tool
:11:09. > :11:13.that is softer than metal. It was lifted out of the English channel
:11:14. > :11:17.six months ago, virtually intact. The winds were later removed for the
:11:18. > :11:25.journey by road to the RAF Museum's conservation centre of top it is
:11:26. > :11:31.thought the plane was shot down in 1940, when it went to hit the water
:11:32. > :11:34.and it tipped onto its back before sinking on the Goodwin Sands of the
:11:35. > :11:45.Kent coast. Two of the crew survived, to others died. The
:11:46. > :11:50.Dornier 17 attacked British cities in the Battle of Britain. They went
:11:51. > :11:57.out of service in the mid-1940s, and it was thought that none had
:11:58. > :12:02.survived. The Dornier was nicknamed the flying principal -- Flying
:12:03. > :12:06.Pencil, and when you are crunching inside it, you can see why. There
:12:07. > :12:11.would have been four crew members crammed inside this narrow space.
:12:12. > :12:16.Eventually, it will be rebuilt here inside the Museum's workshop, but
:12:17. > :12:20.there is plenty of work ahead, and funding to be found, before the
:12:21. > :12:29.plane will be ready to go on show at the RAF Museum in London.
:12:30. > :12:37.As far as political embarrassments go, this must rank as one of the
:12:38. > :12:46.more serious and improbable. The Governor Chris Christie has been
:12:47. > :12:51.involved in a scandal involving traffic. Mr Christie said emails and
:12:52. > :12:54.texts revealed that his deputy chief of staff, Bridget Kelly, had ordered
:12:55. > :12:57.lane closures on the George Washington bridge between New Jersey
:12:58. > :13:03.and New York causing severe tailbacks. Mr Christie said he felt
:13:04. > :13:09.embarrassed and humiliated. All of the people who were affected
:13:10. > :13:17.by this conduct deserved this apology. I need to apologise to them
:13:18. > :13:30.for my failure as the governor of this state to understand the true
:13:31. > :13:34.nature of this problem. I now understand the true nature of the
:13:35. > :13:38.problem, and I have taken the following action as a result. This
:13:39. > :13:44.morning, I have terminated the employment of Bridget Kelly,
:13:45. > :13:48.effective immediately. I have terminated her employment because
:13:49. > :13:52.she lied to me. That was Governor Chris Christie. Chris Christie is
:13:53. > :14:03.one of the leading lights in the Republican camp. The heavy weight,
:14:04. > :14:11.tough talking Republican governor burst onto the national scene in
:14:12. > :14:15.2009. He unseated Democrat incumbent Jon Corzine in the deeply democratic
:14:16. > :14:18.state of New Jersey. He was urged to enter the Republican race for
:14:19. > :14:21.presidential candidate ahead of the 2012 election, but declined. It's
:14:22. > :14:24.expected he may run for presidential candidate in 2016, but what will be
:14:25. > :14:28.the impact of this scandal? Beth McLeod is in Washington. How
:14:29. > :14:39.damaging is this to his to hopes for 2016? He did say that the buck
:14:40. > :14:44.stopped with him. He apologised to the people of New Jersey for what
:14:45. > :14:49.happened, but he maintained that he did not know anything about it. He
:14:50. > :14:57.said he has taken strong action by finding one of his key aides,
:14:58. > :15:08.Bridget Kelly. In terms of whether it affects him, it is difficult to
:15:09. > :15:13.say. There are questions over how much... He is renowned for running a
:15:14. > :15:16.pretty tight ship, for micromanaging. There are questions
:15:17. > :15:20.over how much he knew. If he did not know anything, questions remain
:15:21. > :15:25.about what sort of political culture he is presiding over and those
:15:26. > :15:34.questions could come back to haunt him. He has always presented self as
:15:35. > :15:45.a bipartisan candidate, the guy who appeals to everybody. Yes, and at a
:15:46. > :15:48.time of huge partisan bickering in Washington, that is seen as
:15:49. > :15:56.something which could be very appealing to voters. He won the
:15:57. > :16:16.governorship in the democratic state of New Jersey. The fact that he was
:16:17. > :16:27.seen to strip to the -- to a political vendetta will not go in
:16:28. > :16:30.his favour. We've heard lots of reports about
:16:31. > :16:34.binge-drinkers here in the UK. Well, now let us tell you about the rise
:16:35. > :16:38.of the young non-drinkers. In fact, the number of young people who drink
:16:39. > :16:41.has been on the decline for years. And drug-use figures are also going
:16:42. > :16:45.down. We will be discussing this in a moment as well as looking at the
:16:46. > :16:48.picture in Europe. First, BBC Asian Network presenter and non-drinker
:16:49. > :16:52.Yasser Ranjha has been looking at the reasons behind the drop in
:16:53. > :16:57.alcohol consumption. These are the images we are used to
:16:58. > :17:00.seeing when it comes to young British drinkers. Statistics show a
:17:01. > :17:07.growing group of young people are not drinking at all. In 2001, 20 6%
:17:08. > :17:13.of young people said they had drunk in the last week. In 2011, that had
:17:14. > :17:19.gone down to just 12%. There has also been a big reduction and the
:17:20. > :17:23.number of them that have ever drunk. Ethnicity is also a factor in this.
:17:24. > :17:28.There is a growing group of young people that do not drink for
:17:29. > :17:33.cultural or religious reasons. Also, as a result of this trend, alcohol
:17:34. > :17:41.free bar as are springing up across the UK. These young people are all
:17:42. > :17:47.non-drinkers. They told me five. It is against my religion and I think
:17:48. > :17:51.it is wrong in society. I am confident as a person so I do not
:17:52. > :17:57.rely on alcohol. You do not need to be out of your mind to enjoy
:17:58. > :18:02.yourself. We do things that do not involve alcohol. Nowadays, people go
:18:03. > :18:07.out to hang out rather than to get drunk. It is the perception of a
:18:08. > :18:11.previous generation. These statistics do not mean we could do
:18:12. > :18:16.away with the generation of booze Britain. Every week, I am surrounded
:18:17. > :18:28.by heavy drinking when I am working as a DJ.
:18:29. > :18:30.With me is Andrew Brown. He's director of programmes with a
:18:31. > :18:32.charity called Mentor which tries to protect young people from alcohol
:18:33. > :18:39.and drugs. This is good news, but we cannot
:18:40. > :18:45.afford to be complacent? Not at all. It is genuinely good news that young
:18:46. > :18:52.people are drinking less. But if we look at Europe, a recent report from
:18:53. > :18:56.the world health organisation found that we were amongst the top ten
:18:57. > :19:02.countries in the OECD in terms of early drunkenness and we still drink
:19:03. > :19:10.a huge amount. Children are drinking far too much. There is still a kind
:19:11. > :19:20.of hard-core of young people who are still drinking a great deal?
:19:21. > :19:23.Exactly. An average 15 -year-old, if they are drinking, they are likely
:19:24. > :19:29.to drinking about a bottle of wine a week which is a huge amount. There
:19:30. > :19:36.are figures for liver cirrhosis in young people and they seem to have
:19:37. > :19:39.gone up by great deal. Yes, liver specialists I have spoken to are
:19:40. > :19:48.really worried about young people's drinking. They do not necessarily
:19:49. > :20:04.get to see the better news like this. Are there any other factors
:20:05. > :20:07.involved? We know that price, availability and the marketing of it
:20:08. > :20:11.makes a difference. For me, the things that seem to be changing our
:20:12. > :20:26.parental involvement in young people's lives, we have seen bigger
:20:27. > :20:31.increases in retailers being careful about who they sell alcohol to and
:20:32. > :20:40.also the way that police deal with young drinkers.
:20:41. > :20:47.We have been looking at alcohol figures, but this also says that
:20:48. > :20:51.drug use has also gone down. Your charity tries to dissuade young
:20:52. > :21:05.people from taking drugs and drinking. We are working in Scotland
:21:06. > :21:10.with young prisoners, looking at how alcohol has affected their lives. We
:21:11. > :21:14.work with them around what they will do when they are released and how
:21:15. > :21:18.alcohol might affect their behaviour and make sure they are prepared for
:21:19. > :21:26.that. We have done some work in London recently around the links
:21:27. > :21:33.between young people and crime and alcohol.
:21:34. > :21:38.And drugs, quite different, they are criminal act if you take illegal
:21:39. > :21:44.drugs. Yes, although that does not seem to be the reason why people are
:21:45. > :21:48.not taking drugs. I do not think they consider the law when making
:21:49. > :21:54.those decisions. Other stuff must be going on. And it seems to be going
:21:55. > :22:02.on across Western Europe as well as drug and alcohol use is broadly down
:22:03. > :22:05.across Europe. Some exceptions, in France, it seems daunting by young
:22:06. > :22:16.people is going up. But broadly speaking, a more optimistic
:22:17. > :22:21.picture. And people like you setting a good example. I many teenagers do
:22:22. > :22:28.you have? Just one at the minute. Thank you.
:22:29. > :22:31.Now for more on our series of emerging artists from our Sound of
:22:32. > :22:35.2014 new music list. The list of rising stars to watch in the year
:22:36. > :22:39.ahead was compiled using tips from more than 170 music critics, DJs and
:22:40. > :22:43.bloggers. This year's second place goes to 19-year-old singer
:22:44. > :22:52.songwriter Ella Eyre. The Londoner is already known on the music scene
:22:53. > :22:52.for her collaborations with Rudimental and Wiz Khalifa. She
:22:53. > :22:57.released her EP Deeper at the end of 2013. BBC News caught up with her at
:22:58. > :23:07.London Zoo to talk about music, nominations and lions.
:23:08. > :23:24.It's quite -- It's nice to be here. Now I can
:23:25. > :23:26.appreciate them. Me and a friend of mine, we used to come here a lot, it
:23:27. > :23:31.was our favourite place. My mum always used to compare me to
:23:32. > :23:42.a lion. I like to think of a lion as my
:23:43. > :23:44.alter ego because when you think about lions, you think about
:23:45. > :23:49.loyalty, fierceness, passion and pride. I guess that's how I would
:23:50. > :24:01.like my music to be related to. In a way, my music is quite honest.
:24:02. > :24:12.Everything I write about is personal experiences. It can be brutal. It's
:24:13. > :24:16.passionate as well. And vulnerable as well. I wouldn't describe my
:24:17. > :24:19.music as being in one particular genre. The best part about writing
:24:20. > :24:24.and about experimental music is you can take influences from a lot of
:24:25. > :24:30.places. I think it's soul based, but it's got influences of pop, R and
:24:31. > :24:36.Motown. But it's quite loud and beefy.
:24:37. > :24:42.I'm going to call that lion Eddie because it reminds me of my cat.
:24:43. > :24:46.There's one that looks at me, like, what do you want? Everyone is quite
:24:47. > :24:54.chilled out, like I do this for a living, it's cool.
:24:55. > :25:01.I was actually a swimmer, a competitive swimmer, until I was 11.
:25:02. > :25:07.Then I got into drama and singing happened naturally after that. But I
:25:08. > :25:12.did not start taking it seriously till I was 16.
:25:13. > :25:19.Performing is the best part of what I do. It's the part where I get to
:25:20. > :25:26.be intimate with the audience and interact with them. I enjoy the
:25:27. > :25:31.writing because it's a personal thing, like a counselling session.
:25:32. > :25:35.I'm not very good at talking to people about my problems, so it is
:25:36. > :25:39.easier to write them down. It's a scary industry. It's not something
:25:40. > :25:43.you can get used to. I'm just learning about it now, in terms of
:25:44. > :25:50.twitter and the things you can say without being screamed at by fans.
:25:51. > :25:53.It's important to remember that if you do do well, you are a role model
:25:54. > :26:10.for people. The American Jazz musician Herbie
:26:11. > :26:13.Hancock has been named as a Professor of Poetry at Harvard
:26:14. > :26:16.University. The position, which is awarded each year, will involve
:26:17. > :26:19.delivering six lectures on the ethics of jazz. Among his topics,
:26:20. > :26:23.the wisdom of Miles Davis. He says he wants to share his understanding
:26:24. > :26:31.of the essential values in jazz and the values of Buddhism.
:26:32. > :26:35.Cuba's former president, Fidel Castro, has appeared in public for
:26:36. > :26:47.the first time in nine months. He attended the opening of an arts
:26:48. > :26:49.studio on Wednesday night. That is all from the programme. Good night.