:00:00. > :00:11.This is BBC World News Today with me Zeinab Badawi. A question mark looms
:00:12. > :00:14.over whether the peace talks on Syria due to start this week will go
:00:15. > :00:18.ahead. With no let-up in the fighting on
:00:19. > :00:21.the ground - the Opposition say they will withdraw their participation
:00:22. > :00:26.unless the UN withdraws its invitation to Iran to attend the
:00:27. > :00:30.talks. The deadline is now. A wake up call 800 million
:00:31. > :00:32.kilometres from Earth - we look at an extraordinary European space
:00:33. > :00:37.mission to rendezvous with a moving comet.
:00:38. > :00:40.Also coming up - escalating violence in Ukraine as opposition leaders
:00:41. > :00:44.urge more people out onto the streets saying the President's ban
:00:45. > :00:49.of demonstrations is a threat to the entire country.
:00:50. > :00:53.And half a century of celebrity watching - we talk to the
:00:54. > :00:54.photographer Terry O'Neill as a new exhibition showcases his portraits
:00:55. > :01:12.of the stars. Hello and welcome. Urgent and
:01:13. > :01:17.intensive discussions are going on now to try to put talks on ending
:01:18. > :01:21.the Syrian conflict back on track. They were due to start on Wednesday
:01:22. > :01:24.after the main Syrian umbrella opposition group agreed belatedly to
:01:25. > :01:27.attend the talks. Then the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon
:01:28. > :01:33.invited Iran to join the talks and the Syrian opposition suspended
:01:34. > :01:38.their participation. Iran is a major ally of Damascus. It's not clear how
:01:39. > :01:41.this diplomatic drama will be resolved. In a moment we'll be
:01:42. > :01:45.asking the main opposition spokesman what it will take to get them back
:01:46. > :01:55.to the negotiating table. First our Diplomatic Correspondent James
:01:56. > :01:58.Robbins. Almost three years of increasingly
:01:59. > :02:04.brutal conflict in Syria has ripped the country to shreds. The Western
:02:05. > :02:09.powers are desperate for peace tock. The UN leaned President Assad for
:02:10. > :02:17.most of the war crimes and said half of the population is dependent on
:02:18. > :02:25.humanitarian aid. Translation macro terrorism is rife
:02:26. > :02:33.everywhere. On the political side it is possible
:02:34. > :02:37.for dialogue. But now the question is will the
:02:38. > :02:42.peace process in Geneva happen at all? The idea is that President
:02:43. > :02:52.Assad will have representatives at the talks.
:02:53. > :03:00.But the opposition is deeply divided. Only the Western backed
:03:01. > :03:11.Syrian National Coalition is invited, not those regarded as
:03:12. > :03:17.extremists. Then there are the big international supporters of the
:03:18. > :03:23.opposing sides. Saudi Arabia is nominally Anne Western ally, but it
:03:24. > :03:33.supplies weapons to groups the West finds an acceptable. Iran supports
:03:34. > :03:37.the Assad regime. But no arguments over Iran's part in
:03:38. > :03:44.any peace effort have put the process in doubt. The UN invited
:03:45. > :03:58.Iran on the basis it accepted future power-sharing. Ban Ki-Moon has been
:03:59. > :04:04.warned by the United States to withdraw.
:04:05. > :04:09.The foreign secretary is in the American camp but worries the peace
:04:10. > :04:14.process would collapse. We have no problem in principle with Iran
:04:15. > :04:19.attending, but it has to be on the same basis as all of us.
:04:20. > :04:24.On Saturday some Syrian opposition leaders voted to join the peace
:04:25. > :04:34.talks. Iran wants to keep President Assad.
:04:35. > :04:38.So the chaos in Syria is reflected in political chaos around the peace
:04:39. > :04:43.tock. As the agony for the Syrian Apple intensifies every day. --
:04:44. > :04:58.Assyrian population. Let us stay with Iran. The United
:04:59. > :05:03.States and the European Union has announced they are suspending some
:05:04. > :05:10.trade restrictions on Iran. Earlier the United Nations nuclear agency
:05:11. > :05:19.confirmed that Tehran had started curbing uranium enrichment. . The
:05:20. > :05:22.agency said that Tehran had stopped enriching uranium above five per
:05:23. > :05:25.cent, well below what would be needed to produce nuclear weapons.
:05:26. > :05:28.Iran is expecting to resume trade in petrochemicals and precious metals
:05:29. > :05:42.and retrive billions of dollars of oil revenue frozen overseas.
:05:43. > :05:44.We were hoping to go to a spokesperson from the Syrian
:05:45. > :06:01.opposition. We will go to heaven in a moment.
:06:02. > :06:05.-- we shall go to that spokesperson in a moment.
:06:06. > :06:08.A leading opposition figure in Ukraine, Vitali Klitschko, has
:06:09. > :06:12.called on Ukrainians to come to the capital Kiev to join protestors in
:06:13. > :06:15.what he describes as the battle for the future of the country. Mr
:06:16. > :06:18.Klitschko made his call after the worst night of violence since
:06:19. > :06:20.political unrest began nine weeks ago. President Yanukovych has
:06:21. > :06:23.promised talks with opposition leaders to try to resolve the
:06:24. > :06:29.crisis. Our correspondent Daniel Sandford sent this report from Kiev.
:06:30. > :06:36.This morning police were using plastic bullet is. The fighting is
:06:37. > :06:43.the worst the country has seen in decades and has led to dozens of
:06:44. > :06:53.injuries. The most serious clashes were in the night. Protesters made
:06:54. > :06:56.missiles from cobblestones. A few months ago these were demonstrations
:06:57. > :07:01.in favour of joining the European Union, now they have boiled over
:07:02. > :07:05.into anger directed at the government and the Russian
:07:06. > :07:09.presidents. There are only a few hundred truly
:07:10. > :07:18.violent protesters, but they have earned a dozen police vehicles
:07:19. > :07:26.overnight. -- they have earned. After two months of protests it was
:07:27. > :07:33.new laws passed last week that restrict demonstrations that
:07:34. > :07:37.produced this explosion of anger stop.
:07:38. > :07:48.It is not a peaceful demonstration any more. The government is
:07:49. > :08:00.because. Something had to happen. This is the
:08:01. > :08:06.response to the new law. The president has set up a Coalition
:08:07. > :08:10.to deal with the crisis. The violent protesters, who seemed to be
:08:11. > :08:20.supporters of mostly far right groups, have lost patience with the
:08:21. > :08:26.main parties. Today our wake-up call of sorts
:08:27. > :08:30.sided 800 million kilometres away in space. It happened on a probe that
:08:31. > :08:39.has had all systems shut down for two used to save energy. It was
:08:40. > :08:43.launched in 2004. Its mission was to land on a moving, it later this
:08:44. > :08:50.year. Did Rosetta managed to wake up? This was the moment everybody at
:08:51. > :08:58.the European space agency had been waiting for. The computer screen
:08:59. > :09:07.told the scientists that Rosetta is responding.
:09:08. > :09:16.Our vast lump of rock and ice. Blasts of vapour sting from its
:09:17. > :09:22.surface. This animation shows the hostile world that a spacecraft will
:09:23. > :09:25.try to land on. Throughout human history the glowing tales of comets
:09:26. > :09:32.have proved both frightening and enchanting. They have remained far
:09:33. > :09:37.beyond reach and till now this is an audacious budget. We are doing
:09:38. > :09:42.something we have never done before. We have taken snapshots from
:09:43. > :09:52.hundreds of kilometres away. Rosetta is going to get up close to the
:09:53. > :09:55.comets. It was nearly ten years ago that the Rosetta spacecraft was
:09:56. > :09:58.launched. You need patience to be a space scientist because only now is
:09:59. > :10:03.the mission approaching it key phase.
:10:04. > :10:12.This mission will try something daring. It is powered by solar
:10:13. > :10:20.animals. Each one is 14 metres long. -- solar panels. Rosetta's journey
:10:21. > :10:27.has seen it race away from Earth and looped past marriage using the
:10:28. > :10:33.gravity to speed up a series of orbits -- looped past the planet
:10:34. > :10:40.Mars. It has taken Rosetta towards Jupiter. It is now circling back in.
:10:41. > :10:44.It is gaining on the comets. If all goes well it will close in for the
:10:45. > :10:50.first ever attempt to touch down on one of these bizarre objects.
:10:51. > :10:58.First Rosetta will will orbits the comets. Then it will release a small
:10:59. > :11:03.craft. Comets are older than the planet so we may learn they brought
:11:04. > :11:11.as water and the building blocks for life.
:11:12. > :11:15.Comets act as a time travel capsule. They contain all the earliest water
:11:16. > :11:24.and organic material that was the. By analysing game we can understand
:11:25. > :11:27.where our water on Earth came from. How from a swirl of rocks they
:11:28. > :11:37.eventually got the planets and their life. This mission to the comet may
:11:38. > :11:46.help answer these questions. Let us talk more about this.
:11:47. > :11:51.The European space agency have said that this was a unique mission. It
:11:52. > :11:56.was technologically and philosophically unique. Why are they
:11:57. > :12:00.saying that? Because it'll tell us so much about
:12:01. > :12:07.the solar system in which we live and how it formed. Comets hold clues
:12:08. > :12:16.about what went on 4.5 billion years ago. The chemical signatures that
:12:17. > :12:27.were around when the planets formed at in the comets. It is difficult to
:12:28. > :12:32.tell what went on back then because the Earth recycles all its rocks.
:12:33. > :12:37.You have to go to comets to find evidence for what happened all that
:12:38. > :12:44.time ago. This simple message that they received means that the
:12:45. > :12:48.spacecraft is alive and ready to chase down the comet in the next few
:12:49. > :12:54.months. It will arrive there in the middle of summer. It will take
:12:55. > :13:03.pictures. It will assess the comets. It will decide where to land.
:13:04. > :13:07.That'll happen in November. It must have been quite an
:13:08. > :13:13.experience, the atmosphere must have been quite extraordinary. It has
:13:14. > :13:19.already delivered some fascinating science.
:13:20. > :13:23.It has been in space for ten years. In order to get towards the comet
:13:24. > :13:28.that has had to loop around the planets a few times to pick up the
:13:29. > :13:36.gravitational energy that needed to get out of the orbit of Jupiter. It
:13:37. > :13:39.has passed two large asteroids. We have got some fantastic pictures
:13:40. > :13:44.from those. There is interesting science there as well. This mission
:13:45. > :13:59.has already delivered but the main focus is yet to come.
:14:00. > :14:02.Thank you. Now a look at some of the day's
:14:03. > :14:05.other news. The Central African Republic has a
:14:06. > :14:08.new interim president. The parliament has voted to choose
:14:09. > :14:13.Catherine Samba-Panza as the country's new leader. She was mayor
:14:14. > :14:16.of the capital, Bangui. She'll have the task of trying to restore peace
:14:17. > :14:19.to a country ravaged by religious conflict. She replaces Michel
:14:20. > :14:26.Djotodia, the leader of the Seleka rebels who seized power in March.
:14:27. > :14:29.Police in Pakistan say at least 14 people have been killed by a suicide
:14:30. > :14:33.bomber in the city of Rawalpindi. The Taliban says it carried out the
:14:34. > :14:35.blast, which hit a crowded market near the Army's national
:14:36. > :14:39.headquarters. Eight soldiers are among the dead. The attack comes a
:14:40. > :14:45.day after another Taliban bombing killed at least 20 soldiers in the
:14:46. > :14:47.Northwest. A trial involving the French
:14:48. > :14:51.footballers Franck Ribery and Karim Benzema has begun in Paris with the
:14:52. > :14:55.two facing up to three years in prison on allegations they slept
:14:56. > :14:58.with an underage prostitute. The escort in question, Zahia Dehar,
:14:59. > :15:03.who's now 21, has said she had lied to the players at the time, telling
:15:04. > :15:06.them that she was 18. Ribery says he didn't know she was a prostitute or
:15:07. > :15:10.a minor. Benzema denies the allegations.
:15:11. > :15:13.After years of dizzying growth, China's economy is finally showing
:15:14. > :15:17.signs of stabilising. Official data suggests that the growth rate of
:15:18. > :15:23.around 7.7% in 2013 was the same as in 2012. And economists expect 2014
:15:24. > :15:36.to see the slowest pace of growth since 1990.
:15:37. > :15:39.One of the great orchestral conductors of recent decades, the
:15:40. > :15:42.Italian Claudio Abbado has dry. He was 80. Abbado had performed in many
:15:43. > :15:46.countries across the world. His career also took him to prestigious
:15:47. > :15:49.venues like La Scala in Milan and the Vienna State Opera. Claudio
:15:50. > :15:52.Abbado, who'd been ill for several years, had also made hundreds of
:15:53. > :16:04.recordings from the classical repertoire to 20th century music.
:16:05. > :16:11.David Hannah looks at his life. Claudio Abbado was the ultimate
:16:12. > :16:18.musician's musician, revered by the world's great orchestras and opera
:16:19. > :16:23.houses. In his career, he was musical director at the Berlin
:16:24. > :16:28.Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Vienna
:16:29. > :16:39.Philharmonic. He also founded his own all-star Orchestra. Claudio
:16:40. > :16:45.Abbado made his debut in 1960 in his hometown of Milan. When he returned
:16:46. > :16:56.where last year he was given a 15 minute standing ovation. His
:16:57. > :16:59.strength was matched by his mastering of his classical
:17:00. > :17:05.repertoire and support for music of the 20th century. It is an
:17:06. > :17:11.extraordinary range of music and it is special because he tried to talk
:17:12. > :17:14.about his musical quality. Orchestral musicians often talk
:17:15. > :17:23.about the fact he said very little and rehearsal. It was all in the
:17:24. > :17:29.performance. A person who was very supportive of musicians. Claudio
:17:30. > :17:34.Abbado is survived by his second wife and four children and leaves
:17:35. > :17:49.behind the legacy of hundreds of recorded works.
:17:50. > :17:55.That was Claudio Abbado who has dry. Some tones are finding it difficult
:17:56. > :18:02.to cope with the steady influx of refugees from Syria. One tone has
:18:03. > :18:13.accepted three times more refugees than Sweden's biggest cities. The
:18:14. > :18:18.tone's reputation as a haven for Orthodox Christians has made it a
:18:19. > :18:21.magnet for Syrian refugees but beneath the hospitable ear, the tone
:18:22. > :18:29.is struggling to accommodate an estimated 1000 Syrians who arrived
:18:30. > :18:33.in 2013. The Maher would like to remove the right of newcomers to
:18:34. > :18:43.decide where to live some other towns can share the burden. Poverty,
:18:44. > :18:50.more children that cannot get a good education because you do not involve
:18:51. > :18:55.-- arrived here at six years of age. Many refugees live in cramped
:18:56. > :19:02.conditions. With her three children and husband, this woman fled Aleppo
:19:03. > :19:06.when the fighting became unbearable. To be a refugee is horrible but
:19:07. > :19:11.compared with other people who are living in tents and then very bad
:19:12. > :19:19.conditions and are freezing to death and have no food, we have a very
:19:20. > :19:25.good year. Now where is the welcome better than in education. At this
:19:26. > :19:38.school, 90% of pupils are from immigrant backgrounds. Only five
:19:39. > :19:43.indigenous Swedes remain. These is a mess belief in society today that
:19:44. > :19:51.foreigners and refugees are going to affect the accounts. That is not the
:19:52. > :19:54.case, it is the opposite. A school with a mixed population of children
:19:55. > :20:00.get the best results, all research shows that, so that is why a
:20:01. > :20:07.segregated society is very profound everyone. The tone is expecting to
:20:08. > :20:14.receive a further 2000 refugees during the coming year. These
:20:15. > :20:20.numbers will add to the -- unemployment rate, twice the
:20:21. > :20:27.national average. To the indignation of right-wingers like this, that
:20:28. > :20:32.means more generous welfare checks. We are being betrayed by the
:20:33. > :20:38.government. We cannot afford to have an open door policy because in the
:20:39. > :20:44.long run, we will take more and more and it will take more resources.
:20:45. > :20:50.With no end in sight and one-way traffic, the government has promised
:20:51. > :21:01.extra money to municipalities but will not restrict freedom of
:21:02. > :21:09.movement. Some other news in brief. A court in
:21:10. > :21:19.China has convicted a man of poisoning dumplings. The food worker
:21:20. > :21:24.injected them with insecticide in 2008 in a protest against his
:21:25. > :21:30.employer. The violinist Vanessa Mae is set to
:21:31. > :21:41.ski for Thailand and the Winter Olympics next month. She has been
:21:42. > :21:46.competing using her Thai father's surname.
:21:47. > :21:49.A talented lady. Another talented person is joining me in the studio.
:21:50. > :21:52.The work of British photographer Terry O'Neill hangs in national
:21:53. > :21:55.galleries and private collections worldwide. He is regarded as one of
:21:56. > :21:58.the most important photographers of the 20th century and has taken
:21:59. > :22:01.pictures of key figures like Hollywood stars, and political
:22:02. > :22:04.figures from Churchill to Mandela. His ability to build relationships
:22:05. > :22:08.with his subjects gave him unrivalled access to even the most
:22:09. > :22:12.private of stars. Terry O'Neill's work over half a century is now the
:22:13. > :22:22.subject of a new exhibition at the Little Black gallery in London. Did
:22:23. > :22:37.you like that introduction? Superb, thank you. Remind us, how would you
:22:38. > :22:41.define your style? I do not know. I just picked up a camera and
:22:42. > :22:44.accidentally took a picture of somebody who turned out to be
:22:45. > :22:51.famous, the English Foreign Secretary. A newspaper reporter saw
:22:52. > :22:57.me and wanted the pictures and took the film and I was offered a job
:22:58. > :23:08.when the editor saw it because he liked my work. I have never looked
:23:09. > :23:16.back. We have Audrey Hepburn relaxing in the pool. You could not
:23:17. > :23:24.mess with horror, a fabulous woman. I wish I had worked more with her.
:23:25. > :23:35.She was incredible. Looking at this picture, she is normally... Here she
:23:36. > :23:42.looks quite casual. You just snapped? She hated water, that was
:23:43. > :23:52.the funny part, but you would never guess. Another great one, Elizabeth
:23:53. > :23:56.Taylor in make up. She was just about to announce her engagement to
:23:57. > :24:05.John Warner, the American equivalent of William Hague. Husband number
:24:06. > :24:10.four or five. That was in moment in the dressing room but she was a
:24:11. > :24:16.fantastic woman, the hottest star in the world, but she was really a nice
:24:17. > :24:28.person. Who else have we got? Frank Sinatra surrounded by his body
:24:29. > :24:36.guards. Ava Gardner, who I got a chance to talk to, I told him I had
:24:37. > :24:41.a chance to photograph him. This is my first moment and I wondered what
:24:42. > :24:48.I had let myself in for. He was such a powerful man and he came to
:24:49. > :24:57.London, or Frankfurt or Philadelphia, and the tone revolved
:24:58. > :25:04.around them. -- town. Tell us something about their personalities.
:25:05. > :25:13.If I do not know a person I find out about them because I think it is
:25:14. > :25:18.important. Brigitte Bardot. That was the last shot on a roll of 35 and I
:25:19. > :25:26.was waiting and I thought, shall I take it? I could not wait to develop
:25:27. > :25:33.it and it turned out to be one of my best ever. It was not posed? I am
:25:34. > :25:43.good at getting moments and watching. That is what I do. David
:25:44. > :25:58.Bowie. I just say the names and play, ! -- they come up! I was
:25:59. > :26:07.taking the pictures for Diamond Dogs. When the flash went up, the
:26:08. > :26:18.dog would leap up. The final one, Joan Collins. You dirty lot of
:26:19. > :26:24.glamorous women. She is a fantastic woman. She looks as great today as
:26:25. > :26:29.she did then. We could even get into Western Churchill and Nelson
:26:30. > :26:35.Mandela... Watch one out of those was your favourite? To work with,
:26:36. > :26:40.Frank Sinatra and Audrey Hepburn. It was an honour. And the most
:26:41. > :26:46.beautiful? Ava Gardner, without doubt.
:26:47. > :26:50.And that investigation, next steps the weather. From me and the team,
:26:51. > :27:05.goodbye. Although the week has started on a
:27:06. > :27:13.note, --. I note, it is set to get into when as the week progresses.
:27:14. > :27:15.Rain moving slowly. Here is an