:00:00. > :00:09.This is BBC World News Today with me, Kassia Madera. Russia has said
:00:10. > :00:13.it's willing to work with the West to resolve the crisis in Ukraine.
:00:14. > :00:18.Military movement within Ukraine is raising tension. The new interim
:00:19. > :00:24.prime minister says they don't want ANY foreign intervention.
:00:25. > :00:35.No boots on the ground. Ukrainian Department of defence and Ukrainian
:00:36. > :00:38.Department of home security is capable of doing their job.
:00:39. > :00:42.The German Chancellor addresses the British Parliament saying she wants
:00:43. > :00:52.a strong UK with a strong voice in Europe.
:00:53. > :00:57.Also coming up: returning to scene of the crime - The Italian captain
:00:58. > :01:03.of the Costa Concordia cruise ship visits the wreck as part of his
:01:04. > :01:07.manslaughter trial. And we'll take you to the world's
:01:08. > :01:10.oldest art - Caves in Northern Spain open for a select few to visit place
:01:11. > :01:24.called the prehistoric Sistine Chapel.
:01:25. > :01:33.Hello and welcome. Western nations have called on Russia to ease
:01:34. > :01:37.tensions in Ukraine's Crimea region. The US Secretary of State has said
:01:38. > :01:41.everyone needs to take a step back and avoid provocation. The Russian
:01:42. > :01:45.Government has said it's willing to work with the west on averting a
:01:46. > :01:48.crisis in Ukraine, but it has warned NATO against taking decisions on
:01:49. > :01:50.behalf of the Ukrainian people. All the tension comes as armed
:01:51. > :02:06.pro-Russia supporters stormed the regional parliament in Simferopol.
:02:07. > :02:14.This idiot in Ukraine but the crowds were shouting Russia today as they
:02:15. > :02:22.celebrated the storming of the local parliament by men with guns. The
:02:23. > :02:26.building was barricaded so that MPs could not come and go and nobody
:02:27. > :02:29.knows who the occupiers are. It shows how little control the
:02:30. > :02:33.Ukrainian Government has in Crimea, a peninsular in the south-east of
:02:34. > :02:37.the country. The heavily armed men took over the parliament at about
:02:38. > :02:43.four o'clock this morning. Witnesses say they were carrying rifles and
:02:44. > :02:47.grenades and forced their way and throughout the police who been
:02:48. > :02:52.guarding the building. This morning's actions by an armed
:02:53. > :02:58.group is dangerous and irresponsible. I urge Russia not to
:02:59. > :03:05.take any action that could escalate tension.
:03:06. > :03:09.But along the border with Ukraine, Russia is conducting what it calls
:03:10. > :03:16.military preparedness exercises. It involves thousands of men. Given the
:03:17. > :03:21.interest in Crimea which was historically Russian, it has only
:03:22. > :03:27.exacerbated concerns in the West. We expect other nations to respect
:03:28. > :03:30.Ukraine sovereignty and avoid provocative action. That is why I am
:03:31. > :03:35.closely watching Russia's military exercise.
:03:36. > :03:39.The alarm increased when seven armoured personnel carriers, thought
:03:40. > :03:45.to be Russian, briefly turned up on the outskirts of the city. They've
:03:46. > :03:51.probably part of a legitimate between bases. Ukraine's new prime
:03:52. > :03:57.Minister begged other countries not to get involved militarily.
:03:58. > :04:05.My first message is no boots on the ground. The Ukrainian Department of
:04:06. > :04:10.defence and the Ukrainian Department of home security is capable of doing
:04:11. > :04:15.their job. We believe that we will definitely find a political
:04:16. > :04:18.solution. Ukraine's deposed president, Viktor
:04:19. > :04:22.Yanukovych, has not been scenes on Sunday night. But tomorrow, he will
:04:23. > :04:28.give a press conference in Russia. 70 miles from the Ukrainian border.
:04:29. > :04:36.Following developments from Kiev is Duncan Crawford. Duncan, we heard
:04:37. > :04:39.there from the new interim prime minister, saying they don't want
:04:40. > :04:46.foreign boots on the ground. Is the new Government trying to play down
:04:47. > :04:51.all the sabre rattling? I think there is concern about the
:04:52. > :04:59.situation but clearly they do not want it to escalate. The new leaders
:05:00. > :05:02.coming into power have seen difficult times before with Russia.
:05:03. > :05:09.There is no surprise that Ukraine and Russia can get into arguments
:05:10. > :05:18.over matters like this. There have indeed been separatist goals in the
:05:19. > :05:22.past from Crimea as well. Earlier today, the interim prime minister
:05:23. > :05:27.told the BBC that he does not expect Russia to interfere in Ukraine. He
:05:28. > :05:32.believes that Russia will refrain from trying to take any action which
:05:33. > :05:38.would see Ukraine split in two. Tonight, the US Secretary of State,
:05:39. > :05:42.John Kerry, said the military manoeuvres which have been taking
:05:43. > :05:48.place in the West of Russia, right along the Ukrainian border, they
:05:49. > :05:52.were preplanned. He spoke to Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign
:05:53. > :05:55.Minister. There is a sense that the key players involved in orders are
:05:56. > :05:58.trying to downplay the tensions. Thank you.
:05:59. > :06:01.With me is the political risk analyst Natasha Grand. She's
:06:02. > :06:10.Director of Research at the think tank INSTID.
:06:11. > :06:15.We heard Duncan say that there is hope that Russia will not get
:06:16. > :06:20.involved militarily. We have seen these exercises on the border. What
:06:21. > :06:23.you make of this? Is there an appetite and Russia to do anything
:06:24. > :06:27.further? I agree that Russia would not be
:06:28. > :06:36.willing to be seen as the country who is rocking the boat. We have had
:06:37. > :06:44.enough bad publicity. Also, the Russian foreign policy has been very
:06:45. > :06:52.much underlying the stress on international law. Russia would want
:06:53. > :06:55.to be seen as an important international player. One of the
:06:56. > :06:59.great powers who sits at the table together with Europe, together with
:07:00. > :07:04.United States and see how they can resolve this together. Ukraine is
:07:05. > :07:08.not likely to make it on its own. There needs to be international
:07:09. > :07:12.agreement. It is fair to say that Russia will be willing to be part of
:07:13. > :07:19.a legitimate agreement. Having said that, it is important to understand
:07:20. > :07:24.that this city is an important location because it is unable base.
:07:25. > :07:31.For centuries, Russia has been fighting words to get access to the
:07:32. > :07:34.Black Sea. The previous Government leased the military base to Russia.
:07:35. > :07:40.The majority of the population in the Crimea is Russian. It is very
:07:41. > :07:45.different from the rest of Ukraine. This particular region needs to be
:07:46. > :07:48.regulated separately and Russia will be paying a lot of attention to
:07:49. > :07:56.that. It is crucially important for
:07:57. > :08:02.Russia, this particular region. Who do you think these people are who
:08:03. > :08:06.have taken control in Crimea? Probably local people. Crimea only
:08:07. > :08:14.became part of Ukraine in 1964. There is a long history of Russian
:08:15. > :08:17.tradition in that area. It would most likely be local residents,
:08:18. > :08:29.being very weary of what is happening in Ukraine.
:08:30. > :08:33.In terms of what you think the next situation is going to be, or the
:08:34. > :08:37.next steps are going to be, we have the referendum and of course we have
:08:38. > :08:41.the former president Yanukovych making a statement on Friday, what
:08:42. > :08:45.you expect to happen? We should expect further
:08:46. > :08:54.negotiations, very intense to gushy Asians happening both publicly and
:08:55. > :08:56.behind the scenes between the Ukrainian Government and
:08:57. > :09:03.international players. Nobody is willing to put boots on the ground
:09:04. > :09:09.now. Everyone wants the situation resolved peacefully and it is just
:09:10. > :09:14.about flexing some muscles, perhaps, to show what each side is capable
:09:15. > :09:20.of, the stakes are very high, but as I say, it would be better for all if
:09:21. > :09:32.the result is peacefully. We will continue to monitor that
:09:33. > :09:36.situation. Thank you. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has
:09:37. > :09:39.said she will work with Britain to reform Europe saying she wants it to
:09:40. > :09:43.remain a strong voice inside the EU. Chancellor Merkel was given the rare
:09:44. > :09:45.honour of addressing both houses of the British parliament. While she
:09:46. > :09:48.did not speak about Britain's possible re-negotiation of its
:09:49. > :09:51.relationship with the European Union, as many had expected, she did
:09:52. > :10:03.urge Britain to remain within the EU. Our political correspondent Rob
:10:04. > :10:07.Watson reports. She is the most powerful politician in Europe and
:10:08. > :10:12.only the second German leader to address parliament since the war.
:10:13. > :10:15.Her message to the Eurosceptics is that the EU had helped to bring
:10:16. > :10:19.peace and prosperity to the continent. She had not come to
:10:20. > :10:23.London to promise a radical shake-up.
:10:24. > :10:30.Some expect my speech to pave the way for a fundamental reform of the
:10:31. > :10:36.European architecture, which will satisfy all kinds of alleged or
:10:37. > :10:41.actual British wishes. I am afraid they are in for a disappointment.
:10:42. > :10:46.She insisted that Europe does need to change and move with the times.
:10:47. > :10:51.That would be easier with Britain still a member.
:10:52. > :10:58.We need a strong united kingdom with a strong voice inside the European
:10:59. > :11:04.Union. If we have that, we will be able to make the necessary changes
:11:05. > :11:10.for the benefit of all. The two leaders clearly are not
:11:11. > :11:13.entirely in step over the future of Europe but David Cameron insists
:11:14. > :11:18.they are at least on the same side and that change can and must happen.
:11:19. > :11:21.We had excellent discussions at lunch time. Angela Merkel and I both
:11:22. > :11:26.want to see change in Europe. We both believe that is possible. I
:11:27. > :11:30.believe that what I am setting out, sort of changes that Britain wants
:11:31. > :11:36.to see, to build confidence in membership this organisation, and we
:11:37. > :11:43.will hold the referendum before 2017 and give the public a choice.
:11:44. > :11:50.Angela Merkel has been treated like what the Mac royalty, enjoying tea
:11:51. > :11:55.with the Queen. She does not have a lack of love here, it is the lack of
:11:56. > :11:59.detail that matters. Britain is pushing for reform of the EU but it
:12:00. > :12:04.will not see just what changes it wants. It may be that the Queen will
:12:05. > :12:10.have to provide a whole host of European leaders very great deal of
:12:11. > :12:15.tea between now and the prime Minister's planned referendum in
:12:16. > :12:21.2017. Getting some any countries to agree reforms clearly will not be a
:12:22. > :12:25.piece of cake. The captain of the Costa Concordia
:12:26. > :12:28.returned to the stricken cruise ship, more than two years after it
:12:29. > :12:33.sank in a tragedy that claimed 32 lives. Francesco Schetino stands
:12:34. > :12:36.accused of abandoning the ship and went on the visit as part of a
:12:37. > :12:40.court-ordered inspection of the vessel, which still lies in the
:12:41. > :12:46.shallows off the Italian island of Giglio. From there, Alan Johnston
:12:47. > :12:50.sent this report. Returning to the scene of the disaster, Captain
:12:51. > :12:58.Schettino is heading for the Concordia. Going back for the first
:12:59. > :13:03.time, since that night. He joined 18 appointed by a court to examine
:13:04. > :13:07.evidence on board. We cannot know what was going through his mind as
:13:08. > :13:12.he moved about the wreck of his ship. Surely, there are memories of
:13:13. > :13:15.the moment of his downfall. The shocking collision, the slow
:13:16. > :13:25.realisation that the ship was lost. The deaths. Images from the
:13:26. > :13:27.nightmare more than two years ago. The captain is accused of abandoning
:13:28. > :13:29.his ship while hundreds of passengers were still aboard. They
:13:30. > :13:45.were struggling to reach lifeboats. A furious Coast Guard commander
:13:46. > :13:51.ordered Sketty knock again and again to get back on board. -- they
:13:52. > :13:56.ordered Captain Schettino to get back on board. After his visit to
:13:57. > :14:07.the wreck, he confronted his accusers. He refused to discuss his
:14:08. > :14:09.emotions, wanting to stick instead to technical detail surrounding the
:14:10. > :14:16.evidence gathering inspection that had just been completed. The
:14:17. > :14:20.captain's trial is continuing and he faces the possibility of spending 20
:14:21. > :14:26.years in jail. Meanwhile, plans are unfolding to refloat the wreck of
:14:27. > :14:31.his ship and remove at the summer. But for the families of the victims
:14:32. > :14:41.of the disaster, the memory of all that they lost in this place will
:14:42. > :14:52.always remain. Let's catch up with some of the day 's other news, in
:14:53. > :14:56.its latest report on files leaked by US whistle-blower Edward Snowden,
:14:57. > :15:01.the Guardian newspaper in London says GCHQ with the help of the
:15:02. > :15:05.American national a security agency intercepted and stored still images
:15:06. > :15:09.of your whole webcam chats. A suicide car bomb has exploded in the
:15:10. > :15:11.Somali capital Mogadishu killing at least 12 people and wounding eight
:15:12. > :15:17.others. The explosion occurred outside the headquarters of the
:15:18. > :15:19.security services. The al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group has
:15:20. > :15:23.claimed responsibility. The explosion comes just days after an
:15:24. > :15:26.attack on the presidential palace. A second member of the "Cuban Five"
:15:27. > :15:32.spy ring has been released from an American prison after spending more
:15:33. > :15:36.than 15 years behind bars. It's not clear where Fernando Gonzalez is now
:15:37. > :15:40.being held or when he will return to Cuba. The five were convicted in
:15:41. > :15:46.2001 of conspiracy, but they are hailed as heroes in Havana.
:15:47. > :15:50.Don't leave it too late to have children, it's a warning that women
:15:51. > :15:53.hear all too often, myself included. Now a major new study suggests that
:15:54. > :15:57.the male biological clock may be ticking just as loudly. Research
:15:58. > :16:00.involving millions of people shows that children, whose fathers are
:16:01. > :16:06.over 45 years old, are more likely to suffer from a wide range of
:16:07. > :16:08.disorders and problems. The investigation has been conducted
:16:09. > :16:13.jointly by Sweden's Karolinska Institute and Indiana University, in
:16:14. > :16:16.the United States. Brian D'Onofrio is the lead
:16:17. > :16:25.researcher on this and he joins us now from Indiana University in
:16:26. > :16:30.Bloomington in Indiana. This is a huge study. Just talk us
:16:31. > :16:38.through what are the key findings. The key finding is that as father 's
:16:39. > :16:44.age, we found that was associated with greater risk of children's
:16:45. > :16:48.problems, psychiatric and academic and what was most important and most
:16:49. > :16:53.surprising was that the association was much larger than previous
:16:54. > :16:58.studies. Are you suggesting that male sperm actually has a sell by
:16:59. > :17:01.date? That is one of the hypotheses that can explain the findings but
:17:02. > :17:07.there are other explanations that can account for the increased risk
:17:08. > :17:11.in the offspring as well. There are some suggestions that older fathers
:17:12. > :17:20.parent their children in different ways than younger fathers. Perhaps
:17:21. > :17:24.they provide less supervision, less emotional support, that is one of
:17:25. > :17:29.the hypotheses. There could be a genetic explanation. How concerned
:17:30. > :17:33.should we be? We have so many different studies and it is mainly
:17:34. > :17:38.women actually whose ear about this biological clock. How concerned
:17:39. > :17:42.should men be? That is a great question and let me be clear, we are
:17:43. > :17:46.not saying that every child will have a psychiatric problem, in fact
:17:47. > :17:51.our study shows that the overwhelming majority of children
:17:52. > :17:55.will not have these problems. But we are saying that is fathers get
:17:56. > :17:59.older, it increases the likelihood that their children will have
:18:00. > :18:05.tricked and academic problems. -- psychiatric. Older fathers have a
:18:06. > :18:10.lock themselves to offer that could counteract these kind of problems
:18:11. > :18:14.that you are suggesting. Yes, that is a great point. There are many
:18:15. > :18:21.advantages to delaying child-bearing. They are all very
:18:22. > :18:26.protective factors for kids but answered these -- our study suggest
:18:27. > :18:32.there are greater risks. Couples will have to make decisions,
:18:33. > :18:38.weighing up the pros and cons. Very good to talk to you. I am very
:18:39. > :18:41.pleased to hear that the men can hear that biological clock as well.
:18:42. > :18:44.Thank you very much for your time. In Los Angeles, excitement is
:18:45. > :18:48.building in advance of this weekend's Academy Award ceremony.
:18:49. > :18:51.While there seems to be consensus selections when it comes to some of
:18:52. > :18:55.the trophies there's little agreement over who will triumph in
:18:56. > :19:05.the best foreign film category. Tom Brook reports now on who's in the
:19:06. > :19:08.race. This film from Belgium is the only
:19:09. > :19:12.foreign language nominee with a strong musical theme. It brings
:19:13. > :19:20.together American bluegrass with the Flemish language drama. A
:19:21. > :19:26.relationship unravels after the death of this couple 's daughter.
:19:27. > :19:31.The Academy has nominated Cambodia for the first time this year. It is
:19:32. > :19:41.a documentary chronicling how the Camaro Rouge 's rain of terror
:19:42. > :19:45.affected families. Italy is any race with the great beauty, it follows a
:19:46. > :19:50.journalist in Rome as he ponders his life. Some of the world is bigger
:19:51. > :19:57.film markets, the US in the digger, are resistant to movies with
:19:58. > :20:11.subtitle is that subtitles. Palestinian film director has been
:20:12. > :20:17.meeting the press. The nomination will help you as a
:20:18. > :20:21.foreign-language movie. It will help you win United States but also in
:20:22. > :20:27.the world. It is the second time this director has been nominated. It
:20:28. > :20:31.is a love story set on the West Bank. It tells of a Palestinian who
:20:32. > :20:40.gets involved in the shooting of an Israeli soldier. I think it is tough
:20:41. > :20:43.for Israelis to watch. I am also encouraged by the Israeli
:20:44. > :20:46.crewmembers that we had working with us. They felt that this was a very
:20:47. > :20:54.powerful story that needed to be told. Also in the running for a foul
:20:55. > :21:03.-- foreign-language film Oscar is denatured film the hunt. It
:21:04. > :21:06.chronicles a close community when a teacher is falsely accused of child
:21:07. > :21:09.molestation and everyone turns against him. A new open voting
:21:10. > :21:19.system has made it difficult to predict the winner. But when pushed,
:21:20. > :21:32.many forecasters believe the prize will go to the Belgian tear-jerker.
:21:33. > :21:40.Next month, the Internet will turn 25 at years old. That is the day it
:21:41. > :21:46.was first introduced as a concept. A lot has happened in the past two
:21:47. > :21:50.decades. A research data in the US have compiled data on how Americans
:21:51. > :21:56.have used this data through the decades.
:21:57. > :22:03.Happy birthday World Wide Web. You are almost 25 years young. On March
:22:04. > :22:07.12, 1989, the paper was written that would lead to the creation of the
:22:08. > :22:11.web. The Internet had been around for years but the web is what
:22:12. > :22:15.allowed regular folks to take advantage of the technology. How did
:22:16. > :22:25.Americans respond as the web grew up? Let's head down memory lane.
:22:26. > :22:32.Almost half said it would not be all that great to use computers for
:22:33. > :22:38.sending messages. We seemed pretty naive in 1983. They predicted the
:22:39. > :22:53.pitfalls of online shopping when Amazon was still just a river.
:22:54. > :23:00.Fast forward to 1995, according to the reaches Centre, 42% of Americans
:23:01. > :23:06.had still never heard of the Internet. But they were already
:23:07. > :23:11.getting attached to technology. A majority said it would be hard to
:23:12. > :23:16.give up their computer. Time marched on, long with use of the Internet.
:23:17. > :23:20.One in ten people still are not online. But today the web is the
:23:21. > :23:27.number one technology people are loathed to give up. We all know that
:23:28. > :23:32.the World Wide Web can be a wild West of behaviour. But a majority of
:23:33. > :23:37.those survey to say the Internet is good for strengthening
:23:38. > :23:43.relationships. This positively women crew positivity expands across all
:23:44. > :23:50.demographics. Mostly it has been a good ride on the information
:23:51. > :23:53.superhighway. A few lucky people in Spain have been given the
:23:54. > :23:56.opportunity to see some of the oldest art on the planet. The
:23:57. > :23:59.colourful cave paintings on the ceilings of the Altamira caves,
:24:00. > :24:04.which show bison, deer and horses, date back 22,000 years. Five people
:24:05. > :24:07.have been selected through a lottery to see the site, which has been
:24:08. > :24:22.called the Sistine Chapel ceiling of cave art.
:24:23. > :24:26.You as a young child actually visited the originals. That is
:24:27. > :24:33.extraordinary. Yes, on a camping holiday in Spain. We visited the
:24:34. > :24:38.cave. And I think probably it had such an impression on me, it was
:24:39. > :24:42.what started me into archaeology. And you are probably one of the last
:24:43. > :24:45.few to see it. Since then, it has been decided that humans should not
:24:46. > :24:51.be anywhere near it. Humans enlarged members. Yes, it became such a
:24:52. > :24:59.popular attraction that it was necessary to close it so that all of
:25:00. > :25:05.the breathing and perspiring and taking in seeds and things on your
:25:06. > :25:11.shoes had to stop. Such a shame. We are looking at some of the images.
:25:12. > :25:17.Talk as to what we can see on these incredible drawings. It is an
:25:18. > :25:22.extraordinary cave. The ceiling is not very high. It is a little bit
:25:23. > :25:25.misleading to refer to the Sistine Chapel because as you go in, it is
:25:26. > :25:32.about two metres high and then it slopes down to very low. Only part
:25:33. > :25:41.of it is high above you. As you look up, around the formations in the
:25:42. > :25:50.ceiling of the cave, you can see this wonderful group of bison, which
:25:51. > :25:54.the artists have used the humps and bumps to create the shoulders and
:25:55. > :26:01.the big hindquarters of these animals. Very impressively into
:26:02. > :26:08.colours. Often the outline is black and then they will fill with this
:26:09. > :26:12.red. Of course, when it was first done, this was all done in the
:26:13. > :26:17.flickering light of lamp is and burning torches, without moving
:26:18. > :26:23.light, these animals would have almost breathed from the ceiling.
:26:24. > :26:30.Amazing. Just to think that these are 22,000 years old. Very briefly,
:26:31. > :26:35.how important are these drawings, historically? Enormously important.
:26:36. > :26:42.Both historically and in terms of the art itself. It is the first case
:26:43. > :26:47.to be discovered with art and still over 100 years later, one of the
:26:48. > :26:49.best. I could talk to you all night but unfortunately, we are out of
:26:50. > :27:05.time. Thank you so much. Good night. A wintry night ahead. In the north,
:27:06. > :27:11.the warnings are out for ice. Further south, we could well have
:27:12. > :27:12.some snow won the hills. It is all tied in with this area