01/04/2014

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:00:00. > :00:00.This is BBC World News Today with me, Philippa Thomas.

:00:07. > :00:09.NATO orders an end to ALL practical cooperation with Russia

:00:10. > :00:15.NATO's chief says there is "strong solidarity" against any

:00:16. > :00:18.threat of aggression to the alliance, and warns that up to

:00:19. > :00:21.40,000 Russian troops are still massed near Ukraine's

:00:22. > :00:35.Russia's aggression against Ukraine is the greatest threat to European

:00:36. > :00:42.security in a generation. Riot police in Turkey fire

:00:43. > :00:44.water cannon at demonstrators on The unlikely pairing

:00:45. > :00:54.of a film star and a foreign Forget five a day - you need seven

:00:55. > :00:58.portions of fresh fruit and veg to live a longer, healthier life -

:00:59. > :01:01.we'll digest the new research. One of the pioneers of house

:01:02. > :01:04.music, Frankie Knuckles, has died In the past hour, the NATO Secretary

:01:05. > :01:23.General has said the alliance will suspend "all practical civilian

:01:24. > :01:26.and military cooperation" with Russia, because of Moscow's decision

:01:27. > :01:31.to take over Crimea from Ukraine. It's the first time that foreign

:01:32. > :01:34.ministers from the 28-member NATO They've also agreed today to

:01:35. > :01:40.intensify defence cooperation with Ukraine, a move that's likely

:01:41. > :01:43.to further anger President Putin. More now on a day that's been

:01:44. > :02:04.described In NATO, something has changed in

:02:05. > :02:10.the wake of Russia's continuing threat to eastern Ukraine. There is

:02:11. > :02:15.a new urgency to NATO deliberations. Russia's aggression against Ukraine

:02:16. > :02:24.is the greatest threat to European security in a generation. And it

:02:25. > :02:28.challenges our vision of a Europe free and at peace. This was the

:02:29. > :02:33.first foreign ministers' meeting since the crisis in Ukraine. To

:02:34. > :02:40.reassure jittery nerves, the members of NATO are considering boosting

:02:41. > :02:48.deterrents, carrying out more surveillance exercises and appeared

:02:49. > :02:55.-- possibly opening new military bases. Thousands of National Guard

:02:56. > :02:59.troops in Ukraine are soon to finish training. Even more significant is

:03:00. > :03:03.the approval by Parliament in Kiev to hold joint military exercises

:03:04. > :03:09.with NATO countries. That could put US troops close to Russian forces in

:03:10. > :03:15.Crimea. Meanwhile, Russia is warning Ukraine against any intervention

:03:16. > :03:21.with NATO. Hopes of a de-escalation of the crisis were raised as there

:03:22. > :03:26.was a port of Russian troops pulling back from Ukraine's border but there

:03:27. > :03:30.is scepticism in the West that any withdrawal is under way. I cannot

:03:31. > :03:39.confirm that Russia is withdrawing its troops. This is not what we are

:03:40. > :03:48.seeing. And this massive military build-up can in no way contribute to

:03:49. > :03:53.a de-escalation of the situation. Another hurdle for you NATO members,

:03:54. > :03:56.can they persuade Russia and Ukraine to engage in direct to engineer a

:03:57. > :04:00.diplomatic solution? We can go live now to Brussels,

:04:01. > :04:11.and speak to Jonathan Marcus. Tell us more about the reassessment

:04:12. > :04:18.of military deployments in eastern Europe. We do not have any of the

:04:19. > :04:21.details yet. This is something that NATO's military staff and planners

:04:22. > :04:26.will be looking at, but clearly a number of things will be in the

:04:27. > :04:30.frame. Perhaps enhanced exercises in Eastern and central Europe,

:04:31. > :04:32.countries like the Baltics and Poland who feel most concerned.

:04:33. > :04:40.Possibly new military deployments and also a wholescale review of NATO

:04:41. > :04:43.military contingency plan, to ensure all the things needed are in place

:04:44. > :04:53.to respond quickly in place to respond quickly it this in the

:04:54. > :04:57.future. And if NATO is looking... That is something that President

:04:58. > :05:03.Putin is going to be annoyed by, to say the least. That is not going to

:05:04. > :05:06.go down well in Moscow. It is not clear yet exactly what NATO has in

:05:07. > :05:11.mind. It has been involved already in a whole set of things, helping to

:05:12. > :05:20.democratise the structures in the Ukraine, ensuring that the military

:05:21. > :05:28.is under control of civilian authorities. NATO wants to help

:05:29. > :05:34.Ukraine defend its own territory and that will sound alarm bells in

:05:35. > :05:35.Moscow. It is not clear yet exactly what kind of things NATO has in

:05:36. > :05:38.mind. Riot police in Turkey have fired

:05:39. > :05:41.water cannon at demonstrators on The people were calling

:05:42. > :05:46.for a recount of some of the results in Sunday's local elections,

:05:47. > :05:49.in which the governing AK party of Prime Minister Recep Tayip Erdogan

:05:50. > :05:52.increased its share of the vote despite months of protests

:05:53. > :05:54.and allegations Our correspondent James Reynolds

:05:55. > :06:04.joins us now from Istanbul. Tell us more about the trouble

:06:05. > :06:08.today. There were several hundred people gathered outside the

:06:09. > :06:12.headquarters of the election body to say there had been irregularities or

:06:13. > :06:16.manipulations in the poll and essentially they wanted the body to

:06:17. > :06:19.take their complaints seriously. We understand more than 8000 complaints

:06:20. > :06:26.have been registered. That is a dramatic increase on previous years.

:06:27. > :06:33.Police met protesters with water cannon and tried to disperse them.

:06:34. > :06:40.Most protesters were from the opposition People's Party. The

:06:41. > :06:45.supporters believe they were robbed. And yet with the figures seem to

:06:46. > :06:49.show that they are in a minority, that the Prime Minister does have a

:06:50. > :06:57.strong following particularly outside the main cities? The early

:06:58. > :07:01.results we have got suggest that Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party has

:07:02. > :07:04.around 45% of the vote and that the opposition party has in the late

:07:05. > :07:12.20th percentage of the vote, probably because the People's Party,

:07:13. > :07:16.a secular party, as a hard time getting a stronghold, particularly

:07:17. > :07:22.in the East. People do not doubt that it is way behind the KK Party

:07:23. > :07:32.of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, but they doubt the validity of the election

:07:33. > :07:36.results. Briefly, let us know the latest on social media and

:07:37. > :07:42.censorship in Turkey. The networks still down? YouTube is still down,

:07:43. > :07:49.and Twitter. That is the official line but people are technologically

:07:50. > :07:51.savvy enough to get onto those websites on their own and find a way

:07:52. > :07:55.round, if they know what to do. France's new Prime Minister, Manuel

:07:56. > :07:58.Valls, has taken over from the outgoing Jean-Marc Ayrault,

:07:59. > :08:00.following a drubbing in Sunday's local elections for the governing

:08:01. > :08:02.Socialists. Mr Valls, the tough-talking former

:08:03. > :08:04.Interior Minister and the most popular member of an unpopular

:08:05. > :08:07.government, faces an uphill task. He's known to favour economic

:08:08. > :08:11.liberalism and a firm stance on law and order, and is somewhat

:08:12. > :08:14.distrusted by the left wing of his own party. The full line-up of the

:08:15. > :08:30.new government should be announced They make an unlikely pair, British

:08:31. > :08:34.Foreign Secretary William Hague and Hollywood star Angelina Jolie, but

:08:35. > :08:40.they have teamed up in Osney to tackle the issue of sexual violence

:08:41. > :08:45.in war zones. -- in Bosnia. Many civilians were raped in the war in

:08:46. > :08:50.Bosnia in the 1990s and many have never felt able to speak about it.

:08:51. > :08:54.Only a few cases have been successfully prosecuted. Our

:08:55. > :08:57.reporter travelled to Bosnia with them.

:08:58. > :09:02.It is a landscape that 20 years ago was being ravaged by war. Close to

:09:03. > :09:07.100,000 people died in the Bosnian conflict, a conflict that also saw

:09:08. > :09:13.rape used as a powerful weapon. Amid all the horrors of Bosnia, one name

:09:14. > :09:23.stands out. This is where 8000 men and boys were murdered. 20,000... B

:09:24. > :09:28.Foreign Secretary and Angelina surely came here as part of their

:09:29. > :09:32.campaign against sexual violence in conflict once. It began two years

:09:33. > :09:38.ago after William Hague saw a film she had made about Bosnia. In three

:09:39. > :09:43.years of war, between 20 and 15,000 -- 50,000 women were raped here.

:09:44. > :09:47.Even today you are willing to speak openly. The people who raped you,

:09:48. > :09:55.have they ever been brought to justice?

:09:56. > :10:01.Adina tells me her attackers are still free. She has even found them

:10:02. > :10:06.on social media. Many women have died, she says, without seeing

:10:07. > :10:09.justice. It is that legacy of the conflict that ties into the

:10:10. > :10:14.initiative Angelina Shirley and William Hague have been working on,

:10:15. > 0:03:18trying to raise awareness of the devastating enduring effect of