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This is BBC World News today with me, Zeinab Badawi. Afghanistan | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
enters a new era on the eve of elections for a new President. | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
Hundreds of thousands of security forces across the country amidst | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
fears of violence at the polls. In a sign of the tensions and dangers, | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
two foreign journalists have been shot in eastern Afghanistan. One is | :00:23. | :00:34. | |
dead, the other injured. We are shattered at the loss of her, one of | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
the great photographers of the world. She covered combat from | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
Bosnia to Afghanistan. The search for the missing Malaysian | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
Airlines goes underwater. High-tech listening devices are helping to try | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
to locate the flight recorders. Also coming up: Formula One star Michael | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
Schumacher show signs of consciousness after months spent in | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
a coma following a skiing accident. The world's most expensive Easter | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
egg - before it goes on public display, we will hear the remarkable | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
story of how the man who bought it for thousands and then sold it for | :01:07. | :01:23. | |
more than $30 million. Hello and welcome. Nearly 400,000 | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
military personnel are out in force across Afghanistan in the run up to | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
tomorrow's elections because of course security is a major issue. | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
Earlier today Anja Niedringhaus, a German photojournalist working for | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
the Associated Press news agency was killed in the eastern city of Khost. | :01:40. | :01:47. | |
She had been travelling with a convoy carrying election workers | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
when an Afghan policeman opened fire on her vehicle. Another journalist | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
travelling with her was seriously wounded. Kathy Gannon is said to be | :01:54. | :02:05. | |
in a stable condition and then use was received in New York earlier | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
today. We are shattered at the news of the | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
death of Anja needing house, one of the greatest photographers in the | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
world. She covered combat from Bosnia to Afghanistan. A wonderful | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
human being. Much has been said about her joyful laugh which is what | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
most of us from member about her. She was a great cook, a good friend. | :02:30. | :02:38. | |
A big heart but they both kooky. -- tough cookie. They were the two | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
journalists in the world who spend more time than anyone else in the | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
world covering Afghanistan. For years they have been telling the | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
story of the people. It is with bitter irony that we learn they were | :02:55. | :03:04. | |
attacked today. Our chief international | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
correspondent Lyse Doucet is also in Afghanistan for the election. It is | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
a pivotal moment for Afghanistan because the elections will be | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
followed by the final phasing out of western combat troops. Lyse sent | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
this report from the strategic area of Parwan, not far from Kabul. | :03:17. | :03:24. | |
This is not the first time that foreign forces have left | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
Afghanistan. The Soviet Union used this major road to bring the troops | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
home in 1989. The highway runs very close to the base used by | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
international forces. We will be returning to the Valley throughout | :03:41. | :03:49. | |
the year. The snow has not yet melted on the mountains but there | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
are all the signs that spring has arrived in this valley. This year, | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
the greatest change is political. Election posters still plastered | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
walls here. In rural areas like this, many Afghans have always had | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
their own gardens. Some carry them with him. I have come to see this | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
man again and some neighbours have dropped by. These politicians have | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
spent millions of dollars on these elections, this man complains. They | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
do not know how we are. In the last two months since we met, you have | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
been -- you have become more pessimistic? The whole nation is | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
enthusiastic about these elections because people are tired of war and | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
poverty. We want change but we are not expecting change in our own | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
lives. Our readers will build palaces and we will suffer. -- our | :04:53. | :05:01. | |
leaders. On the other side of the valley, this lady has other matters | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
on her mind. Military aircraft roared overhead but she takes no | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
notice. This mother of six is involved in the local elections. It | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
is a family affair. She proudly wears the colours of the Afghan flag | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
and she spent the last two months meeting people in her community and | :05:23. | :05:30. | |
has left full of hope. I learned that people 's awareness is much | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
higher than it was five years ago. Women, young boys and girls and even | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
older people. I did not expect men to receive me so warmly. I even had | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
calls from farmers who wanted to know about the elections. It made me | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
feel so proud. This family also worries about security. Gunfire rang | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
out just before we arrived. There was a shooting the day before. In | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
the quiet of the day, she finds solace in Afghan poetry. Here, like | :06:05. | :06:16. | |
much of Afghanistan, most of them worried people harbour hope that | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
these elections can at last to bring peace and prosperity to this land. | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
Search teams have begun using underwater locators to hunt for the | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
black box of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. It is a race against | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
time as the batteries which send out a signal are due to run out any day. | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
The plane which disappeared on March eight is believed to have crashed in | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
the southern Indian Ocean with 239 people on board. | :06:46. | :06:58. | |
After a fruitless month looking for the missing airliner, searchers have | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
begun listening for it as well. Beneath the waves. Two ships are | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
using special kit to try to hear distress signals from the plane's | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
back -- black boxes. They have their work cut out. The sea bed there is | :07:15. | :07:25. | |
like 4.5 kilometres deep. This is the kind of terrain that hides many | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
secrets. This is what investigators are after, the black box that should | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
solve this puzzle. It will tell us what the crew were saying on board. | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
This piece of American kit shaped like a stingray is called a towed | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
pinger locators but it is like an underwater microphone, chained to | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
hear signals from the black box locator. A Royal Navy submarine is | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
also common in the area, listening for the same things. They might get | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
lucky but it is a long shot. The battery runs out in a feuding and | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
they will be listening across an area the size of Britain. There is | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
other high-tech kit on stand-by. This vehicle swims up and down | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
mapping the sea bed. They will not stop -- they will not start using it | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
until they find a piece of the plane. They have the best tools | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
available but that does not mean it will work. They had the same | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
state-of-the-art technology five years ago to find the black boxes | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
from a French airliner that crashed into the Atlantic. For a month, | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
patrolled the area, listening for signals, about realising that even | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
went over the wreckage yet they heard nothing. The company that | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
helped find that plane told me why. In hindsight, it was revealed that | :08:47. | :08:54. | |
both fingers had failed. It is very similar to the situation we face now | :08:55. | :09:03. | |
with flight MH370. We have no information and it is an area 20 | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
times the size of the previous flight. The search enters a new | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
phase but the reality is, if they don't find a clue soon, they may | :09:15. | :09:23. | |
never find the aircraft. Belgian police have used water | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
cannon to disperse protesters in Brussels. Protesters hurled oranges | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
at the police as they marched through the centre of Brussels | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
protesting against austerity policies backed by the European | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
Union. Many roads were closed causing traffic disruption. The US | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
Embassy went into a security lockdown. | :09:45. | :10:00. | |
An update now on the condition of Michael Schumacher will stop | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
according to his manager, he is showing some signs of | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
consciousness. He has been in a medically induced coma since | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
December when he had that skiing accident. | :10:11. | :10:19. | |
As though waiting for his family turned from days to weeks to months, | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
rumours about whether Formula one's most decorated driver would ever | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
recovered continues to fly. Today, a small but encouraging sign will stop | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
his manager said Michael is making progress on his way. He shows | :10:34. | :10:46. | |
moments of consciousness. Four days after Christmas, Michael | :10:47. | :10:54. | |
Schumacher skied off piste and hit a rock. He was taken to hospital in | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
critical condition and since then have been working to bring him out | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
of a medically induced coma. His friends are holding their breath. | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
Maybe it is too early for us to start celebrating anything but let | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
us hope he is in good hands and that he comes out of this medically | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
induced coma and hopefully with the effect is that we will know as | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
Michael Schumacher and let him live a positive life thereafter. Don't | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
want him to come back and ride this in cars, we just want him around. | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
Despite these encouraging signs, experts remain concerned about the | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
length of time he has been in hospital. From experience of | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
patients who have been in a medically induced coma for a long | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
period of time, I am cautious because the duration of the | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
medically induced coma is a good surrogate for the severity of the | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
underlying condition. Michael Schumacher won seven world titles in | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
total. Along the way, he claimed many Formula one records. Put | :12:00. | :12:07. | |
simply, he is one of the greatest riders of all time. | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
Medical teams dealing with the Ebola outbreak in West Africa are trying | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
to confirm whether the disease has spread to a new country, Mali. | :12:16. | :12:32. | |
Nearly 90 people have died in neighbouring Guinea and at least six | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
in Liberia. There are more suspected cases in Sierra Leone and Gambia. | :12:36. | :12:45. | |
With me is Dr Ben Newman, a virologist at Reading University. We | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
know that this virus is spread through human contact but tell us | :12:53. | :13:02. | |
what kind of contact is that? When you have the virus, you start to | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
feel ill and the symptoms are a lot like the flu. There will be | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
diarrhoea, muscle aches and vomiting. Cleaning up those bodily | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
fluids, this is one of the best ways to get infected. Once a person has | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
died, that person still remains very infectious and touching the corpse | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
is a good way to spread the disease as well. What about people on | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
crowded buses, can you pick it up like that? It is technically | :13:30. | :13:40. | |
possible. Do you think we can talk about this being an epidemic almost | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
because the outbreak has taken a deadly path? It has and it has | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
travelled much farther than Ebola has travelled before. It has always | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
been quite isolated in the past. How do you isolate somebody you know has | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
been infected? When do you know that they are infected? This is the | :14:03. | :14:11. | |
problem, it is such a slow virus. For I deadly killer, it takes two | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
weeks for you to know you are infected and to see the symptoms. | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
Bring that time, you could be spreading the virus to many people | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
potentially. We can also talk to the head of the world health | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
organisation's epidemic response team. This situation in Mali, can | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
you confirm there are cases of Ebola there? No, they are suspected cases | :14:39. | :14:48. | |
that have been reported and what we are doing right now is to ensure | :14:49. | :14:57. | |
that samples can be shipped to Guinea for confirmation. There is no | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
outbreak in Mali. Only suspected cases have been reported. Can I ask | :15:03. | :15:13. | |
you, from the World Health Organisation's point of view, and | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
you or the person leading that response team in West Africa, what | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
is your plan of action to try to contain the path of the Ebola virus? | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
What we are doing right now, we started first of all by trying to | :15:31. | :15:41. | |
increase the capacity of West African countries to have | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
laboratories to diagnose a bowler. -- diagnose Ebola. In terms of | :15:49. | :16:01. | |
coordination, WHO has been in contact with 20 international | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
experts from all over the world who are down there to provide the | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
technical support and guidance to respond to this outbreak. There are | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
experts in social mobilisation who are supporting national governments | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
and informing them about the disease. As we speak there are lots | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
of people going down there to ensure that the outbreak can be contained | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
quickly. Carry on. I want to point out the fact that all the necessary | :16:37. | :16:44. | |
prevention control measures are being put in place. We are trying to | :16:45. | :16:52. | |
closely work with the community. We are also closely working with | :16:53. | :17:02. | |
facilities to prevent transmission. With that type of actions, we are | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
hoping that we should be able to contain the outbreak. I would like | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
to ask you something. Medicins Sans Frontieres says the outbreak is | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
unprecedented in terms of the spread of cases. Are you looking at an | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
epidemic? Can the WHO say that is what this is? It is an epidemic of | :17:23. | :17:33. | |
Ebola, which is happening in Guinea and Liberia. Usually, Ebola | :17:34. | :17:43. | |
outbreaks in the past have been in remote areas. What the WHO are | :17:44. | :17:56. | |
trying to do right now is really to respond with an international team | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
of experts and provide mobile laboratories able to pick up cases | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
quickly. Dr Benido Impouma, from the WHO, thank you for joining us from | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
Congo-Brazzaville. Dr Ben Newman, the Ebola virus is deadly but | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
needn't kill? It needn't kill and we can predict with some certainty | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
whether it will kill or not. It is in your genetics. It is a lottery. | :18:22. | :18:29. | |
And when could we get a vaccine? There are experimental vaccines but | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
right now we do not know that any of them are safe to use in humans. | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
Thank you. Some of the other news: In India, | :18:41. | :18:52. | |
three men have been sentenced to death for the rape of able men in an | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
abandoned textile mill. They had already been convicted of an earlier | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
attack on another woman at exactly the same spot. They're the first to | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
be sentenced under tough new laws, introduced after the Delhi bus rape | :19:05. | :19:06. | |
in 2012. A Turkish court has overturned a ban | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
on YouTube that was imposed after the video-sharing website was used | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
to spread leaked audio files from a state security meeting. The Ankara | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
court ruling says a blanket ban of the social media website violated | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
human rights. It comes a day after the government was forced to comply | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
with a court ruling to unblock Twitter in Turkey. | :19:24. | :19:25. | |
Japan's biggest online retailer, Rakuten, has decided to stop selling | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
whale meat following Tokyo's decision to cancel its annual whale | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
hunt in the oceans off the Antarctic. Japan called off the hunt | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
after the International Court of Justice in The Hague said it was | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
illegal, in a case brought by Australia and New Zealand. Rakuten | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
has also announced that it will stop selling dolphin meat. | :19:45. | :19:54. | |
Now, there is good luck, and outrageously good fortune. A scrap | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
metal dealer in the American Midwest bought this egg for around ?8,000, | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
thinking he could sell it on or melt it down for gold. It was only after | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
reading an article that he discovered it was in fact an | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
imperial Faberge Easter egg, one of just 50, made for the Russian Royal | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
Family. It has just been sold to a private collector for ?20 million - | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
that's $33 million - and is soon to go on display in London. The | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
original article was written by Roya Nikkhah, and she has the story. | :20:26. | :20:37. | |
Alexander III had money and palaces in abundance but when he wanted to | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
give something truly unique to his empress, he turned to the most | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
sought after July of the day, Carl Faberge. And here it is, a lost | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
treasure, remarkably rediscovered, set with diamonds and sapphires, and | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
be sumptuous golden egg is among the rarest artworks in the world. | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
Faberge's eggs opened to contain a surprise. They became increasingly | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
elaborate as he honed his craft. Each is unique. Only 50 were ever | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
made. But the Russian Revolution of 1917 saw imperial treasures seized | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
by the new government. Later, many were sold to the West by the | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
Bolsheviks. So how rare is it to rediscover an imperial Faberge egg? | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
It is beyond breath. If you can say that. It is so unbelievable that | :21:31. | :21:38. | |
this has been discovered and saved. It is a time capsule that we will | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
never, ever see again. The egg was last seen in public in 1902 at an | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
exhibition of imperial Faberge treasures in Saint Petersburg. It | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
was not seen again until 1964, when it was auctioned in New York for | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
?875, but it was not identified as Faberge at the time. It reappeared | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
last year when the egg was bought by a scrap metal dealer at a flea | :22:04. | :22:13. | |
market in America's midwest. He paid just ?8,000 for it and kept it in | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
his kitchen. It was only when he opened up the eighth and found this | :22:17. | :22:18. | |
inscription inside, the name of the watchmaker, that he looked it up | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
online. He found an article about the hunt for missing Faberge eggs | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
and found that this lump of gold is worth ?20 million. This is the Julie | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
who verified the find as the third imperial Faberge egg. -- this is the | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
July. I felt like Indiana Jones. This is the thing that we search for | :22:40. | :22:48. | |
everyday. The man who discovered the ultimate golden egg wants to remain | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
anonymous. It will soon disappear into the vaults of a private | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
collector, and this historic peace may never -- this piece may never be | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
seen again. With me in the studio is Toby Faber, | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
the author of the book Faberge's Eggs. Just eight coincidence, your | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
name! Extraordinary story, isn't it? Do you think it is surprising | :23:14. | :23:20. | |
that such a beautiful, elaborate, albeit small piece just went | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
unnoticed? If you surprising but not unlikely. It is quite small. It is | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
not backed elaborate. There is nothing about it that makes it | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
personal to his original owners. Other eggs have pictures of the | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
palaces and their children. This one just happens to be vaguely egg | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
shaped. Very detailed work. I note he bought it just for the value of | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
the gold and the gems in it. But he would have thought that somebody | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
would have clocked that it is very beautifully crafted... Yes, we will | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
all be frequenting American flea markets, I think exhibition at it is | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
an amazing piece. Stunning. Tell us where this particular find... How it | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
sits with the rest of the Faberge... What is interesting about it is it | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
is very early. If you think about the eggs that we already know about, | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
we know about the very first one, which looks like a hen egg on the | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
outside. It is more elaborate open. The next one to survive comes from | :24:27. | :24:35. | |
five years later, 1890. From then on they are very elaborate. It has pink | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
enamel. So this is part of the progression. It shows gradual | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
increasing collaboration, probably Faberge himself getting more | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
autonomy as he is allowed to come up with his own ideas. And just tell | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
us, quick bit of history, why are Faberge eggs so desirable? They are | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
wonderful. So many things. There is a wonderful series of inventiveness | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
in the eggs that spans 30 years of different designs. There are | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
wonderful stories. There are stories of the individual eggs reflecting | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
what is going on in the lives of the stars, and after the revolution you | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
have the stories of the eggs being lost and rediscovered. You have this | :25:22. | :25:29. | |
thing about here are the rulers, separate from their people, living | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
their lives and commissioning these eggs. They represent the end of an | :25:34. | :25:42. | |
era. Are they all in private hands? After the revolution, of the 50 | :25:43. | :25:51. | |
made, roughly 40 appeared in the Kremlin. Stalin sold many of. 30 | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
were sold to the West and our current Queen has three. Bought by | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
her grandmother. There are several in American museums. And a Russian | :26:06. | :26:15. | |
oligarch has some. Another story related to art before we go. | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
The former US President George Bush has found the time to develop a new | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
passion since leaving the White House - he's become a painter. The | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
Take a look and see what you think. Here's Vladimir Putin. The | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
paintings, which are to be displayed at the Bush Presidential Library in | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
Texas, also feature the former British prime minister Tony Blair. | :26:33. | :26:34. | |
And Pakistan's former President, Pervez Musharraf, has also been been | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
captured on canvas. Mr Bush said the subjects of his portraits had all | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
earned his respect and admiration. And evidently, that includes himself | :26:42. | :26:44. | |
- the collection includes this self portrait. | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
Over the past 24 hours, we have seen a shift in wind direction and that | :26:51. | :27:05. | |
has meant an improvement in air quality. Tomorrow looking cloudy. | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
Some rain, although not everyone will see it. Light, patchy | :27:11. | :27:12. |