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This is BBC World News Today with me Philippa Thomas. | :00:07. | :00:14. | |
The Russian flag flies over and other city in Ukraine. Pro-Russian | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
activists storm buildings in the city of Luhansk. | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
The worst he's ever seen - preparations for the 2016 Rio | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
Olympics are hammered by the IOC's Vice President. | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
Our Middle East Editor asks what remains of the peace initiative now | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
the US deadline for talks between Israel and the Palestinians has | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
passed without agreement. Perhaps the time has come to accept | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
that the two state solution is not going to happen. | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
Inside Tutankhamun's tomb or is it? A replica is revealed in Egypt and | :00:49. | :01:04. | |
we'll tell you why. Hello and welcome. Another day, | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
another opportunity for pro-Russian activists to flex their muscles in | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
eastern Ukraine. Today they've stormed several official buildings | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
in the city of Luhansk. They seized the regional government's | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
headquarters and the prosecutor's office. Armed men later attacked the | :01:20. | :01:30. | |
main police station. Ukraine's acting President has criticised | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
local police for what he calls their inaction and criminal treachery. Our | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
correspondent has just sent us this report. | :01:41. | :01:48. | |
With each day the city of here that seems to lose more and more control | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
in eastern Ukraine. This is Luhansk. Pro-Russian activists smashed their | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
way into the regional administration building. The windows are broken and | :02:02. | :02:09. | |
the crowd climbs in. They've made no secret of their political | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
sympathies. These sub fought Moscow. They reject the Ukrainian government | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
which they see as illegitimate. They are demanding a referendum on | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
breaking away from the city of Kiev. It was not long before this office | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
had a new receptionist. The intruders are determined to stay | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
here. The police did nothing to stop this. They left the building without | :02:38. | :02:46. | |
fighting back. Four days pro-Russian groups, some of them heavily armed, | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
have been seizing government buildings and police stations across | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
the region. The West has accused Russia of stoking separatists | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
centred -- sentiment here. Today the EU announced new sanctions against | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
Moscow. These are banned some asset freezes against 15 individuals. They | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
include the Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak. It also | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
includes the head of military intelligence and the chief of the | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
General staff of the Russian armed forces. Tonight in Luhansk, the | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
crowd moved on to police headquarters to try and take over | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
here as well. They are seeking complete control over this town and | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
for now, it seems that Kiev is powerless to stop them. | :03:37. | :03:46. | |
The US Secretary of State John Kerry has spoken in the last few minutes | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
about what is happening. He said events there were a wake-up call for | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
NATO and Russia is playing by a different set of rules. | :03:55. | :04:05. | |
Most importantly, it together we must make it clear to the Kremlin | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
that NATO territory is not intended to be violated. We will defend every | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
single bit of that. The NATO treaty must mean something. Our allies on | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
the front line need and deserve no less. | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
Let's get the latest on the situation in eastern Ukraine with | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
Sarah Rainsford who is in Donetsk. We have just heard from our | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
correspondent that the Ukrainian authorities appear to be powerless. | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
They do not seem to have control. That is absolutely correct. We have | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
seen the takeover of several key buildings and official holdings. | :04:48. | :04:56. | |
First of all, the administrative headquarters were taken over without | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
any resistance. Then the prosecutors office was overrun by a crowd of | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
pro-Russian activists. Then the police headquarters was taken over | :05:10. | :05:18. | |
by as well. A large crowd shouted at officials inside. Troops inside were | :05:19. | :05:28. | |
ordered to come out. People inside -- in charge of the storming of the | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
building had in trying to negotiate a handover of weapons. There is a | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
large crowd outside and it has been reported that some shots were fired. | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
We understand that some stun grenades were thrown as well but as | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
far as we know no one has been reported as hurt. The key buildings | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
have fallen to pro-Russian separatist groups. These are | :05:58. | :06:05. | |
dramatic moments. Is it possible to say how much support these groups | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
have in the city? Are they getting hundreds and thousands of people | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
watching them? Not in those numbers, but there is a sizeable crowd here | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
nonetheless. There have been big crowds at a number of events. | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
Certainly, there is a lot of support and anger in Kiev. We had spoken to | :06:29. | :06:37. | |
a number of people today. They say they do not feel represented by Kiev | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
but they do not necessarily support the armed takeover of holdings. A | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
lot of people are extremely unhappy with the situation here but they are | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
not supporting armed action and they are extremely worried about it. That | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
is the main concern from some people we have spoken to. They do not want | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
to see significant balance. That is the last thing that they want. -- | :07:02. | :07:12. | |
significant violence. Some people even support becoming a part of | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
Russia but there is no great support in this Russia -- this region for | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
the violence that has been exhibited. We can go to Libya now. | :07:23. | :07:31. | |
There have been reports that gun had stormed the parliament in Surrey -- | :07:32. | :07:44. | |
the parliament in Tripoli. Our correspondent joins us. What can you | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
tell us? We know that gunman forced their way into the parliament in | :07:50. | :07:59. | |
Tripoli. -- several gunman. Pictures have just come into worse. Witnesses | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
have told us that a lot of shots were fired but these were fired in | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
the air. When the shots were fired, most of those inside left the | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
building. We understand that there is no one inside the building at the | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
moment. It is not entirely clear whether the gunman have still left. | :08:22. | :08:32. | |
This episode the back of a special session to date which was intended | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
to put in a new Prime Minister for the country. They were in the middle | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
of voting and it is understood the voting was in deadlock. A number of | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
matters are being discussed on how to move forward and actually select | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
a Prime Minister between the top two candidates that were it to date. -- | :08:54. | :09:18. | |
that were picked today. Thank you. ?NEWLINE The International Olympic | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
Committee Vice President says that preparations for the 2016 Rio | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
Olympics are the "worst" he's ever seen. John Coates described the | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
situation as "critical", and warned that there is no plan B to find | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
another host city. 18 of the federations said they were not | :09:33. | :09:41. | |
ready. This is in the case of some of the Olympic Parks. Construction | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
has not even commenced in some areas. Water quality is a | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
significant concern for the watersports events. There is little | :09:52. | :10:01. | |
progress in those areas. The Olympic village seems to be on track. A lot | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
of the connect ding is significantly delayed. -- connecting areas. | :10:06. | :10:24. | |
Let's go now to the BBC's Katy Watson who is in Sao Paulo. The | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
organisers have responded and said the time has now has to win the | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
general discussion about progress contributes to the progress of the | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
games. They also go on to say that the Olympic Games will be delivered | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
within the agreed time frame. That is a defiant statement. But it is | :10:47. | :10:54. | |
having to accept outside help now. The IOC are sending in experts to | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
help them. That is correct. It is an unprecedented step. The more | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
pressing issue, and it is a battle on several fronts, is the issue of | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
the World Cup which is just under a month away. Brazil is really | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
suffering from seeing protests in Rio. There are headlines coming out | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
every day about infrastructure projects. That is the most pressing | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
battle. Perhaps when the World Cup has finished, then the issue of the | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
Olympics will come to the forefront. For now, the World Cup is more | :11:38. | :11:46. | |
pressing. Thank you. A US deadline on peace talks between | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
Israel and the Palestinians has passed without any agreement being | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
reached. Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu suspended the talks last | :11:53. | :11:54. | |
week, after his Palestinian talks partner Fatah agreed a unity deal | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
with the more militant Hamas. Talks have been happening, on and off, for | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
more than 20 years. The negotiations have failed, time and again. Our | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen is in Jerusalem, wondering if the two | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
state solution just isn't going to happen. Jerusalem has been fought | :12:10. | :12:22. | |
over since people settled here more than 6000 years ago. | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
For more than 20 years off and on Palestinians and Israelis have | :12:27. | :12:28. | |
negotiated peace. Hope has given way to despair and then cynicism. Now it | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
is hard to find Palestinians or Israelis who care much about the | :12:33. | :12:34. | |
latest negotiating failure. There have been too many of them. The last | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
round of peace talks collapsed with Palestinians and Israelis blaming | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
each other and President Obama blaming both of them. Since the | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
peace process started more than 20 years ago it has been about trying | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
to create a Palestinian state alongside Israel so they divide the | :12:50. | :12:57. | |
land that they fought over. More than two decades on peace seems as | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
far away as ever. Perhaps the time has come to accept that the two | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
state solution is not going to happen. Israel has occupied the West | :13:07. | :13:15. | |
bank including East Jerusalem since the 1967 war. After Jerusalem, the | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
most contested city is Hebron, the burial city of the Prophet Abraham. | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
Behind heavy security a small number of Jewish settlers live right next | :13:27. | :13:35. | |
to more than 150,000 Palestinians. This man's father led the first | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
Jewish settlers back to Hebron in 1967. He believes God wants Jews to | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
live in Hebron and is raising seven children here. | :13:46. | :13:55. | |
Talks are at best an irritant. I do not think talks will go anywhere. | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
For close to 20 years the state of Israel has been giving and giving. I | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
do not believe in it. I think the reality for Jews in Hebron is like | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
the reality for Israel in the Middle East. The Arabs would be more | :14:12. | :14:19. | |
comfortable if we did not exist. Palestinians and Israelis say they | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
want peace but when you cross the line from one side to another you | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
realise that their views of what peace should look like very | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
different. And in the absence of peace mutual hatred is never far | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
below the surface and is boiling up again. This house in Jerusalem was | :14:36. | :14:48. | |
bulldozed last summer after the Israeli authorities said it was | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
built illegally. For a while its Palestinian owner lived with his | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
family in this cave. He stayed on to protest. Now he has been served | :15:00. | :15:07. | |
papers saying that the lean-to he built must be demolished. | :15:08. | :15:15. | |
TRANSLATION: The negotiations are a big illusion. They didn't achieve | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
anything and they won't because the Israelis are using the negotiations | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
as a cover to establish more settlements and to confiscate more | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
land from Palestinians. The negotiations are a waste of time. | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
They don't want any Arabs or Muslims here. Peace talks started because | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
two peoples went to war over the same piece of land. They have helped | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
manage the conflict but not stop it. Tension is rising. Another perfect | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
sunset over the holy city cannot disguise a stormy future. | :15:46. | :15:58. | |
In Washington is Aaron David Miller. He's advised both Republican and | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
Democratic Secretaries of State and is now with the Middle East | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
Programme at the Wilson Centre. Do you think these talks can be | :16:08. | :16:17. | |
revived? Maybe. But revival is one thing. Continuation of the peace | :16:18. | :16:26. | |
process is one thing. Reaching a conflict ending agreement which | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
addresses the underlying concerns and requirements of both sides is | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
another. The process is failing, not for any magical reason, but because | :16:36. | :16:47. | |
neither Netanyahu or managed a bass -- mannered a bass -- the | :16:48. | :16:59. | |
Palestinian president are willing to talk. If neither side truly owns it | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
then the process cannot have traction. There is really | :17:07. | :17:14. | |
Palestinian peace process suffers from many things. When you strip it | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
all away, it suffers from one fundamental problem. Neither side, | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
and I include the Americans, are prepared to pay the price of what it | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
will cost to produce a conflict ending agreement. John Kerry has | :17:34. | :17:42. | |
tried to get the Israelis and Palestinians to take ownership. He | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
has made it his mission and it has failed. What does he do now? I | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
worked for some secretaries of State, some of whom succeeded and | :17:55. | :18:02. | |
some didn't. John Kerry is to be given great credit for his | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
relentlessness and pursuit of this process but it is not the John Kerry | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
Administration. This is the president Obama administration. It | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
seems that the President has come to a different conclusion. He is more | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
focused on his legacy with the middle class than the Middle East. | :18:21. | :18:28. | |
On this point, I think he is right. F Netanyahu and Abbas aren't | :18:29. | :18:38. | |
prepared to make these decisions, why would any president wants to | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
risk what remains of a second term to spend the political capital and | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
time required when in fact there is insufficient ownership? I am not one | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
of those who argue that somehow we can create that ownership. We | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
cannot. Every breakthrough in this region since the early 70s was | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
driven by pain and gain which appeared in a localised form. Once | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
it did appear, the US, whether it was Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
George Bush, were able to take advantage of those openings. | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
Ownership is local and unless we are similarly to that fact we will | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
continue to pursue a process that is in essence a key to an empty room. | :19:32. | :19:46. | |
As divers continue to recover bodies from the sunken South Korean ferry, | :19:47. | :19:48. | |
President Park Geun-Hye has apologised for failing to prevent | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
the disaster that has left more than 300 people dead or missing. At a | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
memorial for the 250 schoolchildren who were on board, she apologised | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
for the slow response to the tragedy. The BBC's Emily Buchanan | :19:59. | :20:00. | |
has more. The vast new memorial brings home | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
the sheer scale of the disaster. Hundreds of young faces stare out | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
from it. For their families, their grief was overwhelming. TRANSLATION: | :20:12. | :20:19. | |
I was crying so much I couldn't even look at the faces of the children. | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
It hurt so much. South Korea's president came to pay her respects. | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
Her government is under enormous pressure over the slow response and | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
lax regulation of the shipping industry. She has promised a new | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
department to deal with major catastrophes. TRANSLATION: I should | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
apologise for being unable to prevent the accident and for the | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
insufficiency in taking initial action. I wonder if this apology | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
will be able to comfort those hurt and ease their pain, as it breaks my | :20:51. | :20:58. | |
heart. What made the ferry capsize is still not clear but gaping | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
failures in the rescue operation have provoked outrage. Many of the | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
teenagers on board were told to stay seated while members of the crew | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
scrambled to safety. There are still dozens of bodies missing and the | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
grim search for them goes on. Divers have been hampered by strong | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
currents. Most of the dead and missing are children from one high | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
school. A whole community has been devastated. The emotional and | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
political fallout has only just begun. | :21:34. | :22:01. | |
We have breaking news. The NBA has banned Donald Sterling for life. He | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
has been fined $2.5 million and banned from games and associating | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
with players because he is alleged to have made racist comments. That | :22:12. | :22:19. | |
is breaking news out of the United States of America. The NBA has | :22:20. | :22:31. | |
banned Donald Sterling for life. There's been another spike in | :22:32. | :22:33. | |
violence in Syria, where mortar attacks in the capital Damascus have | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
killed at least 14 people and wounded more than 80. Most of the | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
casualties are students of a college hit by two of the shells. These | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
pictures show the aftermath of that attack, which Syria's government is | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
blaming on rebel fighters. In a separate incident, officials say a | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
car bomb in the city of Homs has killed at least 37 and wounded more | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
than 80. A replica of one of the world's most | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
famous antiquities - the tomb of Tutankhamun - is to be unveiled near | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
the site of the original in Egypt. It's been commissioned to save the | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
real tomb from the wear and tear that tourists inflict. But will they | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
be happy with a copy? Rajan Datar reports. | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
The Valley of the Kings in Luxor contains some of the most famous and | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
most visited ancient burial chambers in the world. But the most | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
celebrated is the tomb of the boy king Tutankhamun, discovered by a | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
team led by the British archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922. | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
For more than 3000 years, this tomb survived intact in almost pristine | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
condition. But after only nine decades of tourism, with up to 1000 | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
visitors every day, the conditions deteriorated rapidly. And the main | :23:40. | :23:49. | |
reason for that was this. Human breath. Since the tomb was opened | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
up, the constant changes of humidity, moisture levels and | :23:56. | :23:57. | |
airborne pollutants which come in with people have an effect on it. | :23:58. | :24:05. | |
Previous restoration attempts have added to the problem so it was | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
agreed a replica would be created with the long-term aim of severely | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
restricting public access to the original. Laser scanners and 3-D | :24:13. | :24:21. | |
printing were used to make the copy. The backdrop to all this has been | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
the continuing political crisis in Egypt over the past three years. | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
Tourism in many areas of the country has collapsed. Luxor town centre is | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
deserted and local traders are desperate. As you see yourself, | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
temples empty, market empty, most of the place empty, every part is | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
empty. We need tourism more than anything else. Replacing Luxor's | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
star attraction Tutankhamun's tomb with a facsimile may well be seen as | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
commercial suicide for a town already on its knees. Initial | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
reaction was rather sceptical from a guide there. It will be negative for | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
tourism because I'm sure that every country could have replicas of other | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
tombs back home. One in Japan, one in America. There is no need to come | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
anymore to see the tomb. The public will be given, for a period of time | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
at least, a chance to see both the original and the facsimile and judge | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
for themselves. The Travel Show was allowed a sneak preview and we took | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
an Egyptologist as well. Well, I'm sorry but I have to say it's | :25:25. | :25:32. | |
marvellous. This is just the start of a reappraisal of many of the | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
world's ailing antiquities. It looks like tourists may now have to get | :25:36. | :25:46. | |
used to visiting replicas instead. Let me just remind you of our | :25:47. | :25:54. | |
breaking news. The NBA has banned Donald Sterling for life. He is the | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
owner of the LA Clippers. He is alleged to have made racist remarks. | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
He was fined $2.5 million and banned for life and even from associating | :26:10. | :26:16. | |
with players. Pro-Russian protesters have stormed | :26:17. | :26:29. | |
various buildings in Luhansk. John Kerry has blamed Russia. | :26:30. | :26:42. | |
The IOC has said the preparations for the Olympics are the worst it | :26:43. | :26:43. | |
has ever seen. Good evening. It looks as though | :26:44. | :27:06. | |
Wednesday. Tough with grey skies. There will be dense fog | :27:07. | :27:07. |