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This is BBC World News Today with me Philippa Thomas. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
How much more will be destroyed in Syria? | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
who's just announced he's stepping down. | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
Lakhdar Brahimi announced his decision at the UN, | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
where the Security Council must now consider what to do next | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
A senior Nigerian minister has called for dialogue with Boko Haram, | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
the Islamist militant group that kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls, | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
Nigeria says "all options are open" to secure the girls' release. | :00:33. | :00:40. | |
As Ukraine's eastern rebels insist on their right to independence, | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
the BBC has an exclusive interview with the Ukraine's Prime Minister, | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
who says Russia is trying to build a new Berlin Wall. | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
A victory for privacy or a failure for freedom of information? | :00:51. | :01:00. | |
Why a court's decision on Google is dividing opinion. | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
And the man behind the monster. We'll hear about | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
the creator of the Alien in Ridley Scott's epic horror film, | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
The international Syria mediator, Lakhdar Brahimi, has confirmed that | :01:09. | :01:28. | |
he'll step down from the role at the end of this month. | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
His decision was announced at the UN in New York. | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
Mr Brahimi was thanked by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
for his work chairing two rounds of talks between the Syrian government | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
But his announcement came as a sharp reminder that the process | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
has failed to yield any agreement on a transitional government, | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
Everybody who has a responsibility and inflation has to remember that | :01:51. | :02:10. | |
the question is how many more dead? How much more destruction there will | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
be before Syria becomes again this area we have known? The new city are | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
different from the one of the past, -- new Syria, the one we have loved | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
and admired for many years. With with his experience, | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
I thought and we thought, and it was a natural expectation | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
that he would be able to deliver and we would have | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
been able to deliver altogether. But somehow, | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
because of the division, because of the divided world, here | :02:40. | :02:41. | |
and there, and within the United Nations and | :02:42. | :02:43. | |
the region, we have not been able to make any progress | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
in the course of these three years. and many people have been displaced | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
internally. The Nigerian government says it's | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
prepared to talk to the extremist group that has | :03:00. | :03:10. | |
kidnapped over 200 schoolgirls. Some of the schoolgirls have been | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
identified by relatives from a video released by their captors, | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
the Islamist militants Boko Haram. The government had earlier | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
refused to negotiate with those Our World Affairs editor, John | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
Simpson, has been to the extreme North-east of Nigeria and sent this | :03:23. | :03:39. | |
report. These pictures have been | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
scanned with immense care by the families | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
of the missing girls. And there has been just | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
a little movement After the scornful message yesterday | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
by Boko Haram's leader, that they would | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
only give the girls back in exchange for captured Boko Haram militants, | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
a government minister has said they are trying to get talks | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
underway. It hasn't worked in the past, | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
but it could now. In the skies above us here | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
in north-east Nigeria, American surveillance planes have | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
started operating, hunting for any sign of the girls. | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
But there is still no indication the Nigerian government is stepping | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
up its efforts. This is Maiduguri Airport, which | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
serves the capital of a state which You might expect the aprons here to | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
be packed with military aircraft. I asked a local senator why | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
so little was being done. The international community must | :04:34. | :04:41. | |
put pressure on the government. Because on their own, left to them, | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
they don't care, because it is not Hence the fury in places | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
like the town of Gamboru, The governor came here to | :04:51. | :04:59. | |
offer help and money. But | :05:00. | :05:14. | |
the survivors are working themselves up into a frenzy of anger that the | :05:15. | :05:16. | |
Nigerian government should be doing The governor was lucky | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
to get away unhurt. The governor and all of the rest | :05:21. | :05:38. | |
of us are being thrown out So we are having to get back to | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
our cars pretty quickly. And they can't understand why | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
a world which cares so much | :05:53. | :06:01. | |
about the missing schoolgirls seems to care so little about | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
the destruction of an entire town. Germany's Foreign Minister has | :06:05. | :06:14. | |
held talks with Ukraine's He says it is now crucial that | :06:15. | :06:16. | |
the two sides, government The minister's visit comes | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
a day after separatists in eastern Ukraine declared independence after | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
an unofficial referendum at the weekend, which Russia has recognised | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
but which the West rejects. The BBC's Ben Wright | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
in Brussels has this exclusive interview with the Ukrainian prime | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
minister Arseny Yatsenyuk. What is happening today in Ukraine | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
is not only a threat to Ukraine. This is a threat to | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
the entire Europe. And trying to build up a new Berlin | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
wall. Do you think now is the moment | :06:51. | :06:59. | |
for the European Union to increase significantly the sanctions they are | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
applying to Russia? They finance and support Russian-led | :07:04. | :07:05. | |
terrorists and separatists They are doing everything they can | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
to disrupt presidential elections in Ukraine not to have | :07:12. | :07:23. | |
a legitimate president. It seems the ultimate goal | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
of the Russian President and regime Russia will fail | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
in making Ukraine a failed state. But my question to you therefore is | :07:31. | :07:40. | |
at what moment do you want talk of tougher sanctions within the | :07:41. | :07:49. | |
European Union to turn into action? It is high time to have | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
tougher sanctions on Russia. How do you describe | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
the current situation in Ukraine? There was the referendum | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
at the weekend that we do not have There was the referendum | :08:05. | :08:18. | |
at the weekend that you do not But pro-Russian separatists | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
in that part of your country have no still don't have control over many | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
government buildings. They are occupied | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
by heavily armed people. It is a chaotic situation over | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
which you do not have any control, We do understand that the majority | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
of Ukrainians, including those who live in eastern and southern | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
Ukraine, supported Ukraine as one united. On the other hand, | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
we do understand and acknowledge And the best way to resolve these | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
problems is to have a nationwide dialogue that we launched two months | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
cannot have dialogue with terrorists who are holding and possessing live | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
ammunition and machine guns. We are willing to talk to | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
the Ukrainian people, How do you ensure that these | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
elections are legitimate? We are doing everything that is | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
needed to have free We do understand that we have | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
a number of hotspots And my government will do | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
everything, and will undertake all And we acknowledge that, in some | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
areas, it will be difficult. To hold elections and allow everyone | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
freely to cast the ballot. And it is difficult to cast a ballot | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
having the barrel at your hand. Mainly pointed | :09:37. | :09:44. | |
by these Russian-led terrorists. But we are absolutely sure that we | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
will pass these elections and we Let's talk to the BBC's David Stern | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
in the Ukrainian capital Kiev. We have gathered German Foreign | :09:51. | :10:08. | |
Minister talk of dialogue, but just there the acting Prime Minster say | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
you cannot hide dialogue with Terrell is -- with terrorists as he | :10:13. | :10:19. | |
sees it. That is a bit of an impasse? | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
It is, and difficult to get the sites to talk to each other. And | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
clashes are ongoing. Part of the German's Foreign Minister's job was | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
to get both sides to stop using force, but a few hours ago, we have | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
that the pro-Russian separatists attacked a group of Ukrainian | :10:42. | :10:43. | |
government forces, and armed personnel carrier, dealing seven and | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
wounding seven, the worst single day loss for the Army so far. It is | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
difficult to see if they can come together to talk at the very moment. | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
But that the moment, this will make the job more difficult in the | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
upcoming days for the European Union to bring some kind of reduction in | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
the escalation of this crisis. Other voices in Kiev, in Parliament, | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
saying they do have to talk to stop this getting worse? There are many | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
voices saying there needs to be a dialogue. You heard the prime | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
ministers saying there needs to be a nationwide dialogue. They are going | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
to hold a round table tomorrow in Parliament. But neither side wants | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
to talk to the other. The government says it will not talk to terrorists | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
and the pro-Russian separatists say they will not talk to the | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
government. They say they have declared their independence. It is | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
an impasse to overcome. But perhaps, if the situation escalates further, | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
maybe cool heads will prevail and managed to bring them to the table, | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
or at least some proxies to the table to speak for them. Thank you. | :11:58. | :12:07. | |
A top European Court has ruled that people have the | :12:08. | :12:09. | |
right to ask Google to delete personal data. The | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
European Union Court of Justice says some | :12:13. | :12:14. | |
individuals have the right to "be forgotten" when information about | :12:15. | :12:16. | |
them is irrelevant or outdated. The European Justice Commissioner | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
Viviane Reding says this is a "clear victory for the protection of | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
personal data of European". Google says it's disappointed and has | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
argued that forcing it to remove data amounts to censorship. | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
Viktor Mayer-Schonberger is Professor of Internet Governance | :12:31. | :12:32. | |
and Regulation at the University of Oxford. | :12:33. | :12:34. | |
The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age. | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
He joins me via webcam from Frankfurt in Germany. | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
Welcome to the programme. This is quite a blow to Google? I think so, | :12:48. | :12:57. | |
but Google must have expected it, losing some court cases in France, | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
Germany, and Spain, though this is just another blow. Does it set a | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
precedent for other Internet companies? I think other search | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
engines will certainly take notice. But we must also put this in | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
perspective. In this case, an individual went to the national data | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
protection authority in Spain, with a complaint, and that authority | :13:23. | :13:30. | |
agreed, asking Google to take down a link to a particular web page. No | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
web page was taken down, just the link. | :13:37. | :13:38. | |
link to a particular web page. No web And Google did not comply, that | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
is the basis of this court case, which will require people to go to | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
local authorities to force Google to take links down. You can imagine, | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
with their being millions of Internet users, there could be many | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
requests which could clog up law courts at the least? Very unlikely, | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
because the fact is the European Court of Justice did today, in a | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
relatively balanced decision, was not to invent a new right, but | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
reaffirm and we state the right on the books or 20 years. And in these | :14:13. | :14:19. | |
20 years, very few individuals have exercised that right, so I do not | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
perceive thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people exercising | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
their right and going to authorities, because that takes time | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
and money. In fact, Google already is inundated, not with requests for | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
more privacy, requests to remove links from -- pointing to | :14:39. | :14:48. | |
intellectual priority by lesions. It raises the conceptual idea of can be | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
re-right past? -- intellectual priority violations. The challenge | :14:55. | :15:04. | |
is that human forgetting performs an important function, allowing us to | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
evolve and grow, to go beyond what we wear ten or 15 years ago. And as | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
the digital tools link us to this past, to this comprehensive memory, | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
we have difficulties evolving and growing, which may have | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
repercussions on how we as a society and individuals forgive. Very good | :15:25. | :15:35. | |
to speak to you. Thank you. Let us go back to our lead story. The | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
special envoy to Syria is about to stand down from his role. I suppose | :15:41. | :15:49. | |
this is an admission of failure? Yes, and not a surprising one. We | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
have known that he wanted to step down. He tried to bring the talks | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
together in Geneva. The parties came together, but there wasn't any | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
significant headway made at the talks. After that he signalled that | :16:05. | :16:13. | |
his time in the job was numbered. The diplomatic track had come to a | :16:14. | :16:28. | |
halt. When President Assad announced elections, there was talk of him | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
stepping down. When he indicated he wanted to stand for election, there | :16:35. | :16:49. | |
was no point in carrying on. We know that he will be meeting members of | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
the UN council, but whether we go from here? It is all about the | :16:55. | :17:07. | |
dynamic. There are divisions that exist on the Security Council that | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
don't help. That dynamic has made meaningful diplomacy so difficult | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
over the last three years and the Syrian envoy's job has been occupied | :17:19. | :17:28. | |
by two senior UN officials. They are experienced diplomats and they are | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
well known troubleshooters. They have helped in situations before | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
like Iraq and Afghanistan, that Syria has been beyond both of their | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
skills and whoever takes over faces one of the most thankless and | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
difficult jobs in world diplomacy. Thank you. Let as have we've looked | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
at some of today's other news. Let us | :17:53. | :18:00. | |
go back to our lead story. The special envoy to Syria is about to | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
stand down from his role. I suppose Jordan's ambassador to Libya has | :18:06. | :18:15. | |
returned home after being The Envoy, Fawaz al-ltan, | :18:16. | :18:17. | |
was released unharmed and was flown Meanwhile, Jordan has freed a Libyan | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
militant whose release was reportedly demanded by the | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
kidnappers, though it denies there The International Criminal Court | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
in the Hague says it will launch a preliminary investigation | :18:29. | :18:41. | |
into claims of abuse by It will be the first time Britain | :18:42. | :18:43. | |
has been the subject of an ICC This follows a submission by lawyers | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
alleging more than 400 cases of More than 200 miners in Turkey have | :18:50. | :19:01. | |
been trapped underground after an explosion and fire at a coal mine | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
in the west of the country. It's believed | :19:06. | :19:07. | |
at least four men have died and the fire may still be burning. | :19:08. | :19:15. | |
Our correspondence is there. Please bring us up to date. We are getting | :19:16. | :19:23. | |
our information from the Turkish energy minister. He said he did not | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
want to speculate over how many miners were killed and how many arch | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
wrapped. One local MP says that three people have been killed, but I | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
should stress he has change those figures throughout the day. Local | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
officials and union officials say that perhaps between two and 300 | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
people, miners that is, may be trapped. They may be several | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
kilometres underground and they made the trapped because the elevator is | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
they use to get to the service are out of action because there is no | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
electricity. Oxygen is being pumped down to the miners. | :20:06. | :20:13. | |
Turkey does not have a very good record on mine safety. | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
It hasn't. 19 miners were previously killed in various accidents across | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
the country. In the last few years they have tried to get more coal | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
mines going to limit the importation of gas. Some of the opposition | :20:32. | :20:39. | |
parties actually got together to ask Rushton is about safety concerns and | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
they say the government did not answer those questions. They will | :20:44. | :21:01. | |
certainly be asked again tonight. It is suspected that a local politician | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
in Spain was killed in a revenge attack. All European election | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
campaigning has been suspended. United in grief after the murder of | :21:13. | :21:35. | |
one of the Spanish's -- this Spanish's city leading politician. | :21:36. | :21:49. | |
Although this solution has -- although this problem has no | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
immediate solution, we are united in our grief. Woman-macro was shot | :21:55. | :22:02. | |
several times in broad daylight near her home. Spanish politics is | :22:03. | :22:16. | |
normally a polarised sometimes tribal affair. Today there is unity | :22:17. | :22:28. | |
on all sides. All main political parties have suspended campaigning | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
for the European elections due in less than two weeks time. A mother | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
and daughter have been arrested. Both suspects reportedly had links | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
to the popular party in Lyon. According to one report, just days | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
ago the younger woman was denied compensation for losing her job at | :22:51. | :23:06. | |
the local authority. The artist responsible for designing the | :23:07. | :23:20. | |
monsters on the film Alien has died. Person-macro was also known for his | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
sculptures. Whitney is Ian Nathan, the executive editor of Empire | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
magazine. We have never seen anything quite like this monster on | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
our screens, have we? We haven't. I think Ridley Scott liked him because | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
he was getting frustrated with science fiction conventions. When he | :23:41. | :23:50. | |
came on board, there was a clean cut sci-fi universe. He was told to go | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
against that. He was frustrated with the tentacle beasts that he had been | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
shown in diagrams. One day the screenwriter sat him down and handed | :24:02. | :24:11. | |
him a collection of person-macro's art. Ridley Scott said, this is the | :24:12. | :24:31. | |
guy. What he difficult to work with? He was a complicated man. He had | :24:32. | :24:58. | |
amazing ideas, although the studio were wary of him and were horrified | :24:59. | :25:06. | |
when they saw his designs. When Ridley Scott came on board, he loved | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
what HR Giger was doing. And this film changed the nature of the | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
genre. It was transformative. Whether it is science fiction horror | :25:21. | :25:28. | |
is always questionable. But HR Giger's contribution was more than | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
just the monster. He designed the planet that the aliens came from. | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
Scott thought it was wonderful that you could never tell quite where the | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
mechanism stopped and the biology began. That is exactly what he | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
wanted, a thing of nightmares. It truly represented the idea of Alien. | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
The hairs are standing up on the back of my neck as you talk about | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
it. It was something that stayed with you. It not into your psyche, | :26:05. | :26:16. | |
just watching it. That is right. There are Freudian undertones and it | :26:17. | :26:24. | |
is very for luck, but HR Giger said the arts came from his own | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
nightmares. He lived in a house with very few windows when he was a | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
child. He used to dream about pipes and mechanisms covered in human | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
skin. At that awful point, we have to leave it. | :26:42. | :26:43. | |
skin. At that awful point, we have to leave Thank you for joining us. | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
Some of us will be experiencing the warmest weather of the year so far | :26:51. | :27:07. | |
later this week. High pressure is building up and the changes will be | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
noticed from tomorrow. Here comes the high-pressure, but there will be | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
these weather | :27:15. | :27:15. |