:00:08. > :00:10.This is BBC World News Today, with me Philippa Thomas.
:00:11. > :00:14.The death toll rises at the coal mine in Turkey which has suffered
:00:15. > :00:19.More than 240 miners have died - rescuers have brought some out
:00:20. > :00:23.alive, but hopes are fading for those men
:00:24. > :00:35.Distress has turned to anger for some.
:00:36. > :00:39.This violent protest broke out as Turkey's prime minister arrived
:00:40. > :00:45.And, searching for the wreck of one of the most famous ships
:00:46. > :00:48.in western history - could what's left of the flagship
:00:49. > :00:52.of Christopher Columbus have been found, after more than 500 years?
:00:53. > :00:57.And, as the movers and shakers from the film world strut
:00:58. > :01:00.their stuff in Cannes, we'll be looking at this year's contenders
:01:01. > :01:22.The death toll is rising - at least 240 miners are known have
:01:23. > :01:25.died in an explosion at the Turkish coal mine in Soma.
:01:26. > :01:30.The official car of the prime minister, Recep Tayyip
:01:31. > :01:34.Erdogan, was shaken as protesters clashed with police in the town,
:01:35. > :01:38.with reports of abuse being shouted and rocks being hurled as he visited
:01:39. > :01:42.It's believed about 120 workers are still trapped
:01:43. > :01:46.underground at the mine at Soma while relatives gather outside.
:01:47. > :02:00.James Reynolds sent this report from the scene.
:02:01. > :02:09.The earth of western Turkey gives up its survivors slowly. This morning,
:02:10. > :02:13.rescuers saved if you miners from the fire below. It began when a
:02:14. > :02:19.power unit exploded deep underground.
:02:20. > :02:23.TRANSLATION: For the past 24 hours we have been waiting to get our
:02:24. > :02:28.friends out alive. That is all that we wish.
:02:29. > :02:36.At night, rescuers found the first bodies. Many of these miners choked
:02:37. > :02:42.on carbon monoxide. More than 100 of their fellow workers may still be
:02:43. > :02:58.trapped. This woman's husband is underground. "God help us", she
:02:59. > :03:06.cries. She has joined dozens of families at Soma hospital. My son
:03:07. > :03:12.was two months from retirement, this woman tells me. He planned to come
:03:13. > :03:23.back home and settle. This family is waiting for news of this young boy
:03:24. > :03:30.'s father. Is he alive or dead? That is all I want to know. We need one
:03:31. > :03:35.piece of hope. For these family members, this has become a vigil.
:03:36. > :03:38.They are desperate to find out what has become to the miners still
:03:39. > :03:44.trapped underground. There is nowhere else for them to go. Rescue
:03:45. > :03:47.teams continue to look for the lost miners using all the technology they
:03:48. > :03:56.can find. But they have yet to break through. The mines owners insist it
:03:57. > :04:00.passed all of its safety checks. Words which will mean little to
:04:01. > :04:11.those inspecting this overnight tomb.
:04:12. > :04:19.We can show you live pictures from the scene now. You can see there are
:04:20. > :04:25.mine workers, gathered waiting and the press and a lot of work for what
:04:26. > :04:26.many will still hope is a rescue operation.
:04:27. > :04:30.So, what more do we know about what caused the accident?
:04:31. > :04:32.And how difficult will it be to reach the mine
:04:33. > :04:44.Our science editor, David Shukman, has been looking at the options.
:04:45. > :04:51.This is a disaster on an horrific scale and the battered figures
:04:52. > :04:56.emerging from underground are the lucky ones. Amid the tears and the
:04:57. > :05:02.morning and fragile hopes for better news is a mounting sense of anger
:05:03. > :05:05.this was ever allowed to happen. Protests against the government
:05:06. > :05:11.erupted in several parts of Turkey. There had been warning about safety
:05:12. > :05:15.at the mine a few weeks ago. Feelings are running extremely high.
:05:16. > :05:20.The mining company says it passed every recent inspection but right
:05:21. > :05:24.now that is not helping. Thousands of people have gathered at the
:05:25. > :05:28.entrance to the mine and they are hoping for any positive signs from
:05:29. > :05:33.down below. The nightmare is that so many obstacles stand in the way of
:05:34. > :05:38.rescuing any survivors. The mine is deep and no one can be sure where
:05:39. > :05:42.people may be trapped. The explosion cut off the power supply putting
:05:43. > :05:46.lifts and lights out of action and the ventilation system has stopped.
:05:47. > :05:51.They are pumping in fresh air but oxygen levels have dropped because
:05:52. > :05:59.freshly exposed coal sucks in oxygen. Lack of ventilation also
:06:00. > :06:02.means carbon monoxide levels have been rising which is potentially
:06:03. > :06:04.toxic and a build-up of smoke reduces instant -- visibility.
:06:05. > :06:10.Mining experts say this could have been avoided. With recent
:06:11. > :06:16.ventilation and measures to control coal dust, measures which are
:06:17. > :06:21.well-known for decades, there is near -- there is no reason other
:06:22. > :06:27.than incompetence to explain why this sort of death toll should
:06:28. > :06:31.happen in this day and age. The mining company is adamant it
:06:32. > :06:35.maintained high standards of safety. The investigation being
:06:36. > :06:36.launched will put that to the test as the full scale of the horror
:06:37. > :06:41.unfolds. Reports from north eastern Nigeria
:06:42. > :06:45.say local people have formed a vigilante group that's killed dozens
:06:46. > :06:48.of suspected Boko Haram militants. The violence occurred on Tuesday
:06:49. > :06:52.in a district An eyewitness told the BBC that
:06:53. > :07:13.the group of residents repelled The Prime Minister has rejected the
:07:14. > :07:16.idea of a swap of Boko Haram prisoners for the girls. As the
:07:17. > :07:21.search for the girls continues, their kidnapping has thrown a global
:07:22. > :07:26.spotlight on the issue of education in northern Nigeria and how save
:07:27. > :07:30.students are at school. I corresponded has been talking to
:07:31. > :07:36.students and teachers in Abuja, the capital. A secondary school in the
:07:37. > :07:39.Nigerian capital, Abuja. It is relatively safe here. The children's
:07:40. > :07:47.thoughts are with the kidnapped girls. I feel really terrible
:07:48. > :07:50.because they are girls like me. No one knows how they are. God protect
:07:51. > :08:00.them. Nigeria is a very big country and
:08:01. > :08:04.schools like this are part of the reality also. But the mass
:08:05. > :08:09.kidnapping in the north-east has served to highlight a vicious war
:08:10. > :08:13.taking place between the Nigerian government and Boko Haram. But Boko
:08:14. > :08:19.Haram have attacked targets in Abuja as well so the head of this school
:08:20. > :08:22.says she follows the government 's security advice, maintaining a
:08:23. > :08:31.perimeter of walls and fencing around her charges. These schools
:08:32. > :08:39.are fenced. Now, almost all schools are fenced and they have security
:08:40. > :08:44.added to check in and out. Both students and parents and outsiders.
:08:45. > :08:48.The boarding school attacked in north-eastern Nigeria where the
:08:49. > :08:53.girls were taken away would have needed more than good fencing. It is
:08:54. > :09:10.in the middle of a war zone. Group-macro means "Western education
:09:11. > :09:17.is a sin" and... The way it happened is that they come from nowhere and
:09:18. > :09:24.begin to shout. Teachers are their target because they educate us. They
:09:25. > :09:36.are the ones and they don't want that. They want Arabic education,
:09:37. > :09:43.nothing more, nothing less. So the teachers are the target and many
:09:44. > :09:45.number one. It has come to this, parts of Nigeria are not safe for or
:09:46. > :09:56.their cheap -- teachers. The number of Romanians and
:09:57. > :09:59.Bulgarians working in the UK was predicted to rise dramatically once
:10:00. > :10:05.employment restrictions were lifted in the UK in January. In fact, the
:10:06. > :10:09.number has fallen by 4000 since then. A reduction that the Prime
:10:10. > :10:14.Minister has described as noted -- notable. But there are more
:10:15. > :10:18.Bulgarians and Romanians working here than this time last year and
:10:19. > :10:23.the number of people from across the EU working in Britain has increased
:10:24. > :10:30.overall prompting a fierce political row ahead of European elections one
:10:31. > :10:33.week tomorrow. Do you remember the day when our
:10:34. > :10:40.borders open to Romanians and Bulgarians? The day when Victor was
:10:41. > :10:44.the first to arrive and was greeted by cameras and MPs. Do you remember
:10:45. > :10:47.the warnings he would be the first of tens of thousands, perhaps more,
:10:48. > :10:55.who would make Britain their home? Guess what. They didn't, or not yet
:10:56. > :10:58.at least. The employment of Bulgarians and Romanians went down
:10:59. > :11:05.in the first three months of this year. There are many working here,
:11:06. > :11:11.140,000 the official statistics say. People like this restaurant
:11:12. > :11:16.owner in Tottenham, but numbers fell by 4000 since the beginning of
:11:17. > :11:24.January. I am not surprised. Who wanted to come before were already
:11:25. > :11:32.here. One person you might expect to be surprised is Nigel Farage. If I
:11:33. > :11:38.was able dairy and I would be packing my bags now wanting to come
:11:39. > :11:47.to Britain. -- if I was from Bulgaria. With the control of blah
:11:48. > :11:54.-- our borders at the centre of European elections... The figures
:11:55. > :11:58.today should reassure people that the lifting of the transitional
:11:59. > :12:05.controls did not result in a large influx of people. These figures are
:12:06. > :12:07.very different from what some predicted and it shows the
:12:08. > :12:16.importance of having a sensible debate. Not surprisingly, UKIP's
:12:17. > :12:21.leader is having none of it. Regardless of where they come from,
:12:22. > :12:24.the figures of people coming into this country are going up
:12:25. > :12:33.year-on-year at a staggering pace. Where you are wrong with regard to
:12:34. > :12:37.Bulgarians and Romanians? No. In the last few months there has been a big
:12:38. > :12:41.increase in the number of other Europeans coming here, particularly
:12:42. > :12:50.from Poland. How long have you been here? Eight years and my friends
:12:51. > :12:57.seven months. Just come? So you needed to pick up the phone saying,
:12:58. > :13:03.come on over. My mates need the work and I can get work for them here.
:13:04. > :13:08.Why not? Ministers point out there are more jobs for Brits as well as
:13:09. > :13:14.other Europeans and they have Nigel Farage in their sites also. He was
:13:15. > :13:19.right to be concerned but he was wrong. What we have significantly
:13:20. > :13:25.done is ensured that it is UK National is now getting the jobs.
:13:26. > :13:28.But UKIP is right to say that you cannot stop the flow of people
:13:29. > :13:36.coming from the rest of the EU and that is up. We are part of Europe.
:13:37. > :13:38.Today's system -- statistics don't end the debate but they give it
:13:39. > :13:48.another polish. Some of the day 's other news:
:13:49. > :13:54.Beijing has expressed serious concern over protests in Vietnam
:13:55. > :13:58.where several factories were burnt down by anti-China protesters. Up to
:13:59. > :14:04.20,000 people took part in the protests which were about the
:14:05. > :14:08.deployment of a Chinese oil rig in disputed waters. Authorities say
:14:09. > :14:13.hundreds of protesters have been arrested. The murder trial of Oscars
:14:14. > :14:16.Pistorius has been halted with a judge ruling he must undergo
:14:17. > :14:21.psychiatric assessment. The prosecution asked for it after a
:14:22. > :14:25.defence psychiatrist said he was suffering from an anxiety disorder.
:14:26. > :14:30.The trial has been adjourned until Tuesday.
:14:31. > :14:36.Stephen Sutton, who raised over ?3 million for charity, has died in
:14:37. > :14:41.Birmingham. He aimed to raise ?10,000 but his campaign caught the
:14:42. > :14:45.public imagination and went viral online. The British by Minister
:14:46. > :14:45.joint tribute from around the world praising him for his incredible
:14:46. > :14:55.efforts. The Swedish director has died at age
:14:56. > :14:59.36. His film won the Oscar for best documentary last year. It told the
:15:00. > :15:06.story of two South Africans searching for their musical hero,
:15:07. > :15:11.Rodriguez. There were no further details but no crime, the police
:15:12. > :15:17.said, was suspected. Now, more on our top story after the
:15:18. > :15:23.explosion and fire in the coal mine in Turkey. Joining me from Geneva is
:15:24. > :15:29.a mining specialist with the International Labour Organisation.
:15:30. > :15:33.Thank you for joining us. We are hearing tragic news out of Turkey,
:15:34. > :15:41.but given the nature of coal mining and the risks people take, there are
:15:42. > :15:46.inevitable dangers, aren't they? There are major dangers inherent to
:15:47. > :15:51.coal mining. Miners create there in -- environment while they worked.
:15:52. > :15:58.The factory keeps changing all the time. In the case of coal mining,
:15:59. > :16:02.factors come into play - me think gas, coal dust and things that can
:16:03. > :16:09.easily lead to explosions. For this reason, a lot of precautions have to
:16:10. > :16:12.be taken. As you watch what is happening in Turkey, does it seem to
:16:13. > :16:20.you more precautions could have been taken or should have been taken? It
:16:21. > :16:24.is difficult to say from this far away. We are all shocked from what
:16:25. > :16:29.we have seen and the size of the tragedy. But I think, to make a
:16:30. > :16:35.determination of what went wrong is something that needs to be done on
:16:36. > :16:41.the ground by the Turkish government in context with the workers and the
:16:42. > :16:49.company to determine what really happened and what the reasons were.
:16:50. > :16:55.What can you say happens in best practice course -- best practice?
:16:56. > :17:01.How can workers be protected once incidents have been -- have
:17:02. > :17:07.occurred? Abe preventative health and safety culture should be
:17:08. > :17:14.implemented where recognition of safe -- safety and health is
:17:15. > :17:19.paramount. You need to make sure on a national level there is coherence
:17:20. > :17:23.in policies and laws and regulations. Also, in each company
:17:24. > :17:30.that a lot of work needs to be done both with management and workers to
:17:31. > :17:35.achieve a good safety and health culture that works. Briefly, it also
:17:36. > :18:04.needs a commitment to pay for it. These investments need to be focused
:18:05. > :18:08.on these issues. Briefly, are their countries or industries you would
:18:09. > :18:23.say our leaders in this field, in protecting coalminers? Some
:18:24. > :18:31.countries have been good in making sure there are zero metallic teas.
:18:32. > :18:35.It has to do with geology and a situation in a specific country but
:18:36. > :18:39.Australia proves there is a lot that can be done and the same is true of
:18:40. > :18:40.a lot of European countries. Also the US which has been quite involved
:18:41. > :18:52.in this. "In fourteen hundred ninety-two,
:18:53. > :18:54.Columbus sailed the ocean blue". So goes the song sung by American
:18:55. > :18:57.school children. More than five centuries on,
:18:58. > :19:00.it appears that the flagship of that famous expedition,
:19:01. > :19:02.leading to the colonisation of the So far, we've only had pictures
:19:03. > :19:10.of replicas to go on. But an American underwater
:19:11. > :19:13.investigator says he believes he's found the actual wreck of the
:19:14. > :19:15.Santa Maria. As the song has it, "He had
:19:16. > :19:18.three ships and left from Spain. He sailed through sunshine,
:19:19. > :19:20.wind and rain". And here's the route west the
:19:21. > :19:23.Santa Maria took from Spain, The Italian explorer was aiming to
:19:24. > :19:33.discover a new route to Asia, but instead he made landfall
:19:34. > :19:36.in the Caribbean, where the Santa Maria ran aground on a reef
:19:37. > :19:40.near Haiti on Christmas Day, 1492. Alexzandra Hildred is
:19:41. > :19:42.a marine archaeologist with the Three decades ago, she helped to
:19:43. > :19:45.salvage the Tudor warship, the Mary Rose, off the south coast
:19:46. > :19:58.of Britain, and she joins me now Welcome to the programme. Does it
:19:59. > :20:06.make your pulse quicken to hear news like this? Yes it does. It really
:20:07. > :20:11.was an earth-shattering voyage. The fact that they may have found the
:20:12. > :20:19.remains is wonderful. It makes me remember the early stages of Mary
:20:20. > :20:23.Rose. There might not be much there. With the Mary Rose, you brought up
:20:24. > :20:27.so much of the ship. Della Mike we don't know, but in searching for the
:20:28. > :20:34.Mary Rose to begin with, it was varied. Their problem is, it's not
:20:35. > :20:38.as buried as the Mary Rose was so there is less of the upper structure
:20:39. > :20:43.we know because they took some of the head away to make affords. There
:20:44. > :20:47.will definitely be less there, so the difficulty is of how you raise
:20:48. > :20:54.it. You were a diver on the Mary Rhodes
:20:55. > :21:01.projects. That was about 32 years ago. -- the Mary Rose project.
:21:02. > :21:04.Just keep going, would be my advice. The most difficult thing is to prove
:21:05. > :21:09.that it is the wreck of the Santa Maria. I know a lot of work has been
:21:10. > :21:15.done to suggest that it is, but having physical proof would be ideal
:21:16. > :21:20.because some things have already been stolen from the ship. If they
:21:21. > :21:26.excavate it have to be to the highest standard because it is such
:21:27. > :21:34.an iconic ship. Does it become an issue of who controls the operation?
:21:35. > :21:38.It does because both Haiti and Spain signed an agreement for the
:21:39. > :21:43.protection of cultural heritage, so they will be wanting to figure out
:21:44. > :21:49.who has ownership. It will be run safely, I think it is safe to say.
:21:50. > :21:52.Provided they can work together. It will be finding it that is
:21:53. > :22:00.difficult. That'll be the difficult thing. And then deciding whether and
:22:01. > :22:03.not we raised it or leave it where it is because that is considered the
:22:04. > :22:07.best for the objects rather than to let them. When you left them, you
:22:08. > :22:10.take them out of their environment and then you have to look after them
:22:11. > :22:20.forever full top difficult questions. What kind of timescale we
:22:21. > :22:26.looking at? If this is the wreckage for recovering and restoring it. It
:22:27. > :22:33.depends whether they are going to restore it. Mary Rhodes was much
:22:34. > :22:38.bigger. -- Mary Rose. It was a huge activation of four years will stop
:22:39. > :22:44.it is still ongoing. We have only just opened a museum to put the ship
:22:45. > :22:48.on show again, after 33 years of it being in conservation. Thank you.
:22:49. > :22:51.Movers and shakers of the film world have arrived at the 67th
:22:52. > :22:55.Cannes film festival for the 12-day party that also screens movies.
:22:56. > :22:58.The Festival will open with Grace of Monaco.
:22:59. > :23:01.Some of you ask, why did I leave Hollywood?
:23:02. > :23:05.Well, I left because I fell in love with a charming prince.
:23:06. > :23:08.The Festival will open with Grace of Monaco.
:23:09. > :23:10.It stars Nicole Kidman as the American golden girl,
:23:11. > :23:13.actress Grace Kelly, who married Prince Rainier of Monaco, but died
:23:14. > :23:18.after crashing her car in 1982, on a road just east of Cannes.
:23:19. > :23:21.Let's go live to Cannes and the writer Agnes Poirier,
:23:22. > :23:24.who's an independent adviser to the film festival.
:23:25. > :23:34.First, your independent opinion on the opening film, Grace of Monaco?
:23:35. > :23:43.I have just seen it. It is a tradition that can should start with
:23:44. > :23:49.a spectacular film. There a often, critics will tell you that usually
:23:50. > :23:54.are spectacular -- spectacularly bad. I'm afraid Grace of Monaco is
:23:55. > :24:00.one of those. It takes place in 1962, God no -- god knows why,
:24:01. > :24:07.during a stand-off between France and Monaco. The French president
:24:08. > :24:14.wins the argument. The problem with the film is that it is too stiff. It
:24:15. > :24:20.is wooden and badly written. Nicole Kidman is a wonderful actress but
:24:21. > :24:30.she pales in comparison to Grace Kelly. Oh dear! What a bad start. Is
:24:31. > :24:36.it going to look up? What about the other films? What about Welcome to
:24:37. > :24:39.New York? The good thing about the opening film is that things can only
:24:40. > :24:44.look bright after it. Tomorrow morning, when the film industry
:24:45. > :24:53.people will still be in bed, film critics like me will be writing. The
:24:54. > :25:04.line-up is pretty exciting. One film which is not in tradition, Welcome
:25:05. > :25:11.to New York, it is the take of a US director who is responsible for a
:25:12. > :25:21.badly tenants. -- for Adds Lieutenancy. He was accused -- it
:25:22. > :25:29.follows a man who was accused of raping a chambermaid. For a diffuse
:25:30. > :25:35.them critics who have seen the film, it is a towering performance from
:25:36. > :25:43.Gerard Depardieu. This film is very new and will be released on DVD from
:25:44. > :25:51.Friday. We are all pretty excited to see it. We were quite afraid of what
:25:52. > :26:00.it might be. We have a short time left. Have you any tips about films
:26:01. > :26:05.we should look out for? Yes, an Argentinian film called Wild Tales.
:26:06. > :26:13.We don't know much about it except that the film festival directors
:26:14. > :26:15.said it would wake people up. I think it is a good thing. Thank you
:26:16. > :26:32.very much. But for now from me and the rest
:26:33. > :27:02.of the team, goodbye. Hello. It is a warming trend over
:27:03. > :27:08.the next few days. It could be as high as the mid-20s by the weekend.
:27:09. > :27:09.It will feel warm tomorrow to bite their being more cloud around,
:27:10. > :27:20.particularly across England and Wales. Keeping it generally fine and
:27:21. > :27:21.dry, pushing rain varying weather fronts up to the far