:00:00. > :00:00.This Is BBC World News Today With Me, Philippa Thomas.
:00:07. > :00:10.Grief and anger in Turkey as people come to terms with the
:00:11. > :00:15.Demonstrations across Turkey as anger grows at pictures
:00:16. > :00:19.of an aide to the Prime Minister apparently kicking a protestor
:00:20. > :00:30.A Sudanese woman has been sentenced to death for marrying a Christian
:00:31. > :00:34.We'll be talking to a human rights campaigner about her case.
:00:35. > :00:37.With just one week to go before voting starts
:00:38. > :00:39.in the European elections, our correspondents measure public
:00:40. > :00:51.With 28 countries, plenty of differences. One thing coming
:00:52. > :00:56.through is a desire for change from the right, left and centre. There
:00:57. > :00:58.must be reform of the way the EU works.
:00:59. > :00:59.President Barack Obama joins September 11th survivors
:01:00. > :01:02.and rescuers at the dedication of the memorial museum
:01:03. > :01:20.Protests have been taking place in cities across Turkey
:01:21. > :01:23.following the country's worst-ever mining disaster.
:01:24. > :01:27.More than 280 people are now known to have died at the coal mine.
:01:28. > :01:30.Rescue workers are trying to reach scores of others
:01:31. > :01:35.In the western city of Izmir, police fired tear gas and water cannon
:01:36. > :01:40.Earlier, Turkey's president, Abdullah Gul, visited the area
:01:41. > :01:47.The mine is located in the west of Turkey near the village of Soma.
:01:48. > :01:50.It's part of a large industrial complex with the entrance to this
:01:51. > :02:01.We can see a 3D image of the valley and here's the mine
:02:02. > :02:03.entrance where BBC correspondents have been watching events overnight
:02:04. > :02:21.These are live pictures from the mine now, where the rescue or
:02:22. > :02:24.retrieval effort is being focused and where the relatives of those
:02:25. > :02:44.Let us get the latest from Roger Schmidt shunned Arnie.
:02:45. > :02:49.It is all happening in the area over my shoulder where all of those
:02:50. > :02:53.people are and the lights are. For most of today, the mine entrance has
:02:54. > :02:58.not been that busy. In the last couple of hours, more and more
:02:59. > :03:03.people, search teams and relatives. Ambulances which have been idle have
:03:04. > :03:08.been moving in. We no one ambulance left with one body on board. Two
:03:09. > :03:13.ambulances left after which we think may have had bodies on board as
:03:14. > :03:20.well. It seems the search teams are able to get two more of the miners
:03:21. > :03:24.still unaccounted for. The problem is it has been more than two days
:03:25. > :03:28.since the disaster and more than a day since anyone was brought out
:03:29. > :03:33.alive and the chance of there being any more survivors is very slim
:03:34. > :03:39.indeed. It means that even more grief is to come for this area, the
:03:40. > :03:49.mining community. My colleague has been spending time with some of
:03:50. > :03:53.those people affected. At the cemetery in Soma, the coffins kept
:03:54. > :04:04.coming to an area they call the martyr's plot. Relatives consumed by
:04:05. > :04:14.grief. They wept for victims of what some are calling industrial
:04:15. > :04:19.homicide. This woman lost her nephew. He was 26 and had just
:04:20. > :04:26.become a father. The mine is dangerous, she says. But there are
:04:27. > :04:33.no other jobs. Of course, we are angry. With the people at the top.
:04:34. > :04:38.The graves are being filled here one by one. This community is saying
:04:39. > :04:44.goodbye to husbands, fathers and sons. For some, the grief is
:04:45. > :04:48.compounded by anger, by a belief that all of this could have been
:04:49. > :04:55.avoided by better safety standards at the mine. This man survived the
:04:56. > :05:00.disaster but told us he has lost 30 friends. He helped to save three
:05:01. > :05:10.colleagues and tried to save more. TRANSLATION: I went home to see my
:05:11. > :05:15.kids after I got at. But then I went back to the mine to help my friends.
:05:16. > :05:22.I cannot feel happy I am alive because hundreds dead. The huge loss
:05:23. > :05:31.of life has sparked anti-government protests which have spread to
:05:32. > :05:38.several major cities and towns. This was Izmir two hours from Soma. The
:05:39. > :05:44.anger here will be hard to quench. And it is not helped by this, these
:05:45. > :05:48.images show and paid to the Prime Minister kicking a protester in
:05:49. > :05:54.Soma. Critics say it is a case of the government once again showing
:05:55. > :05:58.contempt -- these images show an aide to the Prime Minister. At the
:05:59. > :06:02.cemetery, prayers for the victims. Some families are still waiting for
:06:03. > :06:13.bodies to bury and this human tragedy is becoming a political
:06:14. > :06:16.crisis. Talking about a political crisis, we
:06:17. > :06:19.know it is a tragedy for the community and a flash point for the
:06:20. > :06:25.country. The question is, will it be a tipping point for the Prime
:06:26. > :06:30.Minister, Erdogan? Pictures like the one we just saw do not help.
:06:31. > :06:33.If people there are blaming anybody, are they blaming the
:06:34. > :06:40.government, the people who managed the mine? They are not necessarily
:06:41. > :06:46.blaming them for what has happened post the disaster. Although
:06:47. > :06:51.relatives of people still unaccounted for telling me they are
:06:52. > :06:53.angry with the authorities for not giving them more information about
:06:54. > :06:59.the process of recovering the bodies. There is that anger. Here
:07:00. > :07:04.and further afield, there is anger in various cities, as we have seen
:07:05. > :07:09.with the process today, about the comments made by Prime Minister
:07:10. > :07:14.Erdogan when he visited Soma yesterday -- the protests. He made
:07:15. > :07:17.comments that seem to suggest that he thought mining disasters were to
:07:18. > :07:23.be expected in the mining industry. He referred back to a mining
:07:24. > :07:27.disaster that had taken place in England in the 19th century. That
:07:28. > :07:31.has really angered a lot of people. They say he is being insensitive and
:07:32. > :07:35.is detached from the hardship these people are facing. Then there is
:07:36. > :07:39.also his political opponents who have taken this opportunity to ask
:07:40. > :07:43.questions about the government's policy over the last ten years of
:07:44. > :07:47.privatising the mining industry. It is an important industry in Turkey.
:07:48. > :07:53.Many suggest the privatisation has left it and unsafe industry. There
:07:54. > :07:58.are figures that bear it out. It is worth 1.2% of the economy, mining.
:07:59. > :08:01.More than 10% of work-related accidents in the last year in Turkey
:08:02. > :08:06.work in the mining industry. There are real questions to be asked about
:08:07. > :08:10.mine safety and that is reflecting on the government. We can see all of
:08:11. > :08:14.the people behind you still waiting and watching the scene of the rescue
:08:15. > :08:18.operation. Thank you very much for the live update.
:08:19. > :08:21.Reports from north east Nigeria say there's been another attack
:08:22. > :08:23.by suspected members of the Islamic militant group Boko Haram.
:08:24. > :08:26.Explosions have been heard in the town of Gamboru Ngala,
:08:27. > :08:30.the scene of a massacre last week in which 300 people were killed.
:08:31. > :08:33.An eyewitness said blasts were heard early in the morning and
:08:34. > :08:36.people who tried to get out of the town were forced to return home.
:08:37. > :08:39.It's now a month since more than 200 schoolgirls were
:08:40. > :08:47.A 27-year-old Sudanese woman has been sentenced to death
:08:48. > :08:51.Authorities consider Dr Maryam Yahya Ibrahim to be a Muslim because that
:08:52. > :09:01.The BBC has these exclusive images of her.
:09:02. > :09:05.She is eight months pregnant, but she's to be given 100 lashes
:09:06. > :09:07.when she recovers from childbirth for marrying a Christian
:09:08. > :09:11.and then she is sentenced to death by hanging for apostasy once her
:09:12. > :09:16.The BBC has these first pictures of the protest outside court,
:09:17. > :09:18.showing Muslim women chanting ?no to the repression of women?
:09:19. > :09:22.and men holding signs saying, "It is my right to believe what I want.?
:09:23. > :09:29.Jehanne Henry is a Sudan specialist in the Africa
:09:30. > :09:45.Welcome. It is quite a lot to take in. Is this shocking even within
:09:46. > :09:48.Sudan, do you think? Well, the adultery aspect of it is not
:09:49. > :09:54.unusual. In fact, it is rather commonplace across Sudan. The
:09:55. > :10:00.apostasy part of it is quite shocking. There have been apostasy
:10:01. > :10:07.charges brought against people in recent years. The issue is noted
:10:08. > :10:14.especially around the time of South Sudan's succession. But it has not
:10:15. > :10:19.been... The execution has not been implemented since 1985 in a very
:10:20. > :10:25.famous case. We fully expect and hope that in this case as well the
:10:26. > :10:30.Court of Appeal will set aside this conviction. It goes completely
:10:31. > :10:35.against the Sudanese constitution which contains protection for
:10:36. > :10:38.freedom of religion and other basic protections. Sudan has also ratified
:10:39. > :10:45.numerous international human rights treaties. This is a contradiction
:10:46. > :10:49.within Sudanese law and this case really provides a flash point for
:10:50. > :10:55.that and highlights it. The adultery charges, however, are not
:10:56. > :10:59.particularly unusual in Sudan. Across the country, it is very
:11:00. > :11:06.common for adultery charges to be brought against women and girls,
:11:07. > :11:11.often when they attempt to, for example, seek a divorce or if
:11:12. > :11:16.someone in their family or community, usually a male member, is
:11:17. > :11:25.upset with them. Reason, they can bring the charges in a vendetta.
:11:26. > :11:30.There are also many examples when women and girls who have been raped
:11:31. > :11:38.then face charges of adultery. This case of... Yes? To get to the core
:11:39. > :11:42.of it, she has said in court that she is a Christian, she does not
:11:43. > :11:45.believe she has changed religion. The issue at the very heart of it is
:11:46. > :11:52.her right to define her own religion. Absolutely. For the
:11:53. > :11:59.apostasy part of the case, that is absolutely correct. There is a basic
:12:00. > :12:04.protection for this in Sudan's constitution. However, this
:12:05. > :12:08.particular provision in the criminal law which allows for apostasy
:12:09. > :12:15.charges to be brought for cases in which a Muslim renounces Islam, that
:12:16. > :12:21.provision of the criminal law is influenced by certain Islamic
:12:22. > :12:25.principles and the penalty is also influenced by certain Islamic
:12:26. > :12:30.principles. The penalty is death. It is a very shocking example of the
:12:31. > :12:36.application of this provision of the law in a case and it is very
:12:37. > :12:42.important that we focus on what is going on. It really does reveal the
:12:43. > :12:46.internal contradictions in Sudan's criminal system and the fact that
:12:47. > :12:49.many of its provisions run counter to its own constitution. Thank you
:12:50. > :12:53.for joining us. Now a look at some
:12:54. > :12:56.of the days other news. Relatives of people missing
:12:57. > :12:59.after a ferry capsized in Bangladesh have been gathering
:13:00. > :13:00.near the accident site. At least 200 passengers were
:13:01. > :13:03.on board when it sank At least nine people are known to
:13:04. > :13:08.have died, but Reports say the ferry sank
:13:09. > :13:12.in stormy weather. Beijing has accused Vietnam of
:13:13. > :13:15.turning a blind eye to anti-Chinese demonstrations after hundreds
:13:16. > :13:18.of protesters stormed a factory. At least one Chinese worker died
:13:19. > :13:22.and more than 100 were injured. Reports say the mob hunted
:13:23. > :13:25.down Chinese nationals at the steel mill which is actually
:13:26. > :13:29.owned by a Taiwanese firm. The protests were triggered
:13:30. > :13:35.by China's decision to drill for oil in disputed islands
:13:36. > :13:38.in the South China Sea. A video's been posted online
:13:39. > :13:41.of an Al Jazeera reporter who is on the 107th day of a hunger strike
:13:42. > :13:45.against his detention in Egypt. Abdullah Elshamy has been held
:13:46. > :13:47.since August without charge. Meanwhile, the trial of three
:13:48. > :13:49.other Al Jazeera journalists They have been accused of aiding
:13:50. > :13:57.terrorists and spreading false news. It's emerged that an ex-politician
:13:58. > :14:00.seeking re-election and a convicted paedophile are among people who have
:14:01. > :14:03.asked Google to remove information The requests follow
:14:04. > :14:08.a European court ruling which said people could ask for irrelevant or
:14:09. > :14:11.outdated pages to be removed because It looks as if the second round
:14:12. > :14:25.of Afghanistan's presidential election will be a face-off
:14:26. > :14:28.between these two men. Abdullah Abdullah took 45% of the
:14:29. > :14:32.vote in the first round and his main The second round will take place
:14:33. > :14:36.in the middle of June. There is also some controversy about
:14:37. > :14:52.the way the first round was run, as David Loyn reports from Herat.
:14:53. > :14:56.And There is growing anger in many places in Afghanistan of the process
:14:57. > :15:04.of dealing with fraud in the election. Six months on, voters
:15:05. > :15:09.still have traces of the indelible ink that showed they voted. . They
:15:10. > :15:14.were some of the voters who were taken out of the current because of
:15:15. > :15:20.claims of fraud. They said they will fight to the death to have their
:15:21. > :15:25.votes counted. Their votes were not counted. Elsewhere, there were fake
:15:26. > :15:30.votes which were counted. There is no doubting the anger here. They
:15:31. > :15:36.will say they voted at considerable risk to their own lives and the
:15:37. > :15:39.votes were taken away from them. Whether the system will answer their
:15:40. > :15:45.complaints is a more complex question. Much of the process to
:15:46. > :15:52.consider complaints were held in public. Some of the fraud
:15:53. > :16:02.allegations were obvious. There are results which were handwritten, and
:16:03. > :16:11.duplicate election papers. They have not looked at the reports of us, as
:16:12. > :16:18.of yet. This is not right. They need to do that to complete her job. Is
:16:19. > :16:22.this enough to push you over 50% in the first round? Wouldn't make that
:16:23. > :16:30.much a difference? It is more than that. A large turnout in the polls
:16:31. > :16:38.has given them more pressure to deliver a fair result. This man, a
:16:39. > :16:44.veteran, said he will head to the hills and pick up a rifle once again
:16:45. > :16:49.of the election is not sorted out. It is not an idle threat. It is a
:16:50. > :16:59.country where the damage of war can be seen all around.
:17:00. > :17:03.There is just a week to go until voting begins in the European
:17:04. > :17:06.elections for more than 750 MEPS, who will then shuttle between their
:17:07. > :17:08.home countries, Brussels and Strasbourg and who, between them,
:17:09. > :17:12.will represent more than 500 million European citizens. And it looks as
:17:13. > :17:15.if the next parliament will contain more Euro MPs than ever before who
:17:16. > :17:19.actually oppose the way the current union works. In the latest of our
:17:20. > :17:22.special reports on Vote 2014, Matthew Price is in the Danish
:17:23. > :17:25.capital Copenhagen, but first, we go to Chris Morris in the Greek
:17:26. > :17:32.There is just a week to go until voting begins in the European
:17:33. > :17:43.Buffeted by the strongest wind in the European Union, Greece is still
:17:44. > :17:48.feeling the wind. Some voters are not impressed by the anti-austerity
:17:49. > :17:53.programme. We have schools without books, hospitals without equipment.
:17:54. > :17:58.While the government says a coroner has been turned, there will be a
:17:59. > :18:04.huge anti establishment vote, to the hard left and the extreme right. It
:18:05. > :18:09.is hardly surprising giving the pain they have lived through economic lay
:18:10. > :18:19.in the last couple of years. But what about where you are? Here in
:18:20. > :18:27.Denmark, people are also fed up with the government and it is heading to
:18:28. > :18:35.a massive swing of support to this group. This is the People's party in
:18:36. > :18:39.Denmark. They believe European Union rules are eroding traditional Danish
:18:40. > :18:45.values. Their message seems to resonate. I want to be a member of
:18:46. > :18:53.the union, but I think that it's too much power in the European Union. I
:18:54. > :18:59.like the European Union, but there are problems. Denmark flies the
:19:00. > :19:04.oldest flag in the world. It is a small but proud country. The
:19:05. > :19:07.national public broadcaster, the broadcaster the says attitudes
:19:08. > :19:11.towards the European Union are changing. Nobody wants to leave the
:19:12. > :19:21.European Union, but from time to time, you can see people expressing
:19:22. > :19:24.their distrust of it. Most Danish people believe the European Union
:19:25. > :19:31.brings economic benefits to the country, but that is increasing
:19:32. > :19:37.worry about the cost of it. They are also wanting it reformed. That
:19:38. > :19:43.feeling is even stronger in Greece. Most voters need the European Union
:19:44. > :19:49.to help the economy grow. But they feel disconnected beyond their
:19:50. > :19:53.control. Anti-austerity protests continue. They do not have the
:19:54. > :19:57.fervour of recent years, but very few people want to leave the
:19:58. > :20:07.European Union or the euro. They want Europe to do more help. I
:20:08. > :20:12.believe that a large part of the Greek debt should be vetted. With 28
:20:13. > :20:17.countries, there are a lot of differences, but one thing which is
:20:18. > :20:21.coming through is a real desire for change, from the left, the right and
:20:22. > :20:24.even the centre. The general message seems to be that there must be
:20:25. > :20:28.reformed to the way the European Union works.
:20:29. > :20:31.A leading medical journal has admitted that two of its articles
:20:32. > :20:35.exaggerated the harmful side effects of statins ? the drugs which many
:20:36. > :20:38.people take to reduce cholesterol. Seven million people in the UK alone
:20:39. > :20:41.take statins to combat heart disease. The articles, which were
:20:42. > :20:52.published in the British Medical Journal, are to be investigated.
:20:53. > :21:00.This is a bitter pill to swallow for one of the most respected of all
:21:01. > :21:05.medical journals. It has had to make failing to spot a basic error in two
:21:06. > :21:11.articles on statins and taking seven months to put it right. The editor
:21:12. > :21:16.said her response had been speedy and she denied the affair was
:21:17. > :21:21.embarrassing. Both articles referred a single sentence referring to
:21:22. > :21:28.another paper and misinterpreted the information from that paper. The
:21:29. > :21:33.exaggerated the extent of the side-effects of statins, compared to
:21:34. > :21:38.the side effects. The controversy about the articles in the British
:21:39. > :21:43.Medical Jornall has sown confusion up about the safety of statins. 7
:21:44. > :21:49.million people in the United Kingdom take them. They prevent 7000 fatal
:21:50. > :21:55.heart attacks and strokes each year. The benefits are undisputed. But the
:21:56. > :22:07.article criticised plans to extend that use to most adults in the link
:22:08. > :22:11.in the 50s. They said the benefits would be the British Medical Jornall
:22:12. > :22:19.now admits that information was wrong. Statins can cause muscle pain
:22:20. > :22:23.and trigger type two diabetes, but E expert on it said the exaggerated
:22:24. > :22:34.the risk twentyfold in the journal and that would set to progress
:22:35. > :22:38.panic. People who are on me not want to take them any more than people
:22:39. > :22:42.who have not yet started to take them may now not want to take them.
:22:43. > :22:47.There could be unnecessary hearts heart attacks and strokes as a
:22:48. > :22:52.consequence. Clearly had some side of aching joints, but they have
:22:53. > :22:59.subsided. How he is confident about statins, he feels the controversy
:23:00. > :23:04.may keep other people. It is confusing for the public in general.
:23:05. > :23:09.If people are taking statins and the then here there is a potential
:23:10. > :23:15.problem with them, then clearly, they are going to think twice about
:23:16. > :23:20.it. Doctors say people at high risk of heart disease and stroke should
:23:21. > :23:21.continue with statins. But the debate about whether healthy
:23:22. > :23:23.continue with statins. But the debate about whether middle-aged
:23:24. > :23:27.people should take them is set to continue.
:23:28. > :23:31.To an event now that changed America and the world. Almost 13 years on
:23:32. > :23:34.from 9/11, a museum commemorating the terror attacks has opened in New
:23:35. > :23:38.York. It tells the stories of the nearly 3,000 people who died in the
:23:39. > :23:40.city when hijacked aeroplanes destroyed the World Trade Centre.
:23:41. > :23:48.Buffeted by the strongest wind in the European Union, Greece is still
:23:49. > :23:59.The president has been speaking to the families of the victims. 3000
:24:00. > :24:04.innocent souls, men and children of every race and creed from every
:24:05. > :24:13.corner of the world. We can touch them names and hear their voices. We
:24:14. > :24:20.can glimpse the small items which speak to the beauty of their lives.
:24:21. > :24:35.A wedding ring, a dusty Helmut, the shining badge,. Here, we tell the
:24:36. > :24:39.story. The museum tells the story of those who died and those who
:24:40. > :24:44.survived. It also tells how the world has changed since the tank.
:24:45. > :24:59.The BBC was given a tour of the museum. My wife was killed. To see
:25:00. > :25:03.this happen, it is amazing and gut wrenching at the same time. It
:25:04. > :25:11.brings back all the emotions of that week. The museum is filled with
:25:12. > :25:21.thousands of artefacts. There are huge wins in tiny ones. A slipper, a
:25:22. > :25:27.wallet, a driving licence. It is the ordinary things that everyone
:25:28. > :25:30.carries around as part of the private possessions. Today in this
:25:31. > :25:42.place, they become suddenly very powerful. The attacks appeared out
:25:43. > :25:51.of the radicalisation of people in the Middle East. It tries to explain
:25:52. > :25:57.where the terrorists came from, what do they believe. It tries to
:25:58. > :26:05.obviously make sure that we do not think that all Muslims are
:26:06. > :26:14.terrorists. It was interesting for people who do not know all that much
:26:15. > :26:18.about Muslims around the world. But I feel that did not represent that
:26:19. > :26:24.well enough, I think people are more likely to come out thinking that
:26:25. > :26:27.Muslims represent a threat, rather than being appreciated that there
:26:28. > :26:38.was just a very small group extremists. This is a museum for the
:26:39. > :27:01.future generations. Thank you very much for being with others.
:27:02. > :27:06.warm day than I was yesterday. Lovely warm weather on the way
:27:07. > :27:12.tomorrow. A lot of dry and sunny weather. The warrant has been
:27:13. > :27:17.drinking with his area of high pressure, covering the bulk of the
:27:18. > :27:19.United Kingdom. We have some cloud and rain