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