:00:00. > :00:11.Catastrophic floods across the Balkans begin to recede,
:00:12. > :00:16.but officials say dangers remain. Thousands of homes have been
:00:17. > :00:20.destroyed and about 1 million people lack drinking water in the worst
:00:21. > :00:25.floods for 100 years. The Kremlin orders troops near Ukraine's border
:00:26. > :00:31.to return home but NATO claims there's no sign yet of a withdrawl.
:00:32. > :00:35.The US charges five Chinese army officers with hacking into American
:00:36. > :00:39.companies to gain trade and economic secrets. Beijing demands Washington
:00:40. > :00:42.withdraw the allegations saying they could damage relations.
:00:43. > :00:50.And is this the man to turn around Manchester United's fortunes? Fans
:00:51. > :00:54.across the world will be hoping so. Dutchman Louis van Gaal is made
:00:55. > :01:13.international aid operation is going on in Bosnia and Serbia, after the
:01:14. > :01:17.worst flooding there since records began. The River Sava which you can
:01:18. > :01:26.see here flows from Croatia, through Bosnia Herzegovina and into Serbia.
:01:27. > :01:29.It burst its banks after the equivalent of three months rain fell
:01:30. > :01:33.in just three days. Helicopters sent by the EU, the United States and
:01:34. > :01:36.Russia have been evacuating the area. 35 people have been killed and
:01:37. > :01:40.tens of thousands have been forced to leave their homes. Waters are now
:01:41. > :01:43.beginning to recede but the dangers remain. Officials say there is a
:01:44. > :01:46.threat of landslides as well as difficulties caused by unexploded
:01:47. > :01:59.Our Balkans correspondent Guy Delauney has more.
:02:00. > :02:09.The Western Balkans under water. These are the region has seen in
:02:10. > :02:14.living memory. It has forced tens of thousands of people from their
:02:15. > :02:20.homes. Three months of rain fell in just three days last week, and this
:02:21. > :02:27.is the result. International aid is coming in for people without power
:02:28. > :02:32.and freshwater. My house has been flooded up to the roof. We will
:02:33. > :02:37.really need help. In Serbia, at least the floodwater has been
:02:38. > :02:44.receding, as fears of a reserve -- are per search ease. Many people are
:02:45. > :02:48.still cut off, and food and water supplies are scarce. Just like the
:02:49. > :02:54.rest of the town, this hotel is underwater. A boat is really the
:02:55. > :02:59.only sensible way to get around this town now. There are some people who
:03:00. > :03:02.still remained. These rescue workers are bringing and emergency supplies
:03:03. > :03:07.for them and for the hundreds upon hundreds of people who are trying to
:03:08. > :03:13.help the situation here. Agriculture has been hit badly. Officials say it
:03:14. > :03:17.might take five years to recover. Livestock have been left to fend for
:03:18. > :03:23.themselves, and for the many uninsured farmers, it is a disaster.
:03:24. > :03:28.The aid effort flies a multitude of flags. There are rescue helicopters
:03:29. > :03:32.from the United States and Russia as well as the European Union. The
:03:33. > :03:38.sandbags remain in place, with concerns that river levels might
:03:39. > :03:41.rise later in the week. At least the rain has stopped, but there will be
:03:42. > :03:46.fresh challenges once the water recedes.
:03:47. > :03:52.The latest on the floods. President Putin has said he's
:03:53. > :03:54.ordered troops currently stationed near Russia's border with eastern
:03:55. > :03:57.Ukraine to withdraw to Earlier this year Russia seized
:03:58. > :04:01.control of Crimea in southern Ukraine which emboldened
:04:02. > :04:16.pro-Russian separatists movement
:04:17. > :04:32.on Russia's border with Ukraine. So far, we have not been any
:04:33. > :04:42.withdrawal. At all. I strongly regret that, because a with drawl of
:04:43. > :04:48.Russian troops would be in importance contribution to the
:04:49. > :04:56.escalating the crisis. There is no reason whatsoever why the Russians
:04:57. > :05:04.should have massive military forces at that scale along Ukrainian
:05:05. > :05:10.borders. That was the NATO Secretary General.
:05:11. > :05:12.Joining me from Moscow is Dimitry Babich, political analyst
:05:13. > :05:26.If this withdrawal fact or fiction? Very few people in Moscow, at least
:05:27. > :05:34.not amongst those I interviewed, they believe these trips can be
:05:35. > :05:38.used. The operation on the Ukrainian side of the border continues, and I
:05:39. > :05:46.would like to note that the statement was made in the context of
:05:47. > :05:52.him saying that he was happy about the context between the authorities
:05:53. > :05:59.in Kiev and the separatists in the east of Ukraine, so I'd think both
:06:00. > :06:04.of these statements are sort of peaceful movements by Putin. He
:06:05. > :06:07.wants a settlement, not an escalation of the conflict. So,
:06:08. > :06:11.these round table talks that have been held with all of the various
:06:12. > :06:12.groups in the Ukraine, a product from the separatists to the
:06:13. > :06:17.government they have got blood from the separatists to the
:06:18. > :06:23.government they have got on their hands, are you now saying that
:06:24. > :06:27.Moscow's understanding is that Kiev is now speaking to the pro-Russian
:06:28. > :06:33.separatists who wants to join Moscow? I do not think Putin was
:06:34. > :06:39.referring to the round table, because not a single representative
:06:40. > :06:48.of these self proclaimed republics at this round table... I think that
:06:49. > :06:54.Putin would not like a war next to his border. Right now, hostilities
:06:55. > :06:58.are claiming dozens of lives every day, and everyone understands that
:06:59. > :07:05.every shot fired makes a future United Ukraine a more and more
:07:06. > :07:11.distant reality. I have my own experience in Chechnya, where people
:07:12. > :07:13.who had been little oil Soviets -- pro-Loyalist of its citizens when it
:07:14. > :07:22.started alienated themselves from Russia. We are talking about years
:07:23. > :07:30.of side of months. In a number of months, people can be alienated from
:07:31. > :07:35.Kiev. You are talking about those regions in eastern Ukraine that held
:07:36. > :07:39.those referendums to break away from Kiev. Tell us then, briefly, in your
:07:40. > :07:45.view, this announcement by Putin, whether he has with drawn are not,
:07:46. > :07:49.is this a clear sign that Russia is moving to the escalate the tensions,
:07:50. > :07:55.to defuse the crisis in Ukraine? Putin several times that that he
:07:56. > :08:00.moved the troops away, that he was not going to use the troops in the
:08:01. > :08:03.east of Ukraine. I think we can believe him on that, because he
:08:04. > :08:08.understands that the consequences this time are going to be serious.
:08:09. > :08:15.The main problem is that the process has got out of control. Neither
:08:16. > :08:18.Russia nor it Kiev, unless Kiev starts negotiations with the
:08:19. > :08:21.separatists in the East, can stop the violence. Thank you very much
:08:22. > :08:26.for joining us. A new source of tensions has
:08:27. > :08:29.emerged between the US and China. Washington has filed criminal
:08:30. > :08:31.charges against five Chinese military officials whom it accuses
:08:32. > :08:38.of hacking into the computers Beijing has reacted angrily
:08:39. > :08:42.and asked the US to withdraw the allegations, but the US Attorney
:08:43. > :08:58.General Eric Holder has said the This administration will not
:08:59. > :09:00.tolerate actions by any nation that seeks to illegally sabotaged
:09:01. > :09:04.American companies and undermine the integrity of competition in the
:09:05. > :09:10.operation of the free market. This case should serve as a wake-up call
:09:11. > :09:13.to the seriousness of the ongoing cyber threats. These criminal
:09:14. > :09:17.charges represent a step forward in addressing that threat.
:09:18. > :09:31.That was Eric holder there. We have heard claims before but this
:09:32. > :09:35.is a bit different. The US has been talking about
:09:36. > :09:40.economic cyber espionage for a few years, saying there were lots of
:09:41. > :09:44.secrets. They started to point the finger at China, but we have never
:09:45. > :09:51.had erect indictment of named individuals. And the FBI website
:09:52. > :09:57.there is a section called cyber most wanted, and you can find five
:09:58. > :10:02.Chinese people on that list. You can see why this is an escalation by the
:10:03. > :10:07.US in terms of something it has been talking about for a long time, its
:10:08. > :10:15.concern about cyber economic espionage. And Beijing have reacted
:10:16. > :10:18.angrily. They have suspended cooperation in certain areas. They
:10:19. > :10:21.say they are the victims of packing and not the perpetrator is in
:10:22. > :10:24.certain areas. They say they are the victims of packing and not the
:10:25. > :10:28.perpetrators and victims and of the perpetrators. No courtesy of Edward
:10:29. > :10:34.Snowden. We know that America itself is not above going above this
:10:35. > :10:38.espionage. The US was trying to build pressure on China last year
:10:39. > :10:43.and then came along Edward Snowden, who revealed that the US was
:10:44. > :10:46.entering into Chinese companies, and that really threw the American
:10:47. > :10:50.campaign. The Americans claim that what they do is different. They say
:10:51. > :10:53.China carries out commercial espionage and gives the secrets to
:10:54. > :10:59.Chinese companies to help them economically. America claims it does
:11:00. > :11:04.not do that, but it might not hack into other companies, but that
:11:05. > :11:09.might... Some people might dispute that.
:11:10. > :11:17.But we found that her wet hacking going on by the Americans. Do people
:11:18. > :11:21.accept that claim from the US? A lot of people want except that. That is
:11:22. > :11:25.the American claim that they have made consistently, and that is why
:11:26. > :11:29.they say what China does is different, and now, after a year on
:11:30. > :11:33.the back foot, they are trying to once again present this case with
:11:34. > :11:37.China Tuesday, we may do traditional espionage, but we don't want you
:11:38. > :11:42.doing this commercial espionage. How do you think this will unravel? The
:11:43. > :11:47.Chinese are not likely to submit these officials for trial. There is
:11:48. > :11:52.no chance of these people being suddenly put on a plane and sent to
:11:53. > :11:57.America. It is a symbolic step but it raises the temperature. How will
:11:58. > :12:00.China respond? What America wants is for China Tuesday, we do not want
:12:01. > :12:04.this pressure, we will stand back from some of this more aggressive
:12:05. > :12:09.commercial espionage, the Americans as they are happening and scare them
:12:10. > :12:14.off, but will be Chinese retaliate in some other way? It is possible.
:12:15. > :12:56.There are risks to this strategy. Thank you. More fighting has been
:12:57. > :13:01.reported in the city between rival militia. Troops at an Air Force base
:13:02. > :13:05.in the eastern city are reported to have joined forces with a rogue
:13:06. > :13:12.general who the government accuses of trying to mount a coup. Partial
:13:13. > :13:15.results from last month's elections in Iraq show the coalition of the
:13:16. > :13:19.Prime Minister is the biggest winner. Although he is unlikely to
:13:20. > :13:26.win an outright majority, he is likely to remain as Prime Minister
:13:27. > :13:31.for a third term. The defence in the trial of the former Bosnian Serb
:13:32. > :13:37.army chief on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity has a
:13:38. > :13:40.bend in The Hague. He faces a total of 11 charges, the most serious of
:13:41. > :13:46.which is his alleged involvement in a massacre of more than 7000 Muslim
:13:47. > :13:58.men and boys in 1995. His defence argues that he was simply a soldier
:13:59. > :14:02.following orders. For many of the survivors, his face is synonymous
:14:03. > :14:08.with their severing. The prosecution used this but age of the general on
:14:09. > :14:16.the battlefield during their case. Here he is, just before the
:14:17. > :14:20.slaughter started. His defence will argue that paramilitary groups were
:14:21. > :14:25.responsible for the massacre, that he had no idea that these atrocities
:14:26. > :14:30.among the worst since the Second World War, were being committed, and
:14:31. > :14:33.that all commands even by this self-proclaimed patriot for purely
:14:34. > :14:40.designed to defend his people. The first defence witness was an
:14:41. > :14:48.assisting commander in Mladic's Army. He served in Sarajevo during
:14:49. > :14:54.the three year siege, in which approximately 12,000 people were
:14:55. > :14:58.killed, most of them Muslim. General Mladic's forces are confused --
:14:59. > :15:06.accused of shelling and sniping, designed to kill and spread terror
:15:07. > :15:12.amongst civilians. The first witnesses evidence relates to the
:15:13. > :15:18.use of snipers. He denied they had access to site -- rifles with
:15:19. > :15:23.optical sight. He also told the court they were under orders only to
:15:24. > :15:29.open fire in the event of an enemy attack. According to the
:15:30. > :15:31.prosecution, Mladic was part of a targeted campaign designed to
:15:32. > :15:36.ethnically cleanse parts of Bosnia and turn them into an ethnically
:15:37. > :15:41.your republic. The defence has been given the same amount of time as the
:15:42. > :15:47.prosecution to present their side of the case, and that is 207 hours,
:15:48. > :15:55.which means, in theory, this high-profile trial could go on for
:15:56. > :16:02.at least another two years. For those whose relatives lie here,
:16:03. > :16:03.justice can only be served if Mladic stays alive for long enough to faith
:16:04. > :16:16.his final legal judgment. Across Syria,
:16:17. > :16:18.it's difficult to imagine that despite the horrors of the war,
:16:19. > :16:20.normal human activity carries on. For instance students have begun
:16:21. > :16:23.sitting their public exams. Thousands
:16:24. > :16:25.of schools have been destroyed and millions of children displaced
:16:26. > :16:27.during the bloody conflict. So it is extremely tough for some
:16:28. > :16:35.children to even get to school. Our Chief International
:16:36. > :16:37.Correspondent Lyse Doucet got rare access to the besieged Palestinian
:16:38. > :16:39.camp of Yarmouk, on the edge of Damascus, and reports
:16:40. > :16:54.on the students' hazardous journey Yarmouk -
:16:55. > :17:00.the refugee camp for Palestinians that is now a symbol for suffering.
:17:01. > :17:02.It has been besieged by government forces for nearly and torn by the
:17:03. > :17:14.fight against rebels. On this day and there's a moment of
:17:15. > :17:22.calm and an agreement to let students out. The skills across
:17:23. > :17:29.Syria face final tests. We heard gunfire just before their journey
:17:30. > :17:42.started. Students trying to fit that smacks it there is 's may seem
:17:43. > :17:47.simple thing but here in Yarmouk, it took days of negotiations for a
:17:48. > :17:50.cease-fire. In the last visit to Yarmouk, we saw how desperate
:17:51. > :17:55.conditions are. Thousands of families trapped inside, depending
:17:56. > :17:59.on food aid, but only getting a quarter of what they need to
:18:00. > :18:13.survive, because the situation is so volatile. No wonder there is such
:18:14. > :18:20.relief when the students finally emerge. This man has not seen his
:18:21. > :18:32.daughter for ten months. He tells me, my happiness is so big. I can
:18:33. > :18:36.spread it around the world. You seem very happy. Thank you. Bosses
:18:37. > :18:40.organised by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees take students
:18:41. > :18:46.away. They call the parents they left behind, and try to remember the
:18:47. > :18:56.streets that they have not seen for months. -- buses. When they arrive
:18:57. > :19:03.at the schools, that now serve as shelters, there are more tearful
:19:04. > :19:07.reunions. It is not to get the permission or not to have the
:19:08. > :19:10.permission, to have a small movement of people in and out, so that we
:19:11. > :19:16.feel that we have the choice to move. Exams are not the only thing
:19:17. > :19:21.on the minds of students who have escaped from a living hell. We have
:19:22. > :19:27.to eat food that no one can eat, grass, spices. Life is difficult
:19:28. > :19:33.inside. You cannot understand it until you live here. I was outside
:19:34. > :19:36.the house when I came home. I found that a rocket landed and my mother
:19:37. > :19:46.and two sisters were killed, my other two sisters injured. Every day
:19:47. > :19:50.we went to school. We put all hands on our hearts, because so many
:19:51. > :19:55.people had died, but we insisted we had to go to school. Of course we
:19:56. > :20:03.were scared but we had to continue. If we lose our future, no one can
:20:04. > :20:15.help us. It is straight to revision for their exams. They know how much
:20:16. > :20:21.they matter. But when they are over, it is back to Yarmouk, well their
:20:22. > :20:27.lives, and their future, is not in their hands. The challenges for
:20:28. > :20:31.children in Syria. Louis van Gaal has been named
:20:32. > :20:34.as manager of Manchester United. The Dutchman has signed a three-year
:20:35. > :20:37.contract to succeed David Moyes, who left the club last month after
:20:38. > :20:40.a difficult ten months in the job. The footballer Ryan Giggs has been
:20:41. > :20:43.announced as his assistant, thereby ending his long playing
:20:44. > :20:46.career with the club. But all eyes will be
:20:47. > :20:48.on Louis van Gaal, to see if he can turn around the club after
:20:49. > :20:53.their worst season in many years. Let's get more on this
:20:54. > :21:05.from our Sports team. Louis van Gaal says this will be a
:21:06. > :21:12.fantastic challenge. He will have to put in a good performance. He said
:21:13. > :21:16.he was offered the job back in 2002 when Sir Alex Ferguson was going to
:21:17. > :21:21.stand down from the position. He went on for another 11 years after
:21:22. > :21:28.that. Better late than never, many would say, but he takes over as the
:21:29. > :21:33.Manchester United manager. He has managed iPAQs and Barcelona and
:21:34. > :21:38.Bayern Munich in the past. We must put this in perspective. 62 years of
:21:39. > :21:43.age. He has Ryan Giggs in place as his assistant. Is this a long-term
:21:44. > :21:49.plan? Will he be there for three years and then hand his place over?
:21:50. > :21:53.He has been in charge at the Netherlands when they have failed to
:21:54. > :21:58.qualify for the World Cup finals. They were beaten in Brazil. And he
:21:59. > :22:02.was sacked by Barcelona in his second spell at the club after
:22:03. > :22:06.leaving them in mid-season only three points above the relegation
:22:07. > :22:10.zone. He is known for nurturing young players and bringing them
:22:11. > :22:14.through, as he did at IMAX when he won the Champions League and league
:22:15. > :22:18.title double back in 1995, it is going to be a tough test for him,
:22:19. > :22:27.but it is one that he will look forward to. He has a very tough,
:22:28. > :22:30.strict style of management. His nickname is the iron tulip. That
:22:31. > :22:34.gives away what he wants to do with his players. He is strong and is
:22:35. > :22:40.open. He expects the same from his players. It will be interesting to
:22:41. > :22:46.see if Manchester United can return to Europe because the are in Europe
:22:47. > :22:57.next season, for the first time in 25 years.
:22:58. > :23:00.Earlier we brought you the latest on the crisis in Ukraine. Well,
:23:01. > :23:02.one Ukrainian singer and composer, Marianna Sadovska,
:23:03. > :23:04.has been bringing her musical reflection on the situation to
:23:05. > :23:08.She has brought her Chernobyl Harvest to the
:23:09. > :23:11.Barbican Centre, in a concert with the American Kronos Quartet.
:23:12. > :23:13.Alexander Kan, the BBC Russian Service's Cultural Editor,
:23:14. > :23:39.went along to hear the music and to speak to her.
:23:40. > :23:47.Chernobyl harvest is a haunting requiem for the Soviet nuclear
:23:48. > :24:06.disaster in Ukraine, in 1986 from Marianni Sadovska. The composition
:24:07. > :24:10.uses traditional songs. The area is full of polluted by the disaster.
:24:11. > :24:17.The invention of Marianni Sadovska was not only to remind people of
:24:18. > :24:23.Chernobyl but also of Ukraine's national and cultural identity. We
:24:24. > :24:29.are not Russian, our language is not a Russian dialect. We have a
:24:30. > :24:38.generation who grew up with does not know what Chernobyl was. This is to
:24:39. > :24:44.be the voice of that generation. Today, Ukraine is going through a
:24:45. > :24:48.different national crisis. With the country being literally torn apart,
:24:49. > :24:51.and standing on the brink of civil war, Marianni Sadovska believes that
:24:52. > :25:00.music can become a weapon in this struggle. My culture in this moment
:25:01. > :25:12.is at war, and under occupation. It is not easy, I must say, because I
:25:13. > :25:15.have a voice, all my friends and family know that we have to sing, we
:25:16. > :25:24.have to be heard, throughout Europe. By commissioning the piece
:25:25. > :25:27.long before the current crisis, David Harrington, a musician, not
:25:28. > :25:32.politician, was first and foremost enchanted by the voice of Marianni
:25:33. > :25:40.Sadovska and of the Ukrainian ethnic songs. I do not think that Chernobyl
:25:41. > :25:44.harvest is going to solve all the problems that exist right now in
:25:45. > :25:52.Ukraine and Russia. I am not sure of that, but it is definitely moving
:25:53. > :25:59.things in a positive direction. Marianni Sadovska's Chernobyl
:26:00. > :26:04.harvest was given its premiere last July in a different year. But
:26:05. > :26:06.today, the piece has acquired a much more powerful set of political
:26:07. > :26:13.connotations. Officials and volunteers are working
:26:14. > :26:17.feverishly to contain the floods across the Balkans,
:26:18. > :26:20.with emergency teams being called Serbia and Bosnia are struggling
:26:21. > :26:24.with the worst flooding in At least 35 people have died
:26:25. > :26:29.in five days of flooding caused Entire towns and villages are under
:26:30. > :26:35.water, thousands of hills have
:26:36. > :26:38.crumpled into landslides and tens of thousands have been
:26:39. > :26:50.forced to flee their homes. That's it from me and the team.
:26:51. > :27:05.Again, the, night offers a mixture of weather across the British Isles,
:27:06. > :27:10.mild in all areas but some thunderstorm activity. Tomorrow,
:27:11. > :27:12.some of us seeing quite a bit of warm sunshine. Others, some heavy
:27:13. > :27:13.downpours. It