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This is BBC World News Today, with me, Philippa Thomas. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
News of further attacks by Boko Haram in Nigeria - does the Islamist | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
militant group have Nigeria's government and military on the run? | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
They follow the devastating double explosion in | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
the city of Jos - where the death toll has now reached more than 120. | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
dollar, three-decade gas deal - it's been ten years in the making. | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
The former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to three | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
And why being happy got the makers of this YouTube video | :00:37. | :00:48. | |
arrested by police in Iran and paraded on State TV. | :00:49. | :01:02. | |
As Nigerian rescue workers comb through rubble searching | :01:03. | :01:12. | |
for bodies after the bombings in the Nigerian city | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
The Islamist group Boko Haram has been accused of killing at least | :01:16. | :01:27. | |
27 people in attacks on two more villages in north-east Nigeria. | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
The attacks happened here in Alagarno and Shawa. | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
In Alagarno, Boko Haram fighters reportedly spent hours killing | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
As you can see the attack was very close to Chibok | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
where more than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped more than a month ago. | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
As I mentioned it comes just a day after twin blasts in Jos | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
killed more than 120 near the city's Terminus market and the University | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
So this year alone, more than 1,000 people have been killed | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
The Nigerian government has been quick to condemn the attacks. | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
But its ability, and even willingness, to put an end to them | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
Scenes of panic in Jos when the two bombs were detonated. | :02:07. | :02:17. | |
Terrified, they ran for their lives in search of safety. | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
These were two extremely powerful blasts, the aim clearly to kill | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
as many people as possible in the crowded market. | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
An indiscriminate attack which killed Christians and Muslims. | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
Amongst the chaos, the emergency services tried to help | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
Many had open wounds, fractures and burns. | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
Although it is not known who carried out the attack, | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
the Islamist extremist group known as Boko Haram has targeted Jos | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
before, bombing churches in what was then seen as an effort | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
For more than a decade, the middle belt of Nigeria has been the scene | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
They are often described as religious clashes but are in fact | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
rooted in competition for land, resources and political power. | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
The bombs in Jos follow the recent past in the capital Abuja as well | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
The Islamist extremists are still holding more than 200 schoolgirls | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
Just hours after the bombings in Jos, another attack took place, | :03:22. | :03:31. | |
this one in the rural north-east, in a village. | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
There Islamist militants fighters went in, looted, killed | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
at least 17 people, and then set fire to almost the entire village. | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
They were there for several hours throughout the night. | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
And then they left and vehicles that they stole. | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
There is no sign that the authorities have the capacity | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
to turn the tide against this brutal campaign of violence. | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
That is what terrifies many Nigerians. | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
With me is Alice Ukoko, a lawyer from Nigeria who runs | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
Thank you for coming in. You have published an open letter to the | :04:09. | :04:22. | |
Nigerian president calling on him to step aside. You see a potentially | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
great nation is on his knees. Why should he go? The evidence is so | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
clear. If you look Nigeria, one may argue that they | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
have come and take an over. Nigeria, one may argue that they | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
point is security is nonexistent across | :04:44. | :04:53. | |
point is security is nonexistent problem. We see Nigeria | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
point is security is nonexistent electricity. There is no evidence of | :04:57. | :04:56. | |
governments in Nigeria. The issue of electricity. There is no evidence of | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
corruption is backbreaking and electricity. There is no evidence of | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
obviously there is a electricity. There is no evidence of | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
is going on there. What should be electricity. There is no evidence of | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
Nigeria, there is no education, no water, no resemblance of governments | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
in Nigeria. So many issues. If we look at security. What | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
in Nigeria. So many issues. If we with the military, do you think it | :05:24. | :05:31. | |
cannot deal with those endured -- insurgency or is there no willpower? | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
People are not thinking in terms of the country. They are pursuing their | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
personal goal, that is their personal path. They do not care at | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
all. What we are seeing is not... We are dealing with a government that | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
lacked the will or as is divorced but lacks the ability to keep | :05:58. | :06:06. | |
Nigerians say. Dash-mac a security force. If we wind up back, and go to | :06:07. | :06:17. | |
the state of emergency that was declared in those three states in | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
May last year, you will find for that alone, the president should | :06:22. | :06:30. | |
step down. The civil politicians should also the site. One of the | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
issues is if you want to crack down on people and criminals in a | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
particular place, for instance criminals come to your home, what is | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
the first thing you do? You lock your door. Then you deal with them. | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
But what we have seen in all year, we have seen since May last year, | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
that this government declared a state of emergency in three states. | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
Broke off this social fabric in the States and put out the security | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
forces that were there killing nobody but civilians opened the | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
borders so Boko Haram and the terrorists were going and coming as | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
we like. Do you think there is any hope of getting the girls back? You | :07:18. | :07:26. | |
could take each topic in this and ask the president to step away. To | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
allow, if you look at the kidnappings in the first place, they | :07:33. | :07:41. | |
are saying first, the security forces were lacking. They were told | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
that the schools were going to be attacked, nothing will happen. The | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
girl who came outside, the vehicle broke down and they were there | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
trying to fix it which gave the girl the opportunity to escape. All of | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
that, there was no security person to comment and challenge them in | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
that broken down vehicle. We have to leave it there. There are so many | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
problems that we need to talk about. I appreciate you coming in. | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
Now finally Russia has signed a 30-year gas deal with China. | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
The agreement - estimated to be worth $400 billion - | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
hands Vladimir Putin a diplomatic and economic boost, at a time | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
when Russia risks losing European gas customers, due to sanctions over | :08:28. | :08:29. | |
The deal was signed in Shanghai, where | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
the Russian President was attending an Asian security conference. | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
From there, Damian Grammaticas reports. | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
China is rising, and taking it all in, Russian naval officers, today | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
The two sides fought 50 years ago but now they are friends. | :08:45. | :09:05. | |
To seal that growing friendship, the biggest deal | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
China will buy hundreds of billions of dollars of Russian gas. | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
Vladimir Putin looked delighted and well he might. | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
Just as Europe is talking of buying less gas from him, | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
The bargaining has taken 10 years and went on even today | :09:21. | :09:28. | |
behind-the-scenes as the leaders met at this security summit in Shanghai. | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
Both China and Russia feel under increasing pressure from the West, | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
that may have been the final nudge to do their deal. | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
And the two sides share common interests - China needs to secure | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
new sources of energy to ensure it will be able to power its growing | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
The pall of smog over Shanghai, a reminder it wants clean fuels. | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
Russia needs the cash and investment China can bring as Western sanctions | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
Economically, both benefit because they need the sale in the bag. | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
Politically it sends a message, that we have closer | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
The deal won't affect Russia's energy supplies to Europe. | :10:12. | :10:19. | |
China's gas will come from fields in Siberia, | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
It's the timing and the symbolism of it all that matters. | :10:23. | :10:30. | |
So President Putin leaves his with a significant deal in his pocket. | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
China may have driven a hard bargain, but for Mr Putin the | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
The West may be trying to isolate him, but this is his riposte. | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
He is building a powerful new relationship here in the East. | :10:45. | :10:53. | |
In Thailand, there's been an emergency meeting of political | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
leaders called by the army following its declaration of martial law. | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
Defying martial law, one local radio station keeps | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
There are hundreds like it run by red shirt activists who support | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
And now they have learnt the soldiers are on their way here too. | :11:14. | :11:24. | |
There is a heated debate among local residents. | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
Should they resist or should they cave in? | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
There has been no violence here to justify shutting it down. | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
We are just ordinary people who have no weapons. | :11:40. | :11:41. | |
Only our hearts calling for democracy. | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
It seems like they are trying to close down our eyes and ears. | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
No one is yet quite sure what the real intentions of | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
the generals are, are they actors, honest brokers, or are they trying | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
But their but their heavy-handed control of the media does risk | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
a public backlash, especially here among the government's supporters. | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
Today the army commander summoned all of the leaders of all | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
of the different groups with some involvement in Thailand's crisis. | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
For the first time, they sat down together. | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
To hear the general tell them he wanted an end to the deadlock. | :12:20. | :12:32. | |
But can what seems very like military rule achieve what | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
The Army is not seen as a neutral party. | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
Back at the radio station, they held a vote to decide. | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
When the soldiers come, would they fight or giv in? | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
A small exercise in democracy in a country where that seems | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
For them, martial law is already unacceptable. | :12:57. | :13:07. | |
How many others will follow their example? | :13:08. | :13:15. | |
An Egyptian court has convicted the former President Hosni Mubarak | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
of embezzling public funds and sentenced him to three years | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
The trio were found guilty of spending more than $17 million | :13:23. | :13:30. | |
of public money - funnelled into presidential palaces | :13:31. | :13:32. | |
Hosni Mubarak was looking relaxed as and sent us this report. | :13:33. | :13:44. | |
Hosni Mubarak was looking relaxed as he waited to hear the verdict. The | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
86-year-old who was in a he waited to hear the verdict. The | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
was flanked by his sons in their he waited to hear the verdict. The | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
prison whites. The embezzlement was a family affair. The judge said | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
Mubarak had a family affair. The judge said | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
sons the freedom to take whatever they wanted from the public 's | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
money. All three were sentenced to jail but | :14:06. | :14:14. | |
money. All three were sentenced to served. Outside, | :14:15. | :14:26. | |
money. All three were sentenced to said. Supporters claimed | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
money. All three were sentenced to understand me? He is a hero, I used | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
to dream of him. I used to follow him. This is not fair. Because of | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
politics. him. This is not fair. Because of | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
more. These him. This is not fair. Because of | :14:48. | :14:48. | |
vocal but only a tiny number have him. This is not fair. Because of | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
come here today. The reality is Egyptians appear to have lost | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
interest in the former leader and his legal problems. He is facing | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
many more days in court. He is being retried for complicity in the | :15:05. | :15:06. | |
killing of protesters and the 2011 revolution. After the brief hearing | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
behind these walls, the deposed president was returned to a military | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
hospital. Sources say doctors will decide if he is well enough to go to | :15:19. | :15:20. | |
jail. Now a look at some of the day's | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
other news. The Pakistani military say 60 | :15:27. | :15:40. | |
militants have been killed after after fighter jets bombed suspected | :15:41. | :15:42. | |
militant positions in the north of the country, close to | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
the border with Afghanistan. say a number of those killed were | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
important commanders and foreign fighters in the tribal region of | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
North Waziristan. The internet auction site eBay says | :15:52. | :15:53. | |
it's asking its users to change their passwords after hackers | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
attacked a database, compromising its security. eBay, which has 128 | :15:57. | :15:58. | |
million users worldwide, says the database contained encrypted | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
passwords, plus personal information - including postal addresses. The | :16:02. | :16:03. | |
company says it has no evidence that The company says it has no | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
evidence that hackers accessed The US Coastguard says it?s covered | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
nearly 3,000 square miles in the search for four British sailors | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
missing in the Atlantic. Their 40ft yacht, the Cheeki Rafiki, | :16:15. | :16:16. | |
was sailing back to the UK from a regatta in Antigua when it got | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
into difficulties on Friday. A UK military plane has also joined | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
the search, which resumed yesterday. The French train operator SNCF has | :16:24. | :16:32. | |
discovered that hundreds of new trains it ordered | :16:33. | :16:34. | |
at huge expense are too wide The embarrassing blunder has so far | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
cost the rail operator more than almost 70 million dollars, but those | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
costs are likely to rise further. Construction work has begun | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
on altering hundreds From Paris, our correspondent | :16:49. | :16:50. | |
Christian Fraser sent this report. The rail operator in France has | :16:51. | :17:01. | |
just found out the hard way. Before train company SNCF ordered | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
hundreds of new traits, they asked the operator RFF to measure the | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
space between platforms and tracks. The dimensions they were given | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
were from those platforms built 30 years ago, but some 1,200 | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
platforms date further back. The new trains are too wide | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
for some stations. The local authorities that paid | :17:19. | :17:20. | |
for them can't believe it. "It is outrageous", said this | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
councillor in Toulouse, "we will be returning any bill | :17:24. | :17:25. | |
they send us. "We are not paying a centime | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
towards it." The new rolling stock is only ten | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
centimetres bigger on each side, Long stretches of platform | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
will now have to be modified. RFF say they budgeted | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
50 million euros. French reports say | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
the costs will go far higher. They are saying that this will not | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
lead to an increase in the cost The finger of blame is being | :17:49. | :17:56. | |
pointed in all directions. Having first admitted it had | :17:57. | :18:08. | |
realised its mistake a bit late, the rail operator is now saying | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
it's inevitable that platforms will have to be adjusted | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
when new rolling stock arrives. Through the years, | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
the French have invested billions in the fast TGV, but the provincial | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
connections are not as good. The opening event of Madrid's | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
bullfighting season has had to be cancelled after three matadors | :18:30. | :18:51. | |
were gored by bulls. The worst injuries were suffered | :18:52. | :18:53. | |
by David Mora, after one of the animals rammed its horn into | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
his leg and threw him into the air. It's the first time in 35 years | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
the event has been suspended. Tell us about this sequence of | :19:01. | :19:16. | |
rather gory events, Tom Burridge. We can show you some dramatic photos of | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
this bull fight, which had to be called off. As you say, it is | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
extremely rare, normally there are six bulls in a bull fight, and three | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
matadors. These pictures show how seriously these three bull-fighters | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
were injured, the first, David Mora, particularly badly injured, caught | :19:41. | :19:48. | |
twice in the leg and the arm and then two other bull-fighters that | :19:49. | :19:57. | |
stepped into the ring also got caught in serious incidents. A very | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
rare incidents that all three would be injured so much that it had to be | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
called off. How many are actually staged in Spain each year? It is | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
fewer and fewer, the number of bull fight is in decline. Many are | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
indifferent to bull-fighting, some are obviously opposed. There is a | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
core contingent in this country and it cuts across the political | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
spectrum of people on the left and the right. It is particularly | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
popular in the south and it is connected to the festivals in Spain, | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
Pamplona in the north, down in the south, in Seville, there is a | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
festival, and here in the capital of Madrid. So bull-fighting still has | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
its fishy in orders, the hard core of supporters. It is with some | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
people a culture and tradition --has its officiant orders. For people | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
outside of Spain, it can be gory and evil and cruel, but it is still | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
going strong to a certain extent but generally speaking it is on the | :21:04. | :21:05. | |
decline. Tom Burridge, thank you. Prince Charles has criticised | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
President Putin, between Russia's role in Ukraine | :21:09. | :21:09. | |
and Germany under the Nazis. He made his remarks | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
during a private conversation on a trip to Canada, but the apparent | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
readiness of the King-in-waiting to voice political opinions has once | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
again proved controversial. Here's our Royal Correspondent | :21:24. | :21:25. | |
Nicholas Witchell. , packed with 40 engagements. | :21:26. | :21:37. | |
Literally hundreds of brief conversations with strangers. In | :21:38. | :21:48. | |
Nova Scotia, in Halifax, Prince Charles had met Marion Ferguson and | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
she told him how her and her sister had lived in Danzig, in Poland, and | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
were Jewish and fled for their light ahead of the invasion by the Nazis | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
and their leader, Adolf Hitler, an invasion which led to the Second | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
World War. In his conversation over a cup of tea with Mrs Ferguson, | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
Prince Charles evidently drew a comparison with what the Nazis did | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
in Europe then and what the Russians, under Vladimir Putin, are | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
doing now in Ukraine. The precise words are disputed but a Daily Mail | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
reporter who was present, that is her behind the pillar, claims the | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
Prince said in relation to the Ukraine "and now Putin is doing just | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
about the same as Hitler". Charles has met blood Amir Putin several | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
times in the past and in a couple of weeks, they were both be attending | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
the 70th anniversary of D-day -- Vladimir Putin. Any connection | :22:43. | :22:44. | |
between him and Hitler will be seen by the Russian leadership is deeply | :22:45. | :22:46. | |
offensive. You can't be much more insulting | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
about a Russian than comparing them to Hitler, because Hitler, of | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
course, killed 26 million Russians, and I suspect that privately he | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
will be rather angered by it. Political leaders here are divided | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
over the remarks. The Deputy Prime Minister said he was entitled to say | :23:06. | :23:06. | |
what he did. Prince Charles is is able, | :23:07. | :23:08. | |
I would have thought, to be free to I don't know exactly what he did or | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
didn't say in that conversation, because he thought it was | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
a private conversation. The Leader of the Opposition | :23:18. | :23:19. | |
said the Prince has a point. I think he has got a point | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
about President Putin's actions and he is absolutely entitled to say | :23:23. | :23:24. | |
there are real concerns about that. But Nigel Farage said the Prince | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
should keep quiet. Sometimes, | :23:31. | :23:32. | |
there are issues that it would be better if elected governments dealt | :23:33. | :23:34. | |
with more than the monarchy. Interventions by Charles has | :23:35. | :23:42. | |
certainly raised eyebrows before, but as he moves ever closer to the | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
throne, they pose obvious risks, as the Prince knows. One point of view | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
is that Charles was merely articulating what many people have | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
said in private. The question, though, is whether it was wise for | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
the future king of the United Kingdom to share such views with a | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
complete stranger. Or might it may be more prudent for him to follow | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
more closely the example of his mother? | :24:07. | :24:17. | |
Next the story of six young people in Iran who were arrested | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
for posting a video of themselves dancing to the hit "Happy" by the | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
Police in Tehran said the film showing | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
women without headscarves dancing with men, "hurt public chastity". | :24:28. | :24:29. | |
Latest reports from Iran say some of the dancers have now been released. | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
The video that has gone viral since it was first uploaded a month ago. | :24:34. | :24:41. | |
It shows a group of young Iranians dancing on the rooftops of Tehran to | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
Like many other Pharrell fans around the world, they made | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
On Tuesday night, Tehran's police chief Hossein Sajedinia said they | :24:53. | :25:07. | |
But the pictures and video were blurred for people watching in Iran. | :25:08. | :25:15. | |
The detainees confessed, saying they were deceived into making the video. | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
Following the State TV programme, a huge campaign started on social | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
#FreehappyIranians is now trending on Twitter and Facebook. | :25:23. | :25:31. | |
Pharrell Williams has also made a statement | :25:32. | :25:33. | |
Experts say on the face of it, the reason they were arrested was | :25:34. | :25:45. | |
because the women weren't wearing headscarves | :25:46. | :25:47. | |
But today, the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani tweeted an excerpt | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
from a speech he made last year, in which he said happiness was a right, | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
though hardliners are worried about the potential use of social media to | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
whip up support for causes they don't agree with. | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
Latest reports say the men and women have been released on bail. | :26:06. | :26:17. | |
And just time to remind you of our main news. The militant Islamist | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
group Boko Haram has been blamed for attacks on to remote images in | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
north-eastern Nigeria, in which 27 people have been killed. This comes | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
after twin bombs on Tuesday claimed at least 122 lives. The Government | :26:32. | :26:38. | |
has blamed the Islamic group of the attack. Rescue workers searched the | :26:39. | :26:46. | |
central market today. I am Philippa Thomas, thank you for being with us | :26:47. | :26:48. | |
today. Hello, once again. After a pretty | :26:49. | :27:00. | |
decent day in many parts of the British Isles, except the North of | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
Scotland, it has to be said, tomorrow could come as | :27:05. | :27:06. |