30/05/2014 World News Today

This is BBC World News, with me Zeinab Badawi.

The number of irregular migrants into Europe rises sharply.

As many as 60,000 have already arrived this year,

after making treacherous journeys across continents and seas in

We have a special report from Libya, where tens of thousands wait in

cramped and filthy conditions, hoping for a better life in Europe.

As many as 60,000 have already arrived this year, This is an open

door from the continent to Europe. But the worry is that the people are

coming from further afield. Brutal killings in India. After two

teenage girls were gang-raped then hanged, the father of one victim

says the police ridiculed him Also coming up - history deleted?

Google begins to allow EU citizens to remove personal information from

internet searches, after a landmark Was Richard the Third really the

hunchback in Shakespeare's play? New research casts doubt on the extent

of his deformity. Could Tudor propagandists be behind his

much-maligned image? Good evening. The success of

anti-immigration parties in the European elections comes against a

background on the rise against irregular migrants reaching Europe.

It is bound to add to the current debate. In the first four months of

this year, more than 60,000 years migrants tried to enter Europe from

North Africa. We followed one group being smuggled out of Libya. In an

isolated room, a door opens to: Anshuman misery.

Nearly 400 million, illegal immigrants from across Africa, are

held here. There was barely room to sit and

certainly not sleep. They are sick and Hungary. Most are trying to get

to Europe. Our smugglers trying to get you to Europe? Did you pay them?

We give them 1600 euros. We find a man on the floor with bullet wounds.

This is the moment when some of those are captured. The armed Coast

Guard finds them. They were heading for Italy, but the engine cut out

after four hours may have been drifting for two days. The water and

food had run and it is pure luck that the Coast Guard found them. The

commander of the rescue said this is Europe's problem is much as that of

Libya. We need the European Union to buy boats and helicopters for search

operations. Countries such as Italy are not serious about fighting this.

On the cause, it is the people smugglers, and not the authorities,

who have the advantage. The Navy see the need much more in the way of

boats and helicopters. They also need a lot more body bags, for the

amount of dead migrants they are picking up in boats and from the

water. We are taken on board. It is so full of bodies of migrants, he

simply has too jammed the door closed. Once, there were only three

a year, no it is eight journeys a week. The men are crossing into

Libya know they are not welcome. They are promised jobs in Newark.

They say it is better than what they could leave behind. Here, a truck is

found with a false compartment. Inside, barely able to believe, to

dozen men. One is carrying a Bible. They have risked everything to get

this far. Libya warns that more and more will follow.

Elizabeth Collett is the Director of the Migration Policy Institute

Europe and she joins us live from Brussels.

How far as this rise in numbers due to the fact that the immigration

policy in New York is not working? We have seen the rise this year, but

they have been fluctuating for the past decade. It is not a new

problem. The problem shifts in the southern border every time and

again. One of the problems is actually putting together a policy.

The Italian coastguard have been very active over the past six

months, but there has not been an easy solution. You end up with a

compromise. You get the likes of Italy and Malta scene, we need more

funds and better sources and more coordination at European Union level

because we are the ones bearing the brunt of this influx. As the

European Union doing enough to attend to those demands? I think the

difference between the European Union and the member states, the

European Union has used all its funding possible to pursue these

operations in the Mediterranean. However, it is a drop in the ocean,

forgive the pun. Action needs to be done and a lot has to be applied to

a proper search and rescue operation. There has to be a lot

more partnerships with the third world countries, not simply just

North Africa, for the beyond. We need to understand how these

networks are moving. There are enormous resources that could be

applied. This applies to member states and the European Union coming

together and admitting that they will need to put money at this

problem. Are we going to see a shift when it comes to migration policy in

the European Union as a result of some of the successors of the

anti-immigration parties, such as the National front in France? I

think you will see a drop in political coverage from the

mainstream parties in Europe. In the Italian election, extremist groups

did not do well. It suggests, there is a need to address the problem in

the Mediterranean. It obviously resonates with the electorate. Many

mainstream parties could actually be at the forefront of finding the

solution, if they have the confidence to speak up about it.

The government in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh where

two teenage girls were gang-raped and then hanged from a tree has

pledged to set up a special fasttrack court to try the suspects.

The announcement comes after criticism by the victims'

families that it took more than 12 hours for police to respond after

The brutal killings took place in a remote village in Budaun district,

It was a heart-wrenching scene. Two girls, just 14 and 16, were found

dead. Their bodies were found hanging from this mango tree. They

had also been gang raped. We were ready to go to the police station. A

police officer came to me and said even the girls were hanging from a

tree. Relatives of claimed the police have refused to help, because

they were from a law passed. One police officer has been suspended

and another sacked. Whatever happened, this is wrong. It is a

very serious issue and we will take the strictest action against the

culprits. The gang rape of a student on a bus in barely two years ago

brought the issue to the front of the agenda in the country. The

number of reported rapes since has almost doubled. Today, students took

to the streets in protest at the gruesome murder of the women. The

bodies of the women have been brought down, but the brutal

violence that unfolded here has again brought forward the issue of

violent crimes against women in India. The villagers are hoping the

global media attention will help them in the fight for justice. A

terrible case the pain India. The internet giant Google is

starting to accept requests from people in Europe who want personal

information about them removed from online search results. The move

comes after a landmark European Union court ruling earlier this

month, which gave people the "right If you Google yourself and do not

like what you find, you can contact the search engine and do something

about it. You can have a relevant data erased. You simply have to

inform them as to why this should be removed. This came after a ruling at

the European Court. He said they noticed about his repossessed home

infringed his privacy. Google is responsible for nearly 90% of

Internet searches in Europe. They say they will be looking at the

public interest in the future. Requests will be considered on a

case-by-case basis, so the time frame for the remit is unclear. The

chief executive of the company warned that the change could have

serious consequences. He says: He is also warning that resources

spent complying could do damage the technical and narration of the

company going forward. A lot of people will welcome this,

they will say there has been an invasion on my privacy, thank

goodness we have this. We have privacy laws and libel laws. This is

for truthful information which people may or may not have forgotten

about. As a result, we will get effectively, a two tier Internet

system. If you happen to be within the European Union, you will get one

set of returns, but a you are inside the European Union, you will not. If

you are in India, Australia, South Africa, you will get completely

uncensored information. That is one disadvantage, in your view. Is not

perhaps a good idea for some people, if they feel there is on their

bridge has been there for many years? Maybe a picture of the Trail,

watch the want removed? I do not think so. There is a universal

covenant on children's rights. To give you an example, Mr Nick Clegg,

the deputy prime minister, he was convicted of arson in Germany when

he was a student. He was doing something he was not proud of. If

you look on his biography, it is on page 48. You're not going to find

unless you are looking for it. After this result, you will find that will

not be available to people in the United Kingdom. Is that the case?

Google say they are the individual can make the request, but they will

say that if they decide it is not in the public interest to remove it, it

will remain. But the case in point was about a Spanish man who was

found bankrupt any Spanish court and when you Google his name on the

Internet, that came up. The trouble is, if we wanted to go into business

with them, we would want an easy way to find out financial information

about him. That is a critical piece of information that you would be

entitled to and that is why it is a retrograde step. There will be some

unnecessarily gratuitously embarrassing facts about individuals

and as soon as you put that name and, it will dog them for the rest

of their life. This is that information about Oliver is only. We

have all done something we are slightly ashamed of. I certainly

have! That is what makes us human beings. We embrace the fallibility

of our fellow human beings. We mature. People accept that. What we

do not like is the airbrushing of history. One of the problems here is

that 50% of the applications have been from criminals, people who have

been trying to fleece members of the public. It was not for the purpose

it was intended. Thank you very much for joining us.

Now a look at some of the days other news:

A Syrian activist group says barrel bombs and other air raids

on rebel-held parts of Aleppo, have killed nearly 2,000 people

this year, more than a quarter of them children.

Barrel bombs are pushed out of the back of helicopters; packed

with explosives as well as scraps of metal, causing massive

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said their use

seems to have intensified, despite international calls for a halt.

The organisation for Security in Europe says it has lost contact with

monitors in Ukraine. It says another team that have been detained by

pro-Russian separatists are still missing.

Poland's last communist leader has been buried in Warsaw's historic

cemetery despite widespread opposition. In 1981 he imposed

martial law in Poland to crush the pro-democracy union, causing dozens

of deaths. It was a state organised funeral, albeit low-key one for this

most decisive of -- divisive figures. He was awarded -- veteran

and former president so there was a minute regard of order. For previous

presidents attended including one that had been imprisoned during

martial war. They paid their respects to a man who in 1989 per

side it over the peaceful transition from communism to democracy. Outside

there was little respect. For these people he was a Kremlin stooge with

blood on his hands. I am ashamed for the military today who saluted

traitor, a true traitor. It is a disgrace for the Polish nation for

the military to take part in such a circus because this is a circus.

Protesters also gathered outside the country's most prestigious cemetery.

They were angry that the general's ashes were buried beside heroes. For

others he was a tragic figure, caught between the might of the

Soviet Union and the Solidarity democracy movement. As the years

have gone by more and more Polish people say he was right to impose

martial law because, as the general always said, it prevented the Soviet

invasion. People are now living longer than

ever before, and with that comes new challenges in improving the

quality of life for the elderly. AgeLab, at Massachusetts Institute

of Technology, has developed a suit they say

simulates the ageing process, giving younger people a better idea of the

challenges that come later in life. Rajini Vaidyanathan has been finding

out what it's like to go from the This is Agnes, it stands and gives

the user empathy. It allows the user to work in a person's shoes. It

gives them and the thief. Shall I have a go? We will move you from 20

until 80 in 20 minutes. This serves as the frame of the suit, where we

can put the buckles and the straps that will impair different parts of

your body. Women will have a dowager hump because their entire frame is

being weighed down by weakening bone structure as well as muscle

structure. This is adding weight and also restriction. One of the issues

around ageing the physical body is not just what you cannot do but the

amount of energy that you out to expend to be able to do the simple

things that you used to do, from opening a jar to reaching to things

on a shelf. This adds the wait. It is like carrying a dumbbell. Now you

will feel the strain of your hamstrings pulling but take a few

steps and your date has changed. You often see older adults are slow and

they take short steps, it is muscle tone and weight. These are the

latest fashion in shoes. We tend to lose the fat at the bottom of our

feet so your feet begin to hurt and you blame your shoes but it is not

your shoes, it is the feet. We have a variety of goggles that can

simulate low vision and natural ageing. It just looks a bit more

blurred. You will need corrective lenses. We will put the helmet on

and this will pull down the back of your neck and your head, to give you

that dowager hump. As an older adults, if we do not change the

environment around us we find it is about turning inward and truly

retiring. What we want to do at the AgeLab is open up the world and make

it useful even if all of us are not necessarily useful. My feet are

hurting, particular my soul is my knees are really starting to feel

pain and my lower back. And my head. I feel like I direct you want to sit

down. What a difference 20 minutes makes. It is not easy. What will the

future look like in 50 years for me? It will be a lot better and

easier for you than it was for your parents. An ageing society as a

reason to reinvent society live longer and better.

She was looking a little bit older than when I last saw her!

A bunch-backed toad was how Shakespeare immortalised the late

And for centuries he has been depicted as an evil cripple

The king's body was discovered in a sensational find under

a car park in the English city of Leicester last year.

But now scientists who've examined Richard's skeleton say that

although he was troubled by some degree of spinal curvurture, or

scoliosis, any deformity would have been barely noticeable to others.

The research published in the Lancet medical journal suggests

a good tailor and armourer could have disguised the condition.

The latest findings add more weight to the arguments

of those who believe the caricature of an evil hunchback was part of

a campaign by Richard's successors to boost their own legitimacy.

I'm joined from Edinburgh now by Philippa Langley who initiated

the search for King Richard's lost grave as part of her ongoing

research into history's most controversial monarch.

What did the Lancet actually say about his disfigurement? Much more

minor than we thought? The specialists had said it was just a

scoliosis and it was not when the head was pushed forward and onto the

chest. Does that mean he would have looked like anybody else when people

saw him? Yes, absolutely. That fits with the contemporary descriptions

of Richard by people who saw in and new Inn. Nobody mentioned anything

out of the ordinary. I think if you put it in to context today it is

like our Queen, the Queen of Britain. She has once shoulder

higher than the other but we do not notice it. It is not something we

talk about. History tells us he was quite a great warrior himself,

wasn't he? He was. He fought in three battles and he took a big part

in those battles, fighting right in the middle of the men. In his final

battle he was at the front, leading the army. We know that he was

incredibly physically active and physically able. Why has he been

such a maligned character? History is always written by the victors.

Henry Tudor, who became the king after him, Henry VII, had no blood

claim to the throne. He needed to really make himself look like the

good choice, the current choice, in order to confirm his legitimacy on

the throne to everyone around him because he had taken over the

Plantagenet dynasty that was on the throne before. The Tudors, Henry VII

was the first Tudor, waged a sort of a propaganda campaign against

Richard III? I think that was passed of it. When you look at the research

into Richard and you look at the historical documentation and the

accounts and letters that we have, the Tudor Shakespearian portrayal

does not fit with what you get from his contemporary time. Do you think

that as a result of these findings that accidents, present and future,

are going to have to depict Richard III in a different way, that will be

quite tricky if they carry on doing Shakespeare's Richard III which

really does portray him as this sort of evil character. Yes, I think we

are beginning to see this already because I know here in England, in

Nottingham, they did Richard -- recent Richard III where they took

away the limping Gate and the withered arm and all of that. I

think maybe it is beginning already. Thank you very much indeed for

talking to us about the need to revise our idea of what Richard III

looks like. The largest private collection of

drawings, poems and prose by John Lennon is due to go up for sale at

auction. It was created for use in his books. It has been owned by

those books British publisher for half a century. A nine page

manuscript is estimated to fetch up to $70,000 while another sketch has

a presale value of $15,000. The auction takes place in New York next

month. That is it and next we have the

weather but from me and the rest of the team, goodbye and enjoy your

weekend. Good evening. It was a quiet end to

the week. There was quite a lot of cloud but despite it it was dry

everywhere and it is to write tomorrow for the most part with many

places seeing sunshine. It is quiet and it will be quiet