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This is BBC World News Today with me Zeinab Badawi. | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
Leaders of the G7 group of industrialised nations put Russia on | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
stop backing the rebels there or face new deeper sanctions. | :00:14. | :00:22. | |
It is the first meeting of the group since Russia's membership was | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
suspended over the annexation of Crimea. In an exclusive interview | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
with the BBC, the US defence secretary says Putin's actions have | :00:34. | :00:42. | |
united Europe and NATO. World War II veterans gather at in northern | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
France to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings. | :00:46. | :00:52. | |
And it took six months to write, a decade to be published and it was | :00:53. | :01:00. | |
the surprise winner of Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. We talked | :01:01. | :01:01. | |
to the winning author Eimer McBride. Welcome to the programme. In | :01:02. | :01:20. | |
Brussels, leaders of the G7 group of industrialised nations have want | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
Russia to do more to end the crisis in Ukraine or face further sections. | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
President Obama said Moscow should recognise Petro Poroshenko is really | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
just a medley elected president of Ukraine and Russia should stop its | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
backing for separatists in eastern Ukraine. -- is the legitimate | :01:40. | :01:52. | |
elected resident. The club of the world's elite is | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
shrinking. Today, just seven national leaders. A family photo | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
tells the story of Russia's isolation. This was the grams eight | :02:03. | :02:11. | |
a year ago. Then, Vladimir Putin was welcome by David Cameron, but the | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
Russian president has been scrubbed out for now. -- this was the G8 a | :02:19. | :02:27. | |
year ago. President Obama made his feelings clear. Harder sanctions | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
will be on the wane if Russia does not stop interfering in Ukraine. Mr | :02:33. | :02:46. | |
President, do you see a way of opening up a path? There is a path | :02:47. | :02:58. | |
where Russia has the chance to talk directly with Petro Poroshenko. If | :02:59. | :03:08. | |
he does not, it will undermine the sovereignty of Ukraine and we will | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
have no choice but to respond. For now, there is no sign of an end to | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
the violence in Ukraine as the fight for political control goes on. One | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
rebel leader told the BBC that there is no going back. But when Vladimir | :03:25. | :03:35. | |
Putin was asked if he would talk to leaders in Ukraine, the did not roll | :03:36. | :03:47. | |
it out. Our correspondent is in Paris and | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
joins us live. Talks have shifted from Brussels to Paris. Who is | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
meeting who as we speak. It is rather complicated. Right now we | :04:00. | :04:07. | |
have a meeting between resident Obama and the French president. -- | :04:08. | :04:25. | |
President Obama. There is an odd situation where President Hollande | :04:26. | :04:33. | |
is having to dinners. He is with President Obama now and later he | :04:34. | :04:41. | |
will talk to Putin. He has kept both leaders apart because they will not | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
sit down together in public. It is all part of this diplomatic to wing | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
and throwing which has hastily been rushed through so that tomorrow we | :04:53. | :05:01. | |
have the D-Day commemorations, they will be overshadowed by what's going | :05:02. | :05:15. | |
on. When President Hollande has another dinner with Vladimir Putin, | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
what will happen? France said it will maintain its sales with Russia, | :05:23. | :05:30. | |
despite criticism from Washington. It makes you wonder how unified that | :05:31. | :05:38. | |
G7 message to Putin is. When it comes to Ukraine and talking to | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
Poroshenko, no doubt President Hollande will be repeating the same | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
message that David Cameron gave to Putin. But there is this other issue | :05:52. | :06:00. | |
about the French sales of warships to Moscow. Moscow has said quite | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
definitively to France, don't think of stopping this sale because if you | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
do, you won't be selling anything else to us and also is a commercial | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
contracts will be on the line. But there is pressure from the Americans | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
not to go ahead with it. The French are determined to go ahead with it | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
because it is important to them and it is half done anyway. These are | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
two ships that will help the Russian military effort, for example, in the | :06:29. | :06:36. | |
war against Georgia two or three years ago they would have made a | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
difference. They are is a lot of criticism, but the French are keen | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
to push ahead with it because they don't get big contracts like this | :06:47. | :06:55. | |
everyday. Thank you very much. The US will be hoping that the G7 | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
message to President Putin is loud and clear. In an exclusive interview | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
with the BBC, the US Defence Secretary said Vladimir Putin's | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
actions had united Europe and NATO and given them, purpose. Our | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
correspondence asked him first how much of a threat Russia poses to | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
Europe at the moment. Based on its recent actions as it is essentially | :07:25. | :07:34. | |
illegally annexed Crimea, put over 40,000 of its troops under Ukrainian | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
border, I think those actions speak very clearly on what his interests | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
are. We know the Russians are pulling a lot of those troops back, | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
but many remain. It is critically important for NATO and all the | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
European nations to recognise this very real threat and challenge to | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
their security. A lot of East European countries are nervous about | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
the Russian threat. Can you guarantee to NATO members in the | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
east of Europe that you would defend under Article five every single inch | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
of NATO territory? We have reassured and committed to that. We are very | :08:19. | :08:28. | |
responsible members of NATO. We are committed to our 27 allies in NATO. | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
Article five is not just a piece of paper. I said that once again in the | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
last two days in Brussels. The president has made it clear. Our | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
actions over the last few months have had some resonance on that | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
point as we have moved rotational troop presence in the Baltics. So if | :08:52. | :09:01. | |
Russia moved in, you would take action? Article five of the treaty | :09:02. | :09:10. | |
is very clear. If any of those members of NATO are violated or | :09:11. | :09:18. | |
invaded, then all of NATO, all of the 27 other members have a | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
responsibility to come to the defence of our partners. We, just | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
like the British, Germans and French have committed to this again and | :09:29. | :09:39. | |
again. Let us talk about Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl. You spoke to his | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
family last night. How are they responding to be criticism in the | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
public surrounding their son's release? His parents are strong | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
people. Any of us who are parents, and I know you are one, so I might, | :09:54. | :10:01. | |
has that dimension to ask whereby we don't care how much we are obligated | :10:02. | :10:10. | |
professionally, we are a parent. I wanted to assure them we were doing | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
everything we could. We need to rehabilitate him and get his health | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
back so that he can be reunited with his family and brought back into | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
society. I have been the target of the criticism, so I am aware of it. | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
We did the right thing here. The president feels very strongly about | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
this and so do I. I have into warm and I know a lot about it. -- I have | :10:38. | :10:49. | |
been to war. Many American senators are not convinced. What was the | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
urgency? What made you do it without going to Congress and saying, we | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
want to give you a heads up? It was our judgement that his life and his | :11:03. | :11:10. | |
health were in peril. Imminently? It is easy for us to sit here and look | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
behind and say, 24 hours, 48 hours. It was our judgement, which was | :11:18. | :11:27. | |
unanimous by the way, we all came to the same conclusion that we did not | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
want to take any chances. Can you imagine if we would have waited or | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
taken the chance of leaks over a 30 day period? I will tell you what I | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
know, and I made a judgement on this as well. This would have imperilled | :11:42. | :11:49. | |
getting him out. You are going to testify before Congress next week. | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
Can you guarantee that the five detainees released from Grand Canyon | :11:53. | :11:53. | |
Mowbray will be detainees released from Grand Canyon | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
Mowbray held in the conditions that the United States would find | :12:00. | :12:00. | |
tolerable? -- Montana Mowbray. I was satisfied that it was all | :12:01. | :12:26. | |
mitigated enough that the risk for our... But the Taliban see this as a | :12:27. | :12:34. | |
victory. They would not have released that video otherwise. Let's | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
look at the bottom line. We have back in our possession our one | :12:40. | :12:47. | |
prisoner of war that was still outstanding. That was the US Defence | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
Secretary Chuck Hagel. Now some of the other news in brief. The Israeli | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
government has announced plans to build about the Dean hundred new | :12:59. | :13:07. | |
settler homes in occupied East Jerusalem -- 1500 new settler homes. | :13:08. | :13:17. | |
The Palestinian leadership has threatened and unprecedented | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
response to the settlement plan. Narendra Modi may visit Japan. There | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
are some proposed dates and Visic could happen as early as June. The | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
Indian president has a long working investment with Japan with companies | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
investing in which a rat where he was chief minister. China has made a | :13:44. | :14:00. | |
formal complaint to the US. It's regarding remarks made about ten and | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
square. Many of it in Hong Kong to mark the 25th anniversary of the | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
event, but all mention of it is forbidden in mainland China. Two | :14:11. | :14:20. | |
those ceremonies to mark the 70th anniversary of D-Day had begun. Many | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
have gone to Normandy to honour those who gave their lives in the | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
Second World War. This morning the Prince of Wales met some of the | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
survivors and laid a wreath in their honour. This afternoon one veteran | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
of the conflict played a special part in the commemorations. | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
At the iconic bridge, Prince Charles, the colonel in charge of | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
the Parachute Regiment, marked the loss of life in the surprise attack | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
that was Faisal to be D-Day landings. We give thanks to the men | :14:55. | :15:08. | |
of the glider regiment. In the hours before the seaborne assault, 181 men | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
carried in gliders targeted bridges over which German been fulsome and | :15:13. | :15:20. | |
could threaten Allied forces. -- German reinforcements. Then to this | :15:21. | :15:30. | |
cafe, which is still owned by the same family that owned injuring | :15:31. | :15:38. | |
D-Day. This veteran was badly wounded and returned for the first | :15:39. | :15:39. | |
time. asked me to get down to the first | :15:40. | :15:57. | |
aid post. I said, no thank you. I have never refused an order in my | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
life, but I said I wanted to stay on the machine-gun post. 13,000 feet | :16:04. | :16:11. | |
above the wartime object is, this veteran raced himself for another | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
job. He had helped his unit sees a nearby town. Below him, and admiring | :16:16. | :16:26. | |
audience watched him and his partner lands perfectly. Once I stuck my | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
head out the door and I got a heave from the back, I was away. We | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
trained for months and we landed with one purpose in mind and that | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
was to liberate. 300 parachutes loss and. Men from Britain, France and | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
Canada and the US, representing thousands who had plunged from the | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
darkness to protect the landing beaches. Some who took part today | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
had direct connections to those events. This man jumped in memory of | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
his grandfather. My grandfather fought in the battle. He was one of | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
the 20 survivors of the 100 that started the battle. There are fewer | :17:12. | :17:19. | |
to tell their stories now but the sights and sounds remember by the | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
veterans of the brotherhood who wear to tell their stories now but the | :17:24. | :17:24. | |
sights and sounds remember by the red array. It is an honour to be | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
here. sights and sounds remember by the | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
red array. It is an I am 91 now. I feel like I want to cry. Tomorrow, | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
veterans will hold their last formal parade. Some have already promised | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
that as long as they are able, they will return here and they will | :17:44. | :17:56. | |
remember. Our correspondent joins us now. What | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
is going on in your neck of the woods? Commemorations get underway | :18:02. | :18:15. | |
tomorrow. A flag will be put up tomorrow morning perhaps for the | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
last time. The numbers of veterans have dwindled and we are down to the | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
final moment where that flag can fly over this part of the beach. A | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
ceremony has just been undertaken. It has been a remarkable day. Where | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
we are, to the right of me are the beaches of Utah and Omaha, the | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
American beaches. And to my left of the British and Canadian beaches. | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
Tomorrow, it is 70 years since 155,000 Allied troops stormed these | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
beaches and change the course of the Second World War. It became known as | :18:54. | :19:02. | |
The Longest Day. You will see a lot of re-enactments of those 70 years. | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
But members of the Royal family will be here tomorrow for a more sombre | :19:07. | :19:16. | |
occasion. The focus will be on the veterans themselves and about 100 of | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
them will be taking the salute. The US President, Barack Obama, | :19:21. | :19:32. | |
has signalled his unease at the prospect of Scottish independence. | :19:33. | :19:34. | |
Asked about the referendum which is only three months away, the | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
President said the issue is one for the Scottish people but he felt that | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
the UK works pretty well as it is. Our correspondent Lorna Gordon is | :19:45. | :19:46. | |
in Glasgow. It has been dubbed the special | :19:47. | :20:00. | |
relationship. A decades-old military and diplomatic relationship between | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
the US and the UK. So any contributions about Scotland and its | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
future, none have been as significant as this. The United | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
Kingdom has been an extraordinary partner to us. From the outside at | :20:19. | :20:20. | |
least, it looks like things have worked pretty well. We obviously | :20:21. | :20:29. | |
have a deep interest in making sure that one of the closest allies that | :20:30. | :20:38. | |
we will ever have remains strong, robust United and an effective | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
partner. The US will be watching closely what happens in Scotland. | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
Faslane on the Clyde is home to Trident, the UK's nuclear weapons | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
system and the US maintains the missiles. The US have said if | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
Scotland were independent, there would be no nuclear weapons on | :21:00. | :21:09. | |
Scottish soil. I think his remarks are well judged. This is a matter | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
for Scottish people, it is our democratic choice. We are aware we | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
are in a position to make the democratic choice as a nation. But | :21:21. | :21:28. | |
also welcoming his comments, those campaigning to keep the union in | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
place. I wasn't surprised, but they will be seen as a significant | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
intervention in the referendum debate because they reflect what so | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
many of us in Scotland believe. The impact of the comments is yet | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
unclear. It is not obvious how this intervention will be viewed by those | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
deciding on how they will vote in a little over 100 days. | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
in Glasgow. As we reported on Wednesday, the | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction has been won by Eimear McBride for | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
her debut novel 'A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing?. The prize is | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
awarded to any woman writing in English whatever her nationality, | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
age or subject matter. Eimear McBride received the award at the | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
Royal Festival Hall in London and joins an impressive list of winners | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
including Rose Tremain, Zadie Smith and Lionel Shriver. | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
I'm pleased to say Eimear McBride is with me. | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
Congratulations. You were very surprised? I was, I wasn't expect | :22:29. | :22:44. | |
ting it. It is a gritty novel based on a young woman's relationship with | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
her brother who has a brain tumour? It is close to my own heart and I | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
was interested in those themes of struggle and what it is like for | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
people in a closed society to deal with problems that can't be spoken | :22:58. | :23:06. | |
about. Why close to your own heart? I lost a brother to a brain tumour. | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
It was the beginning of the story and then I explored it in a | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
different way. But it is totally fiction? It is, yes. You were | :23:18. | :23:25. | |
praised by the judges to have a novel that stood out. What kind of | :23:26. | :23:27. | |
message did you want to relate to people? Part of the inventiveness of | :23:28. | :23:38. | |
the book is about its language and linguistic structure. What I was | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
interested in as a writer is create a different reading experience, so | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
the reader would have an unmediated experience between the protagonist | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
and the reader and the author would disappear from that relationship | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
altogether. Your fellow Irish novelist has described you as a | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
genius. But there are some reviews who say it is a difficult book at | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
the beginning to read. Are you there to please everybody or is it just | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
for a certain kind of reader? I would contest it is very difficult. | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
It is unusual on the page when you look at it, there are short | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
sentences and there isn't a lot of actuation beyond a full stop. But | :24:28. | :24:39. | |
people soon forget about the style and don't find it difficult. It took | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
you six months to write but nearly a decade to get published. It was | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
rejected a lot. There is a moral to other budding novelists, persevere? | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
! Publishers were possibly cynical about their readers and the ability | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
of their readers to be interested in challenging subjects and books | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
written in a challenging style. I think the success of this will | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
provide an incentive for publishers to be a bit more adventurous in the | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
future. You did remarkably well with your Debian novel, are you working | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
on a second one? I have been working on the second one for about five | :25:22. | :25:28. | |
years. It has similar themes but taken from a different. I am still | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
interested in language and what that can be made to do. I am evolving the | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
style I discovered and hopefully taking it further. You have gone | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
from being an actress to now becoming a novelist and clearly a | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
successful one. I shall go and read your book. Thank you very much. | :25:50. | :25:58. | |
A reminder of our main story. Leaders of the G-7 group of | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
industrialised nations have warned Russia to do more to end the crisis | :26:04. | :26:06. | |
in Ukraine or face further sanctions. President Obama said they | :26:07. | :26:14. | |
should recognise the newly elected President of Ukraine and Russia | :26:15. | :26:17. | |
should stop the backing for the separatists in eastern Ukraine. | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
President Putin is in Paris where he has been holding talks with G7 | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
leaders. In an exclusive interview with the BBC, the US defence | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
secretary has said Vladimir Putin's actions had united Europe and NATO | :26:33. | :26:41. | |
and given them common purpose. He was speaking about this as well as | :26:42. | :26:44. | |
the recent release of the US soldier from Afghanistan. That is it for | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
now, next is the weather. Good night. | :26:50. | :27:03. | |
Thursday turned out to be a disappointing day. For many it will | :27:04. | :27:10. | |
feel a little bit warmer and for | :27:11. | :27:11. |