:00:22. > :00:34.Welcome to BBC World News Today. Coming up... We look at the global
:00:35. > :00:38.refugee surge. The US names and shames the countries in the world
:00:39. > :00:42.that have the worst record on human traffic on. As fighting rages
:00:43. > :00:47.between government forces and jihadists in Iraq, a senior cleric
:00:48. > :00:55.calls for the formation of an inclusive government. And tiny Costa
:00:56. > :01:03.Rica beat mighty Italy in the World Cup knocking England out of the
:01:04. > :01:22.competition. And come fly with me. We look back at the early glamour of
:01:23. > :01:27.the jet age. Hello and welcome to the programme.
:01:28. > :01:31.One of the human costs of conflict and insecurity is the number of
:01:32. > :01:35.people around the world to become refugees. The UN refugee agency says
:01:36. > :01:40.the number of people displaced by war or persecution rose to over 50
:01:41. > :01:46.million last year, the highest total since World War II to. Of these, 17
:01:47. > :01:52.million have left the country in search of security. The war in Syria
:01:53. > :01:55.is driving up the numbers. According to the most recent figures to .8
:01:56. > :02:00.million Syrians have fled the country since the war began more
:02:01. > :02:07.than three years ago. Most of them have gone to neighbouring countries.
:02:08. > :02:13.New arrivals from Syria. The conflict is in its year. 2.5 million
:02:14. > :02:20.Syrians have fled their country. They may be saved at this can never
:02:21. > :02:26.be home. Another 6.5 million are displaced inside Syria. They are
:02:27. > :02:31.short of food and medical care and aid agencies can scarcely reach
:02:32. > :02:35.them. Around the world, war and persecution have driven over 51
:02:36. > :02:41.million people from their homes. It is the highest figure since World
:02:42. > :02:47.War II. It is a quantum leap. It is a qualitative change. The world is
:02:48. > :02:52.becoming more violent and more people are being displaced. The
:02:53. > :02:58.capacity to solve this problem from a humanitarian point of view does
:02:59. > :03:01.not exist. Aid agencies are impatient at fob they see as
:03:02. > :03:08.paralysis within the UN Security Council. Designed to prevent and
:03:09. > :03:12.solve conflict it seems to be doing anything but. Hundreds of thousands
:03:13. > :03:19.of refugees have been in camps for years. New wars add to their
:03:20. > :03:27.numbers. In 2013 32,000 people fled their homes every day. From the
:03:28. > :03:32.Central African Republic, South Sudan, Somalia, Syria. Their lives
:03:33. > :03:38.are on hold until they can go home. Among that figure of the 1 million
:03:39. > :03:48.displaced, the latest from Iraq have not even been added to the figures.
:03:49. > :03:57.Let's talk some more about this. With me is Dave Garrett Chief
:03:58. > :04:04.Executive of Refugee Action and jet crisp who joins us from Washington.
:04:05. > :04:10.He is from Refugees International. This is happening because the world
:04:11. > :04:17.is not doing enough. That is correct. There is a high number of
:04:18. > :04:22.refugees. It is the result of a number of different factors. We have
:04:23. > :04:28.long-standing conflicts such as those in Amistad and Somalia which
:04:29. > :04:32.are not getting any better. That is preventing refugees from going back
:04:33. > :04:37.to their own country. In the last few years we have had new
:04:38. > :04:42.emergencies such as South Sudan and the Central African Republic. Now we
:04:43. > :04:48.are worried about the situation in Ukraine and northern Nigeria. The
:04:49. > :04:53.numbers seem set to rise. The number given by the United Nations is an
:04:54. > :04:57.out of date figure. That is for the end of 2013 and we have seen a
:04:58. > :05:06.bigger exodus of refugees from Syria since then. That number of April
:05:07. > :05:13.continuing to rise, it is the most disadvantaged countries in the world
:05:14. > :05:26.who support them. That is correct. It is about 85%. The developed world
:05:27. > :05:31.is not doing enough. In the UK, for example, we have a resettlement
:05:32. > :05:42.programme. It has an ambition to resettle 750 people every year. That
:05:43. > :05:52.compares quite badly to other years. -- to other countries. We have only
:05:53. > :06:03.resettle 24 people since March. It is a wake-up call to the West. Give
:06:04. > :06:10.us the figures for Syria for the UK. In terms of the programme, and
:06:11. > :06:18.spontaneous arrivals, it is difficult to get the figures. We are
:06:19. > :06:24.only talking about a few thousand. We are talking about applications
:06:25. > :06:29.but Sweden has more than any others? That is correct. Countries like
:06:30. > :06:34.Germany have pledged to bring in 20 hours and people. These are the
:06:35. > :06:37.figures we need to see the UK Government is starting to have
:06:38. > :06:47.ambitions are bad. The numbers are very small. Can the UK and nations
:06:48. > :06:53.like it do more to help? What should they be doing? They have a number of
:06:54. > :06:59.responsibilities. The first is to admit asylum seekers and refugees.
:07:00. > :07:03.They have a responsibility to support humanitarian agencies in
:07:04. > :07:09.their efforts to provide life-saving assistance to refugees. Haps most of
:07:10. > :07:12.all, they have a political responsibility to try and use
:07:13. > :07:18.diplomacy to bring conflicts to an end. As we have seen in the case of
:07:19. > :07:22.Syria, the UN Security Council is paralysed. He cannot even get
:07:23. > :07:29.cross-border assistance to the people who are in need. We are at a
:07:30. > :07:35.very bad moment in political history for the international community. The
:07:36. > :07:45.system of international governance is not functioning. Very quickly,
:07:46. > :07:50.what happens to refugees generally? It can be very difficult to build a
:07:51. > :07:56.new life in a new country. What we see happening is that refugees are
:07:57. > :08:03.some of the very most resilient and powerful people and we should be
:08:04. > :08:11.proud to welcome them. Thank you. The Syrian authorities said a car
:08:12. > :08:20.bomb have killed at least -- has killed at least four people. More
:08:21. > :08:25.than 50 people were injured in the blast in a government-controlled
:08:26. > :08:28.village. Iraqi security forces are continuing
:08:29. > :08:39.their battle with jihadists from ISIS. There have been fierce clashes
:08:40. > :08:51.over at the airport in the strategic Tal Afar just outside the autonomous
:08:52. > :09:00.Kurdish region in the North just bites its way across northern Iraq,
:09:01. > :09:21.a be verified but it comes from social media accounts with no links
:09:22. > :09:36.intent on we we will go to the men in the film to the the fighters are
:09:37. > :09:43.the deepening concern in the West. We should recognise the dangers to
:09:44. > :09:47.Britain we have Islamist extremists in control of a part of this country
:09:48. > :09:59.and we believe it is absolutely correct for the Americans to
:10:00. > :10:08.confront these problems Baghdad, fighting continues for a a local
:10:09. > :10:18.commander was reported as saying the refinery supplies 25% of all Kurdish
:10:19. > :10:25.troops are patrolling their own front lines further north and
:10:26. > :10:35.looking for they have used this crisis to it is part of out at the
:10:36. > :10:45.ready and President Obama has made it clear he just yet. He -- to deal
:10:46. > :10:53.with the threat. He is not concentrating at the moment on brute
:10:54. > :11:04.force. It is clear that the problem. John Kerry arrives in
:11:05. > :11:22.Baghdad in the coming days and he hand from a leading cleric called
:11:23. > :11:26.for a government which towards a new future Nouri al-Maliki did well in
:11:27. > :12:14.the elections if you've months ago and will be in -- what is the risk
:12:15. > :12:23.that is as fighters could reactivate this complex? I think the risk is
:12:24. > :12:29.pretty low. The United States is playing it down. However we do know
:12:30. > :12:38.that there are large stockpiles of very old and agents which are well
:12:39. > :12:51.past their sell by date. It is sealed in concrete Rhian forced
:12:52. > :12:58.bunkers. We have seen wider use of chemical weapons in Syria.
:12:59. > :13:04.Improvised chemical weapons are being used. Al-Qaeda used mustered
:13:05. > :14:02.shells and others between 2004 and nine. In Iraq ISIS have been doing
:14:03. > :14:11.research. Which ISIS code replicate in Iraq. This is the modus
:14:12. > :14:15.operandi, the way of using them that they have done in Syria. Thanks very
:14:16. > :14:18.much indeed for talking us through that.
:14:19. > :14:19.The Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko,
:14:20. > :14:22.has announced that a ceasefire will come into effect about now.
:14:23. > :14:25.It's part of his peace plan aimed at ending a two-month insurgency in
:14:26. > :14:31.But a separatist leader says the rebels will not disarm
:14:32. > :14:41.Let's have a look at the peace plan in more detail.
:14:42. > :14:44.The first stage is the unilateral week-long ceasefire by government
:14:45. > :14:49.A corridor will be created to allow non-Ukrainian fighters to leave
:14:50. > :14:53.A ten kilometre wide buffer zone is proposed for the border
:14:54. > :15:00.The plan also promises decentralisation of power to
:15:01. > :15:05.Daniel Sandford reports from the Luhansk region,
:15:06. > :15:13.where the fighting has turned once peaceful villages into a war-zone.
:15:14. > :15:17.Homes destroyed by shells fired by the Ukrainian army.
:15:18. > :15:22.As it takes on pro-Russian rebels deep in their own territory.
:15:23. > :15:26.This part of this small town is now abandoned.
:15:27. > :15:31.We are half an hour's drive north of Luhansk on one
:15:32. > :15:34.of the main roads out of the city heading towards the Russian
:15:35. > :15:37.border and there has been very heavy fighting here in recent days.
:15:38. > :15:42.It is eerily quiet in this small town at the moment.
:15:43. > :15:45.And you can see one of the results of the fighting
:15:46. > :15:50.That there is the forward position of the slowly
:15:51. > :15:57.Local people told us the fighting had become much fiercer
:15:58. > :16:01.in recent days and that some villagers had been killed.
:16:02. > :16:03.Slowly, the civilian death toll is rising
:16:04. > :16:16.Here, it's been going on since Friday.
:16:17. > :16:20.Before then, there were exchanges of fire but nothing on this scale.
:16:21. > :16:27.As we made our way back to Luhansk, we found the main road been blocked.
:16:28. > :16:31.The rebels had blown up a footbridge and crashed it down on the highway.
:16:32. > :16:36.It's a dramatic way for the soldiers of the self declared
:16:37. > :16:42.the Luhansk People's Republic to build their own defences.
:16:43. > :16:56.This week the fighters on the two sides have been exchanging bodies
:16:57. > :16:58.which has seen some of the worst
:16:59. > :16:59.fighting, conditions deteriorate by the
:17:00. > :17:00.day. Some like this woman have escaped
:17:01. > :17:02.to Donetsk where I found in a
:17:03. > :17:04.dormitory. But she said many have
:17:05. > :17:05.remained behind. Everybody is saying
:17:06. > :17:07.we're going to die here, she told me.
:17:08. > :17:08.They shouldn't be dying. They should
:17:09. > :17:09.all leave. The Ukrainian government
:17:10. > :17:11.has offered a ceasefire to allow
:17:12. > :17:12.the rebel gunmen to give up their
:17:13. > :17:14.weapons but there's no sign of that.
:17:15. > :17:15.Eastern Ukraine is sliding into a
:17:16. > :17:25.Thailand, Malaysia and Venezuela have been
:17:26. > :17:28.strongly criticised, by the United States, as some of the world's worst
:17:29. > :17:33.In the State Department's annual Trafficking in Persons Report,
:17:34. > :17:36.the countries have been placed in the lowest tier for failing to
:17:37. > :17:40.meet its minimum standards in the elimination of trafficking.
:17:41. > :17:47.Mr Kerry however said no country was without blame.
:17:48. > :17:49.For years we have known that this crime affects every country
:17:50. > :18:00.More than 20 million people, a conservative estimate,
:18:01. > :18:08.And United States is the first to acknowledge that no government
:18:09. > :18:25.And we all need to try harder and do more.
:18:26. > :18:29.The International Labour organisation estimates that
:18:30. > :18:32.around $150 billion in profits are generated annually
:18:33. > :18:39.from trafficking, of which $99 billion goes into the sex industry.
:18:40. > :18:43.With me is Amy Willerton, she is currently Miss Great Britain,
:18:44. > :18:46.but has had first-hand experience of just how easy it is
:18:47. > :18:53.for young women to be trafficked for the sex industry.
:18:54. > :19:02.You are 21 now. When you were 18, I think, you had a bit of terrible
:19:03. > :19:08.experience which is given new insight into how easy it is to be
:19:09. > :19:12.human traffic for the sex industry. Tell us what happened. When I was
:19:13. > :19:19.18, I went to south-east Asia for a beauty pageant,. I went over there.
:19:20. > :19:22.When I arrived, I basically discovered that the girls had been
:19:23. > :19:29.brought over in order to be sold into the sex trade. You know, from
:19:30. > :19:34.the perspective of somebody that has been educated. I come from a very
:19:35. > :19:41.privileged society, so easily entering into that world, ignorant
:19:42. > :19:49.leak, yeah, you can slip into a quite easily -- ignorantly. How many
:19:50. > :19:53.young women were included in this pageant? Roughly 40 other girls
:19:54. > :20:00.about the same age. All from different parts of the world. All of
:20:01. > :20:05.them just wanted an opportunity to change their lives, I suppose. Most
:20:06. > :20:14.young women do. So what happens to you? First of all, when I arrived, I
:20:15. > :20:20.had suspicions the pageant wasn't quite what it seemed straight away.
:20:21. > :20:23.Within the first two days, I was assaulted several times and when we
:20:24. > :20:30.arrived at the hotel, it was just a room with one blanket and ten of us,
:20:31. > :20:34.the door was locked. Girls were randomly being pulled to judges
:20:35. > :20:39.rooms. Some of the girls believed it was still a beauty pageant and when
:20:40. > :20:43.they were being told, go to this man and have sex with him, and you will
:20:44. > :20:49.win this competition, they believed it. Did they take away your
:20:50. > :20:54.passport? Yes, in order to stop us leaving, they took away my passport
:20:55. > :21:00.for the I was lucky. I stole a phone and got my passport back. It was
:21:01. > :21:06.quite clever how I went about that and it took me 12 days to get away.
:21:07. > :21:10.I fled, I ran away, and they chased me to the airport and I had to use
:21:11. > :21:16.physical means to get my passport back but managed to get home. You
:21:17. > :21:20.say, even though you were from a privileged background, Dales were
:21:21. > :21:25.from the countryside and how they could get a job. It's so easy to
:21:26. > :21:29.fall into it and it's about trying to inspire confidence in these
:21:30. > :21:34.girls, so we don't end up in this awful situations. Any of these girls
:21:35. > :21:40.who end up in the sex trade often, it's not by choice and yet, they are
:21:41. > :21:44.penalised by outside society as prostitutes when it's not something
:21:45. > :21:48.they gone into was choice. Thank you very much indeed for speaking up
:21:49. > :21:51.about the perils of human trafficking of young women for the
:21:52. > :21:59.sex industry. Thanks very much indeed.
:22:00. > :22:03.Now to the World Cup and the game has just finished which may decide
:22:04. > :22:08.Giles Goford has been watching Italy play Costa Rica.
:22:09. > :22:15.Italy are for times world champions. Costa Rica have won just four World
:22:16. > :22:21.Cup games before kick-off but the victory over Uruguay raised hopes of
:22:22. > :22:25.another shock result. Mario ballot tally was the hero against England
:22:26. > :22:31.against their opening game. This effort was below par. Campbell was
:22:32. > :22:37.causing the Italian defence trouble. Could've had a penalty here but a
:22:38. > :22:41.minute later, frustration turned to delight as the captain headed in at
:22:42. > :22:45.the far post. Costa Rica, in the lead, knowing a win would put them
:22:46. > :22:50.through to the last 16 with a game to spare. Italy were the shadow of
:22:51. > :22:54.the team which beat England. They could not find their way through.
:22:55. > :22:59.Time eventually got the better of them so Costa Rica qualify. That
:23:00. > :23:01.means England are out. The final second-round spot, Italy and Uruguay
:23:02. > :23:18.on Tuesday. Next up, the two top teams in
:23:19. > :23:21.Group E, Switzerland And it's an Latin American clash
:23:22. > :23:24.in the late game between two first round losers,
:23:25. > :23:28.as Honduras take on Ecuador. Flying is not the glamorous thing
:23:29. > :23:32.it was in the past when only a rich The era of mass air travel means
:23:33. > :23:36.crowded airports, heavy security and tightly packed aircraft and many
:23:37. > :23:39.of us must hanker for an era William Stadiem's new book, Jet Set,
:23:40. > :23:43.tells the story of the aviation pioneers who introduced
:23:44. > :23:48.Americans to ground breaking jet aircraft, and the people who
:23:49. > :23:57.travelled in high speed luxury. # Come fly with me, let's fly,
:23:58. > :24:03.let's fly away #. There was no one more jet-setty
:24:04. > :24:08.in the world than Frank Sinatra, whose theme song, Come Fly With Me,
:24:09. > :24:15.was the anthem of the jetset era. The jet set is a term that came
:24:16. > :24:21.into use with the arrival of the jets starting in 1958, of
:24:22. > :24:27.the people who flew on these jets. And it noted a class
:24:28. > :24:31.of people that were glamorous, It was a very, very, very positive
:24:32. > :24:37.connotation and very exotic The introduction of the 707 was
:24:38. > :24:51.a remarkable innovation As important as the invention
:24:52. > :24:54.of the personal computer. You could expand your horizons in
:24:55. > :24:57.ways you never dreamt possible by being able to get on one of these
:24:58. > :25:01.jet planes and flying to Europe in six or seven hours, when, just years
:25:02. > :25:06.before, it was a 15-hour ordeal. New York to London in
:25:07. > :25:09.the same time that it takes you to It was very cheap relatively
:25:10. > :25:14.speaking for a trip to Europe. $500 in economy round trip on
:25:15. > :25:20.Pan Am, and $1,000 in first class. Today, first class is $20,000 but
:25:21. > :25:24.the real bargain for the American public and for the travelling public
:25:25. > :25:29.in general was Europe itself, which Nothing was inflated in the years
:25:30. > :25:37.since the 60s like luxury travel. Everything, even the lowest form
:25:38. > :25:42.of steerage, back in the 60s, was more like what would be
:25:43. > :25:46.considered business class today. The seats were wide,
:25:47. > :25:48.there were comfortable, they served Today you can fly cheaply
:25:49. > :26:11.but you fly badly. Jerry Coffin has died aged 75. He
:26:12. > :26:27.wrote many heads for his former wife, Carole King, including Will
:26:28. > :26:35.You Love Me Tomorrow? # Tonight, will you still Love me tomorrow? #
:26:36. > :26:41.Throughout his career, he penned more than 50 top 40 hits. Carole
:26:42. > :26:48.King paid tribute to him posting a photo of him saying, "there are no
:26:49. > :26:52.words." That's it. Next, the weather. From me and the team,
:26:53. > :27:03.goodbye and enjoy your weekend. It was a lovely end to the week across
:27:04. > :27:10.most parts of the United Kingdom. It will stay quiet overnight. It will
:27:11. > :27:13.be another lovely day