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