:00:00. > :00:00.This is BBC World News Today with me David Eades.
:00:07. > :00:25.International efforts to broker a humanitarian truce
:00:26. > :00:28.More victims from the downed Malaysia Airlines
:00:29. > :00:31.flight return to the Netherlands - but eight days on, bodies still
:00:32. > :00:42.Also coming up, how will the United States deal with the
:00:43. > :00:45.How a new treatment for breast cancer could help tens of thousands
:00:46. > :01:03.of women - and save Britain's National Health Service money.
:01:04. > :01:06.The death toll in Gaza rose above 800 today,
:01:07. > :01:12.as diplomats continued to push for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
:01:13. > :01:15.The United Nations said that 150,000 people in Gaza -
:01:16. > :01:24.Israel has continued its air and ground missions to end
:01:25. > :01:26.the launching of rockets from Gaza while Hamas insists that
:01:27. > :01:40.the blockade on the area is lifted as part of any ceasefire.
:01:41. > :01:49.Big and has rejected the cease-fire. They have called for modifications.
:01:50. > :01:53.-- the Israeli cabinet. In a moment the view from Israel -
:01:54. > :01:56.but first our correspondent Ian Pannell has just sent this
:01:57. > :02:01.report from Gaza. The girl was delivered
:02:02. > :02:02.by emergency Caesarean She was killed in
:02:03. > :02:07.an Israeli air strike this morning. The baby was still
:02:08. > :02:09.two weeks premature. Doctors say the little girl has
:02:10. > :02:19.a 50-50 chance of living. The woman's uncle showed us what
:02:20. > :02:32.remains of their home and the place Israel insists it tries to avoid
:02:33. > :02:40.civilian deaths but this morning it was not
:02:41. > :02:43.a fighter who was killed, just This is where the bomb landed
:02:44. > :02:50.about two o'clock in the morning. There has been some damage to
:02:51. > :02:53.the house over there. This part was
:02:54. > :02:57.a UN sanitation compound. But this was a small block housing
:02:58. > :03:02.a few families. This is where the mother was living
:03:03. > :03:04.and she was trapped as She was underneath and unable
:03:05. > :03:13.to escape and eventually died. Two Hamas rockets launched
:03:14. > :03:19.into Israel. Homeless families living in a UN
:03:20. > :03:25.school clap and cheer. There is nothing to celebrate
:03:26. > :03:30.in Gaza. This young girl
:03:31. > :03:33.and her brother were injured when The mother talks of the moment
:03:34. > :03:39.her husband died in her arms. Despite talk of a ceasefire, the
:03:40. > :03:53.suffering and pain go undiminished. Fawaz Gerges is Professor of Middle
:03:54. > :03:56.Eastern Politics at the London School of Economics and Political
:03:57. > :04:09.Science. I was going to see, is this the
:04:10. > :04:17.tipping point moment with regard to cease-fire negotiations? The Israeli
:04:18. > :04:26.perspective is not good at the moment. The Israeli government, as
:04:27. > :04:32.you know, rejected the John Kerry proposal. This is a bargaining
:04:33. > :04:40.process. John Kerry's proposal is a 2-stage process. He would like a
:04:41. > :04:46.one-week long cease-fire. In tandem with talks which tackle the security
:04:47. > :04:53.questions. The security questions are the heart of the problem, the
:04:54. > :05:00.eight year Israel siege of Gaza. A siege which has had devastating
:05:01. > :05:05.impact on the lives of Palestinians. This is the central question. How do
:05:06. > :05:16.you stop the rockets? And how do you end the siege? Egypt has also
:05:17. > :05:22.imposed a bloody siege on Gaza. It is starting 2 million people. It
:05:23. > :05:31.seems clear internationally that this must be confronted this time.
:05:32. > :05:40.At the same time, the end to Rocky -- rocket attacks into Israel is as
:05:41. > :05:45.cynical and no one. Hamas leaders have made it clear they would accept
:05:46. > :05:50.any cease-fire which gives them guarantees that the eight-year
:05:51. > :05:57.blockage would be over. Hamas has never said it would not accept a
:05:58. > :06:04.cease-fire. Their goal is to end the blockade. It is causing starvation.
:06:05. > :06:11.The central concern of Hamas is that. And now the Palestinian
:06:12. > :06:19.president has joined Hamas in demanding the end of the blockade.
:06:20. > :06:24.In this sense, there is a widespread belief that the cease-fire, the end
:06:25. > :06:33.of rockets and at the same time end the blockade. Let us jump ahead. It
:06:34. > :06:38.is still Hamas, to some extent in the driving seat, and from an
:06:39. > :06:47.Israeli viewpoint, that is a trump card for Israel. This is a terrorist
:06:48. > :06:53.organisation? You are correct. The foolish rockets of Hamas. Look at
:06:54. > :06:59.the number of casualties. How many Palestinians have been killed? 830.
:07:00. > :07:09.Most of them are civilians. 200 children will stop. The rockets are
:07:10. > :07:14.providing ammunition to the far right. The far Right faction is you
:07:15. > :07:19.want to continue the war. The ultraconservative ring -- wing
:07:20. > :07:23.within the government has won the deed for the moment. Thank you very
:07:24. > :07:25.much for joining us. More planes carrying the remains
:07:26. > :07:28.of victims from the Malaysian airlines crash have landed
:07:29. > :07:30.at Eindhoven in The Netherlands. It's been more than a week
:07:31. > :07:33.since the MH17 was shot down in the fields of Grabovo,
:07:34. > :07:36.but the site is yet to be secured The BBC's Tim Willcox is in Kharkiv
:07:37. > :07:59.for us. Thank you very much. The number of
:08:00. > :08:06.forensic teams grows by the day. They will be joined by 14 military
:08:07. > :08:13.police from Holland is. They will be unarmed but will be gathering
:08:14. > :08:21.evidence. As you say, more coffins were flown from here today to the
:08:22. > :08:25.Netherlands. 74 coffins in total. It had been thought by the team is
:08:26. > :08:31.processing the bodies on the grounds, they would have completed
:08:32. > :08:35.their task today. But they have not. There is a fourth carriage on the
:08:36. > :08:40.train which was brought here which needs to be cleared. So potentially
:08:41. > :08:46.more flights tomorrow or the following day. I report was at the
:08:47. > :08:49.airport today whether Dutch and Australian foreign ministers came to
:08:50. > :09:00.visit the team working on those bodies. In a city on the edge of a
:09:01. > :09:05.war soon, thoughts for those passengers, people on a flight which
:09:06. > :09:11.flew over here. They are now mourned in the east of you clean. This
:09:12. > :09:20.morning at the airport it is another solemn ceremony. -- Eastern Ukraine.
:09:21. > :09:28.More unidentified remains are loaded onto planes. Getting the remains of
:09:29. > :09:32.the victims out of Warsaw and here to government-controlled Ukraine and
:09:33. > :09:36.then onto flights to Holland, more than a week after the flight was
:09:37. > :09:44.shot out of the sky, continues to be a complex international Ian --
:09:45. > :09:45.effort. Countries like Australia and Holland want assurances that the
:09:46. > :09:52.crash site Holland want assurances that the
:09:53. > :09:53.people can access it securely. The Australian Foreign Minister told me
:09:54. > :09:56.it was the wish Australian Foreign Minister told me
:09:57. > :09:59.community that the crash site be secured. We are doing
:10:00. > :10:05.community that the crash site be security council task asked to do
:10:06. > :10:07.and that is establishing a proper crash site investigation. We assume
:10:08. > :10:19.our support their, security for them
:10:20. > :10:25.just in case. It is hoped that an armed Dutch and Australian police
:10:26. > :10:30.will come year where parts of the plane and probably still bodies are
:10:31. > :10:35.scattered. The Dutch Prime Minister told the BBC that those responsible
:10:36. > :10:42.will face justice. Be assured that I am extra me motivated to find him,
:10:43. > :10:53.her or then Anderson as we know, they will not escape justice. -- and
:10:54. > :11:01.as soon as we know. Meanwhile, the consequences of war, people fleeing
:11:02. > :11:06.their homes to avoid the violence. That is the problem, the town is
:11:07. > :11:11.still in the middle of war zone. Despite the calls for a six
:11:12. > :11:18.cease-fire around the site fighting has continued and rockets have been
:11:19. > :11:24.fired. Done yet is not too far away and that is the last stronghold of
:11:25. > :11:28.the rebels. The Ukrainian army is shelling that town and the militia
:11:29. > :11:34.are fighting back. Berries are fighting brigades -- there is
:11:35. > :11:43.fighting brigades made up of fighting there. In the last odours
:11:44. > :11:46.so, the Pentagon says it had evidence of multi-calibre rocket one
:11:47. > :11:55.she is being shipped across the border from Russia that century as
:11:56. > :12:00.early as today. -- rocket launchers. The fighting continues and it seems
:12:01. > :12:04.like it will be quite a while before those international teams will find
:12:05. > :12:09.it safe enough to go down and collect evidence. Four days nobody
:12:10. > :12:15.parts and bits of wreckage have been left isolated. No one is controlling
:12:16. > :12:23.that. The families of the victims of the flights will find it a long
:12:24. > :12:27.process to get all the body parts which are accessible on the ground
:12:28. > :12:31.back to Holland is for a formal identification. Thank you very much
:12:32. > :12:35.indeed. The French government has confirmed
:12:36. > :12:38.that there are no survivors from an Air Algerie plane
:12:39. > :12:40.which crashed over Mali yesterday. 116 passengers and crew were
:12:41. > :12:42.on board. One of the flight
:12:43. > :12:44.recorders has been found. It's thought the plane, which had
:12:45. > :12:47.taken off from Burkina Faso, came In Afghanistan,
:12:48. > :12:56.Taliban militants have shot dead 15 people, including women and a child,
:12:57. > :13:00.in the central province of Ghor. Gunmen stopped two vehicles
:13:01. > :13:03.and ordered the passengers to stand in line at the side of the road
:13:04. > :13:06.before shooting them one by one. The victims were from the minority
:13:07. > :13:09.Hazara community, which has faced Jailed Al Jazeera journalist,
:13:10. > :13:16.Australian Peter Greste is to appeal against his conviction
:13:17. > :13:20.and seven year sentence for Mr Greste and his colleagues,
:13:21. > :13:24.Mohammed Fahmy and Baher Mohammed, were arrested in December as part of
:13:25. > :13:44.a crackdown on Islamist supporters Illegal immigrants is an issue for
:13:45. > :13:51.many countries and the US is no difference. President Obama will be
:13:52. > :14:00.meeting Central American presidents to stem the flow of illegal child
:14:01. > :14:10.migrants. In the last eight months, nearly 60,000 children have crossed
:14:11. > :14:14.the board are illegally into the US. Navigating the climbing frame, this
:14:15. > :14:20.six-year-old has just completed a far tougher journey. He arrived in
:14:21. > :14:24.America this month from El Salvador. Finally reunited with his mother who
:14:25. > :14:31.made the same journey two years ago. She has asked not to be identified.
:14:32. > :14:35.It is risky to travel as a family because people take more interest in
:14:36. > :14:41.you. It is less dangerous for the children to come on their own.
:14:42. > :14:49.Daniel made the 5000 kilometres trip with his two young cousins. He is
:14:50. > :14:54.escaping gang violence and poverty back home. What did he tell you
:14:55. > :14:58.about the journey? The only thing he said was that he was scared when he
:14:59. > :15:02.got to the border. When you cross the river with water up to his neck
:15:03. > :15:07.and when he was caught by the immigration officials. When you
:15:08. > :15:13.arrived at the detention centre with his clothes still soaking wet. The
:15:14. > :15:18.detention centres on the border are child migrants are brought to when
:15:19. > :15:23.they are right. It is their first taste of the American dream,
:15:24. > :15:28.conditions are cramped. Nearly 60,000 children cross the border
:15:29. > :15:32.illegally in the last six months. Many make the journey across the
:15:33. > :15:50.river of the Rio Grande Bay. It separates America from Mexico. If a
:15:51. > :15:55.parent that their children through half of what these illegal aliens do
:15:56. > :15:59.in Texas then the parent would have been charged for child endangerment.
:16:00. > :16:04.They are putting their children at risk when they do this.
:16:05. > :16:12.Here in Washington solving the problems at the border remains a
:16:13. > :16:17.huge challenge. President Obama has described the flow of child migrants
:16:18. > :16:21.as a humanitarian crisis. His critics wonder how he will speed up
:16:22. > :16:26.deportations when there is such a huge backlog in the courts. As for
:16:27. > :16:31.Daniel, it could take years for a judge to decide his fate. His mother
:16:32. > :16:36.is scared that he will be sent back to El Salvador. She wants her son to
:16:37. > :16:38.stay in America, a country that she believes will give him a better
:16:39. > :16:41.chance in life. Joining us from Washington is Doris
:16:42. > :16:43.Meissner, senior fellow and director She's also the former Commissioner
:16:44. > :16:47.of the US Immigration and Naturalization Service under
:16:48. > :16:59.the Clinton administration Thank you for joining us. One would
:17:00. > :17:02.presume that the questions surrounding this issue is, how do
:17:03. > :17:10.you stop all these children coming over? Is that the predominant
:17:11. > :17:16.concern, do you think? It certainly is the concern of many people in the
:17:17. > :17:23.NATO states, the net six Congress. -- in the United States, the United
:17:24. > :17:28.States Congress. There are young people in this globe who have claim
:17:29. > :17:32.for asylum in the United States, several other provisions under US
:17:33. > :17:38.law because of the safety problems that they have experienced in their
:17:39. > :17:43.own home countries. There cannot be simply an effort to stop them and
:17:44. > :17:48.send them back without them having an opportunity to have their story
:17:49. > :17:52.be heard and a judge decide whether they have the right to remain in the
:17:53. > :17:57.United States, or whether they need to be repatriated to their
:17:58. > :18:02.countries. They are coming over in tens of thousands, and almost
:18:03. > :18:07.unmanageable number. Are there, among those tens of thousands, many
:18:08. > :18:14.who want across-the-board and disappear. That keeping track of
:18:15. > :18:18.them is the challenge? There are lots of challenges. One of the most
:18:19. > :18:26.important characteristics of this is what you pointed out in the package,
:18:27. > :18:34.which is that so many people have parents in the United States or at
:18:35. > :18:49.least a close relative. Main 2% of them have either a parent or a
:18:50. > :18:52.family member. -- 90% of them. The dangerous situations they face in
:18:53. > :18:58.their countries and lack of economic opportunity, those who have come
:18:59. > :19:08.here and have a stake your want them to come and want them to be here and
:19:09. > :19:13.are by and large paying smugglers to bring them. Is there something which
:19:14. > :19:17.has been getting worse since the Clinton administration. And is that
:19:18. > :19:23.partly because of the inability to deal with it over the last couple of
:19:24. > :19:27.decades? We have always had child migrants, but they have been
:19:28. > :19:32.predominantly from Mexico rather than from Central America, although
:19:33. > :19:38.Central Americans have been in the child migrant population. But they
:19:39. > :19:48.have been at a fairly steady rate. It has been several thousand a year,
:19:49. > :19:51.5000 two 7000 a year. This just in the last two years that the chilled
:19:52. > :19:57.migration phenomenon has really taken off and is dominated by
:19:58. > :20:00.children from Central America. And so this is a shift but it is also
:20:01. > :20:02.something that we're been dealing with for quite a long time. Thank
:20:03. > :20:08.you very much for joining us. A new breast-cancer treatment
:20:09. > :20:10.which replaces weeks of radiotherapy could be offered on
:20:11. > :20:12.the National Health Service here. It uses a single dose
:20:13. > :20:15.of targeted treatment once a tumour As Sophie Hutchinson reports,
:20:16. > :20:35.for many patients it could replace The 71-year-old writer says that she
:20:36. > :20:41.has never been busier, but almost two years ago she had surgery for
:20:42. > :20:45.breast cancer and at the same time was given a new therapy for breast
:20:46. > :20:52.cancer. She said it was brilliant because it was over so quickly. I
:20:53. > :20:57.had no idea it had been done. I felt tired for a few weeks, classic
:20:58. > :21:02.post-op symptoms, but I did not know it had happened. If they had not
:21:03. > :21:07.pulled me they had done it I would never have known. There were no side
:21:08. > :21:12.effects, nothing to show. The treatment, which
:21:13. > :21:17.in the UK, offers a one-off dose of radiotherapy carried out after an
:21:18. > :21:19.in the UK, offers a one-off dose of operation in the minutes after any
:21:20. > :21:31.tumours have been removed. It lasts around 20 minutes. The benefit of
:21:32. > :21:37.using this new device is that it targets the correct area with in the
:21:38. > :21:44.breast. It also saves patients time and the NHS money. One estimate has
:21:45. > :21:51.put the savings at ?15 million per year. It is a fraction of the time
:21:52. > :21:56.that would otherwise have been used. It is one hour in the operating
:21:57. > :22:05.theatre rather than 15 minutes everyday for three to six weeks. The
:22:06. > :22:10.treatment has so far proved to be as effective as conventional
:22:11. > :22:28.radiotherapy. It could transform care for many breast cancer
:22:29. > :22:36.patients. Nigeria's Health Minister has
:22:37. > :22:43.confirmed that there has been a patient confirmed with Ebola today.
:22:44. > :23:06.It is the world's deadliest outbreak to date. We know that the man came
:23:07. > :23:14.into Rhigos on Sunday. He was taken for medical treatment and isolated.
:23:15. > :23:18.-- Lagos. It took time to get confirmation as to whether this was
:23:19. > :23:25.Ebola virus. We then got confirmation that this was indeed
:23:26. > :23:28.Ebola, although they health officials here have not yet
:23:29. > :23:33.confirmed it. They were the ones that first reported this news about
:23:34. > :23:37.this suspected case. He was a man that was put into
:23:38. > :23:41.quarantine pretty quickly. Nevertheless he was on a flight no
:23:42. > :23:44.doubt full of other passengers that would have gone about their
:23:45. > :23:56.business, many into other bilious part of Lagos. -- other various
:23:57. > :24:01.parts of Lagos. They have said that this was contained from the airport
:24:02. > :24:04.and that the man only came into contact with health workers. It will
:24:05. > :24:07.take off well before we can know if there has been any spread of the
:24:08. > :24:13.virus so far. No confirmation of that. Considering Lagos and Nigeria
:24:14. > :24:17.has major challenges within its health care system it will be
:24:18. > :24:26.crucial at this stage for the government to watch and act, as many
:24:27. > :24:30.Nigerians would expect, in order to prevent the spread of the virus.
:24:31. > :24:32.Scientists believe that this rather scary-looking animal was
:24:33. > :24:34.the first creature to bridge the dinosaur and bird species.
:24:35. > :24:36.But now, the discovery of 150-million-year-old fossils
:24:37. > :24:40.in Siberia shows that feathers may have been much more widespread than
:24:41. > :24:53.Our Science Correspondent Pallab Ghosh has been finding out more.
:24:54. > :25:04.Sunday in the size were big and scary. And it is thought that they
:25:05. > :25:09.had scaly skin -- some dinosaurs. This creature is thought to have
:25:10. > :25:20.been the transition from day now saw -- from dinosaur to bird. It arose
:25:21. > :25:26.right around the age of the dinosaurs. But new research suggests
:25:27. > :25:31.that the arose much earlier, right at the beginning of when the first
:25:32. > :25:40.emerged. The discovery of this dinosaur in
:25:41. > :25:43.Siberia suggests that they began to develop feathers tens of millions of
:25:44. > :25:50.years earlier than previously thought. But some experts have
:25:51. > :25:55.doubts. This expert says that the feathers could be something else.
:25:56. > :26:11.There are number of features which are completely unlike feathers that
:26:12. > :26:15.we have seen on other animals. Some believe that it shows that dinosaurs
:26:16. > :26:26.had feathers from the very beginning and were widespread.
:26:27. > :26:30.The Israeli government is reported to have said that it is rejecting
:26:31. > :26:34.Gaza cease-fire proposal from the Americans as it stands but would
:26:35. > :26:43.continue to discuss it. The death toll in Gaza rose above 800 today.
:26:44. > :26:48.It is reported that many people in Gaza are now living within UN
:26:49. > :27:06.Good evening. The temperatures are about to start heading in the other
:27:07. > :27:10.direction. But we're only getting back down to near ready would
:27:11. > :27:12.normally be at this time of the year.