:00:00. > :00:00.This is BBC World News Today with me, Philippa Thomas.
:00:07. > :00:09.A major boost today for Syria's president Assad after years
:00:10. > :00:18.Rebel fighters abandon the key city of Homs,
:00:19. > :00:20.the cradle of the uprising against President Assad.
:00:21. > :00:23.The outline of an international deal to limit climate change is published
:00:24. > :00:26.at talks in France, but that doesn't mean agreement yet on the way ahead.
:00:27. > :00:29.A 23-year-old from Strasbourg is identified as the third attacker
:00:30. > :00:32.of the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, where 90 people
:00:33. > :00:41.We're on the front line of the war against cocaine in Colombia.
:00:42. > :00:51.A special report from our team there.
:00:52. > :00:56.And two Ma sci-fi must have been charged after allegations that the
:00:57. > :01:08.poisoned to famous lions in Kenya. It's a major victory
:01:09. > :01:10.for President Assad's Rebel fighters have begun giving up
:01:11. > :01:15.the last district they control in the highly significant city
:01:16. > :01:17.of Homs, and they're Those departing are travelling under
:01:18. > :01:23.security escort to the northern area of Idlib, withdrawing as part
:01:24. > :01:27.of a local ceasefire. The city played a key role
:01:28. > :01:33.at the start of the uprising against the government
:01:34. > :01:36.of President Bashar al-Assad, earning itself the nickname
:01:37. > :01:40."the cradle of the revolution". It's Syria's third-largest city,
:01:41. > :01:44.located about 160 kilometres A decade ago, there were around
:01:45. > :01:50.650,000 people living there. Anti-government protests began
:01:51. > :01:54.in Homs in early 2011, during what became known
:01:55. > :01:58.as the Arab Spring. The Syrian Government
:01:59. > :02:00.responded with force. Dozens died, and the protests turned
:02:01. > :02:04.into a full uprising. Over the next five years,
:02:05. > :02:06.thousands of people died The city became a stronghold
:02:07. > :02:11.of the Free Syrian Army, although the Al-Qaeda-linked
:02:12. > :02:13.Al-Nusra front was also active Syrian Government forces
:02:14. > :02:19.maintained their siege. In the last few months,
:02:20. > :02:22.they have been supported by Russian warplanes carrying out air
:02:23. > :02:25.strikes on rebel positions. A ceasefire was finally brokered
:02:26. > :02:29.by the United Nations, and so today, the last rebels
:02:30. > :02:33.are withdrawing to other rebel-held Our chief international
:02:34. > :02:38.correspondent Lyse Doucet is in the Al Waer neighbourhood
:02:39. > :02:42.in Homs, standing by as several hundred fighters and their families
:02:43. > :02:49.depart after years of unrest. The families of the fighters
:02:50. > :02:52.were the first to leave, bringing whatever they could carry.
:02:53. > :02:58.The UN was on hand to help. The fighters gathered
:02:59. > :03:00.at the entrance to Al Waer, some still carrying
:03:01. > :03:04.their personal weapons. These are the men with extremist
:03:05. > :03:06.groups, some with Al-Qaeda links, On the other side,
:03:07. > :03:11.the soldiers they fought About 100 families are being
:03:12. > :03:19.bussed to northern Syria, The fighters will continue
:03:20. > :03:25.waging war from there. It's hard for anyone to leave home,
:03:26. > :03:28.especially when you don't Local aid workers try
:03:29. > :03:34.to make it a bit easier. But there is also relief to leave
:03:35. > :03:38.a besieged area where food Mohammed tells me it
:03:39. > :03:46.was very difficult. "I have back problems
:03:47. > :03:50.and there was no medication." It's very important, he says,
:03:51. > :03:53.what's happening today. "But, one day, I hope
:03:54. > :03:57.to return to my home." This neighbourhood,
:03:58. > :04:03.when the crisis hit, about 300,000 people
:04:04. > :04:05.were living here. We believe with the implementation
:04:06. > :04:12.of this agreement, more people will opt to come
:04:13. > :04:15.back to their homes. The government calls
:04:16. > :04:19.this reconciliation. The critics say this is a surrender
:04:20. > :04:29.forced by the government's siege of Al Waer, which cut off food
:04:30. > :04:32.and water to the community. TRANSLATION: We don't
:04:33. > :04:35.see it this way. What we see is that most
:04:36. > :04:38.of the armed groups here in al-Wair And that will bring peace
:04:39. > :04:44.and security to Homs. This is both a military ceasefire
:04:45. > :04:49.as well as a humanitarian agreement. There are those who believe this
:04:50. > :04:52.is the only real forward But this local ceasefire
:04:53. > :04:56.took nearly two years Every deal will depend
:04:57. > :05:03.on who's doing the fighting, Today's ceasefire means the fighting
:05:04. > :05:12.across Homs is now over. That's a relief to many
:05:13. > :05:16.who paid a terrible price. But the war in Syria
:05:17. > :05:19.is far from over. After a week and a half
:05:20. > :05:30.of negotiations at the UN climate change talks in Paris,
:05:31. > :05:33.a new draft agreement Representatives of almost 200
:05:34. > :05:38.countries are trying to hammer out than two Celsius above
:05:39. > :06:02.pre-industrial levels - difficult and unsuccessful
:06:03. > :06:05.negotiations to try to come up with a global
:06:06. > :06:09.negotiations to try to come up with change. So what happened today
:06:10. > :06:13.negotiations to try to come up with significant. The French, who were
:06:14. > :06:17.posting this conference, came up with
:06:18. > :06:20.the basic building blocks for what could be
:06:21. > :06:22.the basic building blocks for what change. Lots of
:06:23. > :06:23.the basic building blocks for what still to be settled, but many see it
:06:24. > :06:27.as a promising start. Trying to tackle the world's
:06:28. > :06:29.changing climate - Today in Paris, delegates
:06:30. > :06:39.were given the latest draft of what could become
:06:40. > :06:43.a landmark reading. 29 pages designed to head off
:06:44. > :06:47.the dangers of rising temperatures. But developing nations said
:06:48. > :06:49.there was not enough I am worried about the fact
:06:50. > :06:57.there is no clear commitment yet from the international community,
:06:58. > :07:02.particularly the main emitters, in terms of what they are going
:07:03. > :07:07.to do in terms of support for the most vulnerable
:07:08. > :07:13.and small island states. Negotiators have been poring over
:07:14. > :07:17.this draft document, checking if it suits nearly 200
:07:18. > :07:21.different governments. I got my copy and, like everyone,
:07:22. > :07:25.I saw that while a lot of key points are agreed, many fundamental issues
:07:26. > :07:31.are still to be sorted. It talks of a goal to limit global
:07:32. > :07:35.warming, but to a rise of 1.5 It calls for deep cuts
:07:36. > :07:40.in greenhouse gases, It says there will be reviews
:07:41. > :07:45.of national climate plans, At the heart of this is a dispute
:07:46. > :07:53.over who should reduce the emissions Today, the United States called
:07:54. > :07:57.on the biggest developing countries Carbon pollution is carbon
:07:58. > :08:04.pollution, and it does the same damage whether it is coming
:08:05. > :08:07.from Baltimore or Beijing, We all have to be smarter
:08:08. > :08:15.about the future. The talks have gone far more
:08:16. > :08:19.smoothly than many expected, but long hours of
:08:20. > :08:35.haggling lie ahead. Yes, those talks will carry on
:08:36. > :08:39.possibly through the night. The French are determined to land that
:08:40. > :08:44.deal by the end of the week. Anyone's guess of whether that will
:08:45. > :08:50.be possible. Tell us more about who needs to be
:08:51. > :08:54.won over. That is a very interesting and difficult question. The big
:08:55. > :08:58.industrialised countries want to make sure that the emerging giants,
:08:59. > :09:04.China and India in particular, are included in a deal and will agree to
:09:05. > :09:08.a programme of every five years or so having their carbon reduction
:09:09. > :09:13.plans scrutinised in some form. That is the real sticking point. For the
:09:14. > :09:17.developing countries, the big thing is that question of finance. They
:09:18. > :09:22.have looked at the science and think they will be hardest hit by global
:09:23. > :09:27.warming. They also look at the costs of renewable technology, which at
:09:28. > :09:31.the moment, are more expensive than say burning coal or gas. They want
:09:32. > :09:36.financial help with that and they want it specified in this document.
:09:37. > :09:40.Of course, the richest nations are not totally sure of how much they
:09:41. > :09:49.want to pay up or how much they want on their hands tied over that
:09:50. > :09:53.question of finance. The richer states need to help with the polar
:09:54. > :09:56.nation states as well. Lots to haggle, much of it very fundamental.
:09:57. > :09:58.French police have identified the third suicide bomber
:09:59. > :10:00.who attacked the Bataclan last month.
:10:01. > :10:02.90 of the 130 people killed in the Paris attacks died
:10:03. > :10:06.23-year-old French-born Foued Mohamed Aggad is said to have
:10:07. > :10:10.travelled to fight in Syria in 2013, along with his brother.
:10:11. > :11:22.The couple responsible for carrying out the San Bernadino shooting
:11:23. > :11:25.were radicalised at least two years prior to carrying out the attack.
:11:26. > :11:27.FBI Director James B Comey said that investigators believe that
:11:28. > :11:30.Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, were radicalised
:11:31. > :11:39.before they began their online relationship in 2013.
:11:40. > :11:46.I have been getting more about that from Washington. Philippa, this is
:11:47. > :11:51.the latest on an investigation that is in its early stages. What we
:11:52. > :11:57.getting now is a gradual build-up of the picture of who these two people
:11:58. > :12:02.wear. The most important question for investigators called on what was
:12:03. > :12:08.their motivation? Lawmakers were updated today and this is what he
:12:09. > :12:10.said. San Bernardino involved two killers who were radicalised for
:12:11. > :12:16.quite a long time before their attack. In fact, our investigation
:12:17. > :12:20.today, which I can only say so much about, indicates they were
:12:21. > :12:27.radicalised before they started dating each other online. That was
:12:28. > :12:31.as early as the end of 2013. They were talking about a jihad and
:12:32. > :12:36.martyr, before they became engaged and then married in the United
:12:37. > :12:42.States. One of the big questions is whether their relationship was set
:12:43. > :12:47.up somehow by a terrorist group, or whether they came together
:12:48. > :12:51.naturally, as at where. That is a huge question. One of the focuses of
:12:52. > :12:58.the investigation. What is interesting is that these comments
:12:59. > :13:02.tend to imply that they contradict earlier suggestions that it was
:13:03. > :13:07.Tashfeen Malik who radicalised her husband. There had been a lot of
:13:08. > :13:11.speculation that perhaps she had entered the US. We know she came via
:13:12. > :13:15.Pakistan and lived for some time in Saudi Arabia and had encountered
:13:16. > :13:20.extremist views in those countries, and perhaps brought those into the
:13:21. > :13:24.US and then radicalised her husband. What they are saying now is that
:13:25. > :13:29.they were radicalised independently before they met, which is quite
:13:30. > :13:34.different. That is something they are continuing to look at. As you
:13:35. > :13:39.say, whether or not they were actually brought together by some
:13:40. > :13:43.kind of terrorist organisations, if not Islamic State itself. Briefly,
:13:44. > :13:49.has this tragedy, this shooting, changed the debate on gun control or
:13:50. > :13:55.not? I think they are being seen as two separate issues. I think the
:13:56. > :13:59.terrorism investigation has eclipsed to a certain extent of the debate on
:14:00. > :14:02.gun control, although great questions are being asked about how
:14:03. > :14:09.it was that these two people that were able to fly under the radar,
:14:10. > :14:13.undetected, and still able to get together this enormous stockpile of
:14:14. > :14:18.weapons, including guns that they were able to modify and make even
:14:19. > :14:22.more dangerous. And of course pipe bombs. Was there anything, any
:14:23. > :14:23.control, that could have been put in place or indeed existed that could
:14:24. > :14:42.have prevented this? The row over Donald Trump's remarks
:14:43. > :14:46.has been venerated across the world. In the UK, a petition has been set
:14:47. > :14:53.up calling for Mr Trump to be banned from the country. It has gained tens
:14:54. > :14:59.of thousands of supporters. 270,000 plus signatures at the moment. In
:15:00. > :15:03.fact, I think it is going up to around 280 9000. In just a moment,
:15:04. > :15:06.we will talk to Suzanne Kelly, who set up that campaign.
:15:07. > :15:08.But first, Donald Trump's remarks were came up in the UK Parliament.
:15:09. > :15:11.Hear how the Chancellor George Osborne dealt with a question
:15:12. > :15:15.about the Republican presidential candidate.
:15:16. > :15:22.You mag the best way to confront the views of someone like Donald Trump
:15:23. > :15:27.is to engage any robust democratic right and with him about why he is
:15:28. > :15:29.profoundly wrong about the contribution of American Muslims and
:15:30. > :15:30.indeed British Muslims, and that is Suzanne, it is fair to say you have
:15:31. > :15:53.the best way to deal with Suzanne, it is fair to say you have
:15:54. > :15:58.spent a long time campaigning against Donald Trump. Why has this
:15:59. > :16:02.particular petition taken off? I think that his latest remarks have
:16:03. > :16:07.been proving too much for just about anybody. I cannot think of a
:16:08. > :16:12.nationality, a religion or a sex that this man has not insulted. To
:16:13. > :16:15.have him be president with this sort of
:16:16. > :16:19.have him be president with this sort Thankfully, there are UK laws that
:16:20. > :16:21.will allow us to discuss banning him, which is marvellous. Tell us
:16:22. > :16:24.more about those laws, because they more about those laws, because they
:16:25. > :16:29.have been applied against quite a few people's we have banned
:16:30. > :16:33.have been applied against quite a people for hate speech. I am not
:16:34. > :16:38.against free speech. These are very different things. The remarks of
:16:39. > :16:45.Donald Trump and the kind of remarks you would find in somebody maybe who
:16:46. > :16:47.has got sympathies of steering trouble up rather than solving
:16:48. > :16:53.problems. We ban people for far less. What about the possibility
:16:54. > :17:01.that you are playing into his hands? He loves people to react. It is more
:17:02. > :17:06.publicity? Well, perhaps he loves publicity, but at the moment, he has
:17:07. > :17:11.been banned from Robert Gordon University. They have revoked
:17:12. > :17:15.been banned from Robert Gordon honorary degree. Things are turning
:17:16. > :17:16.against him. What happens now with the
:17:17. > :17:21.against him. What happens now with Westminster? And the obliged
:17:22. > :17:23.against him. What happens now with debate the possibility of a ban? Now
:17:24. > :17:27.that 100,000 people have signed the petition, they have to to discuss
:17:28. > :17:32.it. I do think that Mr Osborne might disagree, but I think it is a
:17:33. > :17:37.definite plan that we might be able to see this hate speech President
:17:38. > :17:38.banned. Thank you very much for joining us from our studio in
:17:39. > :17:40.Aberdeen. British anti-narcotics officers have
:17:41. > :17:43.spoken openly for the first time Speaking exclusively to the BBC,
:17:44. > :17:46.the National Crime Agency, often dubbed Britain's FBI,
:17:47. > :17:50.has revealed it is involved in intelligence and logistics
:17:51. > :17:54.operations with Colombian forces and making a difference,
:17:55. > :17:57.despite a recent rise This report was filed
:17:58. > :18:01.by our international correspondent, Ian Pannell and cameraman
:18:02. > :18:07.Darren Conway. It is one of the most violent
:18:08. > :18:16.cities in South America. Buenaventura is notorious
:18:17. > :18:19.for its chop houses where gangs It is also where much of the cocaine
:18:20. > :18:27.that reaches America A trade that shatters this community
:18:28. > :18:34.and forces its children into a world The government says things
:18:35. > :18:40.are improving here. When she dared to stand up
:18:41. > :18:47.to the drug gangs her 15-year-old TRANSLATION: I do not know
:18:48. > :18:53.if they did it to punish me because I have always tried to help
:18:54. > :18:56.the youngsters here. They taught me a lesson
:18:57. > :18:59.because they did not just kill The choices are often stark
:19:00. > :19:05.for the sons and daughters Children become recruits
:19:06. > :19:13.or victims of the gangs. When day passes to night,
:19:14. > :19:15.it is the sicarios that An assassin who kills
:19:16. > :19:24.people for his boss. Can you explain what is
:19:25. > :19:28.the life of a sicario? The boss calls me and tells me,
:19:29. > :19:37.we have to kill this guy. For the inside story on the cocaine
:19:38. > :19:57.trade we met a British drug For security reasons,
:19:58. > :20:04.we cannot show his identity. Cocaine is just such a popular
:20:05. > :20:07.fashionable drug and the money is so big that nine out of ten
:20:08. > :20:10.people would say yes to that That makes the risk that people
:20:11. > :20:14.like yourself take worth taking? Well, if you're talking
:20:15. > :20:16.about an average yearly salary being able to be earned
:20:17. > :20:19.in 24 hours, yes. I do not think cocaine production
:20:20. > :20:22.in South America will ever stop and I do not think the consumption
:20:23. > :20:29.of cocaine will ever stop. High in the hills on the border
:20:30. > :20:37.with Venezuela, police move in. They have a tip there is a cocaine
:20:38. > :20:44.lab here hidden deep in the woods. Officers were deployed shortly
:20:45. > :20:47.after midnight and have moved They have managed
:20:48. > :20:52.to make one arrest. This is the key part
:20:53. > :20:55.of the laboratory. The cocaine paste is brought up
:20:56. > :20:58.the hill and processed and this Britain's National Crime Agency took
:20:59. > :21:06.part in this operation, We spoke to one of their officers
:21:07. > :21:11.involved in the raid It is important to Britain
:21:12. > :21:15.and important to the NCA because all of the labs that we blow
:21:16. > :21:22.up, all the cocaine that is seized here, is cocaine that is not
:21:23. > :21:25.going to the UK, coming to Europe, Explosives rigged and the British
:21:26. > :21:31.officers and Colombian police pull-back, knowing tomorrow
:21:32. > :21:38.this fight starts again. In a war against cocaine,
:21:39. > :21:52.it may well be impossible to win. Two Masai farmers have been charged
:21:53. > :21:54.after allegations that they poisoned Eight lions from the Marsh Pride
:21:55. > :21:59.in the Masai Mara national Reserve Two others have been found dead,
:22:00. > :22:03.including a 17-year-old female called Bibi who was filmed
:22:04. > :22:07.for the BBC series Big Cat Diaries. It's thought that the lions had
:22:08. > :22:13.killed three of the farmers' cows. Our correspondent Alastair Leithead
:22:14. > :22:26.gave us this update from Kenya. This is a vast space, but there are
:22:27. > :22:29.competing demands for the land. Between those who are trying to
:22:30. > :22:39.protect the wildlife in the national park and the Masai herdsman. We are
:22:40. > :22:43.going into a Masai cultural village to meet the chief and try to get a
:22:44. > :22:48.sense of what those conflicts, what those problems can be. Thanks very
:22:49. > :22:52.much for inviting us in today. One of the issues here is competition
:22:53. > :22:58.for grass, for land, for your cattle, isn't it? I tell you,
:22:59. > :23:07.because we live in density, we do not have enough grass here. That is
:23:08. > :23:11.why we take our cattle at night to go where the wild animal lives. How
:23:12. > :23:17.many animals are killed by Lions? How much of a problem is it for you?
:23:18. > :23:26.The lion is the animal, and hyenas... They are eaten almost
:23:27. > :23:31.every night. We get that problem. We get that problem several places
:23:32. > :23:35.around here. Sadly, the story has ended with another lion having died.
:23:36. > :23:42.In the back of that truck behind me, they have just loaded up a young
:23:43. > :23:47.male. He was poisoned originally. He was treated and they thought he was
:23:48. > :23:53.doing OK, but then overnight, he was attacked by Buffalo and he was found
:23:54. > :23:58.here in a really bad way. They have stepped in to put him down. That is
:23:59. > :24:02.another lion that has essentially died. There will be an investigation
:24:03. > :24:08.into exactly why it happened, what the process of events where.
:24:09. > :24:10.Now a musical story - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
:24:11. > :24:13.is sending his all-female Moranbong band to perform in Beijing to help
:24:14. > :24:16.soothe relations with China - its only ally.
:24:17. > :24:19.To underline the diplomatic nature of the tour, they were waved off
:24:20. > :24:24.at Pyongyang railway station by some of the country's senior leaders.
:24:25. > :24:27.This will be their first international tour, with the line-up
:24:28. > :24:31.reported to have been handpicked by the leader himself.
:24:32. > :24:37.In morally conservative North Korea, the women often wear risque outfits
:24:38. > :24:40.and combine traditional music with Western pop culture.
:24:41. > :25:16.Syrian rebel fighters are abandoning the last district of the key city
:25:17. > :25:20.of Homs under their control - leaving it fully in government hands
:25:21. > :25:24.The withdrawal is part of a local ceasefire deal,
:25:25. > :25:28.and means the first convoys of food aid in nearly a year have been able
:25:29. > :25:34.The outline of an international deal to limit climate change has been
:25:35. > :25:38.published at talks in France - but several issues still
:25:39. > :25:53.He told delegates he expected them to work through the night.
:25:54. > :25:55.Well, that's all from the programme. Next, the weather.
:25:56. > :26:08.But for now, from me and the rest of the team,
:26:09. > :26:16.Hello. Gilles will be in place to make across the top north-west
:26:17. > :26:18.corner of the country. Sinking