:00:11. > :00:13.This is BBC World News Today with me, Tim Willcox.
:00:14. > :00:14.The headlines: Cologne tries to restore public trust
:00:15. > :00:17.The city's police chief Wolfgang Albers is suspended
:00:18. > :00:20.as anger mounts over the New Year's Eve mass sexual assaults.
:00:21. > :00:23.Belgian police believe this flat's a bomb factory and hideout used
:00:24. > :00:26.by one of the jihadists after last November's Paris attacks.
:00:27. > :00:32.Mexico's most notorious drug lord, Joaquim Guzman, has been recaptured.
:00:33. > :00:36.Also coming up: We investigate the horrific violence in Burundi.
:00:37. > :00:39.An eyewitnesses tells us about the brutality meted out
:00:40. > :00:54.They say, open, open, if you don't open we will shoot. They hit my
:00:55. > :00:56.husband and my little girl cried out, you're going to kill us.
:00:57. > :00:59.And no drinks good, one drink bad - Britain issues tough
:01:00. > :01:18.After days of public outcry, the head of Cologne's police force,
:01:19. > :01:21.Wolfgang Albers, has been forced to step down over his handling
:01:22. > :01:24.of attacks on women on New Year's Eve.
:01:25. > :01:28.121 women were the victims of sexual assault and robbery in front
:01:29. > :01:34.Police have now identified 31 suspects and say almost two-thirds
:01:35. > :01:39.It's re-ignited the debate in Germany over how it can cope
:01:40. > :01:42.with one million migrants and refugees.
:01:43. > :01:45.But the local state minister wants the police investigation
:01:46. > :02:02.TRANSLATION: My decision is necessary now because public trust
:02:03. > :02:08.in the police needs to be restored and the police needs to regain its
:02:09. > :02:12.ability to act efficiently. The Cologne police department now has a
:02:13. > :02:17.massive task of fully investigating the New Year's Eve events. The
:02:18. > :02:19.public wants to know what happened, who the attackers were and how to
:02:20. > :02:20.prevent this in the future. Our Germany correspondent Jenny Hill
:02:21. > :02:27.reports from Cologne. Germany is confronting a new reality
:02:28. > :02:30.- on New Year's Eve in Cologne nearly 100 women were
:02:31. > :02:31.sexually assaulted. Authorities now admit some
:02:32. > :02:34.of the men who attacked them Today Cologne's police chief
:02:35. > :02:40.was sacked amid allegations TRANSLATION: There are suggestions
:02:41. > :02:46.that the wording of a police report was changed for political
:02:47. > :02:48.reasons So does this man, Adil,
:02:49. > :03:02.a Yazidi from Iraq fears reprisals. Anti-refugee violence
:03:03. > :03:04.was already on the increase. New Year's Eve has inflamed
:03:05. > :03:06.a sensitive national debate TRANSLATION: I believe
:03:07. > :03:17.these were new refugees because people who have been
:03:18. > :03:19.here a long time wouldn't do this. These people come to Germany
:03:20. > :03:24.and then commit these acts, There are calls for more
:03:25. > :03:29.CCTV in public places. A poll today found one in three
:03:30. > :03:31.Germans will now TRANSLATION: I don't feel that
:03:32. > :03:36.safe after what happened at New Year, but I think if you can
:03:37. > :03:41.defend yourself you should be OK. There is a large influx
:03:42. > :03:46.of immigrants coming in but I think if you go about with a trusting
:03:47. > :03:49.heart and make sure you regard these as single incidents,
:03:50. > :03:53.it should be OK. Today in Cologne city authorities
:03:54. > :03:57.pledged to rebuild trust But officers have yet to charge
:03:58. > :04:01.anyone over the attacks and many wonder what it will cost
:04:02. > :04:11.to keep Germany's doors open. The BBC's Damien McGuinness
:04:12. > :04:25.joins us from Berlin. Is anything urging about how this
:04:26. > :04:29.was organised? That is the real question because although it is
:04:30. > :04:33.thought the men came in organised groups, what is not clear is whether
:04:34. > :04:37.they came with the intent of the very or sexual assault because what
:04:38. > :04:44.seems to have happened is that women were singled out within the crowd,
:04:45. > :04:48.surrounded by large groups of men, maybe ten or 20, who ganged up on
:04:49. > :04:54.them and post them and robbed them and then in some cases also
:04:55. > :04:58.conducted sexual assault, but what is not clear is the initial
:04:59. > :05:05.motivation because this area around Cologne Cathedral is known as an
:05:06. > :05:08.area rife with pickpockets, so the fact people would lose their mobile
:05:09. > :05:14.phones or bags is not surprising, what is shocking is the level of
:05:15. > :05:19.sexual assault because we are now seeing, according to latest
:05:20. > :05:24.testaments, as many as 200 women have reported some sort of abuse of
:05:25. > :05:30.incident, whether loss of desertion or asexual incident. Allegations of
:05:31. > :05:34.a conspiracy of silence, not only the police but stayed roared
:05:35. > :05:42.casters, national broadcasters, why they were so slow -- state
:05:43. > :05:48.broadcasters. It is quite clear that what the police did was out of order
:05:49. > :05:56.and this was why the police chief of Cologne, Wolfgang Albers, has been
:05:57. > :05:59.pushed today. That is a result of public outrage because people say
:06:00. > :06:06.the police didn't protect women sufficiently on site on New Year's
:06:07. > :06:08.Eve, there were not enough police officers and allegations that
:06:09. > :06:13.reinforcements were not accepted from other neighbouring regions in
:06:14. > :06:19.the aftermath was also oddly handled by the lease because they sent out a
:06:20. > :06:25.message saying it all past his filly which it clearly did not. There were
:06:26. > :06:31.allegations of a cover-up because there are allegations asylum seekers
:06:32. > :06:36.may be involved. It is unclear what happened with the media, partly the
:06:37. > :06:42.fact there were a few days holiday after New Year's Eve, the country
:06:43. > :06:46.effectively closes down so there are a few journalists and it went under
:06:47. > :06:52.the radar. Journalists did not pick up on that lease reports because
:06:53. > :06:58.they were slow. We also hear that from far right groups there are
:06:59. > :07:02.always conspiracy erase that the German state tries to push out far
:07:03. > :07:05.right dissent and that is part of the debate now here in Germany.
:07:06. > :07:07.Thank you, Damian. Cologne is not the only city
:07:08. > :07:10.in Europe to claim to have suffered a spate of sexual attacks
:07:11. > :07:12.during New Year's Eve. We can go to another now,
:07:13. > :07:14.and Ilkka Koskimaki who is the deputy Police
:07:15. > :07:25.Commissioner of Finnish capital You have been talking about
:07:26. > :07:40.unprecedented crime levels on New Year's Eve. What in particular? We
:07:41. > :07:47.had news in Helsinki that some incident committed by asylum seekers
:07:48. > :07:54.on years eve and we had also background last autumn, we had a lot
:07:55. > :08:04.of this kind of sexual harassment in Helsinki and even had some
:08:05. > :08:09.aggravated, very brutal rape cases and these were committed by asylum
:08:10. > :08:15.seekers. The people who have been charged, have you charged anyone
:08:16. > :08:23.with these crimes and can you categorically say they were carried
:08:24. > :08:32.out by asylum seekers? Yes, I can categorically say these suspects
:08:33. > :08:39.were Iraqis. They select did victims, very into cicadas ladies
:08:40. > :08:47.and young ladies -- in toxic it'd ladies. You had information about
:08:48. > :08:54.this and put extra police on the streets. Tell us how that
:08:55. > :09:01.information came about. We got this information from reception centres
:09:02. > :09:08.and we had also other information. That they were planning to do this?
:09:09. > :09:16.Yes, our information was that some asylum seekers were planning some
:09:17. > :09:26.disturbance, even this kind of crime. Thank you. Finland having the
:09:27. > :09:28.fourth highest number of asylum seekers and refugees are capita in
:09:29. > :09:34.the EU. A man arrested in the United States
:09:35. > :09:37.after shooting a police officer had pledged allegiance to
:09:38. > :09:39.so-called Islamic State, The unnamed 30-year-old fired
:09:40. > :09:42.at least 11 shots at the police officer in Philadelphia,
:09:43. > :09:44.leaving him with severe injuries. The man later told the police he had
:09:45. > :09:47.carried out the attack The Police Commissioner said
:09:48. > :09:50.the injured officer - who will need multiple surgery -
:09:51. > :10:01.had been lucky to survive. This is one of the scariest things I
:10:02. > :10:05.have seen. This guy tried to execute the police officer, who had no idea
:10:06. > :10:08.he was coming, it's amazing he is alive.
:10:09. > :10:10.Police in Belgium have found traces of explosives,
:10:11. > :10:12.three handmade belts, and the finger print of a key
:10:13. > :10:16.The evidence is a direct link to Salah Abdeslam and it was found
:10:17. > :10:19.during a raid on a flat in Brussels last month.
:10:20. > :10:21.Well, our correspondent in Brussels, Gavin Lee's been telling me
:10:22. > :10:33.This came from the federal prosecutor in Belgium who said this
:10:34. > :10:39.single anger print was found in the third-floor apartment about three
:10:40. > :10:45.miles north of Brussels, there was also traces of explosives and
:10:46. > :10:52.manufactured home made belts that were apparently used to transport
:10:53. > :10:55.the explosives. The theory the investigators are working on is that
:10:56. > :11:00.Brussels attackers link to the Harris attacks, of which we know
:11:01. > :11:05.there were at least four attackers, they were using this lace to prepare
:11:06. > :11:11.explosives before the attacks. After the attacks, Sala Abdul Salam
:11:12. > :11:18.briefly stayed at this place. We know he was dropped off at this
:11:19. > :11:22.place, that was the last sighting of him and security experts believe for
:11:23. > :11:26.a brief variant he may have stayed in this flat. He hasn't been seen
:11:27. > :11:33.since, he is still on the wanted list form els and French police.
:11:34. > :11:38.French authorities said weeks ago they believed a significant amount
:11:39. > :11:43.of planning for the resin attacks were based in Brussels. Abdul Salaam
:11:44. > :11:50.was one of two brothers involved, his older brother was killed in the
:11:51. > :11:54.attacks and the morning after he drove from Paris to Brussels, we
:11:55. > :12:00.know he was stopped and checked I police, he got through and on the
:12:01. > :12:07.morning he was taken into cars to this area. It also emerged that
:12:08. > :12:10.friends of him who were now being questioned by Belgian Daugherty 's
:12:11. > :12:15.claim he called them on Skype the week after and said she was being
:12:16. > :12:21.monitored by French and Belgian officials on one side and I guess
:12:22. > :12:26.militants on the other who were unhappy he had not set off his
:12:27. > :12:28.suicide belt and he was trying to leave first area, and that is where
:12:29. > :12:35.the trace goes cold. The Mexican President,
:12:36. > :12:37.Enrique Pena Nieto, has announced that the country's most notorious
:12:38. > :12:39.druglord, Joaquim Guzman, known as "El Chapo"
:12:40. > :12:41.has been recaptured. Guzman escaped six months ago
:12:42. > :12:43.from a high security prison through a tunnel which led
:12:44. > :12:50.from his cell to a building around This is quite a coup for the
:12:51. > :12:58.president, one of Mexico's most wanted men. Yes, he has had the
:12:59. > :13:03.Mexican Marines in the north-west state, and extensive operation ever
:13:04. > :13:13.since the escape last July, so he said in his suite -- his tweet,
:13:14. > :13:19.mission accomplished, we got him. He is a billionaire, originally
:13:20. > :13:26.sentenced to prison in the 1990s and this is the second time he escaped.
:13:27. > :13:31.Talk us through how he escaped. Guzman was first arrested in what
:13:32. > :13:35.Allah in 1993 and spent a decade in a Mexican jail before escaping with
:13:36. > :13:44.the laundry basket and he was on the run fourth 13 years before he was
:13:45. > :13:49.held again in 2014. Last time he got through a tunnel out of the prison.
:13:50. > :13:53.You might remember those pictures, and air-conditioned tunnel with a
:13:54. > :13:58.motor bike to take down the tunnel, a kilometre and a half long haul
:13:59. > :14:07.from the shower area inside his self to a building outside the prison. Is
:14:08. > :14:15.he still in charge of the cartel, is it still a cartel rolling the drug
:14:16. > :14:20.wars of Messaggero? -- Mexico? We do not know where he is captured but it
:14:21. > :14:22.is likely it was in that area where he has his henchmen and his
:14:23. > :14:28.organisation is based. Thank you. Now to Burundi, where hundreds have
:14:29. > :14:31.died in violence since the president announced he would be running
:14:32. > :14:34.for a third term last year. The most deadly attack happened
:14:35. > :14:36.in December when armed insurgents The government says 87
:14:37. > :14:39.of them were killed. But evidence is emerging that
:14:40. > :14:44.many of those who died were unarmed, and that they were shot several
:14:45. > :14:47.hours after the rebel attack. The BBC spoke to witnesses,
:14:48. > :14:49.and found freshly-dug graves TRANSLATION: I saw a lot of soldiers
:14:50. > :15:05.and policemen and men without uniforms
:15:06. > :15:07.but with big sticks. This mother of three says
:15:08. > :15:09.that on December 11th, several hours after
:15:10. > :15:12.a rebel attack, security forces showed up at her family home
:15:13. > :15:15.in an opposition neighbourhood. TRANSLATION: Then they started
:15:16. > :15:18.forcing the door, saying, "Open, open, if you don't
:15:19. > :15:22.open we'll shoot!" They whacked my husband with sticks
:15:23. > :15:26.and my little girl cried, They went from door to door,
:15:27. > :15:33.threatening to kill us, saying we were going to organise
:15:34. > :15:38.another protest, another coup. This is what they woke
:15:39. > :15:44.up to the next day. Human rights groups say at least 150
:15:45. > :15:46.civilians were killed in reprisals This man's ID card
:15:47. > :15:52.says he was a teacher. The dogs had eaten
:15:53. > :15:57.some of the bodies. The police came hours later
:15:58. > :16:00.to take the bodies away. We don't know where
:16:01. > :16:03.they were buried. Some of the bodies were first
:16:04. > :16:06.collected by residents and then Hours later, reports
:16:07. > :16:11.started emerging that We went to look for
:16:12. > :16:18.one of them on the outskirts This is where some witnesses
:16:19. > :16:23.told us some of those who were killed in the December 11th
:16:24. > :16:27.attacks were buried. This is an old cemetery
:16:28. > :16:30.that isn't used anymore. You can see the mass graves,
:16:31. > :16:35.there are flies flying around. A resident told us he saw policemen
:16:36. > :16:38.here the day of the attack He said they shooed locals
:16:39. > :16:42.away when they tried The government says 87 people
:16:43. > :16:50.were killed and 45 captured. It says they were all rebels
:16:51. > :16:52.involved in an attack The army and the police
:16:53. > :16:59.in Burundi are professional, Justice in Burundi is interested
:17:00. > :17:07.in getting to know what happened. Some people may be killed
:17:08. > :17:14.by the attackers but let's wait the results of the
:17:15. > :17:17.investigation so we Burundians will struggle
:17:18. > :17:23.to erase from their minds the image of these bodies exposed
:17:24. > :17:28.for hours in the capital's streets. Emerging rebel movements are a real
:17:29. > :17:31.threat to the country's stability but the extreme brutality
:17:32. > :17:35.of the security forces' reaction is unlikely to put a stop
:17:36. > :17:44.to the cycle of violence. The so-called Islamic State group
:17:45. > :17:50.says it carried out a truck bombing which left at least 47 people dead
:17:51. > :17:53.in the western Libyan town of Zlitan The blast targeted
:17:54. > :17:56.a police training centre. It's the biggest such bombing staged
:17:57. > :17:58.by IS since it started to expand its presence
:17:59. > :18:01.in Libya in the past year. The militants claimed the attack
:18:02. > :18:03.was in revenge for the death The EU Foreign Policy Chief,
:18:04. > :18:17.Federica Mogherini, who's in Tunisia discussing
:18:18. > :18:21.a proposed unity government for Libya, said Thursday's attack
:18:22. > :18:33.was a reminder that Libyans need The best response to terrorism and
:18:34. > :18:40.especially to Daesh would be, we agreed that, in Libyan response
:18:41. > :18:44.determined I Libyan unity there can be supported in ways Libyan 's will
:18:45. > :18:51.determine by the international community and EU, but it has to be
:18:52. > :18:54.Libyan lead. And based on Libyan unity.
:18:55. > :18:56.Medics working at refugee camps in the Balkans say they're seeing
:18:57. > :18:59.a marked increase in the number of refugees falling ill because of
:19:00. > :19:03.Temperatures have fallen to as low as minus 11 degrees Celsius
:19:04. > :19:06.Our Global Health Correspondent Tulip Mazumdar has followed migrants
:19:07. > :19:08.making the journey from the Macedonian border,
:19:09. > :19:09.through Serbia to the Croatian border.
:19:10. > :19:23.She sent this report from the town of Shid.
:19:24. > :19:33.This man, Ibrahim, has travelled from Syria.
:19:34. > :19:38.He's cold, exhausted and suffering from a painful chest infection.
:19:39. > :19:49.One-year-old Arizu is also suffering because of the cold.
:19:50. > :20:03.She's given medicine through a machine
:20:04. > :20:06.The next morning more people arrive at the border in Macedonia,
:20:07. > :20:11.ready to walk across the frozen no-man's-land into Serbia.
:20:12. > :20:16.Despite these cold conditions, or maybe because of them,
:20:17. > :20:25.Around two kilometres up that way is Serbia,
:20:26. > :20:28.to make the journey now, the ground is very icy,
:20:29. > :20:33.and the journey is even more treacherous in these conditions.
:20:34. > :20:39.This family has already travelled around 2000 kilometres from Syria.
:20:40. > :20:45."We are on a journey of death," he tells me.
:20:46. > :20:49."We can endure, but I'm worried about the children.
:20:50. > :20:57.determined to get to Germany, where
:20:58. > :21:11.and the family have made it safely to the next refugee point.
:21:12. > :21:16.Medics wrap him in extra warm clothes
:21:17. > :21:27.The kindness of strangers is overwhelming.
:21:28. > :21:31.After an overnight bus journey north, the family can finally board
:21:32. > :21:34.the train to Croatia, but more people follow
:21:35. > :21:55.in their footsteps, the desperate and weak.
:21:56. > :22:02.In other news, a cosmetics company in Thailand has apologised for
:22:03. > :22:07.promoting skin whitening pills using the slogan, you need to be white to
:22:08. > :22:15.win. It features an actress attribute in her fame to her skin.
:22:16. > :22:21.The company says it had not meant to convey a discriminatory message.
:22:22. > :22:29.Bolivia and Peru have committed money to clean up late to the Qatar,
:22:30. > :22:33.-- lake did attack are, which is home to fish and other species
:22:34. > :22:36.threatened with extinction, threatened by waste produced by a
:22:37. > :22:39.Bolivian city. There is no safe level
:22:40. > :22:42.of drinking - that's according to new guidelines on alcohol issued
:22:43. > :22:44.by the British government, The latest recommended limits apply
:22:45. > :22:48.to both men and women equally People should drink no
:22:49. > :22:52.more than the equivalent of seven pints of average strength
:22:53. > :22:55.beer or seven standard glasses And people should also have several
:22:56. > :23:03.drink-free days a week. Pregnant
:23:04. > :23:06.women shouldn't drink at all. Critics say the advice smacks
:23:07. > :23:09.of "the nanny state" as our Health Editor Hugh Pym
:23:10. > :23:21.reports. It's certainly stirred up a big
:23:22. > :23:26.debate over how much it is sensible to drink and whether people need to
:23:27. > :23:28.be told to cut act on the alcohol they order at the bar or in shops.
:23:29. > :23:31.The official line now is that there is no such thing
:23:32. > :23:34.The risk is significant of over drinking to people's
:23:35. > :23:38.We are advising a low risk amount which is up to 14 units
:23:39. > :23:45.A key question for most drinkers, how much is it reasonable
:23:46. > :23:58.There will no longer be any difference between
:23:59. > :24:01.the recommended maximum amounts men and women might drink in a week.
:24:02. > :24:03.New guidelines for everyone will mean no
:24:04. > :24:06.more than 14 units in that time, so what does that look like?
:24:07. > :24:09.It is equivalent to seven pints of beer or seven medium sized
:24:10. > :24:11.glasses of wine but if you drink higher strength
:24:12. > :24:13.brands in both cases, that will mean fewer drinks
:24:14. > :24:19.On this basis for beer towards the lower end
:24:20. > :24:22.of the strength range, it is three fewer pints for men
:24:23. > :24:26.Lucy often drank a bottle of wine a day but after
:24:27. > :24:29.drinking three in one night she ended up in hospital
:24:30. > :24:37.She believes drinking has been glamorised and tougher
:24:38. > :24:41.I grew up in the '90s so I was subjected to the whole
:24:42. > :24:57.ladette culture and I think women of my generation have been sold
:24:58. > :25:03.wine is a treat, it is good for you, it is a convivial and with friends
:25:04. > :25:06.and harms have been played down, even to the extent of promoting red
:25:07. > :25:09.The guidelines will apply across the UK.
:25:10. > :25:12.We asked drinkers in Swansea whether they thought the government
:25:13. > :25:18.People wouldn't take any notice, they will drink what they want.
:25:19. > :25:20.It is up to the individual whatever they want to drink.
:25:21. > :25:24.People tend to think they are fine, two or three pints is nothing,
:25:25. > :25:28.It could be some time before there is any firm evidence
:25:29. > :25:31.as to whether these tighter guidelines make any difference
:25:32. > :25:40.to people's behaviour or their health.
:25:41. > :25:47.A quick reminder of our main story, that the chief of police in the
:25:48. > :25:51.German city of Cologne has been suspended and made criticism of the
:25:52. > :25:56.way his force handled allegations of violent crime during New Year's Eve
:25:57. > :25:59.celebrations, including sexual assault and theft. That's it from
:26:00. > :26:10.me. Good night. The weekend is upon us and
:26:11. > :26:15.weather-wise if you have plans for out door is take an umbrella because
:26:16. > :26:19.there is rain forecast in the form of showers and a noticeable breeze.
:26:20. > :26:20.We have low pressure