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This is BBC World News Today with me, Ben Bland. | :00:09. | :00:10. | |
They are coming in their thousands... | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
Syrians are making their way to the border with Turkey to escape | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
intense fighting near the city of Aleppo. | :00:18. | :00:18. | |
Zika is found in human urine and saliva, raising new fears over | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, speaks from the balcony | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, after a UN panel rules | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
This is a victory that cannot be denied. | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
Also coming up, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari defies the critics | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
who say he hasn't done enough to fight corruption. | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
We have not done much yet. Because we're waiting for documentation so | :00:46. | :00:58. | |
that those who have tried to be too clever or too hard can be | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
prosecuted. And why are so many | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
sperm whales dying? Almost 30 have now been found along | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
beaches in the North Sea in the worst series of whale | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
strandings in 100 years. At least 15,000 people in Syria have | :01:08. | :01:32. | |
gathered at the Turkish border after heavy fighting | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
near the city of Aleppo. So far they're not being allowed | :01:37. | :01:38. | |
to cross the frontier. But Turkish aid workers have gone | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
into Syrian territory to provide The Turkish prime minister says | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
he believes tens of thousands of more refugees may | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
be on their way. They are said to be heading | :01:48. | :01:48. | |
towards the Turkish city of Kilis. Aleppo is a mere 60 | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
kilometres from Turkey. And these latest pictures show | :01:52. | :01:53. | |
people said to be on the move They're being driven out | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
by the intense fighting which is going on in | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
Aleppo province. Syrian Government troops have been | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
making significant advances, Live now to our | :02:03. | :02:03. | |
correspondent Selin Girit. Selin Girit, what is the latest on | :02:04. | :02:19. | |
the situation at the border? At the border, the crossings are not | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
open on the Turkish side. We were at the border as the BBC team today, | :02:24. | :02:31. | |
for a few others, not all day. All that we saw was eight trucks going | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
in and a few ambulances and that was it, we did not see any survey in | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
side of the border, it is a no man's land as you might convert between | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
the two border crossings. -- cockpit. Thousands of Syrians | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
waiting on the Syrian side of the border, we could not see them | :02:54. | :03:01. | |
ourselves. Reportedly, the union has said there are 15,000 people waiting | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
at the border on the Syrian side of the border and the top SRR has said | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
that there are plenty more, thousands, tens of thousands more on | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
the way from Aleppo to Kilis into Turkey or at least trying to make | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
their way there. Today we have not seen anyone coming in but the Prime | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
Minister has said that Turkey is ready to give food and shelter and | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
will not leave Syrians without food and shelter but he did not specify | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
whether the talk is government is prepared to take these new refugees | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
in because we must remember that Turkey already holds over 2 million | :03:39. | :03:47. | |
Syrian refugees within its borders. Accepting more will seriously | :03:48. | :03:56. | |
maintain another burden on Turkey's finances, a country that has a Lady | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
spent over 10 billion dollars to accommodate these refugees. But the | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
Prime Minister has said they will accommodate the shelters and we have | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
seen pictures on the other side, we have received pictures coming from | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
the Syrian side of Turkish aid agencies, holding tents on the other | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
side of the border for the survey messages. So, shelter is being | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
provided, food is being provided, but whether they will make their way | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
into Turkey remains a big question. -- Syrian refugees. | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
Thank you for that report. Mohammed Yehia from BBC Arabic says | :04:35. | :04:35. | |
conditions for people stuck The Turkish authorities have not | :04:36. | :04:43. | |
opened up the border yet to them, they are preparing accommodation for | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
them. They are trying to make relocation arrangements for them. It | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
is not that may be up to 70,000 people could be on the move in the | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
Aleppo suburbs area, trying to flee the very determined attempts of the | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
Russian air strikes and the assault by the Syrian Army that is backed by | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
foreign militias from Hezbollah and Lebanon and Iranian forces. One | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
major goal we had this conference in Geneva that another really took off. | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
-- never really. Simultaneous with the start of this conference, there | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
was the start of this very determined offensive by the Russian | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
air force and the Syrian Army to target the Syrian rebels. The | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
Russian assault, the air strikes, they were described as unprecedented | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
in the intensity, hundreds of air strikes that were accompanied by a | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
ground assault by the Syrian Army and its militias. They cut off the | :05:45. | :05:53. | |
main supply route for the rebels in Aleppo that was linking Aleppo with | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
Turkey. This was a major blow for the Syrian rebels and what they are | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
now trying to do, the Syrian military, they are trying to | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
reinforce a complete siege around the northern countryside of Aleppo | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
to be able to totally besieged Aleppo, a city that is to have 2 | :06:16. | :06:23. | |
million people, know it is divided between the eastern part which is | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
under rebel control and the western part which is under the control of | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
the government. By cutting off these main supply lines, the Syrian Army | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
appears to be moving to a new stage, where thanks to the writing -- | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
Russian air support, it has been able to turn the tide and instead of | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
what we have seen into into 15 when they were losing ground, they are | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
starting to now gained ground and make advances with the optimum goal | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
of isolating the rebels in pockets that they can manage. -- 2015. | :06:56. | :07:06. | |
That was our colleagues speaking to my colleague a little bit out there. | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
-- a little bit earlier. More than 4,000 babies in Brazil | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
have been born with the condition It causes them to be born | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
with abnormally small heads. Health experts believe the rise | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
in cases is due to the Zika virus, which is spreading rapidly | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
through South America. The BBC spoke to Dr Wilson Savino, | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
a senior immunologist and director at the Oswaldo Cruz Medical Research | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
Centre in Rio de Janeiro. He gave this analysis | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
on the transmission of the virus The significance is that so far the | :07:37. | :07:45. | |
genetic material of the Zika virus had been identified both then the | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
Rhine and the saliva. But now the research done shows that this is not | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
only just the genetic make a real but there is a virus able to infect | :07:58. | :08:05. | |
cells in systems and subcultures. -- you're in. This is capable of | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
affecting people. This is completely different from only the | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
identification of the virus itself. It means that the virus is | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
functional. The principal precaution is something that should be in mind | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
and I would address, particularly to pregnant women, to avoid in terms of | :08:24. | :08:35. | |
sharing, let us say cuts or nice, etc, with someone who has clearly | :08:36. | :08:43. | |
been affected with the symptoms. These type of precautions should be | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
taken. But I think that people should continue to live normally. -- | :08:50. | :08:51. | |
knives. The BBC's Julia Carneiro joins me | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
from Rio de Janiero. This latest finding about bodily | :08:54. | :09:05. | |
stewards and saliva, has this changed the plan to combat it? -- | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
bodily fluids. Not at all, the plan is told to | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
eradicate the mosquito that transmits the Zika virus because it | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
is not yet clear at all if this finding that this research Institute | :09:21. | :09:29. | |
announced today whether this means that the saliva is spread through | :09:30. | :09:37. | |
saliva or you're in. It has been found in these fluids and its active | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
form, so there is the potential that could be transmitted to other | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
people. -- you're in. It must be investigated to find out whether it | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
can be transmitted and those other variables that must be studied to | :09:52. | :10:00. | |
assess if that is possible or not. What advice is being given to people | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
to help slow down what seems to be the rapid spread of it through Latin | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
America? Well, there's lots of advice given, | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
especially to pregnant women but in general, to the population using | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
mosquito repellent is, to pregnant women covering themselves up before | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
leaving home and this new finding comes just | :10:24. | :11:16. | |
Exchanging fluids in any way with other people. It is another set of | :11:17. | :11:24. | |
recommendations for people to be careful. | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
The Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, has welcomed a UN | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
ruling which says he's been 'arbitrarily detained'. | :11:33. | :11:33. | |
He says he should be allowed to walk free from Ecuador's embassy | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
He's been there since 2012, after an extradition | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
That followed a rape allegation that he denies. | :11:41. | :11:42. | |
In the last few hours he's spoken from the balcony of the embassy. | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
Still officially on Ecuadorean soil, still threatened with arrest, | :11:47. | :11:57. | |
Julian Assange emerged onto about Kenny this afternoon | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
for the first time since 2012, the year he sought sanctuary at this | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
This is a victory that cannot be denied. | :12:05. | :12:17. | |
The UK and Sweden have had this judgment for the past two weeks. | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
They did not file an appeal in that two-week period. | :12:23. | :12:30. | |
Julian Assange now says he has international law on his side, | :12:31. | :12:38. | |
but the self-styled champion of free speech and accountability did not | :12:39. | :12:40. | |
He detailed the UN findings, that the detention was arbitrary. | :12:41. | :13:00. | |
They also decided he has an enforceable right to compensation | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
The opinion in itself is an opinion, and it is legally binding | :13:05. | :13:15. | |
to the extent that it is based on international human rights norm, | :13:16. | :13:23. | |
From the UK Government, a furious response. | :13:24. | :13:32. | |
He can come out onto the pavement any time he chooses. | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
But he will have to face justice in Sweden if he chooses to do so. | :13:35. | :13:43. | |
Today, these police outside the embassy were for crowd | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
protection, but the police operation to prevent his escape cost | :13:46. | :13:47. | |
This evening, the lawyer for the alleged rape victim put out | :13:48. | :13:56. | |
a statement in Sweden saying that she was glad the UN call | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
for his release was not legally binding. | :14:00. | :14:01. | |
It is time, she said, that Assange packs his bags, | :14:02. | :14:03. | |
steps out of the embassy and begins to cooperate with the police. | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
His supporters are relishing this moment, a dramatic day | :14:09. | :14:10. | |
in an extraordinary international saga. | :14:11. | :14:19. | |
But it does not end the long-running stand-off. | :14:20. | :14:21. | |
For now, he is back inside, and still no one knows | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
A man has been shot dead outside hotel in Dublin. Police and | :14:25. | :14:53. | |
investigating if it was connected to criminal gangs. The boxing that was | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
due to take place on Saturday been cancelled. | :14:58. | :14:59. | |
Now to Nigeria, where President Mohammadu Buhari's war | :15:00. | :15:00. | |
against corruption is gathering momentum. | :15:01. | :15:02. | |
Millions of dollars have been returned by some of the people | :15:03. | :15:04. | |
President Buhari has been speaking to Focus on Africa's Peter Okwoche. | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
They began by discussion how much of that money has been recovered. | :15:09. | :15:16. | |
Because we're waiting for documentation, so that those | :15:17. | :15:28. | |
who try to be too clever or too hard, we can prosecute them. | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
Now, to prosecute them successfully, we have to produce evidence, | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
this is the evidence we have built up collectively. | :15:35. | :15:36. | |
It is not easy, especially in the petroleum industry. | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
They have literally declared their assets and they are | :15:41. | :15:48. | |
So it would be unfair, you know, before the deal is... | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
But would you agree to an amnesty for people who return their money? | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
I have to depend on the report and the recommendation | :15:58. | :16:07. | |
of the officials that I asked to do this job. | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
What do you make about the criticism that you only seem to be | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
going after political opponents and not some members | :16:14. | :16:15. | |
of your political party, the APC, who also seem to be corrupt? | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
Yeah, making wild allegations I think is a hobby, I suspect, | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
for Nigerian critics of this government. | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
If they can provide evidence, if they can give me an idea that | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
so-and-so in my cabinet, a member of APC stole so much... | :16:36. | :16:51. | |
If I do not react to credible information, then they can blame me, | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
but they cannot just open their mouths and say that | :16:56. | :16:57. | |
A few months ago, you told the BBC that Boko Haram have | :16:58. | :17:09. | |
So, how can a group that you have technically defeated | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
There were some allegations one week or so ago, not quite allegations, | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
but they were said to have gone and attacked a village. | :17:20. | :17:28. | |
They were said to have burnt 100 or more houses. | :17:29. | :17:30. | |
You know the type of houses that are there. | :17:31. | :17:32. | |
All they needed to do was to strike one match and the whole | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
In that particular attack you are talking about, | :17:39. | :17:53. | |
That does not sound like a group that has technically been defeated. | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
But all I know, that of the 14 local governments, | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
they used to hold, and while they host their flag, | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
they are not in charge of any of those local governments, | :18:12. | :18:13. | |
but they can still regroup and go and attack such targets, | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
Britain's proposed EU reforms have been strongly backed | :18:17. | :18:32. | |
The British Prime Minister, David Cameron's, been in Copenhagen, | :18:33. | :18:41. | |
trying to gain support in advance of a referendum later this year. | :18:42. | :18:43. | |
He also held positive talks in Poland but the Prime Minister | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
there said plans to limit benefits for EU migrants would need | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
Here's our Europe Editor Katya Adler. | :18:50. | :18:51. | |
Warsaw's charming city centre was rebuilt almost from scratch | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
It is a must see for tourists, but not on the regular beat | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
But this is the second time in a matter of weeks | :19:03. | :19:15. | |
Poland is being tricky when it comes to his EU reform proposals, | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
which he needs all the EU leaders to sign up to. | :19:22. | :19:23. | |
Real negotiations take place behind closed doors. | :19:24. | :19:25. | |
In public, it is often what is not said that is significant. | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
Poland's Prime Minister politely praised three out of David Cameron's | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
She didn't mention cutting EU migrant benefits, | :19:33. | :19:34. | |
Is he hinting at what Britain could offer Poland? | :19:35. | :19:43. | |
We want a full strategic partnership between Britain and Poland, | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
and that is because of the shared interests and shared ideals we have. | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
Shared interests in strong defence and supporting Nato in standing up | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
to Russian aggression, shared interests in terms | :19:58. | :19:59. | |
But improving finances for many Polish, particularly the young, | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
Hundreds of thousands have come to the UK, cutting their in work | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
In Poland, it is not easy to find a good job. | :20:12. | :20:23. | |
Salaries aside, they also fear for their security, | :20:24. | :20:25. | |
with aggressive Russia just next door. | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
Last week the British Government pledged 1000 troops to take part | :20:32. | :20:33. | |
Valuable military support for Poland, whose goodwill | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
is vital for David Cameron to get his EU deal. | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
Shuttle diplomacy is intensifying for the Prime Minister ahead | :20:44. | :20:45. | |
His EU reform proposals are welcome here. | :20:46. | :20:57. | |
And most importantly from the Danish Prime Minister... | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
I support all the elements on access to welfare benefits. | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
It is no coincidence that the Prime Minister chose | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
to hold a press conference in Denmark, and not to take any | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
press questions in Warsaw, where things could have got | :21:11. | :21:12. | |
David Cameron's EU reform proposal is a political hot potato | :21:13. | :21:20. | |
which he hopes will be signed off at a summit in two weeks, | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
Expect a roller-coaster of headlines between now and then, | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
predicting triumph, concession and even defeat. | :21:29. | :21:42. | |
In a historic step to heal the 1,000-year-old rift that split | :21:43. | :21:44. | |
Christianity, the first ever meeting between a Roman Catholic Pope | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
and a head of the Russian Orthodox Church will happen in a week's time. | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
Pope Francis will stop over in Cuba on his way to Mexico to meet | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
Patriarch Kirill for private talks, in an attempt to begin bridging | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
The announcement came in separate press conferences in Moscow | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
The meeting of the leaders of the Roman Orthodox and Catholic churches | :22:00. | :22:13. | |
which has been prepared for a long time will become the first one in | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
history to mark the important stage of relations between the two | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
churches. The Holy See and the Moscow | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
representative for that it will be a sign of goodwill to all people. They | :22:28. | :22:35. | |
invite all Christians to pray fervently for God to bless this | :22:36. | :22:45. | |
meeting and that it may be fruits. -- bear all the fruits. | :22:46. | :22:47. | |
Almost 30 have washed up on beaches along the North Sea over the past | :22:48. | :22:55. | |
few weeks but why are so many sperm whales dying? | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
They've been found stranded on beaches in the UK, | :22:59. | :23:00. | |
Holland, France and German and tests have now been carried out | :23:01. | :23:02. | |
on the latest arrival here in Britain to find out why | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
Our correspondent Danny Shaw has been investigating. | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
It's been a traumatic couple of days on this North Norfolk beach. | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
A sperm whale was stranded here yesterday, alive | :23:12. | :23:13. | |
There was a glimmer of hope as it showed signs of moving, | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
But last night it died, the latest in a series of whale | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
Initial findings show that it was starving and dehydrated. | :23:23. | :23:30. | |
All the whales we examined, at least our end, no evidence | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
There has been what we call bile staining the intestines and that | :23:34. | :23:42. | |
indicate it's gone through a period of a lack of feeding and starvation. | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
That would make the animal more compromised. | :23:46. | :23:47. | |
Why have so many of these huge animals, all young males, | :23:48. | :23:49. | |
Experts say bachelor pods are normally found | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
in the North Atlantic, feeding off deepwater | :23:53. | :23:54. | |
But they've ended up in the waters of the North Sea, | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
which are on average, 98 metres deep and too shallow | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
Over the last few weeks, 29 have been found stranded | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
on beaches in the UK, Holland, France and Germany. | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
This is the German operation to move them. | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
They can become a health hazard if left on the sands or mud flats. | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
Experts say collectively, this is the worst series of whale | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
And the concern is more of these will turn up on North Sea coasts | :24:24. | :24:31. | |
But how much detail is really known about what's going on under water? | :24:32. | :24:38. | |
An incident like this almost heightens the need for us | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
all to learn more about these enormous and fantastic creatures. | :24:44. | :24:53. | |
This may look like a scene from the days of whale hunting, | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
but these animals have to be examined if answers about why | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
they end up in the wrong sea are to be found. | :25:03. | :25:25. | |
A Ferrari built in 1957 has just sold | :25:26. | :25:27. | |
at auction in Paris for more than thirty-one million dollars. | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
The red 335 Sport Scaglietti won the 1958 Cuban Grand Prix, | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
and set a lap record at the Le Mans 24 Hours race. | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
It was driven by top drivers, including Britain's Stirling Moss. | :25:41. | :25:42. | |
When the auctioneer's commission was added, | :25:43. | :25:51. | |
But for now, from me, Ben Bland, and the rest | :25:52. | :26:04. |