:00:13. > :00:18.BBC world news broadcasting in the UK and around the world. Headlines.
:00:19. > :00:22.Tens of thousands of Syrians are escaping fighting in the north of
:00:23. > :00:27.the country. Many stuck in freezing temperatures and the Turkish border.
:00:28. > :00:31.But Turkey says there is no need to allow them to cross its frontier. In
:00:32. > :00:36.Taiwan the search continues through the night was a five is the deadly
:00:37. > :00:41.earthquake, at least 14 people known to have died. After several hours
:00:42. > :00:46.with no good news we've had a flurry, first a little boy brought
:00:47. > :00:51.out alive, now this adult. We understand two more will be brought
:00:52. > :00:55.out, also alive. Lunch Mac a massive avalanche in the Austrian Alps has
:00:56. > :01:01.killed five skiers from the Czech Republic. And buzzing with life
:01:02. > :01:12.Brazil sets aside fears of the Zika virus for the annual Carnivore.
:01:13. > :01:21.-- for the annual Carnival. The numbers are staggering. One official
:01:22. > :01:25.says that over 35,000 Syrian refugees have arrived at the Turkish
:01:26. > :01:31.border in the past couple of days. It's after fighting intensified in
:01:32. > :01:34.Aleppo. Government forces backed by Russian air strikes are targeting
:01:35. > :01:38.rebel held positions there. The result, tens of thousands of people
:01:39. > :01:44.forced to escape and fleeing to the Turkish border town of Kilis in the
:01:45. > :01:49.north. Two geezers and is prepared to help the refugees by providing
:01:50. > :01:53.food and shelter but its border stays closed. Despite EU officials
:01:54. > :01:57.reminding Turkey of its international obligations by keeping
:01:58. > :02:05.its frontiers open. Our correspondence sent this report.
:02:06. > :02:08.Their only thought is escape, away from the madness
:02:09. > :02:11.Their aim was Turkey yet the border will not be open.
:02:12. > :02:13.35,000 people have gathered on the border, given food
:02:14. > :02:32.and shelter but not safe passage into Turkey.
:02:33. > :02:34.They are fleeing a two-pronged attack by Russian air
:02:35. > :02:37.strikes and forces loyal to Assad, rubble supply lines have been cut
:02:38. > :02:40.off, 300,000 civilians in Aleppo could be trapped.
:02:41. > :02:42.If the city falls it could be a fatal blow
:02:43. > :02:50.This man left Aleppo three weeks ago and still hopes
:02:51. > :02:53.to return but he says the city is enduring a nightmare.
:02:54. > :02:54.Living in Aleppo, actually, it is being
:02:55. > :02:57.You don't know how or when you will die.
:02:58. > :03:12.Because of Assad's aircraft or Russian aircraft,
:03:13. > :03:14.With the refugees cared for by Turkish groups
:03:15. > :03:18.on the Syrian side of the border Turkey says there is no need to let
:03:19. > :03:21.Could this country finally be closing its doors?
:03:22. > :03:24.We still keep this open border policy for
:03:25. > :03:26.these people fleeing from the aggression of the regime
:03:27. > :03:28.as well as air strikes of Russia.
:03:29. > :03:30.And these people are fleeing from such acts, so we need
:03:31. > :03:34.to keep this open-door policy for them.
:03:35. > :03:39.Turkey has welcomed more than 2.5 million Syrian refugees
:03:40. > :03:41.but its open door policy has precipitated
:03:42. > :03:50.So this country now faces conflicting pressures,
:03:51. > :03:53.to help those in need, while being told by the EU
:03:54. > :03:59.Turkey has long been the gatekeeper to
:04:00. > :04:06.sanctuary, but resources are stretched and it now faces
:04:07. > :04:18.a dilemma to give safe passage or decide a limit has been reached.
:04:19. > :04:22.are missing after a powerful earthquake hit Taiwan in the early
:04:23. > :04:27.hours of the morning, while people were sleeping.
:04:28. > :04:29.At least 14 people died after the magnitude 6.4 quake
:04:30. > :04:32.hit the south of the island, close to the city of Tainan.
:04:33. > :04:35.Most of the casualties were in a 17 storey building that
:04:36. > :04:45.Our Correspondent Rupert Wingfield Hayes is in Tainan.
:04:46. > :04:48.Nearly 24 hours after the earthquake struck they have not given up hope
:04:49. > :05:10.This is now the focus of the rescue, it
:05:11. > :05:12.huge 17 storey apartment block ripped from its foundations and now
:05:13. > :05:17.lying on its back.
:05:18. > :05:27.All day they have been pulling people out alive.
:05:28. > :05:32.But as night returned dozens of relatives waited anxiously,
:05:33. > :05:35.This woman is waiting for news of her nephew.
:05:36. > :05:38.Don't be scared, she tells her family on the phone,
:05:39. > :05:42.The rescuers have heard a noise, she tells me, they are pretty sure
:05:43. > :05:51.And then the moment she's been waiting for.
:05:52. > :05:55.Minutes later, on the other side of the building, another rescue.
:05:56. > :05:59.After several hours with no good news
:06:00. > :06:01.we've suddenly had a flurry, first they brought out the little
:06:02. > :06:03.boy alive and now they've brought out
:06:04. > :06:11.We understand there are two more about to be brought out
:06:12. > :06:16.It is a boost to those still waiting anxiously for news but the grim
:06:17. > :06:18.truth is that the easy rescues have now all been done.
:06:19. > :06:31.There are still over 100 people missing inside the rubble.
:06:32. > :06:38.The other question people are asking is why this particular building came
:06:39. > :06:42.down. It is noticeable that in the streets surrounding me, all of the
:06:43. > :06:48.buildings I have seen are completely unscathed but this building toppled
:06:49. > :06:52.over from a 6.4 earthquake. Buildings in Taiwan are supposed to
:06:53. > :06:56.be able to withstand quakes of this size and bigger. So the
:06:57. > :07:01.investigation will now focus on, was there a problem with this building,
:07:02. > :07:03.with the company that built the building, was the corruption
:07:04. > :07:09.involved, this building certainly should not have come down. More than
:07:10. > :07:11.100 anti-migrant protesters have brought the French city of Cali to a
:07:12. > :07:13.standstill. Hundreds of police in riot gear used
:07:14. > :07:15.pepper spray and teargas. Well, Tomos Morgan
:07:16. > :07:18.is in Calais for us - At around 1pm, anti-migrant
:07:19. > :07:29.protesters came here to Calais to protest against the migrant
:07:30. > :07:31.camp here on the edge They say the migrants have
:07:32. > :07:35.affected them in a big way, affecting businesses,
:07:36. > :07:37.and have really put a black mark Not all the protesters
:07:38. > :07:40.are from this area. Some are from other areas
:07:41. > :07:42.across the northern coast. Now, police tried to disperse
:07:43. > :07:46.the crowd as quickly as possible. Telling them if they wouldn't
:07:47. > :07:48.move, they would move They kettled off this main road
:07:49. > :07:53.in the centre of the town and used They used snatch-and-grab tactics
:07:54. > :07:59.to pull out certain individuals, those main protagonists,
:08:00. > :08:02.in an effort to release the tension Now, the French interior minister,
:08:03. > :08:11.Bernard Cazeneuve, actually banned Nevertheless, the protesters took
:08:12. > :08:14.to the streets in an effort In Macedonia, there have been
:08:15. > :08:30.clashes between police and taxi drivers who have been blocking
:08:31. > :08:32.a border rail crossing. Riot police
:08:33. > :08:35.used force to remove the drivers who were protesting
:08:36. > :08:37.on the railway tracks. Trains had to be halted
:08:38. > :08:39.for several days - delaying thousands of migrants
:08:40. > :08:42.and asylum seekers, waiting to cross Police in Austria say five skiers
:08:43. > :08:47.from the Czech Republic have been killed in a huge avalanche
:08:48. > :08:51.in the Austrian Alps, The avalanche engulfed 17 people,
:08:52. > :08:55.with search and rescue teams now A police spokesman says two people
:08:56. > :09:03.have been injured. TRANSLATION: Shortly after 12 noon
:09:04. > :09:10.and there was a huge avalanche at a mountain as high as 2857
:09:11. > :09:12.metres, in this area, Two groups were buried by this
:09:13. > :09:16.avalanche in the ascent. There were 17 people,
:09:17. > :09:18.one group of 12, another Five people were killed
:09:19. > :09:21.by the avalanche, two were injured, All of them seemed
:09:22. > :09:31.to be from the Czech It's been confirmed
:09:32. > :09:42.a passenger flight, which was forced to make
:09:43. > :09:44.an emergency landing in Mogadishu One passenger fell through the hole
:09:45. > :09:52.in the fuselage, which appeared shortly after take-off
:09:53. > :09:54.from Mogadishu. Several thousand supporters
:09:55. > :09:55.of the far right anti-immigrant group Pegida have staged a protest
:09:56. > :09:58.by the side of the River Elbe Similar, smaller protests have been
:09:59. > :10:02.planned in other European countries including France,
:10:03. > :10:05.the UK and the Czech Republic. North Korea has brought forward
:10:06. > :10:09.the time frame of a controversial satellite launch, according
:10:10. > :10:13.to regional governments. It's believed it could take
:10:14. > :10:17.place as early as Sunday. The announcement was condemned
:10:18. > :10:20.by world powers, which say it is a cover for a
:10:21. > :10:30.ballistic missile test. Here in the UK, the government has
:10:31. > :10:33.announced plans to provide specialist mental health services
:10:34. > :10:35.for survivors of Female Genital GPs, psychiatrists and counsellors
:10:36. > :10:42.will be given training to support victims of the practice,
:10:43. > :10:45.which has been described by campaigners
:10:46. > :10:46.as "gross child abuse". As soon as I read through this poem,
:10:47. > :10:57.I realised it was actually I was aged 11 and it
:10:58. > :11:01.was on my birthday. Poetry helping women who have
:11:02. > :11:03.experienced female genital mutilation to deal
:11:04. > :11:04.with its lasting impacts. They attend this clinic
:11:05. > :11:09.in West London, one of the only practices to provide
:11:10. > :11:10.specialised support. 42-year-old Christina,
:11:11. > :11:12.not her real name, had FGM performed I went to the room, and I was held
:11:13. > :11:21.down by four ladies. That's when they performed
:11:22. > :11:26.the circumcision. Right now I would say more
:11:27. > :11:38.than the physical part is the mental part, that's what I find difficult.
:11:39. > :11:40.I have flashbacks. It's estimated more than 130,000
:11:41. > :11:42.people in England and Wales are living with the
:11:43. > :11:44.consequences of FGM. Between July and September last
:11:45. > :11:48.year, nearly 1,400 cases were reported, with the highest
:11:49. > :11:50.number in the capital. What really came through,
:11:51. > :11:52.from the conversations I've been having and the conversations
:11:53. > :11:58.you have with people who have been through FGM, is that the trauma can
:11:59. > :12:01.stay with people for a lifetime. For women like Christina,
:12:02. > :12:03.trying to come to terms with their experience of FGM
:12:04. > :12:26.is a continuing journey. More than 3,100 pregnant Colombian
:12:27. > :12:28.women have been infected with the mosquito-borne Zika virus,
:12:29. > :12:31.as the disease continues its rapid The virus has been linked
:12:32. > :12:34.to the devastating birth defect microcephaly, which prevents
:12:35. > :12:36.a child's brains from developing There are so far no recorded
:12:37. > :12:40.cases of Zika-linked Meanwhile in Brazil,
:12:41. > :12:43.where the virus is also a major the country's famous carnival
:12:44. > :12:46.celebrations have begun. Around a million visitors
:12:47. > :12:50.are expected in Rio as Julia Carneiro
:12:51. > :12:58.reports from Rio. It is the first day of Carnival
:12:59. > :13:01.in Rio and this is one of the many street parades happening
:13:02. > :13:03.across the city. 500 of them are to
:13:04. > :13:05.happen during Carnival. This one is traditional,
:13:06. > :13:20.they are playing old carnival songs that people here grew
:13:21. > :13:23.up with and this is a parade for children and babies
:13:24. > :13:25.so there are many families here. This is a good example
:13:26. > :13:28.of how people in Brazil learned to enjoy Carnival
:13:29. > :13:30.from a young age. But Carnival this year happens
:13:31. > :13:32.amid concern about the spread of the Zika virus and with all
:13:33. > :13:35.the recommendations being made to pregnant women to take
:13:36. > :13:37.precautions and not get infected But I've seen in many pregnant
:13:38. > :13:41.women here in the street Actually we are very concerned
:13:42. > :13:45.but we cannot stop life. It is Carnival, Rio,
:13:46. > :13:47.Brazil, we have to go out. We're very concerned
:13:48. > :13:52.and we are using protection. Zika, nothing gets in
:13:53. > :13:57.the way of Carnival, There is even a family all dressed
:13:58. > :14:04.up as the mosquito that transmits Because in the Carnival
:14:05. > :14:26.everything is upside down. make fun of everything
:14:27. > :14:31.so despite all the problems Brazil is facing, concerns over
:14:32. > :14:50.the Zika virus, the party Julia in a lively Rio. Stay with us,
:14:51. > :14:58.this is to come. The traffic will take a break of and R and R and R
:14:59. > :15:03.Caseload jazz song to one about traffic jams, this is how one may
:15:04. > :15:42.told drivers in his city. Two Americans have become the first
:15:43. > :15:47.humans to walk in space with no lifeline to their spaceship. One of
:15:48. > :15:50.them called and a piece of cake. Thousands of people have given the
:15:51. > :15:55.yachtswoman Alan McArthur is spectacular welcome in the Cornish
:15:56. > :15:56.port of Falmouth after she smashed the world record for sailing solo
:15:57. > :16:13.around the world nonstop. Thousands of people have fled fierce
:16:14. > :16:18.fighting in the Syrian city of Aleppo and now they are stuck on the
:16:19. > :16:22.Turkish border. The search goes on through the night was a viva 's of
:16:23. > :16:29.this earthquake in Taiwan, at least 14 people are dead and more than 100
:16:30. > :16:34.are missing. Back to the main story. More about the refugee crisis
:16:35. > :16:38.unfolding on the border between Syria and Turkey. Tens of thousands
:16:39. > :16:41.of people are stuck on the Syrian side but the governor of the Kilis
:16:42. > :16:46.province believes there is no need to allow them to cross into Turkey.
:16:47. > :16:52.Instead the displaced are getting help in a camp outside Syria. Abdul
:16:53. > :16:56.Salaam Marjorie fair works for a Turkish Islamic charity relief
:16:57. > :17:02.foundation and gave me the latest on the number of refugees who have
:17:03. > :17:08.sought refuge in that camp. Around 50,000 but I believe there are
:17:09. > :17:15.45,000 at most because there is movement of refugees, some of them
:17:16. > :17:18.they go back, some of them moved because it is related to the
:17:19. > :17:25.conditions and how much they are afraid of the attacks. How long have
:17:26. > :17:29.they travelled for to get to the border? I met some of them, they
:17:30. > :17:35.said that they had walked for 20 kilometres until they reached the
:17:36. > :17:47.border. And what are conditions like in Aleppo? What are they describing?
:17:48. > :17:51.Say if I curated the area because the -- they evacuated the area
:17:52. > :17:56.because they got bombarded by Russian planes. The people around
:17:57. > :18:01.them were afraid. They left the area and they walked for long distances,
:18:02. > :18:05.one of them, some walking, some with cars. You seem to be describing
:18:06. > :18:14.desperate conditions that these refugees have escaped from. What are
:18:15. > :18:18.the conditions like on the border post? For the last three days we
:18:19. > :18:25.tried to fix things and we provided them with food. But still we are in
:18:26. > :18:34.need because we could not cover all the refugees. We fixed the tents
:18:35. > :18:40.beside the old camps which we had before, and still we have around
:18:41. > :18:53.10,000 people, they need also tents and food. Lets get all the sports
:18:54. > :18:58.news now. Quite a day for Leicester City fans, star striker Jamie Vardy
:18:59. > :19:01.has signed a new contract to stay at the club until 2019. That comes at a
:19:02. > :19:08.date when Leicester become Premier League title favourites with a 3-1
:19:09. > :19:12.win at Manchester City, two calls from Robert Huth and a stunning
:19:13. > :19:22.Riyad Mahrez goal gave them the win, 3-0. Tottenham Hotspur moved up to
:19:23. > :19:27.second with a 1-0 win over Watford. We played without pressure because
:19:28. > :19:32.we don't have to win the league. Now it is so strange, this league, this
:19:33. > :19:35.is a fantastic moment for the Premier League. Nobody knows who can
:19:36. > :19:46.win the league. We're here to enjoy with a lot
:19:47. > :19:50.of confidence and try to do our These are the other
:19:51. > :19:52.scores of the day. Aston Villa got only
:19:53. > :19:57.their third win of season. Sunderland came from two
:19:58. > :19:59.down to claim one point. Newcastle are now out
:20:00. > :20:01.of the bottom three. Confirmation that Spurs's 1-0 win
:20:02. > :20:04.over Watford takes them second England celebrated this evening
:20:05. > :20:28.after the opening day, of the Six Nations, they beat
:20:29. > :20:31.Scotland 15-9 to win the Calcutta In Eddie Jones's first match
:20:32. > :20:38.in charge of England his side struck first, George Crus in the 14the
:20:39. > :20:40.minute, Scotland didn't panic and captain Craig Laidlaw made
:20:41. > :20:43.sure they went in at half-time only one point behind after
:20:44. > :20:49.two penalty kicks. France claimed an unconvincing win
:20:50. > :20:54.over Italy to claim their first win. It is the first sporting event held
:20:55. > :21:05.in France says the Paris attacks in the Paris attacks in amber.
:21:06. > :21:07.It's Super Bowl weekend and when the Denver Broncos take
:21:08. > :21:10.on the Carolina Panthers it will be a landmark for American Football -
:21:11. > :21:14.Alex South is in San Francisco and has the all important facts
:21:15. > :21:17.and figures for you ahead of what is often described
:21:18. > :21:35.The famous Vince Lombardi trophy was first fought over in 1967 but it was
:21:36. > :21:40.not even Super. Its name was the not very catchy AFL-NFL World
:21:41. > :21:46.Championship game. The Super Bowl rules of the tongue more easily!
:21:47. > :21:50.Back then the average player got $6,000 a year. Nowadays that would
:21:51. > :21:55.take the lead's best paid player just over one hour to make. A big
:21:56. > :22:00.factor in the increased viewing figures are the famous half-time
:22:01. > :22:04.shows. In the early days you were lucky few got marching band but
:22:05. > :22:08.Michael Jackson 's 1993 performance changed all that forever, paving the
:22:09. > :22:12.way for some of the biggest names in music to gate-crash the party. And
:22:13. > :22:18.who could forget his sister's wardrobe malfunction in 2004.
:22:19. > :22:24.Players have changed as well. In the NFL size does matter. The average
:22:25. > :22:31.player in the 1960s weighed 251 lbs and was six foot three. Fast forward
:22:32. > :22:38.to 2016 and that looks tiny as most players way around 310 lbs and are
:22:39. > :22:41.around six feet five tour. You can't teach size but you can ask for a
:22:42. > :22:45.decent haircut occasionally. There have been many fashion disasters
:22:46. > :22:49.over the years, proving that money can't buy you everything! It should
:22:50. > :23:04.be a great event in San Francisco. A 150-year-old mouse trap has
:23:05. > :23:10.claimed its latest victim at a museum in Reading. It was caught in
:23:11. > :23:13.a wooden club dating from the 1860s in a storeroom at the Museum of
:23:14. > :23:16.rural life in the city. This special report.
:23:17. > :23:19.It was certainly not a narrow squeak for one unfortunate museum visitor
:23:20. > :23:21.who underestimated Victorian engineering.
:23:22. > :23:24.I was in the stores and I was getting out an object
:23:25. > :23:31.for an event called Animals at Reading, I wasn't expecting
:23:32. > :23:38.in the stores I noticed there was a mouse in one of them.
:23:39. > :23:41.It's a mystery why or even how the mouse conquered stairs
:23:42. > :23:43.and penetrated secure cabinets just to select from amongst thousands
:23:44. > :23:52.of exhibits the very thing designed to capture it.
:23:53. > :23:57.The mouse would come in through the top here,
:23:58. > :24:01.would go one way, end up in this small cage at the end,
:24:02. > :24:04.where the user would then be able to retrieve it and release it
:24:05. > :24:07.The trap was patented in 1861 with the bold claim
:24:08. > :24:11.The museum's collection of traps is monitored fairly regularly,
:24:12. > :24:14.but staff here have one big question to answer -
:24:15. > :24:21.was their unfortunate guest a scout, or part of a larger family?
:24:22. > :24:28.The trappings of fame mean this tiny museum is now getting inquiries
:24:29. > :24:31.from as far away as Australia and Canada, although it's as yet
:24:32. > :24:34.unclear whether the roving rodent will be buried or given a posthumous
:24:35. > :24:45.honour and be preserved as part of the exhibit.
:24:46. > :24:52.Another way to break news of major traffic closures, the Maher of Los
:24:53. > :24:59.Angeles want residents about was about traffic queues this weekend by
:25:00. > :25:02.singing this jazzy song. Hey, Los Angeles knows, we are always on the
:25:03. > :25:10.move but this weekend we're shutting down the 101 to rebuild the sixth St
:25:11. > :25:15.Bridge. We call it the 101 slow jam. I've asked my friends from Roosevelt
:25:16. > :25:19.high to help get the word out. You see, we're bringing down the sixth
:25:20. > :25:24.St bridge, making way for something new. A demolition will cause delays
:25:25. > :25:32.but sometimes, just sometimes, you have to get your hands dirty to
:25:33. > :25:37.build something beautiful. So on Friday night February five the 101
:25:38. > :25:41.freeway will take a 448 hours of R and R and R and R and B. The best
:25:42. > :25:45.thing you can do is stay clear of the area, but if you've got to get
:25:46. > :25:53.out on the town, with that and it was set up. All you got to do is
:25:54. > :26:00.follow the signs. L a Mayor not doing a bad job. That is all from
:26:01. > :26:08.me. Thank you for being with us. To join us again.