:00:00. > :00:08.This is BBC World News Today with me Karin Giannone.
:00:09. > :00:11.Ten people are killed in a head-on collision between two commuter
:00:12. > :00:14.They were travelling at high speed on the same line.
:00:15. > :00:17.Investigators are trying to find out if human error or a technical
:00:18. > :00:32.There was blood everywhere and some people flew away,
:00:33. > :00:37.some hit their head on the chairs, or windows or armrests or something.
:00:38. > :00:40.The US state of New Hampshire votes for its Republican and Democratic
:00:41. > :00:44.With hundreds of thousands of Syrians facing life under siege
:00:45. > :00:46.in Aleppo, refugees are warned there's no more room in camps
:00:47. > :00:57.So it's very very difficult now to be here, now the regime has cut
:00:58. > :01:02.one of the two roads that supply Aleppo city.
:01:03. > :01:14.And, as Japan starts catching Minke whales in defiance
:01:15. > :01:17.Offered international court ruling we ask if eating whale meat is part
:01:18. > :01:23.of Japanese culture. That's the big question after two
:01:24. > :01:28.German trains crashed They were travelling
:01:29. > :01:31.on the same single track, heading towards each
:01:32. > :01:35.other at full speed. At least ten people were killed -
:01:36. > :01:38.with another hundred or so injured. Several carriages were derailed
:01:39. > :01:40.and emergency teams worked for hours On a quiet commuter line,
:01:41. > :01:49.the violence of a head-on collision. This footage was taken
:01:50. > :01:53.moments after the I can't move my arm,
:01:54. > :02:04.one woman shouts. Don't worry, a passenger replies,
:02:05. > :02:08.the police will be here soon. The man who took this
:02:09. > :02:12.video escaped unhurt. There was blood everywhere
:02:13. > :02:14.because some people flew And some hit their head
:02:15. > :02:21.on the chairs or Windows or armrest The train line runs between a wooded
:02:22. > :02:32.hillside and river. Easier to carry the dead
:02:33. > :02:34.and injured away by air, TRANSLATION: The collision
:02:35. > :02:43.was head-on and at high At the accident site the speed limit
:02:44. > :02:46.is around 100 kilometres There is a bend in that stretch
:02:47. > :02:53.of track and you have to assume the train drivers had little if any
:02:54. > :02:56.eye contact before the collision. Investigators have recovered two
:02:57. > :02:59.of three black boxes. The crash happened
:03:00. > :03:03.on a single track. Trains use a nearby station
:03:04. > :03:06.where there is a double track There is an automatic braking system
:03:07. > :03:17.designed to halt any train that Joe, a regular commuter,
:03:18. > :03:21.told us his train usually stops and waits for the oncoming
:03:22. > :03:23.train to pass. This morning, he said,
:03:24. > :03:25.was different. Normally the train has to wait five
:03:26. > :03:32.minutes for the oncoming train. And three minutes, waiting three
:03:33. > :03:38.minutes, suddenly it set off. This has horrified
:03:39. > :03:40.Germany, a country where rail crashes
:03:41. > :03:46.are relatively rare. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel
:03:47. > :03:48.said she is saddened and shocked And bear this in mind,
:03:49. > :03:53.it is the school People tell us on a normal morning,
:03:54. > :03:57.these trains would have been As the light fades,
:03:58. > :04:03.the work continues. It will be weeks
:04:04. > :04:29.perhaps months before The crash site is illuminated with
:04:30. > :04:33.floodlights. It is a little bit hard to make out exactly what is going
:04:34. > :04:37.floodlights. It is a little bit hard at the moment, there is indication
:04:38. > :04:42.that there may be movement of some of the carriages. Not quite clear.
:04:43. > :04:45.We understand the police investigators will continue
:04:46. > :04:46.We understand the police work early tomorrow morning, when
:04:47. > :04:54.the sun comes up. We work early tomorrow morning, when
:04:55. > :04:59.three black boxes, data recorders, have been recovered but a third is
:05:00. > :05:01.missing and that will be crucial for investigators trying to work out
:05:02. > :05:09.what went so horribly investigators trying to work out
:05:10. > :05:16.track behind me. How unusual is it for a country like Germany to suffer
:05:17. > :05:22.a transport tragedy like this. This is unusual, it has been described as
:05:23. > :05:27.one of the worst train crashes in Germany's recent history. Many of
:05:28. > :05:33.the people here are in shock. This is a little commuter line. Something
:05:34. > :05:38.that takes people to work and takes many children to school every
:05:39. > :05:44.morning. The idea that this could happen, this line of track, we are
:05:45. > :05:50.told, has a special system on it, whereby there is a red light to
:05:51. > :05:55.prevent people from proceeding if there is a red light. What went
:05:56. > :06:00.wrong? People find it hard to understand. There is deep mourning
:06:01. > :06:04.for the victims and their families. Thanks.
:06:05. > :06:09.The US says North Korea has restarted one of its nuclear
:06:10. > :06:11.reactors, in defiance of international agreements.
:06:12. > :06:15.The US director of national intelligence said the plutonium
:06:16. > :06:18.reactor could provide fuel for nuclear weapons.
:06:19. > :06:20.On Sunday, North Korea carried out a long-range rocket launch,
:06:21. > :06:26.just weeks after conducting a banned nuclear weapons test.
:06:27. > :06:28.Lawyers for the South African president have told the country's
:06:29. > :06:32.Constitutional Court that Jacob Zuma will repay all improvements
:06:33. > :06:34.to his ranch that were not security-related.
:06:35. > :06:36.Mr Zuma's lawyers made the announcement
:06:37. > :06:41.whether he should pay back some of the $23 million
:06:42. > :06:45.of taxpayers' money spent on refurbishing his private home.
:06:46. > :06:48.The case has been brought by opposition parties,
:06:49. > :06:50.some of whom held demonstrations outside the courthouse
:06:51. > :06:56.in Johannesburg chanting "pay back the money" and "Zuma must fall".
:06:57. > :07:00.Former Bosnian Serb general Zdravko Tolimir, described
:07:01. > :07:04.as commander Ratko Mladic's right-hand man during the Bosnia
:07:05. > :07:06.war, has died in custody in the Hague.
:07:07. > :07:08.The 67-year-old was convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal
:07:09. > :07:10.of genocide and crimes against humanity during the Bosnian
:07:11. > :07:16.His crimes included the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of eight
:07:17. > :07:22.thousand Bosnian Muslim men and boys.
:07:23. > :07:24.Voting has begun in the US state of New Hampshire,
:07:25. > :07:26.the second of fifty states to choose its candidates
:07:27. > :07:29.for the presidential election in November.
:07:30. > :07:31.Opinion polls suggest Donald Trump has a strong lead
:07:32. > :07:34.for the Republicans, while in the race for the Democrat
:07:35. > :07:44.nomination, Bernie Sanders is way ahead of Hillary Clinton.
:07:45. > :07:50.That is the scene at one polling station in Manchester, New
:07:51. > :07:56.Hampshire. A stream of people coming in to cast their vote. We can get a
:07:57. > :07:57.report from our North America editor.
:07:58. > :08:00.I hear we're going to do well, but the snow is out there.
:08:01. > :08:06.But in the blizzard of predictions about New Hampshire,
:08:07. > :08:09.the one constant has been the real estate mogul in the lead.
:08:10. > :08:13.In the polls no-one is even close, which makes the battle all the more
:08:14. > :08:20.intense for which mainstream Republican is going to take him on.
:08:21. > :08:21.Senator Marco Rubio, young, emerged from
:08:22. > :08:30.On the streets of New Hampshire he's faced protesters.
:08:31. > :08:33.But at the weekend, in the final televised Republican debate,
:08:34. > :08:38.he was subject to a brutal political mugging.
:08:39. > :08:41.You see everybody I want the people at home to think about this.
:08:42. > :08:45.The drive-by shot at the beginning with incorrect and incomplete
:08:46. > :08:54.information and then the memorised 25-second speech.
:08:55. > :08:56.That is exactly what they just gave him.
:08:57. > :08:58.The kicking came from the New Jersey governor, Chris Christie.
:08:59. > :09:01.I spoke to him last night about what impact his
:09:02. > :09:13.There was a march by the media towards Senator Rubio,
:09:14. > :09:16.that march is now over because they know he's not ready.
:09:17. > :09:17.Has it risen for governor Christie then?
:09:18. > :09:22.But all that is now in the hands of these people - the voters.
:09:23. > :09:25.Donald Trump has led here in New Hampshire in every
:09:26. > :09:28.His challenge today is to turn a poll lead into actual votes,
:09:29. > :09:31.something he failed to do in Iowa last week.
:09:32. > :09:33.On the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders has a similar
:09:34. > :09:39.But this is a state that has a history of springing surprises.
:09:40. > :09:42.This is the fervour that you find at a Bernie Sanders rally,
:09:43. > :09:47.young people, and the not so young, believing that a different type
:09:48. > :09:48.of politics is possible from Vermont's veteran socialist
:09:49. > :09:56.All of which has left Hillary Clinton, the runaway
:09:57. > :10:01.favourite from six months ago, on the defensive, lowering
:10:02. > :10:04.expectations and looking to future battles where she might find
:10:05. > :10:12.Jon Sopel, BBC News, Manchester New Hampshire.
:10:13. > :10:15.Let's get more from New Hampshire from Kim Ghattas who's in
:10:16. > :10:27.Iowa last week and New Hampshire today, what is the difference
:10:28. > :10:33.between caucuses and primaries? It is an interesting difference and it
:10:34. > :10:38.is part of this process, that Democrats and republicans go through
:10:39. > :10:44.to nominate their candidate for each party for the presidential race. In
:10:45. > :10:47.Iowa we saw caucuses, where political supporters, registered
:10:48. > :10:52.voters on the Democratic side and Republican side come together
:10:53. > :10:57.separately in different precincts, over 1600 of them, they come
:10:58. > :11:01.together in a room in high school, public library, to decide which way
:11:02. > :11:06.they will go and which candidate they will support. On the Democratic
:11:07. > :11:10.side you had supporters of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders coming
:11:11. > :11:14.together in one room. You try to pull people in different into one
:11:15. > :11:19.corner or the other until one side wins. At the county level they have
:11:20. > :11:24.a delegate count and it adds up to the delicate number at state level.
:11:25. > :11:30.At the end of that we saw Hillary Clinton had a razor-thin majority.
:11:31. > :11:35.One, two extra delegates she won Iowa. In New Hampshire it is
:11:36. > :11:40.different, more traditional voting, where you go to the polls, they
:11:41. > :11:44.opens this morning, people go in and cast a ballot for the preferred
:11:45. > :11:50.candidate. What is interesting about New Hampshire, you can vote anyway,
:11:51. > :11:58.Democrat or Republican will stop it is the independents who will this
:11:59. > :12:03.way the result. Is it getting nasty, all par for the course? This is a
:12:04. > :12:09.very unusual election year. We have seen upsets on both sides. We have
:12:10. > :12:13.Hillary Clinton, who did not expect to be challenged the way she has
:12:14. > :12:19.been challenged by a 74-year-old socialist senator from Vermont. He
:12:20. > :12:23.has run a phenomenal campaign, tapping into a sense of frustration
:12:24. > :12:30.within young people, he is getting the youth vote at levels we have not
:12:31. > :12:34.seen, more than 80% of young people voting for him in Iowa. He is
:12:35. > :12:39.getting support from young women, which Hillary Clinton is struggling
:12:40. > :12:44.with stop on the Republican side, I do not think last year at this point
:12:45. > :12:51.or even in the summer, anyone expected Trump would lead. And so
:12:52. > :12:57.far at a national level as well. New Hampshire, as we heard, it has a
:12:58. > :13:02.history of sprinting surprises. Bernie Sanders is expected to win
:13:03. > :13:04.here and Donald Trump is expected to win on the Republican side. It is
:13:05. > :13:09.still a long race to go. Concern is growing over the fate
:13:10. > :13:11.of Syrians escaping a government The UN says it is concerned that
:13:12. > :13:16.hundreds of thousands of people in and around the city could be cut
:13:17. > :13:20.off from food supplies. Tens of thousands of
:13:21. > :13:22.Syrians have left Aleppo. Medecins Sans Frontieres say in one
:13:23. > :13:25.town on the Turkish border, families are sleeping
:13:26. > :13:27.on the streets in the open air, Aleppo in the north of Syria
:13:28. > :13:34.has seen almost 10 days Government forces -
:13:35. > :13:37.backed by Russian air strikes - The red area here shows
:13:38. > :13:45.what they controlled And this is what they control now -
:13:46. > :13:49.the centre of Aleppo virtually surrounded, and key supply routes
:13:50. > :13:51.for opposition fighters, and the civilians at the centre
:13:52. > :13:54.of it all, cut off. The city's a huge prize for both
:13:55. > :13:57.sides in Syria's intractable conflict, and government forces
:13:58. > :13:59.are determined to seize it. Hamza Alkhatab is a doctor in one
:14:00. > :14:02.of the hospitals in a rebel held area of Aleppo, he told us
:14:03. > :14:09.what the situation is like there. Last year we got news
:14:10. > :14:28.about the explosive powers then the Russian aircraft bombing,
:14:29. > :14:31.now it's heavier bombing over Aleppo This morning, we had three aircraft
:14:32. > :14:43.bombing in three neighbourhoods. Seven people were
:14:44. > :14:48.killed, all civilians. One of them was a child,
:14:49. > :14:52.seven years old, so it's very The regime has cut one of two roads
:14:53. > :15:05.that supply Aleppo City. Now we only have one road and it's
:15:06. > :15:12.very threatened now. There are reports that Japan's
:15:13. > :15:19.whaling fleet has begun catching minke whales in the Antarctic
:15:20. > :15:22.in the past few days. That's despite an international
:15:23. > :15:25.court ruling calling on Japan to stop what its government calls
:15:26. > :15:27.a "scientific whaling programme". Japan sent the fleet
:15:28. > :15:29.back to sea in December, saying whaling is an integral part
:15:30. > :15:32.of its culture that's been carried Our Tokyo correspondent
:15:33. > :15:39.Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports. There is nowhere else like Tokyo's
:15:40. > :15:41.famously chaotic fish market, which is by far the
:15:42. > :15:46.biggest in the world. That's because Japan
:15:47. > :15:48.is still the world's biggest But I have come to find whale meat,
:15:49. > :15:59.and this woman is my guide. Today, there is very
:16:00. > :16:12.little for sale. This is minke whale meat, and this
:16:13. > :16:16.is from endangered fin whale. The owner tells me he sells
:16:17. > :16:19.about 20kg a day - It has been falling for years.
:16:20. > :16:35.Japanese people don't eat whale meat Japan gets at most 4000 tons
:16:36. > :16:42.of whalemeat per year but even as the number
:16:43. > :16:45.of whales caught goes down The Japanese Government says whale
:16:46. > :16:49.hunting has been part of Japanese The truth is, Japan only
:16:50. > :16:56.began large scale hunting whales in the Antarctic
:16:57. > :16:58.after the Second World War, when this country
:16:59. > :17:00.was hungry and they But as soon as Japan became rich
:17:01. > :17:04.in the 1970s and '80s, people here lost their
:17:05. > :17:06.appetite for whalemeat, and today only a tiny percentage
:17:07. > :17:15.of people continue to eat it. OK, so, this is
:17:16. > :17:20.sashimi, this is raw? People like my old friend, Kato,
:17:21. > :17:23.who grew up in western Japan and as a child loved
:17:24. > :17:25.eating this, but It is with some trepidation that
:17:26. > :17:42.I take my first mouthful Initially, it feels like you're
:17:43. > :17:54.eating steak, but... Much stronger flavour,
:17:55. > :18:01.very gamey, quite chewy. It is certainly not
:18:02. > :18:03.what I would call delicious, The last time he ate whalemeat
:18:04. > :18:11.was three years ago. I don't need to catch whales any
:18:12. > :18:17.more because there is no custom Obviously, beef steak
:18:18. > :18:37.is much better than that And yet Japan is back in
:18:38. > :18:49.the Antarctic hunting whales again. This annual hunt cost Japanese
:18:50. > :18:53.taxpayers tens of millions of dollars, but it has nothing to do
:18:54. > :18:56.with Japanese culture. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes,
:18:57. > :19:02.BBC News, in Tokyo. It is one of the major
:19:03. > :19:05.inconveniences of long-haul travel - That awful, energy-sapping feeling
:19:06. > :19:09.when you get to the other end, you can't get enough sleep,
:19:10. > :19:12.or maybe you can't sleep at all. Scientists in the US say
:19:13. > :19:16.they've found one. You just have to be exposed to short
:19:17. > :19:19.flashes of light while you are asleep ahead of the flight
:19:20. > :19:21.to prepare your body Doctor Jamie Zeiter,
:19:22. > :19:30.the scientists who led the researchers of Stanford
:19:31. > :19:32.University's School of Medicine. I began by asking him how he got
:19:33. > :19:45.the idea that flashes of light might This came from some animal
:19:46. > :19:50.experiments colleagues had done. One of the benefits of having flashes of
:19:51. > :19:53.light versus continuous light is you can have this occurred during sleep
:19:54. > :19:57.and be exposed to flashes of light while he was sleeping and it does
:19:58. > :20:02.not interfere with your sleep. This is when your system is most
:20:03. > :20:07.sensitive to light. If you are travelling east, you will have liked
:20:08. > :20:11.in the morning, before you wake up. This is light exposure that would
:20:12. > :20:17.happen before you wake up, you would have flashes of light and be adapted
:20:18. > :20:21.to your new time zone. Eusebio flashes of light do not interfere
:20:22. > :20:28.with sleep, some of us would imagine they would -- you say. We tested
:20:29. > :20:36.this on a bunch of people and we cannot find an effect on sleep.
:20:37. > :20:41.There will be some people who are sensitive to light, to sound. Any
:20:42. > :20:49.sound or light they wake up to, but most adapt well to having an
:20:50. > :20:54.uninteresting stimulus this flashing stimulus is. They sleep right
:20:55. > :21:00.through it. It can work when jet lag is the case, how might it apply to
:21:01. > :21:06.things like shiftwork, even teenagers, who have different sleep
:21:07. > :21:12.patterns from the rest of the world? With shift workers, it is something
:21:13. > :21:16.we are working on. We are not quite there with shift workers. With
:21:17. > :21:21.teenagers we are testing it right now. We are exposing teenagers to
:21:22. > :21:25.light, so that their brains are living on New York time while their
:21:26. > :21:31.bodies are living in California. That way, when their brain tells
:21:32. > :21:37.them to go to sleep at 2am, it is only 11 o'clock at night local time,
:21:38. > :21:42.to enable them to get more sleep. I am sure many parents would welcome
:21:43. > :21:47.that! Something like this being incorporated into airlines, how they
:21:48. > :21:53.cater to you in a flight might be a possibility in future? We think
:21:54. > :21:58.building this into airlines, hotels, in a sleep mask, bedside lamp, these
:21:59. > :22:02.are the kinds of ways you can get exposed to it and can help people
:22:03. > :22:07.adapt, especially on long haul flights, if you are flying from the
:22:08. > :22:12.UK to China, it is difficult to adapt to. You can use this exposure
:22:13. > :22:23.to pre-adapt as well as when you get there, to finish that in more rapid
:22:24. > :22:30.form. We can bring new pictures from a colourful parade in Portugal.
:22:31. > :22:35.Carnival. A festive mixture of drums and whistles and light-hearted jabs
:22:36. > :22:38.at Portuguese and international leaders. The carnival has a
:22:39. > :22:46.reputation for social and political satire. Some of the floats showing
:22:47. > :22:52.economic hardship. And party leaders. Thousands visit the
:22:53. > :22:54.carnival 50 kilometres north of Lisbon to watch every year. The
:22:55. > :22:57.tradition has gone on for centuries. Never too late to start
:22:58. > :23:00.a new activity - and here's one man 93-year-old Svend Steensgaard had
:23:01. > :23:07.a career as an immigration After retirement, at the age of 77,
:23:08. > :23:11.he took up powerlifting, and is now the world's oldest
:23:12. > :23:12.licensed powerlifter, entering top competitions
:23:13. > :23:15.across the world and lifting up He's been telling us how he handles
:23:16. > :23:21.such a demanding sport. I am the oldest powerlifter in the
:23:22. > :25:24.world. 93 and putting us to shame with his
:25:25. > :25:28.fitness regime. The German authorities have given
:25:29. > :25:35.further details of a train crash in Bavaria, in which ten
:25:36. > :25:39.people were killed Two trains collided head-on
:25:40. > :25:43.during the morning rush hour. Investigators are seeking
:25:44. > :25:45.to establish whether it was the result of a technical problem
:25:46. > :25:47.or human error. The track was fitted
:25:48. > :25:49.with an automatic braking system But for now from me and the rest
:25:50. > :26:11.of the team, goodbye. Storm Imogen has passed but it has
:26:12. > :26:18.left a legacy of cold air across the UK and it will be pretty cold
:26:19. > :26:19.tomorrow. Just a few showers here and