:00:00. > :00:09.Our top story: The race for the White House heats up.
:00:10. > :00:12.Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders - both outsiders in their parties -
:00:13. > :00:15.claim decisive victories in New Hampshire.
:00:16. > :00:18.But can either of them become US President?
:00:19. > :00:20.Three months on from the Paris attacks, lawmakers approve
:00:21. > :00:23.a controversial bill to strip people convicted of terrorist offences
:00:24. > :00:30.German media reports say a signal controller is at the heart
:00:31. > :00:38.of the investigation into the train crash that killed 10 people.
:00:39. > :00:41.And composing the purr-fect tune for your feline -
:00:42. > :00:58.but how do we know if it's music to their ears?
:00:59. > :01:00.Republican Donald Trump and the left-wing Democrat Bernie
:01:01. > :01:04.Sanders are a step closer to winning their parties' nomination
:01:05. > :01:07.for the US presidential election in November.
:01:08. > :01:12.Donald Trump got twice as many votes as his nearest rival -
:01:13. > :01:14.while Bernie Sanders beat Hillary Clinton by more
:01:15. > :01:23.Our North America editor Jon Sopel has more.
:01:24. > :01:26.At 8 o'clock last night, the news of the unusual seismic
:01:27. > :01:28.activity in what they call the Granite State.
:01:29. > :01:31.It predicts that Donald Trump will win...
:01:32. > :01:33.Heralding a political earthquake and two landslides,
:01:34. > :01:37.one on the left, the other on the right.
:01:38. > :01:40.At Trump headquarters, the news that their man had won
:01:41. > :01:52.I wanted to congratulate the other candidates, OK?
:01:53. > :02:01.You know, it's always tough and then tomorrow, boom, boom.
:02:02. > :02:03.Then it was on to his favourite riff, winning.
:02:04. > :02:08.We are going to win so much, you're going to be so happy.
:02:09. > :02:11.We are going to make America so great again.
:02:12. > :02:25.Donald Trump is leaving the stage to Revolution by the Beatles.
:02:26. > :02:28.What he's done, he has turned hype into reality.
:02:29. > :02:33.He's turned large rallies into votes at polling stations.
:02:34. > :02:36.And who would bet now against him going all the way and winning
:02:37. > :02:43.Record numbers queued to reach polling stations to vote
:02:44. > :02:48.People expressing unhappiness with their economic prospects,
:02:49. > :02:52.Washington politics, America's place in the world.
:02:53. > :02:55.And what did the revolutionary leader of the left do while waiting
:02:56. > :03:00.He played basketball with his grandkids.
:03:01. > :03:08.On stage, he was taking a shot at more familiar targets.
:03:09. > :03:11.Given the enormous crises facing our country, it is just too
:03:12. > :03:16.late for the same old, same old establishment politics
:03:17. > :03:28.Hilary Clinton put on a brave face last night.
:03:29. > :03:34.There is a long way to go, and in a drawn-out battle
:03:35. > :03:36.with Sanders, she is still the favourite.
:03:37. > :03:38.But a few months ago, she had been the favourite
:03:39. > :03:46.I spoke to our Washington Correspondent Laura Bicker
:03:47. > :03:48.and asked her whether these decisive victories can be translated
:03:49. > :03:58.into overall success for Sanders and Trump.
:03:59. > :04:06.It will be interesting to see how this goes forward. Same old, same
:04:07. > :04:10.old is just not happening at the moment in the US. Voters are looking
:04:11. > :04:13.for the outsider, the antiestablishment vote. We have had
:04:14. > :04:16.the worst economic downturn in the US that many have seen in
:04:17. > :04:20.generations. They are looking for somebody to give them answers. For
:04:21. > :04:24.that, they are looking at Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. Why Donald
:04:25. > :04:28.Trump and Bernie Sanders? Because Donald Trump is not an elected
:04:29. > :04:34.politician. He is a businessman. He is promising them a wall to keep
:04:35. > :04:37.them safe from people coming in. He is promising them a revolution in
:04:38. > :04:42.the form of politics. He says he will get things done, he will make
:04:43. > :04:46.America great again. As for the other side, Bernie Sanders is
:04:47. > :04:51.promising a political revolution. He is promising to reform Wall Street.
:04:52. > :04:56.He is promising to reform political donations. Therefore, these are two
:04:57. > :04:59.antiestablishment, two outsiders that, if you months ago, many
:05:00. > :05:05.journalists would not have given a hope. Here we are, they are winning
:05:06. > :05:10.in New Hampshire. Bernie Sanders has appealed to a range of demographics.
:05:11. > :05:20.Will this be a worry to Hillary Clinton? Well, if you were a Hillary
:05:21. > :05:23.Clinton supporter or aide, and were looking at the polling numbers, you
:05:24. > :05:26.might have your head in your hands. It's interesting to note when it
:05:27. > :05:34.comes to women and the gun vote, she is not doing well. 69% of women
:05:35. > :05:40.under 45 in New Hampshire did not vote for Hillary Clinton, they did
:05:41. > :05:44.not put an X in the box, to help raise what would be the first female
:05:45. > :05:50.US President in history. They are voting for Sanders. That is an issue
:05:51. > :05:56.for them. But they have just heard that a political group has set up a
:05:57. > :06:04.$25 million organisation called Every Citizen Counts, and this has
:06:05. > :06:08.been sent up by allies of Clinton, they are going to go out there and
:06:09. > :06:11.hopefully work on the black and Hispanic vote that Hillary Clinton
:06:12. > :06:16.already has, in the hope that Bernie Sanders does not take that as well.
:06:17. > :06:21.Briefly, Republicans, will this mean that one of their candidates has to
:06:22. > :06:25.drop out now? It is quite a crowded field? It is interesting, I think
:06:26. > :06:29.everybody thought an establishment candidate would come forward. Still,
:06:30. > :06:38.the establishment candidates are spraying one another with gunfire.
:06:39. > :06:44.John Casey did well, that he has no ground game in the next one. Bush
:06:45. > :06:47.and Marco Rubio are in the same field and looking for the same
:06:48. > :06:49.votes. It will be interesting to see how they do in Carolina.
:06:50. > :06:52.Well, if you've got more you want to know, go to our website
:06:53. > :06:54.Where you'll find reaction and analysis - just go
:06:55. > :07:00.to bbc.com/uselection, or download our app.
:07:01. > :07:03.French lawmakers have approved a controversial bill aimed at making
:07:04. > :07:05.it possible to revoke the citizenship of people convicted
:07:06. > :07:08.The proposals, drawn up after the jihadist Paris
:07:09. > :07:16.attacks in November, will now go to the Senate,
:07:17. > :07:19.to the plans, and it's not certain that they will get the required
:07:20. > :07:28.Our correspondent Hugh Schofield is in Paris
:07:29. > :07:30.It's a package of measures that have gone through,
:07:31. > :07:33.on the one hand, there is this clause to put into the constitution
:07:34. > :07:39.We are currently still in a state of emergency in France,
:07:40. > :07:41.President Hollande decided that ought to be
:07:42. > :07:48.The other thing is a rather more controversial measure,
:07:49. > :07:54.about stripping citizenship from people convicted of terrorism.
:07:55. > :07:57.You know, in principle, when it comes
:07:58. > :08:00.through, if it comes through, then if somebody is found guilty
:08:01. > :08:05.of terrorism, then he or she can be stripped of his or her nationality.
:08:06. > :08:09.If that person has only got one nationality,
:08:10. > :08:12.is only French, that might take another form of being stripped
:08:13. > :08:23.The big problem is, for the left, and Hollande is on the left,
:08:24. > :08:31.he has a big left-wing bloc in his own Socialist Party,
:08:32. > :08:34.this whole thing has become a very symbolic taboo.
:08:35. > :08:36.They think this whole symbolic stripping away of nationality
:08:37. > :08:37.will create two types of French citizen.
:08:38. > :08:39.Those French citizens who have two nationalities,
:08:40. > :08:42.in other words, people who are French and have Algerian,
:08:43. > :08:44.Moroccan or Tunisian nationality, and the rest.
:08:45. > :08:46.This stripping away of nationality would only come in practice,
:08:47. > :08:49.ever apply to people who have two nationalities,
:08:50. > :08:51.that would make them a kind of second-class
:08:52. > :08:55.But for these people, particularly on
:08:56. > :09:00.That is why there has been such a big rebellion on the left
:09:01. > :09:05.Officials in northern Nigeria say around 60 people have been killed
:09:06. > :09:08.by two female suicide bombers who carried out an attack
:09:09. > :09:12.at a refugee camp in the northeast of the country.
:09:13. > :09:15.The attack took place on Tuesday in Borno State,
:09:16. > :09:20.It hadn't been reported because of problems
:09:21. > :09:26.Borno State has been the centre of an insurgency by the militant
:09:27. > :09:29.Islamist group, Boko Haram, which has forced tens of thousands
:09:30. > :09:40.of people from their homes and into refugee camps.
:09:41. > :09:45.And confirm German media reports say investigations into the cause of a
:09:46. > :09:52.train crash that killed ten people is focusing on whether they could
:09:53. > :09:57.have been human error on the part of the signal controller. Investigators
:09:58. > :09:59.are trying to work out why multiple safety measures failed.
:10:00. > :10:01.Mangled wreckage on the banks of the River Mangfall.
:10:02. > :10:04.The aftermath of Germany's worst rail accident in years.
:10:05. > :10:08.After hours of searching through tangled metal,
:10:09. > :10:10.police say that all the passengers are now accounted for.
:10:11. > :10:18.They don't expect to find any more victims.
:10:19. > :10:21.Now they're looking for evidence as to the cause of the crash.
:10:22. > :10:23.As well as beginning of the complicated process of trying
:10:24. > :10:29.A criminal investigation has been opened.
:10:30. > :10:31.Things aren't easy for the investigators here
:10:32. > :10:36.They're struggling with bad weather conditions and the fact that this
:10:37. > :10:41.place, alongside a river, is quite hard to access.
:10:42. > :10:44.They are painstakingly combing through the wreckage looking for any
:10:45. > :10:50.clues as to how this collision happened.
:10:51. > :10:53.Dozens of casualties were taken to local hospitals.
:10:54. > :11:01.Urgent appeals were put out for people to donate blood.
:11:02. > :11:03.TRANSLATION: With this kind of accident the entire spectrum
:11:04. > :11:07.of injuries you get in emergency surgery is possible.
:11:08. > :11:12.Bone fractures, serious traumatic brain injury, internal bleeding.
:11:13. > :11:15.Out of respect for the privacy of our patients, we are not able
:11:16. > :11:17.to say what injuries our patients had.
:11:18. > :11:25.Germany's Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt says this line
:11:26. > :11:27.was fitted with an automatic braking system that should have prevented
:11:28. > :11:36.It is not yet clear if this crash was a result of human error
:11:37. > :11:40.As the investigation continues, local communities
:11:41. > :11:49.There is a strong sense of shock and disbelief.
:11:50. > :11:55.Bethany Bell, BBC News, Bad Aibling in Germany.
:11:56. > :11:58.The World Health Organisation has released some more information
:11:59. > :12:01.for those worried about the Zika virus that has been found in more
:12:02. > :12:04.The WHO has declared it a global public health emergency.
:12:05. > :12:07.Let's have a look at its latest advice.
:12:08. > :12:10.The first bit of guidance is for women in affected countries -
:12:11. > :12:13.especially those who are pregnant - to wear clothing that prevents
:12:14. > :12:21.Secondly, for those at risk, practicing safe sex with condoms
:12:22. > :12:23.is advised to avoid any chance - however rare -
:12:24. > :12:31.The WHO said women who wish to terminate a pregnancy due
:12:32. > :12:34.to a fear of microcephaly should have access to safe abortion
:12:35. > :12:36.services to the full extent of the law but warned early
:12:37. > :12:38.ultrasound does not reliably predict microcephaly
:12:39. > :12:42.And lastly, the WHO reiterated that most women will not experience
:12:43. > :12:50.For the latest advice on the Zika virus and its spread,
:12:51. > :12:52.just go to our website, or smart-phone app.
:12:53. > :12:56.You'll find more about the mosquito's role in the outbreak,
:12:57. > :12:58.along with what we know about the insect and how the Zika
:12:59. > :13:00.virus is transmitted - just go to BBC.com/health,
:13:01. > :13:11.Reports from Syria say more than 500 people,
:13:12. > :13:13.including dozens of civilians, have been killed since government
:13:14. > :13:15.forces backed by Russian planes launched a major offensive
:13:16. > :13:19.Amongst the dead in the past ten days, says a monitoring group,
:13:20. > :13:23.are 23 children, killed by Russian airstrikes.
:13:24. > :13:25.Our correspondent Quentin Sommerville reports from Killis
:13:26. > :13:36.11,500 people from Syria, living here.
:13:37. > :13:38.They have been living here four years.
:13:39. > :13:41.The camp has been growing in that time.
:13:42. > :13:43.There is one mosque, in fact, there are two mosques,
:13:44. > :13:48.Just look over there, look how organised this is.
:13:49. > :13:51.Turkey has invested a huge amount of money and a huge amount of time
:13:52. > :13:54.and effort to try to get this right, give it a sense of community.
:13:55. > :14:03.2.5 million people have already moved into Turkey from Syria.
:14:04. > :14:07.When we go over the border, right over there, because of the battle
:14:08. > :14:09.in the local countryside, there are tens of thousands of more
:14:10. > :14:19.But, in this camp, they are building more capacity.
:14:20. > :14:44.It's an AK-47, not a bad representation.
:14:45. > :14:46.That's the top of some glue, I think.
:14:47. > :15:00.These are two storey affairs, one family on the bottom,
:15:01. > :15:05.Not only do we have balconies but, look, here, sunshades as well.
:15:06. > :15:07.It gets pretty hot here in the summer.
:15:08. > :15:10.There are a number of striking things.
:15:11. > :15:20.If we just spin around, over here, is a bedroom.
:15:21. > :15:31.And, if we scoot in here, this is probably the most
:15:32. > :15:34.important innovations, compared to the rest of the camp.
:15:35. > :15:36.There is a tiny bathroom and shower, and, look at this, it
:15:37. > :15:46.The thing you feel here is a sense of permanence.
:15:47. > :15:49.That the war isn't going to end, that the people, the refugees
:15:50. > :15:52.in these camps, aren't going to disappear.
:15:53. > :15:55.You can stand on these balconies and you can feel
:15:56. > :16:01.You can look out some of the windows and you can see Syria.
:16:02. > :16:03.Actually, over the other side of this border,
:16:04. > :16:07.right now the sun is about to go down on people that are cold,
:16:08. > :16:09.shivering, fleeing that war and waiting at the other side
:16:10. > :16:13.of the border to get into Turkey, to get into places like this.
:16:14. > :16:21.The Turkish authorities say they have built this just in case.
:16:22. > :16:25.Can you imagine the war in Syria getting even worse?
:16:26. > :16:30.The Turkish authorities say that perhaps it will get worse
:16:31. > :16:32.and as many as 600,000 extra refugees could be flooding
:16:33. > :16:39.Which has already received 2.5 million.
:16:40. > :16:42.Now a look at some of the days other news.
:16:43. > :16:45.The chief of North Korea's military is reported to have been executed
:16:46. > :16:51.Army General Ri Yong-gil, who served under leader
:16:52. > :16:54.Kim Jong Un, also faced charges of pursuing personal gains.
:16:55. > :16:57.A source close to North Korean affairs says the execution
:16:58. > :17:06.South Africa's mining union says time is running out to save three
:17:07. > :17:08.people trapped in a gold mine since Friday.
:17:09. > :17:11.The two women and a man were working in a container which tumbled
:17:12. > :17:16.More than 70 miners managed to escape from the Lily Mine
:17:17. > :17:20.in the north-east of the country after it collapsed.
:17:21. > :17:23.In Afghanistan a video has emerged of a young woman being lashed
:17:24. > :17:26.in public by men who have reportedly accused her of a telephone
:17:27. > :17:30.conservation with a man who is not related to her.
:17:31. > :17:33.The video has been obtained by a local reporter of Tolo
:17:34. > :17:38.It shows a young woman sitting while three men hit her and a crowd
:17:39. > :17:41.Harun Najafizadah Reports from Kabul.
:17:42. > :17:45.The young woman is lashed 100 times, in turn, by at least three reported
:17:46. > :17:54.Local residents stand by and watch the lashing.
:17:55. > :17:59.Some, including armed people, film it on their smartphones.
:18:00. > :18:02.She's punished for talking on the phone with a man who wasn't
:18:03. > :18:08.The Taliban in Faryab accuse her of an illicit
:18:09. > :18:14.relationship with the man on the other side of the phone.
:18:15. > :18:17.The rest of the video, which has been obtained by Tolo TV
:18:18. > :18:20.in Afghanistan, is too graphic to be shown.
:18:21. > :18:22.Local officials in the northern Faryab province confirmed to the BBC
:18:23. > :18:25.that the punishment and recording happened in a Taliban controlled
:18:26. > :18:27.region, about 20 kilometres away from the capital,
:18:28. > :18:34.A Taliban spokesman, however, says that it is not them,
:18:35. > :18:40.This province in northern Afghanistan has been hit hard
:18:41. > :18:53.But in a country deeply engulfed in traditional values,
:18:54. > :18:56.it is not always the Taliban that take on punishments of women such
:18:57. > :18:58.as stoning or lashing for moral crimes.
:18:59. > :19:00.Religious scholars in Kabul condemn such punishments,
:19:01. > :19:05.calling them extrajudicial and un-Islamic.
:19:06. > :19:07.But in Afghanistan, where implementation of the rule
:19:08. > :19:10.of law is still a big challenge, the government fails to bring
:19:11. > :19:30.We are expecting a major science announcement to be made on Thursday.
:19:31. > :19:38.About 100 years ago, Albert Einstein proposed the existence of
:19:39. > :19:41.gravitational waves. It is believed that scientists in the United States
:19:42. > :19:45.are on the verge of confirming that they have proof.
:19:46. > :19:47.Last year our science correspondent Rebecca Morelle went
:19:48. > :19:49.to an observatory in Pisa, Italy to see how scientists might
:19:50. > :19:55.The idea is, every object sends out ripples of gravitational energy,
:19:56. > :19:58.invisible disturbances in the fabric of space and time.
:19:59. > :20:03.Einstein proposed that the universe is awash with these waves.
:20:04. > :20:06.The tunnel is so long down here that we have to get into this
:20:07. > :20:13.But when a gravitational wave passes through
:20:14. > :20:17.here, it changes the length of the tunnel by a tiny amount,
:20:18. > :20:21.just a fraction of the width of an atom.
:20:22. > :20:30.And it is this that scientists are trying to spot.
:20:31. > :20:37.Rebecca joined me early and told me how important the discovery could
:20:38. > :20:41.be. Einstein came up with this proposal for gravitational waves 100
:20:42. > :20:45.years ago. So many of the things that he dreamt up as part of his
:20:46. > :20:48.theory of general relativity have been proven correct. This would be
:20:49. > :20:53.another feather in his cap. Also, in terms of our understanding of the
:20:54. > :20:57.universe, it is awash with these waves. We know they are there, they
:20:58. > :21:01.have to be, for physics to make sense. But we have never seen them
:21:02. > :21:07.before. So to get our hands on one of them, for the first time, to get
:21:08. > :21:13.a proper, direct detection, that would be enormous for scientists.
:21:14. > :21:19.Why has it taken so long to find them? The problem is, they are quite
:21:20. > :21:22.weak. We all give them off. I am giving of gravitational waves, but
:21:23. > :21:27.mine are really puny, in universal terms. If you have a big event, like
:21:28. > :21:31.a black hole colliding with another one, or exploding star, they give
:21:32. > :21:35.off bigger doses of gravitational waves. But they are still pretty
:21:36. > :21:39.big. You need very sensitive machinery to detect them. You had a
:21:40. > :21:44.behind-the-scenes look at some of this. What was that like? Amazing,
:21:45. > :21:48.to get underground and see these places. That was an observatory in
:21:49. > :21:53.Italy. I think it is the one in America, slightly bigger, they have
:21:54. > :21:59.two of them, they have huge tunnels that are kilometres long. It is an
:22:00. > :22:02.elaborate setup. It uses lasers, mirrors, these tunnels. What it is
:22:03. > :22:06.doing is trying to measure the length of the tunnel is very
:22:07. > :22:11.precisely. When eight gravitational wave passes through, it suddenly
:22:12. > :22:14.changes the length of it, because it disturbs everything passes through.
:22:15. > :22:17.If it passes through you, all of your atoms would be squished and
:22:18. > :22:22.squeezed. It is these tiny distortions they are trying to
:22:23. > :22:25.detect. You need incredibly elaborate setups. It's not just a
:22:26. > :22:29.case of having an experiment running in your living room that can pick it
:22:30. > :22:33.up, they are on a massive scale. The ones in America are really
:22:34. > :22:36.impressive. Hopefully, in the future, when you have the American
:22:37. > :22:40.one running and the one in Italy running, that will be amazing. You
:22:41. > :22:45.will be able to triangulate to find out exactly where the events are
:22:46. > :22:46.happening in the sky. It's going to be a fantastic announcement
:22:47. > :22:48.tomorrow, we hope. Now, many pet owners believe music
:22:49. > :22:50.helps their animals to relax - But there is some evidence that
:22:51. > :22:55.human harmonies may not be That's why David Teie,
:22:56. > :22:59.a cellist with the America's National Symphony Orchestra,
:23:00. > :23:01.has come up with a composition which scientists say may be more
:23:02. > :23:04.appealing to felines than Mozart The BBC's Jane O'Brien went
:23:05. > :23:15.to meet him. Contrary and inscrutable,
:23:16. > :23:20.it's hard to fathom what goes So imagine trying to gauge
:23:21. > :23:28.their taste in music. Well, you are, in fact,
:23:29. > :23:38.listening to music for cats. It is composed by
:23:39. > :23:40.David Teie, a cellist with the National Symphony
:23:41. > :23:42.Orchestra, who believes music Music, as I understand it,
:23:43. > :23:49.it's kind of a distilled form of the emotional communication
:23:50. > :23:54.that we have and share. If we can find a way to communicate
:23:55. > :23:58.and connect with other species in the same way,
:23:59. > :24:01.we have a better understanding of them, and a better
:24:02. > :24:02.understanding of ourselves Unlike humans, who can
:24:03. > :24:13.appreciate anything from Metallica to Mozart,
:24:14. > :24:17.a cat's range is pretty limited. The upper range of the
:24:18. > :24:27.cat's vocalisations. We put his music to the test
:24:28. > :24:43.at Washington's Crumbs And Whiskers Cat Cafe, where dozens
:24:44. > :24:45.of musical moggies live together All these cats seemed
:24:46. > :24:53.very happy and they are certainly not distressed
:24:54. > :24:55.by the music, so that's But, of course, cats
:24:56. > :24:58.being cats, it's very difficult to tell
:24:59. > :25:03.exactly what is going on. More rigorous testing
:25:04. > :25:05.has been carried out Researchers measured the time it
:25:06. > :25:09.took cats to respond separately to human and cat music,
:25:10. > :25:15.and looked for signs of pleasure. The conclusion, six out of ten cats
:25:16. > :25:18.purr-ferred cat music. But, according to the
:25:19. > :25:24.study, the majority of cats do appreciate it
:25:25. > :25:32.and are pleased by it. Roll over Beethoven and keep
:25:33. > :25:36.your Bach for the dogs. Cat music, the answer to all of our
:25:37. > :26:10.problems! Thanks for being with us. Hello. The mercury is falling. It is
:26:11. > :26:13.a cold night out there. It will be a chilly megastar tomorrow morning.
:26:14. > :26:14.The frost in many places, particularly in