:01:16. > :01:18.We start with Syria, where the chaos of its five-year
:01:19. > :01:19.civil war continues to have devastating consequences
:01:20. > :01:26.The UN says at least five medical facilities and two schools
:01:27. > :01:28.in northern Syria have been hit by missiles,
:01:29. > :01:30.killing up to 50 people, including children.
:01:31. > :01:46.At least two hospitals were hit in Idlib province,
:01:47. > :01:50.both in the town of Maarat al-Numan - which has been facing air strikes
:01:51. > :01:51.from Russian and Syrian regime planes after rebels
:01:52. > :01:55.A children's hospital was partially destroyed near another rebel-held
:01:56. > :01:57.town of Azaz, in Aleppo province, close to the Turkish border.
:01:58. > :02:00.MSF has blamed the Syrian regime, while Turkey has blamed Russia.
:02:01. > :02:02.But it comes just days after an apparent international
:02:03. > :02:04.agreement for a "cessation of hostilities" in Syria.
:02:05. > :02:06.Our diplomatic correspondent James Robbins has more.
:02:07. > :02:09.Rescue workers scramble over the rubble of a hospital hit
:02:10. > :02:11.by missiles, to rescue any survivors they can find.
:02:12. > :02:16.It has been bombing intensively to try to win the area back
:02:17. > :02:24.We have had at least seven deaths among personnel and patients
:02:25. > :02:31.and at least eight people have disappeared.
:02:32. > :02:34.Further north, missiles hit a children's hospital and a school
:02:35. > :02:37.apparently sheltering refugees fleeing the joint Russian
:02:38. > :02:55.This is only a few miles from the border with Turkey
:02:56. > :02:58.which is opposed to the action.
:02:59. > :03:00.All the talk over the weekend in Munich involving Russia
:03:01. > :03:02.and the United States was about achieving
:03:03. > :03:14.A cessation does not apply to their bombing campaigns.
:03:15. > :03:18.Moscow sees pretty much anyone fighting against Syria's President
:03:19. > :03:23.Assad as a legitimate target, no distinction is drawn
:03:24. > :03:28.in the Kremlin between fighters for so-called Islamic State
:03:29. > :03:34.and these anti-Assad rebels who are supported by the West,
:03:35. > :03:37.so it is hard to see the five year war being anywhere
:03:38. > :03:41.The Russians can end this if they want to.
:03:42. > :03:43.They can make this work by scaling back their bombing and redirecting
:03:44. > :03:45.it against the real terrorists rather than bombing
:03:46. > :03:50.Russia shows no sign of changing course and is embroiled in a hotter
:03:51. > :03:54.and hotter war of words with Syria's neighbour Turkey.
:03:55. > :03:56.Washington is urging cooler heads but on theground there is nothing
:03:57. > :04:08.In the last few hours we've heard that the UN peace envoy
:04:09. > :04:10.for Syria, Steffan de Mistura, is making a surprise
:04:11. > :04:14.I spoke earlier to BBC Arabic's Lina Sinjab in neighbouring
:04:15. > :04:25.Yes, I have spoken to some sources in Damascus and they have confirmed
:04:26. > :04:32.that he will be there tomorrow morning it is a short cut 24 hours
:04:33. > :04:36.trip to that area. It seems that is only because of the recent
:04:37. > :04:41.developments and escalations. We are not sure about the agenda, we know
:04:42. > :04:44.that he will meet senior Syrian officials, but we do not yet know
:04:45. > :04:50.much detail about what those discussions will be about. We assume
:04:51. > :04:57.the special in what will raise the issues of the attacks today about
:04:58. > :05:02.hospitals and by mainly the Russian and government warplanes.
:05:03. > :05:07.At the moment we do not have anyone accepting responsibility on the
:05:08. > :05:14.strikes at the hospital facilities. Yes, there are some details about
:05:15. > :05:19.the amount of people that were targeted, we know that at least ten
:05:20. > :05:24.people were killed any hospitals in Idlib and another dozen as well and
:05:25. > :05:27.another hospital. Neither the Russians nor the Syrian government
:05:28. > :05:33.have claimed responsibility for the attack but we know for sure that in
:05:34. > :05:39.that area of Syria in Idlib and then Aleppo, it is only the Syrian
:05:40. > :05:43.government and the Russian warplanes that are in operation, so there is
:05:44. > :05:45.no third-party to blame for these attacks.
:05:46. > :05:50.Separately, we are hearing that military exercises have been taking
:05:51. > :05:55.place today between the Turkish air force and Saudi Arabia, what extent
:05:56. > :06:00.of military involvement do we expect from Saudi Arabia?
:06:01. > :06:03.Basically, we heard an announcement from Saudi Arabia that they are
:06:04. > :06:10.willing to send in ground troops to Syria. We know that they are sending
:06:11. > :06:15.some warplanes as well to operate with the Turkish forces. That is
:06:16. > :06:21.another addition to the competition. Saudi Arabia strongly opposes
:06:22. > :06:27.President Bashar al-Assad and they do not see a future with him in
:06:28. > :06:34.power. Sending troops to Syria now to fight Islamic State might be seen
:06:35. > :06:39.as more problematic by the rebels, who are supported by Saudi Arabia,
:06:40. > :06:45.so the focus is now shifting to fight Islamic State rather than
:06:46. > :06:49.fighting President Assad's forces. My correspondent in Beirut.
:06:50. > :06:52.Now to a fascinating glimpse into the world of Pope John Paul II.
:06:53. > :06:55.Hundreds of personal letters uncovered by the BBC between him
:06:56. > :06:58.and a married woman over a 30-year period reveal a close friendship.
:06:59. > :07:00.The documents were hidden away in the National Library of Poland,
:07:01. > :07:02.along with dozens of photographs showing the pair together.
:07:03. > :07:09.Our religious affairs correspondent, Caroline Wyatt, reports.
:07:10. > :07:12.This is the story of the Pope's letters to his closest
:07:13. > :07:17.Pope John Paul II was writing to a married woman,
:07:18. > :07:21.Professor Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, a philosopher and fellow Pole.
:07:22. > :07:28.When you've got a strongly heterosexual man and an attractive
:07:29. > :07:33.woman in a very intense relationship that is cultivated and which engages
:07:34. > :07:40.mind at a high level of intensity, there's danger everywhere.
:07:41. > :07:44.The letters have been hidden away in the national library of Poland.
:07:45. > :07:47.Pope John Paul let their friendship grow, writing "God gave you to me
:07:48. > :07:53.The future Pope invited Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka to join him
:07:54. > :07:58.and others on country walks, skiing holidays, even camping trips.
:07:59. > :08:00.Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka invited the then cardinal to stay
:08:01. > :08:05.with her family at their country home in New England in 1976.
:08:06. > :08:08.After the trip, his letters suggest a man struggling to make sense
:08:09. > :08:11.of their friendship in Christian terms.
:08:12. > :08:15.One from 1976 says, "my dear Teresa, I have received all three letters.
:08:16. > :08:18.You write about being torn apart but I could find no answer
:08:19. > :08:26.Later, his letters looked back to that trip to New England
:08:27. > :08:33.like this one, saying, "I'm thinking about you and in my thoughts I..."
:08:34. > :08:37.Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka's letters are not publicly available.
:08:38. > :08:40.I do believe she completely fell in love with him during the first
:08:41. > :08:47.I think it's completely reflectd in the correspondence.
:08:48. > :08:51.John Paul II died in 2005 and the extent of Anna-Teresa
:08:52. > :08:57.Tymieniecka's role in his life has until now remained largely hidden.
:08:58. > :09:00.There is no suggestion that the Pope, now Saint John Paul
:09:01. > :09:03.II, broke any vow of celebacy, but the letters show the human side
:09:04. > :09:05.of a much-loved Pope, doing one of the loneliest
:09:06. > :09:19.Reverend James Martin is editor at large of the Jesuit magazine,
:09:20. > :09:29.Thank you for joining us, what you make of these revelations?
:09:30. > :09:34.It is not uprising in one sense. It has been talked about in another
:09:35. > :09:38.book. Celibate males and females have close relationships with people
:09:39. > :09:40.of the opposite sex, it is not really that unusual.
:09:41. > :09:44.But the start this friendship when he was a cardinal and continued
:09:45. > :09:48.whilst he was the Pope, is that not uprising?
:09:49. > :09:52.No, I have deep friendships with both women and men. Because you are
:09:53. > :09:55.celibate does not been that you stop having friendships with people.
:09:56. > :09:59.There might have been a love relationship but it sounds like they
:10:00. > :10:03.were both faithful to their files, so it is not uprising to me.
:10:04. > :10:09.Did you get any sense about how much was known about it at the time? How
:10:10. > :10:16.much freedom Bob John Paul II had private correspondences like this?
:10:17. > :10:20.As a cardinal and even as a Pope, I doubt it would be someone --
:10:21. > :10:25.something he would tell close friends about. Some people might
:10:26. > :10:28.have known about his affection for her, but it is important as someone
:10:29. > :10:31.who are celibate to have deep and intimate friendship with people of
:10:32. > :10:37.both sexes. Hope John-Paul, he was canonised
:10:38. > :10:40.very quickly, if this had emerged quicker, do you think that would
:10:41. > :10:46.have affected our process. -- Pope John-Paul.
:10:47. > :10:51.There is nothing wrong with having such a friendship, it works for a
:10:52. > :10:54.lot of people. Such a famously popular Pope, do you
:10:55. > :10:59.think this adds to his appeal, this showing of the human side, as it
:11:00. > :11:03.were? Yes, for some people the celibate
:11:04. > :11:06.lifestyle appears cold and distant, we have someone and we see someone
:11:07. > :11:11.who had deep relationships with people. But that someone like Pope
:11:12. > :11:16.Francis, I do not think anyone would accuse him of being a cold person.
:11:17. > :11:18.The human ices people and reminds us that celibate friendships, sometimes
:11:19. > :11:25.even intense friendships at times are required.
:11:26. > :11:31.You do not find this unsurprising or unsettling, but it has fascinated
:11:32. > :11:33.the world since it came out today. Yes, people have a total
:11:34. > :11:37.misunderstanding of what it means to be celibate, as if we cut ourselves
:11:38. > :11:40.off from all friendships. Sometimes people who are celibate fall in
:11:41. > :11:44.love, and perhaps the dead, but he was able to do with it and remain
:11:45. > :11:51.fearful to his promise of celibacy and hard are those of marriage.
:11:52. > :11:52.-- perhaps the dead. Thank you for joining us. My
:11:53. > :12:08.pleasure. -- they did.. Meanwhile, the current Pope Francis
:12:09. > :12:11.has asked Mexico's indigenous population for forgiveness over
:12:12. > :12:12.the social exclusion He led an open-air mass in native
:12:13. > :12:16.languages in the country's impoverished Chiapas state,
:12:17. > :12:18.where he called for greater appreciation of indigenous cultures
:12:19. > :12:20.and issued a warning over the human He told the crowd of around 100,000
:12:21. > :12:25.people that the world could learn from them how to interact
:12:26. > :12:26.harmoniously with nature. The service comes in the middle
:12:27. > :12:30.of a five-day trip that he's already used to speak out against
:12:31. > :12:32.crime and corruption. Now a look at some of
:12:33. > :12:34.the day's other news. Poland's government is to introduce
:12:35. > :12:37.a law making it illegal to assert that the country was responsible
:12:38. > :12:39.for Nazi atrocities Some of the most infamous sites
:12:40. > :12:43.of the Holocaust are on Polish soil, but Poland objects to the term
:12:44. > :12:46."Polish death camps" to describe death camps set up under
:12:47. > :12:47.German occupation. The law would allow the government
:12:48. > :12:50.to take legal action against anyone using the phrase, and anyone
:12:51. > :12:53.breaking the law could be jailed Police have retaken control
:12:54. > :12:57.of a Mexican jail following last week's riot in which 49
:12:58. > :12:58.inmates were killed. Officials say officers had put
:12:59. > :13:01.an end to the self-government imposed by criminal
:13:02. > :13:02.leaders in collusion They've also dismantled
:13:03. > :13:05.what they call luxury cells, containing mini-bars,
:13:06. > :13:07.aquariums and saunas in the prison in the Topo Chico
:13:08. > :13:14.prison in Monterrey. Police in Australia have seized one
:13:15. > :13:16.of their biggest hauls They discovered hundreds of millions
:13:17. > :13:20.of pounds worth of liquid methamphetamine, concealed
:13:21. > :13:21.inside a consignment It was in late April,
:13:22. > :13:37.1999 that two teenagers went on a rampage in Columbine High
:13:38. > :13:43.School, in the US state of Colorado. They killed 13 people that day -
:13:44. > :13:46.shooting classmates and teachers mercilessly - and leaving explosive
:13:47. > :13:48.devices behind them. At the same time, they turned
:13:49. > :13:51.the name of their town into a byword for the phenomenon
:13:52. > :13:52.of school shootings. In the 17 years since,
:13:53. > :13:55.we've heard from survivors and the families of victims,
:13:56. > :13:57.but the killers' parents Now the mother of one,
:13:58. > :14:03.Sue Klebold, has written a book All of her proceeds will be donated
:14:04. > :14:06.to research and charitable foundations focusing
:14:07. > :14:08.on mental health issues. She's been speaking
:14:09. > :14:28.to the BBC's Kirsty Wark. Columbine High School lies 15 miles
:14:29. > :14:32.south of Denver in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. On the 20th of
:14:33. > :14:38.April 1999 its name became infamous around the world. That was when two
:14:39. > :14:43.students can withdraw their cars packed with explosives, guns and
:14:44. > :14:48.grenades into the parking lot of the school and set about destroying the
:14:49. > :14:51.school. This was not a moment of madness, it was a cold-blooded
:14:52. > :14:57.massacre, months and months in the planning.
:14:58. > :15:04.And your suburban high school turned into a killing field.
:15:05. > :15:14.I was crying and telling them not to shoot me. They shot the girl he shot
:15:15. > :15:17.her in the head in front of me. This was clearly the most
:15:18. > :15:26.devastating and formatting scene that I have ever seen. I hope never
:15:27. > :15:32.to see it again. -- dramatic scene. -- traumatic. I do not think that I
:15:33. > :15:37.knew anything until that evening. It was such a day of confusion, we had
:15:38. > :15:40.puppies come to our home, we were asked to leave our home and sit
:15:41. > :15:45.outside. We sat on the ground all day.
:15:46. > :15:48.At that stage, you must have thought it was more likely that your son was
:15:49. > :15:52.involved in the shooting as opposed to being shot?
:15:53. > :15:55.We could hear through the window, the television had been left on and
:15:56. > :16:03.at one point we heard 25 people were dead. At that point I remember
:16:04. > :16:10.thinking that Delyn is really doing this, he must stop and that was when
:16:11. > :16:14.I prayed for him to die. I thought, something must stop this, whatever
:16:15. > :16:20.it is that is going on. It took me a very long time to believe, months to
:16:21. > :16:23.believe that my son was actually responsible for killing and hurting
:16:24. > :16:28.people. Up until that point, I believe I was living in an extreme
:16:29. > :16:36.state of denial. It must have been a very strange
:16:37. > :16:39.thing to commute that between them, he and his friends were going to
:16:40. > :16:42.blow out that school. That was one of the most difficult
:16:43. > :16:51.moments of this entire process because I had to go to so many
:16:52. > :16:54.different phrases of accepting this and acknowledging that they were
:16:55. > :16:59.present and they had heart people and that it was planned, not
:17:00. > :17:03.impulsiveness, and then at the police reports to learn that the
:17:04. > :17:06.plan had to been to tell everyone in the school, but that the plan had
:17:07. > :17:12.failed, when I thought of that and thought of the magnitude, I've
:17:13. > :17:14.really did not think that I would live through it.
:17:15. > :17:21.Did you think there were certain signs that you missed?
:17:22. > :17:25.I think that there were, in particular, the fact that in his
:17:26. > :17:30.junior year, several things happened to him. We had all those issues in a
:17:31. > :17:36.row. He got arrested, he got into trouble at school. He had scratched
:17:37. > :17:41.a locker at school. I did not recognise that those things meant
:17:42. > :17:47.that there was a potential life and death situation. I did not recognise
:17:48. > :17:50.that these where possible signs of a mental condition. That is why I
:17:51. > :17:57.wrote this book because I wanted people to understand that when
:17:58. > :18:01.children act out or shall edit ability or anger, it may not be that
:18:02. > :18:06.they are just being difficult or needs to be lectured, it may mean
:18:07. > :18:08.that the article. Many people will read this book and
:18:09. > :18:15.in different ways because it will mean a lot to different groups, it
:18:16. > :18:23.will mean a lot to the victimsand the survivors, and so on. What would
:18:24. > :18:32.you say to them? What do you say to them now?
:18:33. > :18:40.I have this feeling of wanting to see over and over again, I am sorry,
:18:41. > :18:46.I am sorry, I am sorry. And I know that such a thing is so completely
:18:47. > :18:54.inadequate. I just so sorry for what my son that.
:18:55. > :18:55.That was the mother of one of the Columbine shootings speaking to
:18:56. > :19:04.Kirsty Wark. The heads of four central European
:19:05. > :19:06.nations want stronger border controls to stem the flow
:19:07. > :19:08.of migrants and refugees Hungary, Poland, Slovakia,
:19:09. > :19:11.and the Czech Republic - known as the Visegrad Group -
:19:12. > :19:14.are working out how to deal with the thousands that cross
:19:15. > :19:17.through their countries every day. They have criticised Greece's
:19:18. > :19:22.response and could help Macedonia Our correspondent is present there.
:19:23. > :19:25.What have we been hearing? We had been led to expect there
:19:26. > :19:29.would be a rebellion in Prague today, a major act of defiance
:19:30. > :19:34.against the European Union 's and in particular, Angela Merkel of
:19:35. > :19:37.Germany. That did not happen. All four leaders appeared on the stage
:19:38. > :19:42.behind me and said that the preferred a pan European solution to
:19:43. > :19:47.the European problem and for now, they are not willing to introduce
:19:48. > :19:51.something on their own. Having said that, one of the words you can
:19:52. > :19:56.probably see on the screen behind me is the what trust. That is the
:19:57. > :20:00.slogan of the Czech presidency. It is in short supply in Central Europe
:20:01. > :20:04.at the moment. These countries do not believe that Turkey and Greece
:20:05. > :20:07.are capable of holding back large numbers of refugees and migrants
:20:08. > :20:12.that are making their way northwards into Western Europe and they have
:20:13. > :20:16.said that it is time for a line be if, in fact, those countries feel.
:20:17. > :20:20.If individual countries to take their own measures, I suppose it is
:20:21. > :20:24.looking ever less like unified European response to the migrant
:20:25. > :20:29.crisis. Very much so. That is quite clear
:20:30. > :20:33.that there are differing approaches across Europe and of course the
:20:34. > :20:38.countries of Central Europe have long argued for a much more robust
:20:39. > :20:42.defence of the European Union's suburban flight and in fact, the
:20:43. > :20:46.Slovak Prime Minister said today that if there are huge numbers of
:20:47. > :20:50.people are arriving, once again, they wanted to send hundreds of
:20:51. > :20:55.policemen to essentially close the border between Macedonia and Greece,
:20:56. > :20:59.to stop those flows of migrants and a mouth like that would be very
:21:00. > :21:04.unpopular, I think, in Berlin and Brussels because it would isolate
:21:05. > :21:06.Greece and perhaps even destabilise that country, which is already
:21:07. > :21:10.trying to deal with the flow of migrants.
:21:11. > :21:25.Rob Cameron, thank you very much for that. Rob Cameron in Prague.
:21:26. > :21:27.Staying with planes, and a Virgin Atlantic flight,
:21:28. > :21:30.carrying more than 250 people, had to abort its journey from London
:21:31. > :21:33.to New York, after a laser beam was pointed at the cockpit.
:21:34. > :21:36.A crew member reported a medical issue involving one of the pilots,
:21:37. > :21:37.shortly after take-off from Heathrow.
:21:38. > :21:40.It's the first time an airliner has had to abandon a flight
:21:41. > :21:43.There are flashing images in this report from Sophie Long.
:21:44. > :21:50.at JFK, not Heathrow. should have been resting
:21:51. > :21:52.It took off without incident, but shortly after the crew contacted
:21:53. > :21:55.air-traffic control and told them one of the pilots
:21:56. > :21:59.We have a medical issue with one of the pilots after a laser incident
:22:00. > :22:01.after take-off and we are going to return to Heathrow.
:22:02. > :22:04.The pilot's union said those targeting aircraft may not know how
:22:05. > :22:07.Initially, it is bright flashing and you can get shadows
:22:08. > :22:11.and you are obviously distracted, because you are not expecting it.
:22:12. > :22:13.These laser attacks are the same as being attacked with
:22:14. > :22:19.The distraction these can cause at the critical phase of flight,
:22:20. > :22:22.take-off and landing, could potentially lead
:22:23. > :22:29.Virgin Atlantic said the flight was brought back to Heathrow
:22:30. > :22:33.as a precaution, and the safety of the 252 passengers and crew
:22:34. > :22:39.There has been a dramatic rise in the number of such incidents.
:22:40. > :22:43.In 2006, eight laser attacks were reported to the Civil
:22:44. > :22:56.Balpa say that 50% of the 870 pilot surveyed last year said they had
:22:57. > :23:00.One reason for the surge is the greater availability
:23:01. > :23:07.Internally if these are used they become far too bright,
:23:08. > :23:10.the eyes are upset and people will look away.
:23:11. > :23:18.So there really is not an application internally for these.
:23:19. > :23:21.Outside, again, other than to try to deliberately blind
:23:22. > :23:26.someone if you are targeting people, there is no real application.
:23:27. > :23:29.It is an offence to shine a light at an aircraft
:23:30. > :23:38.Balpa are calling for it to be made more serious.
:23:39. > :23:41.plane is the same as possessing an offensive weapon and they want
:23:42. > :23:50.Sophie Long, BBC News, Heathrow.
:23:51. > :23:52.Tonight, the greats from the music world will gather in Los Angeles
:23:53. > :23:56.for the Grammy Awards, and right now, we have our own musical treat.
:23:57. > :23:58.Four-handed piano started as a way to take orchestral music
:23:59. > :24:01.into smaller venues, but it has turned into an art form.
:24:02. > :24:03.Twin sisters Hourshid and Mehrshid started playing together in Iran
:24:04. > :24:05.and currently are in Canada, where the BBC's Sam Farzaneh
:24:06. > :24:32.And I was playing a ballad with my sister.
:24:33. > :24:34.We started playing piano when we were eight years old,
:24:35. > :24:47.We started to play the classical music repertoire.
:24:48. > :24:49.Our grandfather played the tar, which is one of the main Iranian
:24:50. > :24:55.Our father also, he played the tar and at that time when we were young
:24:56. > :24:58.kids, we always listened to him playing and practising.
:24:59. > :25:00.On the other side, our mother listened to a lot of opera,
:25:01. > :25:07.we watched ballet, and we went also to concerts.
:25:08. > :25:10.Some people, they ask us if it is easier to play together
:25:11. > :25:12.in terms of communication and in terms of actually
:25:13. > :25:19.It is not perhaps a matter of being easier, sometimes we just
:25:20. > :25:22.have some special ways of looking or slight motions of the elbow
:25:23. > :25:29.If we don't have this fusion, then there will always be two
:25:30. > :25:32.persons playing, whereas the whole idea should be as if it is one
:25:33. > :25:45.person with two left hands and two right hands.
:25:46. > :25:49.You can get in touch with me and some of the team via Twitter -
:25:50. > :26:06.But for now, from all the team here, goodbye.