:00:00. > :00:19.President Obama tries again to close contact obey.
:00:20. > :00:22.He calls on the US Congress to back a proposal to shut the detention
:00:23. > :00:25.centre that he first put forward more than seven years ago.
:00:26. > :00:27.This plan deserves a fair hearing, even in an election year.
:00:28. > :00:30.We should be able to have an open dialogue on how to ensure
:00:31. > :00:34.A huge increase in the number of migrants desperate to reach
:00:35. > :00:37.Europe - over 100,000 have crossed the Mediterranean this year.
:00:38. > :00:39.There's a massive international recall of chocolate bars
:00:40. > :01:04.after plastic is found in a product made by Mars.
:01:05. > :01:06.President Obama has announced plans to close the Guantanamo Bay
:01:07. > :01:10.He said keeping the facility open was contrary to American values,
:01:11. > :01:12.and undermined the security of the United States.
:01:13. > :01:17.He also said that closing Guantanamo would save a great deal of money.
:01:18. > :01:21.The plan will now go before Congress, where it is likely
:01:22. > :01:59.Let's take a closer look at the history behind
:02:00. > :02:02.It was opened by the Bush administration in 2002.
:02:03. > :02:05.It held around 780 prisoners - men who were termed 'enemy
:02:06. > :02:08.Washington said most had been captured on the battlefield in
:02:09. > :02:12.Several of those prisoners are high-profile, they include
:02:13. > :02:14.Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - the alleged mastermind
:02:15. > :02:17.When he came to office in 2009, President Obama pledged
:02:18. > :02:26.Today's announcement is a final attempt to complete the task.
:02:27. > :02:36.There has been some opposition to closing on Tanner man. Given the
:02:37. > :02:55.stakes involved for our security, this plan deserves a chance --
:02:56. > :02:59.Guantanamo. The fact I am no running, Joe is not running, we are
:03:00. > :03:15.not on the ballots, it gives us the capacity to not have to worry. Let
:03:16. > :03:22.us do what is right for America. Our correspondent is in Washington.
:03:23. > :03:30.There is storage opposition to the plans to close Guantanamo. If you
:03:31. > :03:34.look at the response, it is completely in line with that. The
:03:35. > :03:39.Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan says it is against the law and will
:03:40. > :03:42.stay against the law. Congress has passed legislation said it was
:03:43. > :03:48.illegal to build a prison for these terrorist suspects on US soil. Then
:03:49. > :03:52.the Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said we will look at the
:03:53. > :04:01.plan, but if it involves bringing dangerous territories to the yes, he
:04:02. > :04:05.knows what we think about it. Even people like Senator John McCain have
:04:06. > :04:09.criticised President Obama for what he offered, saying he has missed a
:04:10. > :04:16.chance to convince Congress and the American people that he has a plan.
:04:17. > :04:21.It is Moloch of vague menu of options. The response from the
:04:22. > :04:30.Republican side has not been encouraging, but President Obama was
:04:31. > :04:35.probably expecting that. It was something he promised to do when he
:04:36. > :04:39.was elected and he is making a last stand of final attempt to highlight
:04:40. > :04:44.the importance of it as we see it. Tell us about those still left
:04:45. > :04:54.inside. What is their status. There are 91 prisoners left inside. 35 of
:04:55. > :04:59.them have been designated for transfer with the conclusion that
:05:00. > :05:02.they no longer or don't pose a threat and said the administration
:05:03. > :05:07.is trying to find home countries for them. That bring the number down to
:05:08. > :05:11.less than 60. So the proposal to bring them to the US would mean
:05:12. > :05:22.there would be less than 60 maximum that would come. Of those, 46 of
:05:23. > :05:25.them are being held without indefinite detention. Those cases
:05:26. > :05:33.are coming under periodic reviews, so perhaps more of them could be
:05:34. > :05:38.deemed safe. There are ten of them who are undergoing legal processes
:05:39. > :05:44.through military commissions. That is the breakdown so far. Thank you.
:05:45. > :05:46.More than 100,000 migrants and refugees have already arrived
:05:47. > :05:49.by sea in Europe this year - that's more than ten times
:05:50. > :05:51.the figure for January and February last year.
:05:52. > :05:53.Most of them came ashore on the Greek islands.
:05:54. > :05:55.The International Organisation for Migration says they've mainly
:05:56. > :05:57.come from countries affected by conflict -
:05:58. > :06:09.From Greece, here's our Correspondent Danny Savage.
:06:10. > :06:16.Crammed onto a rubber boats, singing to keep their spirits up. Their
:06:17. > :06:25.first time at sea. No wonder this child looks scared. The Syrians paid
:06:26. > :06:29.$700 for a place on board. It's cheaper than recent times, that is
:06:30. > :06:34.probably why 110,000 people have done this over the last six weeks. A
:06:35. > :06:37.short while later the boat started to sink. Luckily for them the Greek
:06:38. > :06:44.coastguard was there to rescue them. Those pictures were filmed by a
:06:45. > :06:47.46-year-old English teacher from northern Syria. He says Russian
:06:48. > :06:54.bombing forced him out of his country. Most of our houses are
:06:55. > :07:01.destroyed. They are not down to the ground by means of bombs, rockets,
:07:02. > :07:06.OK? Russian air forces do a strikes every day. He and his children
:07:07. > :07:11.arrived at Greece's newest migrant camp. It has only been open a day
:07:12. > :07:15.and it is already full. Over the last 24 hours Greece has said it is
:07:16. > :07:19.prepared to take 50,000 more migrants although it is debatable
:07:20. > :07:23.about how much say it has on the matter, but it wants to move these
:07:24. > :07:27.people on the migrant trail and further north there are problems. At
:07:28. > :07:33.the border between Greece and Macedonia today a backlog has
:07:34. > :07:37.developed. Syrians and the Iraqis can pass, but Afghans are being
:07:38. > :07:42.stopped. We can't go back to Afghanistan. If we go back, we will
:07:43. > :07:45.be killed. Measures further up the migrant trail to limit numbers
:07:46. > :07:49.passing through Austria are being blamed for this latest arbitrary
:07:50. > :07:57.decision to stop Afghans. The United Nations says it will lead to chaos
:07:58. > :08:02.and confusion along the 1300 mile route. And that is exactly what
:08:03. > :08:05.happened today when Afghans cut through the border fence and stormed
:08:06. > :08:12.into Macedonia. They are determined to keep moving onwards, undeterred
:08:13. > :08:15.by riot police and fences. And now that spring has sprung in
:08:16. > :08:18.south-eastern Europe, the numbers are unlikely to drop off. The new
:08:19. > :08:22.rush of refugees is anticipated. Belgium says it is temporarily
:08:23. > :08:24.reintroducing border controls with France to halt the arrival
:08:25. > :08:27.of migrants from the Calais It's the latest blow to the EU's
:08:28. > :08:30.passport-free travel area. The French authorities are planning
:08:31. > :08:34.to close parts of the migrant camp but many of those living
:08:35. > :08:37.there are reluctant to move The BBC's Tomos Morgan has been
:08:38. > :08:50.spending the day in the camp. The French government had set a
:08:51. > :08:53.deadline of seven o'clock this evening for migrants living in the
:08:54. > :09:00.southern part of the camp to leave their premises. They wanted migrants
:09:01. > :09:03.to either move into the shipping containers or new settlements or to
:09:04. > :09:07.leave the so-called Jungle completely, but a judge has come
:09:08. > :09:13.here this morning and she has not yet made a decision as to whether or
:09:14. > :09:21.not that eviction is in fact legal. She has 48 hours to draw up her
:09:22. > :09:26.report and the security authorities said they will not move in and evict
:09:27. > :09:29.the migrants until the judge has made her ruling. And in a further
:09:30. > :09:34.development, the Belgian authorities have closed the borders because they
:09:35. > :09:40.have already seen a number of migrants tried to cross into Belgium
:09:41. > :09:47.to get to the porter Zeebrugge, and other way migrants can potentially
:09:48. > :09:48.get into Britain. Evidence that this eviction in Calais is causing
:09:49. > :09:51.problems all across the North Coast. The confectionery giant, Mars,
:09:52. > :09:53.is recalling millions of chocolate bars in 55 countries It comes
:09:54. > :09:56.after a customer in Germany found bits of plastic in a
:09:57. > :09:58.Snickers bar in January. The plastic was traced back
:09:59. > :10:01.to the Mars factory in the southern With me is our world affairs
:10:02. > :10:22.correspondent Richard Galpin. The danger is that there is plastic
:10:23. > :10:26.in other chocolate and if they eat it, it is a potential choking
:10:27. > :10:33.hazard. Potentially, someone could dine said they have to recall these
:10:34. > :10:39.bars. It could run into tens of millions.
:10:40. > :10:43.And just one factory is thought to be the source of this?
:10:44. > :10:49.Yes and it is massive that treat the South of Holland. It was expanded
:10:50. > :10:54.last summer. They poured about 100 million euros in it to expand
:10:55. > :10:57.production and it is primarily meant for exports abroad to many different
:10:58. > :11:01.countries. If anyone is out there wearing about
:11:02. > :11:03.what they should do with some chocolate in the cupboard, what
:11:04. > :11:08.should they do? The advice would be to see what bars
:11:09. > :11:18.they are and if they are the relevant ones, they need to contact
:11:19. > :11:22.the Mars branch in their country. There is information on the website,
:11:23. > :11:28.although earlier today it was impossible to get on it. Presumably
:11:29. > :11:32.given a bit of time it will ease off and you can look at the website to
:11:33. > :11:36.see which brands are affected. Clearly Mars are saying be careful,
:11:37. > :11:41.don't eat these particular brands, they must be recalled.
:11:42. > :11:44.A study by an international team of scientists says that sea levels
:11:45. > :11:47.are rising faster than at any time in the past three thousand years.
:11:48. > :11:50.It's the first to cover such long-term, historic levels.
:11:51. > :11:52.The report found a clear link between rising seas
:11:53. > :11:55.Up until the industrial revolution in the 19th century -
:11:56. > :11:58.sea levels rose around 3cm to 4cm a century.
:11:59. > :12:00.But in the 20th Century sea levels rose by 14 centimetres.
:12:01. > :12:08.Between 1993 and today - the rate climbed to 30 centimetres.
:12:09. > :12:10.Scientists now say if current greenhouse gas emissions
:12:11. > :12:13.Sea levels could increase drastically - by up
:12:14. > :12:18.In terms of exposed populations, these are some of the coastal cities
:12:19. > :12:21.scientists regularly highlight as at risk from rising sea levels.
:12:22. > :12:27.The cluster in Asia is of particular concern.
:12:28. > :12:30.Earlier I spoke to Ben Strauss in New York.
:12:31. > :12:32.He's vice president for sea level and climate impacts
:12:33. > :12:34.at Climate Central research organisation and was involved
:12:35. > :12:47.We are really just a fierce centimetres into a problem that
:12:48. > :12:52.needs to be measured in metres. This is a problem that will affect tens
:12:53. > :12:58.of millions of people and more in the long run. Where precisely are
:12:59. > :13:06.you more worried about? Five out of six people who live on low lying
:13:07. > :13:12.vulnerable coastal land live in Asia. We are talking about China,
:13:13. > :13:17.south-east Asia, India, but frankly if you live on the coast anywhere,
:13:18. > :13:22.this is a concern. You have been talking quite dramatically about
:13:23. > :13:27.some of the US cities, Miami, New Orleans. How bad could things get
:13:28. > :13:32.there? What we have seen in Miami and Charleston for example or in
:13:33. > :13:39.Maryland are just over the last couple of decades a real spike in
:13:40. > :13:43.the rate of what we call high tide or nuisance floods. Those are
:13:44. > :13:47.increasing more rapidly than sea level itself. They really affect
:13:48. > :13:52.people's lives and will do that increasingly. These are witty
:13:53. > :14:03.frightening findings. What makes you so sure that's what you say is
:14:04. > :14:06.accurate? Well, the study that has just been completed is really
:14:07. > :14:10.extraordinary in its breadth and rigour and if you look at the
:14:11. > :14:16.pattern over 3000 years, what you see is not so much a hockey stick as
:14:17. > :14:21.a capital letter L. There is an incredible spike in the rise of sea
:14:22. > :14:26.levels in the last century and we really for the first time have
:14:27. > :14:30.quantitatively put a human fingerprints on it. We know that
:14:31. > :14:34.this is from us and we are driving it. I know you have testified on
:14:35. > :14:38.Capitol Hill and you have talked about the drawing the map of the
:14:39. > :14:41.United States and other countries, but what people will be wondering is
:14:42. > :14:49.is it too late to do something about it? It is not too late to make a
:14:50. > :14:57.significant difference. We can, by cutting carbon emissions we can slow
:14:58. > :14:58.down the level rises. But we are going to see a continuing rise no
:14:59. > :15:01.matter what we do. The trial of a woman accused
:15:02. > :15:04.of abducting a newborn baby nearly 20 years ago, has
:15:05. > :15:06.begun in South Africa. The baby, Zephany Nurse,
:15:07. > :15:07.was allegedly snatched from her mother's bedside
:15:08. > :15:10.in a Cape Town hospital in 1997. She was reunited with her family
:15:11. > :15:13.last year after she befriended a younger girl at school to whom she
:15:14. > :15:16.bore a striking resemblance. The BBC's Nomsa Maseko
:15:17. > :15:31.was in the court. The truth about Zephany Nurse's
:15:32. > :15:36.kidnapping might finally be revealed. The trial of the woman
:15:37. > :15:40.accused of snatching her from her mother's bedsides started here in
:15:41. > :15:45.Cape Town. The woman, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the
:15:46. > :15:50.girl, pleaded not guilty to charges of kidnapping, fraud and
:15:51. > :15:54.contravening the children's act. In a key explanation and didn't buy her
:15:55. > :16:00.counsel, she alleges the child was given to her by an unknown woman.
:16:01. > :16:04.She also claims she thought she was adopting an unwanted baby. The
:16:05. > :16:16.pre-explanation goes into detail about the accused's difficulty in
:16:17. > :16:20.conceiving a child. The mother of the child took the stand. She said
:16:21. > :16:26.she laid in bed in pain with her baby by her side when a woman
:16:27. > :16:29.dressed in a nurses uniform asked to hold a crying child. She then
:16:30. > :16:37.started sobbing how she described to the court how she woke up to find
:16:38. > :16:43.her baby gone. The biological father also testified. He told the court
:16:44. > :16:49.how he conducted his own investigation when his younger
:16:50. > :16:54.daughter alerted him to a go at her school that bore a striking
:16:55. > :17:01.resemblance. We are over the moon. My daughter is back. We are happy.
:17:02. > :17:05.Whilst the family are coming to terms with the return of their
:17:06. > :17:15.daughter, the accused could face up to 15 years behind bars if Brown
:17:16. > :17:22.guilty. It is a child's kidnapping case. You don't even steal another
:17:23. > :17:27.person's puppy, let alone a child. For 18 years you have been enjoying
:17:28. > :17:33.other people's blessings. It is wrong. It is expected the trial will
:17:34. > :17:37.last another two weeks with another nine people to take the stand.
:17:38. > :17:40.Donald Trump's call for a temporary ban on foreign Muslims entering
:17:41. > :17:42.the US may have caused controversy around the world,
:17:43. > :17:44.but it's been popular with many conservative Americans.
:17:45. > :17:47.Exit polls in New Hampshire and South Carolina show a majority
:17:48. > :17:48.of Republican voters support his ban.
:17:49. > :17:50.And Mr Trump's front runner status
:17:51. > :17:54.To talk about this controversial policy the BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan
:17:55. > :17:59.went for an unlikely brunch with a Donald Trump supporter,
:18:00. > :18:02.a Muslim refugee from Syria and the Alabama pastor who is trying
:18:03. > :18:16.Donald J Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of
:18:17. > :18:25.Muslims entering the United States. He thinks every Muslim is Isis.
:18:26. > :18:32.Everybody needs to feel safe, at home and abroad. The political realm
:18:33. > :18:48.in which we live right now is poisoned. It is deeply toxic.
:18:49. > :18:56.His statement was not to just eliminate all refugees, he wants to
:18:57. > :19:00.put a port to figure out what is going on. That is basically his
:19:01. > :19:08.words. I don't think he really wants to stop people like these folks. But
:19:09. > :19:13.he wants to for now. That is anyone who is of the Muslim faith. That is
:19:14. > :19:17.very extreme and discriminatory. It is extreme, but there is the radical
:19:18. > :19:24.Muslim who in portraits which could be a problem. I believe that Mr
:19:25. > :19:28.Trump is ignorant of the facts. People who came as a refugee, their
:19:29. > :19:36.history has been checked of their life. They know everything they did.
:19:37. > :19:45.Even asked when we came, we had to give our papers and everything we
:19:46. > :19:51.had. We are about peace. Our Koran does not talk about killing people
:19:52. > :19:56.or being a terrorist. There is a certain segment of your religion
:19:57. > :20:00.that they refer to as radical Islam. Isis, I have heard that name. I have
:20:01. > :20:09.heard Taliban, I have heard all these names that we have been told
:20:10. > :20:16.by the news media here that they are out to harm the West. Statements
:20:17. > :20:19.made on a political framework to a large broad population needs to be
:20:20. > :20:27.weighed very carefully because they have an impact for a long, long
:20:28. > :20:30.time. What he has said, what Donald Trump and other politicians have
:20:31. > :20:34.said and I are saying will never go away. Once those words are released
:20:35. > :20:37.around the world, they have an impact on the soul of every person
:20:38. > :20:42.who hears them. There is always a solution for that and by
:20:43. > :20:49.communicating with American people, I see what they are feeling about
:20:50. > :20:51.me. There is always a solution. That is to be remembered. There is always
:20:52. > :20:57.a solution. Always. Here in the UK a major incident has
:20:58. > :21:00.been declared following an explosion At least one person has died
:21:01. > :21:04.and there are understood to be Daniel Boettcher has the latest
:21:05. > :21:16.on this developing story. These images seem to show a section
:21:17. > :21:20.of this building has collapsed. It is part of Didcot eight, the power
:21:21. > :21:25.station decommissioned in 2013 and is in the process of being
:21:26. > :21:28.demolished. On the ground fire crews and ambulances and emergency
:21:29. > :21:33.services were called mid-afternoon after reports of an explosion. It is
:21:34. > :21:38.still not clear what has happened, but this is being described as a
:21:39. > :21:41.major incident. This video posted on social media shows smoke or dust
:21:42. > :21:45.rising from one side of the building. Eyewitnesses have
:21:46. > :21:51.described hearing a loud bang. I can see the power station from where I
:21:52. > :21:55.am. It is only about 400 yards away. At about four o'clock when I heard
:21:56. > :22:00.the explosion and rumbling, by the time I looked out of the window
:22:01. > :22:03.there was a huge cloud of dust which came to our village. When that had
:22:04. > :22:08.cleared, I noticed that half of the old power station were the
:22:09. > :22:12.generators were, half of that was missing. There are reports that one
:22:13. > :22:16.person has been killed, but that has not been confirmed.
:22:17. > :22:18.Both the Syrian government and the main opposition umbrella
:22:19. > :22:21.group fighting in the country say they have accepted the terms
:22:22. > :22:25.The plan, announced by the US and Russia, calls for a halt
:22:26. > :22:26.to combat operations from midnight on Friday.
:22:27. > :22:29.But both the Syrian government and the opposition have placed
:22:30. > :22:33.And the deal will not apply to the two main jihadist groups
:22:34. > :22:36.in Syria, the Islamic State group, and the rival al-Nusra Front,
:22:37. > :22:49.which will continue to be targeted by airstrikes.
:22:50. > :22:52.The funeral of the celebrated Italian writer Umberto Eco has taken
:22:53. > :22:58.He's best known for his blockbuster novel The Name Of The Rose,
:22:59. > :23:00.which has sold more than 10 million copies and been translated
:23:01. > :23:08.Umberto Eco's final novel will be released on Friday.
:23:09. > :23:11.A zoo here in Britain has announced the birth of a baby gorilla
:23:12. > :23:15.The operation was performed in the city of Bristol
:23:16. > :23:16.after the mother was diagnosed with pre-eclampsia,
:23:17. > :23:21.It's thought to be the first time a newborn gorilla has survived
:23:22. > :23:25.It's among just a handful of such cases worldwide.
:23:26. > :23:32.He's delivered hundreds of babies, but Professor David Cahill has never
:23:33. > :23:39.In his hands, a tiny newborn gorilla.
:23:40. > :23:42.He was called in from a local maternity hospital by Bristol Zoo
:23:43. > :23:49.He was asked to carry out an emergency Cesarean.
:23:50. > :23:52.He says the three-hour operation was remarkably similar to dealing
:23:53. > :23:57.with a human being, although the end result was a little different.
:23:58. > :24:00.Hairier and about two pounds in weight.
:24:01. > :24:04.What was that like, holding a baby gorilla that you've delivered?
:24:05. > :24:11.I mean I've held lots of babies, but this one was quite special
:24:12. > :24:15.because even though it was quite small, it was doing all the things
:24:16. > :24:17.you would expect a gorilla to do like holding on to you,
:24:18. > :24:19.because they're clearly different to babies.
:24:20. > :24:22.It had a very strong grip and he looked at me with those weird
:24:23. > :24:27.Mother and baby are doing well, but there were some nervous moments
:24:28. > :24:32.The baby female, who has not yet been named,
:24:33. > :24:41.11-days-old, she's thriving and being hand-reared by zoo staff.
:24:42. > :24:47.It's feeding very, very well and taking several feeds a day.
:24:48. > :24:50.It's still quite small, but it's out of danger,
:24:51. > :24:54.I think in any sense and it's doing really well.
:24:55. > :24:59.When I held it, it had a nice nappy on so I was safe to hold to for long
:25:00. > :25:06.enough to be introduced to the rest of the family here.
:25:07. > :25:09.When that happens, the zoo say, it will have to be done very
:25:10. > :25:16.For now she is being cared for in private.
:25:17. > :25:30.No visitors, apart from Professor Cahill, of course!
:25:31. > :25:35.President Obama has unveiled plans to close the Guantanamo Bay
:25:36. > :25:40.In a televised announcement, he said keeping the facility open
:25:41. > :25:43.was contrary to American values, and undermined the security
:25:44. > :25:48.of the United States and its standing in the world.
:25:49. > :26:16.You can get in touch with me and some of the team via Twitter -
:26:17. > :26:18.Good evening. If you thought this morning was called,