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