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This is BBC World News Today with me, Karin Giannone. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
A shoot-out in Brussels between security forces and gunmen | :00:07. | :00:14. | |
allegedly linked to the Paris attacks. | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
One suspect is dead, two others - thought to be armed - | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
People have been saying people have been shot in the street. | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
A heroes' welcome for Russia's fighter crews as they return | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
I'd like to punch him in the face, I tell you. | :00:28. | :00:40. | |
Accusations that Donald Trump is inciting violence on another big | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
day - perhaps the biggest so far - in America's presidential race. | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
The fight to save the African elephant - we're on the trail | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
There are another four of these carcasses spread all around | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
They arrived too late to catch the poachers who were long gone. | :00:53. | :01:22. | |
Security forces are hunting a number of suspects after shots were fired | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
at police during a counter-terrorism raid in the capital, | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
According to the country's state broadcaster - | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
four officers have been injured, one severely. | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
The raid is linked to the Paris attacks that killed 130 people last | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
French police were assisting in the raid in Brussels, | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
which took place in the southern suburb of Forest. | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
Our correspondent Damian Grammaticas reports from there. | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
Dozens of armed police units moved into this Southern district of | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
Brussels in the middle of the afternoon. They sealed off a whole | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
series of street bringing the entire area to a standstill. There had been | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
a police reappeared shortly after lunchtime. As they moved in the | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
officers were met with sustained gunfire. People inside the cordoned | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
the police had thrown out were told to stay indoors. Unable to move as | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
police hunted there suspects. The burst of gunfire came from this | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
street and a little down to one side where the police operation has been | :02:18. | :02:25. | |
focused. Also there is a school where there were five classes of | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
toddlers who were trapped in their being cared for by their teachers | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
while their parents were unable to bring them out. Belgian prosecutors | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
say this raid is listened -- link to the Paris attacks which killed 130 | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
people last November. Much of the planning and preparation of those | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
attacks happened here in Brussels. Belgian police have been searching | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
for two prime suspects linked to the attacks ever since. TRANSLATION: Two | :02:49. | :02:56. | |
individuals are apparently holed up in the building. A security cordon | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
has been set up by the police. Following this special forces | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
arrived and are in position along with Federal police. So, the | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
operation is ongoing. Police haven't said the targets of this raid where, | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
but it is known that armed French officers were also involved in the | :03:14. | :03:14. | |
operation today. We can get the latest | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
from our reporter Anna Holligan What is the latest that police are | :03:17. | :03:29. | |
saying? You can see, we are surrounded by residents trying to | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
get home. We are just behind the police cordoned. This operation has | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
been going on for hours. You might be able to hear a helicopter | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
overhead. Police sirens just behind us. There are lots of families | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
trying to get back home. We know that the police pursued at least two | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
suspects over the rooftops. In the last few minutes we have heard | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
reports that one of the suspects has been neutralised. Just in the last | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
couple of minutes we have heard on the wires a quote from the | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
prosecutors office saying that the person who has been killed, the | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
suspect who has been killed is not Europe's most wanted man Salah | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
Abdeslam, one of the main Paris attacks. How close we have Belgian | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
and French police been working together on this investigation? | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
Extremely. Earlier we were told there were French police involved in | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
these raids. So many of the suspects in the Paris attacks were from or | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
had links with the area of Belgian in question. The majority of people, | :04:35. | :04:42. | |
in terms of Perth head of population, most Belgians have | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
joined the fight alongside Islamic State in Syria. This is why it has | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
been the focus of so much attention. People are being allowed to go back | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
to their homes. Suspects, two suspects remain at large and this is | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
a very fluid situation this evening. Anna, thank you very much. | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
Voters in Florida and four other key states are voting now | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
to choose their preferred candidates to run for president. | :05:13. | :05:14. | |
Support for the Republican candidate Donald Trump has been getting ever | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
stronger - that's despite accusations that he has incited | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
violence with some of his campaign speeches. | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
Earlier President Obama intervened - describing some of the rhetoric | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
Our North America Editor Jon Sopel has more. | :05:24. | :05:35. | |
If there is one place in America where Donald Trump shouldn't have a | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
prayer it is here in Florida. He has upset a lot of Hispanics with his | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
rhetoric and he is up against the local Cuban-American senator Marco | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
Rubio. But for all the controversy, if you join up the dots, everything | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
still points to Donald Trump. He is the most important man in the world | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
now. He is scary but he is the only one who can beat Billy -- Hillary | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
Clinton. I think anything is better than her. I am very proud of Marco | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
Rubio and I identify with Donald Trump. The latest firestorm is the | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
violence that has erupted at his rallies. As his supporters skirmish | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
with protesters. Seems becoming increasingly tense. Actions that | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
should have no place in the Democratic politics. And the charge | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
against Mr Trump is that far from condemning, his language has | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
condoned, even incited, such behaviour among his supporters. I | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
would like to punch them in the face, I tell you. Do you know what | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
they used to guys like that in a place like this? They would be | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
carried out on a stretcher, folks. I don't know if I would have done | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
that, but I would have been boom boom boom, beat them. If you see | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
someone getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the clap out of them, | :07:00. | :07:07. | |
would you? I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. Am I allowed to | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
rip that whistle out of the mouth and rip. Mike get him out, out, out! | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
Yes, his comments have done caused a room, but have they done him farm -- | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
harm? If anything the lead is increasing. Here in Miami, he | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
appears to be the only name in town. The others seem to have given up the | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
fight. And for all the discussion of punch-ups, if he wins here | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
fight. And for all the discussion of and in Ohio, the talk will have | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
instead been about delivering a knockout blow to his opponents. | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
Gary O'Donoghue joins us from one of the key states, | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
Another significant day in this long campaign? | :07:46. | :07:54. | |
We keep running out of superlatives, but today is a huge day. Another | :07:55. | :08:02. | |
Tuesday of course. The reason for that is why we have got about five | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
states and 360 odd delegates to decide on the republican side, we | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
have got two of the big states which we call winner take all. Florida | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
hotels 99 delegates, if you win a plurality there you get the lot. | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
Here in Ohio if you get a plurality you get all 66. That can build your | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
delegate numbers significantly in one go. Having said that there are | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
still contests elsewhere, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina, they all | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
have large chunks of delegates to be distributed as well. If Donald Trump | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
gets somewhere like Ohio and Florida, then he builds up | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
significant lead over the others. If the governor here in Ohio doesn't | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
win his home state, he is out. If Marco Rubio doesn't win Florida he | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
is likely to be out. There is a lot to play for today and some | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
presidential dreams could come to an end after it. So, today has the | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
potential to be conclusive in both the republican and democratic races? | :09:04. | :09:12. | |
Yes. The Democratic race, these states are important, Bernie Sanders | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
is hoping to do well in these northern, industrial states like | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
Ohio and Illinois. He seems to have done pretty well amongst the | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
demographics in those similar states like Michigan, where he lived to be | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
way behind Hillary Clinton but came through and one that. She still has | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
a huge lead over him in terms of delegates. A really insurmountable | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
lead when you count things like the so-called superdelegates who can | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
choose to vote whichever way they like not depending on what happens | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
in this or that state. But he is still in this race and he still has | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
a lot of money to spend. Bernie Sanders supporters will be hoping | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
that somewhere along the line Hillary Clinton trips up and he is | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
there to pick up the pieces. Gary, thanks very much. Plenty more on the | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
results here on BBC World News. The first group of Russian warplanes | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
have arrived back at Voronezh airbase from Syria - | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
a day after President Putin's surprise announcement | :10:11. | :10:12. | |
that he was withdrawing his forces. It was, he said, | :10:13. | :10:14. | |
Mission Accomplished - Russia's objectives | :10:15. | :10:15. | |
largely achieved. But not all Russia's jets will be | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
making the journey back. The US Secretary of State John Kerry | :10:19. | :10:20. | |
has said he'll travel to Moscow next Our correspondent Steve | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
Rosenberg is in Moscow. At the Russian air base in Syria, | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
it's the final checks. In the cockpit of a Sukhoi 34 | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
bomber, preparations for take-off. And then for Russia's air force, | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
the long flight home. Led by a command plane, | :10:42. | :10:50. | |
the bombers head to Russia. President Putin has ordered | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
the majority of Russian forces He says they have | :10:56. | :10:57. | |
completed their task. A few hours later, the planes and | :10:58. | :11:14. | |
pilots are back on Russian soil. It is quite a homecoming to Russia with | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
Love. There is a traditional Russian greeting. And prayers. It is a hero | :11:20. | :11:28. | |
's' welcome. Vladimir Putin wants Russians to see the military | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
operations in Syria as a total success and that is why the soldiers | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
returned to Russia seems to be choreographed to present them as | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
heroes. It is a message which is going down well with the Russian | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
people. TRANSLATION: We are really glad our troops are coming home. | :11:44. | :11:54. | |
Surprised but happy. Thanks to our soldiers, so-called Islamic State is | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
doing worse, the Syrian army is doing better. That is victory. There | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
will be more planes coming home, more parties. But Moscow isn't | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
pulling all its troops out of Syria and Russia has warned it will | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
continue to launch air strikes against what it calls terrorist | :12:13. | :12:13. | |
targets. In Geneva today, the UN's special | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
envoy Staffan de Mistura called Russia's withdrawal | :12:17. | :12:18. | |
a significant development. He is chairing talks with Syria's | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
main opposition groups today as part of wider talks with the Syrian | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
government and world powers It is five years to the day | :12:25. | :12:26. | |
since protests in Syria began, during what was poetically called | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
the Arab Spring. Life has changed beyond recognition | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
for most of the people Joining us live from the Syrian | :12:37. | :12:38. | |
capital Damascus is BBC Arabic's First of all, where does the Russian | :12:39. | :12:58. | |
withdrawal leaves President Assad? It seems that there is some kind of | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
a rift between the Russians and Syrian government on what the end | :13:05. | :13:13. | |
calls should be exactly. With perhaps in Damascus, here to take | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
advantage, of the wrapped radically altered battlefield dynamics since | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
the Russian intervention and press on on the offences in several areas | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
where is the Russians seem to be pressing for stopping with the gains | :13:27. | :13:34. | |
they have made. Perhaps only restricting orphans of action to | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
Islamic State and perhaps trying to give momentum to peace talks to | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
Syria. It would be give momentum to peace talks to | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
a reading of Russian give momentum to peace talks to | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
the surprise announcement yesterday, they are still active in Syria. | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
the surprise announcement yesterday, maintain two bases, a naval base and | :13:57. | :13:58. | |
an air base and they will protect them and that means we will also | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
protect the core areas of the resume. If the gains made by the | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
regime are somehow reversed. This is not abandoning but it is a signal, | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
it appears, that the Russians aren't intent on more offensive action | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
against the groups, they want Geneva to go ahead and they want the Syrian | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
government possibly to be more prepared for concessions in Geneva. | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
What sort of fighting have we seen going on today in Syria? Today I | :14:27. | :14:37. | |
think the Palmyra developments have taken centre stage. They were not | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
surprised. Palmyra is held by Islamic State. It lies in the middle | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
of Syria in the desert area and the Russians have been bombing that area | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
for a while now. Perhaps a preview to some kind of ground offensive to | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
the Syrian regime, we're not sure yet, but that does mean the main | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
development. There has been problems reported by pro-regime media outlets | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
along that front. Five years since the very first protests that led to | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
the Civil War, have we seen protests today in Syria? There have been | :15:16. | :15:23. | |
resurgent protests and it is very difficult to read exactly what is | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
going on. It happened after the truce. Once the truth came into | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
effect, areas held by the opposition have seen a resurgent protests and | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
people restating the original aim of the uprising in 2011, specifically | :15:38. | :15:48. | |
the downfall of the regime and a completely new chapter in Syria. | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
That has taken place in several opposition held areas. Also | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
interestingly, up north there have been protests against the general | :15:59. | :16:07. | |
who was an Al-Qaeda affiliate. Also activists who want to see the end of | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
the regime and the institutions. They have also been pressing against | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
the Al-Qaeda affiliate there. In one incident they manage to drive them | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
out of their areas, probably partly because they want the truce to be | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
expanded to their areas and the truce... Also the accumulation and | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
frustration between some of the people living there. We are out of | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
time, thank you very much. Sorry to interrupt you there. | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
Today is a grim milestone for Syria as the country enters its sixth | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
12 million people - half of the country's | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
pre-war population - have been displaced. | :16:50. | :16:50. | |
No-one can agree on the number of people killed or injured, | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
but everyone agrees they are in the hundreds of thousands. | :16:54. | :16:55. | |
So, what's it like growing up in this environment | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
We've asked some of Syria's children to explain how the war | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
It is very scary. The first time I listened. | :17:03. | :20:43. | |
Some of Syria's children five years on. In other news... | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
The Norwegian right-wing extremist Anders Breivik who murdered 77 | :20:49. | :20:50. | |
people in gun and bomb attacks in 2011 is suing the government | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
for what he says is his unacceptable treatment in prison. | :20:54. | :20:55. | |
The case is being held in a special court prison where he's serving | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
Two Australian journalists are on their way back home | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
They had been investigating corruption allegations | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
against the country's Prime Minister. | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
They had attempted to question Najib Razak as he entered a mosque | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
on why hundreds of millions of dollars had been deposited | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
The Pope has formally approved Mother Teresa's | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
The Albanian nun dedicated most her adult life to working | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
with the poor in the Indian city of Kolkata. | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
A ceremony for her canonisation will take place in September. | :21:29. | :21:37. | |
Prince William has unveiled plans for a crackdown | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
He called the agreement signed at Buckingham Palace a "game changer | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
in the race against extinction." Every year between 30 and 40,000 | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
African elephants are killed for their ivory. | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
With under half a million left, their numbers are being decimated | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
by Asia's seemingly insatiable appetite for ivory. | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
Poachers and rangers are now in armed conflict in a number | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
of African countries - with the Democratic Republic | :22:04. | :22:05. | |
Our Africa correspondent Alastair Leithead has sent this | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
It's tough terrain in Garamba National Park, | :22:10. | :22:19. | |
where less than 100 Rangers are trying to protect the last | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
of the elephants across thousands of square miles of grassland. | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
We joined one of their foot patrols to a place where | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
The grass is so high, the only way to see a carcasses | :22:33. | :22:43. | |
Well, this elephant was clearly killed by a poacher. | :22:44. | :22:52. | |
Its ivory tusks were hacked off, it has been dead about three weeks. | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
There are another four of these caucuses spread all around | :22:56. | :22:57. | |
They arrived too late to catch the poachers, | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
30-40,000 elephants are being killed in Africa every year. | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
And with only around 400,000 left, it is not going to be long this rate | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
And with so few boots on the ground, those responsible often get away | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
We followed their footprints, one of the Rangers told me. | :23:19. | :23:32. | |
There are perhaps 1300 elephants left here. | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
Garamba was one of Africa's first national parks. | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
Originally set up to protect the northern white rhino. | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
But that has already been wiped out by poachers. | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
Now they're fighting to save the elephants that are left, | :23:50. | :23:57. | |
in a place surrounded by Civil War, and heavily armed militia. | :23:58. | :24:06. | |
And that is why African Parks, the group managing Garamba, | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
But the weapons are old, few hit even a close target. | :24:10. | :24:18. | |
Training Rangers takes a lot of time and money. | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
And the men they are up against are hardened fighters. | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
This really does feel you're fighting a war against poachers. | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
I think the Garamba is today at the forefront of conservation | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
I don't think many other places have so much contact and so many threats | :24:34. | :24:42. | |
This local man was arrested after a tip-off, and ivory recovered. | :24:43. | :24:52. | |
Over time it reaches the market in Asia, it goes for at least 750. | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
Then reports came in of another attack. | :24:59. | :25:06. | |
And there are the carcasses just down there by the river. | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
And the six we have just spotted, a bit further up the river | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
from there, it is hard to make out from up here, | :25:15. | :25:16. | |
but you could see that their faces had been cut off. | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
They need hundreds more Rangers to protect Garamba. | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
On the front line of the poaching war, the elephants | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
Alistair Leithead, BBC News, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. | :25:27. | :25:38. | |
Let's update you on the main story. The raid in Brussels is thought to | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
be linked to the Paris attacks which killed 130 people last November. We | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
hear from police that the main operation at the apartment is over. | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
One suspect has been killed but a wider search is underway in the same | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
area possibly involving a second specific location. No further | :25:59. | :26:01. | |
details. Thank you for being with us. | :26:02. | :26:10. |