:00:00. > :00:00.This is BBC World News Today with me Tim Willcox.
:00:00. > :00:07.The headlines - making the treacherous journey
:00:08. > :00:11.We have an exclusive report on the African migrants
:00:12. > :00:27.who are making a desperate journey in search of a better life.
:00:28. > :00:31.The chance to succeed as 20% and the chance to be killed is a deeper
:00:32. > :00:39.sent. -- 80%. President Hollande drops plans
:00:40. > :00:43.to strip French nationality from people convicted
:00:44. > :00:47.of terrorism offences. And Myanmar swears
:00:48. > :00:49.in a new president - the country's first civilian leader
:00:50. > :01:06.in more than half a century. Hello and welcome
:01:07. > :01:09.to World News Today. We begin with an exclusive report
:01:10. > :01:12.on Europe's migrant crisis. The Italian coastguard says it has
:01:13. > :01:16.rescued 1,400 people from the water Many more have drowned in the last
:01:17. > :01:24.two years trying to cross from Libya, and its a perilous
:01:25. > :01:29.journey of up to 6 days across the Sahara, in extreme
:01:30. > :01:35.temperatures just to get there. The jumping-off point
:01:36. > :01:37.for the desert trek is Agadez, in Niger - which it's thought
:01:38. > :01:39.100,000 people passed Our West Africa correspondent
:01:40. > :02:02.Thomas Fessy sent this report. This is where the long road through
:02:03. > :02:07.the Sahara begins, in the desert of Niger. They have come from all over
:02:08. > :02:14.the West and Central Africa with one goal, a better life in Europe. And
:02:15. > :02:19.so off they go tonight, adrift in an ocean of stand, clinging to their
:02:20. > :02:24.dreams. Some of them may not survive the extreme heat when the sun comes
:02:25. > :02:33.up, others may be left behind by smugglers, but there will be no
:02:34. > :02:37.rescue mission. A rear stop on this perilous journey. Most of the
:02:38. > :02:43.migrants have left countries with few jobs and limited prospects. This
:02:44. > :02:55.is the alternative. Young men but also teenage girls and children.
:02:56. > :03:00.Some like Samuel have fled war. I have to take the risk, you know when
:03:01. > :03:04.you want to achieve something you have to take risks, so that is why I
:03:05. > :03:11.prefer to go to Europe. Willing to risk your life? It is God who has
:03:12. > :03:19.been the last word. I must make it for my family. Migration is big
:03:20. > :03:23.business in the Sahara, there will be officials and soldiers to brave
:03:24. > :03:30.and militia today. For the smugglers, nothing is more
:03:31. > :03:36.lucrative. We charge different prices depending on where they come
:03:37. > :03:43.from but on average the ride to the border costs more than $200. We have
:03:44. > :03:48.only been here for a couple of hours and have seen dozens of these
:03:49. > :03:52.pick-up trucks, hundreds of migrants, and there will be hundreds
:03:53. > :03:57.more tonight. Borders are being tightened in Europe but how do you
:03:58. > :04:03.stop this? Just a few miles down the road more migrants are preparing to
:04:04. > :04:08.set. The ancient trading Post, home to smugglers and traffickers for
:04:09. > :04:12.centuries, a transit hub where migrants dreaming of a new life
:04:13. > :04:17.crossed paths with those returning to their old lives. These migrants
:04:18. > :04:24.have turned around defeated and destitute. They were starved or
:04:25. > :04:34.during the journey or they are going home. They have failed. 28-year-old
:04:35. > :04:41.James from Liberia wanted to study computing in Italy. He took great
:04:42. > :04:47.risks to reach the coast. But the state of the boat used to cross the
:04:48. > :04:51.Mediterranean terrified him. Very much afraid to get on the boat
:04:52. > :04:59.because people tell you the boat is good, you go and within three hours,
:05:00. > :05:06.they are all lies. The chance to succeed is 20%, the chance to be
:05:07. > :05:13.killed is 80% and the chance to terrorise, 100%. Food each migrants
:05:14. > :05:16.backtracking towards the home country, another pick-up truck
:05:17. > :05:18.loaded with dozens more is already speeding through the desert. The
:05:19. > :05:36.exodus continues. The United States military has
:05:37. > :05:38.announced plans to station thousands of extra troops in eastern Europe,
:05:39. > :05:41.in response to what it has labelled From early next year,
:05:42. > :05:49.NATO forces in Eastern Europe The deployment is the most
:05:50. > :05:51.significant US reinforcement of NATO since the tensions with Moscow
:05:52. > :05:53.increased over the Ukraine crisis. A typical US armoured brigade has
:05:54. > :05:56.four and a half thousand soldiers. The US European command says they'll
:05:57. > :06:03.be conducting military exercises Is this a return to the cold war?
:06:04. > :06:05.Three are amid a grades in Europe would have a hard job stopping
:06:06. > :06:09.Russia if it was seriously intent in the rolling westwards. The crisis in
:06:10. > :06:17.Ukraine sent a shock wave through needle especially those with a clear
:06:18. > :06:20.memory of Soviet power. Ever since that crisis, the Americans and other
:06:21. > :06:25.allies have been sending small numbers of official equipment to
:06:26. > :06:28.Europe and mounting routine and almost permanent exercises, some
:06:29. > :06:34.large but mostly small-scale in Poland and the Baltic republics.
:06:35. > :06:41.There has been a need felt by the Americans to bolster the resident
:06:42. > :06:45.combat power. There are currently two US army brigades in Europe, one
:06:46. > :06:52.is your board and sold relatively light and the other is a so-called
:06:53. > :06:57.strike brigade. What the Americans are now proposing is to put in from
:06:58. > :07:03.2017 and armoured Brigade saw tanks and heavy infantry, 500 or so
:07:04. > :07:07.personnel. That's brigade will stay in Europe for some nine months and
:07:08. > :07:11.come over what it's still fit modern equipment and when it is finished it
:07:12. > :07:15.will return to the native states and be replaced by another brigade with
:07:16. > :07:19.its own equipment. Not only will more sets of American troops get
:07:20. > :07:24.experience operating in Europe but the equipment will be significantly
:07:25. > :07:31.modernised. And the Russian response? The Russians clearly not
:07:32. > :07:35.happy. They have pointed with a little justification saying that
:07:36. > :07:41.Nato and Russia agreed to not build more permanent bases. And of course
:07:42. > :07:49.that is semi-suspended in the wake of the crisis. It insists they are
:07:50. > :07:55.not permanent bases because the troops and the armoured brigade will
:07:56. > :07:58.be rotated, so they are not absolutely permanent, like setting
:07:59. > :08:03.up a base with the same trips they have for extended periods. A lot of
:08:04. > :08:07.people might argue that as an academic distinction but the
:08:08. > :08:12.Americans want to reassure their allies and send a clear message to
:08:13. > :08:18.Moscow that they Nato alliance is in business and willing to defend its
:08:19. > :08:22.interests. They also want to push other allies to do more than one of
:08:23. > :08:26.the interesting things is that a number of Nato countries are
:08:27. > :08:31.spending that little bit more on defence so it is not a new world
:08:32. > :08:37.war. It is not a return to the cold war as was, but it is an attempt by
:08:38. > :08:39.needle to show Russia it means serious business and we shouldn't
:08:40. > :08:40.perhaps try to think about encroaching into the Baltic
:08:41. > :08:44.republics. President Francois Hollande says
:08:45. > :08:47.he's dropping plans to strip French nationality from people convicted
:08:48. > :08:50.of terrorism offences. The change to the constitution
:08:51. > :08:52.was proposed in the wake of November's attacks in Paris,
:08:53. > :08:55.but the plan has caused deep divisions within Mr
:08:56. > :08:56.Hollande's Socialist party. He says it's now being set aside
:08:57. > :08:59.in the face of opposition For more on this let's speak
:09:00. > :09:16.to our correspondent in Pairs, All that supports for President
:09:17. > :09:23.Hollande in the immediate aftermath seems to have the Lindo Wing? It has
:09:24. > :09:28.completely dissipated and back then he called the Houses of Parliament
:09:29. > :09:34.together this and made a big speech, National unity was the watchword,
:09:35. > :09:40.and part of his response, Security response, was this measure, to make
:09:41. > :09:46.it possible for by National is, people with two nationalities, to
:09:47. > :09:50.have their French nationalities stepped away from them if they were
:09:51. > :09:54.convicted of terrorist attacks. It was broadly supported and in the
:09:55. > :09:57.heat of the moment everyone was for it can be left forgot that this was
:09:58. > :10:03.a measure that actually the far right has been calling for four
:10:04. > :10:08.years. The left remembered that in the weeks that followed and as time
:10:09. > :10:12.went by, more people on the left of the Socialist party and for the left
:10:13. > :10:21.began to see this as against our basic principles and by doing this
:10:22. > :10:24.you are creating two types of French citizens, French citizenship and
:10:25. > :10:27.people with French and something else and they will be treated
:10:28. > :10:32.differently and that is not free and it is against our idea of
:10:33. > :10:36.universality of right, and as the weeks went by, and it is a sign of
:10:37. > :10:42.President Hollande's diminishing responsibility, that the left got
:10:43. > :10:47.more and more willing to take him on. The Justice Minister resigned,
:10:48. > :10:52.so President Hollande wrote back and change the vet and the Wright said,
:10:53. > :10:55.we don't like this either, so the whole thing in the end meant he had
:10:56. > :10:57.alienating the left and the right sort has all come to an ignominious
:10:58. > :11:02.close. Thank you. Now a look at some of
:11:03. > :11:05.the day's other news. It's emerged that the jihadists
:11:06. > :11:08.who attacked Brussels last week had photographs and building plans
:11:09. > :11:12.of the office and residence of the Belgian Prime
:11:13. > :11:14.Minister, Charles Michel. They were found on a computer
:11:15. > :11:17.belonging to one of the suicide bombers who blew himself
:11:18. > :11:19.up inside the airport. A Portuguese branch of the Anonymous
:11:20. > :11:22.hacking collective says it's shut down around two dozen Angolan
:11:23. > :11:24.government websites. It is currently impossible to access
:11:25. > :11:26.many of the sites listed In a statement on Facebook,
:11:27. > :11:30.the hackers said it was because of the jailing of 17 Angolan youth
:11:31. > :11:33.activists who were found guilty Less than four months
:11:34. > :11:40.after his appointment, Gary Neville has been sacked
:11:41. > :11:42.as manager of Spannish football team The former England and Manchester
:11:43. > :11:46.United captain had overseen a string of disappointing results that left
:11:47. > :11:57.the team 14th in La Liga. An Egyptian man accused of hijacking
:11:58. > :11:59.an Egypt Air plane yesterday has Seif Eldin Mustafa forced the plane
:12:00. > :12:05.to divert hundreds of miles by wearing what later turned out
:12:06. > :12:08.to be a fake suicide belt. All 56 passengers and crew
:12:09. > :12:10.were eventually freed. Just a glimpse of the man accused
:12:11. > :12:21.of this bizarre hijacking before The hearing was brief and he didn't
:12:22. > :12:28.speak but as he was driven away, The suspect presented today before
:12:29. > :12:36.the court and he will stay Today we learned a bit more
:12:37. > :12:43.about the personal motivations of Seif al-Din Mustafa as he caused
:12:44. > :12:46.a domestic Egyptian flight to be He says he was desperate
:12:47. > :12:55.to see his estranged Cypriot wife Emotions ran high at Cairo airport
:12:56. > :13:02.as passengers and crew of Flight MS181 were reunited
:13:03. > :13:06.with their friends and family. Others didn't feel
:13:07. > :13:13.threatened by the hijacker. And he told only nothing
:13:14. > :13:20.will happen, so... The suicide belt was found to be
:13:21. > :13:29.fake but that wasn't clear when this On the right is Ben Innis from Leeds
:13:30. > :13:35.who is now famous, This guy was so cool,
:13:36. > :13:48.he's a British guy. He asked him to take a picture
:13:49. > :13:51.and he took the picture. There are enquiries into how
:13:52. > :13:53.the alleged hijacker got through airport checks,
:13:54. > :13:55.apparently with fake explosives Controls at Egypt's airports
:13:56. > :13:58.were heavily criticised after last year's deadly bombing of a Russian
:13:59. > :14:01.plane, but Egyptian officials say they handled the latest
:14:02. > :14:02.incident correctly. Yesterday's hijacking ended
:14:03. > :14:06.dramatically, ultimately, with no one harmed but it
:14:07. > :14:08.has left concerns about The Syrian army's recent successes
:14:09. > :14:17.will help accelerate a political settlement, according
:14:18. > :14:19.to President Assad. He told Russian media
:14:20. > :14:24.that the conflict has cost his country more
:14:25. > :14:27.than $200 billion - But there has also
:14:28. > :14:31.been a human cost. After five years of civil war,
:14:32. > :14:34.some parts of Syria are in ruins, and the biggest city,
:14:35. > :14:37.Aleppo, has seen widescale Our International Correspondent Ian
:14:38. > :14:43.Pannell has been covering the story from the beginning and caught up
:14:44. > :14:48.with a doctor he first met in 2012. You may find some of the images
:14:49. > :15:03.disturbing in his report. On a cold winter night in 2012 we
:15:04. > :15:11.crossed into Syria and this is what we saw. A popular uprising that
:15:12. > :15:16.would eventually turn to war. It was a movement built on the call for
:15:17. > :15:25.democracy and dignity, fuelled by decades of Fiat and brutal
:15:26. > :15:28.repression. The Assad regime responded with an iron fist and
:15:29. > :15:36.protest as were attacked and killed. The bloodshed had begun. We
:15:37. > :15:44.witnessed those who called for changes take up arms. Weapons were
:15:45. > :15:52.smuggled in as a new rebel force emerged.
:15:53. > :15:59.By the summer of 2012 the revolution had become a civil war. We saw
:16:00. > :16:07.street battles rage as the death toll rose. Under fire and under
:16:08. > :16:29.pressure, the regime unleashed ever greater firepower.
:16:30. > :16:37.Civilians in Syria have pleaded for foreign help for five years but
:16:38. > :16:41.instead they got foreign meddling. There are countless villains in this
:16:42. > :16:54.war. Terrible crimes against humanity. But there have also been
:16:55. > :17:05.many heroes, those who have risked everything to help others. Above
:17:06. > :17:11.all, the medics of Syria. We met this doctor in a front line hospital
:17:12. > :17:15.in Aleppo, a young trauma surgeon who had been held and tortured by
:17:16. > :17:21.the regime for doing his job but they didn't stop working round the
:17:22. > :17:28.clock to help the growing influx of casualties. The hospital also became
:17:29. > :17:33.home to his family. They played here but also witnessed the full horrors
:17:34. > :17:49.of this war. This is where their childhood came to an end. For years
:17:50. > :18:00.on. No safe, living in Germany, but far from well. The sounds and
:18:01. > :18:04.screams of Aleppo haunt them all. The children talk of severed limbs
:18:05. > :18:05.and death. Doesn't he was all you just surviving here rather than
:18:06. > :18:22.leading? -- leading? The most important for me now, the
:18:23. > :18:34.children. The children must learn, must be educated and must live far
:18:35. > :18:42.from bombing, from fear. They need to live normal lives. But this isn't
:18:43. > :18:52.normal. Like many refugees, he may be here but his heart isn't. This is
:18:53. > :18:57.what is left of his home today. Aleppo five years after the
:18:58. > :19:02.revolution began. Syria's largest city, whole districts abandoned.
:19:03. > :19:07.Perhaps this ceasefire will hold but now one will forget what happened
:19:08. > :19:09.here and many won't forget. -- forgive.
:19:10. > :19:12.The BBC has obtained a draft bill that suggests that a special
:19:13. > :19:14.position is, being created in the new Burmese government
:19:15. > :19:16.for former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi.
:19:17. > :19:21.The bill would create the position of "Advisor to the State"
:19:22. > :19:23.with a broad mandate similar to a Prime Minister.
:19:24. > :19:26.The revelation comes as Myanmar's first civilian leader in more
:19:27. > :19:38.than half a century has been sworn in.
:19:39. > :19:42.Those waiting for change in Myanmar have had to be patient.
:19:43. > :19:44.Five months after a historic election, and after decades
:19:45. > :19:47.of military rule, this was the day that the Burmese army
:19:48. > :19:54.For Aung San Suu Kyi, this is the culmination of a long
:19:55. > :19:56.journey from house arrests and detention
:19:57. > :20:05.she's about to be the leader of Myanmar's first civilian
:20:06. > :20:13.The Constitution bars her from taking that job
:20:14. > :20:19.because her sons are British, not Burmese.
:20:20. > :20:21.So she shows a close friend, Htin Kyaw.
:20:22. > :20:24.And watched on as he was sworn in as the country's first elected
:20:25. > :20:33.civilian president in more than 50 years.
:20:34. > :20:36.A short while later it was the turn of the ministers, including Miss Suu
:20:37. > :20:39.She will control the energy, education and foreign affairs
:20:40. > :20:45.portfolios as well as having a seat in the President's office.
:20:46. > :20:49.Much now rests on whether she can work with an army that still wields
:20:50. > :20:54.We are very happy, this is an auspicious day,
:20:55. > :21:04.Someone who has been chosen by the people has been sworn in,
:21:05. > :21:10.The end of 50 years of military rule.
:21:11. > :21:13.It is going to be a challenging time ahead but it is remarkable we've got
:21:14. > :21:17.Most people two or three years ago would not have imagined
:21:18. > :21:21.At the outgoing President's house there was a ceremonial handover.
:21:22. > :21:23.Myanmar is not yet a democracy and faces many serious challenges.
:21:24. > :21:32.But when Thein Sein first took office five years ago,
:21:33. > :21:40.Jonah Fisher, BBC News, in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar.
:21:41. > :21:42.50 years ago, visitors to Longleat House in the west
:21:43. > :21:45.of England were invited to drive their own cars among
:21:46. > :21:48.In that moment the Safari Park was born.
:21:49. > :21:50.Since then millions have come face to face with lions,
:21:51. > :22:04.tigers and rhinos, John Maguire reports.
:22:05. > :22:18.We are about to go and feed the lions and tigers but luckily this is
:22:19. > :22:21.lying proof! Isn't it? Suddenly I feel like Daniel about to enter the
:22:22. > :22:30.lions den but first it is Tiger sign. Twice a week we feed them and
:22:31. > :22:35.they chased us. The chase is important because it is replicating
:22:36. > :22:40.chasing the prey. Who ordered the romp? Fell at stake? When they first
:22:41. > :22:47.come running up to the back of the vehicle they let the lips and fix
:22:48. > :22:50.you with huge unblinking eyes. You wonder whether that is that meet or
:22:51. > :23:00.this week they are more interested in. A fantastic site.
:23:01. > :23:03.This all started when the aristocrat met the man from the big top.
:23:04. > :23:05.Lord Bath had Longleat and Jimmy Chipperfield
:23:06. > :23:22.What followed was the creation of the world's first safari park.
:23:23. > :23:27.Next we are heading across the lake to meet one of the park's oldest and
:23:28. > :23:32.most distinguished residents who enjoys watching television. It was
:23:33. > :23:38.something people brought over for him when he had to do a quarantine
:23:39. > :23:43.period and he had to stay in the house for six months. We had heard
:23:44. > :23:47.some people had used it with chimpanzees and pacified them so we
:23:48. > :23:53.tried it and it worked really well and never took it away! And his
:23:54. > :24:00.favourite programme, wildlife documentaries. Among the history and
:24:01. > :24:07.the splendour of the house, I meet validate whose husband was a local
:24:08. > :24:10.vet back in 1966. He had never looked after an exotic and knew
:24:11. > :24:19.virtually nothing but that was how he dealt with it because the inside
:24:20. > :24:25.of a lion is only a larger version of a cat. Two of Longleat's longest
:24:26. > :24:29.serving staff Shearer 70 years of experience and remember simpler
:24:30. > :24:38.times. We are still working on fencing now. It is like the Forth
:24:39. > :24:45.Road Bridge, it never stops. And that is how it was first place. The
:24:46. > :24:50.lions were originally in an old railway shed but now they have
:24:51. > :24:54.proper indoor shed. It is amazing, with technology, we need to use
:24:55. > :25:00.things now. We used to have meters to read the ultraviolet and laser
:25:01. > :25:05.thermometers that can do how warm the soil is and how these guys did
:25:06. > :25:09.back then I have no idea but that is how it has progressed.
:25:10. > :25:11.The original vision for Longleat was to bring Africa to England.
:25:12. > :25:15.And for the vision past 50 years, this corner of Wiltshire
:25:16. > :25:19.The most expensive pair of trainers have been been unveiled in New York.
:25:20. > :25:21.Designed by luxury brand Bicion and Mache Customs,
:25:22. > :25:24.they have gone on sale to raise money for charity Soles4Souls.
:25:25. > :25:26.The shoes features several hundred carats of tailor made white diamond
:25:27. > :25:28.pieces and blue sapphires set in gold.
:25:29. > :25:30.They even come with a solid gold price tag.
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:25:59. > :26:05.touch with me and plenty more on the website. Goodbye.
:26:06. > :26:15.Good evening. Not much change to the weather for tomorrow but today we
:26:16. > :26:17.had quite a few showers and tomorrow one or two once again but it will