:00:00. > :00:14.Have the authorities in Nigeria given up, in their hunt
:00:15. > :00:18.for the school girls, abducted by Boko Haram.
:00:19. > :00:20.The BBC travels to Chibok - and hears the agony
:00:21. > :00:26.In China - a gay couple lose their fight to be
:00:27. > :00:29.recognised as married, in the country's first ever court
:00:30. > :00:33.A disastrous day for America's biggest coal producer as it
:00:34. > :00:40.And a robotic submarine searching for signs of Scotland's Loch Ness
:00:41. > :00:58.monster has found a long-lost model of the mythical creature.
:00:59. > :01:00.Hello and welcome - I'm Geeta Guru-Murthy.
:01:01. > :01:04.The authorities in Nigeria promise they are still looking -
:01:05. > :01:10.The reality though, is that two years after they disappeared,
:01:11. > :01:13.they are no nearer finding the 200 schoolgirls kidnapped
:01:14. > :01:21.The global condemnation and star-studded campaign to free
:01:22. > :01:25.As did a major army offensive against the Islamist group -
:01:26. > :01:29.The only constant in the story - is the agony endured
:01:30. > :01:37.She was such a hard-working girl, she loved jokes.
:01:38. > :01:42.She begged me to buy her a sewing machine.
:01:43. > :01:46.TRANSLATION: Before going to school she was
:01:47. > :02:00.These were the last moments I had with her.
:02:01. > :02:03.I pray that my daughter will come back alive, but
:02:04. > :02:07.if not, I hope that her soul rests in peace.
:02:08. > :02:11.The girls were taken from Chibok on the night of 14th of April 2014.
:02:12. > :02:14.Over the 24 months since they've been abducted, there've been many
:02:15. > :02:18.claims of the Chibok girls being seen.
:02:19. > :02:20.Initially villagers living in the Sambisa Forest said they saw
:02:21. > :02:25.the children being taken into neighbouring Chad and Cameroon.
:02:26. > :02:28.In May of 2014 though, the governor of Borno state
:02:29. > :02:30.in Nigeria said he had seen the girls in Nigeria,
:02:31. > :02:36.About a year on, in April 2015, a woman in the village of Gwoza
:02:37. > :02:38.in north-eastern Nigeria told the BBC she had seen 50
:02:39. > :02:56.And minister in and says they still have no idea where the girls are. We
:02:57. > :03:00.don't, I think we've had lots of information and many leads and
:03:01. > :03:04.everyone of them is followed through, but of today, sadly, we
:03:05. > :03:09.don't have good news, which would have been wonderful. We continue
:03:10. > :03:15.with the strategy we've had since we came in, which is to deploy all of
:03:16. > :03:16.the collaborations and security that we have the look across the border
:03:17. > :03:17.within the country. The anniversary coincides
:03:18. > :03:19.with an event in Washington hosted by the World Bank where global
:03:20. > :03:22.leaders are pushing for improvements Michelle Obama, the First Lady
:03:23. > :03:25.of the United States, Why do we still talk
:03:26. > :03:33.and value girls simply for their bodies instead
:03:34. > :03:34.of better investment for families
:03:35. > :03:50.to marry off their teenage daughters And finally, why would
:03:51. > :03:59.grown men storm a school bus and shoot a 15-year-old
:04:00. > :04:02.girl in the head just for speaking Why, two years ago,
:04:03. > :04:07.would terrorists be so threatened by the prospect
:04:08. > :04:11.of girls going to school that they would break into dormitory in
:04:12. > :04:14.the middle of the night and kidnap I think we can all agree
:04:15. > :04:22.that the answers to these questions aren't
:04:23. > :04:29.just about resources. Because our global failure
:04:30. > :04:32.to educate adolescent girls isn't just about whether we have
:04:33. > :04:35.adequate funding or sufficient It's also about whether we truly
:04:36. > :04:43.believe that girls are worth educating
:04:44. > :04:48.in the first place. Amit Dar is the Director
:04:49. > :04:54.of Education at the World Bank, A Chinese court has
:04:55. > :04:56.ruled against a gay man, In what is reported to be China's
:04:57. > :05:01.first same-sex marriage case, a 27-year-old has failed
:05:02. > :05:03.in his attempt to force his local authority to issue
:05:04. > :05:05.him and his partner, Here's our Beijing
:05:06. > :05:11.correspondent John Sudworth. Sun Wenlin, an internet company
:05:12. > :05:14.employee and Hu Mingliang, a security guard, have lost a legal
:05:15. > :05:18.argument, but they are still Their case has generated widespread
:05:19. > :05:25.publicity and a few hundred supporters were there to celebrate
:05:26. > :05:28.the fact that even getting the court to hear the case is a sign that
:05:29. > :05:32.attitudes in China might be Mr Sun has attempted to argue
:05:33. > :05:38.there is nothing in Chinese law that specifically prohibits
:05:39. > :05:45.same-sex couples from marrying. TRANSLATION: Our country has never
:05:46. > :05:48.had any written legal term that forbids the marriage
:05:49. > :05:52.between people of the same sex. Nonetheless, the court ruled
:05:53. > :05:58.in favour of the local Government in the city
:05:59. > :06:00.of Changsha that had refused to issue
:06:01. > :06:03.the TRANSLATION: This is not
:06:04. > :06:09.the beginning and not the end, no right is
:06:10. > :06:13.achieved overnight. I believe as long as we try together
:06:14. > :06:17.we will finally realise Relaxing at home before
:06:18. > :06:23.the case, Mr Sun and Mr Hu had already decided
:06:24. > :06:25.they would appeal if the ruling TRANSLATION: We don't really need
:06:26. > :06:36.a marriage to prove our love, but we just want to
:06:37. > :06:40.be treated equally. They may face a long legal fight,
:06:41. > :06:43.but in raising the issue and placing it firmly onto the public
:06:44. > :06:46.agenda, supporters say they are already changing minds
:06:47. > :06:49.in one important place - Now a look at some of
:06:50. > :07:00.the day's other news. Spanish police have arrested a man
:07:01. > :07:03.suspected of supplying arms to Paris gunman Amedy Coulibaly,
:07:04. > :07:07.who murdered four people at a kosher Antoine Denive, 27, was detained
:07:08. > :07:14.in a joint Franco-Spanish raid on a house in Malaga,
:07:15. > :07:17.Madrid authorities say. The Frenchman is suspected
:07:18. > :07:19.of fleeing France weeks after the 9th of January supermarket
:07:20. > :07:23.siege. A senior conservative politician
:07:24. > :07:27.in Germany has called for mosques to use the German language
:07:28. > :07:30.and said their foreign financing from countries such as Turkey
:07:31. > :07:34.and Saudi Arabia must end. The general secretary of the CSU -
:07:35. > :07:38.Christian Socialist Party - said political Islam was undermining
:07:39. > :07:42.integration and Europe should Two former coalition partners
:07:43. > :07:48.of Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff say they will vote for her
:07:49. > :07:52.impeachment on Sunday, over claims she manipulated
:07:53. > :07:55.government accounts. The Progressive Party,
:07:56. > :07:57.which quit the coalition on Tuesday, says most of its 47 MPs would vote
:07:58. > :08:00.for the action. President Rousseff says her
:08:01. > :08:07.opponents are plotting a "coup". The world's biggest
:08:08. > :08:13.publicly listed coal firm - the American giant Peabody -
:08:14. > :08:15.has filed for bankruptcy protection. Analysts say Peabody didn't foresee
:08:16. > :08:17.the boom in shale gas, and under-estimated public concern
:08:18. > :08:21.about climate change It's the 50th US coal firm to file
:08:22. > :08:27.for bankruptcy in Here's our Environment Analyst Roger
:08:28. > :08:32.Harrabin. The fuel that drove
:08:33. > :08:35.the Industrial Revolution, brought millions out of poverty,
:08:36. > :08:40.but it is the dirtiest fossil fuel, and with fears about climate change
:08:41. > :08:43.and Stocks in coal firms are down nearly
:08:44. > :08:50.80% in just eight years. Peabody is the grand
:08:51. > :08:52.old man of American coal, Peabody is the biggest private coal
:08:53. > :09:08.firm in the world, but it lobbied against climate science and it
:09:09. > :09:11.didn't foresee the glut in the cleaner fuel, gas, it has dried up
:09:12. > :09:15.and Peabody began to sink. We have a lot of sympathy
:09:16. > :09:20.for the 8000 workers potentially made redundant,
:09:21. > :09:21.but not They are on the wrong
:09:22. > :09:26.side, officially backing climate denial even
:09:27. > :09:29.last year and as coal from renewables and gas,
:09:30. > :09:32.the market has disappeared. Peabody hoped China would provide
:09:33. > :09:35.new markets, but that As China tackles climate
:09:36. > :09:39.and air pollution, it is shutting 4300 coal mines and cutting
:09:40. > :09:47.annual output by 700 million tonnes. Cheap renewables are
:09:48. > :09:50.also challenging coal - solar power is now cheaper than coal
:09:51. > :09:54.in sunny countries. And in Europe, one quarter
:09:55. > :09:56.of nations are banning coal for electricity because of
:09:57. > :09:59.damage to the climate. The headquarters of the World Coal
:10:00. > :10:03.Association overlook one of London's most
:10:04. > :10:06.prestigious streets. They are not ready to
:10:07. > :10:09.give up the ghost just Coal is playing a big
:10:10. > :10:14.role in the world's energy mix today, it
:10:15. > :10:16.is 41% of the word's electricity and
:10:17. > :10:19.70% of the world's steel and 90% of It is a key ingredients
:10:20. > :10:24.to the world's energy mix and will be
:10:25. > :10:27.for the foreseeable future. This was to be the future of coal,
:10:28. > :10:30.technology to capture carbon emissions and and bury them,
:10:31. > :10:33.but the UK and US governments pulled The coal industry is not
:10:34. > :10:39.dead yet, but its dominance of world energy
:10:40. > :10:47.is on the way out. Security forces in Jordan have shut
:10:48. > :10:50.the headquarters of the main opposition movement,
:10:51. > :10:52.the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. Officials from the group
:10:53. > :10:56.saus that the building, in the capital Amman was sealed
:10:57. > :10:59.on the city governor's orders and that no reason was given
:11:00. > :11:03.for the closure. David Schenker is the director
:11:04. > :11:06.of the Program on Arab Politics He joins us from our
:11:07. > :11:19.studio in Washington. Thank you for coming in. What is
:11:20. > :11:22.behind disclosure? Earlier this year the Government declared the Muslim
:11:23. > :11:27.Brotherhood in illegal in Jordan, saying they were not licensed
:11:28. > :11:34.properly and had been be hauled into a foreign individual to the supreme
:11:35. > :11:41.guide optimism about road from Egypt. They closed it and made it
:11:42. > :11:43.illegal and turned over the group's assets to another Muslim Brotherhood
:11:44. > :11:50.organisation that is more amenable to the Government. How worried are
:11:51. > :11:54.governments like those of Jordan now about the Muslim Brotherhood? Of
:11:55. > :11:58.course, it had had support in the past. The brotherhood does have
:11:59. > :12:06.support, residual support. There is no doubt about that. The problem for
:12:07. > :12:09.Jordan is a have about 1.4 million Syrians and close to 50 Jordanians
:12:10. > :12:14.have died in combat fighting in Syria, they are worried about
:12:15. > :12:20.radicalisation, so they want to move the mouse and brotherhood -- Muslim
:12:21. > :12:25.Brotherhood to a more moderate place and did that by creating alternative
:12:26. > :12:29.organisations at home. This is a problem of encountering a violent
:12:30. > :12:32.and -- extremism and take it seriously and want to deal a blow to
:12:33. > :12:39.the brotherhood which was very amendable to Hamas in Palestine for
:12:40. > :12:43.this. In terms of the threat, of course, some will say the
:12:44. > :12:48.governments have said this, Saudi accused very much of feeding these
:12:49. > :12:52.ideologies and now worried about a hydra headed monster they cannot
:12:53. > :13:00.control. How much of a worry is it for Jordan? Radicalism is a huge
:13:01. > :13:04.threat, particularly with the war in Syria going into its 50 year and
:13:05. > :13:07.boring on that, -- country, poor economics in Jordan and some support
:13:08. > :13:13.for the rebellion against Assad. More than that, this is a country
:13:14. > :13:19.that is very immoderate and has a moderate mate regime and they view
:13:20. > :13:24.the brotherhood as not helping the problem here. The real concern is
:13:25. > :13:27.whether by attacking this organisation and putting all of this
:13:28. > :13:31.pressure right now that the people that are supporting the brotherhood
:13:32. > :13:35.will go underground and become more radical, that is the open question.
:13:36. > :13:42.And making it illegal is one thing, where is its funding, for example,
:13:43. > :13:46.coming from now? Well, this is another big question, they have
:13:47. > :13:49.domestic support and charitable organisations, they all property and
:13:50. > :13:54.the organisation has been in existence for 70 years but by making
:13:55. > :13:57.it illegal the Government, there had been a success brotherhood
:13:58. > :14:00.organisation, they have been split between what they called the Hawks
:14:01. > :14:05.and the doves, the Government allowed the doves to essentially
:14:06. > :14:10.found a new Rizla brotherhood and transferred all of the assets,
:14:11. > :14:15.probably tens of millions of dollars to the new Rizla brotherhood
:14:16. > :14:23.organisation. Is this the only source of radicalisation aspires the
:14:24. > :14:28.Government see it in Jordan? No, they view the brotherhood as one
:14:29. > :14:32.component, particularly this strain, the people who are more amenable to
:14:33. > :14:37.Hamas and the Palestinian issue in Jordan, they view them as part of
:14:38. > :14:41.radicalisation but the really big problem is the war in Syria and the
:14:42. > :14:48.people that have gone and joint minister or Isis in Syria and have
:14:49. > :14:51.returned home, the online radicalisation and the regional
:14:52. > :14:55.trend toward Sol offers. There is a rather thin line between solitary
:14:56. > :15:01.and solitary jihadi. That is the main concern rather than the Muslim
:15:02. > :15:03.Brotherhood. This is part of an overall new counter radicalisation
:15:04. > :15:06.strategy by the Government of Jordan. Thank you.
:15:07. > :15:08.As the political fallout from the Panama Papers scandal
:15:09. > :15:12.continues, the anti-corruption organisation Global Witness has said
:15:13. > :15:15.today that an area more than three times the size of Greater London
:15:16. > :15:20.is owned by secret companies in offshore tax havens.
:15:21. > :15:24.The group claims high-end properties in London are being used
:15:25. > :15:27.by corrupt politicians, drug smugglers and criminals
:15:28. > :15:34.All made possible because the offshore companies
:15:35. > :15:36.are not required to reveal who the owners are.
:15:37. > :15:38.Our correspondent Richard Galpin has been on a tour of
:15:39. > :15:44.All aboard for a bus tour like no other in Britain.
:15:45. > :15:47.It's early morning in central London, and journalists
:15:48. > :15:50.from around the world are being taken by anti-corruption campaigners
:15:51. > :15:52.to see a series of multi-million pound properties bought by offshore
:15:53. > :16:02.We want to shine the light onto the flows from global
:16:03. > :16:04.kleptocracies, Russia, Nigeria, countries in Asia and Latin
:16:05. > :16:12.America, the kleptocrats steal from their countries and launder it in
:16:13. > :16:18.offshore vehicles and bring it here to invest.
:16:19. > :16:21.Back on the bus, the tour continues through the heart of
:16:22. > :16:25.With activists giving details of specific properties whose
:16:26. > :16:28.owners allegedly include Russians close to President Putin
:16:29. > :16:40.It is claimed some of the purchases used dubious money.
:16:41. > :16:45.And what is particularly striking is the scale of what is going on.
:16:46. > :16:48.According to the campaign group Transparency International,
:16:49. > :16:51.more than 36,000 properties here in London are owned by offshore
:16:52. > :16:55.companies in places like the British Virgin Islands.
:16:56. > :16:58.In Westminster the concentration is particularly high,
:16:59. > :17:01.one in ten of the buildings here belong to those offshore companies.
:17:02. > :17:04.Of course, many of those London properties will have been bought by
:17:05. > :17:11.perfectly legitimate offshore companies investing in Britain.
:17:12. > :17:13.But it is also alleged that London has
:17:14. > :17:16.become a magnet for those with questionable cash to spend.
:17:17. > :17:21.One of the reasons people come to London is
:17:22. > :17:27.that there is an army of estate agents and lawyers and banks and
:17:28. > :17:30.financial institutions all helping to facilitate this activity.
:17:31. > :17:33.I think the time has come when we should
:17:34. > :17:36.consider a sanction and a penalty on all of those advisers
:17:37. > :17:42.who knowingly during their work are
:17:43. > :17:43.helping money-laundering here into the UK.
:17:44. > :17:46.On the bus the activists hope the current focus on offshore
:17:47. > :17:48.companies will lead to action by the Government
:17:49. > :17:49.to ensure the names of
:17:50. > :17:56.the companies' owners are made fully public.
:17:57. > :17:58.They say that could help prevent billions of
:17:59. > :18:06.pounds being laundered in this country.
:18:07. > :18:09.The Bulgarian government has promised to crack down on vigilante
:18:10. > :18:11.groups who try to detain people they suspect of entering
:18:12. > :18:16.Online video footage of three suspected Afghan men being roughly
:18:17. > :18:20.tied up has provoked anger in Bulgaria.
:18:21. > :18:22.The Bulgarian interior minister has appealed to the public not
:18:23. > :18:28.The authorities had initially welcomed the creation of civilian
:18:29. > :18:33.volunteer groups along Bulgaria's border with Turkey.
:18:34. > :18:36.A paralysed man has regained control of his hand after being fitted
:18:37. > :18:41.The man's thoughts are interpreted by a computer which sends impulses
:18:42. > :18:48.Scientists in the United States say the pioneering technology
:18:49. > :18:49.could eventually help many other patients.
:18:50. > :18:53.Our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh reports.
:18:54. > :18:57.Ian Burkhart is playing a guitar video game.
:18:58. > :19:01.Using the power of thought, is paralysed fingers can
:19:02. > :19:07.move as a result of, hands from his brain
:19:08. > :19:09.said into a computer, which
:19:10. > :19:18.then stimulates his muscles via these sensors on his arm.
:19:19. > :19:21.Ian was paralysed below the elbow in a
:19:22. > :19:23.diving accident six years ago, but is slowly relearning to use his
:19:24. > :19:27.Now it's just something that's so fluid, kind of like it was
:19:28. > :19:31.before I had my injury where I just think about what I want to do and
:19:32. > :19:35.The key to this technology is a tiny computer chip
:19:36. > :19:38.which surgeons implanted on the area of the brain motor cortex which
:19:39. > :19:45.When he thinks about moving his fingers and hand,
:19:46. > :19:47.those messages can't travel down his injured
:19:48. > :19:50.spinal-cord, so instead they bypass the injury.
:19:51. > :19:52.The computer interprets the signals and then send
:19:53. > :19:57.impulses to the sensors on his wrist.
:19:58. > :20:01.Ian's movements are still slow and deliberate, but his
:20:02. > :20:09.He can demonstrate practical tasks, like swiping a bank card.
:20:10. > :20:11.Engineers hope he will eventually be able to
:20:12. > :20:17.The biggest dream would be to get full function in my
:20:18. > :20:22.You know, because that allows you to be a lot
:20:23. > :20:25.more independent and not have to rely on people for simple
:20:26. > :20:28.day-to-day tasks that you take for granted.
:20:29. > :20:33.Several more patients are lined up to receive the device in Ohio.
:20:34. > :20:35.This really provides hope, we believe,
:20:36. > :20:37.for many patients in future, as this technology
:20:38. > :20:40.involves and matures, to help people who have disabilities
:20:41. > :20:47.from spinal-cord injury or traumatic brain injury or stroke, to allow
:20:48. > :20:56.them to be more functional and more independent.
:20:57. > :21:03.This technology is developing fast. Four years ago are paralysed woman
:21:04. > :21:08.control a robotic arm using her thoughts. A different approach is
:21:09. > :21:14.spinal repair, this paralysed patient in Poland had a cell
:21:15. > :21:20.transplant and can now ride a bike. This latest research in the journal,
:21:21. > :21:24.nature, is restricted to the laboratory but the Demon Hohaia what
:21:25. > :21:25.the technology will eventually be wireless and allow patients greater
:21:26. > :21:27.independence. The Duke and Duchess
:21:28. > :21:29.of Cambridge are on safari in India, as their tour
:21:30. > :21:31.of South Asia continues. The royal couple are visiting
:21:32. > :21:33.Kaziranga National Park, They're hoping to draw attention
:21:34. > :21:39.to the plight of endangered animals, including the park's population
:21:40. > :21:43.of rare one-horned rhinos. Our royal correspondent
:21:44. > :21:45.Nicholas Witchell sent On safari in Kaziranga National Park
:21:46. > :21:51.with the Cambridges - Has something been spotted
:21:52. > :21:55.lurking in the bushes? But no, on the road
:21:56. > :22:04.just ahead, the Indian one-horned rhinoceros -
:22:05. > :22:05.just one of the wild creatures
:22:06. > :22:14.in these parts. In fact, there are lots
:22:15. > :22:16.of rhinoceroses here, some 2,000 of them,
:22:17. > :22:18.as well as Bengal tigers, Not for nothing is this
:22:19. > :22:21.a World Heritage Site. But animals like that
:22:22. > :22:23.attract the unwelcome William and Catherine met some
:22:24. > :22:28.of the park rangers, who try to keep Do you patrol in pairs or just
:22:29. > :22:32.one of you at a time? The park authorities believe
:22:33. > :22:34.they have the upper hand, despite the fact that the horn
:22:35. > :22:38.of the Indian rhino is marketed - bogusly, of course -
:22:39. > :22:42.as being more potent than that It's a continuing struggle
:22:43. > :22:47.to protect the park's wildlife. After a quick change out
:22:48. > :22:50.of their safari gear, William and Catherine
:22:51. > :22:52.went to a local village. There were welcoming garlands
:22:53. > :22:57.and a quick lesson in weaving. At a centre for wildlife
:22:58. > :23:06.conservation they were shown baby Animals, some of which,
:23:07. > :23:12.have been orphaned by poachers. Touching images, which will be
:23:13. > :23:19.on many front pages, but there is a serious point
:23:20. > :23:22.to all of this - to highlight the damage being done by poaching
:23:23. > :23:24.to creatures like these. Up to now, William's
:23:25. > :23:28.anti-poaching charity has been He now knows the scale
:23:29. > :23:33.of the problem here in India. Nicholas Witchell, BBC News,
:23:34. > :23:38.Kaziranga National Park. Nessie has finally been found
:23:39. > :23:41.in the mysteriously dark waters of Loch Ness -
:23:42. > :23:46.but all is not what it seems. A robotic submarine searching
:23:47. > :23:49.the lake for signs of the mythical beast has found a long-lost model
:23:50. > :23:51.of the monster, originally built It sank to the bottom of the loch
:23:52. > :23:57.on its first outing, Our Scotland Correspondent Kevin
:23:58. > :24:04.Keane reports. No, it is not a creature
:24:05. > :24:08.from the deep, it is the device A million pounds worth
:24:09. > :24:11.of scanning technology mapping On the boat, a real time view
:24:12. > :24:17.of what it is capturing - Not the flesh and blood version,
:24:18. > :24:28.unfortunately, but a 30-foot long One story is that the film director
:24:29. > :24:37.Billy Wilder asked that the humps be removed and the story goes,
:24:38. > :24:42.that they were associated And well, the inevitable
:24:43. > :24:51.happened and down she went. Her understudy continued with
:24:52. > :24:55.the filming in this Sherlock Holmes And Nessie is big business here -
:24:56. > :25:03.worth an estimated ?60 million I love the idea, it is a very
:25:04. > :25:10.mysterious place and I am At first it sounded a bit ridiculous
:25:11. > :25:17.about a monster, but now, like, all the sightings
:25:18. > :25:23.and all the photographs, I think So no sign of Nessie herself on this
:25:24. > :25:49.occasion, but this is I think that little boy is
:25:50. > :25:53.absolutely right. Let me know what you think. I'm on Twitter. We have
:25:54. > :26:05.the weather coming up. For now, goodbye.
:26:06. > :26:12.We will see some big changes in the weather can the weekend, it will be
:26:13. > :26:16.chilly for everyone. Ahead of that have a battle continuing between
:26:17. > :26:19.warm are coming up from the south and cold are coming down from the
:26:20. > :26:21.north. That is generating weather fronts