:00:00. > :00:00.This is BBC World News Today with me Philippa Thomas.
:00:07. > :00:10.Turkey's Prime Minister is stepping down.
:00:11. > :00:11.Ahmet Davutoglu has won two elections -
:00:12. > :00:15.but fallen foul of the boss - making it clear he's uneasy
:00:16. > :00:20.about President Erdogan's project to tighten his grip on power.
:00:21. > :00:22.The inferno in Western Canada spreads even further -
:00:23. > :00:35.strong winds in Alberta force more communities to evacuate.
:00:36. > :00:40.I can feel the heat here. This is insane. You can feel the heat.
:00:41. > :00:45.Also coming up - in an exclusive interview with the BBC,
:00:46. > :00:47.Brazil's President, Dilma Rousseff, says she'll fight on -
:00:48. > :00:57.Music in Palmyra - Russian musicians stage a concert
:00:58. > :01:00.in the ruins of the ancient Syrian city to celebrate its recapture
:01:01. > :01:28.After being elected with more than 49% of the vote last November,
:01:29. > :01:31.Ahmet Davutoglu announced at a news conference today he will not seek
:01:32. > :01:34.the leadership again, although it is not his choice to go.
:01:35. > :01:38.His resignation follows several public disagreements with Turkey's
:01:39. > :01:40.President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who wants to boost his
:01:41. > :01:45.Prime Minister Davutoglu has urged his party not to fall apart,
:01:46. > :01:48.but there's something of a sense of crisis in Turkey,
:01:49. > :01:53.and of unease among her European neighbours.
:01:54. > :02:02.The Prime minister, who dared to cross President Erdogan.
:02:03. > :02:05.Ahmet Davutoglu gave an emotional farewell calling a party congress
:02:06. > :02:13.TRANSLATION: We thought we would serve you for four
:02:14. > :02:15.years but, believe me, it is not my choice
:02:16. > :02:24.That was the only hint of the rift with President Erdogan that pushed
:02:25. > :02:30.He was uneasy with policies like jailing journalists
:02:31. > :02:32.and crucially did not back the key President Erdogan project to change
:02:33. > :02:38.the constitution so as to boost the president's powers.
:02:39. > :02:42.TRANSLATION: My loyalty to our president will continue
:02:43. > :02:47.Nobody has or will hear a single word against our
:02:48. > :02:56.Everybody should know that and I would never let people
:02:57. > :03:08.A polarised Turkey has reacted, as always, in a divided way.
:03:09. > :03:12.While a pro-government paper hailed a new era in the AK party a rare
:03:13. > :03:14.opposition headline talked of a coup by the presidential palace.
:03:15. > :03:22.I do not know how many crises we have had.
:03:23. > :03:25.The prime minister was a good man, I loved him and his
:03:26. > :03:32.This man says our great mentor President Erdogan deemed it suitable
:03:33. > :03:38.It means he was not happy with the prime minister.
:03:39. > :03:41.Whatever our great mentor wants, it will happen.
:03:42. > :03:44.President Erdogan has a big support base but Turkey is in crisis,
:03:45. > :03:46.renewed conflict with the PKK Kurdish militants, several suicide
:03:47. > :03:50.bombs and a clamp-down on human rights and free speech.
:03:51. > :03:53.Some Western leaders find it hard to deal with him and
:03:54. > :03:59.they will be dismayed at Mr Davutoglu's departure.
:04:00. > :04:01.So, as the prime minister leaves, a fiercely ambitious
:04:02. > :04:05.The message to Mr Davutoglu's successor, defy me and you will
:04:06. > :04:16.And Mark joins me now from the Turkish capital.
:04:17. > :04:25.What will happen next question mark a party congress on the 22nd of May
:04:26. > :04:30.in which the party will choose a new leader. Some of the names in the
:04:31. > :04:36.frame include the current transport minister and the current energy
:04:37. > :04:42.minister who is President Erdogan's son-in-law. They will be a more
:04:43. > :04:48.obedient and pliant Prime minister than Ahmet Davutoglu. When Ahmet
:04:49. > :04:53.Davutoglu was put in place, we thought he would be largely a puppet
:04:54. > :04:59.but he turned out to be much more outspoken than we expected and the
:05:00. > :05:08.brake on power and also a man with whom the West rather favoured doing
:05:09. > :05:15.business with because some find it difficult doing business with
:05:16. > :05:19.President Erdogan. Thinking about their relationship with Europe, one
:05:20. > :05:23.tweet from a speed issue diplomat said the credibility of Turkey's EU
:05:24. > :05:30.rests with the Prime minister if he leaves and all bets are off. Yeah,
:05:31. > :05:35.the timing of this has been disastrous for Turkey. Yesterday was
:05:36. > :05:38.the day when the Prime minister and politicians should have been making
:05:39. > :05:42.political capital from the fact Turkey have scored its biggest
:05:43. > :05:47.achievements on its part to European Union accession when they
:05:48. > :05:55.recommended Turkey should get these free travel to the EU Schengen zone.
:05:56. > :05:59.That is along for aim of Turkey and that was a project spearheaded by
:06:00. > :06:06.Ahmet Davutoglu who negotiated with the European Union leaders and
:06:07. > :06:10.offered to re-home the migrants and Turkey would get these free travel
:06:11. > :06:13.but it was done without the agreement of President Erdogan and
:06:14. > :06:17.that was one of the examples of how the men fell out. But when we saw
:06:18. > :06:23.the pictures of him in Brussels being embraced and negotiating you
:06:24. > :06:26.get a sense this is a man the Europeans liked, he was exchanging
:06:27. > :06:33.text messages with Angela Merkel regularly. President Obama in the
:06:34. > :06:36.last two weeks was outspoken about President Erdogan saying he has won
:06:37. > :06:42.elections but is clamping down on free speech and there are trends in
:06:43. > :06:48.Turkey that the United States do not approve of. There was a different
:06:49. > :06:57.relationship. There will be mixed feelings in Western capitals. Worth
:06:58. > :07:02.underlining President Erdogan does have popular support. He goes and he
:07:03. > :07:10.is adorned by a fan base on the whole who feel he has a political
:07:11. > :07:14.voice. The headscarf wearing Turks felt ostracised for decades and he
:07:15. > :07:18.has expanded the middle-class building schools and hospitals and
:07:19. > :07:25.roads and that is why he will still be able to rally the faithful even
:07:26. > :07:32.though opinion is divided and deeply polarised.
:07:33. > :07:35.Syrian activists say that an airstrike has hit a refugee
:07:36. > :07:37.camp in northern Syria, killing or wounding many people.
:07:38. > :07:39.One report says that at least thirty people have died
:07:40. > :07:43.in the attack on the camp in Idlib province near the Turkish border.
:07:44. > :07:45.Pictures purportedly of the aftermath of the attack show
:07:46. > :07:48.at least a dozen tents burnt to the ground.
:07:49. > :07:50.It's not clear yet who carried out the attack.
:07:51. > :07:52.But Syrian government airpower has targeted Idlib in recent weeks
:07:53. > :08:01.to try to weaken the rebel hold on the province.
:08:02. > :08:04.A state of emergency has been declared in the Canadian
:08:05. > :08:05.province of Alberta, as a huge wildfire continues
:08:06. > :08:09.The entire city, that's nearly 90,000 people, has been
:08:10. > :08:11.evacuated, and now the residents of three nearby towns have also been
:08:12. > :08:18.The fire, fed by strong winds and hot, dry weather,
:08:19. > :08:20.has already destroyed thousands of buildings.
:08:21. > :08:22.Our correspondent James Cook is at a cordon just
:08:23. > :08:38.We are not allowed into Fort McMurray because the fire is still
:08:39. > :08:42.burning and it is burning along this road, perhaps two or three miles
:08:43. > :08:46.along the road we are told it is ablaze on both sides of the road,
:08:47. > :08:50.there has been activity in the last couple of hours as firefighters and
:08:51. > :08:56.other services continue to tackle this blaze which has caused such
:08:57. > :09:01.hardship for the people here. It has spread further out of 40 McMurray, a
:09:02. > :09:11.city in a terrible state and it is clear now this crisis is far from
:09:12. > :09:23.over. Oh, my God! In the car, a mother, father and child are fleeing
:09:24. > :09:32.for their lives. The people of Fort McMurray had minutes to abandon
:09:33. > :09:39.their homes and run. This is insane! You can feel the heat. This is
:09:40. > :09:49.crazy. Foremost, this was the only road out. A highway hell. Oh, my
:09:50. > :09:55.God. This is why. A huge wildfire which was swept into the city by a
:09:56. > :09:59.sudden change in the wind. I looked up and it is raining ash and your
:10:00. > :10:05.eyes are burning. It is time to pack up and leave. If the wind changes,
:10:06. > :10:10.there will be more devastation in Fort McMurray. As the city
:10:11. > :10:14.smoulders, the full extent of the damage is not yet known. Fort
:10:15. > :10:20.McMurray is sealed off and police say half of it lies in ruins. In
:10:21. > :10:25.this darkest of hours, the community is pulling together. Canada is a
:10:26. > :10:30.country where we look out for our neighbours and we are therefore each
:10:31. > :10:32.other in difficult times and certainly in Fort McMurray the
:10:33. > :10:37.difficult times they are going through right now is something we
:10:38. > :10:43.will unite around across the country. The fire started in a
:10:44. > :10:49.forest outside the city, how is not clear. It is still burning as
:10:50. > :10:54.spreading south forcing the evacuation of three more towns. It
:10:55. > :10:59.is stressful, you do not know what is burned and not. Or when you can
:11:00. > :11:03.go back and you are sitting here and/or UC is red flames. It is
:11:04. > :11:10.pretty scary. From space, the damage can be clearly seen. The blaze has
:11:11. > :11:14.scarred the landscape. For those fighting, there is some hope today
:11:15. > :11:19.it is cooler and the wind has dropped. Too late for Fort McMurray,
:11:20. > :11:24.a city of ashes. It's been nearly a week since a six
:11:25. > :11:27.storey apartment block collapsed in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi
:11:28. > :11:30.but miracle stories of survival Today four people were pulled
:11:31. > :11:33.from the rubble alive but up The BBC's Anne Soy
:11:34. > :11:41.filed this report. It has been drizzling
:11:42. > :11:43.here at the scene of the collapsed building but that has not dampened
:11:44. > :11:46.the spirits and the hopes of the rescuers who have
:11:47. > :11:51.been working here. They have pulled several people out
:11:52. > :11:56.of the debris alive - six days after that
:11:57. > :11:57.building collapsed. That has renewed their hopes
:11:58. > :12:03.of finding more survivors. Up to now, we are told up to 70
:12:04. > :12:06.people have been reported missing and until they comb the entire
:12:07. > :12:10.scene, they will not stop. They are working around the clock
:12:11. > :12:13.to make sure they find everyone and we were here when we saw three
:12:14. > :12:17.people pulled out of the rubble and they were moved right
:12:18. > :12:20.in front of us. I saw one man who looked emaciated
:12:21. > :12:24.but he was awake and he had been talking to the rescuers
:12:25. > :12:27.and there were two women who were moved from the scene
:12:28. > :12:29.on stretchers so incredible Earlier in the day,
:12:30. > :12:36.the rescuers heard faint voices, a faint voice calling for their help
:12:37. > :12:39.and they dug through the debris The paramedics moved in to put
:12:40. > :12:46.a drip on this woman who was trapped and after a painstaking process
:12:47. > :12:49.that took three hours, They say they did not see any
:12:50. > :12:57.visible signs of injury, only that this woman was afraid,
:12:58. > :13:00.understandable because she has been under that rubble for six days
:13:01. > :13:03.without water or food so very There were two children who weere
:13:04. > :13:14.pulled out of the debris, one of them was an infant,
:13:15. > :13:16.still wrapped in its blanket without any injuries
:13:17. > :13:19.and that is what has really given hope to the rescuers and they say
:13:20. > :13:22.they will continue until they are sure that every person
:13:23. > :13:24.who is still alive has been removed from the scene and several people
:13:25. > :13:27.are moving from nearby buildings, they have big red signs on them
:13:28. > :13:30.meaning they have been marked for demolition just
:13:31. > :13:32.like the building back collapsed The government had marked it
:13:33. > :13:43.for demolition because they say it was not fit for occupation
:13:44. > :13:46.but there were people living there so this is a wake-up call
:13:47. > :13:49.to the Kenyan society and there are discussions
:13:50. > :13:51.going on about what went wrong Now a look at some of
:13:52. > :14:02.the days other news. A British registered car -
:14:03. > :14:05.driven by suspected people smugglers - has crashed on a motorway
:14:06. > :14:07.in northern France whilst Shots were fired and four people
:14:08. > :14:11.in the car were seriously injured. The accident happened
:14:12. > :14:13.after the vehicle fled a car park over the border in Belgium,
:14:14. > :14:16.that's known to be used More than thirty passengers and crew
:14:17. > :14:24.on an Etihad Airways flight have been injured by severe unexpected
:14:25. > :14:26.turbulence flying into Indonesia. The Indonesian authorities said nine
:14:27. > :14:28.people had been taken to hospital, The plane landed safely at Jakarta
:14:29. > :14:37.airport about 45 minutes after the incident on Wednesday,
:14:38. > :14:43.and is now being inspected. In the latest news
:14:44. > :14:45.coming from Brazil - the country's top court has
:14:46. > :14:46.suspended the powerful He's facing several
:14:47. > :14:49.corruption investigations What's interesting is that Cunha has
:14:50. > :14:56.been leading the impeachment drive against the Brazilian President -
:14:57. > :15:00.Dilma Rousseff. Ms Rousseff has been defiantly
:15:01. > :15:02.fighting the attempts to unseat her. She's accused of illegally
:15:03. > :15:05.trying to conceal the size But unusually - in a country mired
:15:06. > :15:12.in political corruption - she is not accused of doing anything
:15:13. > :15:17.to benefit herself financially. Well, the BBC's Wyre Davis has been
:15:18. > :15:39.speaking to Dilma Rousseff - Yes, a real nest of Vipers in
:15:40. > :15:43.Brazil. The Brazilian equivalent of the British American TV series house
:15:44. > :15:47.of cards with lots of political intrigue and lots and lots of
:15:48. > :15:52.corrupt politicians. The woman paying the highest price is doable
:15:53. > :15:57.Rusev, she could be walking down the steps behind me having been forced
:15:58. > :16:08.to step aside as the Brazilian president while she faces an
:16:09. > :16:14.impeachment trial. -- President Rousseff. I asked her what she would
:16:15. > :16:20.do if the Senate votes in favour of a full impeachment trial.
:16:21. > :16:22.TRANSLATION: We will keep fighting to come back
:16:23. > :16:24.into government, if the impeachment request is accepted.
:16:25. > :16:35.We will fight to make sure that we will come out victorious.
:16:36. > :16:38.We in the government believe, and what my supporters believe,
:16:39. > :16:42.is that the ongoing impeachment process is illegitimate and illegal.
:16:43. > :16:47.Because it is ultimately based on a lie.
:16:48. > :16:50.If we have learned anything in the last six months,
:16:51. > :16:53.it is the rampant corruption in the political system
:16:54. > :16:57.in the governing party and other parties.
:16:58. > :16:59.A lot of people agree with your defence that
:17:00. > :17:03.you did not personally benefit from any corruptions.
:17:04. > :17:06.But you were chairman of the board at Petra Bass.
:17:07. > :17:11.Did you not know what was going on in this corruption scandal?
:17:12. > :17:15.TRANSLATION: I do not agree that Brazil is in a different position
:17:16. > :17:20.to other countries with regard to corruption.
:17:21. > :17:22.It is inherent in corruption processes to conceal themselves
:17:23. > :17:30.under similarly corrupt structures and practices.
:17:31. > :17:35.These practices have to of course be looked into and investigated.
:17:36. > :17:38.There are people in Brazil now, a minority of people,
:17:39. > :17:40.talking in favour of a return to a military
:17:41. > :17:48.Is it time for you to perhaps remind them and tell them why in your view
:17:49. > :17:57.TRANSLATION: I was personally imprisoned.
:17:58. > :18:02.I was incarcerated for three years myself.
:18:03. > :18:05.Then there was a kind of ritual where you would first be arrested
:18:06. > :18:07.and then, in detention, you would be kept out of touch
:18:08. > :18:19.And for as long as they thought they still needed you for information,
:18:20. > :18:32.You do not have to go through all of the horror we went
:18:33. > :18:34.through, all the tragedy we experienced, to learn that
:18:35. > :18:43.democracy is the right side of history.
:18:44. > :18:49.You can see clearly from the interview that she feels very deeply
:18:50. > :18:54.that this is fundamentally unjust but how many of the Brazilian people
:18:55. > :19:03.feel that with her, how much backing does she have? It is a good point
:19:04. > :19:08.because while she is convinced in the political environment she is on
:19:09. > :19:13.the side of right and the charges against her are minor and illegal,
:19:14. > :19:19.in the wider public many Brazilians want her to go, not because she has
:19:20. > :19:22.done anything illegal or benefited from corruption but because the
:19:23. > :19:27.country is in such a mess. The economy is in recession, inflation
:19:28. > :19:32.at 10% and unemployment going up. There is a huge corruption scandal
:19:33. > :19:36.which has happened underneath her government and the previous workers
:19:37. > :19:40.party government so many Brazilians agree with the impeachment process
:19:41. > :19:44.and want a change of government but she does not quite get that, she
:19:45. > :19:49.says she was elected by 53 million people add whatever trough Brazil
:19:50. > :19:51.goes through, she should have the right to remain in power until the
:19:52. > :19:54.next elections. Thank you. And for our international viewers,
:19:55. > :19:57.you can see Wyre Davies' full exclusive interview
:19:58. > :19:58.with the Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff, on BBC
:19:59. > :20:00.World News this weekend, on Friday at 1930, Saturday at 0730
:20:01. > :20:11.and 1630 and Sunday at 0430 - For more on this developing story -
:20:12. > :20:14.go to our website or if you're on the move download
:20:15. > :20:16.our smart-phone app. We've set out who could
:20:17. > :20:19.potentially replace Dilma Rousseff should
:20:20. > :20:23.the impeachment go ahead, Dilma Rousseff should
:20:24. > :20:33.the impeachment go ahead. We just want to bring you this
:20:34. > :20:36.update on a story we did earlier in the week -
:20:37. > :20:38.on the Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright who told
:20:39. > :20:40.the BBC he was the inventor There's been lots of discussion
:20:41. > :20:47.about his revelation since then. He had also promised
:20:48. > :20:48.to present new 'proof' Well, Mr Wright now says
:20:49. > :20:54.he won't be able to do that. He says that he 'believed
:20:55. > :20:57.he could put years of anonymity and hiding' behind him but that
:20:58. > :21:00.'as the events of the week unfolded'...and he 'prepared
:21:01. > :21:03.to publish the proof of access to the earliest keys' he says
:21:04. > :21:08.he 'broke' and says The self-styled Islamic State group
:21:09. > :21:21.is continuing to lose territory in Syria and Iraq,
:21:22. > :21:23.but according to the US Defence Secretary Ash Carter
:21:24. > :21:26.the fight is "far from over". The US military has recently been
:21:27. > :21:31.stepping up its attacks against I.S. targets, and increasingly it's
:21:32. > :21:33.electronic and cyber weapons, It's a hi-tech war being fought
:21:34. > :21:45.from aircraft carriers like the USS Harry S.
:21:46. > :21:48.Truman in the Arabian Gulf, and our But Drew and Chris are different -
:21:49. > :21:58.fighting an unconventional war, The fighters drop the bombs,
:21:59. > :22:06.they make the explosions. We do the stuff in the background
:22:07. > :22:13.that most people don't talk about. This is where they're flying from,
:22:14. > :22:19.the USS Harry S Truman. And this is what is
:22:20. > :22:25.happening around the clock. looking for targets
:22:26. > :22:33.over Iraq and Syria. In less than five months,
:22:34. > :22:36.the jets on the carrier have set a record, dropping more than 1,200
:22:37. > :22:39.bombs on Islamic State targets. But these bombs are not the only
:22:40. > :22:44.weapon they're using. Drew, the pilot, and Chris
:22:45. > :22:47.an electronic warfare officer, fly a jet, but it's loaded
:22:48. > :22:49.with jammers that can block anything Our cameras followed them
:22:50. > :23:04.at the start of a mission. Much of what they do
:23:05. > :23:06.is still classified but this is how it works: Before
:23:07. > :23:12.and after an attack like this, or what they say was an IS
:23:13. > :23:14.headquarters in Mosul, they are able to jam
:23:15. > :23:17.all enemy communications. Think of it this way,
:23:18. > :23:20.you are sitting in your house and all of a sudden bombs start
:23:21. > :23:24.going off all around you. You are scared, you're frantic,
:23:25. > :23:28.it is chaotic, now all of a sudden you lose your ability to communicate
:23:29. > :23:30.and things start happening in the electronic spectrum
:23:31. > :23:33.you don't fully understand. It adds a whole other aspect
:23:34. > :23:35.of fear, it degrades their ability to talk about what is going on,
:23:36. > :23:38.and to co-ordinate Hopefully by instilling that
:23:39. > :23:42.fear, that confusion, It's all part of a new emphasis
:23:43. > :23:51.on electronic warfare. As well as from the air,
:23:52. > :23:54.US cyber teams on the ground are disrupting IS's ability
:23:55. > :23:57.to communicate by computer, We do get the feedback
:23:58. > :24:04.from the folks we are supporting. They say, "Hey, you know,
:24:05. > :24:07.we knew you were there, there, because we stopped
:24:08. > :24:11.getting shot at." or, "We weren't attacked",
:24:12. > :24:13.or things like that so it's tough to measure
:24:14. > :24:31.but it is absolutely essential. And the proof that this fight is far
:24:32. > :24:34.from over is the tempo Even with all this technology
:24:35. > :24:38.and military might, two years on, Jonathan Beale, BBC News,
:24:39. > :24:54.on board the USS Harry S Truman. Syrian activists say an hour strike
:24:55. > :25:01.has hit a refugee camp in northern Syria killing or wounding many. We
:25:02. > :25:05.have pictures just in. You can see a lot of destruction, one reporter
:25:06. > :25:09.tells us at least 30 people have died in the attack on a camp in
:25:10. > :25:17.Idlib province on the Turkish border. They are trying to pull
:25:18. > :25:24.people and get the fire is doused. These pictures are showing at least
:25:25. > :25:28.a dozen tents or more have been burned to the ground. We are showing
:25:29. > :25:32.you pictures that have just reached us, it is not clear who carried out
:25:33. > :25:39.the attack but we will keep you up to date. Russian musicians have
:25:40. > :25:44.staged a musical concert. A Russian orchestra has
:25:45. > :25:46.performed a concert there, broadcast live on Russian
:25:47. > :25:48.television, a matter of weeks after Russian troops helped
:25:49. > :25:57.to liberate the region. We leave you with these pictures and
:25:58. > :26:04.the concert was shown live on Russian television. It is meant to
:26:05. > :26:05.mark the recapture of a highly significant city in Syria. Thank you
:26:06. > :26:08.for being with us. Today was the warmest day
:26:09. > :26:12.of the year so far but temperatures