:00:00. > :00:07.This is BBC World News Today, broadcasting in the UK
:00:08. > :00:14.Canadian officials say a huge wildfire which has been burning
:00:15. > :00:16.for a week is moving much more slowly now.
:00:17. > :00:19.The fire is expected to be the most expensive natural disaster
:00:20. > :00:26.Those affected continue to tell their stories.
:00:27. > :00:36.I don't consider myself a hero. But I've met more heroes in this
:00:37. > :00:38.experience than I'd ever thought existed.
:00:39. > :00:40.Protesters in front of the Greek parliament have clashed with police
:00:41. > :00:43.just hours before MPs vote on a controversial austerity bill.
:00:44. > :00:46.Two buses and an oil tanker have collided in Afghanistan,
:00:47. > :00:51.And, as he opens his Games for disabled veterans,
:00:52. > :00:59.Britain's Prince Harry speaks out about privacy.
:01:00. > :01:08.That line between public and private life is almost nonexistent any more
:01:09. > :01:27.and we will continue to do our best to ensure that there is a line.
:01:28. > :01:30.A huge wildfire in western Canada is raging for a seventh day.
:01:31. > :01:40.The Alberta Premier says it is now moving more slowly. Officials have
:01:41. > :01:44.completed the transport of residents from Fort McMurray with 80,000
:01:45. > :01:47.leaving the city. The Premier said the blaze is quite a bit smaller
:01:48. > :01:54.than was feared when officials expected it to double in size. Many
:01:55. > :01:55.evacuees are now in emergency shelters in Edmonton. Laura Bicker
:01:56. > :01:57.has the latest. Here we are on day
:01:58. > :01:59.seven of this wildfire. Instead of being contained,
:02:00. > :02:01.it is continuing to Here we are just on the border
:02:02. > :02:05.of Fort McMurray. There is a bit of good news,
:02:06. > :02:10.nature is playing a part and lending a hand as temperatures have cooled
:02:11. > :02:13.and there is a little bit of rain but it is not enough to perhaps stop
:02:14. > :02:16.this fire reaching After the panic and the fear,
:02:17. > :02:25.there is quiet in Fort McMurray, They are still fighting
:02:26. > :02:32.to save what they can, but this fire is growing,
:02:33. > :02:35.and it's taking its toll But I've met more heroes in this
:02:36. > :02:45.experience than I've Strong winds are fanning the flames
:02:46. > :02:58.towards the neighbouring And officials believe this wildfire
:02:59. > :03:05.could burn for months. In no way is this
:03:06. > :03:09.fire under control. At this point we have
:03:10. > :03:11.approximately 500 firefighters, 15 helicopters, 80 Rangers,
:03:12. > :03:14.12 pieces of heavy equipment and 14 air tankers at work
:03:15. > :03:20.on the Fort McMurray wildfire. Canadians work together in the face
:03:21. > :03:27.of a disaster like this. This is as far along
:03:28. > :03:30.the road to Fort McMurray They are constantly reassessing
:03:31. > :03:35.because a strong wind is fanning the flames away
:03:36. > :03:38.from heavily populated areas. The temperature has already dropped
:03:39. > :03:41.and it's started to rain a little, The bad news is, it's simply not
:03:42. > :03:46.enough if they are to put This was one of the last
:03:47. > :03:52.convoys to leave the city. They are safe, but Canada will be
:03:53. > :03:55.looking at the cost Insurance bills alone could be
:03:56. > :03:59.billions of dollars, and how and when will they ever get
:04:00. > :04:07.the chance to rebuild? You might be able to hear
:04:08. > :04:09.the wind blowing now, it is a strong north-westerly wind
:04:10. > :04:13.and it is that wind that is fanning the flames towards the neighbouring
:04:14. > :04:20.province of Saskatchewan. When it comes to what to do
:04:21. > :04:23.with the 80,000 people who have had to abandon nearby Fort McMurray,
:04:24. > :04:25.the Alberta government says They say its first priority right
:04:26. > :04:32.now is to fight the fire but once that is done they will have
:04:33. > :04:36.to try to figure out what to do with an entire city
:04:37. > :04:38.that is now displaced. I spent yesterday in a number
:04:39. > :04:40.of evacuation centres and many of these people
:04:41. > :04:44.have left with nothing. The other problem for the Alberta
:04:45. > :04:47.government and for Canada is Insurance losses alone are estimated
:04:48. > :04:54.at around 9 billion Canadian dollars and it is thought that when it comes
:04:55. > :04:58.to oil production, this is one of the country's chief
:04:59. > :05:01.oil production areas, a number of oil production companies
:05:02. > :05:04.have had to shut down, However, as you can tell,
:05:05. > :05:11.the weather is beginning to play its part and
:05:12. > :05:13.the firefighters say that hopefully the bulk of the wildfire is now
:05:14. > :05:18.moving away from populated towns and cities but still
:05:19. > :05:22.it is going to take some time, they say it could burn for months
:05:23. > :05:32.before it is fully put out. We can speak now to Wally Covington
:05:33. > :05:43.who is a forest ecology professor Thank you for being with us. Laura
:05:44. > :05:50.was talking about the weather conditions, what do you think is the
:05:51. > :05:57.main cause behind the fire? Fire and the ones we have seen lately are
:05:58. > :06:01.most likely tied to the kind of global climate change we are seeing.
:06:02. > :06:10.With that we are seeing longer fire seasons, greater fuel Ikeme elation
:06:11. > :06:13.as temperatures increase and carbon dioxide in the press and increase
:06:14. > :06:19.and both of these interact to produce more fuel with a longer
:06:20. > :06:25.season and we also see greater wind speed when the fires occur. These
:06:26. > :06:30.are conditions which are set up for large fires like what we are seeing
:06:31. > :06:35.in Fort McMurray. The ferocity of the fire seems to have caught a lot
:06:36. > :06:41.of people out. What can the authorities do to prevent fires like
:06:42. > :06:45.this? Unfortunately there is not much you can do when it has started,
:06:46. > :06:54.you have to get ahead of it. This is a global problem with fires like
:06:55. > :06:58.this. We have to go in and break up these large landscape scale fires,
:06:59. > :07:03.putting in fuel breaks that are several kilometres wide, two and
:07:04. > :07:10.three kilometres, perpendicular to the direction the wind blow and this
:07:11. > :07:14.can limit the size of the fires. It becomes particularly important in
:07:15. > :07:21.areas of human habitation. We need to start on that. We have 30 or 40
:07:22. > :07:26.years to get ahead of this and if we don't do that, in 50 years from now,
:07:27. > :07:28.fires like the one at Fort McMurray will be the norm. Thank for your
:07:29. > :07:31.thoughts. At least 73 people are now known
:07:32. > :07:34.to have been killed in a road Two buses and a fuel tanker
:07:35. > :07:38.collided on the main highway linking the capital Kabul,
:07:39. > :07:40.to the city of Kandahar Another 52 people have been injured
:07:41. > :07:44.and are being treated at hospitals Two buses and an oil tanker
:07:45. > :07:55.have burst into flames Dozens died and scores
:07:56. > :07:59.were badly injured. It happened on the road
:08:00. > :08:03.between Kabul and Kandahar on a stretch where drivers often
:08:04. > :08:06.speed up to avoid attacks TRANSLATION: I was in the bus
:08:07. > :08:11.travelling when suddenly another bus Right after the accident,
:08:12. > :08:19.a fuel tanker which was driving on the road arrived and crashed
:08:20. > :08:21.with our bus. Ambulances carried the injured
:08:22. > :08:26.to local hospitals as residents helped firefighters
:08:27. > :08:31.with the rescue effort. Road accidents are common
:08:32. > :08:33.in Afghanistan but this was horrific TRANSLATION: We have admitted 24
:08:34. > :08:41.wounded so far, four children Most of them suffered burns
:08:42. > :08:46.injuries. We will transport them to hospitals
:08:47. > :08:49.in the capital so they can Victims of a crash which has
:08:50. > :08:58.taken so many lives. That gets some other news now. --
:08:59. > :09:07.lets get. A standoff is continuing in a Syrian
:09:08. > :09:09.prison between security forces and hundreds of prisoners,
:09:10. > :09:12.demanding the release of political Government forces have surrounded
:09:13. > :09:15.the jail in Hama since failing State media in China say that 41
:09:16. > :09:20.people are now believed to be missing after a landslide engulfed
:09:21. > :09:22.a dormitory housing Rescue workers have pulled nine
:09:23. > :09:27.people from a vast pile of rocks and mud that swept down
:09:28. > :09:29.the hillside, reaching as high as the building's
:09:30. > :09:35.corrugated iron roof. One of the world's busiest
:09:36. > :09:39.and most famous roads, the Champs Elysees in Paris,
:09:40. > :09:42.was closed to cars this Sunday. The usually noisy street is part
:09:43. > :09:45.of an experiment to tackle pollution The initiative will be repeated one
:09:46. > :09:49.Sunday every month and allows tourists and shoppers to roam freely
:09:50. > :09:58.along the boulevard. The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un
:09:59. > :10:01.has told a gathering of the political and military elite
:10:02. > :10:03.that the country1s nuclear weapons He was addressing a rare meeting
:10:04. > :10:10.of the Workers Party Congress, an event that hasn1t been held
:10:11. > :10:14.for 36 years and which he is thought to be using to consolidate
:10:15. > :10:16.his hold on power. From Pyongyang, here1s our
:10:17. > :10:21.correspondent, John Sudworth. This is the North Korea on display
:10:22. > :10:30.to foreign journalists. The reality, in a country
:10:31. > :10:32.with chronic food shortages, And so, too, with the Workers'
:10:33. > :10:41.Party congress, an event in which propaganda
:10:42. > :10:47.is the primary purpose. For domestic audiences,
:10:48. > :10:51.it's a show of strength. For the outside world,
:10:52. > :10:57.though, a different message. "We won't use our nuclear weapons
:10:58. > :11:01.unless we are attacked first", the supreme leader, Kim Jong-un,
:11:02. > :11:05.told the delegates. Outside the congress,
:11:06. > :11:07.the media bandwagon We are taken to this show home,
:11:08. > :11:17.a picture of comfort far removed And to a model factory,
:11:18. > :11:24.a symbol of industrial self-sufficiency at odds
:11:25. > :11:25.with the antiquated Of course, North Koreans know
:11:26. > :11:33.the reality, so they are Some countries have nuclear weapons
:11:34. > :11:43.and they threaten us. So we must have nuclear
:11:44. > :11:54.weapons and develop it North Korea has long been a master
:11:55. > :12:03.of nuclear brinkmanship. The leadership openly says it has
:12:04. > :12:06.learnt the lessons of other rogue For the end of this party congress,
:12:07. > :12:13.in the city behind me, we have heard the sound of thousands
:12:14. > :12:16.of people preparing to celebrate what is seen as the defining
:12:17. > :12:20.victory, the simple fact of regime survival, underwritten
:12:21. > :12:27.by a nuclear weapons programme. As those preparations continue
:12:28. > :12:29.tonight, there are reports that North Korea's fifth nuclear
:12:30. > :12:32.test may be imminent. John Sudworth, BBC News,
:12:33. > :12:37.Pyongyang. Stay with us on BBC
:12:38. > :12:41.World News, still to come... Ahead of the opening
:12:42. > :12:43.of the Invictus Games in Florida, Prince Harry speaks frankly
:12:44. > :13:55.about his public and private life. Canadian officials say a huge
:13:56. > :14:03.wildfire which has been burning for a week is approaching
:14:04. > :14:07.a neighbouring province. Protesters in front of the Greek
:14:08. > :14:11.parliament have clashed with police just hours before MPs vote
:14:12. > :14:22.on a controversial austerity bill. There have been lively scenes in
:14:23. > :14:24.Greece. Protesters in front of the Greek
:14:25. > :14:27.parliament have clashed with police just hours before MPs vote
:14:28. > :14:31.on a controversial austerity bill. This is the scene live
:14:32. > :14:34.in parliament, where measures being debated include a series
:14:35. > :14:37.of unpopular reforms If the measures are approved,
:14:38. > :14:43.some pension payouts would be reduced, contributions would go up,
:14:44. > :14:46.and taxes would rise for those The austerity measures have been
:14:47. > :14:49.demanded by the European Union Our reporter Yogita Limaye
:14:50. > :15:03.is in Athens for us now Very violent scenes outside the
:15:04. > :15:07.parliament, the protesters saying this is the final nail in the coffin
:15:08. > :15:15.for pensioners and others. Do they have an argument? It is actually
:15:16. > :15:19.that Parliament dubbing behind me where the debate is going on and in
:15:20. > :15:24.the street in front of that, we have seen thousands of people gathering
:15:25. > :15:28.and shouting slogans. There were some tear gas shells fired and
:15:29. > :15:32.disruption and people dispersed but the crowd came back quite quickly
:15:33. > :15:36.afterwards and the protests continued. People now seem to have
:15:37. > :15:41.gone home. In the next hour we expect that vote to happen. Labour
:15:42. > :15:45.unions are saying this is the final nail in the coffin for workers and
:15:46. > :15:48.pensioners but the government is clear that unless they are able to
:15:49. > :15:53.implement these measures, they will not be able to get the money they
:15:54. > :15:57.need from the bailout package they agreed to with the Eurozone last
:15:58. > :16:01.year. An emergency meeting is being held on Monday but it seems not
:16:02. > :16:08.everybody agrees on how to deal with this Greek crisis. That's right, and
:16:09. > :16:13.what the Greek government is hoping for is that, if they are able to
:16:14. > :16:17.pass these laws today, tomorrow when they go to the meeting they will be
:16:18. > :16:20.able to say that we are implementing some of the conditions that were
:16:21. > :16:27.laid out for the bailout to be given and they are hoping this will
:16:28. > :16:32.acyclic unblock the stalled review of the financial progress of the
:16:33. > :16:37.country. That is one step in the direction of getting more money.
:16:38. > :16:44.That's essentially unblock. What happens if they don't get the latest
:16:45. > :16:49.bailout from its creditors? It could be a similar situation to what we
:16:50. > :16:53.had last year. There are some major payment that the country has to make
:16:54. > :16:57.coming up in July and they don't have the money to pay it so if they
:16:58. > :17:01.don't get this cash from the Eurozone they will default on those
:17:02. > :17:05.payments and the government could go bankrupt and that is why they are
:17:06. > :17:07.trying to do this today. Thank you very much.
:17:08. > :17:09.Leading figures from British television and film have given
:17:10. > :17:13.a strong defence of the BBC at the BAFTA TV awards this evening.
:17:14. > :17:15.The UK government is due to publish its plans for the BBC's
:17:16. > :17:20.One director said it was important the corporation was protected
:17:21. > :17:24.against interference and budget cuts.
:17:25. > :17:28.I think most people would agree that the BBC's main job
:17:29. > :17:32.is to speak truth to power, to report to the British public,
:17:33. > :17:34.without fear or favour, no matter how unpalatable that might
:17:35. > :17:38.It's a public broadcaster independent of government.
:17:39. > :17:53.In many ways, our broadcasting, the BBC and Channel 4,
:17:54. > :17:56.which they are also attempting to eviscerate, is the envy
:17:57. > :17:59.of the world, and we should stand up and fight for it,
:18:00. > :18:06.Prince Harry is in Florida for the opening of the Invictus Games,
:18:07. > :18:09.a tournament for injured service personnel and veterans.
:18:10. > :18:12.The Games are now in their second year.
:18:13. > :18:15.And in an interview to the BBC, the Prince said he feels it's
:18:16. > :18:18.important to use his position to raise the profile of such causes.
:18:19. > :18:20.But he also criticised what he describes as "incessant"
:18:21. > :18:32.A very Disney welcome for competitors at the Invictus Games.
:18:33. > :18:35.An event for injured or sick members of armed forces from Britain
:18:36. > :18:39.It is all the vision of Prince Harry, who has been
:18:40. > :18:44.spending time with athletes, as they prepare for competition.
:18:45. > :18:47.He created the first games in 2014, after wanting to do
:18:48. > :18:50.something for those he served with in his own time in the Army.
:18:51. > :18:52.Josh from Salisbury has hopes of a gold medal.
:18:53. > :18:58.He lost both legs and an arm after stepping on an explosive
:18:59. > :19:05.In London in 2014, we thought it was just going to be a big sports
:19:06. > :19:08.day and the public would just feel sorry for injured soldiers and,
:19:09. > :19:10.I will give you a big hug or something.
:19:11. > :19:13.But the level of competitiveness was great, and you come to a place
:19:14. > :19:20.We all know the Americans like to put on a show, don't they?
:19:21. > :19:24.Well, as happy an event as this is, the reminders of the costs of war
:19:25. > :19:26.are all around, and Invictus isn't just about veterans with physical
:19:27. > :19:28.injuries, but those with psychological trauma as well.
:19:29. > :19:30.American Tino suffered PTSD after several tours in Iraq.
:19:31. > :19:34.It is clear what he feels Prince Harry has done for him.
:19:35. > :19:44.It gives me the drive, gives me ambition to still accomplish things,
:19:45. > :19:52.But Prince Harry himself says he is frustrated his private life,
:19:53. > :19:57.not his charity work, is still what some people are interested in.
:19:58. > :20:00.There is this sort of incessant need to find out every detail about
:20:01. > :20:07.It's unnecessary, I hope that people get to see me here in this Invictus
:20:08. > :20:11.role, cracking on with the guys and mucking in and having a good
:20:12. > :20:14.time with them, and this what is I enjoy doing.
:20:15. > :20:16.But the the private life has to be private.
:20:17. > :20:18.For the next five days, Prince Harry says he hopes
:20:19. > :20:31.it is the remarkable athletes here who are the focus.
:20:32. > :20:39.Let's stay on the sporting theme and go to the sports centre. Manchester
:20:40. > :20:44.City could miss out on Champions League football next season after
:20:45. > :20:48.drawing 2-2 with Arsenal. It was Manuel Pellegrini's last home game
:20:49. > :20:52.in charge with Pep Guardiola replacing him next season. They stay
:20:53. > :20:54.fourth but are just two points ahead of Manchester United who have a game
:20:55. > :20:56.in hand. The first half was one of our best
:20:57. > :21:04.halves of the season. I did not have any doubt
:21:05. > :21:25.that we were going to win Southampton beat Tottenham to won
:21:26. > :21:29.with two goals from Steven Davis. Spurs are still second in the table
:21:30. > :21:34.but could be overtaken by Arsenal if they drop points at Newcastle on the
:21:35. > :21:37.last day. They have managed just two points from their last three
:21:38. > :21:43.matches, a run that saw Leicester take the title with two games to
:21:44. > :21:49.spare. I think the whole season I think we were the better team and
:21:50. > :21:56.created chances. We have managed the game but in the end we considered
:21:57. > :22:01.two soft games, the only two shots on target and this is a bit of
:22:02. > :22:05.problem we had in the season. We need to still be fighting and we
:22:06. > :22:10.have another game and we need to keep our position. One of the game
:22:11. > :22:14.in the Premier League, Liverpool beat Watford 2-0 with goals from Joe
:22:15. > :22:20.Allen and Roberto Firmino and they remain in eighth place, one point
:22:21. > :22:25.behind West Ham. The Europa League is the only chance to good Champions
:22:26. > :22:31.League. We cannot go through the league in our situation. We never
:22:32. > :22:39.moaned about it, we will take it like it is until the end. Now we are
:22:40. > :22:43.in a good moment, 2016 is a good year and now for us and if we win
:22:44. > :22:49.our last games, everything will be fine. The Spanish title race will go
:22:50. > :22:54.to the final weekend and it is between Barcelona and Real Madrid.
:22:55. > :23:00.Barcelona beat Espanyol 5-0 and have a lead of one point in the table.
:23:01. > :23:05.Luis Suarez scored twice. A double from Ronaldo helped Real Madrid beat
:23:06. > :23:09.Valencia. They have to win at Deportivo La Coruna next weekend and
:23:10. > :23:13.hope Barcelona slip up at Granada. Atletico Madrid are out of the
:23:14. > :23:15.running after a shock 2-1 loss to bottom club Levante. The Dutch
:23:16. > :23:18.league has been settled. PSV Eindhoven have retained
:23:19. > :23:21.the title knocking Ajax off the top of the table on a dramatic final day
:23:22. > :23:23.of the season. The teams went into the last
:23:24. > :23:25.day level on points, with Ajax ahead because of
:23:26. > :23:28.a better goal difference. But the Amsterdam side could only
:23:29. > :23:42.draw 1-1 with De Graafschap. World number one Novak Djokovic won
:23:43. > :23:45.his fifth title of the year at the Madrid Masters, beating defending
:23:46. > :23:48.champion Andy Murray in three sets. Andy Murray now drops to third in
:23:49. > :23:50.the world rankings behind Roger Federer.
:23:51. > :23:53.New York Mets' Bartolo Colon has become the oldest player
:23:54. > :23:56.in Major League Baseball to score his first home run.
:23:57. > :23:59.Just three weeks before his 43rd birthday,
:24:00. > :24:01.Colon lashed out and connected sweetly against the
:24:02. > :24:08.He took a full 30 seconds to go through the bases,
:24:09. > :24:13.Then when he returned to the dugout, his team-mates deliberately hid
:24:14. > :24:34.His first home run comes almost 20 years after his major league debut.
:24:35. > :24:39.Donald Trump may be a fan of the Rolling Stones,
:24:40. > :24:46.The group has told him to stop using their music at his rallies.
:24:47. > :24:58.He has got into trouble over using the song You Can't Always Get What
:24:59. > :25:00.You Want. It was one of their -- 's favourite rally openers.
:25:01. > :25:01.The singer Adele has also issued a statement
:25:02. > :25:04.distancing herself from Trump, who had been playing her hit,
:25:05. > :25:08.She said she had "not given permission" for him to use it.
:25:09. > :25:11.And when Trump failed to ask Neil Young if he could use his tune
:25:12. > :25:14."Rockin' in the Free World," the singer said he much
:25:15. > :25:31.Officials in Western Canada say the huge wildfire which has been raging
:25:32. > :25:37.for a week may have reached a turning point. A spokesman in the
:25:38. > :25:42.province of Alberta said cooler temperatures and improved conditions
:25:43. > :25:46.were helping. The premiere of the province said the blaze was growing
:25:47. > :25:50.at a slower rate. The fire is expected to become the most
:25:51. > :25:53.expensive natural disaster in Canadian history, one estimate of
:25:54. > :25:59.insurance losses is about $7 billion. That is it from me and the
:26:00. > :26:01.team. Goodbye for now.