:00:00. > :00:00.This is BBC World News Today with me Philippa Thomas.
:00:00. > :00:13.France is hit by a wave of industrial action.
:00:14. > :00:17.16 people are arrested as protestors and police clash in Paris.
:00:18. > :00:20.Motorways are blocked and flights delayed.
:00:21. > :00:22.Incredible scenes in the Mediterranean Sea as the Italian
:00:23. > :00:29.coast guard saves 4000 migrants in just one day.
:00:30. > :00:35.The Associated Press delegate count has him finally totting up enough
:00:36. > :00:37.support to win the Republican Party nomination for the presidency
:00:38. > :00:50.Revved up and ready to go - we talk Top Gear with the show's
:00:51. > :01:16.Hello and welcome. France is in a mess today. Thousands of petrol
:01:17. > :01:23.stations running dry, let's delayed, tries that, riot police clashing
:01:24. > :01:28.with protesters on the streets. It is fallout from the Government's
:01:29. > :01:31.controversial labour reforms which trade unionists are determined to
:01:32. > :01:36.push back in a dispute that has already run for two months. The
:01:37. > :01:40.reform is end funds's cherished 35 hour working week leading companies
:01:41. > :01:45.negotiate working weeks of up to 46 hours and also give bosses powers to
:01:46. > :01:50.reduce pay and shed jobs. Lucy Williamson send us report.
:01:51. > :01:51.Centuries ago, they marched for liberty, equality.
:01:52. > :01:55.Today it was for overtime wages and the 35-hour week.
:01:56. > :02:00.Unions here say the government is trying to boost the economy
:02:01. > :02:08.The government says it's simply trying to create more
:02:09. > :02:10.jobs for young people, like these two young women.
:02:11. > :02:19.If we just start to give away our rights, what would it be next?
:02:20. > :02:23.We have to say we are not agree and we will fight until the end.
:02:24. > :02:29.We want our rights to be equal, our future generation,
:02:30. > :02:35.our generation, the former generation, we all need these
:02:36. > :02:44.Many in France accept the need for a more flexible economy,
:02:45. > :02:47.but among the unions there is a sense of anger
:02:48. > :02:49.and betrayal that a socialist government could be the one
:02:50. > :02:55.Hours after the government said it would consider modifications
:02:56. > :02:59.to its labour reforms, this is the response of the unions:
:03:00. > :03:04.more demonstrations, more strikes, more disruption.
:03:05. > :03:06.With petrol stations running out of fuel,
:03:07. > :03:11.oil tankers wait outside French ports, sitting out the strikes.
:03:12. > :03:16.The protesters may be a minority, but they drive France's trains,
:03:17. > :03:20.work its nuclear plants and process its oil.
:03:21. > :03:23.With strikes beginning to bite, the prime minister has hinted
:03:24. > :03:35.TRANSLATION: It's out of the question to change
:03:36. > :03:38.the framework of the labour reform, but there can always be some
:03:39. > :03:42.But union leaders say that unless the law is scrapped,
:03:43. > :03:51.Because this dispute - over pay, working hours,
:03:52. > :03:54.and the role of the unions - is also the battle between two
:03:55. > :04:07.The Italian coast guard says some 4000 migrants have been rescued
:04:08. > :04:10.from the Mediterranean Sea today in 22 separate operations.
:04:11. > :04:16.It follows yesterday's dramatic pictures of a boat capsizing
:04:17. > :04:19.off the coast of Libya, with at least five deaths but more
:04:20. > :04:21.than 500 migrants being rescued from the Mediterranean
:04:22. > :04:31.James Reynolds is in Porto Empedocle in Sicily.
:04:32. > :04:33.Italy's navy approaches the migrants' overcrowded boat.
:04:34. > :04:36.On deck, the migrants are desperate to see the rescuers.
:04:37. > :04:41.They crowd forward causing the boat to tilt.
:04:42. > :04:50.A handful find refuge on the overturned hull.
:04:51. > :04:57.They try to reach the rescue boats in front of them.
:04:58. > :05:06.The Navy has just minutes to save hundreds from drowning.
:05:07. > :05:09.The captain of the rescue ship orders his sailors to throw life
:05:10. > :05:18.The Navy dispatches a smaller rescue boat.
:05:19. > :05:25.He is too exhausted to show any relief.
:05:26. > :05:29.More make it onto the overturned hull.
:05:30. > :05:37.In the end, the Navy rescues almost everyone it finds.
:05:38. > :05:42.This afternoon, the rescue ship arrived here in Sicily.
:05:43. > :05:47.The survivors of the shipwreck are lucky to be alive.
:05:48. > :05:52.They will believe that they owed their lives to the Italian rescuers
:05:53. > :05:54.who picked them from the sea, and who have now brought
:05:55. > :06:03.I asked him to describe what happened.
:06:04. > :06:07.We needed to throw into the water as much as we could,
:06:08. > :06:11.whatever was able to float, we sent it into the water,
:06:12. > :06:18.so people were able to catch it and grab on it and stay alive.
:06:19. > :06:20.Italy will question the survivors further.
:06:21. > :06:22.Who, if anyone, was steering the migrant boat, and might
:06:23. > :06:31.The country's Navy is still at work in the Mediterranean.
:06:32. > :06:35.These pictures, shot earlier today, show migrants waving for their lives
:06:36. > :06:46.James Reynolds, BBC News, Sicily.
:06:47. > :06:50.The UK's latest migration figures have been seized on by the Leave
:06:51. > :06:55.campaign in the EU referendum debate to bolster their argument that
:06:56. > :06:59.Net migration to the UK - that's the difference
:07:00. > :07:07.between the numbers coming and leaving -
:07:08. > :07:12.That's the second highest level ever recorded.
:07:13. > :07:16.More than half - 184,000 - came from inside the EU.
:07:17. > :07:20.The Government says this figure is too high, but it insists it's
:07:21. > :07:22.sticking to its aim of getting the number down below
:07:23. > :07:28.Our political correspondent Rob Watson is in Boston
:07:29. > :07:31.in Eastern England, home to a high number of European migrant workers.
:07:32. > :07:36.We asked him for more on the fallout from these figures.
:07:37. > :07:39.These figures are very bad news indeed for those campaigning
:07:40. > :07:41.for Britain to remain, led by David Cameron.
:07:42. > :07:49.The Prime Minister had promised to reduce net migration to the tens
:07:50. > :07:51.of thousands annually, but I think more broadly
:07:52. > :07:57.than that we can say there clearly is concern across the UK
:07:58. > :08:01.about the levels of immigration, in particular from the
:08:02. > :08:03.European Union and beyond as well, so this is undoubtedly
:08:04. > :08:08.a very sticky moment, a bad day for those campaigning
:08:09. > :08:16.There is undoubtedly a lot of tension here, and I think
:08:17. > :08:19.that is because the change has been on such a large-scale, and so rapid.
:08:20. > :08:23.A few years ago, less than a decade ago, you would probably find no EU
:08:24. > :08:26.migrants here, and now it is 15, 20, maybe even more,
:08:27. > :08:34.I think one has to be incredibly careful, though,
:08:35. > :08:38.to say that this is rather atypical, it is that the top of the migration
:08:39. > :08:40.table, but having said that, even parts of the UK
:08:41. > :08:42.where immigration levels haven't been so high,
:08:43. > :08:45.But I'll just throw this point out there.
:08:46. > :08:47.The Remain campaigners know this is a very sticky,
:08:48. > :08:52.What of course, they are hoping for, is that on June 23,
:08:53. > :08:55.the day of the referendum, voters won't be thinking so much
:08:56. > :08:57.about immigration, but other issues that help them,
:08:58. > :09:01.such as the economy and security, those things which they think
:09:02. > :09:13.The US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has reached
:09:14. > :09:15.the number of delegates needed to secure the party's
:09:16. > :09:17.presidential nomination, according to the Associated Press
:09:18. > :09:23.news agency, whose count we've been following since this process began.
:09:24. > :09:25.The last few delegates to put Mr Trump over the top
:09:26. > :09:28.were so-called unbound delegates, including state party officials,
:09:29. > :09:31.who have now told the AP they will support Mr Trump
:09:32. > :09:44.Let's get more from the BBC's Anthony Zurcher in Washington.
:09:45. > :09:50.So, do we now say Donald Trump is the delegate numbers, he has done it
:09:51. > :09:55.and we are thinking how mighty face, let's see, Hillary Clinton in
:09:56. > :09:59.November? I think it is safe to say he has the numbers but we knew that
:10:00. > :10:04.before it was only a matter of time before he hit that magic 1237
:10:05. > :10:08.number. He would have done it by winning California in a few weeks.
:10:09. > :10:12.This allows us to really say he will be on the stage and he will be the
:10:13. > :10:16.one where the balloons come down in the convention and accept the
:10:17. > :10:20.nomination and start thinking about what a Donald Trump versus Hillary
:10:21. > :10:23.Clinton face-off would look like. Hillary Clinton as well seems to be
:10:24. > :10:27.any good position to lock up the nomination. She has a big lead over
:10:28. > :10:31.Bernie Sanders. We are getting ready for the main event and we are
:10:32. > :10:35.looking ahead to it. And yet even as you say it looks like Trump versus
:10:36. > :10:39.Clinton, Bernie Sanders is not giving up on the left and I see that
:10:40. > :10:44.he and Trump have both said they would be up to debate each other,
:10:45. > :10:50.what is going on there? It happened on a late-night talk show last night
:10:51. > :10:53.here in the States. Donald Trump was asked and apparently it was a
:10:54. > :10:57.question planted by Bernie Sanders whether he would debate Bernie
:10:58. > :11:02.Sanders because Bernie Sanders and wanted to debate Hillary Clinton and
:11:03. > :11:06.she said no and Trump said yes, sure, if we don't bet -- donate the
:11:07. > :11:11.money to charity, we will debate and Bernie Sanders said game on on
:11:12. > :11:16.Twitter. It would be pretty dramatic television where two members of
:11:17. > :11:19.different parties based off before they became the General Election
:11:20. > :11:23.candidate of the weighty reports that Trump's people are saying it
:11:24. > :11:27.was just a joke and he was having some fun, they aren't actually going
:11:28. > :11:31.to face-off. An interesting parallel because this would be the clash of
:11:32. > :11:35.the outsiders. These are the two men in the race we were saying the only
:11:36. > :11:39.sub let you down. In a way they are both turning their fire on Mrs
:11:40. > :11:43.Clinton. It would have been incredibly bad news by Hillary
:11:44. > :11:46.Clinton. I think she wanted to avoid another face-off against Bernie
:11:47. > :11:50.Sanders. She couldn't get anything out of it, she just wanted to ride
:11:51. > :11:55.the wave and Seal up the nomination but she wasn't on that stage, Donald
:11:56. > :11:59.Trump presenting himself as the republican nominee who can reach
:12:00. > :12:03.across the aisle and maybe pick up some supporters on the other side by
:12:04. > :12:07.taking a few swings at Bernie Sanders and we will put him on a
:12:08. > :12:10.platform with the republican nominee, it would make him look like
:12:11. > :12:14.he could face-off against Donald Trump and do away with some of these
:12:15. > :12:18.ideas that he wasn't big enough to be able to handle that stage, it
:12:19. > :12:20.would have been interesting to see. There are still three people on the
:12:21. > :12:22.stage. Antony, thank you very much. Laws to protect and promote
:12:23. > :12:24.breastfeeding especially for working mothers,
:12:25. > :12:26.are rare - that's according to a recent report by
:12:27. > :12:28.the World Health Organisation. In fact out of 194 countries
:12:29. > :12:31.surveyed, only about a fifth have fully implemented WHO guidelines
:12:32. > :12:35.for feeding babies. Its parliament has approved a law
:12:36. > :12:39.that requires employers to provide breastfeeding
:12:40. > :12:43.facilities at the work. BBC Africa's Health Correspondent
:12:44. > :12:45.Anne Soy has been finding out how After breakfast, it's time
:12:46. > :12:57.to prepare the baby for work. Grace is one of the few Kenyan women
:12:58. > :12:59.who can This is a routine her six-month-old
:13:00. > :13:04.is now used to. Grace has mastered
:13:05. > :13:08.the art of juggling It's a balance she
:13:09. > :13:11.credits her employer for When she gets to the
:13:12. > :13:15.office, she first takes the baby to the creche and gives
:13:16. > :13:19.instructions to the nannies. Both male and female
:13:20. > :13:25.employees of the mobile service provider Safaricom can
:13:26. > :13:29.bring their children to work. Nursing mothers take breaks
:13:30. > :13:31.to feed their I can express when I work,
:13:32. > :13:41.if I come with the baby I am I'm comfortable knowing we have
:13:42. > :13:49.professionals handling my baby when I'm at work, because they are
:13:50. > :13:53.professional nannies. Grace says she was able
:13:54. > :13:56.to feed her baby with only breastmilk for six months before
:13:57. > :13:58.introducing other foods. She intends to continue
:13:59. > :14:00.breast-feeding until her She is following the World
:14:01. > :14:05.Heath Organisation's The organisation
:14:06. > :14:08.says it helps babies build immunity, hit milestones
:14:09. > :14:14.on time and become more intelligent. The Kenyan parliament recently
:14:15. > :14:18.approved a law requiring employers to provide breast-feeding
:14:19. > :14:20.stations at the workplace. With the exceptions of Safaricom,
:14:21. > :14:24.which had already implemented that, many
:14:25. > :14:27.employers are arguing that it is not going to be practical
:14:28. > :14:30.because it is expensive. A large part of our workforce,
:14:31. > :14:32.three quarters, actually, 75, 80%,
:14:33. > :14:36.is in the informal sector. This informal sector is supposed
:14:37. > :14:39.to provide the same benefits as the formal sector
:14:40. > :14:46.employer, so they should have a way of thinking about the cost sharing
:14:47. > :14:52.element between government and employers, so that we need to be
:14:53. > :14:55.objective without pushing the cost of doing business even higher
:14:56. > :15:00.than what it already is. As it is, the employers
:15:01. > :15:04.representatives say the law could make it harder for women
:15:05. > :15:07.of reproductive age to get jobs, and that raises concerns
:15:08. > :15:10.whether having laws to promote breast-feeding,
:15:11. > :15:13.like in Kenya's case, is
:15:14. > :15:28.ultimately beneficial. An Executive director at the leading
:15:29. > :15:32.provider of insurance in west Africa provides us -- joins us. What is
:15:33. > :15:40.your reaction to this law that has been passed in Kenya? Wow, I think
:15:41. > :15:45.it is an amazing and fantastic four. Mothers being able to take their
:15:46. > :15:49.kids to work and being able to have a safe and comfortable environment
:15:50. > :15:53.to nurse their babies is fantastic. Do you think there is a problem at
:15:54. > :15:59.the moment with women not going back to work soon enough or at all
:16:00. > :16:02.because they have got infants? Oh, yes, I definitely think so. I think
:16:03. > :16:06.that most mothers have to make a very hard choice when that baby
:16:07. > :16:11.comes. I think if they haven't had any kids and you have your first
:16:12. > :16:13.child, you have a hard choice when the baby comes because a lot of
:16:14. > :16:18.organisations are not very friendly to nursing mothers. You are a
:16:19. > :16:21.corporate Executive, that's what I wanted to ask you, do you think a
:16:22. > :16:24.lot of businesses will say this is too much hassle, they don't like
:16:25. > :16:32.this and they will be reluctant to provide the facilities in practice?
:16:33. > :16:38.Well, OK, I think it will be have and that. I think with my policies
:16:39. > :16:42.when they are enacted, I think people usually have a bit of an
:16:43. > :16:45.issue trying to comply because it will take a bit of tweaking to
:16:46. > :16:51.provide breast pumps for you to provide a place for mothers can
:16:52. > :16:56.nurse, to provide a refrigerator, especially in a country where lights
:16:57. > :16:59.apply is not constant but if it is enforced think people will do it.
:17:00. > :17:03.When policies are enforced people don't have a choice but I think it
:17:04. > :17:06.should be enforced because most mothers will probably find it easier
:17:07. > :17:10.to work better and also come back to work. Are these the kind of
:17:11. > :17:18.facilities that you provided your company? My company doesn't provide
:17:19. > :17:24.all these facilities. We have a lot to learn from Kenya, obviously, but
:17:25. > :17:27.we do try to provide some concessions for nursing mothers more
:17:28. > :17:31.so than the law provides. But do you think Kenya is setting a precedent
:17:32. > :17:39.that Nigeria for example could follow? Certainly, yes, I do. Thank
:17:40. > :17:43.you for joining us from Lagos. Thank you.
:17:44. > :17:44.For petrolheads the wait is nearly over.
:17:45. > :17:48.Top Gear is back and Chris Evans is behind the wheel, leading a brand
:17:49. > :17:51.The show is no stranger to controversy and while Clarkson,
:17:52. > :17:53.Hammond and May have left, it's still been
:17:54. > :17:56.In his only TV interview ahead of the new series,
:17:57. > :17:59.Chris Evans told the BBC's Louise Minchin the truth behind
:18:00. > :18:01.some of the rumours, including whether he'd really fallen
:18:02. > :18:20.Are you excited to be part of this massive programme,
:18:21. > :18:22.one of the most watched in the world?
:18:23. > :18:29.For the last 11 months and two weeks, how long I have had the job,
:18:30. > :18:32.people have said, you must be so excited.
:18:33. > :18:35.That was the furthest emotion from my tummy because it was all
:18:36. > :18:39.We have done it now and now I am excited.
:18:40. > :18:47.My job, I have to make the programme, I have
:18:48. > :18:50.to think about locations, which car to get, why can't I get
:18:51. > :18:58.That means there is no room for the excitement.
:18:59. > :19:05.Have you talked to the other side?
:19:06. > :19:18.It is not the star in the reasonably priced car.
:19:19. > :19:36.Hopefully it will be full of superstars as well.
:19:37. > :19:38.Top Gear has had the scent of a ferocious media storm.
:19:39. > :19:48.I think with certain aspects of the media,
:19:49. > :19:58.this was the perfect storm, you know?
:19:59. > :20:00.With instantaneous 24-hour broadcasting, they have been dealt
:20:01. > :20:03.out of a lot of stories because of the lead in time.
:20:04. > :20:06.This is a story they can play with because it is not one happening
:20:07. > :20:09.in Canada at 2am and they had no chance of getting to the party.
:20:10. > :20:19.But the things they started with were so mad and so made up that
:20:20. > :20:28.You will be sitting down calmly on Sunday watching this?
:20:29. > :20:31.Well, I might not be sitting down watching it calmly because Matt
:20:32. > :20:34.and I might be making another film in Norway but we don't find out
:20:35. > :20:39.until half-an-hour from now, because that is how Top Gear is.
:20:40. > :20:43.If we are not in Norway Matt and I will be together having...
:20:44. > :20:53.Not hiding behind a sofa because we have seen it anyway.
:20:54. > :21:00.we will take you now to the Donald Trump campaign rally in North Dakota
:21:01. > :21:03.because he announced he has enough delegates to win the republican
:21:04. > :21:08.nomination. As far as he is concerned it is official. Bill
:21:09. > :21:13.Esterson. I have to say the IRS has been very professional and they
:21:14. > :21:20.continue to be very professional... He is talking about his tax returns
:21:21. > :21:24.which had been very controversial. I don't know what that's all about but
:21:25. > :21:31.the IRS has been very professional and as we move along, as soon as it
:21:32. > :21:38.is finished, hopefully it'll be before the election, I am fine with
:21:39. > :21:51.that, OK? Do you pay some federal taxes? I do. Yes. In the wake of the
:21:52. > :21:55.thing about Hillary Clinton's e-mails you said you have doubts
:21:56. > :22:02.about whether she can stay in the race, are saying that she should
:22:03. > :22:07.pull out of the race? I want to run against her. She has bad judgment.
:22:08. > :22:11.This was bad judgment, probably illegal, we will have to find out
:22:12. > :22:16.what the FBI says about it but it is bad judgment. I just read the
:22:17. > :22:19.report. The report is devastating. It is devastating. There is no
:22:20. > :22:25.reason for it. Skirting on the edge... He is referring to the State
:22:26. > :22:34.Department report on Hillary Clinton's use of private e-mails.
:22:35. > :22:38.Appointed by Democrats, Obama, done by Democrats, it is shocking to see
:22:39. > :22:41.what she did. More than anything else it is bad judgment but that is
:22:42. > :22:46.up to her whether she wants to continue running. You talk a lot
:22:47. > :22:53.about uniting the republican party but I noticed in New Mexico you went
:22:54. > :23:01.after the governor there. Does this change your approach at all? I think
:23:02. > :23:05.it will. I haven't yet, I think I will but I haven't had the support
:23:06. > :23:10.of the governor of New Mexico. Which is fine. That is everybody's right.
:23:11. > :23:13.I imagine she will come over to my site. If you look at what has
:23:14. > :23:17.happened, tremendous support from all over the country. Senators,
:23:18. > :23:23.congressmen, we have governors all over the place and the vast
:23:24. > :23:26.majority, I think the approval now is up to over 90%. That is
:23:27. > :23:33.tremendous and where I started. A little while ago it was 62%. I won
:23:34. > :23:38.the elections as landslides. A very important to say. We go to New York,
:23:39. > :23:42.we were in almost 62% of the boat with three people running. Then
:23:43. > :23:47.Pennsylvania which is going to be a state I think we will be amazingly
:23:48. > :23:50.well. Hillary Clinton wants to put the coal miners out of business and
:23:51. > :23:54.the steel mills out of business. I think I will will Pennsylvania
:23:55. > :23:58.easily. I have tremendous support there. Mallon, Connecticut,
:23:59. > :24:04.Delaware, Rhode Island, then as you know we had a tremendous success
:24:05. > :24:08.when we went to Indiana, that was incredible. I helped in all fairness
:24:09. > :24:12.but we are going to win Indiana I think very big. We will have
:24:13. > :24:16.tremendous successes. The thing I think I am most proud of, not the
:24:17. > :24:21.fact that I am watching Hillary instead of Hillary watching me, we
:24:22. > :24:26.were supposed to be going into July and a lot of people said they would
:24:27. > :24:30.be a new convention in August and here I am watching Hillary fight and
:24:31. > :24:34.she can't close the deal. That should be such an easy deal to
:24:35. > :24:36.close. But she is unable to close the deal so I am watching her and we
:24:37. > :24:51.will see what happens. I was enquiring, are you planning on
:24:52. > :24:55.recognising tribal sovereignty on a nation to nation basis based upon
:24:56. > :25:00.the UN declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples which at the US
:25:01. > :25:02.had endorsed. I will have to look at that individually and they will be
:25:03. > :25:08.doing that. A number of people have asked me, I will be doing that, OK?
:25:09. > :25:12.What is your message to republicans that haven't yet supported you,
:25:13. > :25:16.people like Susanna Martinez, do you have something to say to her
:25:17. > :25:20.directly? No. We have tremendous support from almost everybody and if
:25:21. > :25:24.you look at Congress, support has been incredible. I spoke with Paul
:25:25. > :25:30.Ryan last night and we had a good conversation. He is a good man. We
:25:31. > :25:45.will see how that all works out. We had a very good talk. In that
:25:46. > :25:49.article... I didn't think they covered politics. You're watching a
:25:50. > :25:57.news conference from Donald Trump nudists aid security delegates to be
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