03/06/2016 World News Today

The Headlines: Paris on high alert with the flood waters

of the River Seine due to peak in the coming hours.

The basements of two of Paris's world famous art galleries

are cleared as the River Seine rises to dangerous levels.

Nice work if you can get it - a Fifa investigation shows how

former President Sepp Blatter and two other senior officials

awarded themselves $80 million in bonuses over five years.

With some migrant routes closed, other - more dangerous ones - open.

The bodies of nearly 120 people are recovered

And reunited - the codebreakers who changed the course of World War II.

With the River Seine rising by the hour, Paris

is in emergency mode - the river at its highest

Fear of flooding has led to the closure of two of the city's

most famous museums, the Louvre and the Musee D'Orsay.

Staff are moving priceless artworks from basements to the safety

Flooding has affected swathes of France and Germany with a dozen

deaths reported and widespread disruption to transport and power.

This statue measures the height of the Seine. Brazilians measure how

high it has caused -- pregames measure how high it has risen. It

usually reaches his toes, but now it has reached almost his face. It is

crazy. It has started to be very dangerous in some places. The water

is everywhere. The Government is declaring a state of natural

disaster in flooded areas outside of Paris. Rescuers have moved more than

20,000 people from their homes. This week, we found a town cut into. The

only way across is by canoe. Or tractor. Floodwaters from some zones

flood towards the capital. You can see why Paris is worried. The Seine

has riven dramatically. The museum invited us to see its

emergency measures. It has stopped tourist from coming and moved these

boxes of antiquities from the basements to the ground floor, away

from potential floodwater. The Mona Lisa herself lives safely on the

first floor. The city now waits to see if the waters will receive. For

years, France was concerned about its economy going under. Now it has

the same worry about its capital. Well, joining me via Skype,

from the banks of the Seine in Paris, is local resident Walid

Haddad. I can see that you are indeed on the

banks of a very flooded looking river San. Tell me what it's like.

It is quite impressive, as you can see, because normally this space

near the trees is one of the major roads, one of the major access which

goes from the West to the east of Paris. Now it is completely flooded.

Generally, it happens every year, sometimes the roads are closed. But

I personally never saw this before and I guess an entire generation

never saw that because you are actually almost reaching the panels,

as you can see top for me, the principal attraction of Paris, those

two last days is the Seine and is not the Eiffel Tower.

We are reading reports that even at the centre, the water is getting

into basements. Yes, exactly. As you can see, Paris has some parts which

are... Many people live across the river, many people live in boats.

Those guys are already quite in trouble. Many people, those

buildings, they live across the Seine. They are starting to be

worried about their basements. Lots of Parisi buildings have basements.

Shame, we seem to have lost that picture. A local resident in Paris

joining us from what was very obviously the banks of a very

flooded Seine, just giving us his update of what he is experiencing in

the city, saying he has never seen the water level quite so high.

Iraqi troops are spacing heavy resistance from Islamic State

fighters as they try to fight their way towards the Legion. More than

1000 members of the Iraqi forces have been wounded since the start of

the operation, and the military have become increasingly reliant on air

power. The BBC has been given rare and exclusive access to the Iraqi

army's aviation wings over the loser.

This is what the war in Iraq looks like from above.

We are over a village north of Fallujah.

The Iraqi army have been told their target is

a building where more than 20 fighters from the Islamic State

If they were there, they aren't any more.

For these pilots, the fight to retake Fallujah has been a

24-hour-a-day full-time job and each day it is just getting harder.

There are roughly 50,000 civilians trapped

inside the city and many believe they are being used as human

The pilot on this helicopter told us, from the sky,

it's difficult now to know who is your enemy

For some, this battle is incredibly personal.

Mohammad was in London on

a training course when he heard that IS had taken over his neighbourhood

He couldn't get in touch with his family for four days.

TRANSLATION: I asked my neighbour to sneak into my home,

take our family photos and keep them safe.

He said he couldn't because Isis had already

been inside my house and had written on my walls that they would kill me.

I dropped the bomb that destroyed my house.

Mohammad said he will never return to Falluja, but he will keep

And IS are fighting back with everything they have.

Including anti-aircraft weapons, but this time they missed.

Unharmed, they are asked to help the injured.

The military believes they are facing up to 3000

IS fighters in Falluja, but right now, their biggest concern

TRANSLATION: The most difficult thing is making the distinction

We are taking our time to get it right.

Even if they are family members of an IS fighter,

Falluja cannot be retaken by air strikes alone, but it is an

For now, the city remains riddled with fighting and terrified

Lawyers for Fifa say three former high-ranking officials

including Sepp Blatter, awarded themselves pay rises

and bonuses totalling eighty million dollars between 2011 and 2015.

The evidence will be given to American and Swiss prosecutors

who are investigating corruption within Fifa.

The announcement came on the back of yet another raid on Fifa

Pitch Conway from BBC sport is with me. Fever have called this a

co-ordinated attempt by these men to enrich themselves. Yes, staggering

figures. $80 million over the course of five years. Bonuses paid for

things like the success of a World Cup in South Africa in 2010 or

Brazil in 2014. For the Confederations Cup, the tournament

traditionally played the year before those, things like if all the teams

and games were completed, a winner awarded at the end, basic trigger

payments for these enormous sums of money. What fever's lawyers say,

they have conducted an internal investigation into this, they have

uncovered these secret contracts known to only a few people at the

very top of the organisation. They say that these contracts will now be

handed over to the US and Swiss authorities because some of the

provisions in those contracts,, goes to show the staggering sums of money

that were swilling around at the top end of fever between its leadership

in that period of time. Staggering indeed and talking of lawyers, we

have heard from the US lawyer of Sepp Blatter, the former president

of fever, involved in this scandal. He said that these compensation

payments received where, quote, proper, fair and in line with those

of the heads of other major professional sports leagues. The key

difference in us... He is trying to say on behalf of sent -- Sepp

Blatter, he was not the head of sports organisation, he was head of

fever. Their argument is of a proper levels of compensation for people in

those positions. It is one of those arguments that will be ongoing.

Fever's own lawyers are determined again to show that they are

reformed, that the organisation is serious about cleaning up its act.

Some of those amounts that Sepp Blatter signed off, perhaps are in

breach of Swiss law. That is where it becomes a serious problem and

where Sepp Blatter we will believe will have to answer questions. He is

already the subject of one criminal investigation and it will be

interesting to see how this was authorities view these latest

development. Thank you. It has been a particularly deadly

day for migrants attempting the dangerous crossing

of the Mediterranean. The bodies of at least 100

migrants have washed up Teams have been working to recover

the bodies which are coming ashore in the western Libyan

town of Zuwarah. We've been told that of the 117

victims that were found - According to the Red Cross,

little else is known For those that were washed ashore

on the coast of Libya in the last days, we don't know their country

of origin, although the majority of people that travel

through the Libya route towards Italy do come

from sub-Saharan Africa. But I think, in addition

to the incident that we've on the coast of Libya,

we're also seeing reports of further sinkings and further incidents

off the coast of Crete. So at present we're witnessing

the repeat of an unacceptable tragedy on a scale which we can't

continue to ignore. When I saw indication from my

colleagues of the Libyan Red Cross, having retrieved these bodies,

I myself was quite surprised to see that the larger proportion of people

in Libya were women. However, it's worth noting that

in addition to the bodies that were retrieved from the beaches

yesterday, as part of what Libyan Red Crescent do,

over 100 more bodies were seen at sea today by the Libyan coast

guard, according to reports. So I think at this early stage,

it's not possible to tell whether or not this is some type

of shift, but certainly, regardless, I think it's worth

viewing that these are people who are coming to seek hope,

coming to seek some safety, coming to seek dignity,

and until a change in the factors that cause these people to move,

we're going to continue to see people that are taking the difficult

choice to put themselves into boats It was a luckier outcome

for 340 migrants who have been rescued

off the coast of Crete. A large search operation is underway

to find any other survivors after a boat with hundreds

of migrants on board capsized. Four bodies have been

recovered so far. Most of the survivors are on board

a cargo vessel heading for Italy. It's unclear how many

people were on the boat. Thomas Fessy is in Agias Galinis,

a village in southern Crete. What more can you tell us? Just a

moment ago, a vessel from the Greek coastguard actually adopted here and

they are not allowed to speak to the media, so they couldn't tell us much

more. What they did tell us is that the sea is getting rough and that

the maritime weather forecast could hinder the effort. Just over 100

kilometres off the coast behind me. It has been a huge operation all

day, involving the Greek, the Italians, the Egyptian coast guards.

We are talking about patrol boats, but also helicopters, planes, and

what we know is that, crucial to this operation, has been the

presence of commercial ships, in the vicinity of the sinking. We

understand that a Norwegian gas tanker, a Norwegian owned gas tanker

was the closest and therefore the fastest to get to the scene, rescued

over 200 survivors and it is heading to Italy. Others are now on their

way to Malta or Turkey and Egypt. Obviously, the main question tonight

is, how many more? Is it dozens or hundreds or any at all that are

still to be rescued out there in the sea? We still don't know exactly how

many were on board and where they were headed to. Yes, exactly. We

don't know where they were coming from for a start and we don't know

where they were headed to. We don't know how many were on board. The

International organisation for migration says that the kind of

boats that were described as a large shipping boat could carry up to 700

people, but obviously this is speculation. We don't know how many

were on that boat. Hundreds for sure, but how many more have yet to

be rescued, remains a question. Where were they going? That is

another question. It is quite unusual to see migrant boats sinking

off the coast of Crete, but just in the last week we have seen a group

of a hundred Afghans landing. Whether it is more than flimsy

boats, carried away in the currents as they were trying for a much

longer journey and to the Italian coast, that is more likely. But we

don't know. Good to talk to you. Despite the many obstacles put

in their way, Europe's migrants are still travelling

through the Balkans. The deal between Turkey

and the EU was meant to close down the most popular -

and one of the most dangerous - routes used

by people-smugglers across the sea. But it's been quickly replaced

by others across land borders. Our correspondent Nick Thorpe

travelled to Bulgaria's capital Sofia and Vidin,

in the north-west, to explain why the country's become significant

for people trying Bulgaria's capital has become

an important staging post on the migrant route to Western

Europe. That's because the sea route

between Turkey and Greece has been largely closed down

and because the smugglers, who get people across even

the most fortified border, The migrants gather around

the Lions Bridge near the centre of Sofia, looking for the driver

who will get them to Serbia, We jump out the car

and walk in the jungle From there, you go back to Serbia

and the Serbian police catch us From Sofia, we journeyed

to northwest Bulgaria, to the city of Vidin,

a region of high One man agreed to speak,

but only on the phone. We have no way of verifying his

claims, but he told me there are around seven gangs

operating in Bulgaria. Last year, they smuggled

more than 60,000 people, and that he alone made 200,000 euros

in just three months. The magnificent Danube River in

Vidin points the way up into Europe. Smugglers keep migrants in abandoned

buildings, then direct them at night to others waiting

on the Serbian side. You won't find any migrants here,

the smuggler told me, In the Soviet era, borders

like these were kept Nowadays, the watchtowers

are abandoned. There are no border police around

and it's a perfect place for migrants to just walk

across the fields into Serbia. Back in Sofia, officials admit

the way out is less policed It will be very difficult to bring

the numbers any further down because organised crime over

the past several years now has These borders are very

long, there are forests, Like other transit routes, Bulgaria

has its dangers for migrants. Only the fittest or the

luckiest get through. The most vulnerable,

those most in need of Six days after he went missing

in a mountainous region of northern Japan, seven-year-old

Yamato Tanooka has been reunited He was found in an army training

base about four kilometres from the roadside in northern Japan

where his parents had left him It was a manhunt which involved

more than 200 soldiers, Seven-year-old Yamato Tanooka

was abandoned by his parents last Saturday in a densely forested area

on the northern island of Hokkaido. It was a punishment for throwing

stones at people and cars. Nearly a week later, just as many

people were starting to give up, He had managed to walk

to a military training base, TRANSLATION: One of our soldiers

was preparing for drills and unlocked the door

of a building, and there he was. When he asked, "Are you

Yamato?," the boy said yes. For Yamato's father, it had been

an agonising week, worrying about his son while being criticised

for what many saw as a punishment TRANSLATION: My excessive behaviour

caused such pain to my son. I deeply apologise for the burden

caused to the people involved in the search, and

the school faculty. With many accusing the parents

of neglect or even child abuse, the police may take

action against them. But for now, it is a happy ending

that not many had expected. The World War Two code

breakers of Bletchley Park, just outside London,

are rightly famous for But they also broke the Lorenz

cypher, known as Today the surviving team members,

many in their 90's have reunited -- Today the surviving team members,

many in their 90s, have reunited at the National Museum of Computing

for a re-enactment of how Hitler and his generals thought

their codes were unbreakable. Top secret signals encrypted

using Enigma machines were routinely deciphered at Bletchley Park,

but there was another German code, even more secret, known as Lorenz,

and that too was Today, wartime veterans reassembled

at the National Museum of Computing, where, for the first time,

all the equipment needed to encrypt and decrypt the signals has

been brought together. There is a teleprinter used

by the Germans for typing in the original message,

picked up for a tenner on eBay. There is a Lorenz cypher machine,

on loan from a museum in Norway, with its 12 wheels used

for encrypting messages. And there is a reconstruction

of the machine they built here, known as a tunny, which mimicked

the working of the Lorenz, Much of the work was done by Wrens,

who had little idea of the time of the significance

of what they were doing. Well, we realise we were working

codes, you had to be a fool not to realise,

but we weren't told very much. We certainly didn't know

we were working Hitler's codes Irene, like these Wrens,

worked on Colossus, arguably Colossus machines worked out

the Lorenz cypher's machine settings It took weeks by hand, but then

there were 1.6 million billion It is fascinating to think that this

is the world's first This building links the history

of the code breaking work And the pioneers that built

these machines weren't computer scientists -

the term hadn't been invented, but Post Office telephone

engineers, using standard The river Seine is that it has level

for 35 years, and fear of flooding has led to the closure of two of the

city's most famous museums, the Louvre and the new CD your say.

But for now, from me and the rest of the team, goodbye.

Hello. Friday was about a continuation of the themes we have

seen played out across the British Isles so far this week in that

western areas so the bulk of the sunshine and therefore the highest

of the temperatures. It was pretty cloudy yet again across eastern and

northern areas. Overnight, certainly England and Wales get