03/06/2016 World News Today

This is BBC world News today broadcasting in the UK and around

the world. The latest headlines. The River Seine in Paris surges to its

highest level in 30 years. Spilling onto the city streets and forcing

key landmarks to shut down. The battle to retake foliage, the BBC is

given exclusive access to the Iraqi pilots fighting so-called Islamic

State -- Falluja. A Fifa investigation shows how Sepp Blatter

and two other senior officials awarded themselves $80 million in

bonuses over just five years. Reunited: the codebreakers who

changed the course of World War II. A very warm welcome. With the River

Seine are rising by the hour, Paris is in emergency mode. The river is

at its highest levels of 35 years. Fear of flooding has left to the

closure of two of the city 's most famous museums, the Louvre and the

d'Orsay. Staff are moving priceless artworks to the safety of higher

floors. Flooding has already affected great swathes of France and

Germany, with a dozen deaths reported and widespread disruption

to transport and power. This statue, known as the Zouave,

measures the height of the Seine. Parisiens crowd around to see how

high the river has got. Normally, the water barely reaches

the Zouave's toes. Now it goes all the way

up to his thighs. It's incredible, like,

I think everyone is shocked and all Parisiens are like,

wow, oh, God, what is happening? I think it is completely crazy

and it starts to be maybe dangerous The Government is declaring a state

of natural disaster in flooded Rescuers have moved more than 20,000

people from their homes. This week, we found the town

of Nemours cut in two. The only way across is

by canoe or tractor. Floodwaters from some zones have

flowed towards the capital. The River Seine has

risen dramatically. There is barely any room left

underneath the bridges. One of the city's most famous sites,

the Louvre Museum, the home of the Mona Lisa,

is right next to the Seine. The Louvre invited us

to see its emergency measures. It has stopped tourists from coming

and it has moved these boxes of antiquities from the basement

to the ground floor, The Mona Lisa herself lives

safely on the first floor. The city now waits to see

if the waters will recede. For years, France was concerned

about its economy going under. Now it's got the same

worry about its capital. James Reynolds, BBC News,

Paris. The short time ago I spoke with a

resident in Paris about the flooding. It's quite impressive

because normally the space near the trees is one of the major roads. It

is one of the major access which goes from the West to east of Paris.

Now completely flooded. Generally it happens every year that you have

some floods in Paris and sometimes the roads are closed. But I

personally have never seen this before. I guess my entire gender --

my entire generation has never seen that. It is almost reaching the

banks as you can see. It is quite impressive. For me the principal

attraction of Paris in the last two days is the River Seine and not the

Eiffel Tower. Some other news to bring you now. The British Army

failed in its duty of care to a young recruit who was found dead at

Deepcut Barracks in Surrey in 1995. That was the verdict of the coroner

at the second inquest into the death of Pte Cheryl James. He ruled the

18-year-old has killed herself and he criticised what he could be

sexualised atmosphere at the barracks, saying some instructors

viewed female trainees as a sexual challenge. A seven-year-old Japanese

boy is recovering in hospital after being found six days after he went

missing. The boy was found in an army training base about four

kilometres from where he was left by his parents. His father has

apologised to his son and the rescuers. Five gang main -- five

gang members behind the UK's biggest gun smuggling operation had been

jailed. Harry Schilling received a longer sentence. They smuggled

weapons into the UK, some came from the same source as those used in the

Paris attacks on Charlie Hebdo. Government treats in Iraq are facing

heavy resistance as they tried to fight their way towards Falluja.

More than 1000 members of Iraqi forces have been wounded and the

military have become increasingly reliant on air power. A reporter has

been given exclusive access to the Iraqi army's aviation wings over

Falluja. This is what a war in a rock looks

like from above. We are over a village north of Falluja. The Iraqi

army have been told their target is a building where more than 25 to

from the Islamic State group are holding a meeting. -- 20 fighters

from Islamic State group. If they were there, they aren't any more.

For these pilots the fight to retake Falluja has been a 24 hour a day

full time job, and each day just getting harder. There are roughly

50,000 civilians trapped inside the city, and many believe they are

being used as human shields. The pilot of this helicopter told us

from this sky it is difficult now to know who is your enemy and who is

your friend. For some, this battle is incredibly personal. Mohammed was

in London on a training course, when he heard that IS had taken over his

neighbourhood in Falluja. 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

they would kill me. I dropped the bomb that destroyed my house. I

asked her that mission. Mohammed said he will never return to

Falluja, but he will keep fighting for it. 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 is not the

extremists. TRANSLATION: The most difficult thing is making the

distinction between fighters and civilians. We are taking our time to

get it right. Even if they are family members of an IS fighter,

they are civilians in our rise. Falluja cannot be read taken by air

strikes alone. But it is an important part of a tough battle.

Now, this city remains riddled with fighting terrified residents.

It's been a particularly deadly day for migrants attempting the

dangerous crossing of the Mediterranean. The bodies of at

least 100 migrants have washed up on a beach in Libya. Teams have been

working to recover the bodies coming ashore in the western Libyan town of

Zuwarah. We have been told the majority of the victims were women.

According to the Red Cross is little else is known about who these

people. It was a lucky outcome for 340 migrants who were rescued off

the coast of Crete. A large search operation is underway to find any

other survivors after a boat with of migrants on board capsized. Four

bodies have been recovered so far, most of the survivors were on board

a cargo vessel heading to Italy. It is still unclear how many people

were on the boat. They told us that the sea is getting

rough and the maritime weather forecast is not looking good which

could obviously hampered rescue efforts. Just over 100 kilometres

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

the Greek, Italian, Egyptian coastguards. We are talking about

patrol boats but also helicopters, planes. And what we know is now

crucial to this operation has been the presence of commercial ships in

the vicinity of the thinking. We understand that a Norwegian gas

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

rescued over 200 survivors and it's heading to Italy. Others are now on

their way to Malta or Turkey and Egypt. The men questioned tonight --

the main question tonight is how many more, is it dozens or hundreds

still to be rescued. Three weeks of campaigning to go

until British voters must decide whether to leave or remain in the EU

in a referendum to be held on June the 23rd. Opinion polls are showing

the British public are fairly evenly split. David Cameron made the case

for Remain last night, tonight it is the turn of Michael Gove, who is in

favour of Britain leaving the EU. Our chief political correspondent is

in west London and has been listening to Michael Gove. What do

you make of his performance so far? He faced questions from a senior

journalist and then questions from the audience. At the beginning he

was asked to talk about the economy, to talk about what economic

institutions, what economists backed the case for Brexit, for Britain

leaving the European Union. He said he didn't care whether they backed

it or not, he said that wasn't important because they had got

things wrong in the past about Britain joining the euro for

example. The theme and the pitch from Michael Gove was very clear,

throughout his interview, he wanted to talk about democracy. He wanted

to talk about the plus side of Britain leaving the European Union

and taking back control of its economy, immigration policy and of

its sovereignty. It's the invincible arrogance of Europe's elites that

gets me. These are people who have seen the year a collapse, is a

people presiding over a migration crisis on their borders. And yet

they ever acknowledge they need to change? No. They say they need more

integration, more money, more control. I think it's time we said

to people who are incapable of acknowledging they've ever got

anything wrong, I'm sorry, you've had your day. Unelected,

unaccountable elites, I'm afraid it's time to say you're fired. We're

going to take back control. This comes 24 hours after the Prime

Minister David Cameron stated his case for remaining inside the EU at

the same centre. He was given a bit of a rough ride by the audience. At

one point accused of waffling. How has Michael Gove gone down with the

audience? The audience seemed to be more involved. They were clapping,

they would Shearing. They were also building in other places. They did

certainly seem more involved. When one questioner said to Michael Gove

that he saw it that Michael Gove was like a general in the war, waving

the white flag and saying to his troops, go over the top, with no

idea what is on the other side of the trenches. That really has been

the argument from the Remain side throughout this European referendum

campaign. They say those who want to leave the EU have no idea what they

are going into, no idea what effect it might have on the economy and

Michael Gove was. Admit he couldn't guarantee that jobs wouldn't be lost

if Britain exited. Thank you. Stay with us here on BBC world News

because still to come, we meet the codebreakers who changed the course

of World War II as they reunite. A very warm welcome to you. This is

BBC world News today. The latest headlines, the River Seine in Paris

reaches its highest level in 30 years. Spilling onto the streets and

forcing key landmarks to close. The red Crescent says the bodies of 117

migrants have been recovered on a beach in Western Libya. A spokesman

for Libya 's Navy said an empty boat was found on Thursday. An

international conference aimed at reviving the quest for a two state

solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has taken place in Paris.

The Foreign Minister in France said players from more than 20 countries

will now make preparations for in renewed negotiations to work out

economic incentives and security warranties for both nations. But

neither Israel nor the Palestinians were invited to the meeting. Jeremy

Bowen reports from Paris. The River Seine is flooding after days of

torrential rain. The people of Paris have a different kind of crisis on

their hands. At least it's about the weather. In a city that has been hit

badly by the contagion of violence from the Middle East. The world's

big powers, the UN and the Arab League were represented here but not

the Palestinians or the Israelis. In the end that didn't matter much. A

half day conference was not about substantive negotiation. Instead it

was designed to get the idea of peace between Israel and the

Palestinians back on the international agenda. France's

President Hollande told them it was dangerous to ignore the conflict. He

said, worries remain, and so does violence. Hope is diminishing. The

conflict centred on Jerusalem is as poisonous as ever. The conference

said things cannot go on the way they are, it asked both sides to

take steps to show they believe in a two state solution, an independent

Palestine alongside Israel. That's not the most effective way to do

this. The most effective way to have peace is to zip down with

Palestinian neighbours and discuss all of the difficult issues on the

table including mutual recognition, including settlements and borders.

The Palestinians say that's nonsense, then the problem is nearly

50 years of Israeli occupation. Unlike Israel, Palestinians welcomed

the internationalisation of attempts to end the conflict. The message is

enough settlements, enough dictations, it is time to stop that

and activities, it is time to Israel to comply with agreement signed.

John Kerry was in Paris. He brokered the last attempt at peacemaking

which collapsed two years ago. The French want a full peace conference

by the end of the year. Israel wants direct talks with the Palestinians.

Relations between Israelis and Palestinians are so bitter that no

talks the talk could be the outcome. Here in Paris President Hollande is

correct, the conflict shouldn't be relegated to being a side issue just

because the rest of the region is in turmoil. It remains a dangerous

conflict, generating and exporting hatred, and also capable of creating

big international crisis. Sadly, there is a greater chance of more

bloodshed between the two sides than there is of serious negotiations.

Let alone making peace. Jeremy Bowen, BBC News, Paris. Time for the

latest sport. Sepp Blatter, Jerome Valcke and Markus Kattner awarded

themselves pay rises and bonuses worth over $80 million over five

years according to Fifa lawyers. They revealed the contract of Sepp

Blatter, Jerome Valcke and Markus Kattner. ?55 million is the figure,

a staggering sum of money that the lawyers of Fifa say was carved up

between three officials at the top of the organisation. Sepp Blatter,

Jerome Valcke and Markus Kattner. Between the three of them they

signed off on contracts which awarded them bonus payments for

successful World Cup saw other successful tournaments, and other

payments that allowed them to indemnify themselves if they ever

lost their jobs. Today the lawyers outlined the scale, the breadth and

depth of those payments to those three men over that five-year

period. Richard Cullen is lawyer for Sepp Blatter antibodies to date men

saying that Sepp Blatter looked forward to the opportunity to

explain to Fifa how about compensation and figures and bonus

payments were fair and in line with what other leading sports

administrators receive. He will try in coming weeks, perhaps through a

spokesman, to justify payments he received during his time in office.

Usain Bolt could lose one of his three gold medals at the 2008

Beijing Olympics. It's been reported being sample of one of his

team-mates Nesta Carter was found to contain a banned substance. The news

comes after the retesting of 454 samples from the games. Carter will

only face sanctions if his B sample also tests positive. Neither Carter

nor his agent reply to requests for comment. They backed Djokovic is on

course to achieve Akira grand slam after reaching the final of the

French Open. The world number one overcame Dominic Thiem as he

searches for a maiden title at Roland Garros. He will have to beat

Andy Murray to do it, he becomes the first British man to reach the

French Open final in 79 years after a win over defending champions Stan

Wawrinka. Serena Williams is through to the women's final. She recovered

from a sluggish start against Bertens. Williams made routine work

of the second set taking it 7-6, 6-4. She will play Mugaruza in a

repeat of last year 's Wimbledon final. That is all the sport for

now. The World War II codebreakers of

Bletchley Park just outside London are rightly famous for cracking the

Enigma code. They also broke the Lorenz cipher. Today there has been

a reunion at the National Museum of computing.

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 at 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

That's all we've got time for. Thank you for being with us. Get in touch,

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