:00:00. > :00:00.This is BBC World News Today with me, Karin Giannone.
:00:07. > :00:09.The charity Save the Children says a maternity hospital
:00:10. > :00:15.The airstrikes happened in a rebel-held district of Idlib
:00:16. > :00:23.At least two people are reported dead.
:00:24. > :00:29.The staff of the hospital contacted us and they confirmed the town where
:00:30. > :00:31.the hospital is based has been hit by seven air strikes.
:00:32. > :00:34.Florida confirms its first cases of infection from the Zika virus -
:00:35. > :00:41.Hillary Clinton gets down to work as the race
:00:42. > :00:54.And six months on since the death of David Bowie musicians are taking to
:00:55. > :01:05.the stage to honour his work. In Syria, the charity
:01:06. > :01:07.Save the Children says a maternity hospital they support has been
:01:08. > :01:09.bombed in a rebel-held Two people are reported to have died
:01:10. > :01:14.- and a number of patients A doctor with Save the Children has
:01:15. > :01:21.told the BBC the hospital Meanwhile, the United Nations'
:01:22. > :01:25.Syrian envoy has backed Russian proposals for humanitarian corridors
:01:26. > :01:28.to be set up to allow civilians in the besieged city
:01:29. > :01:33.of Aleppo to leave. A battle ground between the Syrian
:01:34. > :01:35.regime and rebel groups. Footage filmed by the Syrian
:01:36. > :01:38.government in Aleppo shows its forces trying to take
:01:39. > :01:44.control of the city. Russia has been
:01:45. > :01:46.an ally in this fight. Now it says it wants to give
:01:47. > :01:49.people their way out of rebel Leaflets were dropped showing
:01:50. > :02:02.the map of corridors. TRANSLATION: I'm not
:02:03. > :02:12.sure I will go out. The government's directions of
:02:13. > :02:15.surrender our humiliating as it is. If they are already humiliating us,
:02:16. > :02:18.how about when we actually arrived Russia has said it also plans
:02:19. > :02:24.to allow rebel fighters to leave. Two days ago the Syrian government
:02:25. > :02:26.said all supply lines to rebel Around a quarter of a million
:02:27. > :02:37.civilians lived there. Hospitals have been bombed
:02:38. > :02:40.and the UN has warned that food The UN wants to be
:02:41. > :02:44.involved in Russia's plan. Our suggestion is to Russia,
:02:45. > :02:46.to actually leave the corridors being established at
:02:47. > :02:51.their initiative to us. The UN and the humanitarian
:02:52. > :02:53.partners, as you know, The UN has also asked
:02:54. > :03:04.for a ceasefire to give people For four years, Aleppo has seen
:03:05. > :03:14.bloodshed and violence. Whether or not people choose
:03:15. > :03:17.to leave the city if they are given a way out will depend on how
:03:18. > :03:23.the plan works. Just as important is how quickly
:03:24. > :03:25.it can be carried out because for hundreds of thousands
:03:26. > :03:28.of people in rebel held areas of Aleppo, each day
:03:29. > :03:37.is a struggle to survive. Dr Abdulkarim Ekzayez is a doctor
:03:38. > :03:39.with Save the Children, who has worked at the maternity
:03:40. > :03:42.hospital in Idlib province and been in contact with staff
:03:43. > :03:50.there following the bombing. Four hours ago the staff of the
:03:51. > :03:54.hospital contacted us and confirmed that the town where the hospital is
:03:55. > :04:02.based has been hit by seven air strikes. Three of these hit the
:04:03. > :04:12.surrounding areas of the hospital, one of them hit the entrance killing
:04:13. > :04:17.at least two people and one of them injured someone and left them in a
:04:18. > :04:21.serious condition. We don't have information about the number of
:04:22. > :04:25.injuries but the hospital staff are talking about at least ten injured
:04:26. > :04:33.people. Medical staff went to the ground floor so all of them are safe
:04:34. > :04:37.except for one midwife. She was doing a delivery at that point and
:04:38. > :04:45.she got injured in the S trike. The hospital itself was affected badly
:04:46. > :04:50.because some equipment has been damaged by the strike, including
:04:51. > :04:55.generators running the electricity. In Syria now there is no stable
:04:56. > :04:56.electricity, and also some equipment such as integrators will newborns
:04:57. > :05:00.has been damaged. Florida has confirmed its first
:05:01. > :05:02.cases of the Zika infection - that were most likely contracted
:05:03. > :05:08.from LOCAL mosquitos. that were most likely contracted
:05:09. > :05:10.from local mosquitos. The state governor has said two
:05:11. > :05:13.sites were responsible for four cases, but that no one had been
:05:14. > :05:15.admitted to hospital. The Florida cases raise the chance
:05:16. > :05:17.that US mosquitoes can So far, cases outside
:05:18. > :05:20.of Latin America and the Caribbean have been spread
:05:21. > :05:23.by travel to that region - Let's go to Jane O'Brien
:05:24. > :05:33.who is in Washington for us. How much concern is there? There is
:05:34. > :05:38.concern that it isn't entirely unexpected. People have been warning
:05:39. > :05:45.for several months that the possibility of locally born Zika
:05:46. > :05:49.transmitting in the United States is very high. There have been 1600
:05:50. > :05:54.cases in the United States alone, most of them from people travelling
:05:55. > :05:58.to infected areas and coming back. As you mention, this is the first
:05:59. > :06:05.time that it has come from a mosquito itself. It is in a small
:06:06. > :06:10.area, about two kilometres squared, and the mosquito which transmits
:06:11. > :06:14.this virus can only travel a small area. That is where they are
:06:15. > :06:20.concentrating on in that area of Miami at the moment. I've been
:06:21. > :06:24.listening to a call from the Centre for disease control and they said
:06:25. > :06:27.they are very impressed by the measures being taken in Florida and
:06:28. > :06:32.those measures include getting rid of any stagnant water where
:06:33. > :06:37.mosquitoes may be born, also spraying any kind of areas where
:06:38. > :06:41.mosquitoes are prevalent and also ensuring and telling local women
:06:42. > :06:48.especially to cover up during the night when those mosquitoes biting.
:06:49. > :06:55.Of course, Florida is a huge tourist destination, what reassurances can
:06:56. > :07:00.be given on and what sort of advice? To put it into perspective, if you
:07:01. > :07:05.look at Puerto Rico which is not on the mainland, they have had 4600
:07:06. > :07:13.locally infected people from mosquitoes. This is four people in
:07:14. > :07:16.Florida. Certainly the Centre for disease control and others are
:07:17. > :07:21.saying that they are impressed by the measures so far. They are not
:07:22. > :07:26.moving any women or pregnant women out that two mile square area in
:07:27. > :07:32.Miami. They are getting the help they need. Money is being filtered
:07:33. > :07:33.to Florida for test kits and also for mosquito eradication. Thank you
:07:34. > :07:36.very much. Hillary Clinton has made
:07:37. > :07:37.history, formally accepting the Democratic Party's nomination
:07:38. > :07:39.for the US Presidential election. In her speech to the party
:07:40. > :07:41.convention in Philadelphia she promised to make the US
:07:42. > :07:45.a country that worked for everyone - and urged Americans to oppose
:07:46. > :07:48.what she called Donald Trump's mean Our North America Editor Jon Sopel
:07:49. > :07:54.was there. Ladies and gentlemen,
:07:55. > :08:01.our next president, Hillary Clinton! She's spent a quarter of a century
:08:02. > :08:04.in public life, but no speech has First, though, the
:08:05. > :08:10.historic formalities. It is with humility, determination,
:08:11. > :08:12.and boundless confidence in America's promise that
:08:13. > :08:14.I accept your nomination for President
:08:15. > :08:19.of the United States! They cheered themselves hoarse -
:08:20. > :08:27.some cried, as Hillary Clinton sought to reintroduce herself
:08:28. > :08:30.to the American public. It was personal, but she set
:08:31. > :08:33.out detailed policies, too - some influenced by
:08:34. > :08:37.Bernie Sanders' insurgent campaign. Bernie Sanders and I will work
:08:38. > :08:43.together to make college tuition free for the middle class,
:08:44. > :08:51.and debt-free for all. I just don't want you to be shot
:08:52. > :09:04.by someone who shouldn't And she promised to
:09:05. > :09:08.raise the minimum wage. If you believe the minimum wage
:09:09. > :09:12.should be a living wage, and no-one working full-time should
:09:13. > :09:15.have to raise their children But she also had a wider point
:09:16. > :09:24.to make about temperament and experience - why she was fit
:09:25. > :09:27.to be commander-in-chief, Imagine him in the Oval Office,
:09:28. > :09:34.facing a real crisis. A man you can bait with a tweet
:09:35. > :09:37.is not a man we can trust This has been an optimistic
:09:38. > :09:48.and upbeat vision of America presented by Hillary Clinton
:09:49. > :09:50.as the fireworks go off, a sharp contrast to the bleak
:09:51. > :09:53.and dark picture painted Politics is normally
:09:54. > :10:01.conducted in shades of grey, but the difference between
:10:02. > :10:03.Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
:10:04. > :10:11.is black and white. Wow, history in the making,
:10:12. > :10:22.it's the chance of a lifetime to be We're excited for the first woman
:10:23. > :10:28.President. If conventions and razzmatazz won
:10:29. > :10:36.elections, the Democrats would be home and dry,
:10:37. > :10:38.but with Donald Trump in the fight, they don't - this race
:10:39. > :10:42.has a long way to go. Jon Sopel, BBC News,
:10:43. > :10:47.Philadelphia. Now a look at some of
:10:48. > :10:50.the days other news. There have been protests
:10:51. > :10:52.in India after a couple from the lowest caste,
:10:53. > :10:54.Dalit community, were hacked to death - allegedly after a row
:10:55. > :10:58.over a debt of twenty-two cents. They say an upper-caste grocer
:10:59. > :11:01.killed the pair after they asked for more time to pay
:11:02. > :11:03.for some biscuits. Why are schools in
:11:04. > :11:37.Kenya being torched? It's the question many people
:11:38. > :11:40.are struggling to understand as two Kenya has been dealing with a wave
:11:41. > :11:44.of arson attacks that have seen more than one
:11:45. > :11:46.hundred schools razed, Emmanuel Igunza has been to central
:11:47. > :11:50.Kenya one of the worst affected Scenes like this have become
:11:51. > :12:02.an almost daily occurrence in Kenya. School after school going up
:12:03. > :12:05.in flames at an unprecedented rate. On Friday morning, two more
:12:06. > :12:08.schools were torched. This is the latest school in central
:12:09. > :12:12.Kenya to suffer the arson attacks. Even new buildings reduced to shell
:12:13. > :12:15.and a stark reminder of the events This is the second dormitory to be
:12:16. > :12:19.burnt down in the school The fire is believed to have started
:12:20. > :12:27.at around that corner The fire raged on and firefighters
:12:28. > :12:31.quickly came in and together with the students desperately tried
:12:32. > :12:36.to save their belongings, but as you can see around,
:12:37. > :12:42.there isn't much left. All personal belongings and bedding
:12:43. > :12:44.have been destroyed. We have tracked down one
:12:45. > :12:47.of the students who was in He asked us to hide his identity,
:12:48. > :12:51.fearful of being connected to those He is angry and uncertain
:12:52. > :12:56.about his final examinations The burning of schools started
:12:57. > :13:15.in western Kenya and spread quickly So far, more than 100 schools
:13:16. > :13:22.have been affected. Her daughter was supposed
:13:23. > :13:29.to sit her final exams this year, but is now home after the school
:13:30. > :13:32.was closed following a failed TRANSLATION: I feel really bad
:13:33. > :13:37.because even looking for school The reasons for the attacks
:13:38. > :13:45.remain very unclear. Teachers blame the government,
:13:46. > :13:50.the government blames exam cheats. The teachers union have threatened
:13:51. > :13:53.to go on a national strike if the government doesn't close
:13:54. > :13:55.all schools immediately But the government has
:13:56. > :14:01.rejected the calls. There is no school that is going
:14:02. > :14:04.to be closed down. Learning must continue,
:14:05. > :14:07.all children must be in school, we will deal with the criminals
:14:08. > :14:14.and crooks that are working on undermining the reforms
:14:15. > :14:16.that we have put in place and trying The burning of schools is not
:14:17. > :14:25.a new phenomena in the country, but the sheer scale and frequency
:14:26. > :14:28.of the attacks has now raised fears and concerns about the uncertain
:14:29. > :14:30.future now facing The European Union has warned Turkey
:14:31. > :14:46.that its treatment of coup suspects could affect its bid
:14:47. > :15:04.for EU membership. Tens of thousands of people had been
:15:05. > :15:09.detained, dismissed or suspended, accused by being followers of the
:15:10. > :15:12.alleged mastermind. What is the basis of his movement? And how
:15:13. > :15:15.widespread is it? They have called it
:15:16. > :15:17."rooting out the virus". A wave of arrests over the past
:15:18. > :15:20.fortnight against the alleged coup Tens of thousands suspended
:15:21. > :15:24.or detained, schools, media outlets and
:15:25. > :15:31.companies closed down. All are accused of supporting
:15:32. > :15:34.Fethullah Gulen, the exiled cleric who the government says
:15:35. > :15:39.masterminded the coup. With his schools in 140 countries,
:15:40. > :15:42.he has spread his influence over decades, his followers working
:15:43. > :15:48.across Turkey's institutions. They say he is a peaceful scholar,
:15:49. > :15:52.critics call it a dangerous cult. TRANSLATION: The structure aims
:15:53. > :15:54.to surround the state They are not armed militants,
:15:55. > :15:58.but cloak themselves as doctors, Right-wing governments have used
:15:59. > :16:11.them against the secular military. They got their biggest power
:16:12. > :16:12.within Erdogan's rule. The Erdogan-Gulen
:16:13. > :16:14.alliance was strong. When hundreds of military officers
:16:15. > :16:18.were tried a few years ago on false evidence, Gulen supporters
:16:19. > :16:25.were thought to be behind it. This former naval captain spent 33
:16:26. > :16:28.months in prison and believes it If they couldn't manage to get it
:16:29. > :16:38.off us during these trials, this couldn't happen
:16:39. > :16:46.by his followers because... The Gulen schools were
:16:47. > :16:48.among Turkey's best, The government says replacing
:16:49. > :16:58.education will remove But journalists, diplomats,
:16:59. > :17:05.even airline staff have been detained or dismissed,
:17:06. > :17:08.prompting accusations that all opponents are being grouped
:17:09. > :17:15.together and rounded up. Over 130 media outlets
:17:16. > :17:21.will now be closed. Many other journalists facing arrest
:17:22. > :17:24.warrants have already fled. We tracked down one who says
:17:25. > :17:27.the Gulen movement never aimed How could you plot a coup
:17:28. > :17:33.through media outlets? I would not accept this
:17:34. > :17:37.conspiracy theory in Turkey. They have every right to be in every
:17:38. > :17:46.institution of Turkish government. It's two weeks since a coup that
:17:47. > :17:52.united Turks against it. The aftermath has shaken
:17:53. > :17:53.every part of society. It could take
:17:54. > :18:00.a generation to recover. Pope Francis has walked in silence
:18:01. > :18:03.around Auschwitz-Birkenau, as a mark of respect to the more
:18:04. > :18:06.than one million people, mostly Jews, who were killed
:18:07. > :18:13.at the Nazi death camp. Our correspondent
:18:14. > :18:14.Tom Burridge reports. To a place which exposes
:18:15. > :18:22.the inadequacy of words. Where more than one million
:18:23. > :18:25.mainly Jewish people were Pope Francis spoke with some
:18:26. > :18:46.of the few who survived that horror. And a moment to reflect,
:18:47. > :18:49.at the wall where Nazi firing Then, a prayer in a cell,
:18:50. > :18:58.where a Catholic priest volunteered Before they were led to their death,
:18:59. > :19:08.human beings were locked Silence was the response
:19:09. > :19:14.of the Catholic Church when Nazi Germany demonised Jewish
:19:15. > :19:17.people, and then attempted Another visit by a Pope reminds us
:19:18. > :19:25.about the evil perpetrated But questions remain
:19:26. > :19:30.for the Catholic Church, about what it knew at the time
:19:31. > :19:34.of the Nazi death camps and the systematic
:19:35. > :19:42.programme of genocide. A psalm sung by a priest
:19:43. > :19:45.from a Polish village, Tom Burridge, BBC
:19:46. > :20:13.News, in Auschwitz. George Butler has provided
:20:14. > :20:15.poignant snapshots of life in war torn areas such
:20:16. > :20:18.as Afghanistan and Syria. George walked from Turkey
:20:19. > :20:20.across the border into Syria where he drew the aftermath of civil
:20:21. > :20:23.war as well as capturing and recording the stories amongst
:20:24. > :20:29.the refugees through his art. I didn't really know there was such
:20:30. > :20:33.a thing as reportage illustration. It was only when I went
:20:34. > :20:45.to Afghanistan when I was at university that I realised there
:20:46. > :20:52.was a difference between what I was seeing as someone who sat
:20:53. > :20:54.there and drew for two hours, I think there was a difference
:20:55. > :20:59.in process that means the So, sitting in a place
:21:00. > :21:02.with your own two feet and having a big board and drawing
:21:03. > :21:05.the things that happen in front of you, so you're picking up
:21:06. > :21:08.on sound on the way people react to you and it is
:21:09. > :21:12.often too hot they have to draw quite quickly and that gives
:21:13. > :21:15.an immediacy in ink that you don't otherwise get, so it
:21:16. > :21:16.is about composition, about trust and people can see
:21:17. > :21:19.what you're doing and they feel involved and they are not
:21:20. > :21:25.intimidated by a camera. I would never be able
:21:26. > :21:28.to go to the front of Aleppo and sit and draw
:21:29. > :21:30.with bullets flying around. This process doesn't really lend
:21:31. > :21:33.itself to that, so it very often, as it was
:21:34. > :21:36.in the northern Syria, a kind of experience that happens
:21:37. > :21:39.more often to the population that are moving from town
:21:40. > :21:42.to town, trying to avoid the Rather than experiencing the front
:21:43. > :21:47.line which is carried out Even doing this back
:21:48. > :21:53.at home, I think I begin to So this guy, particularly friendly,
:21:54. > :21:57.wanted to help and spoke English and was a teacher, so I guess that is
:21:58. > :22:00.the value of having been there, rather than doing it
:22:01. > :22:02.from a transcript or first-hand account
:22:03. > :22:03.of These are memories and
:22:04. > :22:13.an experience that I had. I remember feeling particularly
:22:14. > :22:15.uncomfortable to be drawing in a place where there was obviously
:22:16. > :22:23.so much anxiety and sadness. This little boy had lost his mother,
:22:24. > :22:27.brother and his right leg in a shelling two days before
:22:28. > :22:29.and his father was now sitting at the head
:22:30. > :22:42.If for every time you turn the page, you
:22:43. > :22:44.get a photograph, you do become immune, immune to it.
:22:45. > :22:46.To turn the page and see a drawing that
:22:47. > :22:49.someone has sat down, it is handmade, you kind of value that,
:22:50. > :22:52.you can kind of understand that someone was there and has done it.
:22:53. > :22:56.I think there was an emotional engagement when I did it, and I hope
:22:57. > :23:00.there is one when it is looked at, as well.
:23:01. > :23:02.It's more than six months since the death of David Bowie,
:23:03. > :23:05.and performers from the worlds of pop, rock and classical music
:23:06. > :23:08.are taking to the stage to honour his life and work.
:23:09. > :23:10.The David Bowie Prom at the Royal Albert Hall
:23:11. > :23:13.in London is both a tribute, and a chance to give some
:23:14. > :23:15.of his best known songs a new classical twist.
:23:16. > :23:21.Our Arts Correspondent, David Sillito reports.
:23:22. > :23:24.The song Fame is more than 40 years old but has never sounded
:23:25. > :23:30.This is a final rehearsal before tonight's sold out performance
:23:31. > :23:39.I am a little bit scared about geting through the night,
:23:40. > :23:45.at a sold out Royal Albert Hall, what their reaction might be and how
:23:46. > :23:53.# Fame, lets him loose, hard to swallow...
:23:54. > :23:56.Obviously I've been thinking a lot about Mr Bowie and the legacy
:23:57. > :24:10.I feel like I'm feasting on really important music.
:24:11. > :24:16.# Fame, it's not your brain, it's just the flame that burns
:24:17. > :24:22.Meet Stargaze - this is a tribute to man and music.
:24:23. > :24:27.And also a chance to give the music a little twist.
:24:28. > :24:42.Let's Dance, the number one hit from 1983, and many others.
:24:43. > :24:45.Reworking Life on Mars and Space Oddity, which will have a gospel
:24:46. > :24:48.choir and a musician who worked and partied with David Bowie
:24:49. > :24:57.He knew him well but he knew nothing about how ill he was.
:24:58. > :25:03.It was a shocking sort of event that all presented itself at once.
:25:04. > :25:07.It still gets you when you think about it.
:25:08. > :25:13.He was wondering what the next step was going to be, and that was not
:25:14. > :25:24.And this, the final song from his final album
:25:25. > :25:29.in which David Bowie sang, "I know something is very wrong."
:25:30. > :25:32.This prom is sort of a farewell but it is also a celebration
:25:33. > :25:50.Russia's weightlifting team has been and is from the Rio Olympics over