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This is BBC World News Today with me, Alpa Patel. | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
The headlines: The offensive to reclaim | :00:11. | :00:11. | |
the last Islamic State stronghold in Iraq intensifies. | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
As security forces close in on Western Mosul, | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
thousands of civilians remain trapped in the fighting. | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
We talk to some of those who have managed to escape. | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
Murder, rape and the destruction of villages - the BBC hears | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
accounts of abuse suffered by Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
The deadly impact of ebola on gorillas - | :00:35. | :00:50. | |
a third of the world's population killed by the disease | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
And the pitfalls of working from home - see the moment a guest | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
is interrupted by his children while giving | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
It's also the so-called Islamic State's last major | :01:01. | :01:28. | |
But Iraqi forces say they are within weeks of driving | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
After five months of fighting there have been heavy casualties. | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
But government forces now control the east of the city. | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
Which is divided by the River Tigris. | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
Now they're pushing into the west of the city, | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
where hundreds of thousands of civilians remain trapped. | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
And the militants are still deeply embedded. | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
Our correspondent Orla Guerin and cameraman Nico Hameon | :01:52. | :01:53. | |
are close to the front line and sent this report. | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
They are fleeing on foot from western Mosul, | :02:00. | :02:07. | |
Countless numbers are likely to follow, | :02:08. | :02:15. | |
and imagine if this was all you could bring with you. | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
Many waited 'til the fight came right to their door. | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
At 76, forced to leave home for the first time in his life. | :02:26. | :02:43. | |
He told us a mortar landed nearby, just moments before. | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
His ten-year-old grandson and namesake, clutching his | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
school bag, though his only lessons here were in war. | :02:51. | :02:58. | |
"I'd like to go back to school right this minute", he said. | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
So-called Islamic State stopped him going years ago. | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
Now, back in Iraqi hands, for what it's worth, | :03:09. | :03:10. | |
It was just four days ago they were driven from here. | :03:11. | :03:26. | |
This is the Engineering Department of Mosul University. | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
On the IS curriculum, how to make chemical weapons. | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
It was a source of pride for the people of Mosul. | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
It was also a key strategic location for the so-called Islamic State. | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
It gave them high ground to dominate the area, | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
it was heavily defended by Uzbek fighters and this is just one | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
of the areas that's going to have to be rebuilt | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
when the battle for Mosul is finally over. | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
Some Uzbek militants are still lying where they fell, | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
no decent burial for those who terrorised a city. | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
Nearby, a suicide belt they didn't manage to use. | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
At dusk, troops gather for the next push forward. | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
Increasingly, they strike under cover of darkness. | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
Hunting for the extremists who once controlled nearly a third of Iraq. | :04:26. | :04:35. | |
Some of the hardest fighting may be ahead in | :04:36. | :04:45. | |
In the narrow streets of the old city, | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
Beneath a sky lit only by embers of battle. | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
In the pitch black streets, few signs of life, but hundreds | :04:52. | :04:53. | |
of thousands remain in western Mosul, | :04:54. | :04:55. | |
This lady and her family are sheltering in an abandoned house | :04:56. | :05:05. | |
Three of her loved ones are in hospital, | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
I lost my house, my children were injured. | :05:11. | :05:29. | |
Her beloved Mosul will never recover, she believes. | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
What future for a broken city in a fractured nation, | :05:33. | :05:42. | |
even after the extremists are pushed out? | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
There are fears that when Iraqis finish fighting IS, | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
Staying in the region, the Turkish military say troops | :05:49. | :06:06. | |
and Turkish-backed rebels have killed more than 70 Kurdish | :06:07. | :06:08. | |
fighters in northern Syria, just in the past week. | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
Turkey has threatened to attack the town of Manbij that is held | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
The group is supported by the US, which sees it | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
as the most effective force to launch a long anticipated attack | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
on Raqqa, the IS de facto capital in Syria. | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
It comes as the Russian president, Vladimir Putin has praised | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
what he called the "unexpected level of contacts" that are developing | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
between Russian and Turkish military agencies and special services. | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
Following talks in Moscow with his Turkish counterpart, | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, he said the two countries | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
were working energetically to solve the Syrian crisis. | :06:44. | :07:01. | |
Moscow and Ankara concerning the future for Syria is the much | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
different but it is different from the one that the United States have | :07:09. | :07:17. | |
and it seems that for President Putin and President Erdogan it is | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
easy to talk to each other than talk in that triangle involving the | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
United States, Tokyo and Moscow. So Russia has already taken the grounds | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
that it needs and they have the help to recapture Aleppo, they help to | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
recapture Palmeiro, and Turkey tries to secure a buffer zone between | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
Syria and its own borders. And they have much more grounds for | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
cooperation and talks rather than each of them has with the United | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
States because the United States is such a powerful player. The German | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
car-maker Volkswagen has pleaded guilty in an American court to three | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
criminal charges linked to the diesel emissions scandal. The plea | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
as part of a deal with the US Justice Department, under which the | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
company will pay fines of more than $4.3 billion. Volkswagen has | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
admitted that, between 2009-2015, vehicles were fitted with illegal | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
software allowing them to pass emissions tests whilst still | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
producing high levels of pollution. It's something Myanmar's government | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
doesn't want the rest of the world to know about - | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
how it treats its About a million Rohingya live | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
in Myanmar - but they're denied citizenship and the most basic | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
of human rights. In the last six months, | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
75,000 refugees have fled The BBC has heard numerous | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
testimonies of rape and murder being committed | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
by the Burmese security forces. Here's our Myanmar | :08:40. | :08:41. | |
correspondent Jonah Fisher. We have been receiving shocking | :08:42. | :08:58. | |
video from a part of Myanmar at this close to the outside world. The | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
Burmese government is trying to keep what its soldiers of the to an | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
unwanted Muslim minority a secret. So we have come across the border to | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
Bangladesh. 75,000 Rohingya Muslims are fled here in the last few | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
months. This is Muhammad. He says he left his village in November when it | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
was attacked by Burmese soldiers. His elderly father was too frail to | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
flee. Four days, Muhammad heard nothing. Then when the Army | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
withdrew, he returned to a gruesome scene. | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
TRANSLATION:... This extremely distressing footage | :09:41. | :09:53. | |
was from Mohamed's village. He tells me he believes his dad was shot, and | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
the body burn. -- burned. Mohammed's story is | :09:57. | :10:18. | |
supported by a video that we have verified of helicopters overhead, | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
burning homes and large numbers of burnt bodies. Rate has been alleged | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
on a massive scale. This woman became famous in Myanmar when she | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
bravely spoke out about the abuse of Rohingya were meant to a team of | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
government investigators. Months later we found in Bangladesh. She | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
told us what the soldiers had done to her. | :10:43. | :11:08. | |
She says she had to flee Myanmar after soldiers printed out her | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
picture and came looking for her. The sheer scale of what the Rohingya | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
refugees are alleging, with hundreds still doubt been killed and many | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
more abuse, has shocked this United Nations envoy. I would say crimes | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
against humanity. Definite crimes against humanity. How much | :11:31. | :11:39. | |
responsibility should the leader of Myanmar therefore this? At the end | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
of the day it is the government, the civilian government, that has the | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
answer and respond to these massive cases of horrific torture and very | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
inhumane crimes that they have committed against their own people. | :11:56. | :12:03. | |
Myanmar's form of democracy icon refused all our interview requests. | :12:04. | :12:11. | |
The United Nations has accused this country of crimes against humanity. | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
Do you have any response to that? We spoke to one of her closest aides. | :12:17. | :12:25. | |
That she take on board what people are saying when they say that it | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
does not seem like she cares about the human rights of the Rohingya, | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
for example? Please change the subject. We do not talk about the | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
Rohingya. Hundreds of them have been killed. That is why we are raising | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
the issue. Not hundreds. It is almost one year since all San Suu | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
Kyi took office. So far the price of power has been silence and the | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
principles and values once synonymous with her name. Let's take | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
a look at some other news. EU leaders have stressed | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
the importance of unity at a meeting ahead of Britain's expected | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
departure from the bloc. The president of the European | :13:07. | :13:08. | |
Council, Donald Tusk, should be to strengthen mutual trust | :13:09. | :13:10. | |
for the remaining 27 members as they discuss proposals | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
for a multi-speed Europe. Members of the Standing Rock Sioux | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
Nation and their supporters have marched through the streets | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
of Washington to protest against the controversial | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
Dakota Access Pipeline. Native American tribes say leaks | :13:26. | :13:27. | |
from the oil pipeline will pollute water supplies and endanger sites | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
they consider sacred. The Formula 1 world has paid tribute | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
to the former champion racing driver and motorcyclist John Surtees, | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
who has died at the age of 83. John Surtees is the only man to win | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
World Championships Tens of thousands of South Koreans | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
have come out on the streets of Seoul to celebrate a court | :13:50. | :14:01. | |
decision to remove President Park | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
Geun-hye from office. The court upheld a parliamentary | :14:09. | :14:09. | |
vote to impeach Ms Park over her role in a corruption | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
scandal involving one | :14:13. | :14:13. | |
of her close friends. The friend is accused of using her | :14:14. | :14:31. | |
presidential connections to pressure companies to give millions of | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
dollars in donations to foundations she controls. She is now on trial. | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
In December Parliament voted to impeach President Park with the | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
final decision moving to the Constitutional Court. In February, | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
the boss of Samsun became involved in the scandal. He was arrested and | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
accused of making donations in return for political favours. His | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
trial started on Thursday. Today comes the final episode, as the | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
Constitutional Court rules to uphold the impeachment and President Park | :15:04. | :15:05. | |
is ousted from power. The chief justice says that Park | :15:06. | :15:26. | |
broke the law, and the trust of the people. Outside the court, pro Park | :15:27. | :15:34. | |
protesters clashed with police. Officers struggled to stop | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
demonstrators on the other side toppling a bus. Two protesters died. | :15:38. | :15:49. | |
The night, anti Park protesters have been holding a victory rally. I felt | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
shivers going down my spine and I'm sure I'm not the only one in South | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
Korea today to feel this way. It is an extraordinary thing in the | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
history of a country to see the president removed the democratic | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
constitutional mechanism. There will be an election within two months. | :16:09. | :16:23. | |
For three months, protesters have chanted that President Park must go. | :16:24. | :16:32. | |
Tonight, she spent her last night in the Presidential Palace. She may yet | :16:33. | :16:34. | |
end up behind bars. News about the recent outbreaks | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
of Ebola in West Africa has centred | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
on its devastating impact on humans. But gorilla populations | :16:45. | :16:46. | |
are known to have suffered A third of the world's gorillas have | :16:47. | :16:48. | |
been killed by ebola When a group is infected, | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
around 95% of them die. With all four species of gorilla now | :16:53. | :17:04. | |
critically endangered, researchers from Cambridge | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
University want to immunize Our science correspondent | :17:08. | :17:09. | |
Rebecca Morelle has more. In the African forests, an animal | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
at risk of vanishing forever. Gorillas already face many threats, | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
from poaching to habitat loss, but perhaps the most | :17:21. | :17:28. | |
worrying is ebola. The deadly disease is thought | :17:29. | :17:29. | |
to have wiped out many thousands So we put it on the sides | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
of the nose This scientist has carried out | :17:33. | :17:41. | |
a small trial on captive chimps, the last before bio-medical | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
research on these animals He found a vaccine protected them | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
against the virus and now he wants | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
to use it on gorillas in the wild. Ebola and other diseases | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
are a huge threat. If these were our children, | :17:58. | :17:59. | |
we vaccinate our children, right? We vaccinate wildlife | :18:00. | :18:01. | |
in the developed world. Why aren't we vaccinating our | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
closest relatives in Africa? The deadly toll of ebola in humans | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
is all too well-known. The 2013 outbreak in West Africa | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
killed more than 11,000 people. Now, though, there's | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
an effective human vaccine. Ebola in humans and gorillas | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
is closely linked. The virus can | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
cross between species. Some argue that gorillas should | :18:30. | :18:31. | |
now be immunised, too. Gorillas are one of our closest | :18:32. | :18:40. | |
relatives and saving is now a number one priority | :18:41. | :18:42. | |
for conservationists and an ebola vaccine does offer | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
some much needed hope, but there could be | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
significant risks. Finding a method to get a dose | :18:49. | :18:50. | |
of the vaccine into every | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
gorilla would be difficult. There's also a risk that it | :18:54. | :18:54. | |
could harm the animals, We, as great ape conservationists, | :18:55. | :18:56. | |
are concerned about any unintended impacts on the health of the target | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
apes, such as introduction of a disease that might spread | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
amongst the intended population The future of these animals | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
is hanging in the balance. The forests are currently free | :19:12. | :19:19. | |
of ebola, but it's inevitable | :19:20. | :19:21. | |
it will strike again. Conservationists need to decide | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
whether the risk of vaccinating or not vaccinating is one they're | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
willing to take. Absolutely stunning animals, aren't | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
they? Have you ever wondered | :19:33. | :19:42. | |
what infinity might look like? The 87-year-old Japanese artist | :19:43. | :19:44. | |
Yayoi Kusama has pretty much captured the experience | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
at an exhibition at the Hirshhorn | :19:48. | :19:48. | |
Museum in Washington. The 87-year-old Japanese artist | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
Yayoi Kusama has pretty much at the Hirshhorn | :19:54. | :19:55. | |
Museum in Washington. It's become one of the art events | :19:56. | :19:56. | |
of the year, with long lines to glimpse inside her | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
so-called infinity rooms. Jane O'Brien went to see | :20:01. | :20:01. | |
what all the fuss is about. It is easy to get lost in one of | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
Yayoi Kusama's row in committee rooms even though they are | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
physically quite tiny. Mirrors and lights warped perceptions of what is | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
real and what is illusion. We are living in a time when almost | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
everything we see and experience is through digital technology, through | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
digital media, through e-mail and so on. That is so much a part of our | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
lives and perception that she reminds us that there is this other | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
aspect of experiencing space that sometimes is more tactile. To | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
understand how Yayoi Kusama reached infinity, you need to step into her | :20:46. | :20:53. | |
white room. As a child, Kusama had a vision of polka dots which led to an | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
acute neurosis which she confronted by focusing on dots in her art. | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
Visitors are encouraged to stick them everywhere in this room, | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
eventually obliterating the white and leading to oblivion. Which | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
brings us back to infinity. At first being in this room makes me feel | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
incredibly happy, surrounded by glow-in-the-dark pumpkins, for | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
goodness sake. But after a couple of seconds it becomes quite disturbing, | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
because this is probably the closest any of us will come to seeing what | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
infinity must look like, and once you grasp that, you realise how | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
utterly insignificant you really are. Most people inside these rooms | :21:32. | :21:40. | |
immediately reached for their are. Most people inside these rooms | :21:41. | :21:41. | |
cellphones. This is, after all, the ultimate selfie. But, not so fast, | :21:42. | :21:49. | |
says the museum director. If you are in this infinity mode room and you | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
don't stop and put down your phone, you're not truly experiencing it | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
because it is this moment when you are alone in the cosmos, in one of | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
these pieces, and it is a very compelling, kind of poignant | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
feeling. Get past the show stopping infinity rooms and there is plenty | :22:11. | :22:12. | |
more to tickle the senses. Voluptuous sculptures, dots, | :22:13. | :22:24. | |
appendages, dots and poor box. Yoyoi Kusama is arguably the most | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
important contemporary artist in Japan. This exhibition reveals why | :22:28. | :22:35. | |
her appeal is global. An absolute feast for the eyes, that one. | :22:36. | :22:43. | |
Present Donald Trump has spoken to the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
by phone. It's the first conversation between them since Mr | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
Trump took office in January. A spokesman for the Palestinian leader | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
said the US president has invited him to visit the White House to | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
discuss peace talks. His spokesman went on to say that President Trump | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
invited the Palestinian leader to visit soon. | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
A sea turtle in Thailand is recovering well after | :23:06. | :23:07. | |
an operation to remove 915 coins from its stomach. | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
The 25-year-old turtle, nicknamed Bank, for obvious reasons, | :23:15. | :23:22. | |
in various currencies than 5kg of coins | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
that tourists had tossed into the pond where she lived. | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
Occasionally most of us are guilty of being hungry for cash and a sea | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
turtle and Thailand is no different. She was brought from a pond in a | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
small fishing village to bets in Bangkok to investigate a cracked | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
shell. Attention soon turn to her extraordinary weight. An x-ray | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
revealed the cause. This saw the mass that you can see in the stomach | :23:50. | :23:58. | |
is in fact 915 coins. Now nicknamed Bank for obvious reasons, the turtle | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
is lucky to be alive. The removal of the money took hours of emergency | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
surgery, which Bank has certainly paid for, physically. The healing | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
seems to be OK. There is no secondary infection, because we are | :24:12. | :24:19. | |
using sterile sea water but the nickel concentration is very high | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
and her, so that, we have to work on. The coins which were withdrawn | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
from Bank are a variety of international currencies. Many | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
tourists had tossed them into the pond to invite luck over the years. | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
Luck which has certainly rubbed off on this fortunate creature. Now a | :24:38. | :24:45. | |
reminder that BBC world News is brought to you live every day. | :24:46. | :24:46. | |
Which means - on air - the unexpected can happen. | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
Earlier today, our presenter James Menendez was interviewing | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
Professor Robert Kelly, at his home in South Korea, | :24:54. | :24:55. | |
He had some very important points to make - but I think it's fair | :24:56. | :25:04. | |
to say you'll do well to remember them after this. | :25:05. | :25:06. | |
He was overshadowed by his children. Scandals happen all the time. The | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
question is how democracies respond to them. I think one of your | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
children has just walked in. Shifting sands in the region. Maybe | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
relations with North Korea change? I would be surprised if they do. | :25:23. | :25:36. | |
Pardon me. My apologies! What does it mean for the region? My | :25:37. | :25:47. | |
apologies. Sorry. South Korea's policies towards North Korea have | :25:48. | :25:49. | |
been severely limited in the last six months... It is no wonder that | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
that clip as one while. That is the nature of live TV. And Professor | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
Robert Kelley made it through professionally. Goodbye for | :26:01. | :26:00. | |
Robert Kelley made it through professionally. Goodbye for now. | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
The weekend is looking pretty mixed across the UK. The best day of the | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
weekend by far will be Saturday. Quite mild, particularly in the | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
south. Sunday will bring some rainfall, not a lot but there will | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
be some across the country. Right now it is overcast out there. There | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
is a weather front approaching and it is going to bring some rain to | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
north-western parts of the course of Friday | :26:30. | :26:30. |