hello. you're watching "gmt" on "bbc world news". our top stories. afghanistan enters a new era on the eve of elections for a new president. thousands in the capital kabul amid fears of violence at the polls. in a sign of the tensions and dangers, two foreign journalists have been shot in the east of afghanistan. one is dead. the other injured. i'm lyse doucet in kabul. as afghans prepare for this historic moment, choosing a leader to replace hamid karzai.

>> the seven for the missing malaysian airliner deploys under water scanning equipment in a different part of the southern indian ocean in an effort to find the plane's flight recorder. fears that the ebola virus may have spread to another country in africa, mali. we chart the deadly path of this latest disease. >> aaron is here. aaron, a possible change right at the top for africa. >> i'll tell you what, watch out, south africa. nigeria is on the rise. nigeria releases its economic growth numbers. we've got a special report.

>> hello and welcome to "gmt". it's midday in london, 7:00 a.m. in washington, 3:00 p.m. in afghanistan where nearly 400,000 military personnel are out in force across the country in the run-up to tomorrow's elections. security is a major issue. it is a significant period for afghanistan. it will be the first democratic transfer of power in the country's history. a new generation of young afghan's will be able to vote for the first time. elections will be followed by the final facing out of troops. the transition may not be smooth as lyse doucet now explains and she joins us now live. lyse, do tell us what's going on. >> yes, indeed. we had the breaking news where at a time where there are heightened security fears and after days of deadly taliban attacks particularly here in can't belive, there's been a shooting in the east of

afghanistan in sensitive problem close to the pakistan border. two foreign journalists were shot. one was killed working for the associated press news agency, anja niedringhaus. one was a veteran of reporting from afghanistan, kathy gannon, who has been injured. we understand she is in stable condition. security forces across this country are on high alert for attacks of this kind. hundreds of thousands of troops, police, and special forces have been deployed. all of this in a momentous year when foreign troops are starting to pull out. >> this isn't the first time that foreign forces left afghanistan. the soviet union used this major road running northeast of kabul to bring their troops home in 1989. the a-76 highway runs very close to the bagram air base, a major base used by international

forces. we will be traveling there throughout the year to test the mood across this country. the snow hasn't yet melted on the mountains, but there are all the signs spring has arrived in this valley. this year the greatest change is political. election posters still plaster the walls here. in rural areas like this many afghans have always had their own guns. some carry them with them. some of his neighbors have also dropped by. these politicians have spent millions of dollars on these elections, this man complains, they don't know how poor we are. >> so in the last two months since we met, you have become even more pessimistic?

>> translator: the whole nation is enthusiastic about these elections because people are tired of war and poverty. we want change but we are not expecting change in our own lives. our leaders will build palaces and we will suffer. >> the other side of the value aziza has other matters on her mind. she takes no notice as a military aircraft roars overhead. a major u.s. base is at this province. this mother of six children is involved in the local elections. it's a family affair. aziza proudly wears the colors of the afghan flag spent the last two months meeting people in her community. it's left her full of hope. >> translator: i learned that people's awareness is much higher now than it was five years ago. women, young boys and girls, even elders.

i didn't expect bearded men would receive me so warmly. i even had calls from farmers who wanted to know about the elections. it made me feel so proud. >> reporter: but this family also worries about security. gunfire rang out just before we arrived. there was a shooting the day before. in the quiet of the day, kanjur finds solace in afghan poetry. like much of afghanistan, even the most worried and weary still harbor hope that these elections can at least bring peace and prosperity to this land. >> yet for all the difficulties and dangers in this third presidential election since the fall of the taliban, there's lots of bright spots too. we have seen during two months, huge crowds turned out in election rallies across the country. and the candidates, eight now in the race, campaigned as if every vote counted.

so is afghanistan's democracy strengthening again. we're joined here by the chairman of the moby group, the biggest media empire here in afghanistan. you have been following every twist and turn. what have you seen? >> well, we have seen people totally engaged. like in 2009. it's not just an election. it's a referendum on whether we want the taliban or this democracy that we have adopted since 2001. the last week we have had 200,000 registrations. of gabs are excited. they know the risk. it's important to show we care about this country, democracy. we want to move on. >> for the first time we don't know who is going to win. >> we don't know. >> karzai was the front-runner. he was bound to win.

people felt very apathetic. >> do you think that if you can anticipate a smooth transition we remember the -- all of the acrimony, incrimination between the first and second round in 2009? >> i believe so. there's too many at risk. they have to at the end of the day sit down. even if results are slightly contentio contentious, they have to sit down and work things out. i think there is pogue to be fraud, no doubt, like any election anywhere in the region. but they have put systems in place. we're going to see a lot less than tine. i'm certain of that. >> afghanization of the elections. you really think they will stop fraud and to detect it when it does happen? >> someone told me they have 200,000 monitors from the different campaigns. and we have systems in place.

duplicate copies of the sheets. a much better computerized systems. a lot mormon tors. we are in a better place than we were in 2009. we have learned a lot of lessons from the last election. >> and voting day? anticipation? what the intense services are saying? there will be an attention to attack? >> this is our neighborhood. this is a war. we have to persist. we have to stay strong. >> absolutely critical year, as we say? >> absolutely. we have a lot of transitions ahead of us. economic, military and now political. >> as you say, it's one of the toughest job in the world. thank you very much for joining us here. we will continue to watch every twist and turn in this election campaign. of course keeping an eye on the security situation but also the preparations. as afghanistan moves to what is

truly another defining moment for this country. an election which will truly shape the face of afghanistan and its future too. we will have special coverage on "bbc world news". check for our analysis and reporting online. >> thanks very much. lease sue set live from kabul on the country's standing at the beginning of a new chapter. a court in turkey ruled against a government blanket ban on youtube. the reading comes a day after turkey was forced to lift a ban on the microblogging site twitter. odd yes files were shared on both web sites reporting to be leaked government meetings. >> the u.s. secretary of state john kerry warned it is reality check time in the middle east peace process. the most recent is israel's decision not to go ahead with the planned release of a group

of palestinian prisoners. that follows move by the palestinians to sign up for a number of u.n. convictions which bolstered their claims to independent statehood. the soldier suspected of shooting dead three people at a military base in ft. hood, texas may have had an argument before the attack. he was being evaluated for post-traumatic stress. the racing driver michael schumacher, who sustained head injuries in a skiing accident three months ago, is having moments of awakens. he is showing some signs of awakening from his coma. now, it's been almost a month since mh-370 disappeared with 239 people on board and search teams have begun a new phase of the operation. they are hunting under water for

signals from its flight recorder. a total of 14 planes, nine ships have been deployed, including state-of-the-art under water technology. they say finding debris is the key. >> this is where the surface search is so important. because if we find something on the surface, that's going to narrow the search area substantially. instead of searching over an area the size of ireland, we might get into an area the size of the metropolitan area of perth, for example. when you come to use of the under water devices, that's going to help immensely. >> the view of the australians. it is a race against the clock to find an all important black box. that is because it only emits a signal for 30 days, which means time is running out.

richard wescott has more. >> the seabed in that part of the world is like under water alps. 4.5 kilometers deep. 2.5 kilometer high mountains. now, that is the kind of terrain that hides its secrets. this is what investigators are after. the black box that should solve this puzzle. they'll tell us what the aircraft was doing and what the crew were saying. how to find them. well, this piece of american kit shaped like a stingray will lead the search. it is a towed ping locator. think of it as an under water microphone. a royal navy nuclear submarine is combing the area, listening for the same tell-tale pings. now, they might get lucky but it's a long shot. the pinger batteries run out in a few days.

they will be listening across an area the size of britain. there's another on stand by as well. this underwater vehicle swims up and down mapping the sea bed. they won't start using it until they find a piece of the actual plane. so they have the best tools available. but that doesn't mean it will work. they had the same state-of-the-art technology as five years ago. to find the black boxes from a french airliner. for months they trolled the area listening for signals. they went over the wreckage yet heard nothing. the company that helped find that plane told me why. >> afterwards it was discovered both pingers had failed. so it's very similar to malaysian air 370 where you have no information really on where the wreckage could be on the ocean bottom. it is the same situation now where malaysian 370 where you have no information where the the wreckage could be on the ocean body and malaysian air 370 is in an area 20 times the size

we were dealing with air france 447. >> reporter: other details have changed recently that throws new light on what happened here in the cockpit moments before the aircraft turned off course. we were told the final word to air traffic control were all right, good night. pilots told me that was too casual. they were suspicious. maybe it was a clue something was wrong. weeks later and seemingly out of the blue the malaysian suddenly changed the final words to good night, malaysian 370. a normal sign-off suggesting nothing was amis. if they don't find floating wreckage soon they may never find this aircraft. >> that's our transport reporter richard wescott. one of mesh's most popular and long-running tv talk show hosts announces his retirement. [ male announcer ] love drama? don't be a yes man.

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you're watching "gmt". now russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has been holding talks from the cis, commonwealth of independent states. the many group of former soviet republics have been meeting in moscow to discuss organizational issues. but the issue of ukraine was also on the agenda, of course. at a news conference after sergei lavrov said the differences were internal and the country needed to be left alone to deal with the situation. >> translator: interference into ukrainian internal affairs should be stopped. but what we see happening is that the west has taken the role of somebody deciding the fate of that country. meanwhile, the current authorities in ukraine do not show themselves as very independent. >> russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov there. medical teams dealing with ebola in west africa are trying to

confirm whether it has spread to a new country, mali. nearly 90 people have died in neighboring guinea and at least six in liberia. there are more suspected cases in sierra leon and gambia. i have been joined by ibrahima. this deadly virus seems to be spreading. >> it has not been confirmed yet. but there are signs. fever is one of the signs. and the bleeding is the other sign. that hasn't been seen yet. they are still putting these people in isolation and under control of medical teams. but you're right. this is terrible news for people in that area. there are nine borders around guinea, nine countries.

>> and there's contact going on all the time between people. >> it is spread through human contact. >> sierra leone and liberia are really exposed. because the main city which is affected is almost in those two countries like a triangle. and you know this because some of these borders are superficial. >> porous. >> and divide some victllages io two. >> no vaccine for it. authorities can't take steps until they see proper signs from somebody having the disease. what can they do in the face of all of this? >> they are putting in place preventive measures and precautionary measures. especially in guinea. to let people know.

i was one of the kids in primary school told not to watch my hands every time i touch someone and not to eight bush meat. >> you mean from animals to humans contamination? >> meat from chimpanzee, monkey and other bush animals. no more food. but these animals are vector of the disease. so it can quickly go. the spreading. people travel from these areas to other areas is an issue. >> when we see ibrahima that it is spread through human contact, is it someone talking to you, coming through saliva spray? >> bleeding and saliva and all the things. technically, i don't think the air is an issue. you need to be careful because

some people touching, it spreads. >> but it is deadly. obviously it's a very dangerous. >> we have some sign of hope especially in guinea. some have been put under medical control in the capital and they have recovered from the disease, which is a good sign. it means under good care and under you can slide down there. >> so once you get the person, there is some hope. but it's trying to isolate those who are infected to prevent it from spreading. >> the original cases are in january. it's only late in martha we started hearing about this. >> yeah, yeah. >> and it takes 2 days to 21 days for the disease to express itself. >> terrible, isn't it? in this part of africa, west africa, has enough on its plate. >> we have other things to worry about. >> sure. >> ibrahima, thank you very much

for bbc africa. two months after winter storms in britain severed the main rail line into southwest england the first trains are running along the tracks on the southwest coast. it prevented trains from reaching the area. it is estimated across the region's economy $70 million. >> for the railway workers, so much effort, so many hours and so much relief. now this historic railway link has reopened. the prime minister arrived by train of course to mark the moment that he described as being of national significance. >> this is a really important day for the southwest. but it is also a really important day for the whole of our country. i know how cut off people felt here in the southwest after that terrible storm. it is so important to get the work done. >> the first train of the day,

the 5:34 from ex ter to paeter paintser, sped through. after ferocious storms in february, this was the challenge faced by network rail. the historic west country line was left dangling in midair after waves punched a hole in the seawall. for the last 54 days, a team of 300 has worked around the clock to repair wall, track, and cable. the nonstop efforts of the workers dubbed the orange army cost 35 million pounds. but it is believed having the line out of action cost the regional economy 50 million. >> we have to do more to improve long-term resilience. we know that. we can't have this sort of failure to happen again. we have to improve the resilience here. we are also going to look at studies at relief lines and alternative lives into the

southwest so we can have even faster trains running potentially in the future. >> so it's a huge relief for businesses to see the trains back on track just in time for the easter holidays. we're told the repairs should last another 200 years, giving a new lease in life to the historic, iconic railway. phillipa thomas, "bbc world news". the host of america's most popular and longest running tv talk shows david letterman announced he will retire next year. the presenter broke the news to his audience during thursday's show. it comes two months after jay leno, his rival, announced his retirement. >> i'm sad. i'm sad because i've been a fan since like 1979 or '80 when he first came on the air. and i don't think there's anyone out there to replace him. >> i think dave has had a long,

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reconciled. also coming up, the battle for this palestinian artist from gaza who struggled to get the materials he needs for his contractive works. also in the program, aaron is back. aaron, we have possibly disappointed concert fans in europe. >> what does aerosmith, robby williams, elton john, justin timberlake, and miley cyrus, what do they have in common with this man here, russian president vladimir putin. u.s. sanctions against russia. i'll explain in a few moments. welcome back to "gmt". monday marks the 20th anniversary of one of the saddest chapters of modern history. the outbreak of violence in rwanda that led to the worst

genocide since the nazis. an extremist ethnic government tried to wipe out the minority tootsies. he joins us live. george, i believe you're at the national ceremony where the memorial where the country remembers the genocide. >> well, thank you. hello from this memorial center in kagali. one of the graves in which some 250,000 people have been buried. that's a staggering quarter of the million people almost exclusively from the tootsie population killed in the genocide. remember there were u.n. troops here and they weren't able to stop the killing. but as our correspondent mark doyle reports there was sun

senegalese soldier who did his best. >> rwanda, 1994. two wars at the same time. a civil war between the ethnic hutu government army and tutsi rebels. hutus trying to wipe out all tutsi. amid the horror a story of bravery and courage this. man saved hundreds of lives. he is captain dyan in western senegal. his job was as a u.n. military observer. but he bent and broke official u.n. orders not to get deeply involved. he made it his personal mission to rescue as many as he could. on one occasion, he made his way to this house. the rwandan prime minister's

children were hiding inside. the prime minister had just been murdered next door. outside soldiers were now hunting down the children. he knew no time to lose. >> he decided to load the kids up, hide them under a tarp and drive like stink. >> the prime minister's daughter, just 15 at the time, has never spoken before about how he drove her to safety. >> translator: along the road there were military check points. we were not allowed to talk. we had to pretend we weren't rawandan. i owe him my life. if he hadn't been there, would i be here now? i don't know. >> the gutsiness of that doctor there are no limit toss try to describe how gutsy. >> the captain never got his cross.

he did get an official citation for bravery from the state department in washington saying he personally saved 600 lives. but there was no one to save him. two months after the genocide started, he was hit by a mortar round. there was shrapnel that had gone through the passenger door. and we know that some of that shrapnel hit the captain's head. there was blood on the seats. there was blood that had gathered in the foot well as well. and that's how he decide. >> 800,000 people were killed in the genocide. saving 600 doesn't change that. but the captain saved those lives because simply he thought it was the right thing to do. mark doyle, bbc news, rwanda.

>> now, when the killings began on the night of the 6th of april, 1994, no town, no village was left untouched. remember, this was a genocide in which neighbors turned into killers. now, i've been south to the tan of murampi where i have been speaking to a mother and daughter who survived massacre. there are some distressing images in this report. >> the technical school was only half built in 1994. it's been left that way as a reminder of what happened. up to 50,000 people were slaughtered here in april that year. armed hutu extremists turning on the minority tutsi population. it was part of a systematic plan that would seem people killed on an industrial killed across the country. the mob used almost anything to get their hands on. there were clubs with nails on

them. machet machetes. some of the attackers even had guns you can see the bullet holes here. now, how do you remember the past without getting trapped in it? how do you point the finger of blame without reigniting old grievances? that's the challenge that rwanda faces. places like this are one way of dealing with the ugly memory of genocide. it's also quiet, so calm, so peaceful now. but just try to mantle what it was like 20 years ago. the genocide already started in the surrounding areas. and tens of thousands of people came here trying to be safe. they hid in classrooms like this. now, very few survived. but among the survivors were julie et and her daughter paul ian. pauline was just 1 month old at the time. i know you can't speak english. but pauline, what has your mother told us about what happened here. >> my mother told me that it was

so bad here. the children were saying, please, please forgive us for being tutsis. >> thank you very much for talking to us. these boxes behind pauline were the boxes in which they collected the bodies strewn across this center and body parts. from here they were taken away to be buried. after the genocide, they opened up mass graves. some of the bodies have been preserved in here. much too shocking for us to show you. there are corpses of babies and clear evidence of just how people were killed. now, there are several billions on this site. what they have done is to collect the clothes worn by the victims. this is the kind of cloth that a woman would have used to carry her baby. and a shoe here, by the looks of it, that could have been worn by a 10-year-old, also a victim. imagine that.

gaspar helps to run the center. >> 20 years ago these victims had been killed. more than 1 million tutsi have been killed. so the work and learn from this in order to prevent the genocide or in this country and wherever in the world. >> gaspard, thank you very much. 20 years on from the horror of that genocide, rwandans are thinking beyond educa looking beyond ethnicity. they are looking to what they want to achieve for the future. >> with me i have freddy. he's from the aegis trust which helps to run this memorial center. thank you very much for being with us. just how important is this, the

20th anniversary. >> the 20th anniversary is an important moment to honor the victims of genocide but to think about those who survived. it is an opportunity for rwandans to look back 20 years ago and see what we have achieved, what we did well so you can protect the future. >> but i wonder, freddy, if there isn't a danger that every time you remember the past that actually were you end up opening up old wounds and it makes it all the more harder for rwandans to reconcile with each other. >> you have to know it is not the only thing we do in this country. children are going to school. no matter tutsi and hutu. all of this together is combined. here we have a memorial. this is a place of remembrance,

a place of acknowledgment but the acknowledgment is the starting point of healing. survivors have hope. is to make this country better. >> i was saying earlier preparations are under way for this very big, very important ceremony on monday. can you just give us an idea what will happen? >> they will lay a wreath to respect the victims of genocide. but also we're going to have a ceremony at the stadium. we're going to have more story of what happened, survivors giving testimony. but at the same time we're going

to play, the important play we have for international people to really understand the situation. >> freddy, thank you very much. and i should say i was here 20 years ago reporting on the aftermath of genocide and the changes in the country, in this city are simply staggering. it would have been up thinkable to see the amount of progress that's been made. freddy has been talking about that. we will be reporting from kagali. >> thanks very much. george alagiah on the horrors of the rwandan genocide 20 years on and how they are looking to a brighter future. bbc.com/news. you can see that very moving story of captain diagni, the

senegalese hero. he used alcohol and cigarettes to buy the lives of some of those rescued. that's on "bbc world news". let's catch up with the latest business news. staying with africa. nigeria versus south africa. >> watch out for south africa. thank you. one of the largest oil producers, nigeria, is often being touted as an emerging market to watch. of course security issues, shaky infrastructure held back foreign investment few have benefited from all of that oil money because of corruption and mismanagement. but the hope is that all of that is about to change. because in the coming few days it is expected, nigeria is expected to announce a huge jump in the size of its economy when it adopts a new way of measuring gdp, gross domestic product. some experts say is it may

overtake south africa to become the continent's richest country. will ross has all the details. nigeria's population is somewhere between 160 and 180 million and rising fast. this provides a huge consumer base for businesses. and now the continent's second biggest economy could be set to overtake south africa and claim the number one spot. niger nigeria's true economic clout has been under valued as the gdp has been based on out of date statistics. >> we're not going to use price. we will use 2010 price. such a long time the gdp is calculated based on sectors. some sectors have not been captured for years. >> one is the film industry known as nollywood. it barely existed 20 years ago. the new data will include this thriving injury. yet another mobile phone add

vert. a few hundred thousand land lines in nigeria. now mobile phones that boost the gdp. knowing the true size of the economy will have several implications. nigeria will suddenly have a lower debt to gdp ratio. so a greater capacity to borrow. more investors may be attracted to get a share of this hrafrpblger economy. but overnight the rate of economic growth will drop from 7% to armed only 4%. nigeria may soon be africa's richest country but far too many people aren't getting a share of this health. that could affect nigeria's stability. >> here are some of the toys of the extreme live rich. every year hundreds of new millionaires are made in nigeria. >> just a few kilometers away in another part of lagos, life on

the water is about survival, not showing off. yes, these are the the extremes. yet people with steady jobs are not feeling the economic growth. >> it affects the normal woman on the streets. they barely have food to eat. >> i've been much better down to the roots. >> will ross, bbc news, lagos. >> okay. nigerian numbers out on sunday. we'll bring them to you. let's talk music fans. they may miss out on big concerts this summer hosted by stars like miley cyrus right there, as well as justin timberlake. all because, listen to this, of those sanctions. yep. the sanctions imposed against russia by the u.s. the music venue hartwell is in helsinki, finland. this is where the artists are plant to perform. it is owned by russian billionaires. the three men are among our list of 27 people that the u.s. says

is closely tied to president putin. so under the sanctions no american citizen or business can provide those three men with economic resources effectively preventing business from being conducted with them. so what opbgzs legally does the u.s. concert ticket promoter live nation have now? let's have a listen to one legal expert. >> if, for example, the live nation company which contracted with the arena was nonu.s. company and no u.s. company within the live nation group had any involvement with the event, it is possible it could be outside sanctions. i suspect where you have u.s. artists also involved that it may well be at least prudent for the organizers to contact. >> there you go. we'll keep across that story for

you. a few other stories making headlines. mcdonald's has suspended work at restaurants in crimea for manufacturing reasons. the second international company to crease operations this week. mcdonald's, which operates three restaurants in crimea, said it hoped to resume work as soon as possible but offered to relocate work to ukraine, signally it did not expect the business to reopen in the future. mozilla has been forced out of his job over his opposition to same-sex marriage. brendan eich gave money to oppose same-sex marriage in california. the latest u.s. jobs numbers are due out in less than an hour. it is hoped u.s. job growth accelerated in march as winter's gloom started to lift. the recent forecast for these job numbers should show that they increased by some 200,000 in march. it would be the largest game in

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a president to replace hamid karzai. being a painter or sculptor on the gaza strip can be challenging. muhammad finds it hard to import the materials he needs because of border restrictions imposed by israel and egypt. he's been asked to participate in international exhibitions. it's difficult to get information to export his work and leave the palestinian territory. now he is staging his latest show in gaza city. >> i am very interested in modern art. this is a picture that i made of my children. we are not sure about hour future here, but i have used this to show we have hope.

my name is muhammad. i am palestinian artist from the gaza strip. my work is very afflicted by the situation here. artists cannot get the material that we need. i sometimes use animals bones. i have done some paintings with spices. you can smell it. this one uses curry. and cumin. this is another part of my idea that you should use different senses. this is my new project. it is critical of the situation. but in a humorous way.

it is called the red carpet. they cannot reach us in normal ways. the only way to enter is from the sea. i am rolling out the red carpet to welcome themand show respect. like everyone in gaza i found it difficult to get permission to leave. we can only get out through egypt or israel. some galleries have shown my artwork. and i get many invitations to travel. my new exhibition is being shown here in gaza city. >> palestinian artist from gaza talking us through his works. now the queen's grandson prince harry has been joined by the

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