. hello and welcome. i'm peter with the bbc world news. our top stories. the families of the missing visit the scene. south korea's president has harsh words for the crew of the ferry. >> some of the crew men were incomprehensive from a common sense point of view. it was like an akin of murder that must not be tolerated. demascus announces plans for presidential election. russia blames extremist for

a situation in ukraine and warns kiev is losing control of the situation. and kidnapped and forced to marriage. how abduction is damaging young live lives. okay let's start this half hour of bbc news taking you live to the scene. the island in south korea where the families of those missing from the ferry that capsized there, they've been visiting the scene of the accident off jindo island in the past couple of hours. divers have removed 64 bodies from the ferry. the president park geunhye have

criticized the captain and crew and said it was like an akin of murder. >> beneath the surface lies the stricken ferry, the scene of this national disaster. four more crew members are detained bringing the total of arrested to seven including the captain. there's a growing sense of anger. south korea president condemned the action of captain and some of the crew. >> translator: the conduct of the crew and captain is unfactable. it was like an akin of murder that cannot and should not be tolerated. after the accident, the captain did not immediately follow the evacuation orders. they told the passengers to stay where they were and left and escaped first. this is legally unimaginable. >> hope has given way to grief and desperation.

coast guards bring in more students and body bags. details of the victims are posted on this board as the identification process continues. the relatives say the government should be doing much more. >> translator: the government is pretending to work. they say something has come up. that's not true. this is 100% man made disaster. if government acted quicker, all children would have been saved. >> many questions remain about what caused the tragedy and whether an early evacuation order would have saved lives. video from the captain shows him saying ferries are safest form of transport. >> ferry is safer than any other transportation. >> it's not been revealed what happened in the final moments.

a conversation with shipping traffic control, if this ferry is evacuated, will the passengers will evacuated immediately? asked the crew. the control replied the captain must make that decision and patrol boats are ten minutes away. hundreds of students weren't rescued. parents want their children's bodies back to start their funerals. bbc news. >> our correspondent on the jindo island. jonathan a, how are water currents impacting the situation on board the ferry for divers? >> reporter: it should have made their job easier. they've recovered few bodies today. the total number of dead 65. it's indication of how slow and situation is n of how slow and going to be. the frustration of the families is foe cussed on how quickly

they can get the bodies of the victims back. there are an awful lot of divers, huge number of ships as well. they've put huge cranes out there. it's not said yet when they may lift the hull. we're seeing south korean technology and resources in this operation, but it's still a slow one. the frustration the families have expressed has spread a across the country. there's disbelief so many children could have lost their lives in what appears of the details from what we've heard the crew's avoidable disaster. it explains the strong words from the president park who is trying to keep herself in tune with the mood of the country. >> interesting jonathan. you talk about the technology. i notice police are given text messages youngsters were sending on board the ship to people that were not on the ship. how will that be blended into

the investigation? >> reporter: police hope they get a lot of messages. this is a popular mobile service. it's also one that keeps messages longer than the phone company. they've got archives and offered access to message. there's quite a lot of them. it will help the police construct the point of view of people on board the boat sending quite desperate and frightened mess ages to families. this pieces together a case for what caused it. they haven't examined the hull of the ship. there were reports of a loud noise that could have been the cargo shifting or hull striking something. there's no reports yet of damage to the hull. if that's what caused it, it will focus on the crew and captain. that's causing so much outrage at the moment. it seems the crew were in a

state of chaos and panic from conversations that have been published. they had no plan for evacuation. there was no attempt to organize one even though most passengers were told to stay where they were below deck once they had done life jackets. they may have turned out the cause of so many being trapped when the ship rolled over. >> jonathan, thank you very much. the speaker of parliament in syria has announced presidential elections will be held june 3rd. no let up in the civil war that's been raging three years now. live now to jim monitoring from nearby beirut. how can this have credibility at all? >> a good question. the answer is not really. how can you possibly have an election when the war is going on, country is divided? election officials are struggling. it's not going to happen in the rebel held areas that constitute

60% of the area. it will be a half election in that sense. the sense that there's competition, this is the first time anybody other than the incumbent president can nominate himself. you have to have been a resident for ten years. that the rules out opposition figures because they've been driven a board and exiled a brad. you ask about the millions misplaced refugees across the border. there's 7 million people inside the country displaced and 2.5 million outside the country. in theory they can vote, but very few of them will be able to. >> jim, thanks very much are. wrapping up other top stories. police in hawaii say a teenager

survived five hours in freezing temperatures. the 16-year-old passed out due to lack of oxygen. he regain ee ee eed consciousne the journalist that helped set up the league for democracy died of kidney failure. he spent 50 years in prison after he was convicted of conducting antigovernment propaganda. he was freed years ago. a high level delegation of officials, relatives chanted no more lies. flight mh 370 from kuala lumpur to beijing disappeared over six

weeks ago. ukraine is accushe said kie control extremists including right wings that are accused of shooting men dead. the ukrainian right sector nationalist deny involvement in the report. >> the latest flash point for violence in the country torn apart by pro and antirussian supporters, the this makes a mockery of the international agreement reached in geneva last week which was supposed to east tensions in eastern ukraine. after the shooting, the pro russian actist leader and south appointed leader had a personal message to president putin. >> i would like to address the

leaders of the federation and personally vladimir putin. we beg you for your help. if you can't send the ar any help us, help us by sending weapons or any other way you can. before he left, the mayor said until today, these were clashes with minimal losses. now no one can expect any mercy from us. hundreds of pro russian activists continue to attend rallies in support of the militants who have taken over government building across eastern ukraine. the deputy ahead of the security organization, osce is expected to visit eastern ukraine in the hope of ending that occupation. but support for the pro russian groups is very strong. finding a diplomatic solution to persuade them to stand down will be a challenge. bbc news. >> live now to moscow and bbc correspondent tom. i noticed responses from lavrov.

this is a difficult situation. if the people causing the lawlessness had yet to be answered. the question of who these people actually were. >> that's right. there's a dispute between west and russia as to who the troublemakers are in this crisis. comments from the foreign ministry in moscow, a strong and stark really. he's been saying ukraine really needs to play its part. authorities in kiev i should say need to play their part resolving the crisis. he says they were the ones that violated the talks in geneva. regarding the tension on the ground, there's real disagreement. the fact russia would use pro russian separatists in the country to get them to leave the buildings it wants them to

leave. russia says it doesn't have control over that leverage. there's more and more stalemate on the ground. >> vladimir putin looking at the legislation saying if you can speak russian you can become russian if in ukraine. just enough. he's changing it just enough to keep the tensions simmering. >> yes, that's right. this is a new piece of legislation to make it easier for russian speakers supposedly to get russian passports. what we don't know of course is how many would want to apply under new legislation. whether he's speaking about russian speakers in ukraine and who there would want to give up ukrainian citizenship. i think really this is just the russian government making the most of the perceived weakness of the ukrainian authorities to resolve the situation in the troubled part of the country. and sort of challenge the west

to try to do something about it as well. it's more of the same sort of rhetoric that keeps coming out which gets played a lot on russian media as well. so this could keep going for some time. >> tom, thanks very much. do stay with us on bbc world news. still to come, the boxer who's wrongful conviction caused international outcry who passed away. we look back at his life.

. you're watching bbc world news. i'm peter darby. these are the top stories. south korea president has condemned captain and crew of the capsized ferry saying their actions were akin to murder. the presidential election will be held june 3rd despite the continuing civil war in syria.

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runners will run in the boston marathon, the first since the one last year that killed three and wounded hundreds of others. >> reporter: the sunny spring day, boston prepares for the big race. atmosphere is upbeat. heightened security is a reminder of last year's traumatic event. two bombs exploded at marathon finish line killing three and wounded more than 260. a policeman hunt sent the city into lock down. one suspect tamerlan tsarnaev was killed. his brother dzhokhar is detained. this hasn't deterred people from running the race. 9,000 people will run this year's boston marathon. what will it mean to you to cross the line? >> a job done. good job done this year. >> will it be emotional?

>> yeah. >> the bombings prevented mark from finishing last year. now he's determined to run his best time ever. >> i think the message is to any crazy person out there that thinks they can cause harm to people going about their normal lives enjoying life and enjoying the city and enjoying sunshine. you know, they're not going to beat us. >> runners line up outside a store where last year they helped the injured. >> it took quite a bit of healing. we're here today one year on from it. it's very, very special. we're looking forward to what i think and believe is going to be one of the best marathons ever. >> the crowds coo over a baby at the finish line. after a difficult year, this resilient city is looking to the

future. bbc news boston. the authorities in kyrgyzstan are trying to fight the practice of bride kidnapping. a third of marriages in the country are abduction forcing girls to marry against their will. many believe it's a kyrgyzstan tradition. others feel it became prominent few years ago. two victims tell their story. >> i was 18 starting medical school when i got kidnapped. i didn't know the man. >> translator: my classmate asked me to come out of the house saying she had brought a book for me. there were three young men there. i didn't pay them much attention. they spread my arms and legs, put me in the car and drove away. >> it was very rare in the past.

it became widespread after the collapse of the 40th union. many scholars link that to the value in society. >> translator: my grandfather and grandmother told me it was a kyrgyzstan tradition and made me stay. they said what will people say if you leave in how will we look people in the eye? >> most of the girls who were kidnapped, they decided to stay in the house of the groom. they're raped in the first night. it's considered to be shameful for a girl to leave the house because many people would believe that she's not virgin. >> translator: i was very scared at first and i wanted to run away. >> translator: they put bread at the threshold. they said if you walk over it,

your life will be ruined. they told me they offer marriage the same way. there were lots of old women. they grabbed my arms and wouldn't let me go. i cried until late night. >> many actually found out more than a quarter of males kidnapped a girl because they were afraid to be rejected by the particular girl. >> translator: now i live with my brother-in-law and sister. i found out i'm pregnant. i told him, but he said i got married. don't call me anymore. he said i was lying and it was not his child. i can't afford to feed the baby,

and i don't know what to do now. >> rubin carter, the boxer has died at 76 of prostate cancer. he was freed in 1985 when convictions were set a side after years of appeals. his ordeal was publicized in bob dylan's song. he worked on a biographical film after his release. a reminder of the breaking news this hour on bbc world news. the syrian government says it will hold the presidential election june 3rd despite the continuation of the three year long civil war. the syrian president assad said his forces were winning the conflict speaking of turn thing point in the crisis. 150,000 have been killed in the fighting with millions forced to

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our top stories. as the families of the missing visit the scene, south korea's president has harsh words for the crew of the capsized ferry. >> in the action of the captain, some of the crew men were incomp henceable. it was like an act of murder that must not be tolerated. russia blames extremist for a shooting in ukraine and warns kiev is losing control of the situation. fighting continues to rage across syria. despite con flikt, demascus

announced plans for a presidential election. one of the greatest photographers in focus. we catch up with the woman that snapped true lly amazing faces. families of those missing from the south korean ferry that capsized have been to the scene of the accident off jindo island. divers have removed 65 bodies from the ferry. 237 are still missing. the south korea president park geunhye have criticized the captain and crew that abandoned the ferry saying their behavior was like an act of murder. >> the scene of this national disaster, four more crew members are detained bringing the total

of those arrested including the captain to seven. there's a growing sense of anger, south korea condemns the action of captain and some of the crew. >> translator: the conduct of the captain and some crew members is unfactable from the viewpoint of common sense. it was like an act of murder that cannot and should not be tolerated. right after the accident the captain did not immediately follow the evacuation orders while telling the passengers to stay where they were. they left the passengers and escaped first. this is legally and ethically something that's unimaginable. >> hope has given way to grief and desperation. coast guards bring in more students in body bags. details of the victims are posted on this board as the identification process continues. many questions remain about what caused this tragedy and whether an earlier evacuation order

could have saved lives. a promotional video from 2010 has released from the captain sayings ferries are the safest transport. >> if you follow directions, i believe the ferry is safer than any other transportation. >> it's now revealed what happened in the final moments. the control asked if evacuated, will the students be evacuated immediately? the transportation control said that decision has to be made by the captain. patrol boats are ten minutes away. >> those directions were not given. >> jonathan is on jindo island and says despite the weather, few bodies are recovered by the

divers today. >> reporter: total number is 65, slightly gone up since this morning. we don't know the hitch. it's indication of how slow and difficult this operation will be. there's the frustration of families now focused on how quickly they can get bodies of victims back. there are an awful lot of divers out there. a huge number of ships as well. they've put big cranes out for the time. it's not yet when they might want to lift the hull. we're seeing an impressive application of technology and resources into this operation. it's still a slow one. the frustration that the families have expressed have spread across the country. there's a great sense of disbelief that so many children could have lost their lives in what appears to have been an avoidable disaster. that helps explain why we have strong words from president park who's trying to keep herself intune with the mood of the

country. >> interesting jonathan. you talk about the technology. i notice police are given access to text messages youngsters on board were sending to family and friends who were not on board the ship. how will that be blended into the investigation? >> well the police hope that they'll get a lot of messages. this is a popular mobile messaging service. it's unthat also keeps messages much longer than the phone companies. that's why they've got archive and offered access to messages. there's quite a lot of them. it will help the police construct the point of view of people on board the boat sending quite desperate and figrighteni messages to piece together a case for what caused it. they have to examine the hull of the ship. we don't know. there were reports of loud noise that could have been the cargo ship. it could have been the hull striking something.

there's no damage yet of damage to the hull. if that isn't what caused it, they will focus on behavior of the crew. we know about that. that's causing so much outrage at the moment. it seems the crew were in a state of chaos and panic from the conversations that have been published and they had no plan for evacuation. there was no attempt to organize one even though most passengers had been told to stay where they were below deck once they've done life jackets. that may turn out to be the cause of so many trap aped when the ship rolled over. the speaker in parliament has announced in the last hour, presidential elections will be held the 3rd of june despite no let up of civil war raging three years now. jim is monitoring the syrian situation from the nearby beirut. i asked if this election can ever be seen as legitimate.

>> obviously the answer is not really. how can you possibly have an election when the country is divided? election officials will struggle at the front lines. it's not going to happen in the rebel held areas that constitution substitute half or 60% of the country where the government holds the big cities. it will be a half election in that sense. and even less that syria's competition, this is the first time anybody other than the incumbent president can nominate himself. there's strict rules as to who can stand. you had to be relative of the country ten years. they've all been driven a board or exiled a board. you have to to ask about the millions of displaced refugees across the border. there's like 7 billion inside the country displaced and 2.a --

2.5 displaced outside the country. they can all vote, but few will be able to. the russian foreign minister lavrov has accused authorities of breaking a deal reached thursday to deescalate the crisis. he says kiev is failing to control what he describes as extremist including right wing activist russia accuses of shooting three dead in a man made check point on sunday. the ukrainian like seright sect nationalists deny. >> this is for those that want to put an end to geneva a accord. all signs show that kiev maybe doesn't want to control extremists that continue to call the shots. we are worried instead of accepting responsibility for what's happening, both kiev and

their backers who brought them to power, namely the u.s. and european countries are trying to put the blame on russia. >> sergei lavrov there. wendy has the latest developments on ukraine itself. >> reporter: the outskirts of eastern ukraine, latest flash point of violence in the country torn apart. this violence makes a mockery of the international agreement reached in geneva last week which was supposed to ease tensions in eastern ukraine. after the shootings, the pro russian activist leader and self appointed leader had a personal message to president putin. >> translator: i would like to address the leaders of the russian federation and personally vladimir putin, he said. we beg you for your help f. you can't send the army as peace keepers, help us by sending weapons or any other way you

can. before he left the mayor also said until today, these were just clashes with minimal losses. but now no one can expect any mercy from us. hundreds of pro russian activists continue to attend rallies in support of militants who have taken over a number of government buildings across eastern ukraine. the deputy ahead of the security organization osce is expected to visit eastern ukraine in the hope of ending that occupation. but support for the pro russian groups is very strong. finding a diplomatic solution to persuade them to stand down will be a challenge. bbc world news. >> the investigation into the killings yesterday morning, 9:30 local time at that check point is is ongoing. it's doubtful we'll ever find out who was behind the attack. tom from moscow now. >> there's a massive dispute

between west and russia as to who the troublemakers are many this crisis. comments come from the foreign ministry here in moscow today, a pretty strong and stark really. he's been saying ukraine really needs to play its part. authorities in kiev need to play their part in resolving the crisis. he said that they are the ones violating the geneva talks last week. every sense those talks aimed at deescalating this agreement, the west would use leverage over the separatists in the east of the country to get them to leave the buildings. russia says it has no control over the separatists. there's more and more stalemate on the ground. >> vladimir putin looking at

existing legislation saying if you speak russian, you can become russian. he's cherry picking policy, changing it just enough to keep the tensions simmering. >> yes, that's right. this is a new piece of legislation to make it easier for russian speakers supposedly to get russian passports. what we don't know is how many would want to apply under new legislation. whether he's talking about russian speakers in east of ukraine and how many people there want to give up ukrainian citizenship. i think really this is just the russian government making the most of the perceived weakness of the ukrainian authorities to resolve the situation in the troubled part of the country. and sort of challenge the west to try to do something about it as well. you know, it's more of the same. more of the same rhetoric really that keeps coming out of the kremlin which gets played a lot on russian media as well.

this could keep going for some time. >> tom in moscow. longest serving former political prisoner has died at the age of 85. mr. wynn, a journalist that set up the national league of democracy died of kidney failure. he spent 20 years in prison after being conducted of antigovernment propaganda. he was freed six years ago but kept wearing the blue prison shirt as a sign of protest. do stay with us here on bbc world news. still to come in cuba, local music kept after live by descendents of slaves now traced all the way back. is, should keep his big mouth to himself and stay unfunny in his own stupid country. loser. uncle ricky? yeah? what does all this mean? it means i'm doing something right.

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condemned captain and crew of the capsized ferry calling their actions an act of murder. russian's foreign minister accuses authorities in kiev of breaking the agreement made last week. david cameron said britain should be more confident as a christian country. in the newspaper, most britains are said not to have christian believes. they blame christian character undermines to build a society. mr. cameron explains himself. >> he defines himself differently from the opposition in uk and coalition partner who said he's atheist.

he says he's a religious man and church of england. he doesn't go to church often. he acknowledges for many people in the uk, they may associate themselves with the christian religion in a cultural way but not necessarily a church going way. for him politically, it allows him to utilize traditional instincts. the independence party is stealing that kind of theme on those issues. he'll be able to point to to academics, writers, say they're the voice of liberals rather than the voice of authentic ruling england. >> always difficult for a british leader when they start defining themselves in terms of religion or frame aing themselves in form of negatives. if he's trying to appeal to liberal people, they're

metropolitan. they're not racist, not antiislamic. maybe they feel more confident driving down the english country seeing a church instead of a mosque. >> exactly that. it's cultural christianity as opposed to church going. it's the established church in the uk. respect the fact many people in the uk may have gotten married in a church or funeral in a church without going beyond that. i'm saying his heart is the leaders is where the beating heart of conservatism is rather than metropolitan and liberal instinct which many would associate the latter writers of being where they are. >> any spark of debate which is what wants to do? >> exactly. he is on the other side of other

writers. >> now to india. the world's biggest democratic election underway. 30 major political parties are campaigning many weeks. most have taken to the web to try and woo the 200 million internet users. are we seeing india's first social media election? we canvassed some opinions. >> so a lot of people think this is india's first social media election. >> it's unclear how much of an impact it will have. about a hundred million voters will be first time voters. a big amount of them are on facebook and twitter as well. a new media has become an

important aspect of the way political parties are approaching this election. bjp, the challenger in this election, even has several apps that tell you what's happening that day. they tell you when there's a rally in town. they encourage you to go out. they ask you to share things they think will become viral. media is limited in india still. it goes through a small set of people compared to the billion of people that are in india. sometimes i read the newspaper or watch tv news. i don't use internet. >> translator: i don't care. i get the news i need from tv and newspaper.

i wouldn't imagine someone could win an election primarily on new media. it could tip an election over. you might have gone half way and then what you do on social media would be the little edge that gets you over the line. >> almost a million africans were shipped to cuba in the trade many forced labor. today many descendents no little or any of their origins. they've managed to keep songs of their forefathers alive. in the discovery, origins of the songs have been traced back to one village. now we have that from cuba. >> these african songs have been kept alive in cuba for generations. the singers never knew where they came from.

thousand thanks to the music, cuba's ethnic have uncovered their roots. to have kept something so unique, so separate and distinct it's traced to an individual village, that's incredibly unusual. it's what the australian academic discovered. these songs come from a remote village. they were part of the initiation rights for a secret society there. the language cubans use is almost extinct in africa now. >> translator: i've been piecing together two centuries of history. she believes the slave girl carried the songs to cubcuba. she was one of the almost million shipped here in forced labor. >> the average life expectancy was just seven years.

it's remarkable she managed to survived to an old age and also kept tradition alive here and passed it on. >> he's passionate about his african heritage. he says he felt incomplete until now. >> translator: i know where i am from. i'm not from the congo. i feel i can be calm now. i'm not lost anymore. >> the cubans voyage of discovery was captured on film. it culminates how three others make the journey in reverse to africa. they were greeted as family. >> the africans feel incredibly proud to know something of their small individual specific culture is carried on across the

world. >> all the way here in cuba. in africa, the villages stood and stair add when she first sang like this. then they burst in with chorus and began dancing. then she knew exactly where it came from. bbc news in western cuba. john lennon, president barack obama , scarlett johanss johansson, a few of the iconic people photographed in the long period. >> it's amazing privilege to be able to photograph people who do things well and are great at what they do. i can admire them.

it's usually kind of an extraordinary experience. they are usually very good at who they are, what they do. >> how do you bring out the character in the people that you photograph? like queen elizabeth ii. >> i think the character is build in on someone like the queen. you know, it's more or less you give her a setting and she -- it was an extraordinary shoot because she has a great sense of duty. >> your other photographs here in your exhibition. tell us the is it a passion, art or science for you? >> it's all those things. you can't separate it. i think i'm at least good at the science part of it. i'm not a great technical photographer. this is phillip johnson, the

architect in his glass house. i was there not on assignment. i wanted to visit the house. he told me i could see the house. i was surprised he was there the same day. we didn't have a sitting set up at all a. he was walking around the house. i photographed him from the back. >> you're here in asia and traveled to many countries over the past several years. is there a subject matter you'd like to photograph or a personality? >> in my hotel room this morning i was taking photographs looking out. it's the city of the future. i would like to do more work here. it's incredible landscape. it's like museum of modern architecture here. that's what i've tried to do. this is the first time i'm really seeing it. it's pretty impressive.

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