hello. i'm david with "bbc world news." our top stories -- two police officers have been shot during a protest in the u.s. city of ferguson. >> we saw the muzzle fire from the gun at the top of the street. we all kind of ducked down. once we ducked down we saw the cop was shot next to us. >> a city where tensions have been running high since an unarmed black teenager was killed by a white policeman last august. aid agencies accused the united nations of failing to end its war in syria. a scathing report to mark the

fourth anniversary of the conflict. hello. thanks for joining us. two police officers in the missouri city of ferguson have been shot as a protest outside the police station was drawing to a close. one officer was hit in the face, the other in the shoulder. the attack happened during a demonstration taking place just a few hours after the ferguson police chief had resigned. this came after some heavy criticism of his force. you'll remember it was in ferguson last august that an unarmed black teenager was shot dead by a white police officer. keith rose was among those in the protests he was an eyewitness to the shooting. >> i was behind the police when they were shot at. we had crossed behind the police line to bond some people out of jail who had been arrested an

hour earlier. while we were waiting outside of the jail we heard some popping noise which appeared to be fireworks or gunfire and then there were many officers surrounding us, at least 100, they were scattering everywhere. i saw at least one officer covered in blood. i saw officers rushing to the aid of that officer, carrying and dragging them. there was blood on the ground where they had been dragged. >> relatively calm beforehand. in the aftermath to the shootings, well this is the scene. officers taking cover outside their police hq. hiding behind walls and their own shields as well. this incident seemed to catch protesters and police somewhat by surprise. the gathering outside the station had been a relatively low-key affair. elizabeth has more. >> reporter: more violence in ferguson, missouri, seven months after a white police officer killed the unarmed black teenager michael brown.

after months of unrest police chief thomas jackson had finally agreed to resign after a federal report found widespread racial bias within his department. police in riot gear clashed with protesters once again and shots were fired. >> we saw the muzzle fire from the gun at the top of the street. we all kind of ducked down. once we ducked down we saw the cop was shot next to us. bullets were right past my head. it was kind of traumatic, i'm still kind of in shock because of it. >> reporter: after the shooting tempers flared as riot police prevented a group of around 100 protesters from leaving the area. the event marked another violent episode between police and protesters since the grand jury and u.s. justice department found that ferguson officer darren wilson did not break any laws when he shot 18-year-old brown. >> drew my gun and i fired.

>> reporter: the officers who were injured are now being treated in hospital. >> a county officer was struck in the shoulder and a webster grove police officer was struck in the face. both those officers are here right now, they're being treated. i don't have an official status on what their condition is right now. they are conscious. >> reporter: an investigation into exactly what happened is now under way. elizabeth ginker, bbc us. let's give you a bit more context to the events in ferguson because this comes after the resignation of this man, police chief thomas jackson. a few hours earlier. this was over the justice department report that elizabeth was referring to in her report. it's about law enforcement in ferguson which the attorney general described as a searing report. it found widespread racial bias in its investigation and said 93% of those arrested in ferguson were black, nine out of ten uses of force were against

african-americans. it went on to say that black residents in the town were subject to a disproportionately high number of traffic stops. you cab see there, 86%, despite the fact that african-americans make up just 67% of the population. patricia bynes is a ferguson democratic committee woman. she described the mood in ferguson in the aftermath of this latest unrest. >> i think there are a few things at play. i think that the chief stepping down with a severance package, the city manager stepping down with a severance package they're getting parachutes when they resign from these positions. also people were out saying, we want knowles. knowles needs to step down too, the chief is not enough, and i believe what turned into like a celebration for some and protests for others to show it's not enough and people -- someone in the crowd wasn't it

interested in protesting, took the shots at the police officers. i think that we have a serious problem here in ferguson. the municipal government seems to be structured around getting revenue and racially profiling african-americans in this region and even in the larger municipalities, larger tax base that are wealthier, while they -- while a huge portion of their revenues do not come from the municipal court system, if you go to their municipal courts at night you will see the majority of the people that have been pulled over and are facing charges in their courts are african-american. breaking news to bring you from bangladesh as police say four people are known to have died, but dozens are still missing after a cement factory

partially collapsed. about 100 construction workers were believed to be inside what is a partially completed building in fact in the port town of mongla you see at the bottom of the screen. the roof gave way. rescuers have pulled 50 survivors from the debris so far. at least 46 people still trapped inside. the factory run by a subsidiary of the bangladesh army we're told. we will . the united nations security council has failed in its duty to end the war in syria, according to a report by global coalition of aide agencies. the report criticizes the security council for letting down civilians and calls on governments to boost their humanitarian response. in reply to that a senior u.n. spokesman told the bbc powerful nations have put their own interests ahead of the victims of syria's war.

jeremy byrne has this report. >> reporter: good news doesn't come out of syria very often. in the last few days, the u.n. managed a rare delivery of aid to a palestinian camp in damascus that has been smashed by the war. what makes it so much more cruel is that the end is nowhere in sight. >> i thought that the statistics on syria's descent into hell are shocking but more shocking is that the politicians around the world have given up on solving the syrian crisis. it's really remarkable that after two successive u.n. security council resolutions calling for humanitarian aid for the millions of citizens inside syria, practically no improvement has been achieved in the flow of aid and what's worse, because of the continued fighting, the situation inside the country has got worse. >> reporter: and last year was the worst so far for civilians. the world's most powerful

countries have not been able to make their own u.n. resolutions work. but that would have taken the kind of intervention that's been ruled out from the beginning. when i met these rebels from the free syria army in the first winter of the war in damascus they wanted the west to help them overthrow the assad regime. the help never came. asam was a syrian officer who joined the sfa which still hopes against hope for more western backing. >> the syrian people are suffering. whether they are living in the regime, whether they are living in isis they are suffering from the bombs that the regime is throwing on them. they are suffering from the humility that isis is putting on them. both areas, they don't have choices. syrians are waiting for an alternative, they are waiting for someone to give them their life again. >> reporter: four years on syria's would-be revolutionaries

have been eclipsed by armed rebels, mostly islamist fighting groups raging from moderates to islamic state and al qaeda. the americans and their allies have intervened by bombing the jihadists. the regime and its supporters fight on, partly thanks to military aid from russia, iran, and hezbollah and lebanon. the war is hard to stop because of its complexity. foreign intervention of all kinds has deepened the fighting. it's become a proxy war between iran and saudi arabia and fused with the conflict in iraq. president assad seems more secure than at any time since the war started. he believes the rise of islamic state means that western powers now effectively have a stake in his survival. satellite pictures have tracked the lights going out across syria in the last four years.

no one can say when they'll come on again. jeremy bowhen, bbc news. a powerful report isn't it? in half hour's time a bit more with our middle east correspondent lena sinjab. >> let's get some business for you. alice baxter is with us. you have a look at the gaming industry which is a booming industry. >> we are. one of the biggest and london hugely important center for that talking about that in world business report throughout the day for you. we are looking at currencies because the euro has fallen to its lowest levels against the u.s. dollar in 12 years after european central bank began its government bond buying program. it fell as low as $1.05 before recovering a little bit. but many traders expect that it could soon be worth the same as the dollar reaching parody. the ecb began its latest round of quantitative easing on monday. it will buy bonds worth 1.4

trillion euros over the next 18 months flooding the market with money. also in business could wall street survive another financial crisis? that is the question the u.s. central bank the federal reserve has been asking in its annual stress test of the country's banking giants the second part published on wednesday. running the tests dins 2009 in the -- since 2009 in the wake of the collapse of lehman brothers. was it reassured? yes, mostly. some of wall street's biggest names scraped through after being forced to rethink their plans to hand out cash to shareholders and two european names fell altogether. all the details coming your way in world business report. i'll see you then. >> alice thanks very much. do stay with us on "bbc world news." coming up in a moment two boxing greats finally come face to face. it will be their first time to prepare for a fight worth so much money, it's being called the mayday payday. s a fact. kind of like shopping hungry equals

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you're watching "bbc world news." the latest headlines -- two police officers have been wounded by gunmen who opened fire during a protest outside the police hq in the american city of ferguson. aid agencies accuse the united nations security council of failing in its duty to end the war in syria. a scathing report which marks the fourth anniversary of the conflict. the russian opposition politician boris nemtsov was murdered less than two weeks ago. the investigation into the case is getting murkier. two chechen men have been charged but his daughter has told the bbc that vladimir putin the president must bear responsibility for her father's death. gabriel has reports. >> a special operation putin can

keep power in kremlin. >> all of the independent media. this is not election. this is special operation. manipulation. >> reporter: for a decade boris nemtsov was one of russia's most high-profile voices of dissent. last month that voice was silenced within sight of the kremlin. his daughter zhanna has no doubt who she believes is responsible. >> he was a threat to putin. >> reporter: it's putin you blame for his death? >> politically, yes. politically. >> reporter: we traveled to northern italy to meet miss nemtsov. she and her father used to come here on family holidays. on the night of the killing, zhanna was in her moscow apartment and her mother was in the next room. >> i was asleep. the room that my mother was

yelling and crying and i saw that somebody had -- thought that somebody had attacked her. i came into her room and asked her what was going on and she told me. at the first moments i couldn't believe in that and now still, i cannot believe. >> reporter: can i ask you specifically, do you think president putin ordered your father to be killed? >> i don't have evidence, but politically, he is responsible. >> reporter: did he ever talk about feeling personally under threat? >> we talked about the possibility of him, putin, putting him into jail or imprisonment but he had never mentioned there is a substantial threat that he could be killed. no. >> reporter: the arrest of five

suspects from chechnya has led some to suggest that the killing may have been linked to islamic extremism. his supporters dismiss that as nonsense. nemtsov was also working on a report detailing russia's military involvement in eastern ukraine. his daughter says they discussed the report, but that she's not been able to access her father's apartment nor the computers on which he kept his files. >> are you afraid to go back? >> i'm not afraid. i will go back on the 15th of march, but i -- they have killed my father. i cannot just keep silent. it's -- it's absolutely impossible. >> zhanna nemtsov, the daughter of mr. nemtsov, the opposition leader murdered in moscow. let's move on to other stories now. the duchess of cambridge is

making one of her final public appearances before she gives birth to her second child. catherine is visiting the famous studios in west london to meet the cast of the award winning drama "downton abby." we can speak to our royal correspondent who is there for us. she's got a drama of her own to think about, doesn't she? >> well quite, yeah. the glamour of television here is not exactly what you expect when you think of "downton abby." the exteriors are filmed at highclear castle but this is where the interior of the film and particularly the servants' quarters that is where kate is at the moment inside she is watching a scene being filmed which will take part of series 6 which is due to start later this year. but when she arrived this morning, like i say, not the most glamorous location to arrive to. she was here in the car park and

was immediately -- we are aware she is supposed to be a fan of the show and that became very clear when she was introduced to lord fellow who is the writer and creator in the program in the lineup at the studio. she was very animateded when she spoke to him for quite a while, before making her way down to speak to some of the other itv execs and nbc execs there. you could tell that she was clearly very interested to be here and the palace issued a statement saying why she was here celebrating the success of "downton abby" which has been a massive global success, shown in something like 250 territories around the world. it's the most non-u.s. nominated program in terms of the emmys which is the preeminent television award show in the united states. it's done phenomenally well in the first five series. the sixth series being filmed at the moment and bogey filmed in front of the duchess of

cambridge. no pressure there for the actors who are doing their run through at the moment. she's been in and visitd hair and makeup. she met philip logan who plays mrs. hughes the housekeeper, for fans of the show you will know they met the butler mr. carson n costume design. clearly i would imagine she's having quite a lot of fun wandering around the set. due to leave in about half an hour. >> thanks very much. britain's prime minister has weighed in to the controversy over whether the staff the bbc's "top gear" presenter david clarkson should continue presenting the show. he was suspended for allegedly production one of his production team in a disagreement over catering. the bbc launched an investigation. the show is off the air. lucy manning reports. >> i've been suspended. >> reporter: he said with a

smile after this was a rout about food. >> no no. >> reporter: did he have regrets a about what happened? >> any regrets? >> oh, yes. yes. >> about what you've done? >> >> reporter: he might be about to lose his job but jeremy clarkson hasn't lost his sense of humor. suspended facing allegations of a physical altercation with producer on the left in a routh about the lack of food after filming the show last week. >> revive the name. >> reporter: his co-presenter confirmed there was what the bbc has called a fracas. >> do you think jeremy clarkson is innocent? >> of what? >> of punching a producer? >> no. i think he's been involved in a bit of a dust up and i don't think it's that serious. that's all i want to say. >> were you there when it happened? >> no. >> was this over dinner? >> yes.

>> reporter: this is it. with his "top gear" career in the balance, his friends stepped in to support him. >> i see he said he regrets some of what happened. all i would say because he is a talent and he does amuse and entertain so many people including my children who will be heartbroken if "top gear" is taken off air i hope this can be sorted out because it's a great program and he's great talent. >> reporter: jeremy clarkson is one of the bbc's biggest stars and "top gear" is a money spinning worldwide success. with its presenters frequent brushes with controversy, racist words, offensive language and odd insult bbc bosses might have to make an expensive decision. >> i have been involved in that we have an inquiry taking place on that. i can't say any more than that. >> bbcdg tony hall. >> to a boxing match billed as the biggest fight in history and whether that ends up being true

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hello. this is "bbc world news." our top stories -- two police officers have been shot during a protest in the u.s. city of ferguson. >> we saw the muzzle fire from the gun at the top of the street. we all ducked down and once we ducked down we saw the cop was shot next to us. >> tensions in the city have been running high since an unarmed black teenager was killed by a white policeman last august. bbc learned that islamic state militants have been using chlorine gas in roadside bomb attacks in iraq. aid agencies accuse the

un of failing its duty to end the war in syria, a scathing report to the fourth anniversary to end the conflict. hello. two police officers in the missouri city of ferguson have been shot as a protest outside the police station was drawing to a close. one officer was hit in the face, the other in the shoulder. the attack happened during a demonstration taking place just hours after the ferguson police chief had resigned. that came after heavy criticism of his force. it was in ferguson last august that an unarmed black teenager was shot dead by a white police officer. keith rose was one of those involved in the protests and he was an eyewitness to the shooting. >> i was behind the police when they were shot at. we had crossed behind the police

line to go and try to bond some people out of jail who had been arrested an hour earlier. while we were waiting outside the jail we heard popping noise which appeared to be fireworks or gunfire and then there were many officers surrounding us, at least 100, they were scattering everywhere. i saw at least one officer covered in blood. i saw officers rushing to the aid of that officer, carrying and dragging them. there was blood on the ground where they had been dragged. >> that was the scene. then in the immediate aftermath of the shootings themselves officers took cover outside the police station behind the wall as you see there, behind their own shields as well. now this latest incident seemed to catch protesters and police by surprise as the gathering had been a low-key affair. elizabeth ginker reports. >> reporter: more violence in ferguson, missouri, seven months after a white police officer

killed the unarmed black teenager michael brown. after months of unrest police chief thomas jackson had finally agreed to resign after a federal report found widespread racial bias within his department. police in riot gear clashed with protesters once again and shots were fired. >> we saw the muzzle fire from the gun at the top of the street. we all kind of ducked down. once we ducked down we saw the cop was shot next to us. bullets were right past my head. it was kind of traumatic, i'm still kind of in shock because of it. >> reporter: after the shooting tempers flared as riot police prevented protesters from leaving the area. the event marked another violent episode between police and protesters since the grand jury and u.s. justice department found that ferguson officer darren wilson did not break any laws when he shot 18-year-old

brown. >> drew my gun and i fired. >> reporter: the officers who were injured are now being treated in hospital. >> a county officer was struck in the shoulder and a webster grove police officer was struck in the face. both those officers are here right now, they're being treated. i don't have an official status on what their condition is right now. they are conscious. >> reporter: an investigation into exactly what happened is now under way. elizabeth ginker, bbc us. it's important to give you context of the events in ferguson because it all comes after the resignation of this man, the police chief, thomas jackson. he resigned over a justice department report into law enforcement in ferguson it's a report which the attorney general described as searing. and it found widespread racial bias in its investigation, bias within the police force and said 93% of those arrested in ferguson were black, 9 out of 10 uses of force were against

african-americans. it went on to say that black residents in the town were also subject to a very high disproportionately high number of traffic stops. that's the figure. 86%, despite the fact that african-americans make up just 67% of the population. patricia burns was a witness to the shooting. she said that she thought the shots hadn't come from the demonstrators but from a nearby hill. >> i can say with some level of certainty it wasn't from the protest crowd. like i said i had been out there for four and a half hours and there was the usual jockeying with police but there was fog that indicated that anybody was over the top or anything else. this just happened in a flash. it was really literally within

minutes. i think i had walked to my car, i left in front of the police department for 10 maybe 15 minutes, and then all hell broke loose. you could hear the shots. people were screaming and flying. i was not near the area where the shots rang out, so i didn't see that. but by the time i made my way back, there was chaos and then it just got eerily quiet and officers were kneeling they were praying, people were crying. i saw protesters, you know, holding each other, they were shaking and they were crying and i started talking to people and you could -- everybody just kept saying they came from the hill, they came from the hill which was maybe 500 feet across the street from where the police were. >> let's move on to other stories now because police in bangladesh are saying that five people have died but dozens are still missing after a cement factory partially collapsed. about 100 construction workers

we understand were inside a partially completed building in the port town of mongla when the roof gave way. rescuers have pulled some 50 survivors from the debris at least -- we got a figure of 46 people still trapped inside. the factory itself is run by subsidiary of the bangladesh army. let's get more on this. i'm joined by the bbc's ben galley service. can you helps us do we know much more. >> the figures are still sketchy but what we have heard from the local police is that maybe more than hundred construction workers were inside the factory. they were actually working on the roof molding of the factory when that top floor, the roof gave way. and they have brought out more than 40 people alive, some of them injured were receiving treatment in the hospital but the fear is that, you know,

quite a lot of people are still trapped inside because if these figures are correct that more than hundred are inside quite a few are still there. five people have died. >> it's a slightly knee-jerk response when you hear about a building collapse in bangladesh we have awful thoughts going on as to the potential, at least i suppose you might say this is a building under construction. it's going to be another issue about regulation and guidelines and standards, isn't it? >> exactly. safety is a big issue, particularly when construction workers are working in a building like that. this building is owned by as you have mentioned, [ inaudible ] but they obviously contracted out the job to a company so we don't really know whether adequate safety measures have been taken because no officials have come out here to talk to us. we have been trying since the accident happened so we haven't

been able to talk to anybody. but there have been alsos in the past and there have been incidents when buildings collapsed and construction workers or other workers have been injured. >> can i ask you a quick question, given the collapse of the disasters of the last two or three years, have there been improvements, have there been a step up in regulation and in the monitoring of regulation? >> well i mean there are regulations in place. >> yeah. about whether they're -- >> about whether they're enacted, being implemented. that's the most important thing, the monitoring. the government says they are monitoring, but, you know, you still hear stories like this. and then what, you know, sort of comes out from this kind of accident is that, you know not adequate measures have been taken. 80 construction workers were working on the top floor. it's the new wing of the building which was under construction. the roof gave way and whether they were wearing hel letmets and other things we don't know. >> thanks very much, indeed.

>> thank you. top american general has said there is no doubt iraqi forces will drive islamic state militants out of the city of tikrit. iraqi troops have reportedly entered the city's northern areas while at the same time the bbc has learned islamic state is using chlorine gas in some of its roadside bomb attacks in the area. the bbc reports from bang dogged. >> this is the latest weapon in the arsenal of the self-proclaimed islamic state. the cloud of orange is chlorine gas. first used in world war i, it's now been adopted on the battlefield in iraq. shot by the iraqi bomb disposal it team this video shows the crude tactics designed to spread panic among the ill-equipped soldiers.

he and his team have defused dozens of chlorine bombs in the offensive against the extremist militants. he says, their strategy reflects how desperate they have become. >> translator: they resort to this new method. they're putting chlorine inside these homemade roadside bombs which is toxic for those who inhale it. >> reporter: six weeks ago they captured this video outside the embattled city of tikrit. they didn't realize that they detonated a chlorine bomb until they smelled the distinctive odor. >> translator: after we detonated the bomb we saw a pillow of chlorine gas. the symptoms started straightaway. painful choking, our throats were blocked and we couldn't breathe. my ears felt enormous pressure. as soon as we withdrew we could

start to breathe again. we were lucky a military ambulance was there to treat us. >> reporter: roadside bombs are cheap and easy to make in iraq. they are one of the main forms of violence here. adding small amounts of chlorine, is designed to create more fear than harm. >> what we're seeing here is a classic -- >> reporter: we showed video to a british chemical expert. who often investigates attacks in syria. >> chlorine explosion i think mainly psychological. they've seen how effective chlorine has been in syria. they were gassed themselves by the regime. they've seen how effective it's been against the civilians. so it is a psychological thing to get not only the civilians in tikrit worried, but also the iraqi soldiers who are doing the bomb disposal here. >> reporter: the army troops are facing such threats without any proper protection and they are fighting militants who are

willing to achieve their goals by any means. bbc news, baghdad. we're going to stay in the region because the united nations security council has failed in its duty to end the war in syria. those are the words coming from a report by a global coalition of aid agencies. the report criticizes the council for letting down civilians and it calls on governments to boost their humanitarian response. a senior u.n. spokesman told the bbc powerful nations have but their own interests ahead of the victims of syria's war. well, it's four years since the war itself began. our middle east regional editor has spent much of that time in syria. great to have you here for the moment. another dreadful staging post which is really what this is isn't it four years now, and a very damming indictment of the security council? >> yes, indeed. the problem is that it's like

four years on and there is no insight, any hope that it's going to end any time soon. the figures and numbers mentioned in the report if you talk to syrians will tell you the numbers are higher when you're having 225 killed only 2014 76,000 killed 5 million children in need of help 1.5 million children outside of school. the members are really -- the numbers are shocking. what's more disappointing and frustrating, i was there last week talking to syrians there -- >> in turkey. >> no one listens to the news or cares about the security council any more. they have lost hope completely in the world and they are left to help each other. there is even money for aid is not coming in support for humanitarian is really limited. we have industry reports saying that the pledge of money, only 57% of it has been paid in 2013 compared to 70% in 2013. >> one can fully understand all

that sense of disillusion and perhaps disgust but these are numbingly huge figures, aren't they, having to be dealt with. what sort of impact do you think it's having that they look at the outside world and all these broken promises they've feared and feel that they're just not getting any help the help they want. >> absolutely. i just wanted to put the figures as well again into the mind of people. i mean almost 9 million inside syria who have lost their homes, their homes have been destroyed. that's equal the number of residents of london imagine that. more than 4 million are refugees, so half of the population of london they can't come back home. so that's really shocking for people. but what's happening is that because the people have realized the world has let them down they're realizing they are relying on each other. the civil society is so active and so supportive in helping each other, there is a limit to what they can provide. >> absolutely. i suppose that's a small positive in helping themselves one would expect the negative if

there's a rejection of what the west or the united nations is doing, they've got it turn somewhere to decide what they're going to do themselves. >> that's a very important point because the control over your reaction of anger and frustration, this from one person to the other, some would put it in a positive way, others dragged towards extremeismeism and that's what i've seen from many telling me the attack on is has only made i.s. expanding more in syria and left people frustrated and thinking of joining them. the brigade who promised to help lots 200 of their troops last week. you talk to people they tell you, the world is focusing on i.s. forgetting what president assad's forces are doing killing the majority of syrian. one woman i met she had a 15-year-old boy she struggled to keep him away from joining i.s. and this is the frustration leading these young people to join and she tells me if the

world keeps on watching the world will not be inside the borders of syria. it will reach every country around the world. >> becoming a familiar story too. thank you very much, indeed. >> you're welcome. >> other news for you now. security officials in somalia say suspected al shabaab militants have fought their way into the compound of the regional government headquarters in the central city of baidoa. reports say the attacks started with the explosion of the gates before gunmen shot their way inside. three attackers and be two soldiers have been killed before the building was secured again. the australian prime minister tony abbott described claims that an australian teenager carried out a suicide bomb attack in iraq as absolutely horrific jake bilardi, a white muslim convert left his home in melbourne last year to fight with islamic state militants in iraq. australia has been in the news for offering to cover the cost of life imprisonment for

two citizens both facing the death penalty in indonesia for drug trafficking. julie bishop said she made the offer to her indonesian counterpart last week but received no response. thanks for staying with us on "bbc world news." still to come on the program -- it may be armor plating but takes a lot of courage to wear an outfit like that on the streets of afghanistan. we speaks to the artist who did and find out what response she got. shopping online is as easy as it gets. wouldn't it be great if hiring plumbers, carpenters and even piano tuners were just as simple? thanks to angie's list now it is. start shopping online from a list of top-rated providers. visit angieslist.com today.

hello. this is "bbc world news." the latest headlines. two police officers have been wounded by gunmen who opened fire during a protest outside the police headquarters in the american city of ferguson. aid agencies have accused the united nations security council of failing in its dutity

to end the war in syria. the report to mark the fourth anniversary of the conflict. an afghan artist has been forced into hiding after receiving death threats for dressing in a metal suit which shows off the female form. she wore this rather unusual armor in what she calls a performance on the streets of kabul to highlight the problems of sexual harassment the women face. david loyn spoke to her. >> most of the time this part. >> reporter: in a secret hiding place where she's fled facing death threats, she shows me the somewhat unusual garment she had specially made to the surprise of a kabul blacksmith. >> get him to cut it and start hammering and putting some marks here in the body shop this sort of shape. >> reporter: she hoped to wear the armor for ten minutes to protest against sexual harassment in the event she made

only eight before being forced back into her car. >> people were saying, slap her, slap her. many people said throw something and yelling at me, look at that, what is she doing? is she a foreigner? who is she? right after that i get in the car so some people were like trying top stop the car and hitting the car. very huge number. they were jumping on the car. i was expecting that. >> why do you think men were so angry? >> because of course that is something really unusual happening was in front of them, something they don't expect, and what about it, what it is about is, something that that okay, looking at this breast and the backside, everything is what they see actually of women. so that is -- >> what do you mean? that's all they see in a woman? >> that's all they see.

>> reporter: one eight-minute street protest by a woman in a makeshift suit of armor may not change the world but it's a reminder of the constant daily threats and real violence that women still face in afghanistan, 14 years after the fall of the taliban. >> supposedly if i like -- if i would work also the same way, those women have been harassed here. >> the burqa is no protection. >> no protection at all. >> they face harassment. >> they do. >> your life has been turned upside down? >> totally, totally yeah. i wasn't expecting this at all. i didn't know this was going to happen. this heat is going to be like even -- getting increased more and day by day. i didn't know that at all. >> you can't go back? >> it seems, yeah. >> reporter: for this one brief performance, cooper is now in fear of her life while millions of other women still face daily harassment on the street. david loyn, bbc news, kabul.

and the united states spring training is under way and soon major league baseball parks will be packed once again. some of the greatest talents on the field come from cuba. until now they've had to defect to join american teams. relations now start to thaw between the two countryiescountries, it could all change. the bbc reports from havana on what this might mean fort players and the game. >> reporter: when it comes to baseball, cuba is the country to watch. current champions of the caribbean series cuba plays some of the best baseball in the world and boasts an impressive record of producing young talent. for years that talent has been largely confined to the island by a combination of the u.s. economic embargo and cuba's strict immigration rules. now washington and havana are trying to turn the page on the past cuban baseball may come

from the cold too. major league baseball is watching the diplomatic game play by play. >> for some young players who earn just $40 a month in cuba the prospect of multimillion-dollar contracts with the boston red sox or the new york yankees is mouth watering. for players in their 30s the third baseman was considered the best player in cuba in 2006. he applied his trade in japan during the offseason but fears his chances of reaching the u.s. major leagues. >> translator: it's never too late but i would have liked this to have happened a lot earlier, ideally at the start of my career at 20 or 21 years old. still, even at this age, i tried to make the most of it throwing myself into this like every day was the first day. >> reporter: there are currently more questions than answers about how the thaw with the united states will benefit cuba and this the national sport is

no different in that regard. the involvement of major league baseball scouts bringing lucrative contracts to young cuban players could change the game here significantly. >> reporter: for the powers behind the scenes in cuban baseball, the responsibility for a more normal arrangement lies firmly with the u.s. government. >> translator: we've heard the proposals of the new baseball commissioner in the u.s. who's waiting for the changes lifting the economic embargo would bring. for now the embargo against cuba is in place and we will wait. there may be opportunities to play in the major leagues and we have the talent but it's a slow process. >> reporter: away from the politic politics, they are enjoying their close rivalry on the field. for man fans losing their best players would be worth it to see cubans back hitting home runs on the world stage.

will grant, bbc news, havana. so often there is nothing like sport to bring countries closer together. and if you want to pass comment on what you've seen here i'm on twitter. bye for now.

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