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>> and now "bbc world news ooze ooze >> a miraculous escape. both pilots ejected moments before impact. as thousands of refugees flee across the syrian border. turkey says it may need u.n. help. a warning from french police, a sealer killer -- serial killer may be responsible for shooting four people in a paris suburb. welcome to bbc news, broadcast to viewers on pbs in america and also around the globe. coming up later -- tearful memories since the start of the civil war, bosnia remembers. a fading past, why america hasn't built a national monument to commemorate world war i.

>> hello, thank you for joining us. i'm gavin gray. he's being described as a good friday miracle. seven people received hospital treatment after an american fighter jet crashed into an apartment block in virginia beach. no fatalities have been reported and both crew members managed to reject before impact. emergency crews are continuing to serve the residential complex as three people are currently unaccounted for. paul adams reports from washington. >> a scene of suburban devastation but could it have been a great deal worse? the smoldering wreckage of apartment buildings and still engulfed in flame, the twin tail fin of the navy jet. >> oh, my god, man. look at that. >> these homes are less than five miles from ose anna naval

air station. the f-18 crashed less than a minute after takeoff. >> all of a sudden i saw the plane come down, and then because i'm on the courtyard, it shifted and the whole thing was in flames, the whole backyard. and then things started to explode. >> emergency services raced to the scene but one of the pilots had already been rescued. >> he apologized very much for hitting our complex. i told him don't worry about it, everything will be fine. get you out of here and get you to safety. >> both pilots were taken to hospital, along with five other people. none of them thought to be in danger. this was clearly a shocking episode, but it seems the pilots managed to dump aviation fuel moments before the crash. action which may have saved many lives. paul adams, bbc news, washington. >> robbie mill cere a virginia beach resident who lives near the crash site. he told me investigations were continuing into the night.

>> one of the interior buildings is still being investigated to see if there are anybody in there. they put it off because it was the most damaged and there was a lot of jet fuel. and they had to spray some sort of substance on it to make it safe for the firemen to go in there and investigate to make sure no one was in there. >> but to your knowledge, there are no missing people on the ground? >> as of now, yes. >> i know you lived there a relatively short time. everyone around the base has to sign a disclaimer, do they, that they zotes' training takes place overhead? >> yeah. when you sign your apartment lease, you have to sign that you're aware that you live in a training ground for the jet. and that you live in the pathway of them landing. >> i gather you're now thinking

twice about living in that particular area? >> well, i do have to agree, it has crossed my mind, yes. >> and yet it's obviously a fairly constant thing to get the aircraft noise. many people thinking similar things after today? >> yes, when it first happened i walked up and i saw some of the buildings on fire and some of my neighbors, of whom i had never seen before, told me the same thing i was thinking, this makes you think twice about where we live. it put it's in perspective how dangerous it can be living to close to a flight path. >> robbie miller speaking to us earlier. a humanitarian crisis is going on turkey's border with syria. number of refugees claim the violence was increasing turkish government warned it may need united nations help. the flow doubled since the syrian government agreed to accept a peace plan calling for an end to military operations

next week. from istanbul, our correspondent reports. >> the flow is becoming a flood. more than 2,500,000 refugees, mostly struggling to the country side to the border. there may be many more to come, given intense attacks by government forces they have been reporting. translator: this morning we were surrounded by 100 tanks. they started shelling us. it's still going on. people are stranded and no one can go in to collect the dead. >> translator: we left during bombing. i have a 3-year-old girl and boy who is 2 years old. i don't know where they are. families are homeless. people are gone. what kind of system is this? the country stopping them. why doesn't the united nations stop him? >> there's a system for documenting refugees and transforming them in shelter. turkey built two large container

camps on the border. even these won't be enough if the numbers keep rising f that happens, the u.n. is expected to step in. >> our expectation is the promises given to mr. annan must be kept. it's essential operations should stop immediately, an army unit be withdrawn immediately. >> whatever syria promised, that withdrawal clearly is not happening yet. if anything bombardment of operation neighborhood has come fiercer of than any time in the year-long conflict. days before the deadline when all of this is supposed to start. jonathan head, bbc news, istanbul. >> meanwhile the u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon has criticize the syrian government for pressing on attacks with -- for pressing on attacks on people who want president assad to stand down plfment ban said the use of the army should stop at once.

security forces in bahrain have fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse thousands of protesters who rallied in support of a leading human rights activists. demonstraterers held portraits into an activist who's been on hunger strikes to close for 60 days and is now in hospital. supporters say he's close to death. he's appealing against a life sentence he received for his part in anti-government protests last year. nominations for presidential elections in egypt closed this weekend. despite the overthrow of hosni mubarak in an uprising, tensions remain over the country's future. the muslim brotherhood, country's dominant movement, is being accused of lying and him pock rasy after going back on a promise not to contest the presidency. from cairo, earl daveys reports. >> brothers celebrating what they think is now inevitable.

the millionaire businessman and former political prisoner will be the next president of the egypt. but the movement has gone back on an explicit promise not to stand for the presidency. >> i'm quite confident that whatever the decision the party takes is only for the benefit of the egyptian people. >> we're not going back to a one-party state? >> no, 100% no. >> the brotherhood already dominates the egyptian parliament and assembly that will write a new constitution. the movement says it supports the democratic, ail be it islamming government. also taking their claim, ultra conservatives. they abolished the treaty with israel and curtail women's rights. political discourse is dominated by islamic parties. egyptians from all background, secular and religious, died in this very square a year ago to oust the mubarak regime.

politics here is becoming increasingly religious. and that worries many secular religious egyptians to say their revolution is being stolen from them. this is from where the muslim brotherhood draws much of its support. running clinics and schools for egypt's poor and needy. moderates warn there are darker sides to the party. >> they try to crush us as much as the previous regime was doing. right now we expect a lot. if they try to do that, another wave of violence can erupt here instability will continue. >> a year after the generally popular yum raisings, they out-maneuvered their rivals in a pattern being repeated throughout the region. >> the leaders in the military coup in maully have agreed to

stand down in a deal with negotiators from the west african regional grouping ecowas. the country has been split in two by the tour aregular rebellion in -- tuareg rebelen in recent weeks. they suspect a serial killer in a recent spree of killings. police say the same weapon was used to shoot four people. >> it was in this hallway in a block of flats in this paris suburb that a 47-year-old woman was shot dead. her killer used a semiautomatic pistol. translator: the weapon used according to an initial examination was the same one used to kill three other people. this element alone is not enough to confirm it's all connected. >> there are other reasons why a serial killer is suspected. the four were shot in similar

circumstances within a 10-kilometer radius in the department. on the 27th of november last year, a woman was shot dead in her apartment block. three months later outside the same building, her neighbor was shot. on march 19, a man was shot in the head outside a similar block of flats. then april 5th in a neighboring suburb, the latest victim was killed. there's one puzzling element in this investigation, the former boyfriend of the first victim confessed to killing her but then retracted his confession. he is still in custody. translator: the first murder that took place in november last year, this person has been arrested and in jail now. this series of killings deserves our maximum attention and we're reporting all of our resources in this affair. >> france has been on edge since mohammed mira shot dead seven people last month. with this case there's no suggestion of a racial or

religious factor. zoe conway, bbc news. >> this is bbc news. still ahead -- why america still doesn't have a national memorial to commemorate world war i. senior m.p.'s are calling for a wider investigation into allegations of racism in the metropolitan police. 18 officers and civilian member of staff are under investigation. in total, 10 separate incidents of alleged racism are being looked into by the independent police complaints commission. a man and woman arrested on suspicion of murdering a 6-year-old girl at a campsite in hamp shire have been released without charge. police say the results of a post mortem examination suggests there was not suspicion. police in northern ireland say they recovered a bomb containing a significant amount of explosives. the device was left on a grass berth close to the a-1 between belfast and dublin.

the chancellor says he would be very happy for the british government to consider publishing the personal tax returns of ministers. "the daily telegraph" is reporting transler said it's his personal principle to make rules much more transparent. >> the headlines this hour. seven people received hospital treatment after an american fighter jet crashed into an apartment block in virginia. both crew members ejected before the impact. as thousands of refugees flee across the boarder from syria, turk jays it may be help from the united nations. hope benedict attended the traditional way of the cross ceremony at the coliseum in rome. one of the main christian is services over easter. tens of thousands of tourists and romans flocked to see him. the german pontiff, who turns 85, didn't carry the cross

himself during the hour-long procession. instead he listened to mediations on family onty that lamented divorce, abortion and infidelity. cuba has been marking easter with the public holiday on good friday. the first time in decades. this follows pope benedict's visit to the country last week, where he requested the move. our correspondent said people are taking advantage of the holiday but not necessarily for religious meetings. >> there's a huge number people off work but in terms of the number of people going to good friday services, i wouldn't say there's been a huge crowd of catholics and other christians flocking to church today. i was in the main cathedral in old havana and there were around 150 people in the congregation to hear cardinal as he led the good friday service. and despite the fact the first time in post revolutionary history in cuba, this was a

public holiday. in a sense, if they wanted to bo to mass, that was their chance. but for the first time the service was carried live on state television. for the first time and hugely significant because this is a communist run state and for so many years atheist state too. big changes in terms of the relationship between church and communist state here. >> authorities describing the papal visit as transdental. >> indeed, yes. cuban government sources say it's a chance for yube to showcase religious tolerance there is now and talk about religious freedoms while avoiding the efforts of the pope to push for more freedom on other fronts. the pope from the three-day visit talked about a more open society, talked about freedoms n response to the message from the communist government here is there are economic reformed taking place but the political system, socialist system, communist system here is here to

stay. so i think today is an important step particularly in a relationship between church and state. it's all about the catholic church getting more space for itself, showing how it's growing in influns in its role in cuba but in terms of political reforms and change, that's not on the cards. >> briefly, they say public holidays hit the economy. the economy is struggling there. is this likely to become a permanent holiday or one off? >> cubans hope it's here to say. certainly christmas, when it was reintroduced in the 1990's ahead of pope paul john ii's visit. that was supposed to be one of and stayed. there's hope it will be a good holiday and year and they don't seem too concerned about the fact the economy here is struggling. >> sarah speaking to us early. malawi is preparing a state funeral for president mutharika a day after he died from a massive heart attack. there's still no official word on who his successor will be. karen allen reports from

johannesburg, where his body is being held. >> malawians woke up to a state of confusion. hours after their leader suffered a massive heart attack, word started filtering out that 78-year-old mutharika was dead. translator: although i am walking in town here, i am mourning. i know some are not concerned but this is a serious and sad development. >> the president's body has been taken to south africa while crisis talks continue about who will resume power. the president secured a second term in office back in 2009, did he so with a thumping 66% of the vote. as the years went by and economy nose-dived, so did his popularity. many accusing the elderly president of heavy-handedness and mismanagement of the economy. now with his death comes a success battle. joyce bander, the vice president

, should take over in line with the constitution. she was expelled from the party. president's brother, himself a minister, has been groom from the job. whilst the president's body remains here in south africa marks lawy's future is clouded in uncertainty. britain's international development secretary, andrew mitchell, is among those urging a peaceful transition in line with the constitution. but whoever takes over faces enormous economic challenges in one of africa's poorest nations. karen allen, bc news, south africa. >> a concert has been held in sarajevo to mark the beginning of the civil war 20 years ago. the conflict led to some of the worst atrocities on european soil since the sedged world war. at least 100,000 people were killed across bosnia and half the population forced from their homes. today some of the physical scars healed. as matthew price reports, after two decades bosnia remains a

divided country. 11,5041 dead. today, each of those killed in sarajevo had a chair set aside for them. picture those who should be sitting here, old, the very young. sarajevo today in the spreng sunshine is a modern european city. but it's hard in the balkans to escape the past. hard to forget the slaughter, the suffering. translator: nobody thought that there would be a war. it's hard to believe this war happened in europe. translator: no one won and that's a great shame. they all wanted everything and they got nothing. that's the worse thing.

>> 1992 bosnian croat population voted for independence from yugoslavia. was none serbs rejected the decision violently. 20 years ago today five people were killed when serb nationalists fired into a crowd in sarajevo. the war had begun. the siege of severe sfer lasted four desperate, deadly months. the city was shelled, bombed, almost obliterated. sniper alley, just being there was enough to get you killed. bosnia was brutalized, carved up, serbs, croats fought for

clarity. ethnic cleansing came to europe. international diplomacy proved useless. the united nations sent in peacekeepers. they managed little. the favor most bloody in the enclave of shremember kneesia. -- shremember notesia. there president mubarak promised the serbs they were safe. they were not. more than 7,000 men and boys were killed in cold blood. it was this massacre that led to nato's intervention, forcing serbs into retreat. the western-imposed dayton peace agreement ended the war. bozia was divided. and that is how it remains today. a country split, divided even on this day of remembrance.

the past defines the presence in the balkans, two decades gone but still as raw as ever. matthew price, bbc news. >> on the 6th of april 1917 the united states ascended into world war i. years later the war is a faded memory. other wars have come and gone. their memorials sit on washington's monument. world war i is not on the national mon ulet. the -- monument. the way the war was seen at the time is part of how it's remembered now. >> it's been 95 years since 5 million americans joined the battles on european soil but no one is left who can they they fought in the great war. frank buckles was the last-known

america two could. >> you have a certain responsibility there that you are representing. those who have gone before. buckles died last year at the age 110. before he passed he campaigned for a remembrance of the great war. other wars have come and gone. their monuments sit on washington's national wall. but world war i, still without a national monument, faded in america's collective memory. in kansas city, the national world war i museum fights to remind visitorses of the nation's sacrifice. >> they kind of know it was before world war ii and that there was an armistice and that president wilson was the president in the united states. beyond that, not a whole lot.

>> how the war was seen at the time it occurred played a part in how it's remembered now. many in the u.s. wanted to stay ott of it. they saw no reason why americans had to fight and die. >> without a clear understanding of the end that came out of it, you had to deal with the question mass sacrifice leaves us uncertain how we will memorialize them. >> then the great depression came. and world war ii. >> just 20 years after the end of world war i, world war ii started. and so that kind of crowded things out. >> the ames of that sort of dust war were clear and americans knew what we were there for and emerged as a victorious power. >> what hasn't been clear for nearly a century is what else should america do to honor its sacrifices in the great war?

as the u.s. winds down two modern wars, how the nation remembers its war dead is a question future generations must continue to answer. david bosssy, bbc news, kansas city. >>le with, the first -- well, the first of the three mega million lottery winners have come forward to claim a share of the $660 million jackpot. kansas lottery officials presented a check for $218 million to a cardboard figure after the winner asked to remain anonymous. two remaining tickets purchased in illinois and maryland remain unclaims. main news again, seven people receive hospital treatment after an navy fighter jet crashed into an apartment block in virginia. both crew members ejected before impact. three people are still

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