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>> and now, bbc world news. >> the u.s. is divided over how to confront iran's nuclear development. the israel prime minister says time has run out. >> none of us can afford to wait much longer. >> the governing congress party suffer badly in state elections. in syria refuse gentlemens esca escape. we hear from our correspondent. welcome to bbc world news. also in this program. >> what it is like to be unemployed? britain's prince harry arrives in jamaica on the latest part of his caribbean tour. will he be put through his paces later?
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>> the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says iran should never be allowed to have nuclear weapons. he says sanctions have failed and there is speculation about a possible military strike he said israel and the world couldn't afford to wait much longer. we have this report from washington. >> for months his intentions have been a guessing game. ut here before a pro-israel audience benjamin netanyahu left no room for doubt as to how he views iran. >> the jewish state will not allow those that seek our destruction to possess the means to achieve that goal, a nuclear armed iran must be stopped. >> he warns a nuclear armed iran
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could hold global oil markets to ransome and stage terror attacks with nuclear materials. he was submissive of existing efforts at tkrpbs. >> israel has waited, patiently the international community it resolve this issue. we have waited for diplomacy to work. we have waited for sanctions to work. none of us can afford to wait much longer. >> pointedly he described how america had refused to bomb auschwitz during world war ii implicitly challenging the obama white house to act now. the israeli and american governments agree iran's uranium enrichment facilities must not be a production line for nuclear weapons. this week the head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog voiced serious concerns about the possible military dimensions of the program. iran insists it is producing energy.
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>> it is very difficult. >> what i mean the visitor to the white house ponders a military strike his host says sanctions and diplomacy must be given time to work. >> we have worked so diligently to set up the most crippling sanctions ever with respect to iran. we do believe that there is still a window that allows for a diplomatic resolution to the issue but ultimately the iranian regime has it make a decision to move in that direction. >> in public the tone of this visit has been one of cautious coveragiality. but what matters is what they discuss behind closed doors. if israel strikes iran will it tell washington in advance? and under what circumstances if any might barack obama offer military help? the speech didn't produce clear answers. neither perhaps the visit. two leaders have membered to
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consult closely as the clock ticks toward a decision. >> a leading american politician has called for enter srpbgs in syria. john mccain former republican presidential candidate said only air strikes could help. elsewhere britain's former ambassador to syria said he expects the president of the regime to be overthrown this year and possibly within weeks. he left damascus just a few days ago and says the economy is collapsing and syrian military is demoralized and overstretched. refugees says the stipulate is creating massacresment our correspondent was to the outskirts of the city and we have more from him in a moment but first here is part of his report on the exodus.
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they are terrified on what government forces will do. it group walked three days avoid soldiers. whoever is taken of a checkpoint will be killed, he says. they took our husbands she cries. they took them at the checkpoint. it is absolutely freezing here. these kids have a house with no heat or electricity and more than that they are wondering what on earth has happened to their father. > he is now in beirut in neighboring lebanon. how many families were in the same situation as those on the road out of ohm? >> we saw an exodus of some 4,000 and where we saw groups of displaced people with men they went around the check points. but we saw many groups of women
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and children without their men folk and we asked the women what do you think happened to them. they all said they have been killed or they are being killed. and fear.heir belief they didn't have any proof of that. but they are hearing from other people accounts such as that given to me by a family. the father said that he saw machine being taken away in his neighborhood and crouched down behind trees and only 50 to 100 meters they were tan out into the streets and killed including his 12-year-old son and two of his brothers and a nephew. corroboration for that but we spent several hours talking to the family. they had a very convincing account and these kinds of accounts are believed by the other displaced people who fear the worst. so the question is how many of the men are missing and what has happened to them? >> this is compared with
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another situation and said we have asked this question how can the world stand by and watch this so many times. what are your thoughts having just come out of there? an obvious comparison when you say the men and boys were taken away. i think we have to be careful here. people are talking about a massacre. we don't yet know that is the case. we have a lot of convincing firsthand testimony from people who say they saw bodies or saw people being killed. that, i spoke to skoe soldiers who were taking part and defected and said prisoners were killed and he personally saw an old man and a gun was put to his head and efficient he was killed. we don't know the size of this and it is hard to make a kpaerpb to the genocide of several
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thousand men and boys. we have some very disturbing accounts of killings and questions over how many may have been killed and how many are missing. >> what is your assessment of how strong the opposition is, the free syria army and what is happening to those people who are fleeing that we saw in your report there? >> there isn't one big tented city of displaced people. they tend to go off in different directions to stay with relatives, go to lebanon, go further into syria and what is moving is to meet the women whose men have been taken away and fear that they have been killed and were moving on without any certain knowledge of what had happened to them. i notice that the british ambassador, the rest british ambassador it syria, is giving president assad's regime weeks or perhaps to the end of the year. what i saw around ohm was
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disarray of the opposition. they withdrew and were divided among themselves i know speaking to people back home there is bitterness about that withdrawal. some feel betrayed. >> paul was speaking to me earlier from brit. other news in breakfast, the u.s. attorney general says authorities would have the right to kill an american dissident if they were engaged in terrorist activities abroad. holder said it would be lawful if the senior ladder of al qaeda tried to kill americans and could not be captured. flooding in australia continues to cause havoc in three eastern states. almost 9,000 have been evacuated from homes in one town. it was hit by terrible floods last year. scientists have discovered puts of an area are being insraeutded
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by new plants and tiny animals. 70,000 seeds are carried on the ors clothes overwhelm ecology. rising temperatures are allowing them to germinate. >> not a surprise they confirm what we think. >> in the last few minutes we have confirmation the eurozone economy contracted in the last quarter of 2011. basically what the european economicser is saying it believes or expects the eurozone to enter recession this year. key is some that will be in and others like germany and france which are expected to escape any this year. this comes on the same day they are expecting brazil it come out with its economic growth figures. it is one of the fastest greg economies.
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expecting it to overtake the u.k. as world's fifth biggest economy. brazil is a human country of 197 million people and we saw economic growth last year of 3.5%. so, it really is on a different trajectory to european countries for example. of the things benefiting brazil like many countries who export a lot is high food and oil prices. both benefit the brazilian economy. >> a quick look. >> i will be talking to them in a few minutes and ask about this. but geneva motor show loads of different cars on show. or not?sell we will be finding out shortly. >> thank you very much. just to bring you some news coming in the last couple of minutes on syria and the turkish prime minister is calling for
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the phaoimmediate opening of humanitarian corridors. the prime minister calling for the immediate opening of humanitarian corridors in syria presumably to help the civilians that we have been seeing there under the continued government bombardm t bombardment. in india the latest ambitious member has suffered as his party has sufrpd. congress is trailing in fourth place in the politically state of pradesh. with 112 voters is seen as a political bellwether for the next election in 2014. we have this report and they say the state is key for congress. >> a number of elections are taking place and the result coming in. on a very bad day for the congress party and ghandi
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family. they campaigned very hard here the last couple of months to resurrect the party which is already in a very bad shape and they have not been able to do very much. they are still in fourth place. top honors to the regional party and who will have the right to form the next government. technically disappointing for congress they are losing one jab in the north and poor results all around and it will likely have a effect on the government at the federal level. >> talking of jobs going, one big one for football. >> we were talking about the chelsea manager's job and england the national manager with the european championships coming up. fabio cappella walks about three weeks ago on a point of principle. as the is often termed
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em-- impossible job because it is not like being a job manager. cappella is one of the great managers and you could not say he was an outstanding success. so rather than go for a domestic english based manager or nor overseas manager. we will hear from the man who was the first fortune english manager. >> if you read the press and if you speak to people and things like that, i would guess that it is the obvious choice by everyone. he is popular, doing a tkpwragr job. so i guess it will be him. for some people it is a big thing. >> he says harry should be the england manager and the english football public are very passionate and english manager in charge of their team but bets are being hedgeded saying there
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is a list of about 10 people. >> strange are things have happened. >> thank you very much. you are watching bbc world news. still to come celebrating the first millennium, harming people of no safe drinking water. >> north korea could have a joint south korea military exercise as preparation for an invasion. .s. soldiers have been load ing vehicles and equipment in south korea for live firing drills. and say they are routine defensive in nature. heavy snow in northern france has caused severe disruption cutting power lines and blocking transports. high speed trains are delayed and the local airport was closed many hours yesterday afternoon.
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marine biologists in peru have found a rare star fish in the pacific ocean. researchers found three star fish species that were not known to have existed in the area. among them a little known star fish characterized by the burning color and spine. more on our news at the website. >> this is bbc world news. the headlines for you. the main head lane israel's prime minister says time is running out to stop iran developing nuclear weapons. more on that because mr. netanyahu was speaking to a pro-israel lobby group in washington yesterday. we will speak it our diplomatic correspondent. you have written a really interesting piece and i want to ask you about it.
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how israel would manage to strike if it comes to that? we have seen a lot of speculation in arrest weeks about what the military options are. can you talk us through that? >> i think the clear thing is if it s military options chooses to exercise them are far more limited we believe than those that the united states would have at its disposal. the problem i think and real fundamental difference between the two governments is that israel's options run out much earlier than the americans'. if israel were to attack it would have to conduct an operation over a very, very long-distance. that would make air-to-air refueling crucial and almost certainly wouldn't be able to strike the range of targets that the americans would be. of course it has to be said such a strike at this stage would be entirely illegal under international law. here would be no justification for doing it in heal terms. but clearly as we know from cost
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very and nato involvement and various countries that went into iraq, international law rightly or wrongly is not always the only determinant of a country's actions. >> but there's been talk about the refueling options of israel, can they actually get as far as they need without outside assistance and they can only strike the targets within the next few months, after that it is down to the americans. >> i think it quit clear that iran is burying many of its key facilities deep underground. that makes it open to question whether even the americans have the capacity to do the damage that would be required. i think the great concern to many analysts is they believe that the israelis could do damage and could carry out an operation but that it would only set the iranian nuclear program become maybe a few -- back a few years and almost certainly convince the iranians that they should press ahead and go for a
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nuclear weapon which nobody believes they have made that decision yet. and the consequences, iran's ability to strike back either through its own missile forces, through proxies and allies in lebanon and gaza strip and potentially closing the crucial artery for international oil the could of hormuz which have an immediate economic impact on the world on if the american navy was able it reopen it in a matter of days. indeed.s very much with much of europe wracked by economic grand slam few countries are feeling the pain more than spain which has the highest jobless rate in the e.u. almost one in fourth of work. a 23-year-old student from madrid shared experiences and fears of a difficult future as spain struggled with an unprecedented period of economic
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austerity. people in spain see that this system is not offering what they want. i live in madrid. i'm 23 years old. i study journalism at the university here in madrid. i still live with my parents. think that i will be living with them for a long team. my friend finished university two years ago and has been looking for a job for two years. the only thing she found is an internship in a company. she earns only 300 euros a month. >> it is about being self-sufficient so that i can
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pay my phone bill, for my clothes without having to depend on my mom and brothers to follow my dreams. i'm 25 and at this age you want to have a more secure future with your partner, house, to even talk about a mortgage is such a distant thought. together.t to school he's been working at his dad's printing business since september. the plans for the hops of the future changed because of the crisis in spaepb? >> yes. get a job hereld and everything would go well. the reality is that it has not worked out. considering how difficult it is no et a job, there is alternative but it leave spain. >> my family usually talks about big crisis and it is
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conversation issue. i'm not very hopeful for the future because i can see that all my friends and me, we are finishing our university degrees and we can't find a job. in spain we is kwhy need to care about population and less for the banks. >> one spain's young people trying to find work in very difficult times. over a decade ago maybe 200 nations made a pledge to free people from extreme poverty and alleviate many of the problems that go with it. the millennium development goals have a blueprint for the world poor on everything from primary education to stopping the spread of h.i.v. the goals were supposed to be achieved by 2015. while some are lagging behind, there is something to celebrate. we have news that the first goal has opinion reached, the
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proportionate of the population without access to safe drinking water has been halved in the last two decades. i'm joined by someone to discuss this. what are the numbers? how has this happened? >> two billion people have achieved access to safe water in the last two years which is tremendous. it shows work can work and we have the leadership in place and you can make progress on these huge goals. >> up from 76% in 1990 to 89% of the population now getting improved water supply. >> that's right. it is a good story but there is 11% of the population who don't have access to safe tkreufrplging water. >> sub-sahara africa a problem? >> yes, some progress but some countries have made really good strides in water but there are 780 million without drinking water. >> why did it happen in parts
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like asia? >> china, a lot of success in india. doublefold. the chinese and indian governments have shown they realize the good investment water sanitation brings in return for economic growth. health, education. it underpins the economic growth and they have had economic growth and had the investments to make. >> what sort of measures have been brought to the areas? >> we are seeing it is a life saver. this is about women and girls. at the moment 4,000 children die diseases right to diarrhea or sanitation. they are completely preventible if the children were kept alive we have seen improvement in education, livelihood, economic empowerment. it is a pinnacle of growth. the sanitation target is not being hit. in india more than half the population, 626 million don't have access to a .
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>> this is people defecating in in a bush.ing not acceptable. that is the biggest kill are is sanitation. great but we need sanitation and good hygiene. >> investment makes the difference. >> and leadership. both from countries in the north and from the south. >> thank you. we will leave it there. thank you for coming in. before we go britain's prince harry is due to get a master class in sprinting from usain bolt. he arrived in jamaica on his caribbean tour in honor of queen elizabeth's offensive years on the thrown. the prince is meeting the world's fastest man for a coaching session. usain bolt and prince harry will meet in just over five hours. it is supposed to be a 100-meter race possibly between the two men. the turkish prime minister calling for the syrian regime it
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allow immediate humanitarian aid corridors. more at the website. >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. the newman's own foundation. and union bank. at union bank our relationship managers use their expertise in global finance to guide you through the business strategies an opportunities of international commerce. we put our extended global network to work for a wide range of companies from small businesses to major corporations. what can we do for you?
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