. -- ben brown. >> they are stranded, out of libya but not yet safely into neighboring tunisia. this bordering crossing point has been overwhelmed by a tide of humanity. more than 70,000 people so far and counting. the vast majority of them migrant workers from countries like egypt. many are exhausted and sick, and no wonder. they have been traveling for days to get here, fleeing from the terror and turmoil that is colonel gaddafi's libya. >> they have to try to ease the situation a little bit. a humanitarian crisis. there has to be a concerted effort, and governments have to take action right now. >> once they do get through the border, many end up sleeping on the roadside. for the fortunate few, there is a transit camp that has been set up by the tunisian army. the united nations have just created another camp. suddenly, these people are living like refugees. but one of them, mohammad, says it would have been worse to have stayed in libya. >> face many troubles. >> united nations refugee agency has called for an air evacuation. those who have crossed the border here, they can

ben brown, bbc news, on the tunisian-libyan border. >> you are with "bbc world news." first though, just 39 years old, the german defense minister looked to have a bright future. guttenberg was even looked at as being a future leader, but today, accusations that he plagiarized some of his ph.d. thesis have forced his resignation. >> until now, he has lived a charmed political life. young, a glamorous wife, an aristocrat, richy. -- rich. today, he resigned because of a plagiarism scandal. he says, in a friendly talk with the chancellor angela merkel, i would resign from a ministerial job. he was resigning his role as defense minister. the dr. doom thesis he said he wrote, he did not write entirely. it to -- the doctoral thesis he said he wrote, he did not write it entirely. he is no longer a jumper of hurdles. but today, chancellor merkel said she had accepted his resignation. she says, "this morning, i was surprised he asked to speak with me by phone. i have accepted his resignation with a heavy heart." the german army is being radically restructured. so his departure

ben brown, bbc news on the libya border. >> protestors have taken to the streets in the gulf state calling for jobs and reform. they set a supermarket on fire. mean while in yemen, there are several weeks of those taking to streets of the resignation of the president. and in egypt it was ordered that the money and assets of the family be furthered. and about leaving the country and about how it was acquired are being investigated. good to have you with us, you are watching "bbc world news," still to come. jane russell who began her acting career in the 1940's has died. a former british airways official was charged with attempting to blowup a plane. >> a british airways employee and radicalized muslim. he was encouraged to see his job with the airline as a golden opportunity to attack the west. he was a quiet, respectful man. but he lived a double life. at talented computer engineer, on his home pc he used sophisticated encryption and codes around the world. he contacted this man a cleric in yemen. >> 911 was the answers of the american people who suffered from aggression. >> he is probably

. >> ben brown forest and benghazi. two workers working at the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant at and hospitals -- have been hospitalized due to re-aviation. -- due to radiation. more than a quarter of the people in japan are still homeless, many living in shelters. our correspondent reports on the efforts to provide them with food, warmth, and shelter. >> it is better, jill, and bleak. smashed by the tsunami, buried by the snow. he lost half his staff. the leader let's the fisherman just wait. chopping up the timbers of their former homes to ward off the gold. and ken sosaki is the only official left in this neighborhood, caring for 1000 people. this is where he is living. >> at night, it is very cold. >> that is where you have to sleep? and warmth? do you have any warmth in here? >> [inaudible] >> and there are others, too. the kobayashi family are sheltering inside their van. mom, dad, and two boys. it is cold, he says. "i am worried about our future." when the waves swept through this town of 16,000, the sea wall wa

. >> ben brown for us. the general in charge of implementing the no-fly zone insists that and i sat in colonel gaddafi is not the aim of the mission he says that the operation could end in stalemate. >> i could see accomplishing the military mission that has been assigned to me, and the current leader would remain the current leader. is that ideal that i do not think anyone would say that is ideal. i could envision that as of possible situation, at least for the current mission i have. i would reiterate though, that i have no mission to attack that person, and we are not doing so. we are not seeking his whereabouts or anything like that. we think we have been a very effective in degrading his ability to control his regime forces, and we think we are seeing that lay out in various parts of the country. >> in yemen, protests against the president have gained momentum with more senior defections to the opposition. some prominent generals, and a top tribal leader, along with key ambassadors are calling for him

ben brown, bbc news, on the libya-tunisian border. >> protesters have taken to the streets in oman forhird day, calling for jobs and political reform. they said a supermarket in fire in the main industrial center. police shot dead at least one demonstrator. in yemen, and hundreds of female activists and students joined in the university. for several weeks, protesters have taken to the streets, demanding resignation of their president. the money and assets of former president mubarak and his family have been frozen as complaints about their wealth and how it was acquired are being investigated. you are watching "bbc news." screen siren jane russell, who began her acting career in hollywood in the 1940's has died. more than 5000 people have been left homeless by the landslides that struck parts of the bolivian capital sunday. officials say 400 homes were destroyed. >> two days since the landslide that swept away the area, and still deserted properties are collapsing. infrastructure has been totally destroyed. the roads now lead nowhere, and everywhere those who remain have lost almost ev

ben brown, bbc news, ras lanuf in libya. >>> in the pacific, japan was rocked by yet another earthquake that at any other time the country would have shrugged off. the magnitude 6.5 quake did trigger a tsunami alert in the northeast right where that magnitude 9.0 quake struck just just two weeks ago. the warning was lifted after a short time and no damage of new injuries or damages. >>> the latest earthquake rattled fukushima where a battle to avert nuclear disaster is still undecided. this morning we have new pictures of how badly damaged those reactors are, also how badly the crisis has been managed. david wright has the story. >> reporter: new aerial images of the smoldering nuclear cauldron that refuses to be brought under control. at reactor number one the roof is completely gone. reactors two and three have holes in the roof and steam is leaking out. reactor four, the walls are gone. that yellow ball is the top of the containment vessel. inside the control room for reactor two, workers had finally managed to restore power and turn on the lights. they were measuring radiation level

ben mann. >> mark: brown wants a special election in june in the election, it would take three months to organizethat he needs a compromise now. u.s. voters to extend the temporary tax hikes that are now a place. those will expire june 30th. those taxes make up half of governor brown's plan to erase the deficit. without them the deep cuts will have to double. >> don't overtaxes or cats but to let the people decide what it is they want. >> mark: republicans as for hard spending cap, looser regulation and businesses, changes to budgeting and the tax code. without that they will not allow a special election. (music) >> darya: astronauts aboard space shuttle discovery got live performance. the wake up on was blue sky. performing it from mission control. they are on track for landing tomorrow. it will be the last one and then the astronauts will be holding a ceremony for the final flight before they do that. bay area resident should be able to see the discovery pass over tonight. as long as the weather is clear we should look up at about 7:25 p.m. and see something. >> mark: we will be right back as t

brown. bit more enthusiasm. just read 'em a bit faster... he used to be black, and played with children. ben: michael jackson!eah. "he used to be black and played with children"? what, like hoopla and...? fat gold guy. goldfinger. david dickinson. he's like a god. who is he? buddha. the divine inspiration for hundreds of millions of people-- "fat gold guy." he's a liar. tony blair. his nose gets big. tony blair. rock, paper, scissors. velociraptor! come on! ben, can you just please...? it's paper, it's rock, or it's scissors. that's it. three things in the repertoire-- rock, paper, scissors. ...paper, scissors. nuclear bomb! right. karen wins. no! please, both of you, stop. okay, shall we play something else? so, what's this game you want to play? it's called dinosaur-teddy-robot. dad: what do we do? mum: what are the rules? well... robot kills dinosaur, dinosaur kills teddy, and teddy kills robot, because the dinosaur can eat the teddy, the teddy can deactivate the robot, and the robot can laser the dinosaur. sounds so complicated. but it's good. good, mind. you hide them under the table, and then we say, "t