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Transcripts For BBCAMERICA BBC World News 20150312

A scathing report. It may be armor plated but takes courage to wear this outfit on the streets of afghanistan. The artist who did and what happened next. 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. This attack happened during a demonstration taking place just a few hours after the Ferguson Police chief had resigned. This was after some heavy criticism of his force. It was in ferguson last august you remember that an unarmed black teenager was shot dead by a white Police Officer. Keith rose was among those involved 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 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 officer rushing to the aid of that officer, carrying and dragging them. There was blood on the ground where they had been dragged. That gives you a picture of what was going on. In the immediate aftermath from the shootings themselves this was the scene. Officers taking cover outside their Police Headquarters hiding behind walls and their own shulds shields. The latest incident did seem to catch protesters and police by surprise as the gathering outside the station had been a relatively lowkey 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, im 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 Darian Wilson did not break any laws when he shot 18yearold 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, theyre being treated. I dont 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. Lets give you a context. It comes after the resignation of the police chief Thomas Jackson. Here he is. That was over Justice Department report into Law Enforcement in ferguson in which the attorney general described the conditions there the report was described as searingly critical. It found widespread racial bias in police in its investigation by the police. 93 of those arrested in ferguson were black, nine out of ten uses of force were against africanamericans. It went on to say that black residents in the town were subject to a disproportionately high number of traffic stops. You see the percentage there. 86 . Take that into account that the africanamericans make up just 67 of the population. Patricia bynes is a ferguson Democratic Committee woman. She described the mood in ferguson. 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 severe rance package theyre getting parachutes when they resign from these positions. Also people were out saying we want knowles. The chief is not enough. I believe what turned into like a celebration for some and protests for others to show its not enough and people someone in the crowd wasnt it interested in protesting took the shots at the Police Officers. I think that we have a serious problem here in ferguson. The mu nisnicipal government seems to be structured around getting revenue and racially profiling africanamericans 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 africanamerican. Patricia bynes, a democratic representative ins the city of ferguson. The United Nations Security Council has failed in its duty to end the war in syria. Thats according to a report by a Global Coalition of aide agencies. The report criticizes the council for letting down civilians and calls on government to boost their humanitarian response. Now since the fighting began, four years ago, more than 200,000 people have been killed some 8 million have been displaced. Jeremy burn has this. Reporter good news doesnt 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 syrias descent into hell are shocking but more shocking is that the politicians around the world have given up on solving the syrian crisis. Its 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 whats 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 worlds most powerful countries have not been able to make their own u. N. Resolutions work. But that would have taken the kind of intervention thats 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 overflow 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 free, whether they are living in isis they are suffering from the bombs on them, they are suffering from ts isis is putting on them. Both areas, they dont have choices. Syrians are they are waiting for an alternative, they are waiting for someone to give them their life again. Reporter four years on syrias wouldbe 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 jihad diss. 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. Its 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 theyll come on again. Jeremy bowhen, bbc news. A top u. S. General said there is no doubt that iraqi forces will drive Islamic State militants out of tikrit. Iraqi troops have reportedly entered the citys Northern Areas now while at the same time the bbc learned Islamic State is using chlorine gas in some bomb attacks. Our report from baghdad. Reporter this is the latest weapon in the arsenal of the selfproclaimed Islamic State. A cloud of orange chlorine gas. First used in world war i. Its now being adopted on the battlefield in iraq. Shot by the iraqi bomb disposal team, this video shows the crude tactics designed to spread panic among the illequipped 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. Theyre 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 didnt 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 couldnt 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 were seeing here is a classic reporter we showed the dsed video to a british chemical expert. Chlorine explosion i think mainly psychological. Theyve seen how effective chlorine has been in syria. They were gassed themselves by the regime. Theyve seen how effective its 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. Some other news 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 began with the explosion of the gates of a fortified compound before gunmen shot their way inside. An unconfirmed report by a u. N. Source said aid agencies which share the compound didnt appear to be the target. Australia has offered to cover the cost of life in prisonment for two of its citizens who are facing the Death Penalty in indonesia for drug trafficking. Australias foreign minister said she made the offer to her indonesian counterpart last week but had received no response. Britains military of defense has confirmed that the female military Health Worker who has contracted ebola in sierra leone is being flown back to the uk for treatment. Its the first time a member of a British Military team has caught the virus. 10,000 people have died during the outbreak in the region. Do stay with us on bbc world news. Still to come in the program, the daughter of russias murdered opposition figure Boris Nemtsov tells the bbc Vladimir Putin must take political responsibility for his death. We love. Love. Love. Chocolaty, creamy. With a Little Something extra. Mmm deliciousness. Cookies or almonds. Yumminess. Hersheys is mine, yours, our chocolate. Thanks for being with us on 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 city of ferguson. Aide agencies accuse the United Nations of failing in its duties to end the war in syria. A scathing report to mark the fourth anniversary of the conflict. The russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was murdered less than two weeks ago and the investigation into the case seems to be getting merck yer. Two chechen men have been charged. Boris nemtsovs daughter said Vladimir Putin is responsible for her fathers death. Keep power in kremlin. All the independent media. This is not an election. This is a special election. This is manipulation and fraud. Reporter for a decade Boris Nemtsov was one of russias most highprofile 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 its 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 attacked her. I came into her room and asked her what was going on and she told me. At the first moments i couldnt 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 dont 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 something the killing may have been linked to islamic extremism. His supporters nis dismiss that as nonsense. Nemtsov was also working on a report detailing russias military involvement in eastern ukraine. His daughter says they discussed the report but that shes not been able to access her fathers apartment nor the computers on which he kept his files. Are you afraid to go back . Im not afraid. I will go back on the 15th of march, but i they have killed my father. I cannot just keep silent. Its its absolutely impossible. Zhanna nemtsov in that report from gabriel. Time to pick up on the world of business. Alex is here. Gaming is the name. Absolutely right. A Huge Industry here in the uk david, and, of course across much of europe. Today, were talking though about london because it does have the largest Games Development community specifically in europe with over 250 such studios. Over a couple days the creme de la creme of the gaming industry will be meeting in london to discuss the latest challenges and developments. The event culminates with the gaming awards this evening and a number of gamers globally is expected to surpass 1. 2 billion by the end of the year. Spending is highest in places like latin america and the asiapacific region and the market for smartphone and tablet games we think will grow around 35 to 12. 3 billion u. S. Dollars easily outpacing any other segment. Also in biz, could wall street provide another financial crisis. Thats the question the u. S. Central bank and Federal Reserve has been asking in its stress tests of the countrys banking giants, the second part of which was published on wednesday. Running the tests since 2009 in the wake of the collapse of lehman brothers. Was it reassured . The answer yes mostly. Some of wall streets biggest names just scraped by after being forced to rethink their plans to hand out cash to share hoelders and two big european names failed altogether. All the details in World Business report. Global shares regained something of a firmer footing on thursday after several days of volatile trading linked to anxiety over a rate hike in the u. S. Here in europe the ecb, theyre trying to lower them. All of that hammering the euro and sending it higher sending the dollar higher. The euro has strengthened slightly from the 1. 5 mark it was in the previous session but still re make at its highest levels in years. Thats where it currently stands. David . Alex thanks very much indeed. An afghan artist has been forced into hiding after receiving Death Threats after dressing in a metal suit showing the female form. She wore this armor in a prerns on the streets of kabul to highlight the problems of sexual harass meant that women face. Reporter in a secret hiding place where shes fled facing Death Threats, she shows me the somewhat unusual garment she had specially made to the surprise of a kabul blacksmith. Give him and start hammering and putting some marks here. 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 . I get in the car so some people were like trying top stop the car a

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