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what can we do for you? and now, bbc world news. syrian tv says the army has begun operations to restore order in a flashpoint town. thousands from the surrounding area are still fleeing over the border. turkey s prime minister says an atrocity has been committed. it s german bean sprouts. germany s top health specialist says data reveals the source of an outbreak, and it s not over yet. will the murky world of french politics unravel? christine l.a. guard s bid to lead the i am i am. also coming up in the program back from injury with the fastest 200 meters of the year, usain bolt lights up the games. and 90 years old, time to take it easy. prince phillip speaks of his plans for the future. after days of buildup, syrian state television says troops and tanks have begun operations to restore order in the northern town where the government says 120 members of his security forces were killed by armed gangs. earlier, syrian state tv showed pictures of the army training. there are also pictures from the town of jisr al-shughour, which suggests most people have already fled the town. thousands in that area finding their way up to the border and across it with turkey. democracy activists in syria have vowed to stage more protests in the course of the day against president al assad. foreign journalists are banned from syria. the bbc s jim muir is monitoring events for us in beirut. well, by all accounts, there are fires burning on the state tv saying that gunmen or armed organizations in jisr al-shoughour have set fires to trees and forests around town, and now from the other side, on protests web sites or facebook pages, information is starting to come in saying the nearby village was intensive firing. troops came up against barricades put by villagers to try to flow or prevent their advance on jisr al-shoughour. there is action going on, and it s been hanging in the air all week as the government is sending troops into the area in preparation for this crackdown on the town after the killing, of course, of the alleged killing of 120 security men on monday. residents in the town have told us that they understood many of the deaths were in the course of fighting breaking out between some of those troops who defected. nonetheless, the syrian government official line is very much that it was armed gangs causing the trouble. and in this tv news summary earlier, state tv did show a number of people welcoming the army into their town. the arrival of the army is the most important thing for us. they protect our homeland and its people. the army, they are like our sons. they are not strangers. whatever happens to them, it s like it happened to our own children. the army should have entered a while back to calm the terrified people. as i say, many people heading up for the border just a few miles away. our correspondent, owen bennett, joins us from there now. owen, just give us an update on numbers, because it s certainly growing, isn t it? certainly is. i m at a check point that is pretty militarized, andy been speaking to bus drivers, 15 of them. and from time to time, we get calls from people monitoring. they pick them up and take them to the official camps, and they say they get called by the turkish military, so the whole thing is quite organized. owen, the line is really difficult. we re going to leave it there, but i will just add to that that with reports coming from the turkish prime minister accusing the syrian regime of perpetrating what he called an atrocity against many of the demonstrations. it is perhaps understandable the turkish authorities are carrying out a pretty thorough and ordered effort to look after those who are crossing the border. these are the pictures coming from the border there. i ve got to move on with some breaking news for you, and this is regarding the e. coli outbreak in germany, where the authorities there, the health authorities, have again named locally grown bean sprouts as the most likely source of the outbreak of e. coli. we re looking at someone like 30 people having died from the outbreak, another 3,000 or so falling seriously ill. the head of the german center for disease control does say the outbreak itself is not over . i think we can go over now to berlin. steve evans is there for us. steve, perhaps you can just fill us in on this. it is the bean sprouts after all? certainly the main institute, which is looking at these things, says it s the bean sprouts, and they ve lifted the warning against eating raw cucumber, tomatoes, and lettuce. they haven t found traces of this particular virulent strain of e. coli in that farm in lower saxony in the north of germany, which is closed. but they ve done tests of the sick people, what people had, that kind of thing. and they reckon you were nine times more likely to fall ill from bean sprouts than from other vegetables. therefore, they ve concluded it s the bean sprouts. the absence of that laboratory test, hard evidence linking those particular bean sprouts to the e. coli may simply be because the traces have now gone. remember, it was all of three weeks ago, but they still think that farm is probably the cause , and they certainly think the bean sprouts are the source. there s been enough toing and froing on this. this sounds as close as we ll get to a definitive view, perhaps, and i suppose it s going to get start to get more antagonism between germany and certainly not spain, but some other european countries. yeah, i think it is as close as we re going to get, and there is a political momentum to this now. chancellor merkel came back from washington 24 hours ago and said basically we need to find out. now, i think in most e. coli outbreaks, there may be an assumption that you never find out, and that s the way it goes. but in this one, it does seem the authorities really want to nail the thing down and come up with some kind of conclusive answer. now, the truth is that you can t come up with an answer, which is 100% conclusive. if you haven t done that heart laboratory evidence, but they are determined to get as near to 100% as they can. steve, thanks very much indeed. the man nominated as the new american defense secretary says iraq will ask the u.s. to keep troops in the country beyond the end of 2011 deadline. leon panetta, outgoing director of the c.i.a., said washington should say yes if baghdad asks. he did not say how many troops that would involve. the u.s. jury convicted a chicago businessman of supporting an islamic militant group blamed for the attack in 2008 in mumbai. he was clired of the more serious charge of the attacks that killed 160 people. the jury also convicted the pakistani-born canadian of helping an aborted attack on a danish newspaper. newt gingrich s bid to win the republican nomination for the presidency is in disarray after all members of his senior campaign staff resigned. it was a dispute about tactics apparently. mr. gingrich, a former speaker of the house of representatives, is believed to be determined nonetheless to stay in the race. christine lagarde hopes of securing the top job at the international monetary fund could take something of a hit today. after a week of drumming up support around the globe, french finance minister is now awaiting the outcome in paris of a judicial hearing. she s alleged to have abused her authority in granting a multimillion dollar payout to the businessman. here s daniel griffiths. she s the front-runner for one of the most powerful jobs in the world. christine lagarde, french finance minister and favorite in the race to become the next head of the i.m.f. her main challenger is this man . the governor of mexico s central bank and a former top official at the i.m.f. the vacancy comes after former chief, dominique strauss kahn is defending himself against attempted rape charges. so what do we know about the two main candidates? christine lagarde grew up in france, but spent much of her working life in france. she s been french finance minister since 2007. but hanging over her, the possibility of a legal inquiry into so far unproven allegations of misconduct regarding a payment to a close friend of president sarkozy. augustine karsten became governor of mexico s central bank last year. the 53-year-old is well thought of at the i.m.f. his time there was seen as a success. some developing countries would rather he took the job that traditionally has been held by a european. the final decision on who gets the job comes at the end of the month. the many eurozone countries are still in trouble with their government facing daily protests. and the global economy hasn t fully recovered either. whoever does get the job, it won t be easy. daniel griffith, bbc news. right, we have a look at other business stories. let s start with toyota, cutting their profit forecasts. it s already surprising when you consider the effects of the earthquake and tsunami, but it s going to cut its forecasts by about a third this year, estimated profit around $3.5 billion. essentially it says it s going to take a long time to get back to production after the sexerk tsunami t. means toyota is unlikely to end this year as the world s number one carmaker. it s likely to cede that crown to general motors and possibly even be overtaken by volkswagen in that ranking as well. the other thing that they re worried about is the consent of the sluggish global economic recovery, particularly in the united states, continuing unemployment, low wages, obviously they want to sell cars there, and that has an impact on the way they re doing that. more bad news in another field. it s grain prices. yeah, higher food prices. we ve got, as i say, poor unemployment. we ve got rising cost of living, rising cost of oil. now we ve got higher food prices. corn prices hit an all-time record overnight in the u.s. that have all those drought forecasts in the united states. they ve come back slightly, but they are still a good 17% higher than they were. and in europe, we ve got the opposite problem. of course, we ve got drought as well, which affects global food, stalks of grain, and other commodities, which is enormous in terms of inflation. sally, thank you very much. more business from sally in about 20 mental or so. the afghan president, hamid karzai, has arrived in pakistan for a two-day visit. both countries are looking for common ground. in particular when it comes to the idea of talking to the taliban. we can go to islamabad now. our correspondent, aleem maqbool, is there. what are the prospects for that sort of discussion, do you think, aleem? well, we just heard from pakistani and afghan officials. they say this visit is about enhancing the cooperation that already exists between these two brotherly nations. but it hasn t always seemed like that, of course. the issue for afghanistan is that most are very difficult, if not impossible to have resolution there, to have peace there without pakistan fully being on board, and a lot of people in afghanistan, a lot of government officials have said in the past that they don t believe that pakistan has been on board. they look at the not a month ago where osama bin laden was found and killed here in pakistan and say, well, this is what pakistan is doing potentially harboring afghanistan s enemies. there may be afghan and taliban leadership here as well. that is something that pakistan has denied. in the past it says it is fully cooperating, but certainly president karzai will look for more assurances today. for all the suspicions and the accusations that have been reeled out over many months and years, in fact, is there some goodwill scope for a movement together in the right direction? it depends. if there is those in the pakistani military who still see the world the way that they have done in the past, which is that they want an ally across the border in afghanistan, and if that ally is going to be ultimately the end of the day, the afghan taliban wants the coalition forces leave, and if they remain oriented in that way where they seek to nurture links and protect the afghan taliban, then, really, that does go against what the afghan government want themselves, and so they can t both go in the right direction. but if there is a reorientation of where pakistan stands, certainly the americans are putting a great deal of pressure, then perhaps things can move forward in that way. of course, the pakistanis, as they say, already deny that they are pulling in a different direction. they already say that their cooperation exists. an important couple of days. aleem, thank you. you re watching bbc world news. still to come 90 years old, it s his birthday today. time, he says, to take it easier. prince phillip speaks of his plans for the future. the united states says mexican drug cartels are increasingly targeting american border guards with cash bribes and sexual favors. charles edwards says the u.s. department of homeland security told a senate committee that cartels were using what he called systematic corruption to smuggle drugs and migrants across the border. he says the cartels were also seeking tipoffs about police investigations. here s peter berg. there s been an extensive inquiry into this, and the allegation is, in particular, the zeta drug cartel has been involved in systematic drug corruption, and drug specifically that they re talking about, also the trafficking of human beings, undocumented immigrants from mexico into the united states, and the allegation is monetary prides have been given, sexual favors as well, no specific details given on that. a bribe to customs agents to turn a blind eye or, in some cases, assist in this trafficking of drugs in particular and people as well. and also, this rather worrying allegation that over six years, 127 customs and border protection employees have been arrested or indicted over related charges. yes, that s right. that number was given. those people, as you say, indicted or arrested in connection with corruption charges. and the point has been made that efforts have been made on both sides of the border in the united states and in mexico, very significant efforts over the last few years to try to get a handle on this problem, increasing the number of customs agents on the border. and with that comes the acknowledgment that perhaps some of those agents are not as well qualified as they should be, and the implication being that perhaps they re more susceptible to this kind of alleged corruption. this is bbc world news. thanks for watching with us. the headlines this hour it s been reported there s order in the town where 120 security personnel were reportedly killed this week. new data from germany s main health institute has confirmed that german bean sprouts are the most likely source of an e. coli outbreak that killed 30 people. adunanimous is here now. questions still adnan is here now. questions still being asked about usain bolt. he s just the best of the best of the best. when it counts, the world championships and olympics, there s no one who can really get close to him. in offseason, sometimes he seems to take it a bit easier than possibly people would like him to. back home in jamaica, they say this man repeatedly earns about $9 million a year from endorsements and from prize money, and he should be making a lot more. they do not regrudge him anything. they love him. and he says, look, i enjoy my life. i like music, i like to do stuff away from the track, and here he is, it s the bislett games, one of the biggest meetings in the diamond league calendar, and yet they didn t get a truly world-class field to test bolt. this is his first 200 meters race in over a year because of his back problems. he finishes in 19.86 seconds, half a second faster than the athlete who finished in second place. but still, this is him running against tyson gay. he beat him in sweeten last year, and that s the big game. they will meet for the first time in 100 meters at the world championships in korea later this year. looks like he s been working on the weights as well. he does everything. does he everything that needs to be done. that s the point. what else does he have to do? if he wins races, why are people bothered? adnan, thank you very much indeed. we ve got spectacular pictures of a volcano in hawaii. they re being released by the u.s. geological survey. they really are exceptional. rising lava levels at the kill way avolcano kill way i can t volcano. scientists are keeping a close eye on this. this is a very natural phenomenon known as a flow, apparently. the lava is heading into a lake, where temperatures can reach 1,100 degrees fahrenheit. scientists worry that it could overflow. amazing pictures there. now to the longest serving consort of a british monarch. today is the 90th birthday of prince phillip. the duke has admitted he is winding down now because he s done his bit. well, this afternoon, the prince will carry on doing his bit as he hosts another reception at buckingham palace. this parade last night, a ceremony known as beating retreat. taking the salute, the duke of edinburgh, still playing a role on the public stage. the duke remains busy. but in a documentary shown last night, he told the bbc s fiona bruce that, at the age of 90, it was time to scale back before he reached his sell-by date. i reckon i ve done my bit, so i want to enjoy myself, with less responsibility, less frantic rushing about, less preparation, less trying to think of something to say. on top of that, the memory is going. i can t remember names. i m just sort of winding down. phillip was an officer in the royal navy when his wife, the then-princess elizabeth, became queen. her role was clear, but his as husband of the head of state, wasn t. the problem is because it was recognized it wasn t recognized what the niche was and to try to grow into it, and that was like trial and error. there was no precedent what you expect me to do, they all looked blank. hoe minutes to get round the world. so, phillip improvised. he appeared on television, becoming the first member of the royal family to give a tv interview. he set up the duke of edinburgh s awards scheme, from which about six million people in more than 100 countries have now benefited. and he was one of the first to champion the cause of nature conservation, a role which required more than a mere fondness for animals. would you describe yourself as green? no. no. why not? well, because i think that there s a difference between being concerned for the conservation of nature and being a bunny hugger. along the way, of course, the duke has ruffled not a few feathers with his reputation for plain speaking and his habit of trying to break the ice with jokes that don t always work remember the broadcaster has known the duke for 30 years. he believes he s often misunderstood and underestimated. he does not wear his emotions on his sleeve. he does not want to expose himself. he has a stiff upper lip. he doesn t believe in introspection. he is that kind of chap. his humor represents that. his elegance to the world represents that. this is a guy who was born in 1921, and i think represents the very best of that generation. although he s now 90, the duke remains physically fit and mentally sharp. he may indeed, as he says, be winding down, but he still has a busy program, and he will continue with his central role of providing unflinching supported to his wife, the queen. for a man born just three years after the end of the first world war, we now go to that war, because for many, the song is very sacred ground, as the stretch of french countryside which was the site of one of the bloodiest battles and the final resting place for many thousands of soldiers. archaeologists are now hoping to shed new light on the site as they start excavating tunnels beneath the battlefield. in a landscape softened by the passage of the years, the stark reminders of a bloody conflict remain a focus for families who travel here to trace their past. but the monuments and the lines of wide head stones only tell part of this story. flags now mark the front lines where men of the scottish, the royal scots were swallowed up by the savage battle in the area known as the glory hole. the plan is simply to today a team of historians and archaeologists will begin one of the largest attempts ever made to uncover the secrets of this battlefield and the fate of those who were never found. it will go down and then there will be a junction going right and left. the trail will lead them above and below ground, following the trenches and tunnels which carr sheppards crosthwaite today s farmland. a candle burns here and there, but i think some of the world ahead of today s survey work, the team carried out a search of the tunnel system. here in the dark, miners and engineers burrowed toward the enemy to lay explosives beneath their feet. there are still traces of their passing. if we d been here in 1916, we re approaching a very dangerous area. we re well under the british front line there and approaching an area where there could be german tunnels. so our lives could be snuffed out. around the glory hole, explosions and artillery fire tore up the ground, and yet the german defenses held. the attacks here led to the heaviest losses sustained on that terrible day. in tunnels where miners trembled beneath the thunder, a desperate poem sprawled on the chalk. if in this place you are detained, don t look around, you are in vain. the man who wrote this, he s in the very very mouth of hell. it is only a beginning, but in the coming months and years, this unique investigation will uncover more and more untold stories. extraordinary finds. there s well to be more discoveries there. we re following that on the website as well, bbc.com/news. do take a look if you re intrigued in what has been found there. of course, we re covering all the main stories, not least, the situation in syria, which we ve been focusing on for several days now. bbc.com/news. hello and welcome. see the news unfold, get the top stories from around the globe and click-to-play video reports. go to bbc.com/news to experience the in-depth, expert reporting of bbc world news online. funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman s own foundation. and union bank. union bank has put its global financial strength to work for a wide range of companies. what can we do for you? 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