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This is BBC World News today, with me Zeinab Badawi. | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
After the budget deal in the US to prevent a massive debt default, we | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
ask what has been the cost to Washington's standing on the world | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
stage? Hundreds of thousands return to work | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
after a temporary agreement in Congress ends the partial government | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
shutdown. We look at the losers after President Obama says there | :00:25. | :00:32. | |
were no winners. These last few weeks have inflicted completely | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
unnecessary damage on our economy. Pupil power in France. Hundreds of | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
school students take to the streets, amid growing anger at the | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
deportation of a Roma teenager, snatched by the authorities in front | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
of her classmates. Three months after Egypt's army | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
ousted President Morsi, we speak to the deputy head of the committee | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
charged with helping rewrite the country's constitution. | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
And dream jobs or the only jobs for these girls in the future? We | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
examine why females in China are prevented from some university | :01:07. | :01:07. | |
courses and careers. Hello and welcome. The US budget | :01:08. | :01:29. | |
battle may be over for now and, although President Obama did not | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
have to conceder very much to his Republican opponents, he said today | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
that there were no winners from the tussle between Democrats and | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
Republicans. Hundreds of thousands of government employees have headed | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
back to work today after the cross-party deal last night ended | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
the partial government shutdown and raised the US debt ceiling. Mr Obama | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
speaking at the White House earlier today, warned that the US economic | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
recovery had been undermined and that the American people are fed up | :01:56. | :02:04. | |
with the politicians in Washington. Understand that how business is done | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
in this town has to change. Because, we have all got a lot of work to do | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
on behalf of the American people, including the hard work of retaining | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
the trust. Our system of self government does not function without | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
it. Without it, the gunmen cannot operate. All others need to stop | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
focusing on the lobbyists and the bloggers and talking heads on radio, | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
the professional activist who profit from conflict, but listen to the | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
majority of the American people In Washington now is the economist | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
and blogger Edward Harrison, the founder of the economic news | :02:51. | :02:58. | |
website, Credit Writedowns. So, the President says there was not any | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
winners ballot a lot of losers. Economic, I'm talking about | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
companies having a lot of trouble in the States economy. Yes, LX like we | :03:09. | :03:20. | |
will see a loss of about 0.5 or 0.6% gross domestic product in this | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
quarter because of the partial shutdown. We are looking at a huge | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
amount of lost income to the private sector. In this scheme of things, | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
that is manageable, because we are looking at plus .2% growth in the | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
United States. So it could come down to .2%. But if this had gone on any | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
longer, the damage would have been a lot greater. There is still a risk, | :03:47. | :03:55. | |
because investors may not see the US dollar is the safe haven it once | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
was? I do not think the dead enemy, but in terms of absolute note | :04:01. | :04:09. | |
political risk, there are no other pretenders to the throne as aware, | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
of save assets or collateral. You can look at places like China or in | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
Europe as being equivalent size in terms of the economy, but all of | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
those areas have the own difficulties and their own problems. | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
The United States dollar remains a strong currency. The will probably | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
not be ramifications in that respect. How much damage has this | :04:37. | :04:48. | |
done? It was that potential default on United States security which | :04:49. | :04:50. | |
would of had worldwide implications. I think it has done a | :04:51. | :04:58. | |
lot of damage to the United States in terms of its been able to promote | :04:59. | :05:08. | |
its agenda abroad. In British terms, it would be the equivalent of the | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
Labour Party forcing through legislation which would force the | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
Government to partly shutdown. People round the world do not | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
understand that the United States has gone through this. It is | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
self-inflicted and as a result, we are looking at the likes of the NASA | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
spying scandal and the situation in Syria, there were a lot of places | :05:37. | :05:45. | |
via the United States where the actor on the world stage and the | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
combination of this will diminish the United States as a power and | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
people will probably look for a more multi-polar world view in future. | :05:55. | :06:05. | |
Thousands of high school students have taken to the streets in Paris | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
protesting against the deportation of a 15-year-old Roma girl. Leonarda | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
Dibrani was detained by police in front of her classmates and sent | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
back to her native Kosovo, along with her parents and five siblings. | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
Her case has triggered an angry backlash among her supporters. The | :06:19. | :06:20. | |
French Interior Minister Manuel Valls has drawn the fiercest | :06:21. | :06:32. | |
criticism. At home, but not that Leonarda Dibrani would consider this | :06:33. | :06:41. | |
her home. The family entered France illegally in 2009 and since then had | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
been living in Paris, with French becoming her first language. This | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
summer, the final asylum appeal was denied. Last week, on a school | :06:52. | :07:00. | |
outing, she was dragged off by the authorities and sent back on a plane | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
to Kosovo. It was terrible. My friends thought I had committed the | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
big claim. I started crying. In Kosovo, there is no school for her. | :07:15. | :07:23. | |
The story has starred bitter recriminations in France. Today | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
thousands of students blockaded the schools as they took to the streets. | :07:28. | :07:35. | |
I was born in Russia and I am living in France and that is a situation | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
which worries me a lot. It could be one of us. The interior Minister is | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
seen as one of the more popular figures in the socialist government, | :07:49. | :07:58. | |
but many and party will approve of the action. Many people in the party | :07:59. | :08:07. | |
are angered because it prides itself on human rights. He is currently on | :08:08. | :08:16. | |
a visit to a French island, but said the majority of those illegal | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
immigrants should go back to the likes of Romania and Kosovo. He | :08:23. | :08:30. | |
said, when there is no longer any reason for a person to be on our | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
soil, the law applies. There have been calls for the President to | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
intervene. There has been worries that this has been a high-handed | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
action by police and officials. The family will be able to return within | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
48 hours if there's any problems with the expulsion order. | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
It is three months since Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi was removed | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
from power and a caretaker President put in charge until new elections | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
can be held next year. The upheaval has left the Islamists, who were | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
swept away from power by the head of the army, General Abdul Fatah Al | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
Sissi, feeling very disgruntled There are regular protests held by | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood around Egypt, who are still calling | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
for the reinstatement of the President. Meanwhile, the new | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
authorities have begun a new process they claim will restore Egypt back | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
to the path of a more inclusive democracy. | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
With me here in the studio are two influential voices inside Egypt | :09:29. | :09:30. | |
today. Lawyer Mona Zulficar is vice-president of the 50-member body | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
known as the G50, which is drawing up a new constitution for Egypt and | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
we also have Mohammed Shaker, the chairman of the Egyptian Council for | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
Foreign Affairs. He is a former diplomat, who previously served as | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
Egypt's ambassador in London. Thank you both for joining me this | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
evening. Mohammed Shaker, how can Egpyt say | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
it is committed to a democratic path when a democratically-elected | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
President and his party have been writtren out of the picture? Now, | :09:57. | :10:10. | |
everyone wants to be involved in the making of this Constitution. The | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
making of this, where she is vice chairman, every Egyptian wants to be | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
on this committee to draft the constitution, but certainly, it will | :10:25. | :10:34. | |
be debated by the public later on. It will be put to the people, who | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
will have the chance to comment on it. It is the will of the Egyptian | :10:40. | :10:51. | |
people. Mona Zulficar, you are part of the | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
body drawing up a new constitution for Egypt, to be voted for in | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
December, but a referendum was held at the end of last year and 64% | :10:59. | :11:00. | |
approved that constitution. But they attack the judiciary, the | :11:01. | :11:17. | |
attack the media. President Morsi Made decisions with no other | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
thought, the was no democracy about it. ? | :11:24. | :11:33. | |
Mona, only one member of your 5 is an Islamist and the Islamic | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
Brotherhood is not represented. How can the organisation have | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
legitimacy? There are people who support them who are willing | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
different hats. They well invited but declined. We have five or six or | :11:51. | :11:59. | |
seven, more than 10% of the people, who are sympathetic. I think it is | :12:00. | :12:09. | |
representative. The one is completely controlling it. It has | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
all walks of life in it. You will surely have to find an accommodation | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
with the Muslim Brotherhood. They were the clear winners in these | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
democratic elections. Definitely, they will have a role to play in the | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
future. I do not believe that we have democracy in Egypt presented | :12:33. | :12:41. | |
otherwise. But it is too soon for people to digest what is going on | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
and I think, at one point, they will have to be accommodated. Otherwise, | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
what is the worry of fear being a insurgency. Clearly, it is not | :12:53. | :13:02. | |
something Egypt can afford. No, they have been suspended, they put any | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
ban for the former regime. They stopped them exercising their | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
political rights. We are not doing that. We are writing a constitution | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
which will respect the rule of law and equal rights for all people in | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
Egypt. If the Muslim Brotherhood stood in an election in any guise, | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
the would-be elected fairly and squarely as the winner? Yes, but I | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
do not think the would do that. I think they lost the majority of the | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
people because of the failure to stick with the constitution. Now, | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
64% did vote for them, admittedly in a low turnout and they have been | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
thrown out. This Constitution did not respect the equal rights of all | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
citizens. It was a major cornerstone of the polarisation and division of | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
the Egyptian people. It provided the source of perpetual conflict and | :14:08. | :14:15. | |
because it was not based on the modern rules of respecting basic | :14:16. | :14:24. | |
human rights and freedoms for all. This Constitution itself was | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
surrounded by sympathisers President Morsi of. You have seen the military | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
back controlling the streets in Egypt. You threw out the former | :14:37. | :14:44. | |
regime because it was essentially an army supported government. Now, we | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
no longer have the Government President Morsi of. Surely, the army | :14:49. | :14:56. | |
are right back in the picture now? Yes, because people wanted that | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
Egypt is comfortable with going back to military rule? They may accept it | :15:04. | :15:11. | |
for the meantime. It saved Egypt from catastrophe. I think people | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
behaved the instructions of the people who went down and signed 22 | :15:18. | :15:25. | |
million petitions authenticated signatures saying we want Emily | :15:26. | :15:33. | |
elections, we do not accept this to continue. Number two, we went down | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
under streets and we asked the army to intervene in the bed. It is not | :15:38. | :15:49. | |
now them and the driver seat. We have an entered common and we will | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
write a constitution and the role have elections and have a new | :15:53. | :15:54. | |
government. Thank you both for joining me. | :15:55. | :16:03. | |
Britain has agreed to let Chinese companies buy up some of its nuclear | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
power plants. They will be able to finance, build and operate the | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
facilities and even own a majority stake. George Osborne says it means | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
that the UK Government will not need to finance expensive projects | :16:16. | :16:24. | |
directly. It's the biggest nuclear power plant of its kind in the | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
world. Under construction at Taishan in southern China. Now, an almost | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
identical one is likely to be built in the UK. George Osborne's host | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
today was stressing the reactor s safety features. Against air crash. | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
The so there are... S safety procedures. Like Britain, China | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
needs to build more power stations. The safety is built into everything, | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
an earthquake or tsunami. You are prepared for that. Unlike Britain, | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
China is already racing ahead almost 30 nuclear plants in the pipeline. | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
Today the Chancellor said he would welcome Chinese involvement in | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
Britain's nuclear reactors. What is in this for George Osborne is money, | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
cash Britain urgently needs to fund the building of a new generation of | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
power stations. There are concerns that what bringing Chinese state | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
companies may mean for future safety and security in Britain's critical | :17:26. | :17:33. | |
national infrastructure. The new reactors at Taishan are European | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
designs, a French firm working with a Chinese partner. The same team | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
should get the first UK contract. We will make sure the British rules on | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
safety are applied. Chinese investment in British nuclear power | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
means British taxpayers' money can be used, instead of building these | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
things, for building schools and hospitals. In the long-term, British | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
families get lower and more stable energy bills. This is where the new | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
reactors will be built, replacing old ones at Hinkley Point in | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
Somerset. The bills may not be lower. The Government will guarantee | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
the operators a set price for their power, perhaps double today's cost | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
of electricity. It's extremely unlikely this is is a good deal for | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
consumers. The Government is guaranteeing EDF the operator a | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
price over the next three or four decades of ?100 a megawatt hour If | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
the price of Lek thrills itty is below that the consumer will make up | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
the difference. Currently it's significantly below that. No other | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
western nation has turned to China to satisfy its need for energy. | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
Communist-led, but with deep pockets, China could in future be | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
running UK nuclear plants. Some will find that deeply uncomfortable. | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
Others, like the Chancellor, see opportunity. The day's other news in | :18:58. | :19:04. | |
brief. In Australia, strong winds and unseasonably warm weather are | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
fanning dozens of wildfires across the state of New South Wales. So far | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
at least 30 homes have been destroyed on the outskirts of | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
Sydney. Scientists from the world health organisation have for the | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
first time identified air pollution as a leading environmental cause of | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
cancer. Their research suggests it was responsible for more than | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
200,000 deaths from lung cancer around the world in 2010. That means | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
air pollution is more likely than passive smoking to give you cancer. | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
It is being blamed for an increased risk of bladder cancer. Earlier this | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
week, we brought you the story on the street artist Banksy who | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
secretly sold his original art, worth thousands of pounds, for just | :19:46. | :19:53. | |
$60 at a stall in New York. Now a Lebanese charity, the Association to | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
Save Tyre, is offering people the chance to pick up an original | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
Picasso for 100 euros. You heard directly. The drawing is worth 1 | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
million and it's called Man with Opera Hat. The charity is hoping | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
that plenty of people will want to buy a raffle ticket in the hope that | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
they will strike lucky. Let us talk more about this, here in the studio | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
with me is Maha Chalabi from the International Association to Save | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
Tyre and she is one of the organisers of this Picasso raffle. | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
Have you had a big response to this raffle so far? Yes, we have. We are | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
have very happy about it, especially here in London. The we are selling | :20:31. | :20:39. | |
very, very well. We hope that it will continue. You know Tyre is | :20:40. | :20:47. | |
giving so much to humanity and the historical period. Tyre is expecting | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
that people come to help her now. You are trying to raise money for | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
Tyre which is of course is in southern Lebanon it's an ancient | :20:59. | :21:07. | |
metropolis. You are trying to raise money to do what with the money We | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
have projects for employment for women and disables. In Tyre this | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
will be a village for handy craft. Tyre was known by its handy craft. | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
We want to revive all the old handy craft. We have another project also | :21:25. | :21:35. | |
with a consortium of universities in Beirut itself. These two projects | :21:36. | :21:43. | |
are done for employment, helping especiallilet new generation and | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
women. These are the projects you wish to finance. As you have been | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
speaking we have been looking at beautiful pictures of Tyre. You | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
bought the Picasso work in New York from a gallery? Yes. It has been | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
totally confirmed by Picasso's family as being an original. Yes. | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
Are you nervous you won't get your money back, maybe? No, we have | :22:05. | :22:12. | |
already the price of the Picasso, we have it already back. We want to | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
make the money to make the project. This is the most important thing. | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
Whose idea was this to raise money for your charity in this way? It's | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
my daughter and myself. We put together this idea because people | :22:27. | :22:34. | |
are feddup with dinners and gala dinners and difficult now period not | :22:35. | :22:42. | |
allowing fundraising easily. It s the era of the internet we thought | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
by internet we can reach the most bigger number. It's open to | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
everybody in the world? To everybody in the world. They have to go to a | :22:53. | :23:09. | |
site. Can I make my cheque out for you now? Please. Did you... I | :23:10. | :23:18. | |
didn't, I don't want to gain it If I gain it, it's much problem. I keep | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
it for others. It's a good opportunity for anybody. To get peal | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
for 100 euros. Thank you very much for talking to us about that | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
campaign there. Throughout October we are running a special series on | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
the challenges faced by women in the 21st century. Next Friday, 100 | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
inspiring women will gather for a unique global event here at the | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
BBC's London headquarters. In our report today we look at education in | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
China. This year, the country welcomed its first female astronaut. | :23:52. | :23:59. | |
Many women in China have to keep their aspirations firmly on the | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
ground. There are still jobs and university courses which are for | :24:04. | :24:11. | |
many only. Child's play with an eye on the future. At the I Have A Dream | :24:12. | :24:22. | |
theme park in Beijing these visitors can try out careers. Girls dress up | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
as flight attendants and learn to serve meals. Many boys choose to | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
work as security guards. In these imagery world, the children and | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
their parents stick to ridgied gender types. In China the idea that | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
girls can't or shouldn't do the same jobs as men is put op on them early. | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
Students fight to get into this mining engineering course in China's | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
eastern Jiangsu province. They are almost guaranteed well-paid jobs | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
after graduation. This programme has one clear entrance requirement, men | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
only. China's labour law suggests mining work is unsuitable for women. | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
We ask women to refrain from applying to our major. This school | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
is not alone. Out of respect for women's safety, it says. China's | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
education ministry has banned girls from studying a variety of subjects | :25:25. | :25:32. | |
from across China. Some jobs are really unsuitable for women. If they | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
force their way into these jobs they will waste energy that can be | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
better used elsewhere. A small but fiesty network of students and | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
lawyers is fighting the restrictions. Shaving their heads in | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
a rare public protest in Guandong province last year. It was blatant | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
discrimination. No-one has stood up to these universities before and | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
told them these policies were wrong. The activists are also battling | :26:04. | :26:13. | |
unofficial gernd quotas at many Chinese universities that favour | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
boys. Schools don't want their courses to be dominated by girls. | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
They regularly lower admission standards for boys and leaving girls | :26:23. | :26:30. | |
with higher marks out of luck. Girls can move beyond the beauty saloon to | :26:31. | :26:39. | |
try dozens of jobs. These girls might soon have the support and the | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
drive to do it. Some of the challenges faced there by women in | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
China. That is it from World News Today, next the weather. Goodbye. | :26:49. | :26:54. |