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This is BBC World News Today with me, Philippa Thomas. One of the | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
biggest storms ever to make landfall hits the Philippines at ferocious | :00:09. | :00:17. | |
force. Typhoon Haiyan is lashing central parts of the country, | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
bringing winds of more than 300 kilometres an hour. | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
A crucial meeting gets underway in Geneva between Iran and the US | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
Secretary of State John Kerry. With news that the Russian Foreign | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
Minister is flying in tomorrow, is a nuclear deal in prospect? | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
Also coming up: Identified by survivors of the Lampedusa boat | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
tragedy, a Somali man is arrested in Italy accused of people smuggling. | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
And if you've ever dreamed and we find out what inspired our | :00:43. | :00:50. | |
man in Moscow to do this. Hello and welcome. One of the | :00:51. | :01:05. | |
strongest typhoons ever to hit land has slammed into the Philippines, | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
forcing millions to take shelter. Typhoon Haiyan's winds have so far | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
reached 314 kilometres per hour waves are being recorded as high as | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
six metres, and as you can imagine, the storm leaving a widespread trail | :01:17. | :01:24. | |
of damage. Hundreds of thousands of people in its path were evacuated, | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
but the national disaster agency says at least four people have been | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
killed. From Manila, here's our correspondent Jon Donnison. | :01:33. | :01:43. | |
This could be the most powerful typhoon ever to hit land. From dawn, | :01:44. | :01:51. | |
winds up to 200 mph started to batter the Philippinesmulti-macro | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
central island. In the East and province of A, the coastal town here | :01:55. | :02:03. | |
was swamped by storm surge. Streets turned into rivers of debris. | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
Satellite images track the Typhoon Bopha macro on this progress. It is | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
now heading towards Vietnam and southern China. Millions of people | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
had been urged to seek shelter. Some, though, had chosen to stay | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
put. Filipinos are well used to typhoons. They have had more than 20 | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
this year, but none of this strength. The country is still | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
recovering from an earthquake last month that left hundreds dead and | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
tens of thousands of people living in temporary shelter. Today, those | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
same people had to face a super-tight or in. The president has | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
called for the country to pull together. TRANSLATION: As always, no | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
storm can bring a united Filipino people to its knees. It is my hope | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
that people will stay safe in the coming days. Large parts of the | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
central Philippines are without power, with phone lines also down. | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
After such heavy rain, there remains a heavy risk of landslides. People | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
across the Philippines are facing a difficult night. The capital, | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
Manila, has largely avoided the brunt of the damage, but elsewhere, | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
aid agencies are seeing the damage could be unprecedented. One United | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
Nations official here told me hundreds of thousands of homes could | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
have been damaged or destroyed. Already, many families here have | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
lost everything, but it may be days before you know the full extent of | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
the damage, and the number of lives that have been lost. | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
For the latest on the storm, we go now to our weather presenter John | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
Hammond - as far as records go, this is one of the worst storms ever | :03:46. | :03:53. | |
witnessed? It could be the worst we have seen. It is early days, and it | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
will be a while before we get all the data in about this storm, but | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
certainly the potential is there for it to have been the worst storm to | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
have made landfall. The Philippines have already had four typhoons this | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
year, and this part of the world is used to typhoons. That is, of | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
course, no consolation if it is your community that has been wrecked by | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
this vicious storm. The worst of the storm has now gone through the | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
Philippines, but that is not the end of this typhoon. It continues to | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
track further west, as we will see in a moment. If you like, this is a | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
perfect storm. All the ingredients were there, high seat averages, at | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
least 26 degrees, a lot of spin in the atmosphere, caused by the's | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
rotation, and you need the win is not to be too strong. To strong | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
winds whipped out the storm apart. But everything came together to | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
create this monster. It was a deadly storm, obviously, and still is. We | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
get in underneath the clouds, and take a look at where the strongest | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
winds were. They were particularly vicious around the eye wall. This is | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
where the worst of the winds are concentrated, with gusts of 250 | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
kilometres per hour, but much more widely across the storm, you have | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
over 100 kilometre per hour winds. These are destructive winds, huge | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
amounts of rain, colossal waves as well. Just now, it has cleared | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
through the Philippines ended in the South China Sea. It is only going to | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
weaken a little bit, because the seat averages here are still very | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
high, and the atmosphere is very conducive to this storm. It is | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
powering its way westwards, and currently, there is some | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
uncertainty, but we think that it looks as if by Sunday, it will | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
threaten the coast of Vietnam. We will keep a very close eye on that. | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
Thank you very much. Thank you | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
In the last hour, the US Secretary of State John Kerry has begun a | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
crucial meeting in Geneva with his Iranian counterpart - a meeting that | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
could lead to a ground-breaking deal on the future of Iran's nuclear | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
programme. 24 hours ago, Mr Kerry wasn't even due to be there, but now | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
he's in Geneva with the UK, French and German foreign ministers for a | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
series of unscheduled talks with the Iranian delegation. Let's remind you | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
what would be involved in a possible deal. Firstly, Iran would have to | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
halt some of its uranium enrichment activity - that is the process that | :06:18. | :06:27. | |
could produce a nuclear weapon. In return, the US, EU and UN may | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
provide some limited relief from the economic sanctions they've imposed, | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
which could be related to Tehran's access to global markets or to its | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
crucial energy sector. which could be related to Tehran's | :06:36. | :06:37. | |
access to The EU, for example, currently bans imports of Iranian | :06:38. | :06:45. | |
oil. I want to emphasise, there are still some very important issues on | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
the table that are unresolved. It is important for those to be properly, | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
thoroughly addressed. I want to emphasise there is not an agreement | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
at this point in time, but the P five is working hard, and I look | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
forward to the meetings I will be having very shortly, with Lady Cathy | :07:08. | :07:17. | |
Ashton and with my fellow ministers in the group, and I will also be | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
meeting with the Iranian minister. We hope to narrow those | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
differences, but I don't think anybody should mistake that there | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
are some very important gaps that have to be closed. John Kerry. But | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
the prospect of a deal between Iran and the West is already causing a | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
backlash, most powerfully expressed today by Israel's prime minister. I | :07:39. | :07:46. | |
understand the Iranians are walking around very satisfied into Geneva, | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
as well they should be, because they got everything they wanted. They | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
wanted relief of sanctions after years of a gruelling sanctions | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
regime. They got that. They are not reducing in any way their nuclear | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
enrichment capability, so Iran got the deal of the century will . The | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
international community got a bad deal. This is a very bad deal. | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
Israel utterly rejects it, and what I am saying is shared by many in the | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
region, whether they express it publicly or not. Israel is not | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
obliged by this agreement, and it will do everything it needs to do to | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
defenders Alf and defend the security of its people. Our state | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
department correspondent Kim Ghattas is in Geneva. Kim, you were not | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
meant to be there either. You are travelling with Secretary of State | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
John Kerry. Although we have heard a powerful objection from Israel, the | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
momentum seems to be with some sort of agreement with Iran. Absolutely. | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
You are right, we were not supposed to be here this evening. We were | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
supposed to be in Oman, and in Abu Dhabi tomorrow, but this is | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
diplomacy. Unexpected things happen. Sometimes they are good, even though | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
they are also criticised by those who don't support the move. You | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
heard there from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who | :09:15. | :09:16. | |
said the deal was a very, very bad one. We have a reaction from the | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
White House, who said this was a pre-mature reaction by the Israeli | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
Prime Minister. There is no deal yet, but of course, the gaps are | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
closing, and that is why Mr Kerry is here in Geneva. He decided to change | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
his travel plans to come to Geneva and increase the level of | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
participation in the negotiations. The Iranian minister has been | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
negotiating with negotiators from the P five Plos one. He'll was | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
wanted to have those talks with his counterparts, with Foreign Minister | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
's, and yesterday, it was agreed that the talks would reach the stage | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
where it was logical to increase the level of representation and bring Mr | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
Kerry and his foreign counterparts to Geneva. That is not to say that a | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
deal is done. There are still big gaps between the two sides that are | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
being discussed this evening, and the talks will continue tomorrow, | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
but this is indeed a turning point, not just in the discussions about | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
Iran's nuclear programme, but also in the relationship between the US | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
and Iran. And briefly, we understand the two main areas for discussion I | :10:24. | :10:25. | |
Iran's uranium enrichment activities, and then the sanctions | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
that are imposed on Iran. On the latter point, what kind of sanctions | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
could be lifted, but ratcheted up again should Iran proved to be | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
acting in bad faith? In private American officials are very keen to | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
stress that they are not planning to lift any sanctions. They are | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
offering Iran in the short-term relief from sanctions, which would | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
allow Iran to get access to some of its cash, which is frozen in bank | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
accounts around the world, from oil sales, for example. We are really | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
talking about a fraction of that money, $1 billion out of an | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
estimated $50 billion. To some extent, that is where the gap | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
remains between the two sides. Iran wants to know that at the end of | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
this, all sanctions will be lifted. It is unclear whether the West and | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
its partners in these negotiations are willing to put that on the table | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
at the end goal. Thank you very much. Kim is very close to the | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
talks, but our next guest is closer. Michael manage the spokesman for EU | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
foreign affairs at the European Union. He joins me on the line from | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
Geneva. Thank you very much for your time. Can you give us an idea of | :11:41. | :11:48. | |
where we are at right now? Well it has been a very intense day here. | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
People have been meeting other people, and they started early in | :11:55. | :11:56. | |
the day with a meeting between the six powers that are representing | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
their web represented in the talks by Cathy Ashton. The ministers have | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
been flying in as well. That has been going on for the last hour and | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
three quarters, and meeting between the Iranian Foreign Minister, John | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
Kerry and Cathy Ashton. That is still continuing. It is basically | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
intense activity, and Allah 's likeable continue tomorrow as well | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
with the arrival of a couple more ministers. Is it confirmed that the | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
Russian foreign minister will be flying in tomorrow? Clearly, his | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
presence and his backing for Iran has been crucial. It adds weight to | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
the negotiations if the Minister is coming, and so far we have for the | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
six here. Tomorrow, the last two, Russia and China will be represented | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
at ministerial. Clearly, there are different tracks of these | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
negotiations. They are led by Catherine Ashton on behalf of the | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
six, and there has to be a sort of diplomatic track as well as a | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
technical track, so the technicians are talking, the experts on the | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
nuclear programme and also the diplomats are talking, and we have | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
the ministers now as well. So the different tracks are being worked on | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
in the hope that we can further be progress. We have already made | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
progress compared to the previous Iranian government, where we did not | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
really get anywhere. There is already a lot of forward movement. | :13:17. | :13:24. | |
We spoke on this programme the last time everybody met, and you told us | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
about the sense of drama in the room as the Iranians opened up their | :13:29. | :13:30. | |
laptop and there was a plan there. Is there the same sense, to be | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
nontechnical, positive buzz there tonight? Yes, although I think we | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
should be cautious. They put their proposal on the table last time and | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
we had the first real property detailed discussions on the issue | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
last time. There was a lot of positive noises going around | :13:52. | :13:53. | |
yesterday, but clearly in a negotiation like this, there is a | :13:54. | :14:01. | |
lot of things that still need to be thrashed out. No one is taking | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
anything for granted, but we want to push things forward. It is all about | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
getting a completely watertight deal that is verifiable, that proves | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
unequivocally to the international community that Iran is not | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
participating in a military nuclear programme, just a peaceful | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
programme. There are some things Iran clearly has to do, and they | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
must do them quickly. We want to do a deal as fast as we can, but it | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
clearly must be a good deal, so we are not rushing things. Thank you | :14:31. | :14:32. | |
very much. Yasser Arafat did not die a natural | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
death, according to an inquiry set up by the Palestinians to | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
investigate the death of their former leader. Speaking at a news | :14:40. | :14:41. | |
conference in Ramallah, Palestinian officials said they see Israel as | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
the "only suspect" in the death of Mr Arafat in 2004. Their allegation | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
follows a forensic report by Swiss scientists which concluded that Mr | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
Arafat's remains contained high levels of radioactive polonium. | :14:53. | :15:00. | |
Israel denies any involvement. Our Middle East correspondent Yolande | :15:01. | :15:09. | |
Knell reports. Emotional scenes back in 2004. The | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
Palestinian president, Yasser Arafat, didn't know he was bidding a | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
final farewell to his supporters. He had been taken six suddenly at his | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
headquarters in the mall and doctors could not work out what was wrong. | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
He was flown to a hospital in Paris, where he died. Last, new | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
research suggested that the late leader might have been poisoned with | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
a radioactive substance. Then his body was exhumed behind these | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
screens so samples could be taken. Today, Palestinian investigators | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
gave their first response to the findings of the teams that carried | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
out the tests. TRANSLATION: Both reports, the Swiss | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
and the Russian, confirmed the findings of the ongoing | :15:59. | :16:00. | |
investigation. Yasser Arafat did not die of old age. He did not die from | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
disease. He did not die a natural death. Scientists found higher than | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
expected levels of polonium-210 the same substance used to kill a former | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
KGB agent in London in 2006. The tests cannot say for sure if Arafat | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
was poisoned. If more of the substance had been extracted, it | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
could have left a tale tale signature. If you have a large | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
sample of polonium, you can look at the radioactive spectrum coming out | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
of it, and get an idea of where it was made. That can tell you whether | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
it came from a nuclear reactor or natural source that was refined and | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
perhaps which react to it came from. The Palestinians are accusing Israel | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
of killing their president, and they say they will continue to | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
investigate this case. Israeli officials deny any responsibility. | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
Let me say this as simply and clearly as I can - Israel did not | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
kill Arafat. It is as simple as that. We have nothing to do with | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
this, and the Palestinians should stop levelling baseless allegations | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
without a shred of proof. Yasser Arafat lies here, at his grave, | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
where visitors can come and pay his respects. His loss as the leader of | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
the Palestinian national cause is strongly felt, but nine years on, it | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
is still possible the exact cause of his death will never truly be known. | :17:32. | :17:39. | |
Now to a new development in the tragic sinking of the migrant boat | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
off the coast of Italy last month. A Somali man has been arrested in | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
connection with the disaster of Lampedusa, in which 366 African | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
migrants died. The 24-year-old has been accused of being part of the | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
group which smuggles people from North Africa to Europe. It is | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
reported he pretended to be a migrant himself, but was identified | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
by the survivors of the disaster as one of the organisers of the trip. | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
Arriving in Sicily for questioning, the Somali malik used of involvement | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
in organising a long and terrible journey that ended in hundreds of | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
deaths. Two weeks ago, he landed here, in the harbour of the Italian | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
island of Lampedusa. He was among yet another group of migrants hoping | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
to be able to start new lives in Europe. But the island's refugee | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
reception centre was attacked. Survivors of last month 's | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
disastrous sinking in Lampedusa said they recognised him, that he was | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
among a group of armed smugglers who transported them across the Sahara, | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
then help them at a camp in Libya and demanded money. The migrants | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
said there was torture and rape and the arrested man faces allegations | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
related to people trafficking, kidnapped and sexual violence. The | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
migrants were eventually passed on to another organisation that | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
arranges boat journeys like this in Europe. These travellers were lucky. | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
They were saved. But the boats are often overcrowded and unseaworthy, | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
and the journey at the centre of the story of the Lampedusa disaster | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
ended this way. The boat caught fire then capsized, and was eventually | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
found on the sea bed, its whole crammed with dead bodies. | :19:31. | :19:38. | |
Now a brief look at some of the day 's other news. A car bomb has | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
exploded outside a hotel on the main road in the Somali capital, | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
Mogadishu, killing at least six people. Local reports say the hotel | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
was hosting a number of VIPs at the time of the blast. | :19:53. | :20:00. | |
A British Royal Marines has been found guilty by a military court of | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
murdering an injured Afghan insurgent in 2011. Two other Marines | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
have been acquitted. His actions were recorded on a helmet mounted | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
camera. All three Marines have denied murdering the man whilst on | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
patrol in Helmand province. Spain's High Court has ordered the | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
release of nine members of the bask militant group, ETA. It is the first | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
group prisoner release since a ruling by the European Court of | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
Human Rights last month, and it could lead to a release of other ETA | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
prisoners after that court ruled that Spain had acted illegally. | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall have met the Indian | :20:49. | :20:50. | |
President Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi. The visit came on the third | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
day of the couple's nine day tour of India. They will then travel to Sri | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
Lanka to represent the Queen at the Commonwealth Heads of Government | :21:03. | :21:03. | |
Meeting. China's leaders gather on Sunday for | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
a closed-door meeting which could dramatically shift the past -- the | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
path the country takes for years to come. The Plenum of the Communist | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
Party is expected to announce major changes to the country's economic | :21:17. | :21:23. | |
direction. Our correspondent is in the southern province of Yunnan | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
where land is at the heart of conflicts between the Communist | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
Party, the people and the government. | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
The skyline of Shanghai. It is where you see china's incredible rise and | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
economic story unique in history. Enormous wealth created in the shift | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
from communism to capitalism. Now, the breakneck growth is slowing so | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
to reinvigorate it, china's leader, Xi Jinping, is promising | :21:52. | :21:59. | |
unprecedented reforms. Outside the city -- outside the cities, where | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
almost half the population lives, reform is urgently needed. The issue | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
here is land. Private ownership of land is still banned, but land | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
values are soaring, pitting farmers against the government. This is | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
Yunnan, in the far south-west. People fighting to stop their land | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
being taken from them, seems repeated across the country. | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
China's farmers, like hearing Guangxi village, can only work the | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
land. They cannot sell them all or money against them. They are shut | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
out of china's economy. The authorities want to build a giant | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
tourist village. Many local governments are deep in debt. | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
Seizing land is the main way they make money, so the tax system also | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
needs reform. People from the area soon heard we were in Guangxi. They | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
hurried to the village, wanting us to hear their complaints too. Every | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
complaint was about land rights As you can see, it is a problem that | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
affects hundreds of millions of people. What is blocking change of | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
the developers and the local governments who benefit from all of | :23:11. | :23:12. | |
this. TRANSLATION: If Xi Jinping in-laws | :23:13. | :23:22. | |
us, what can we do but buys up? Xi Jinping could really help farmers if | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
he abolished china's system of residence permits, which makes it | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
hard for them to move to the city. But that is contentious. People in | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
the city 's fear a flood of poor migrants will take their jobs and | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
add to the burdens on hospitals and schools. Major reform is needed here | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
too. The state controls the banks and the financial system. China s | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
commonest leaders may be reluctant to loosen their grip. They have seen | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
what happened in the financial crisis in the West. Party officials | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
say, we have seen what has happened to you guys in Europe and the United | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
States, and we are nervous about giving too much power to bankers. I | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
think the state is still going to control all of the significant | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
institutions. They are just going to push them to operate more on market | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
principles. As China has boomed many have enriched themselves. | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
Powerful commonest families, giant state enterprises, vested interests | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
that could lose out in any reforms. But if Mr Xi can push through | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
reform, this could be just the start for China. | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
From today, passengers in the Moscow underground can travel absolutely | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
free. It is a special offer ahead of next year's Winter Olympics, which | :24:43. | :24:52. | |
Russia is hosting in Sochi. I am always doing this. I rush off | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
to the underground to catch a train, and then when I actually get here, I | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
realise I have left my wallet behind and I haven't got any money to pay | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
for my journey. From today, that will not be a problem in Moscow | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
because now, there is another way to get your ticket. This is how you do | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
it. I agree, it is unorthodox, but I think I will get there in the end. I | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
am trying to do squats in this rather unusual Russian vending | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
machine. I am told that if I can do 30 squats in two minutes, then this | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
machine will actually reward me with a free Metro ticket, worth 30 | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
rubles. This is the brainchild of the Russian Olympic Committee, and | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
the whole idea is to in courage a sporty lifestyle for Russians ahead | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
of the Sochi Games. If you think you can fool this invention, think | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
again, because there are special sensors here. If it doesn't like any | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
of my squat, it won't count them. There we go. Three, two, one. There | :26:01. | :26:11. | |
we go! I've done it. I am going to get my ticket. Here it comes! Thank | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
you very much. Mind you, was it worth it, because I really don't | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
have the energy to get on that train! | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
We will have to go back to him to see whether people take up that | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
offer. A reminder of our main news. Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
powerful storms on record, has been battering the central islands of the | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
Philippines with winds of 200 kilometres per hour, and a storm | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
surge which has inundated coastal villages. Next, the weather. | :26:42. | :26:43. | |
Goodbye. | :26:44. | :26:49. |