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This is BBC World News Today. Almost a week after Typhoon Haiyan | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
swept through the central Philippines, major aid supplies are | :00:10. | :00:16. | |
now getting through. The US military arrives in force, helping more aid | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
deliveries across the devastated region, especially in remote areas. | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
As the grim and monumental task of cleaning up continues, we look at | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
the health hazards for survivors of the disaster. | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
Also coming up: We report from the Commonwealth Summit in Colombo, | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
where the Sri Lankan Government warns critics its human rights | :00:37. | :00:49. | |
record is not up for discussion He wants to complain about human | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
rights in Sri Lanka. We have a system. You must respect this | :00:54. | :01:02. | |
system. A German company is ordered to pay | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
compensation to 1700 women fitted with defective breast implants. | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
And India's biggest sporting legend plays his last international match | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
after more than two decades at the top of the game. | :01:13. | :01:27. | |
Hello and welcome. The massive international relief | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
effort in the Philippines is gaining a bit of traction today, although it | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
is almost a week since Typhoon Haiyan tore through the country But | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
the UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos has admitted that the UN could | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
have done more to help the people of the Philippines. Well, now a US | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
aircraft carrier has arrived off the island of Leyte, bringing with it | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
several heavy-lift helicopters. That will triple the number of helicopter | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
flights delivering aid. The Philippines Government has been | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
criticised over its slow response to the devastation. The local media has | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
accused President Aquino of not being up to the job. But the | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
situation is improving. The US aircraft carrier USS George | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
Washington and its escort of two cruisers have arrived off the | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
Philippines coast. It will help to distribute supplies to inaccessible | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
areas. Britain has sent nearly ,000 shelter kits to Cebu and more are | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
expected in the coming days. Rice and canned goods have been | :02:30. | :02:31. | |
distributed to 50,000 people in Tacloban. About ten tonnes of High | :02:32. | :02:40. | |
Energy Biscuits - enough to feed 30,000 people for a day - have also | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
been delivered to Tacloban. Our first report this evening is from | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
Rupert Wingfield Hayes, who has spent the day in Tacloban. | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
It has taken nearly a week. But today, the might of the US Marine | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
Corps finally arrived in Tacloban in force. And not just the Americans, | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
but from France and Germany -- Eldon, Malaysia and as Chile. - | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
Australia. But the Americans have taken control you. Not a lot was | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
happening. It was like everyone was recovering from the shock of it It | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
seems like the Philippine military and police are getting organised and | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
getting on with organising civilians to get them out of here. On the | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
streets be on the airport, there has been a dramatic change as well. | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
After week of lying in the open the dead and now being counted, bagged | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
and removed for burial. In this one district alone this morning, police | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
registered more than 100 dead bodies. It is a grim task, even for | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
those trained to deal with death. I know you are a policeman, but is it | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
shocking? Yes, yes, yes. It is shocking for us. It is a disaster. | :03:59. | :04:10. | |
We have something to do, sir. I understand. One of the most | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
important thing to work out the true death toll. This afternoon, we | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
returned to a devastated neighbourhoods down by the sea. Even | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
here, some progress is being made. None of this might look like much of | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
an improvement, but believe me, it is. I came down here on Monday and | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
this road was totally impassable. It was piled high with Debbie and | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
falling trees. We had to clamber over to getting here. Today at house | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
-- it has been cleared. This building behind me was used as a | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
model and was piled with their bodies. Those have also gone. But it | :04:48. | :04:55. | |
is not only the dead who have gone. Every day, more and more of the | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
living and leaving as well. The house where I met a man and his | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
three boys on Monday is now empty. His wife's freshly covered grave is | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
in the garden behind. I ask a neighbour if he knows where they | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
have gone. Manila with his boys Yes. A ghost town now. However much | :05:18. | :05:25. | |
international help now it is, for some here, it will be impossible to | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
overcome the agony and worse of the last few days. -- agony and loss. | :05:29. | :05:39. | |
Much of the focus so far has been on the city of Tacloban as we saw in | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
that report. The island of Leyte is one of the | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
worst hit in the Philippines. But our correspondent Alastiar Leithead | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
has travelled from the northwest of the island to its east coast to find | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
out how more remote areas are coping. He's sent this report. | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
Under clear skies, it is hard to imagine the terror but blew into | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
this beautiful island. The scars in this area update. It is an | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
agricultural economy and broken coconut palms are lost income for | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
mail and years to come. Likelihoods and homes have been crushed. Rice | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
paddies and banana plantations have been flattened and food stocks which | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
survived the storm are now running low. We drove from west to east | :06:25. | :06:33. | |
People were starting to cope with the new normal - shortage and | :06:34. | :06:41. | |
uncertainty. There waiting for a bus to take them anywhere there is a | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
mobile phone signal and to get food. We do not receive any donations | :06:48. | :06:57. | |
Other areas do not have that. Down in the island's interior, the extent | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
of the disaster unfolded in front of us. After striking the city of | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
Tacloban, it powered West Dennis agricultural valley, destroying | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
everything in its path. Imagine the strength it takes to bring down the | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
street. There is fear here in Alangalang that some prisoners have | :07:20. | :07:21. | |
escaped and people are getting desperate for food. This man is | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
taking his daughters to Manila for safety. No food, no communication or | :07:27. | :07:34. | |
anything. For the safety of myself and children, we're going to Manila. | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
Are you worried? We are scared for our safety gear. Very desperate | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
When a person is desperate to have food, they do whatever they can to | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
have food. It is even more miserable when the rain comes and seeps | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
through the thrown together shelters. The bulk of the aid effort | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
has focused on the areas worst affected, and you can understand | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
why. This is an area right on the coast that took the full force of | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
the type -- typhoon. But up the road, there are people who are not | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
as badly off as this but are running short of basic supplies. Unless the | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
aid network widens quickly, this country faces an even greater | :08:22. | :08:29. | |
catastrophe. We hope to be getting a response on | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
the humanitarian relief effort in little later in this programme. Now, | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
time for the other news. Suicide bombers are targeting Pilgrims in | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
Iraq and have killed more than 0 people and wounded dozens more. The | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
attacks coincide with the most important event in the Shia | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
calendar. It commemorates the death of the Prophet Mohammed's death in | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
battle. There has also been a rally in Lebanon with crowds in Beirut to | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
hear an address from the leader of Hezbollah. He has pledged to keep | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
forces in Syria, fighting alongside President Assad's trips. -- troops. | :09:12. | :09:20. | |
The former German president has gone on trial for the option charges | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
Mister Wolfe, a former ally of Angela Merkel, resigned from the | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
presidency last year after West than two years in the post. He is accused | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
of accepting payments from a film producer in return for favours. He | :09:35. | :09:42. | |
denies the allegations. The Sri Lankan President Mahinda | :09:43. | :09:44. | |
Rajapaksa has defended his government's human rights record on | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
the eve of the Commonwealth Summit in Colombo. He said his Government | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
"had nothing to hide". Sri Lanka has been criticised for its refusal to | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
allow an independent inquiry into its treatment of Tamils at the end | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
of the country's civil war in 2 09. In a moment we will hear why the | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
Labour opposition here believes the prime-minister David Cameron | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
should've boycotted the summit, first our correspondent Charles | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
Haviland sent this report from Colombo. | :10:09. | :10:16. | |
Mister Cameron says it is only by attending the summit and making this | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
writing president that he can raise difficult human rights issues. He | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
will make one new departure. He will be the first leader to visit the | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
Tamil moth of the island since independence in 1948. The Government | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
war against the Tamil Tigers, a ruthless separatist group, lasted | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
three decades and caused over 100,000 deaths. After an all-out | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
army offensive, they were crushed four years ago. Both sides were | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
accused of atrocities but with most Tiger leaders dead, it is the | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
Government that gets the brunt of accusations. Mister Cameron has just | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
been in India. Speaking to journalists, here is -- repeated his | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
message of toughness for the shoreline. There must be proper | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
enquiries for what happened at the end of the war. I think we will get | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
further by going and having conversations with the Sri Lankan's | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
about what needs to happen and shining a light about the problems | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
that are there. The shoreline can Government is on the defensive. | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
Speaking this morning, the president said they had been suffering for 30 | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
years, not just at the end of the war. If anyone wants to complain | :11:27. | :11:34. | |
about human rights violations, whether it is torture or rape, we | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
have a system. You must respect the system of the country. Meanwhile, | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
the Prince of Wales, representing the Queen, flew in with the Duchess | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
of Cornwall. They will attend a reception for his 65th birthday | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
before he opens the summit tomorrow. Kerry McCarthy is a Labour Member of | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
Parliament in the UK and a front bench spokesperson on Foreign | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
Affairs. She joins me from Bristol in the West of England. Your boss | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
Douglas Alexander says David Cameron should have boycotted that summit. | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
Why did he say that? The prime minister of Canada and the Indian | :12:20. | :12:21. | |
prime minister have decided to boycotted the cause Sri Lanka have | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
simply not made progress on human rights that they promised they would | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
do after the end of the war. The Canadian prime minister has said | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
since August 2011 that if there was not progress made, he would boycott. | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
We watched David Cameron to do the same, the fact that an event was | :12:37. | :12:45. | |
about to happen in Colombo, he could have used it as a way to put | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
pressure on show anchor and the Government. He has barely mentioned | :12:50. | :12:51. | |
the issue of human rights until he has arrived in the lank and has been | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
put under public pressure to do so and it is too little and too late. | :12:55. | :13:04. | |
-- arrived in the lank. The decision to post that ensure lank was taken | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
by the Commonwealth when Labour was in power in 2009. They were due to | :13:08. | :13:17. | |
host it in 2011 and Gordon Brown made the case that it wasn't right | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
to hold it then. It was put off until 2013. It was taken under the | :13:22. | :13:30. | |
auspices of a Labour Government It's because the Sulangan Government | :13:31. | :13:32. | |
made allsorts of promises about addressing the human rights | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
situation. They had been through a very difficult and prolonged | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
conflict. They said they would address these issues and it would be | :13:43. | :13:44. | |
justice for the people that suffered. But we have actually seen | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
is continued human rights abuses. Now that the summit has started we | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
are seeing journalists are not allowed to report freely and | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
fairly. You hear reports of white vans coming along and people | :13:59. | :14:00. | |
disappearing from their homes because they have yet to criticise | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
the regime. We do not know the president is prepared to meet David | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
Cameron. David Cameron says he will raise human rights issues with him, | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
but we do not you will get the opportunity. William Hague is going | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
around the country urging reconciliation amongst the shoreline | :14:17. | :14:28. | |
can -- the Sri Lankans. A lot of people accept it is an issue of | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
human rights in Sri Lanka, but how do you deal with it? This summit is | :14:34. | :14:41. | |
not about human rights. There is business people attending and | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
business people from the UK, a lot of other countries have stayed away. | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
Only three countries of the 53 stayed away. The point I am making | :14:51. | :14:59. | |
is... Three of the 53 countries did not turn up. Constructive engagement | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
is the point I am making. If there are criticisms, is that not a better | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
way to achieve your objectives rather than lecture at the Sri | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
Lankans? Engagement should have been taking place all year. I have been | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
taking place in debates in Parliament called by people who have | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
been critical of the Sri Lankan regime and urging ministers to raise | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
these issues. They have left it until the last moment gods of the | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
public outcry. There was a Channel 4 documentary the public responded to. | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
It is only because of that David Cameron is putting human rights on | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
the agenda at fault. We don't know whether David Cameron will get to | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
meet the president to talk about it. He says he will raise it. We have | :15:46. | :15:53. | |
got to leave it there. Thank you for joining us live from Bristol. Let's | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
go back to our top story, the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan. We are | :16:00. | :16:07. | |
joined by the president of the charity Medicins Sans Frontiere You | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
have sent out teams to those in the centre of the storm's path. What | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
kind of assessment are you getting from your teams? We have been there | :16:18. | :16:25. | |
since last Saturday. It is a very chaotic, difficult situation, as we | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
have all heard on the news. Our teams are having difficulties | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
getting out. We saw that the transportation will be the main | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
issue so we have rented boats and helicopters, small aeroplanes and we | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
are assessing the different areas. Some are around Lete Island. We are | :16:42. | :16:49. | |
afraid for some of the smaller islands. What we have found in some | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
areas, it is not tackled and, the big town, but in the smaller | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
villages, disaster situation, almost everything destroyed, public | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
hospital is down, a private hospital is trying to cope, so we have done | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
consultation today. We are setting up a makeshift hospitals. And we | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
will do mobile clinics by boat. Tell us about the health hazards that | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
exist. Tetanus, for example, there must be a risk of that. We have | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
rotting carcasses of dead animals, spell that out for us. We are almost | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
one week after the disaster. People did not have access to health care, | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
so those who survived, a lot of them will be winded because it was a | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
destructive storm. People have had injuries on their heads. We will see | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
a lot of injuries and fractures that after one week with no sanitation | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
and clean water, will be infected. Infected injuries will already be | :17:57. | :18:05. | |
had. We will have to treat those injuries. These are things that will | :18:06. | :18:14. | |
come up in the coming weeks. And then tetanus, as you say, will be | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
one of the risks. We know the vaccination coverage was not very | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
high in the region so we will have to vaccinate to protect people | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
against tetanus. Often people think they are a health risk, they are not | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
a risk for spreading epidemic per se, if there was no Colorado four, | :18:33. | :18:43. | |
they will not spread it. -- cholera. The problem industry is | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
psychological. People will become fronted by dead bodies. It will | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
start to smell and overall hygiene situation, including no access to | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
clean water, that will be a risk. When people see these full-size | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
obviously the Philippines is accustomed to typhoons but you must | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
be worried about post, take stress disorder for some of those | :19:07. | :19:14. | |
survivors? -- post-traumatic stress. The Philippines people are used to | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
typhoons. They have had previous storms but this one has been so | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
disastrous. Our Philippine colleagues say that people are | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
strong but now they are one way now we see people in the streets and | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
areas where the storm hit and they are desperate. They have lost their | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
houses but not only that, they have lost almost all of the families The | :19:38. | :19:45. | |
people are devastated. So we will send psychological support. We know | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
from other disasters like this, those who survived the storm will | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
survive overall and they will have to cope with the situation. Food, | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
clean water, medical care is extremely important, but we should | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
not underestimate, because people have to build up and they need | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
psychological support. Thank you very much indeed and we wish you and | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
your teams of the best in your efforts to help the people in the | :20:11. | :20:24. | |
Philippines. Thank you. A French court has ruled that a | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
German safety standards company who gave the all clear to defective PIP | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
breast implants should be held liable. More than 400,000 women | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
worldwide were fitted with the implants. But they contained | :20:35. | :20:35. | |
substandard, industrial-grade silicone gel, and 4,000 of them | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
reportedly ruptured. The 1,700 plaintiffs will be paid $4000 | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
immediately. They could end up receiving up to ?53,000 each. Our | :20:42. | :20:43. | |
Paris correspondent Christian Fraser has more details. | :20:44. | :20:51. | |
This is a civil case that is running alongside a criminal case. The | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
criminal case in Marseille focuses on the former owner of the company, | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
John Paul mascot and for executives who are on trial for aggravated | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
fraud. Separately that was this civil case which featured the German | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
company that audited what went on at PIP. -- Jean Claude Mas.. They were | :21:09. | :21:16. | |
the company they gave the European safety standards certificate to PIP | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
and they checked on the distribution and training. Ever thing that went | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
on at the factory, it was the plaintiff us case that if they had | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
been there for 17 years, even most cursory check on what was going on | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
there would have alerted them to various problems. There was a man | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
working in quality control who had a diploma for cooking. There was a man | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
who was in the laboratory was a pastry chef. These were not together | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
people who had should have been in of medical products. -- these were | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
not the kind of people. The court has agreed with the 1700 women who | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
brought the case. Clearly there are massive implications for not only | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
the company involved here, but also for the European industry which | :21:58. | :21:59. | |
checks on medical products because if they have got it wrong, surely | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
there will be questions about whether other companies are getting | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
it wrong. I talked to the lawyers for the plaintiff, it is a 150 page | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
report, they said it grants these women $4000 upfront for any surgery | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
they would want to have the PIP implant removed now but an expert | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
panel will look at the compensation as a whole and they will get | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
anything up to $53,000. There are 400,000 women worldwide who are | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
looking at this and have just had a quick scan of the Twitter, lots of | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
women are tweeting who are now going to join what was a test case. There | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
will be many more compensation claims and that of course has | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
serious implications for TUV Rheinland because they could face a | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
compensation claim for over 1 billion euros. | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
President Obama has announced changes to his flagship health care | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
programme and admitted its roll out was fumbled. Only 106,000 people | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
have enrolled in the new scheme - and barely 27,000 of those did so | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
using a federal website which was beset with technical problems. The | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
White House had predicted that nearly half a million people would | :23:05. | :23:12. | |
have signed up by now. Speaking earlier, Mr Obama acknowledged that | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
the scheme's roll-out had been 'rough' - but said he was going to | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
make the policy work. I am not going to walk away from 40 | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
million people who have the chance to get health insurance for the | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
first time and I will not walk away from something that has helped cost | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
of health care grow at its slowest rate in 50 years. So we are at the | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
opening weeks of the project to build a better health care system | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
for everybody. A system that will offer real financial security and | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
peace of mind to millions of Americans. It is a complex process, | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
there are all kinds of challenges, I am sure there will be additional | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
challenges that come up. It is important that we are honest and | :23:57. | :24:04. | |
that we address problems in the laws. We have got to move forward on | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
this. It took 100 years for us to even get to the point where we could | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
start talking about and implementing, so I want to make sure | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
people have health insurance. My pledge to the American people is | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
that we are going to solve the problems that are there, we are | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
going to get it right and it is going to work for the American | :24:27. | :24:34. | |
people. President Obama. The Indian cricketer Sachin | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
Tendulkar is a legend in his own country and admired by cricket fans | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
all over the world. Many reckon he is the greatest batsman of all time. | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
Well, he has begun his 200th and last ever test match. Tendulkar is | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
the only player ever to score 1 0 centuries in international cricket. | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
At the end of play today against the West Indies, he'd racked up almost | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
16000 runs in test-cricket in a record-breaking career. The BBC s | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
Sanjoy Majumder has been soaking up the atmosphere at the match in | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
Mumbai. It is the end of the day and you can | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
see the crowds streaming out from outside of the stadium after | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
watching the hero play, Sachin Tendulkar is still batting, he gets | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
to come out to back tomorrow and all of them are going to be back and we | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
have found some people here to watch the game. You are wearing the India | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
teacher. A Sachin Tendulkar play? Yes. What was he like? -- did you | :25:28. | :25:36. | |
watch Sachin Tendulkar play I grew up in a country that worships | :25:37. | :25:45. | |
cricket. I was not going to take a chance missing Sachin Tendulkar | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
Will you be back tomorrow? Absolutely. Will Sachin Tendulkar | :25:50. | :26:01. | |
get 100? Yes. OK. The next generation clearly won't Sachin | :26:02. | :26:03. | |
Tendulkar to get 100 and I can tell you there will be millions of people | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
are and India rooting for Sachin Tendulkar, he has been India's | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
greatest sports star. He has been one of cricket's biggest stars. He | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
is about to call an end to a glittering career. Everyone here | :26:17. | :26:25. | |
wants to savour that moment. One of the world's rarest diamonds | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
has fetched a record price at auction in Geneva. The pink star was | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
sold for $83 million, no one has ever paid in such a high price for a | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
diamond before. The successful buyer has chosen to remain anonymous. The | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
sale came one day after the sale of the largest orange diamond ever sold | :26:46. | :26:55. | |
at auction for $30 million. Good evening. Friday will start with | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
perhaps the widest spread frost we have seen so far this season. Not | :27:01. | :27:03. | |
particularly hard, but you will be scraping the cars. At least | :27:04. | :27:10. | |
underneath those clear skies the temperatures will have fallen away | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
overnight and marked a dry start to Friday. | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
We have to thank an area of high pressure. There will not be clear | :27:20. | :27:27. | |
skies in Scotland. We are off and running in the afternoon, a lot of | :27:28. | :27:29. | |
fine weather to | :27:30. | :27:30. |