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This is BBC World News Today, with me, Philippa Thomas. They're off | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
again - a fresh round of talks about Iran's nuclear programme has started | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
in Geneva. But back in Tehran, stern words from Iran's Supreme Leade, | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
in Geneva. But back in Tehran, stern words from Iran's Supreme Leade the | :00:16. | :00:16. | |
Ayatollah warns that his country will not step back from its "right" | :00:17. | :00:28. | |
to enrich uranium. Under fire from Al-Shabab - we have a special report | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
from the front line in Somalia, targeting the militants behind the | :00:32. | :00:40. | |
attack on a Kenyan shopping mall. I roadside bomb has just gone off. | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
Also coming up: Britain's Prime Minister rules out an amnesty in | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
Northern Ireland - we talk to a leading Irish American who advised | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
President Clinton on the peace process. | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
And Mumbai eight London nil - how India is blazing a trail with the | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
number of female executives running the country's top banks. | :01:01. | :01:15. | |
Hello and welcome. What does Iran intend to do with its | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
nuclear power programme? Its diplomats are meeting in Geneva for | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
more talks with the US, UK, France, China, Russia, and Germany. Iran's | :01:26. | :01:36. | |
Supreme Leader in Tehran is warning that Iran will not step back "one | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
iota" from its nuclear rights. And its Foreign Minister - in a YouTube | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
video - is talking in more conciliatory tones about Iranian | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
dignity and its desire for diversified energy. Our Iran | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
correspondent James Reynolds in Geneva reports now on the latest | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
diplomatic developments. The world's power negotiator has a | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
driver, but she probably knows the roads well enough to take the wheel | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
herself. This is the third time in the last five weeks that she has | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
been here for nuclear talks. She wants to persuade this man, Iran's | :02:11. | :02:25. | |
Foreign Minister, to make negotiations about the nuclear | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
programme. It is not about joining the club or threatening others. | :02:31. | :02:38. | |
Nuclear energy is about a leaked. I jumped towards deciding our own | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
destiny. These talks are essentially an effort to sort out to run's place | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
in the world and in its own region. So the discussions which are taking | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
place here affect the shape of the entire Middle East. And in that | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
region Iran's supreme leader has told a loyal audience that he is | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
watching the talks closely. Any final decision on a nuclear | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
agreement will be made by him. Although we do not intervene in the | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
details of these talks there are certain red lines, there are limits. | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
These limits are to be observed. On a visit to Istanbul, William Hague | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
raised the possibility of an interim agreement. This is an historic | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
opportunity to build agreement on how to curb nuclear proliferation in | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
the Middle East. And potentially to set are lesions whether run on a | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
different path. It is the best chance for a long time to make | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
progress on one of the gravest problems in foreign policy. For a | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
decade, that problem has defeated teams of the goal shooters. | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
Diplomats here have three days to see if they can draft deal for a | :03:56. | :04:03. | |
first step. In the last 30 minutes it has been | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
reported that delegates in Geneva were saying it would be difficult to | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
strike a deal. Michael Mann, spokesman for the EU's Foreign | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
Policy chief Catherine Ashton, is in Geneva. The first session only | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
lasted ten minutes - what do you make of that? You must feel you are | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
getting to know Geneva very well, too. What about this downbeat line | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
from an American official? I do not think it is necessarily downbeat | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
upbeat. These are very complicated negotiations, we have made a lot of | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
progress over the last two meetings. Nobody is pretending this is going | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
to be simple, it is often tying up the fine details that is the | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
difficult bit. We have come with the message that Catherine Ashton was to | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
negotiate hard to find assisting the ball and robust deal. We have made a | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
lot of progress, there are still differences between us, but we will | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
work hard to make sure we move things forward. It is difficult for | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
me to make any predictions, but we want to progress certainly. The | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
opening session lasted ten minutes. They need to have these bilateral | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
discussions. That is right. There was a long lunchtime meeting between | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
Catherine Ashton and Minister -- the Catherine Ashton and Minister - the | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
Foreign Minister of Iran. There was a brief recession, people got | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
excited. There was need for that -- no need for that excitement. They | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
broke into what we call bilateral meetings with the Iranians I with | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
each of the six in turn, and that is what is happening at the time. While | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
you are negotiating, there is this line taken by the reader. -- leader. | :05:54. | :06:05. | |
We are continuing our work here. I do not think anyone should get too | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
worried about what has been said. There is a political process in | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
various capitals. We will continue our work here to keep things going | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
forward. We take note of what is being said, but I think both sides | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
of the negotiations understand each other and we will try and move wings | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
forward. The fact that we are here just ten days after the other talks | :06:29. | :06:42. | |
shows how serious we are. I will have to be invasive here, we cannot | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
go into detail about what is on the table. We are here to see as the | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
assurance, verifiable reassurance from the Iranians said that their | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
nuclear programme is for peaceful means. There is an issue with the | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
level of uranium enrichment going on in Iran. We are seeing from their | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
obligations that they were full on, they are prepared to prove that | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
their programme is purely peaceful and they will stop purifying and | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
enriching uranium to that level That is the key issue. Good to talk | :07:21. | :07:28. | |
to you as always. Thank you. Meanwhile, security is tight in | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
Beirut after Iran's embassy in the Lebanese capital was targeted in a | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
bomb attack on Tuesday, which killed 23 people and injured more than 140. | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
A Sunni Lebanese group fighting with rebels in neighbouring Syria has | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
claimed responsibility. It's likely the attack came in retaliation for | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
Iran's support for Syria's President Assad. It also comes at a time when | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
rebels just over the border in Syria are struggling to reverse recent | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
government gains. In the Qalamoun hills north of Damascus, suicide | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
bombers today targeted government troops and a hospital. Let's talk to | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
our Middle East correspondent Paul Wood, who's in Beirut, about this | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
regional hotspot. Can you tell us more about this | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
hotspot and the significance of the Qalamoun Hills. They are important | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
because if you have the Qalamoun bills, you have the main highway. | :08:22. | :08:29. | |
Ultimately you can threaten Damascus. The battle is all about | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
what is the endgame for Syria, the battle for Damascus. If the rebels | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
have Qalamoun, they can be group and they can mount as they have been | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
doing over the past two years of fences into the suburbs of Damascus. | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
It is difficult for them to do that any longer. This successful | :08:50. | :08:57. | |
defensive from the regime will push the rebels out of these last pockets | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
into Lebanon. Given that the government offensive has been | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
relatively successful so far, there are reports of hundreds of rebel | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
fighters pouring in. You sense that feeling of escalation on both sides? | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
Talking to people we understand that the main Al-Qaeda linked group in | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
Syria has been trying to final fighters down from the North where | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
they do not feel they are doing very much at the moment, into the fight | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
in the Qalamoun bills. That was according to sources ten days ago. I | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
do not know how much they will be able to accomplish. It is important | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
now, not least the cost of rebels lose this area altogether, they will | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
not have any means of getting their casualties out. It does sound as | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
there is potential turning point here. Neither side looks likely to | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
win in the near future. We are in a sense in a state of stalemate? If | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
the government is winning in Qalamoun, it will take a long, long | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
time. These are isolated mountains, there is one road in and one road | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
out. Even if they have taken this town and they hold it as they appear | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
to be doing, the rebels will it back. It is starting to turn into | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
winter, it is difficult for troops and people on both sides and | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
refugees streaming into Lebanon in greater numbers. There is a feeling | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
generally that the momentum is with the government. That does not mean | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
that they can extinguish the fighters on the rebel side. There is | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
some kind of stalemate with the rebels holed up parts of the | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
countryside, the government's authority extends to some highways. | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
Britain and the United States and even countries like Iran are telling | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
all sides in the conflict the only way out is a negotiated solution, | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
one that does not seem to be happening on either side at the | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
moment. Thank you very much. The Somali group Al-Shabab may be | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
the most powerful Islamist force in the world - and put itself back in | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
the spotlight recently when it attacked the Westgate Shopping Mall | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
in Nairobi. It sought to justify that attack as revenge for Kenya | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
sending troops to fight Al Shabaab in Somalia, where the militants have | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
been waging a bloody war for several years. The African Union mission in | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
Somalia has now been reinforced - and we have a special report on the | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
dangers it faces. Our correspondent Mark Doyle travelling with the | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
Ugandan contingent deep into central Somalia. | :11:38. | :11:47. | |
Driving by night through a war zone is not ideal. But the soldiers I was | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
with wanted to press ahead. The relative safety of their next well | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
defended position. We are headed for one of the most dangerous areas of | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
Somalia, 120 kilometres south of the capital. There are Al-Shabab | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
positions on both sides of the vehicle I am travelling in now and | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
we are heading for a Ugandan base. As we arrived, we heard over the | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
sound of night-time insects, an attack on the adjacent base. These | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
African union soldiers are trying to stop Al-Shabab from turning Somalia | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
into an Al-Qaeda style strictly Islamist country. The African forces | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
mainly financed by the United States and is making some progress. But | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
Al-Shabab are fighting back. These are parts of the roadside bomb that | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
was detonated against the tiger that was ahead of us. This is the battery | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
and this is the detonator that was strung out on a wire on the side of | :12:56. | :13:03. | |
the road there. -- the tank. All of these little bits of green, these | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
are the leaves from the trees which have been blasted off by the | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
strength of the explosion. This is the vehicle itself. It was hit from | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
underneath. The blast went up through the store and you can see | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
the fragments and so on the shrapnel which are asked about the windows in | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
the mirrors. -- have blasted. Then another explosion and even closer | :13:28. | :13:35. | |
call. The roadside bomb has gone off binders. The gardeners on the | :13:36. | :13:43. | |
carrier we are in our shooting at the bushes all around. -- the | :13:44. | :13:51. | |
Gunners. Many of the roadside bombs are set off by children. We cannot | :13:52. | :14:00. | |
give this man's name, he is only 15 years old. What did you do? At first | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
he says I was sent into towns to shoot people in the lead. Then I | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
became a commander myself and sent out others to carry out | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
assassinations. Al-Shabab our only interested in religion. They told me | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
I would go to heaven when I died. African Union firepower has got a | :14:23. | :14:29. | |
long way down a deadly road. It has pushed Al-Shabab out of Somalia's | :14:30. | :14:30. | |
pushed Al-Shabab out of Somalia s main towns. But those advances were | :14:31. | :14:38. | |
headed by soldiers from Uganda are threatened and shortages of military | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
equipment. We need more trucks, more helicopters and more manpower. To do | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
what? To make sure we cover up all the areas that are covered by the | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
Al-Shabab. These soldiers are gearing themselves up for more | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
fighting stop but will richer countries support them with the | :14:56. | :15:04. | |
tools they need to finish the job? Now a look at some of the day's | :15:05. | :15:06. | |
other news. One of 30 Greenpeace activists being | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
detained in Russia has been released. Brazilian Ana Paula Maciel | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
is among 20 activists so far granted bail after they were arrested at an | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
offshore oil rig in the Arctic two months ago. The court in the city of | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
St Petersburg ruled that the activists would be released once the | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
bail sum of about ?60,000 each was paid. -- $60,000. | :15:25. | :15:34. | |
The Church of England's ruling body has voted in favour of proposals | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
which could allow the ordination of women bishops. The approval paves | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
the way for a vote next year, which could see the measures become part | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
of church legislation. The issue of women bishops has been discussed | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
within the Church of England for nearly 50 years. | :15:48. | :15:49. | |
The South African double-amputee Olympic runner, Oscar Pistorius has | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
been charged with a further two gun-related offences. Pistorius has | :15:53. | :15:54. | |
already been charged with murder for the killing of his girlfriend Reeva | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
Steenkamp. Mr Pistorius has admitted killing Ms Steenkamp, but denies it | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
was murder. His trial begins in March next year. | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
The British scientist who helped the world to understand the building | :16:05. | :16:12. | |
blocks of DNA has died. Frederick Sanger, the only person from Britain | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
to have won two Nobel Prizes, was 95. Fellow researchers describe him | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
as "one of the greatest scientists of any generation" and "a real hero" | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
of British science. The British Prime Minister David | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
Cameron has ruled out plans for an amnesty on offences during the | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
Northern Ireland Troubles - that is, crimes committed before the Good | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
Friday Agreement in 1998. His comments came after Northern | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
Ireland's Attorney-General said there should no more prosecutions | :16:36. | :16:37. | |
linked to the deaths inflicted during decades of sectarian | :16:38. | :16:49. | |
violence. Chris Buckler reports. Belfast is a place that has | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
benefited from peace. As city opened up after years of tight security. | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
But the decades of violence cannot be forgotten. Bombings and killings | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
were on all too common part of life. There are still murders and solved, | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
killer is not held accountable. But now the Attorney-General for | :17:12. | :17:13. | |
Northern Ireland has suggested that the time may have come to end any | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
prosecutions or investigations related to the worst years of | :17:18. | :17:25. | |
troubles. -- of the Troubles. The time may have come to set online | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
set out the Good Friday Agreement with respect to prosecutions and | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
inquests. Across Northern Ireland, there are | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
families who feel they have never had justice. This proposal would | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
mean anybody involved in killings before 1998 would be immune from | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
prosecution. He did not have a chance to draw a gun pointed -- | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
anything, it was in the back and he was left lying in the road to die, | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
with nobody there. That memory comes to be quite often. | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
Florence's son was a police officer, murdered on duty in 1980. She | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
strongly feels you cannot draw a line. I know we have to go on with | :18:07. | :18:16. | |
life, but I think we never got closure, so how can you have closure | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
if you did not get justice? Dealing with that legacy of violence | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
is always a difficult discussion. It has been debated on radio phone in | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
programmes. And the American -- this American diplomat is trying to | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
broker an agreement between politicians about the past. | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
However, the Prime Minister has suggested this could be a step too | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
far. We have no plans to legislate for an amnesty for crimes committed | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
during the Troubles. But there are politicians concerned, | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
as well as victims propose groups. This is a place where the past casts | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
a long shadow. -- victims' groups. Former US Congressman Bruce Morrison | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
was an adviser to President Bill Clinton on Northern Ireland issues | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
during the peace process. He joins us live from Washington. | :19:06. | :19:15. | |
Your thoughts on this idea of an end to prosecutions on these historic | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
crimes. I think your piece that you just ran kind of explains why it is | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
a bad idea. Justice is something we want to prevail in the future of | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
Northern Ireland, and there are many victims who still feel that justice | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
has not been done for their cases and those cases and or on the smack | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
are on both sides of the divide. When the victims feel that it is | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
time to move on, then I think one can move on, but I don't think you | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
can leave them, believed as they are, feeling that closure has been | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
abandoned in their cases. Is there not a danger that by egging into | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
these historic crimes you are unearthing old bitterness is in | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
feelings of betrayal, and yet every year it finds the smack it finds the | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
smack it becomes harder to check out that evidence? -- it becomes harder. | :20:12. | :20:21. | |
In a lot of cases there has been a suggestion there would be | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
prosecutions in the killings from Bloody Sunday, those are on one | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
side, there are Parliament -- paramilitary offences that others | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
are concerned about. The past is still alive, it is not being on | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
earth, it still lives in Northern Ireland. -- it is not being on | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
earth. Northern Ireland has benefited from negotiations between | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
the communities and the politicians, and it is a bottom-up solution that | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
is needed here. A top-down decree that these historical cases are | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
off-limits will not please anyone, and I don't think it will pave the | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
way towards a better future. Northern Ireland's Chief Constable | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
is saying the cost of policing the past has a massive impact on how we | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
deal with the present. He said dealing with what he calls legacy | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
issues put significant pressure on our finances. That suggestion that | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
people of Northern Ireland today could lose out from the money being | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
invested in the Palace -- in investigating the past. I think that | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
is a decision for the political leadership in the province to come | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
together and debate at Stormont. I don't think there are priorities to | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
be set on an efficiency basis as opposed to what brings the greater | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
sense of justice and protection to the people who are living there now. | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
There are still very live issues like flags, parades, as well as the | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
investigation of past crimes. From an American standpoint you feel | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
there is a very difficult death suspect different view of Northern | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
Ireland to a few years ago? -- a different view of Northern Ireland? | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
View among the people generally is that a tremendous amount of progress | :22:18. | :22:24. | |
has been made. -- the view is. But it will take a long time to resolve | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
the many conflicts that exist. It is a positive story, but it has not | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
reached its end, and work will have to be done, and I think that what | :22:35. | :22:43. | |
Richard Hass is trying to do is a very positive contribution, but at | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
the end of the day it comes from the people in Northern Ireland to chart | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
their own future in a way that builds on the peace that has been | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
created. We have to leave it there. Thank you | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
for joining us. London may be the world's largest | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
financial centre, but there aren't ANY women at the helm of any British | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
banks and very few at senior levels in finance in the UK. Yet in India | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
several females are running the country's banks, including the | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
largest. How did they do it? Reeta Chakrabarti reports. | :23:14. | :23:21. | |
Banking has been one of the engines driving the Indian economy. Its | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
growth has seen a startling rise in the success of women, not just on | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
the shop floor but right at the very top. This woman has worked at | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
India's second-largest rank for nearly 30 years, and she now leads | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
it. How is it that women like her have done so well? The banks are | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
making a decision based on merit, and picking and choosing the | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
candidate they think is the most meritorious at that point in time. | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
Without any inhibition in their mind of whether the candidate is male or | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
female. As banking has grown, so has female | :23:58. | :24:07. | |
talent. There are now eight major banks headed by female executives. | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
They include this woman, who says Indian woman have an advantage as | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
there is always domestic help and the extended family. Family support | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
is a huge distinction for us, so my mother or my mother-in-law or even | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
my father father-in-law would come by and help me if I was stuck in a | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
situation. -- father or father-in-law. Competition to get | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
into this management college is unbelievably fierce, with around | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
1000 applications per place. Girls are determined to succeed. I wanted | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
to make sure I am working. I want to make a contribution. It is more | :24:50. | :24:58. | |
about the talent you have less about social constraints. India's first | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
female banking boss was in the 1990s, but she says it was an only | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
business then being the only woman at the top. But banking was always | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
seen as a good option for women. These women joined because it was a | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
dream job for them. The family did not object to them, they went to an | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
air-conditioned office, they were very happy, and meeting so many | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
people, dealing with money, it was glamorous. | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
Women have always worked in India, but their rise in the last two | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
decades in banking at least has proved a phenomenal success. All the | :25:38. | :25:38. | |
more remarkable given the many -- more remarkable given the many - | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
and said -- conservative attitudes to women in many other parts of the | :25:44. | :25:44. | |
country. With much of the population still | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
lacking basic education, there's attitudes will not disappear soon. | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
But the educated middle class now equals around 250 million people. | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
With numbers like that, India's corporate revolution might have only | :26:00. | :26:15. | |
just began. A reminder of our main news. | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
Talks between Iran and six world powers have resumed in Geneva to try | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
to reach a deal to curb Iran's nuclear programme. An Iranian | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
official described as constructive preliminary discussions between the | :26:26. | :26:27. | |
foreign minister and the EU's foreign policy chief Catherine | :26:28. | :26:29. | |
Ashton. Earlier the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, | :26:30. | :26:31. | |
of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Tehran would not back down from | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
its right to have a nuclear programme. | :26:35. | :26:36. | |
Well, that's all from the programme. Next, the weather. But for now, from | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
me, Philippa Thomas and the rest of the team, goodbye. | :26:42. | :26:46. |