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This is BBC World News Today with me Philippa Thomas. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong ignore pleas | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
Hong Kong's chief executive says China won't accept their demands | :00:11. | :00:17. | |
for electoral reform, but, as these pictures clearly show, | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
tens of thousands of people are still on the streets. | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
British jets hit Islamic State targets in Iraq | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
for the first time helping Kurdish troops who'd come under attack. | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
Also coming up, Bill Gates tells the BBC how he | :00:33. | :00:40. | |
And ensuring the legends live on, the street artist giving dead | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
We start in Hong Kong where thousands more people have joined | :00:44. | :01:06. | |
We can't tell you exactly how many but you can see masses | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
This is the scene in the central district of Hong Kong in the early | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
The protesters are calling on Beijing to give them | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
a free vote on the next Chief Executive of Hong Kong in 2017. | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
Under China's "one country, two systems" approach to | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
administering the territory, Beijing can decide which candidates are | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
On Monday, Britain and the United States | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
weighed into the debate, supporting full democracy for the territory. | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
A move which didn't go down well with the Chinese authorities. | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
But that stern warning hasn't dented the protesters' fervour | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
We want to stress Hong Kong is one of China's special administrative | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
regions. Hong Kong affairs are purely china's internal affairs so | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
we demand that countries are cautious with their words and | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
actions and not get involved or interfere with China's internal | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
affairs in any way, we will not support them anyway illegal | :02:14. | :02:14. | |
activities. But that stern warning hasn't dented | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
the protesters' fervour as they continue to occupy large | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
parts of the city, including Mongkok on the Kowloon | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
peninsula to the north, and in the central district from Connaught | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
Place across to Causeway Bay. These drone pictures show us | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
the sheer numbers of people who've And, | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
although it may be quiet overnight, huge crowds are expected to pack the | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
city centre on this public holiday. The BBC's China Editor Carrie Gracie | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
has been out in the crowds No wonder it's called | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
the polite protest. But China called them extremists, | :02:46. | :03:07. | |
who show contempt for the law. And Hong Kong's Chief | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
Executive said he had enough. The organisers of Occupy Central | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
have said many times that if the movement goes out of control, | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
it will be halted. So now I call upon them to fulfil | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
their promise The protest has spread to another | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
front, blocking roads in one of Hong Many here say they support | :03:30. | :03:49. | |
the fight for democracy. TRANSLATION: | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
Business is down at least 50%. So far, the protests are peaceful, | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
but if they disrupt things for too long, | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
the impact will be hard to predict. The only police to be seen | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
today were behind railings. And even those who once called | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
themselves protest organisers say things have moved but | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
beyond their control. It is movement of the people, | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
initiated by Hong Kong people. Since riot police withdrew in | :04:25. | :04:32. | |
the early hours of Monday morning, these people have taken ownership | :04:33. | :04:42. | |
of the heart of Hong Kong. They have even renamed this | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
placed Democracy Square. And instead of getting tired, bored, | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
or scared, as the government hoped, they are actually growing | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
in confidence and conviction. First used as shields | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
against police pepper spray. And now it is known as the | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
Umbrella Revolution. It's going to take more than | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
a rainstorm to quench their spirit. For all their good manners, | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
this is a devastating challenge to British Tornado jets have launched | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
attacks against Islamic State positions in Iraq | :05:16. | :05:26. | |
for the first time since members of Parliament here voted to approve | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
direct military action last Friday. The RAF says they successfully hit | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
a heavy weapons position and an armed pick-up truck around Rabia | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
near Iraq's border with Syria. This is one of the jets involved | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
in the mission returning to And we have more reports | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
of heavy fighting in both Iraq and Syria, with fierce clashes | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
reported at the border town of Rabia, between Iraqi Kurdish | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
forces and Islamic State militants. Fighting has been reported | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
on both sides of the frontier, Iraqi Kurdish troops are said to have | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
recaptured the town, but suffered In a separate development, | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
Turkish tanks have taken up positions on a hill along the border | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
near the Syrian town of Kobane Meanwhile, as part of the attempt to | :06:06. | :06:13. | |
curb the flow of foreign fighters to the Middle East, the UK's Home | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
Secretary Theresa May has told her party's annual conference that if | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
the Conservatives win power in next May's British election, they will | :06:20. | :06:21. | |
impose tighter restrictions She said new | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
"banning orders" would allow the authorities to outlaw extremist | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
groups if they incite religious or racial hatred or threaten democracy, | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
without having to prove that they Those same groups could also be | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
subject to Extremism Disruption Orders which would restrict | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
their movements and prevent them As our home affairs correspondent | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
Daniel Sandford reports, the proposed crackdown has already | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
provoked some sharp criticism. It was the brutal killing of | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
Drummer Lee Rigby last year by two British men that reopened | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
the debate about extremism. Since then, hundreds | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
of Britons have gone to Syria to So, today, at the Conservative Party | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
Conference, the Home Secretary It will aim to undermine | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
and eliminate extremism Neo-Nazism and other forms | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
of extremism, And it will aim to build up society | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
to identify extremism, confront it, Muslims are over 2 billion, | :07:25. | :07:33. | |
around the world! The plan is to ban extremist groups, | :07:34. | :07:41. | |
even if they are not directly And prevent leaders addressing | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
public meetings or even giving Men like Anjem Choudary, who has | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
been linked to several Islamists who You know, | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
I think I am extreme from some views Yes, I am extreme | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
because I believe in submission. I am extreme from democracy | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
because I believe we belong to God. I'm extreme from man-made law | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
because I believe in divine law. Theresa May's speech has reopened | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
one of the most difficult debates How to keep the people of Britain | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
safe, and, at the same time, Things like freedom of expression, | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
which have been part of Daniel Sandford reporting, | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
and to give you just one example of radicalisation, | :08:30. | :08:38. | |
today a 15-year-old girl from Bristol has been reported missing, | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
and police believe she's trying to Let's talk about these issues now | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
with Erin Marie Saltman, a senior researcher with Quilliam, | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
the counter-extremism think tank. That is just one example but you | :08:50. | :09:00. | |
have been looking at the fact that there are at least several more | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
girls trying to get to join Islamic state. Yes, we have seen quite a few | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
case studies in the UK and across Europe. It is thought up to 200 | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
European females of actual journey to Syria and Iraq to join forces, | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
sometimes it is unclear whether that is to be with jihadists and become | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
wives of them, because some individuals have gone specifically | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
for that purpose. What is the appeal? We shouldn't assume the same | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
mechanisms that would be lowering a male wouldn't be alluring to female. | :09:37. | :09:46. | |
For a female, it is very empowering to think that not only is it a sense | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
of adventure that you are going abroad, but you are taking part in a | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
humanitarian cause, that is ordained by Lord, because that is what the | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
extremist rhetoric says. And you have a real man to support in his | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
effort to fight for this Moslem state. So, even though we might see | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
these young women go into a position where they have to know their place, | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
dress conservatively, they might see at liberating? They might see it as | :10:18. | :10:25. | |
liberating. And there is a network online, it is where women are | :10:26. | :10:33. | |
tweeting in using social media, just like the foreign fighter men, to | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
encourage women to come to join them, discussing what daily life is | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
like, encouraging them how to get across the border. You look | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
carefully about how people are being radicalised, encouraged to go out | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
there, so what do you make of Theresa May's measures, saying that | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
if the Conservatives win the general election they will clamp down in | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
these different ways? The rhetoric was interesting. This idea of | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
extremist disruption orders, because extremist disruption is welcome and | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
we should not be given undue platforms to hate preachers, but | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
this doesn't necessarily go against pre-existing laws. It is already | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
illegal to have hate speech, to incite violence in others. Perhaps | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
this is a case of just being better about putting into practice the laws | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
we have. We will see. There is the danger of creating an object to | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
resist against, if the clamp down goes too far. Censorship is not the | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
key, on or off-line. It will always come back. We don't want to give | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
credence by giving special treatment to certain individuals by censoring | :11:48. | :11:49. | |
them. Thank you for coming in. Rescue teams in Japan have had to | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
abandon attempts to recover the bodies of hikers who died | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
on Mount Ontake for a second time. The volcano erupted on Saturday, | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
and there are now fears Rupert Wingfield-Hayes has been | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
speaking to someone who survived the wall of ash that killed dozens | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
of people. On Saturday, she was climbing alone, | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
scouting a new route up Japan's She shows me the point where she was | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
standing, right near the summit when Mount Ontake suddenly exploded | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
without warning. TRANSLATION: | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
It was a beautiful autumn day. I looked back and saw tonnes | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
of ash and rock in the air. The smell | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
of sulphur was really strong. I really thought I was going to die. | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
I thought I was going to be trapped in the gas and die right there | :12:50. | :12:58. | |
on the spot. I thought to myself, | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
"Why did I come here today?" Completely exposed, Sayuri jammed | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
herself into a hole in the rocks. She hid there for an hour as the | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
mountain exploded just metres away. TRANSLATION: | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
I hid beneath the rock. Then, suddenly, | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
it would go completely black. That was when I saw a rock the size | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
of a small car, or others the size I could hear the noise, swish-swish, | :13:29. | :13:36. | |
of the rocks flying by. Sayuri took her chance and ran | :13:37. | :13:45. | |
for it, climbing down as fast She knew there were many others | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
still back up there I wonder | :13:53. | :14:00. | |
about those people I saw out on the peak, people who were taking | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
pictures and enjoying the view. I ask her | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
if the experience would stop her The mountains, she says, | :14:09. | :14:26. | |
are her life. Bill Gates has been speaking to the | :14:27. | :14:39. | |
BBC about his foundation's decision to pledge $50 million to fight | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. We'll take you live in a moment to | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
Liberia to hear about events on the ground, first let's hear | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
a little of what he had to say. It's hard to predict how quickly | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
we can bring the case counts down. We have to build these Ebola | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
treatment units, we've got to get medical personnel in there, | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
and have a capacity so that anyone And also by being in there, | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
they are not infecting more people And that capacity simply | :15:08. | :15:16. | |
hasn't been there. The US, the UK and others are now | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
pledging very substantial resources. The US, the UK and others are now | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
pledging very substantial resources. Despite that donation, | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
for some families it is too late. The charity Unicef says that 3,700 | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
children in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone have lost one, | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
or both, of their parents to Ebola. Let's go live to Sarah Crowe who is | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
working for Unicef I suppose you are seeing these | :15:48. | :15:59. | |
children who are losing their parents. Absolutely. The sheer scale | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
and nature of this crisis requires us to do things we have never done | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
before. We think there are about a couple of thousand orphans in | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
Liberia. There is no real documentation, no real process at | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
the moment, so it requires or calls on us to be extremely creative and | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
to be courageous, and try new and inventive solutions to take care of | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
these children records of both terrible stigma and fear that so | :16:33. | :16:44. | |
many have when children come out of an Ebola treatment unit. It requires | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
no protocols and for us to find new ways of doing something we have | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
never done before. People are afraid to take them on? Yes. It is children | :16:54. | :17:01. | |
who are in contact with a relative who has died as a result of Ebola | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
and are potentially infectious themselves. In all of these | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
countries and in Liberia as well we are trying to work with a network of | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
survivors who themselves are immune. You can imagine taking care | :17:20. | :17:30. | |
of a small baby and protective personal equipment is an anathema to | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
nurturing a small child. Using this network of survivors, and it will | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
require an army of them effectively, and others brave enough | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
to join us, this is one way in which we are starting to open these | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
centres, interim care centres, in the coming weeks, where we will be | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
able to provide children who have been in contact with better care and | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
support. It sounds as if you are working against the odds to put | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
systems in place to contain Ebola. Do you share any of the optimism | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
that this will be defeated? We have seen glimmers of hope. This is what | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
we have to hang onto. In the past couple of days there was one little | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
boy who was put into emergency foster care. His father died at the | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
Ebola treatment unit and through a process of tracing we found, | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
together with the ministry and other partners, we found an emergency | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
foster care for him. In an extended family. He was sorted out. We have a | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
number of cases where my children think there might have lost their | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
parents and are reunited. You can imagine the rate at which families | :18:53. | :19:00. | |
or the sick are processed through an Ebola treatment centre is such that | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
documentation is often not accurate, so children fall through the cracks, | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
and it is about improving the system. We are seeing glimmers of | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
hope like that. That is what we have to hang onto. We have to be able to | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
focus on what is possible. Thank you. | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
By which I mean, do you understand the language of economics or do you | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
think that the world of banks and investments and balance sheets is | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
Even though the credit crunch of 2008 and | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
the global recession that followed definitely did affect all of us? | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
One man who's here to help is author John Lanchester, whose | :19:40. | :19:41. | |
I have been learning things from your lexicon of money. Why did you | :19:42. | :19:51. | |
think it was important to write this book? I wrote a book about London | :19:52. | :20:00. | |
and got interested in how finance works. As I educated myself I | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
realised that there was an awful lot I did not know, at the most is the | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
level of not understanding words. -- Basic. A lot of it is not knowing | :20:13. | :20:20. | |
what words mean. I found that there were a lot of words I might use that | :20:21. | :20:29. | |
I did not really grasp. It can balance being one of them. That is | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
when something falls so far and it looks as if it is going to have a | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
great recovery and then it falls down again. -- dead cat balance. It | :20:38. | :20:58. | |
was a phrase in circulation. Purchasing power parity, it is used | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
as an index to see how expensive it is to live somewhere. Two most | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
expensive countries in the world according to the Big Mac index are | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
Norway and Venezuela which have nothing in common apart from | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
enormous amounts of oil. Failing up words. That is when someone is so | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
embarrassingly rubbish at a job, this never happens at the BBC, so | :21:26. | :21:34. | |
amazingly rubbish there is nothing to do apart from promote them, and | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
it is a well-known feature in corporate life that people are so | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
rubbish they keep being promoted. One other thing that might matter in | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
the future, what is shadow banking? Stuff like credit cards, insurance, | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
finance spread globally through the system which is not regulated. One | :21:56. | :22:03. | |
of the things that is weird about it, and civilians are alarmed by | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
this, nobody knows how big it is. It is this gigantic sector and you | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
cannot put hard numbers on the scale of it. When we talk about the | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
financial sector we often talk about markets, looking at Hong Kong, and I | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
wanted to ask you about that, you grew up there and wrote a novel | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
about it. What strikes you when you see these protests? It is an amazing | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
thing and optimistic thing and I think people may have seen protests | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
before but what is different is these are not with the consent of | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
the police. This is not a managed demonstration. A lot of it is to do | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
with Hong Kong identity, younger people in Hong Kong very strongly | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
feel that as well as being Chinese and Cantonese they are also Hong | :22:52. | :23:06. | |
Kong-ese. People thought in 20 years time that the mainland would be | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
converging and the systems would be growing together and what this shows | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
is that young people from Hong Kong do not think that. They are feeling | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
more strongly about their sense of their own identity as a separate | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
thing. This is a political expression of that. Thank you. | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
Kurt Cobain, Tupac Shakur, Amy Winehouse, all iconic figures from | :23:32. | :23:33. | |
Their early deaths are now the subject of a pop-up art | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
Scars and Stripes is the work of D*Face, a British street artist | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
The murals for me have always been about a big expression, | :23:46. | :23:54. | |
a big volume of paint on the wall and grabbing people's attention. | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
I am starting on the eyes because it is more interesting | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
It is nice to have these eyes which will be almost finished | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
and everything else filling in around them. | :24:07. | :24:08. | |
The exhibition is called Scars and Stripes. | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
It is separated into two bodies of work. | :24:12. | :24:13. | |
One is a question of celebrity, fame, stardom, and those people | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
particularly who have died young in their field, and how | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
How they go on to live past the end of their lives, and how we | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
put them on a mantle and we let them becoming manipulated into how we | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
Someone like Sid Vicious, for example, has gone on to represent | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
Buddy Holly representing the very early days of someone dying | :24:38. | :24:46. | |
in the pinnacle of their career, to the great shock and surprise | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
This is a very close crop of James Dean who epitomises that burning | :24:50. | :24:58. | |
When I was experimenting with these I was looking at how they died, | :24:59. | :25:06. | |
so I was playing with metal, the idea of him dying | :25:07. | :25:08. | |
in a car crash, this is scratched out onto a still that is rusted. | :25:09. | :25:16. | |
These people often go on to live not just in their own songs but in the | :25:17. | :25:24. | |
way in which there are songs are sampled, and that is an important | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
element of how those myths carry on living outside of their own world. | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
Kurt Cobain is a really important figure to me | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
because I was hugely influenced by Nirvana and the grunge culture. | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
I remember how shocked and surprised I was when he took his own life, | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
having what seemed like the world at his feet. | :25:45. | :25:46. | |
Often these artists that have been thrust into the limelight become | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
celebrities often overnight and don't know how to handle it. | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
Struggled long and hard, and suddenly everything is available | :25:54. | :25:55. | |
to them, and that for me is very interesting. | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
The message in the work is very much like the work on the street. | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
It is about giving yourself to question your relationship to it. | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
That can be your relation to celebrity, what it means to you, and | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
the artist's drive for celebrity, this appetite we have for more fame. | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
The volume seems to get turned up more and more. | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
People are famous for nothing now, as opposed to being famous | :26:21. | :26:22. | |
That is a very interesting subject matter. | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
It is about questioning that relationship and what that | :26:26. | :26:27. | |
You can also talk to me about this or any other | :26:28. | :26:46. | |
Most of you finish September on a warm and dry not, but there has been | :26:47. | :27:02. | |
some rain around today and | :27:03. | :27:03. |