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This is BBC World News Today with me Philippa Thomas. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The American President takes on the nation's powerful gun lobby. | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
In the past hour, an emotional Barack Obama unveils new gun control | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
measures and asks Americans to support them. | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
Every time I think about those kids, it gets me | :00:19. | :00:28. | |
Alarm in Germany at reports of gangs sexually assaulting around 90 women | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
in several cities on New Year's Eve. | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
A bionic eye is offering hope that vision can be | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
Each year, more than 30,000 American lives are cut short by guns - | :00:42. | :01:04. | |
Those statistics come from President Obama, | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
who has demanded that Congress "stand up" to America's | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
Here's what Mr Obama is proposing to introduce by executive order. | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
Mr Obama said he would close a loophole where background checks | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
were not carried out on people buying guns over the internet | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
The President said background checks would be expanded and linked | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
to mental health and criminal records. | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
And he announced that $500 million would be made available to provide | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
better access to mental health care. | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
Our unalienable right to life and liberty and the pursuit | :01:38. | :01:48. | |
And from first graders in Newtown. at Columbine. | :01:49. | :02:03. | |
And from every family who never imagined | :02:04. | :02:13. | |
that their loved one would be taken from our lives by a bullet | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
Every time I think about those kids, it gets me mad. | :02:17. | :02:37. | |
And by the way, it happens on the streets of Chicago | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
The Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, | :02:41. | :02:50. | |
Paul Ryan, says the President's actions will be challenged | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
Mr Ryan said Mr Obama has never respected the right to safe | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
and legal gun ownership that the country has valued | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
Our North America Editor was at the news conference. If you cast your | :03:00. | :03:12. | |
mind back to when you interviewed the president six months ago he said | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
his inability to do anything on gun control was the greatest frustration | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
of his presidency. We saw today, frustration, anger, impatience. As | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
you rightly point out, emotion as well. He visibly teared up and had | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
to wipe tears away as he remembered the children who lost their lives. | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
But is not going to affect the people who arranged against him in | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
this debate? -- is that? Almost certainly not. Opponents say it is | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
unworkable what he is suggesting. On philosophical grounds they say the | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
president is meddling with the second Amendment right to bear arms. | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
Even though if you can be called later date at the proposals, they | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
are comparatively modest. Well, it is no surprise that the NRA is | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
fiercely opposed. A statement from Chris Cox, | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
the executive director of the NRA's Institute for Legislative | :04:09. | :04:10. | |
Action which says: They say the proposals are ripe for | :04:11. | :04:18. | |
abuse from the Government and the American people don't need any more | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
condescending lectures... Sarah Trumble is Senior Policy | :04:22. | :04:32. | |
Counsel at Third Way, a US think tank which supports | :04:33. | :04:34. | |
tighter gun controls, Sarah, I know you are sitting in the | :04:35. | :04:44. | |
East room watching President Obama delivered that statement. It is a | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
cause that is intellectually and emotionally very dear to him. | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
Absolutely. It was an incredibly emotional experience. Also | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
infuriating that we still need to be dropping about this in 2016. And yet | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
as we have just heard from the NRA, it says it speaks for many thousands | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
of Americans who hold gun rights dear. They see it as part of their | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
very American nature. There is nothing inherently opposed to gun | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
rights in any of these executive actions today. In fact the president | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
was quite clear that he supports the second Amendment. All that these | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
laws do and all these executive actions will do is ensure that | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
people are following the laws we already have. Making sure that guns | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
stay out of the wrong hands. Who is forming in behind President Obama in | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
terms of putting money into this fight because the NRA as we know has | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
a huge amount of it? The NRA has always been rich and they are loud | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
and powerful. But like the president said today, they may Congress but | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
they don't own the American people. In recent years we see the American | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
public rising up, a big groundswell in support of people want stronger | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
gun laws led by people like Gabby differs who was shot in the head and | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
almost killed right by Mike Bloomberg, the former mayor of New | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
York City who has put in millions of dollars to this fight. Isn't this a | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
particularly different year in which they have this fight, because we are | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
limbering up for the present campaign, if anything, politics gets | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
more partisan, not less? That is true but the president waited as | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
long as he could for Congress to act and they failed to do so. The | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
American public are demanding action and of Congress won't do it, the | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
president will. Paul Ryan the Speaker of the president of the | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
House of Representatives has already said there will be legal action and | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
we are hearing that from primarily republican sources, are you | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
convinced this battle can be one? Yes. The president is a | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
constitutional lawyer. He specialises in this. The smartest | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
lawyers in the country work for him and I am confident that these are | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
constitutional. He did not write new legislation, he is only enforcing | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
laws that exist. Are you confident that enough Americans care enough | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
about this when you have an election, generally issues like the | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
economy come to the fore, gun control is often not pushed by the | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
candidates. We used to worry that after a mass shooting there would be | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
lots of public sympathy and after a few weeks attention would win, but | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
in 2015 we had on average more than one mass shooting every day, there | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
is no time for attention to win and attention is -- Americans are | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
scared. Thank you for speaking with us. | :07:40. | :07:41. | |
The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, has voiced outrage | :07:42. | :07:43. | |
over the sexual assaults and thefts that male gangs inflicted on women | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
This evening a crowd of around 150 most female protesters gathered | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
by the cathedral in Cologne to denounce the assaults. | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
Police suspect that organised groups of young drunk men, perhaps as many | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
as 1000 carried out the attacks. They said the men appeared to be of | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
Arab or North African appearance. Damian McGuinness is in Berlin and I | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
asked him about the reaction. It was chaotic. Thousands of people in | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
front of the cathedral in Cologne. Usually New Year's Eve is chaotic | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
anyway with fireworks being set off in all directions, but this was | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
particularly disturbing with the sexual assaults. What has really got | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
Germany talking is the comment by police officers that the men | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
appeared to be, the attackers appeared to be of north African or | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
Arabic appearance. There is no evidence that the perpetrators were | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
actually migrants or refugees or seekers themselves, but anti-migrant | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
far right groups have been saying that this proves that Germany has | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
been taking in too many migrants and refugees because of course, in 2015, | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
more than a million refugees and asylum seekers and migrants came to | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
Germany just in 2015 alone. So this event has sparked outrage. The | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
assaults on women, but also a lot of discussion amongst people in Cologne | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
themselves. The problem is of course where did 1000 people suddenly come | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
from. They said there was North Africans who were not asylum seekers | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
but where did they come from all of its open in such a large amount, you | :09:21. | :09:28. | |
do ask yourself that. TRANSLATION: I think you should just be prepared. | :09:29. | :09:30. | |
You should be careful and always wait for the help of the police. | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
TRANSLATION: I would advise young people not to get so drunk that you | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
don't know what is going on, and to perhaps not be alone, and to call | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
for help as quickly as possible. And especially at large events, there | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
are always enough people around who hopefully are not drunk. It is worse | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
in areas where there is nobody and where you can't get help. The next | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
challenge that Germany faces is the Carnival season at the beginning of | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
February and particularly in Cologne, where the whole city shuts | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
down for street parties. Officials have to find out what happened on | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
New Year's Eve and make sure it doesn't happen again. | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
The Turkish authorities say the bodies of at least 34 migrants | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
who were trying to reach Greece have now been discovered on beaches | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
The deaths occurred after yet another boat carrying migrants | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
capsized en route to the Greek island of Lesbos. | :10:26. | :10:27. | |
It isn't clear how many boats have sunk in rough seas, but the Turkish | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
authorities said some of the bodies had been washed up on a beach | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
while others were recovered from the water. | :10:35. | :10:35. | |
Several children were found among the dead, fully clothed and wearing | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
Now a look at some of the day's other news. | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
American defence officials say at least one member of the US | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
Special Forces has been killed during operations against Taliban | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
The officials said two other US servicemen were wounded in fighting | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
near the town of Marjah in Helmand Province. | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
Turkish authorities have freed an Iraqi translator four months | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
after he was detained in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
The translator, Mohammed Rasool, still faces trial, while the two | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
journalists were freed in September and deported. | :11:12. | :11:12. | |
All three had been accused of helping militant groups. | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
Here in Britain, the Prime Minister, David Cameron, has confirmed that | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
government ministers will be able to campaign for either side | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
in a referendum on whether Britain should remain in the European Union. | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
Mr Cameron has made clear he will argue for the UK's continued | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
membership if he secures reforms from Brussels. | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
Now, the latest video from the so-called Islamic State group. | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
In the footage, five men are murdered - | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
The relative of one of the victims has been speaking to the BBC | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
about the killings - and what it's done to the families. | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
He's been talking to our world affairs correspondent, | :11:53. | :11:54. | |
The so-called Islamic State captured these five men. It forced them to | :11:55. | :12:09. | |
confess to espionage. Then it killed them. The men, one of them was 25, a | :12:10. | :12:26. | |
31-year-old, an 18-year-old, a 30-year-old, and a 40-year-old. At a | :12:27. | :12:34. | |
secret location, in Turkey, we met one of them. He is a democracy | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
activist. He says his brother, in Isis controlled Syria, was just a | :12:41. | :12:48. | |
normal person. My brother is normal, just like all the people inside my | :12:49. | :12:58. | |
city. Has shown he fixed the air conditioning, electric, things in | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
the homes, he lived a normal life. He hasn't slept since he learned of | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
his brother's death. How do you understand what happened? Until now, | :13:08. | :13:17. | |
I don't really accept the reality, of it. Up until now, I didn't | :13:18. | :13:26. | |
accept, just this moment, it came to me, my brother is... Sorry. | :13:27. | :13:37. | |
I was saying, my brother was still alive, but after that, back to | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
reality, Isis executed him and he is innocent. At astonishing risk, | :13:45. | :13:53. | |
activists inside wrecker smuggle out footage of life inside the Isis | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
ruled city. Where conmen are in charge and it is safest simply to | :13:58. | :14:06. | |
keep quiet. -- gunmen. What is it life now for people in Riker? It is | :14:07. | :14:15. | |
held. -- hell. Isis arrest people without any charge just like that. | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
The five men who were forced to make confessions had no chance to give | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
their defence and tell their own stories. They paid with their lives. | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
The masked front man in that IS video is thought to be | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
The man suspected of being in the video is Siddhartha Dhar, | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
who disappeared after being granted bail at a UK court | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
Now the British Home Office is facing serious questions over how | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
an extremist suspect could flee the country while | :14:43. | :14:44. | |
Commemorations have been taking place in France in memory of the 17 | :14:45. | :14:59. | |
people who died in Islamist attacks last January. President Hollande | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
unveiled a plaque outside the offices of Charlie Hebdo where most | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
of the victims were shot dead. He also took place in ceremonies at a | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
site where policemen were killed and a kosher supermarket where officers | :15:14. | :15:14. | |
died. The row between Iran | :15:15. | :15:15. | |
and Saudi Arabia over the Gulf kingdom's execution of dissident | :15:16. | :15:17. | |
Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr and the subsequent attack | :15:18. | :15:19. | |
on Saudi Arabia's embassy in Tehran continues to expose fault | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
lines in the region. Bahrain has now suspended | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
flights to and from Iran, Kuwait has recalled its ambassador | :15:28. | :15:29. | |
from Tehran - and Gulf foreign ministers are preparing to meet | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
in Riyadh on Saturday to take The BBC Arabic security | :15:35. | :15:36. | |
correspondent Murad Shishani says tension between Riyadh | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
and Tehran is nothing new. This is the iceberg of the sectarian | :15:44. | :15:59. | |
tensions ongoing for a decade now, coming from the Middle East. | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
Secondly, this is politicised, after a proxy war was ongoing in Syria and | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
Iraq. Between both parties, supporting militant groups on the | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
ground, either diplomatically lobbying against each other in | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
various places, now coming to a clear political tension. Whether it | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
will escalate or not, we don't know yet, all indications both parties | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
don't want to go further than this. However they want to play the same | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
rule by supporting their own tools in different lists. That is the | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
situation we can see, from the Middle East. Of course, that has | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
impact on real lives on the ground outside diplomatic matters. If you | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
look at the Yemen or Syria, you need reconciliation. Yes, you need them, | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
but Yemen and Syria specifically which had had some talks, supposedly | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
to be held soon, this will be definitely affecting that. All | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
escalations in my opinion will go to these places, where there will be no | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
confrontation between both parties but they will be playing supporting | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
the proxies in different places. We have just had a wire comes through | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
from Reuters agency saying the Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister says recent | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
tensions won't affect political negotiations on Syria, I suppose the | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
answer to that is, you hope they won't. Exactly, you can hope that, | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
but it's seems if both parties have big influence in Syria. They have | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
their own allies. Both are influential on the ground, let alone | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
jihadist, who are striking chords on their own, but there are other | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
influential guys, the jihadis local groups, they are not adopting the | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
global ideologies. There are also Shia militants who are supported in | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
Iraq and Syria and these are I think the main factors which will be | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
effective at keeping the conflict ongoing. In Australia, fire | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
destroyed a whole house after a hover board level to charge set the | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
place alight. The blaze ripped through the entire property but the | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
family escaped unharmed. This was in Melbourne. It was a gift for | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
Christmas, the hover board, it was plugged into the wall in the | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
daughter's bedroom and it's just ignited. You can see the damage it | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
caused to the house, the whole house has had to be demolished. Apparently | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
you can get hover boards in Australia but as Doctor as 150 US | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
dollars, as in many countries, they have been become in vogue and this | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
went badly wrong. In the US, a three-year-old girl who was strapped | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
into a car when it was stolen was found unharmed. A frantic search was | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
launched after a thief drove off leaving her mother just feet away | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
filling up a water jug. The car was found abandoned without the child | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
and it wasn't until four hours later that she was discovered shivering | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
and alone at 1am in a car park. A police officer's body camera video | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
shows him chopping up this patrol car and scooping her up. This | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
happened in Albuquerque in New Mexico. Thank goodness for that | :19:20. | :19:20. | |
officer. A new implant or "bionic eye" has | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
helped a blind woman It's hoped it could eventually help | :19:24. | :19:25. | |
restore the sight of thousands A computer chip - costing around | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
$75,000 - is implanted over the retina and sends light signals | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
to the brain. If trials are positive, | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
surgeons hope it could be available on the National Health Service | :19:37. | :19:38. | |
in as little as two years. Our medical correspondent | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
Fergus Walsh has the story. Since the age of five, Rhian Lewis | :19:43. | :19:55. | |
has been gradually losing her sight as a result of a rare condition, | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
retinitis pigmentosa. It is a bit like if someone has put the dimmer | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
switch off ever so gradually. It has been maybe 80 years since I had any | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
idea what my children looked like. I certainly don't know how I have | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
aged. But now surgeons at Oxford I Hospital are to fit a German-made | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
implant in a bid to return -- restore some of her vision. The tiny | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
chip is fitted over the retina's like processing cells which have | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
stopped working. Just three by three millimetres. The implant has 1600 | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
light-sensitive pixels, when like it's the implant it sends electronic | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
signals to the optic nerve and onto the brain, which processes them. She | :20:40. | :20:46. | |
has to learn how to interpret those messages. This control box allows | :20:47. | :20:54. | |
her to adjust the contrast and frequency of the pixelated images. | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
But can she now tell the time? Three. | :20:58. | :21:07. | |
Oh, it is. Oh, my God! Well done. I got it. It is very nice to compare | :21:08. | :21:22. | |
that to TV pictures. An outline of things moving and coming and going. | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
Compared to what we see, we consider that to be low-level vision. Someone | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
who is completely blind, the ability is actually life changing. She still | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
needs help getting around, but she says having the implant is pure joy. | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
You're not completely helpless, you can actually find the edge of a | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
wall. I really can't put it into words. I just felt elated. Switch | :21:47. | :21:54. | |
the machine on. It comes on completely instantly. I will move my | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
head around there, the flashing his starting. Mac in 2012I met Robin | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
Miller, one of the first patients to receive an earlier version of the | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
implant. Those devices lasted up to 18 months. It is hoped, this new | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
implant, could stay in place for up to five years. | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
Fifa's ethics committee has recommended imposing a nine-year ban | :22:17. | :22:18. | |
on the governing body's suspended secretary general, | :22:19. | :22:20. | |
Mr Valcke was originally suspended for 90 days, | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
but that has now been extended by a further 45 days. | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
A statement from the committee also recommended that Mr Valcke serve | :22:29. | :22:30. | |
a nine-year ban and pay a fine of $67,000 for alleged "misuse | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
of expenses and other infringements of FIFA's rules and regulations." | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
Former West Indies captain Chris Gayle has been fined $7,000 | :22:41. | :22:42. | |
by the Australian team he represents for flirting inappropriately | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
with a female journalist during a live television interview. | :22:46. | :22:53. | |
Gayle then went on to tell the journalist not to "blush."The | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
cricketer has since apologised and said he'd been joking. | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
There wasn't anything meant to be disrespectful or offending to her. | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
She felt that way, then I am really sorry for that. There wasn't any | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
harm meant in that particular way, to harm any particular person like | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
that. It was a simple joke. The game was going on. Entertainment, you | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
know, things get out of proportion. These things happen. There wasn't | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
any harm done, and I will believe it at that and I am sorry for that, and | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
I will just have to move on. The female commentator journalist | :23:33. | :23:34. | |
interviewing Chris Gayle was Mel Here's what she had to say | :23:35. | :23:36. | |
about the incident. It was more that it was just | :23:37. | :23:44. | |
unexpected. Of course you don't expect to get that sort of answer. A | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
little bit disappointing, because that just doesn't happen normally. I | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
don't want to be the subject of such conversations, I like just going | :23:54. | :23:55. | |
about their business and doing my job. It is a good thing that people | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
are talking. We always want equality and I have always felt in my career, | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
nothing but respect. He apologised and I accept that and we move on. | :24:05. | :24:06. | |
You don't even have to be a fan of cricket to appreciate the amazing | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
feat a 15-year-old Indian schoolboy has achieved. | :24:10. | :24:11. | |
He's become the first batsman in the game's history to complete | :24:12. | :24:13. | |
Our South Asia Correspondent Justin Rowlatt reports. | :24:14. | :24:22. | |
15-year-old Pranav Dhanawade didn't expect to break any records today. | :24:23. | :24:30. | |
He says he just played what he calls his natural game, attacking from the | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
word go, and attack he did. He smashed 59 sixs, 127 fours. 6.5 | :24:37. | :24:45. | |
hours later, he had run up a total of ten centuries. 1009 and runs not | :24:46. | :24:54. | |
out, and all in a single innings. Son of an auto rickshaw driver was | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
powered into cricketing history, shattering the previous record of | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
628 runs that had stood for 116 years. To play a big innings. After | :25:04. | :25:18. | |
that, I scored 100, 200, 300, I want to play for India. Mumbai 's school | :25:19. | :25:27. | |
cricket is seriously competitive, unlike my game. It has produced | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
legendary cricketers like Sachin Tendulkar, widely reckoned to have | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
been deep test batsmen of all time. Today he tweeted his congratulations | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
to the young player, urging him to work hard and scale even greater | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
peaks. All right, come on, lads, let's try again. He is certainly a | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
hero to these kids, but perhaps it is the rival team that needs to do | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
the hard work. They were all out for a paltry 31 runs. | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
I'm Philippa Thomas. Thank you for being with us here on BBC World News | :26:02. | :26:10. | |
Today. Good evening. Still some heavy rain about this evening | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
particularly across the north-east of England. An Amber warning in | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
force until midnight. Tomorrow morning, dense fog could be the | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
hazard across parts of England and Wales. It could form anywhere but | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
particularly in the | :26:25. | :26:25. |