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This is BBC World News Today with me, Geeta Guru-Murthy. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
The headlines: rare unity among world leaders in condemning | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
North Korea's fifth and most powerful nuclear test to date. | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
The country's leader is described as a reckless maniac by South Korea, | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
while the UN chief urges the Security Council | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
This is another brazen breach of the resolutions of the Security Council. | :00:23. | :00:35. | |
The US Congress passes a law allowing families of 9/11 victims | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
to sue the Saudi government for damages, despite | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
At least four people are killed as a passenger train derails | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
and hits a bridge in north-western Spain. | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
And the groundbreaking surgery restoring sight where it | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
World leaders have reacted with anger to North Korea's | :00:57. | :01:18. | |
latest nuclear test - which created a blast so large | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
it was initially thought to have been an earthquake. | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
South Korea has accused North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
Even China, long an ally of the isolated communist nation, | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
The North Korean newsreader says the nuclear test will protect | :01:32. | :01:44. | |
main square they thought was record as from a script. In South Korea | :01:45. | :02:03. | |
they monitored the tremors. Each test has been bigger than the one | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
before. The device detonated this time was just short of the power of | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
the Hiroshima bomb. Planes took off to gather a samples to try to | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
determine what kind of device was exploded. Condemnation has been | :02:19. | :02:27. | |
swift. We are trying to monitor to find out precisely what to place. | :02:28. | :02:37. | |
The Security Council sent this message very strongly. The | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
underground blast happened at this site in North Korea only nine months | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
after the last remark last nuclear test. Yesterday in Pyongyang, the | :02:45. | :03:00. | |
leaders collapsed in unison as they celebrated the founding of the | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
country in 1945. For them the bomb is the icing on the cake. Here | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
tonight in Seoul in South Korea, life goes on. The assumed Kim | :03:13. | :03:23. | |
Jong-un bloodthirsty quest will not happen. Even though he claims it was | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
a nuclear warhead smaller enough to go on a rocket. North Korea is just | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
50 kilometres from here, 30 miles. It could be another world. They | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
resume their are celebrating a great triumph tonight. Nobody knows what | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
the people think but there is no sign of that regime being close to | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
collapse. In recent months, North Korea has been launching missiles | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
every ten days in defiance of the United Nations. North Korea does not | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
have nuclear tipped missiles yet, but it is working steadily towards | :04:03. | :04:03. | |
getting them. United Nations Secretary General Ban | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
Ki-Moon has condemned North Korea's nuclear test and described | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
it as a brazen breach of His statement comes shortly | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
before the Security Council I would strongly appreciate | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
the Security Council to unite The Security Council has met eight | :04:17. | :04:25. | |
times this year only on DPRK issues. We are deeply concerned | :04:26. | :04:37. | |
by continuing the act of provocation by the DPRK regimes, | :04:38. | :04:50. | |
this time the fifth, I hope the United Nations security | :04:51. | :04:52. | |
council will act in solidarity and unity for the international | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
peace and security and give a strong Our correspondent Gary O'Donoghue | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
is following it all from Washington We are getting lines through from | :05:00. | :05:17. | |
the secretary of state saying the US are prepared to take any measures | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
needed. What does that mean? I think that is a good question because beer | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
in mind the UN Security Council has passed a bunch of sanctions against | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
North Korea in the last ten years. Five sets of resolutions and | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
sanctions and what has happened is North Korea's nuclear programme has | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
accelerated. Two nuclear tests this year, a total of five. The testing | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
of ballistic missile 's and the delivery mechanism potentially for | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
those nuclear warheads. It is tricky. I think there will be | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
pressure. The British ambassador to the UN talked about putting more | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
people on the travel ban list and tightening sanctions and | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
implementing sanctions. There is not a lot left. North Korea does export | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
a lot of call, one of it's only exports. It exports them to China | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
and there will be pressure on China to ensure the funds from that are | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
not being used in the nuclear programme. The international | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
community options are running out in diplomatic terms. Thank you very | :06:31. | :06:32. | |
much indeed, Gary. Long-time Korea specialist | :06:33. | :06:33. | |
and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Leeds University, | :06:34. | :06:34. | |
Aidan Foster-Carter, Thanks for joining us. Why do you | :06:35. | :06:47. | |
think North Korea is pursuing this policy on nuclear testing? The South | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
Korean president has attacked the leaders saying he is uncontrollable. | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
Is that the correct analysis? Uncontrollable may well be true. The | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
bit about being a maniac I would dispute. The north Koreans know | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
exactly what they are doing and Kim Jong-un and under his grandfather | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
and father, they played what the objective of the weak hand very | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
well. What they are doing right now? The other posting themselves at | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
home. He is still a young and new leader and untried. He is showing | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
that he can do the stuff like his father died. He is taking advantage | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
of the electoral window. There is a paralysis in the United States and | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
nothing much will be done now until the next president, whoever it is. | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
Donald Trump has said that he would talk to Kim Jong-un. South Rio has | :07:44. | :07:51. | |
an election coming next year. I do the direct see this as defensive, | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
the sort the fate of Iraq and they were put on the axis of evil and we | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
want to make sure that'll never happen. What about the role of | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
China? I think again it is naive that sometimes some people in | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
Washington and the west expect China to do our bidding and see it our | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
way. There is overlap with how China sees it and Western powers, but it | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
is not identical. The strategic equation, is that there is something | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
worse than this nasty and uncontrollable North Korea letting | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
off bombs on their doorstep and that is in North Korea collapse. They | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
would hit the process of that and we would hate the consequence, the | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
German style unified Korea and that is worse, as seen from China. I do | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
not see why some people in the west do not grasp that. China holds all | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
the cards, if they enforce sanctions, they are in trouble. | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
There was a row at the moment with South Korea about the missile | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
defence system that the Chinese do not like. I think China will | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
continue to have and, North Korea, I will continue to see it will get | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
away with it. It is destabilising in the region but global array, how | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
much of a threat is North Korea's -- globally. You have to rank your | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
threats, don't you? I wish we lived in a safer world. I am exercised by | :09:26. | :09:35. | |
the huge grip of the Islamic world. I am exercised by the Islamic State, | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
which attracts young people and turns them into rivers. North Korea | :09:44. | :09:52. | |
is isolated. No one is going there and surely that way lies a solution | :09:53. | :10:01. | |
which means back to diplomacy. It is a shame we dropped the diplomatic | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
ball this year. Thank you for your time. We appreciate it. On the | :10:06. | :10:15. | |
question of Islamist attacks, the biggest was 9/11. It is almost 15 | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
years since the 911 attacks in New York. | :10:21. | :10:21. | |
families of the victims have won the right to sue the Saudi Arabian | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
The House of Representatives has passed the bill - | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
the "Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act" - | :10:31. | :10:31. | |
despite a threat by President Obama to veto the measure. | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
15 of the 19 hijackers were 9/11 nationals. | :10:36. | :10:43. | |
With me now from Washington is our reporter Laura Bicker. | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
What does this bill allow? 15 out of those 19 attackers were Saudi | :10:50. | :10:58. | |
citizens. Saudi Arabia has denied any involvement in the 911 attacks | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
and no direct link has ever been found. This bill would allow the | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
victim's families to sue members of the Saudi Government or any element | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
of the attack and leaders of this bill say this is about fighting | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
terrorism and it is a bout a fight for justice. What this bill would do | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
is overturn long-standing international law, which grants | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
nation 's immunity from civil and criminal prosecutions. That law | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
certainty is something President Obama is concerned about. He said he | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
would veto it. He is concerned it would strain relations between Saudi | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
Arabia and the United States and he fears a backlash. Saudi Arabia could | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
take out their own civil or criminal cases against US citizens or | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
companies. The bill now lands on President Obama's desk and it is a | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
very difficult decision to make. He is not in office for that long. He | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
is not and this will have a time limit on it the minute he beat was | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
it. He has the Senate and Congress would have ten days after any | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
potential veto to override it. Two thirds of the vote would do that for | :12:16. | :12:23. | |
them. Congress believes this has bipartisan support and Hillary | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
Clinton, the Democratic presidential candidate, support it also. | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
President Obama finds himself isolated. Not only does he have his | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
own party supporting this bill, he also has two way up the geopolitical | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
consequences if he beat was it. There will be a lot of political | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
horse trading over the next couple of weeks. Thank you very much. | :12:46. | :12:54. | |
Four people have died in a train crash in north-west Spain. | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
The train left the rails as it was coming | :12:58. | :12:59. | |
into a station before veering into an electricity pylon. | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
Looking at the wreckage, it's hard to imagine how anyone | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
On Friday morning this train derailed in north-western Spain. | :13:06. | :13:14. | |
Its front carriage flipped onto its side and hit an electricity | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
Among the dead, the driver who was Portuguese. | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
Dozens of passengers were also injured. | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
The train breaked suitcases fell on top of us. | :13:24. | :13:33. | |
My mother knocked into my father and hurt him. | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
A man fell on the floor, coming out of the carriage, we saw | :13:37. | :13:53. | |
The train had set off from the Spanish town of Vigo | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
and was heading towards Porto in Portugal. | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
The crash happened near the town of O Porrino about 20 minutes into | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
The passenger train belonged to Portuguese state rail | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
Spanish authorities have launched an investigation, but for | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
now because of the accident remains unclear. | :14:12. | :14:13. | |
Now a look at some of the days other news. | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
Facebook has been accused of abusing its power by deleting one | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
of the most famous images of the Vietnam war - | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
a picture of a naked girl fleeing a napalm attack. | :14:24. | :14:25. | |
The Norwegian newspaper, Aftenposten, led the criticism | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
after the social network suspended a Norwegian writer's account | :14:29. | :14:30. | |
because he'd used the image in a shortlist of the world's most | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
Customs officials in Germany have confiscated 1.2 tonnes | :14:34. | :14:46. | |
US prosecutors have charged a Volkswagen engineer | :14:47. | :14:47. | |
over his role in developing illegal emissions-cheating software. | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
A year ago, VW admitted installing pollution-control software in some | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
diesel cars and vans to falsify emissions test results. | :14:53. | :14:54. | |
The engineer, James Liang, pleaded guilty to | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
conspiring to defraud US regulators and customers. | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
The second day of the Paralympic Games in Rio is just | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
There are 50 gold medals up for grabs. | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
The first day saw Kenyan athlete Samwel Mushai Kimani winning | :15:11. | :15:12. | |
the first Paralympic gold medal for his country and cyclist | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
Sarah Storey becoming Britain's most successful female Paralympian | :15:16. | :15:17. | |
Well, for the latest action lets head to the BBC's Julia Carniero | :15:18. | :15:25. | |
Has it been a good day so far? Lots more to come. Lots of action here. I | :15:26. | :15:36. | |
would like to bring you a highlight from yesterday. Resilient starting | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
out well and there's Paralympic games. -- Brazil. It has golds to | :15:41. | :15:51. | |
come. Yesterday, one of the biggest stars in the team got his first gold | :15:52. | :15:59. | |
in these Paralympics. He is often compared referred to as the | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
Brazilian Michael Phelps. He got gold in the 200 meter freestyle race | :16:05. | :16:14. | |
and fifth category. He still has another eight competitions that he | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
will take part in and saw another eight chances of winning Weddle 's. | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
He is the most successful Paralympic athlete. In Brazil. We had golds won | :16:23. | :16:32. | |
by Ireland, Argentina and also another one for Brazil. That went to | :16:33. | :16:46. | |
this man. He not only won the race, he also beat his own world record | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
and came in at 47 point 23 seconds. In that same race, bronze went to | :16:54. | :17:03. | |
Cape Verde. There were unexpected turns today. In the 100 meter | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
women's find out. The category for women who are totally blind, Libby | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
Clegg from Great Britain, she got the best time out of all the | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
athletes and made it into the final. She was later disqualified and that | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
was because the guide who was accompanying horror was understood | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
to have pooled her during the race and that is against the rules of the | :17:29. | :17:36. | |
Paralympics. -- accompanying her. We have lots of action to come today | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
and action in the stadium and in the swimming pool. Enjoy it. Thank you. | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
Let's take a look at the medal table as it stands on day two. | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
China has top spot with eight golds, nine silvers and four bronzes. | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
Great Britain is in second place and hosts Brazil have also had | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
a successful start - currently in fourth. | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
And you can get the latest from the Paralympics Games. | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
For detailed analysis and a sport by sport | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
Surgeons in Britain have used a robot to | :18:09. | :18:19. | |
operate inside the eye in a world first. | :18:20. | :18:21. | |
The milestone for robotic technology should mean that in future surgeons | :18:22. | :18:23. | |
will be able to do more complex procedures than are | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
Our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh has this exclusive report. | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
Deterioration of sight in my right eye is progressive. | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
Bill Beaver is going blind in one eye. | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
If, for example, I take a book, and I cover my left eye, | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
which is still good, all I see is Marsh. | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
His central vision is completely gone. | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
In theatre, the surgeon uses a joystick to move to the robot arm, | :18:53. | :19:04. | |
Robot assisted surgery is now commonplace, especially | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
Never before has a robot been used to operate inside the eye. | :19:11. | :19:23. | |
This is delicate surgery, involving tiny, precise movements | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
to remove a membrane which is causing sight loss. | :19:29. | :19:36. | |
Crucially, the robot can filter out the surgeon's hand tremors. | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
The robot has to pivot around a tiny hole in the wall of the eye. | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
Inside, it removes a membrane just 100th of a millimetre thick, | :19:50. | :19:51. | |
shown in blue, which is covering the retina. | :19:52. | :19:53. | |
That allows the hole in the retina to close. | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
A few days later, the results are clear. | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
Before long, his distance vision will return to normal. | :20:03. | :20:13. | |
It is almost the world of fairy tales but it is true. | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
It is the difference between being active and doing | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
the things I need to do and enjoying art and enjoying life. | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
The surgeon says that the robot was more accurate than the human hand. | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
We are going into a new era of eye surgery where we will be placing | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
things at the back of the eye, under the retina, very much more | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
accurately and with greater precision than at the moment. | :20:39. | :20:40. | |
We can certainly improve on current operations but I hope we can do | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
new operations that currently we cannot do with a human hand, | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
Retinal disease is the main cause of blindness in the developed world. | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
Robots should allow many more patients to have their site saved. | :20:54. | :21:01. | |
They were stuck all night in cable cars thousands of metres | :21:02. | :21:03. | |
But a few hours ago, more than 30 people were finally rescued. | :21:04. | :21:11. | |
Technicians managed to restart the service at first light and those | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
stranded above the glaciers of Mont Blanc have now been brought | :21:15. | :21:16. | |
Suspended 12,000 feet above the highest mountain | :21:17. | :21:27. | |
in the Alps, over 100 tourists, including a ten-year-old child, | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
The cars had become stuck after their cables became tangled. | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
You can just see rescuers suspended from helicopters. | :21:35. | :21:44. | |
One of those involved said it was like "performing surgery | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
By night fall, 80 people had been rescued, some by helicopter, | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
others in cabins a little nearer the ground were | :21:52. | :21:53. | |
TRANSLATION: While the day was sunny and not foggy, they | :21:54. | :22:01. | |
They couldn't use helicopters any more. | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
And they lowered people on to the glacier on the places | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
When dark arrived, they decided to stop the rescue operation | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
But 33 people had to be left dangling overnight, | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
In the morning, the helicopters came back, but there was still no | :22:20. | :22:27. | |
clear idea about how to get the people down. | :22:28. | :22:29. | |
Their ordeal finally ended when engineers managed to free | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
the tangled cables and get the cars going again. | :22:33. | :22:41. | |
Terrifying. A film about Edward Snowden has been polarising | :22:42. | :22:50. | |
audiences. He is the man behind the largest | :22:51. | :23:09. | |
leak in an as a history. In the film Snowden comes across as a decent | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
whistle-blower, not the traitor many see him as. | :23:15. | :23:26. | |
When I first met him in January 2014, the situation was still | :23:27. | :23:34. | |
uncertain in Moscow and I was aware of the situation was current and | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
dangerous and could blow up in my face. He was weary of the movie. We | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
went ahead. What has emerged is a story very | :23:43. | :23:51. | |
sympathetic to Snowden's cause. The screenplay, | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
co-written by Oliver Stone, Joseph Gordon-Levitt maintains | :23:55. | :23:56. | |
it's a drama which brings audiences a picture of Snowden that's more | :23:57. | :24:05. | |
complete than what can be gleaned Because there are a lot | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
of people who do view But not much weight is given to that | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
viewpoint in this film, is it? I'm not sure there is a lot | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
of weight to that point of view, I mean, I actually | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
haven't really heard any specific ways in which something | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
that he did harmed the country. Not so, say Snowden's critics, | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
of which there are many. After seeing the trailer | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
for the film, Rebecca Heinrichs, a fellow at the conservative | :24:36. | :24:37. | |
Hudson Institute, became convinced that Oliver Stone | :24:38. | :24:39. | |
had got it all wrong. There are very real, | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
real-life consequences, in which lives, we believe, | :24:43. | :24:44. | |
were lost because of the sort He really is a shameful individual | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
and so, it is too bad that this film is most likely going to have a large | :24:48. | :24:55. | |
audience and people are going to come away thinking that he's some | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
sort of American hero, It's been reported that the film | :25:01. | :25:02. | |
is a component of of a bigger strategy to advance an appeal | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
for clemency for Snowden. I don't think the government's | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
claims about harm to national So, one of these days, | :25:13. | :25:14. | |
we're going to see Edward Snowden return home and be broadly accepted | :25:15. | :25:23. | |
as the whistle-blower that he is. I do think that this film | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
will help ease on that day. But Snowden will find little | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
support from the two major Hillary Clinton has said | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
that he will have to face the music And Donald Trump has | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
called him "a total traitor". Tom Brook, | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
BBC News, Toronto. Facebook has reversed its position. | :25:46. | :25:58. | |
It will let that iconic photo from the Vietnam War. Thanks for | :25:59. | :26:00. | |
watching. | :26:01. | :26:06. |