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This is BBC World News Today, broadcasting in the UK | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The headlines - Russia accuses the US of protecting Syrian rebels | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
Russia's Foreign Minister tells the BBC that America is failing | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
to separate their moderate rebel allies from Islamist fighters. | :00:21. | :00:32. | |
They are either driven by al-Nusra, or some other terrorist | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
organisation. Mission accomplished - | :00:40. | :00:40. | |
the space probe Rosetta ends its twelve-year voyage | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
in a planned crash-landing Donald Trump renews his attack | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
on a former beauty pageant winner who criticised him | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
for what she called sexist And what happened to two priceless | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
Van Gogh masterpieces stolen A year to the day since Russia's | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
bombing in Syria began, the Russian foreign minister has | :01:01. | :01:23. | |
defended his country's actions Sergei Lavrov accused America | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
of trying to protect the Islamist group formerly known | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
as the Al-Nusra front - in the battle against | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
President Assad. Monitoring groups say more | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
than 9,000 civilians have been killed in Syria since Russia started | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
bombing - but Mr Lavrov said Violence in Syria claimed more lives | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
in Friday with 12 people killed Here's what Sergei Lavrov said | :01:47. | :01:56. | |
to the BBC's Stephen Sackur. We take all necessary precautions | :01:57. | :02:09. | |
not to hit civilians. The term collateral damage was not invented | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
by others. You know by whom. -- was not invented by us. We are taking | :02:16. | :02:23. | |
precautions to make sure we do not hit civilians by any chance. If this | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
happens then we are very sorry but we need to investigate each and | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
every accusation. So far we have not been given any meaningful proof of | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
what has been said about the convoy which was formed, or attacked, on | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
September 19, and we have good reasons to believe it was a | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
provocation. Earlier this week US Secretary | :02:45. | :02:45. | |
of State John Kerry threatened to break off cooperation with Russia | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
over Syria because of the recent But Mr Lavrov says recent problems | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
were mainly caused by American The entire problem derives from the | :02:51. | :03:08. | |
fact that the USA and the coalition in | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
fact that the USA and the coalition -- coalition it leads, cannot | :03:15. | :03:22. | |
separate al-Nusra, and instead of separation we see more and more | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
groups coming into alliance with al-Nusra, and deliver we hit | :03:27. | :03:34. | |
al-Nusra we are told we can do it because there are people in there, | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
but unless we all agree those who want to be part of the solution, the | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
cessation of festivities, out of the positions occupied by them but ... | :03:43. | :03:52. | |
Can Russia American relations be repealed or are they likely to get | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
worse. Does the Russian Foreign Minister have a point that America | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
has not done enough, cannot do enough, to separate out the good | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
rebels from the bad rebels? He has a point. Our interests diverged inside | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
Syria. I am not optimistic about USA- Russian cooperation and we find | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
some way to reconcile strategic views. As long as you are trying in | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
the Syrian context to find out who is aligned with the former al-Nusra | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
by working closely with them on the battlefield, and debating those kind | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
of fine point, then you will have fundamental disagreements. But they | :04:34. | :04:41. | |
all arise from the fact Russia is fighting to keep President Assad in | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
power, we are fighting, at least in part, to encourage him to leave | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
power, his overthrow is not a specific background objective but we | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
are trying to persuade him to step down in favour of a power-sharing | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
government including Sunni Muslims. That is the basic American goal, | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
which is in conflict with the Russian goal. So even if we can | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
cooperate over humanitarian matters, and we're not even doing that right | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
now, the fundamental strategic visions are in direct conflict and | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
that must change if we are going to avoid these things in the future. | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
And there are so many different rebel militias changing side on a | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
daily basis. That's right. We cannot inspect otherwise in a situation | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
where our friends have gotten very limited support from the USA or | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
other outside players, because we have been so reluctant, partly for | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
the reasons we are discussing, reluctant to give arms because they | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
may have an affiliation or a previous battlefield tactical | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
association with an extremist group. So we don't give them arms, so they | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
get defeated on the battlefield, which means they need to work with | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
al-Nusra even more than they did previously, so it becomes a self | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
reinforcing problem. The only way to do it is to become willing, despite | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
the objections of Russia, to help some moderate groups, who have | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
occasionally cooperated with extremists, and then also go for a | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
federal solution in Syria, a long-term vision of the state that | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
allows President Assad to stay in power in Christian parts of the | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
country but his autonomous zones in other parts of the country run by | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
other indigenous leaders, sort of like a osmium model. If you don't do | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
that I don't see how you the conflict the American and Russian | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
objectives. But that runs the risk of turning a proxy war into | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
something even more serious. I don't think so. I don't think you get the | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
war much worse than it is now. I think it would reduce the conflict | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
between the Russian and American approach, not because I'm suggesting | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
we use American air power to one Russian bases or even shoot Russian | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
aeroplanes out of the sky, but I think we have to be a little less | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
reluctant to provide arms to certain groups, with our special forces on | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
the ground. That is not going to produce, in my judgment, a Russian | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
counter response any greater than Russia is already carrying out, it | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
was right now Russia is going after any and all opposition groups, it | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
considers them all the enemy of present facade. It defines them all | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
as Russian enemies, even today. Therefore I think we will do better | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
if we make our military and battlefield efforts a little more | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
serious. Also, so President Assad can stay in the light and Christian | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
parts of the country, in a autonomous zone, you just cannot be | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
president of all Syria anymore. If we can come up with a changing | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
political strategy to marry with a change in military strategy then I | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
think US - Russian objectives are no longer in direct conflict. Thank you | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
for joining us on the programme. For more than 12 years the Rosetta | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
probe has travelled deep into space. But this afternoon it's mission came | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
to an end, crash landing - deliberately - on the comet | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
it's been circling, more The project's been seen as a major | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
success for the European Space Our Science Editor David Shukman | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
reports from Darmstadt in Germany. In one of the greatest ventures | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
in space exploration, the strange landscapes of a comet are revealed | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
in more detail than ever before. Cliffs and rocks, nearly 500 million | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
miles away, photographed this morning and beamed back | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
to us during the day, as the Rosetta spacecraft inched | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
towards the surface. An animation shows how | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
the touchdown was planned. Rosetta drifting down | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
at walking pace. The end of a 12-year journey, | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
a last chance to Rosetta has achieved more | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
than anyone expected. We will be listening | :08:41. | :08:50. | |
for the signal... Many here have devoted decades | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
to this project, so all eyes were on a signal from a spacecraft | :08:54. | :08:55. | |
which suddenly switched off. This is the end of | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
the Rosetta mission. You know that when you do these | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
things it comes to an end. But, you know, it is the end | :09:04. | :09:21. | |
of a long, long mission. Emotions were so different | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
two years ago. Monica Grady was leaping | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
for joy back then. The tiny lander launched by Rosetta | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
had made it down onto the comet. It did not anchor itself | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
but it did deliver What's remarkable is that | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
all of these manoeuvres in deep space were run from this control | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
centre, and the mission has proved so successful that the volume | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
of data flooding back will keep In fact, what they have seen already | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
has left them amazed. They found that dust | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
blasting off the comet contains many of the chemical | :10:02. | :10:03. | |
ingredients needed for life. And this really matters, | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
because one theory is that comets crashing into the early Earth helped | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
to kick-start life here. It seems a bit crazy to fly | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
hundreds of millions of kilometres through | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
space to what looks like a cold, dead body, | :10:19. | :10:19. | |
but it's actually full of complex | :10:20. | :10:21. | |
molecules that we know if you were to bring them to the planet Earth | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
when it was young, add water and sunlight, you could | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
make life out of. sunlight, you could | :10:31. | :10:32. | |
make life out of that. That's a huge discovery | :10:33. | :10:34. | |
for us from Rosetta. We have all of the | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
ingredients in place. So for understanding our own | :10:38. | :10:38. | |
origins, this mission is turning out | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
some key evidence. It's caught the | :10:41. | :10:42. | |
imagination of people Donald Trump has used Twitter | :10:43. | :10:44. | |
to attack a former beauty queen who accused him of making sexist | :10:45. | :11:00. | |
remarks, and who is supporting his In a series of early morning tweets, | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
Mr Trump urged his followers to check out an alleged sex | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
tape of Alicia Machado - Ms Machado's case was raised | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
by Mrs Clinton in the first presidential debate earlier this | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
week as an example of Mr Trump's One of the worst things that he said | :11:19. | :11:34. | |
was about a woman in a beauty contest, he loves beauty contests, | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
supporting them, and hanging around them, and he called this woman | :11:40. | :11:47. | |
missed birdie. Then he called her miss housekeeper. Because she is a | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
Latina. She has a name. Her name is Alicia Machado and she is a US | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
citizen. And you can bet she is going to vote this November. Our US | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
correspondent joins me. Just bring us up to speed. Within the last hour | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
he has treated saying, to those people mocking me for tweeting at | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
3am in the morning, at least I am awake to answer the call. The | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
message is, look, I am ready for the White House. But with the case of | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
Alicia Machado it seems to have got under his skin and he acknowledged | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
that in a Fox News interview just after the debate, when he said that | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
she was a terrible contestant and she put on a tonne of weight, his | :12:38. | :12:45. | |
words. He said then that, he admitted, that the whole case had | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
gotten under his skin. A few days later in the early hours of the | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
morning he unleashes a series of tweets, starting with, any time you | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
see a story about me or my campaign, do not believe it, there are most | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
sources, just made up lies. He then went on to Alicia Machado, saying, | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
Crooked Hillary was duped by the worst Miss universe, he quoted her | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
as an angel without checking out her past. He is trying to insinuate she | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
has a past sex tape and is asking Americans to go and check it out. So | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
that is the insinuation. Hillary Clinton, for her part, tweeted that | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
Donald Trump was unhinged. The 3am tweet actually picks up on what | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
Hillary Clinton used against Barack Obama in her campaign when she was | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
standing for President of them. In terms of the polling, I know we | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
cannot read too much into this, but Clinton has pulled away a bit since | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
the debate. Is it the trend that will perhaps be worrying Donald | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
Trump and his campaign, that this is perhaps the beginning of a momentum, | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
as they might see it? They are trying to stave this off at the | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
moment. His campaign had been urging him to stick to the point, try to | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
just criticise elegant, emphasise her e-mail scandal, emphasise her | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
political establishment credentials, try to appear as the | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
antiestablishment candidate who can stand for change, not more of simply | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
President Obama's regime, there are words. So what they are trying to do | :14:26. | :14:33. | |
is show that side of Mr Trump, and stop the kind of continued personal | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
attacks that he has unleashed on his Twitter account. They have been | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
doing a lot of damage control when it comes to that. And we are seeing | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
Hillary Clinton beginning to pull away again. The polling and narrowed | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
prior to the debate, it looked very close, now she seems to be rolling | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
ahead again. It is very early days, still 39 days to go before the | :14:56. | :14:57. | |
election. Still to come... Bidding farewell to | :14:58. | :15:06. | |
the former Israeli president. Leaders from all over the world | :15:07. | :15:16. | |
gather to pay respects. In all of Russia's tomorrow it has never come | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
to this. The president said it would decide the destiny of the nation. | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
The night and many feared for so long is playing out its final act, | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
Russians killing Russians in front of a grandstand audience. It was | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
humility which produced affection from Catholics throughout the world | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
but his departure is a tragedy for the Catholic Church. The Israeli | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
right visited the religious compound and that started the trouble. He | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
wants Israel alone to have sovereignty over the holy sites, an | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
idea that is unthinkable to Palestinians. | :15:51. | :15:59. | |
After 45 years of division Germany isn't one. In Berlin the 1 million | :16:00. | :16:07. | |
Germans celebrate the rebirth of Europe's big a richest nation. | :16:08. | :16:22. | |
The United States says the Russian foreign minister's assertion that | :16:23. | :16:32. | |
Washington is trying to protect jihadist rebels in Syria is absurd. | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
The space probe Rosetta has ended its 12 year voyage by crash landing | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
deliberately on the comic it had been studying. | :16:41. | :16:42. | |
The funeral has taken place in Jerusalem, | :16:43. | :16:44. | |
of the former Israeli President, and Nobel Peace Prize | :16:45. | :16:46. | |
Dozens of current and former world leaders attended | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
They included Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
National Authority, who exchanged a rare handshake | :16:53. | :16:54. | |
with the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. | :16:55. | :16:56. | |
Our correspondent Orla Guerin, watched the ceremony. | :16:57. | :17:13. | |
A poignant final prayer for Shimon Peres. | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
Mourned today by his family and by world leaders who viewed him | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
We gather here in the knowledge that Shimon never saw his dream | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
The region is going through a chaotic time. | :17:28. | :17:35. | |
And yet he did not stop dreaming and he did not stop working. | :17:36. | :17:49. | |
In death he brought Palestinian and Israeli leaders | :17:50. | :17:51. | |
Mahmoud Abbas was warmly welcomed to the funeral, though the peace | :17:52. | :17:59. | |
Israel's hawkish Prime Minister said Shimon Peres spent every minute | :18:00. | :18:07. | |
But we find hope in his legacy, as does the world. | :18:08. | :18:36. | |
As the tributes are being paid here now there is a real sense | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
Shimon Peres was part of the fabric of Israel right from its birth. | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
He is the last of the generation that helped to build the state, | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
he occupied virtually every major post. | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
Israelis are saying goodbye today, not just to an elder | :18:54. | :18:55. | |
statesman but to a key part of their own history. | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
Decades ago it was Peres who helped buy weapons for the Israeli | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
army and who founded the countries's nuclear programme. | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
In the 1970s he supported the building of Jewish settlements | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
Many Palestinians will remember him as a man of war, not peace. | :19:12. | :19:22. | |
Shimon Peres was taken for burial in the soil | :19:23. | :19:30. | |
Orla Guerin, BBC News, Mount Herzl Cemetery, Jerusalem. | :19:31. | :19:42. | |
Time to catch up with the sport. It has been the USA's day at the | :19:43. | :19:53. | |
Ryder Cup so far, they lead Europe 4-0 after winning a whitewash in the | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
opening foursomes, there is to start in 41 years. They are midway through | :19:59. | :20:09. | |
the four balls now. That looks like things are picking up for you this | :20:10. | :20:18. | |
afternoon. -- for Europe. It sure is. A blue sky has come out after a | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
foggy start. There was a sea of red but there are 24 more points to be | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
won and there is now some blue on the board. Let's bring you up to | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
date. In the first match, Jordan Spieth and Patrick Reid versus | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
Justin Rose and Henrik Stenson. The Europeans our two up in that one. | :20:41. | :20:49. | |
You're also having a great bit of progress in the match with Garcia | :20:50. | :21:00. | |
and Cabrera-Bello, they are three up. It is going the American way in | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
the next clash, four up after eight holes. Rory McIlroy and Thomas | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
Peters, they are turning around and morning loss and are four up after | :21:14. | :21:22. | |
Dustin Johnson and Matt Kuchar really struggled in the afternoon | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
sessions. Where did it go wrong this morning? How much it was the USA | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
being brilliant and how much of it was being poor? -- was Europe being | :21:32. | :21:40. | |
poor? You could also put it down to the American crowd. As I walked out | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
for the first nine holes with most of the players and I really got a | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
sense of the red, white, and blue, just losing through Hazeltine. -- | :21:51. | :22:05. | |
the really fired up to win it. When you look at the foursomes you | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
realise that they are onto it. Let's get you quickly up to date if you | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
missed the results, here they are, a sea of red for America. Jordan | :22:16. | :22:25. | |
Spieth and Patrick Reid, brilliant in Gleneagles, they finished two up. | :22:26. | :22:33. | |
And it was... Three and two, I should say, for that one. Dustin | :22:34. | :22:45. | |
Johnson and Matt Kuchar, five and four over Lee Westwood and the | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
debutant, Thomas Peters. Thank you very much. The Friday | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
night Premier League match between Everton and Crystal Palace is tied | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
1-1 at the moment at Goodison Park. 65 minutes on the clock. There is | :23:01. | :23:08. | |
also a match going on in Scotland, Heart of Midlothian will move up to | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
second place if the score stays like this, they lead Motherwell 2-0. | :23:13. | :23:20. | |
England arrived in Bangladesh for the tour with a heavy security | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
presence and armed guards lining virtually from the airport. They | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
play their only warm up game on Monday ahead of the one-day | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
internationals and two test hatches. More updates and the Ryder Cup and | :23:34. | :23:35. | |
BBC News later on. Back to you. The Italian police have recovered | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
two Van Gogh paintings which were stolen nearly | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
fourteen years ago. The works were recovered | :23:42. | :23:43. | |
from a criminal group in Naples. Thieves took the two works, | :23:44. | :23:45. | |
"Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen" | :23:46. | :23:47. | |
and "View of the Sea at Scheveningen" by smashing | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
a window in the roof Our Italy Correspondent James | :23:51. | :23:52. | |
Reynolds reports from Rome. The police in Naples showed off | :23:53. | :24:09. | |
their recovery of the paintings by Vincent van Gogh of. One is an early | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
seascape. The other is a depiction of his father's church. Each has | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
lost its frame. But they are both in fairly good condition. It is a great | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
day for us to see these works and know that they are safe. Of course | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
we hope that they will be able to return to our museum as soon as | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
possible. That is our great hope. The works were stolen in December | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
2002 from the Vincent van Gogh of Museum in Amsterdam. Two men broke | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
in through the building's roof and got away with the paintings. The | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
suspected thieves were tracked down and convicted two years later but | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
the works themselves remained missing. In January this year the | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
Italian police arrested suspected members of a criminal network near | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
Naples. Officers had been looking into allegations of drug | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
trafficking. But reports say that one detainee confessed that the | :25:11. | :25:12. | |
network was hiding the stolen works by Van Gough. Organised crime units | :25:13. | :25:24. | |
like this, the will probably using the art, saving it, possibly for | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
negotiation if somebody was arrested, need to plea bargain down | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
a case. The Italian police will continue their investigations. The | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
museum now looks forward to the return of its lost works. | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
That is all from the programme. From me and the rest of the team in | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
London, good night. Good evening. There will be plenty | :25:50. | :26:10. | |
more of the | :26:11. | :26:11. |