:00:06. > :00:11.Militants linked to Al-Qaeda say they're behind an attack on a
:00:11. > :00:18.shopping centre in Kenya. Dozens of people have been killed. Hundreds
:00:18. > :00:23.ran for their lives, as the police and army surrounded the upmarket
:00:23. > :00:29.mall in Nairobi. Kenya's president has lost members of his own family
:00:29. > :00:38.in the attack. They have killed at least 39 innocent people and injured
:00:38. > :00:41.more than 150 others. Security forces are searching the large
:00:41. > :00:45.complex, where it's thought the gunmen are holding hostages.
:00:45. > :00:48.Here the Government has said that Britons have been caught up in the
:00:48. > :00:52.violence. We'll have the latest from Nairobi.
:00:52. > :00:55.Also on the programme: Ahead of his party's conference, Ed Miliband sets
:00:55. > :01:02.out plans to tackle what he calls the UK's cost of living crisis.
:01:02. > :01:06.And on the eve of the German elections, Chancellor Angela Merkel
:01:06. > :01:24.makes her final appeal for a third term.
:01:24. > :01:33.A very good evening to you. An armed stand-off is continuing tonight in
:01:33. > :01:37.Nairobi. A group of masked gunmen stormed an up-market shopping centre
:01:37. > :01:40.at lunch time opening fire and throwing grenades. The country's
:01:40. > :01:45.president says 39 people have been killed and soo wounded. A Somali
:01:45. > :01:48.militant group, linked to Al-Qaeda, has claimed responsibility. The
:01:48. > :01:52.Foreign Secretary, William Hague, says Britons have been caught up in
:01:52. > :01:56.the attack. The luxury mall, in western Nairobi, is popular with
:01:56. > :02:00.wealthy Kenyans and foreigners and was packed with shoppers when the
:02:00. > :02:02.attack began. Our correspondent, Anne Soy, has sent this report from
:02:02. > :02:15.Nairobi. Hundreds of people ran for their
:02:15. > :02:20.lives. The gunfire is coming from one of Nairobi's most exclusive
:02:20. > :02:28.malls, the place wealthy Kenyans and foreigners shop. People said men
:02:28. > :02:32.dressed in black, wearing masks and carrying AK-47s, moved into the
:02:32. > :02:36.mall, threw grenades and started firing. Initially there was an
:02:36. > :02:39.explosion and then maybe 15, 16 shots. The first reaction was to
:02:39. > :02:42.jump on the floor. Everyone in the restaurant did the same thing. We
:02:42. > :02:47.were just sitting there and suddenly, all of a sudden, maybe
:02:47. > :02:50.around 12 o'clock, we started hearing gunshots on the first,
:02:50. > :02:54.second, maybe on the ground floor and first floor. People started
:02:54. > :02:56.running. You could hear people screaming. People were crying around
:02:56. > :03:13.me. Desperate people fled, some managed
:03:13. > :03:16.to escape, but many were killed. They were shooting on the ground
:03:16. > :03:23.floor. Slowly they're going up and up. I went up to the top and they
:03:23. > :03:29.came to there. Some police are there. Situation as very bad inside.
:03:29. > :03:34.We have seen many casualties. We've been asked to lie down. We don't
:03:34. > :03:39.know what's going on. Police and security forces moved in.
:03:39. > :03:48.It was initially described as a robbery. Soon, it became clear it
:03:48. > :03:54.was a terrorist attack. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility. One witness
:03:54. > :03:59.said the attacker separated Muslims from non-Muslims. We are here to
:03:59. > :04:05.rescue only the Muslims. If you're a mum, stand up and then go. We have
:04:05. > :04:13.seen ambulances leaving carrying casualties. We have also seen trucks
:04:13. > :04:20.carrying bodies. They have killed at least 39 innocent people and injured
:04:20. > :04:28.more than 150 others. I ask God to give you comfort as you confront
:04:28. > :04:34.this tragedy. I know what you feel having also personal personally lost
:04:34. > :04:40.very close family members in this attack. Tonight, the gunmen are
:04:40. > :04:46.still inside. Officials say one of the attackers was arrested and has
:04:46. > :04:50.since died of his injuries. Anne Soy joins me now live from
:04:50. > :04:57.Nairobi. What's the latest you can tell us? I just spoke to one man
:04:58. > :05:02.here, a few minutes ago, he says he has been in touch with his daughter
:05:02. > :05:03.who is still in that building. They have been communicating through the
:05:03. > :05:06.who is still in that building. They phone. It is clear that there are
:05:06. > :05:11.people who may still be trapped inside the building. The security
:05:11. > :05:14.forces here in Kenya say that they have taken control of the situation
:05:14. > :05:19.now. They say that one gunman was killed and they have managed to pin
:05:19. > :05:24.down the others. There's still a lot of activity going on behind me. This
:05:24. > :05:30.area has been cordoned off. Still a very tense situation here. There are
:05:30. > :05:36.still relatives still waiting to know the fate of their loved ones.
:05:36. > :05:41.There's a contact centre set up to help trace some of the people who
:05:41. > :05:48.may have been involved in this incident. Anne Soy, thanks.
:05:48. > :05:52.Well, here, the Government said tonight that British citizens are
:05:52. > :05:58.thought to have been caught up in the attack. There are undoubtedly
:05:58. > :06:04.British nationals caught up in this and so we should be ready for that
:06:04. > :06:07.and aware of that. Again, we don't have any sufficiently precise
:06:07. > :06:12.details to give any further details of that, at the moment. This is a
:06:12. > :06:18.fast-moving situation. It is still going on at the time that we are
:06:18. > :06:22.speaking. Our Security Correspondent, Frank Gardner, is
:06:22. > :06:26.with me now. What do we know about any Briton that's may have been
:06:26. > :06:30.caught up in all this? Well, the Foreign Office has dispatched
:06:30. > :06:38.counter-terrorism police officials to the scene. They've held what's
:06:38. > :06:41.called a COBRA brief briefing ip side Whitehall. They are frantically
:06:41. > :06:46.going around the hospitals trying to find out if any Britons have been
:06:46. > :06:49.identified. We know the French have said two French citizens have been
:06:49. > :06:54.killed. The Americans have said that a number of Americans have been
:06:54. > :06:57.injured. William Hague there was essentially bracing people for bad
:06:57. > :07:02.news on Britons. The style of this attack was similar to the Mumbai
:07:02. > :07:05.attack of 2008. This was a well planned, well executed terrorist
:07:05. > :07:09.attack by people with lots of ammunition. They didn't just shoot
:07:09. > :07:13.at random. I've been speaking to security officials in Nairobi who
:07:13. > :07:17.said that somebody they knew hid under a car and they came, looked
:07:17. > :07:22.under the car, the militants, found him, shot him twice. Amazingly, he
:07:22. > :07:27.survived. There's a woman amongst the militants. Certain it is
:07:27. > :07:34.Al-Shabaab behind all this? They've been tweeting, putting out stuff
:07:34. > :07:37.onto their handle, as it were, claiming that this is retribution
:07:37. > :07:41.for Kenya's invasion of their country. Kenya has about 4,000
:07:41. > :07:46.troops inside Somalia trying to secure the border and stop attacks.
:07:46. > :07:49.What I'm hearing from people in Nairobi is that this will double the
:07:50. > :07:56.resolve of the Kenyan government not to give in to Al-Shabaab. Thanks
:07:56. > :08:00.very much indeed for joining us. Now the Labour leader, Ed Miliband,
:08:00. > :08:04.has set out plans to tackle what he calls the UK's cost of living crisis
:08:04. > :08:07.ahead of his party's conference in Brighton. He said Labour will
:08:07. > :08:11.strengthen the minimum wage and improve access to child care, if it
:08:11. > :08:15.wins the next election. He would also require large companies to
:08:15. > :08:20.train an apprentice every time they bring in a skilled worker from
:08:20. > :08:23.outside the EU. Our political correspondent, Ross Hawkins, has
:08:23. > :08:28.more from Brighton. Among the Saturday shoppers and
:08:28. > :08:31.Labour supporters this morning, a party leader, out to persuade his
:08:31. > :08:36.audience that he can make some of them a bit better off. When we think
:08:36. > :08:40.about one of the big banks, do we really think they can't afford to
:08:40. > :08:45.pay their cleaners a bit more? Do we think they can't afford to pay their
:08:45. > :08:49.cleaners a bit more? No. I agree with you. Not everyone in Labour has
:08:49. > :08:54.been cheering him on, though. Worried about the polls, they have
:08:54. > :08:58.been demanding hard policies. Now, some ideas. Like much bigger fines
:08:58. > :09:02.for companies that don't pay the minimum wage and a review asking
:09:02. > :09:07.whether firms in some sectors, like finance, should pay their staff
:09:07. > :09:11.more. Labour wants to guarantee English primary schools will offer
:09:11. > :09:15.child care from 8am till 6pm, but there's no extra money. And this
:09:15. > :09:19.evening, they said they'd make large companies train an apprentice for
:09:19. > :09:25.each skilled staff member they hire from outside the EU. The Labour
:09:25. > :09:30.pitch went down well enough on the streets. Ed Miliband's team think
:09:30. > :09:34.he's good at this sort of thing, but they know he'll have to reach a
:09:34. > :09:41.bigger audience than this by the end of this conference. So, plenty of
:09:41. > :09:45.messages, people who earned £50,000 to £60,000 shouldn't expect tax
:09:45. > :09:51.rises say Labour and distractions too, like a seaside row with the
:09:51. > :09:54.unions. Ed Miliband is -- trying to change their relationship with the
:09:54. > :09:57.party. One has already docked £1 million a year from the money it
:09:57. > :10:00.gives to Labour. Our members are struggling. Quite a lot of them are
:10:00. > :10:03.sceptical about the Labour Party at the moment. Ed needs to deliver this
:10:03. > :10:09.week. He needs to have common sense policies that are really based in
:10:09. > :10:13.people's realities. Reminders of old struggles too, as Gordon Brown's
:10:13. > :10:20.former spin doctor publishes tales of battling Tony Blair's team. Aware
:10:20. > :10:24.this party conference means people are watching, Ed Miliband was trying
:10:24. > :10:31.to show Labour's tender side today. Things will get much tougher than
:10:31. > :10:34.this before conference is done. Now political leaders in Germany
:10:34. > :10:38.have been holding their final campaign rallies ahead of
:10:38. > :10:41.Parliamentary elections tomorrow. Chancellor, Angela Merkel, told her
:10:41. > :10:47.Christian Democrats the race would be a close one and she appealed to
:10:47. > :10:53.voters for a new four-year term. Our Europe editor, Gavin Hewitt, is
:10:53. > :10:58.in Berlin now. Is Angela Merkel on course for victory? Well, certainly
:10:58. > :11:02.the expectation here is that she will secure a third term, but as
:11:02. > :11:06.you've just said, she was telling her supporters today to expect a
:11:06. > :11:11.close result. Now, undoubtedly her party will get the largest number of
:11:11. > :11:13.votes, but to form a government here, you need to build a coalition.
:11:13. > :11:17.votes, but to form a government That's where it gets complicated.
:11:18. > :11:21.Her current coalition partner, the liberal Free Democrats may not even
:11:21. > :11:26.get enough votes to have seats in Parliament. That could mean that
:11:26. > :11:30.Angela Merkel is forced to form a grand coalition with the opposition.
:11:30. > :11:34.Why does this matter? Because Germany is the economic powerhouse
:11:34. > :11:38.of Europe and it is very much the country that has devised the
:11:38. > :11:45.strategy to deal with the eurozone crisis, which hasn't gone away.
:11:45. > :11:52.Now in a few hours, a court in China will deliver a verdict in the chai
:11:52. > :11:56.of a prominent politician, accused of corruption and trying to cover up
:11:56. > :12:01.the murder of a British businessman. Bo Xilai was charged in connection
:12:01. > :12:11.with the death of Neil Heywood almost two years ago. Mr Bo's wife
:12:11. > :12:16.has already been convicted. Murky and polluted, full of
:12:16. > :12:21.dangerous undercurrents, the river flows through the heart of the city,
:12:21. > :12:24.a city once riddled with Mafia gangs, now becoming one of China's
:12:24. > :12:28.economic engines, it's where Neil gangs, now becoming one of China's
:12:28. > :12:32.Heywood was murdered. Bo Xilai, the man transforming this area, faces
:12:32. > :12:36.years in jail for covering up the killing. One of the Communist
:12:36. > :12:41.Party's rising stars, Bo was so powerful, he was almost untouchable.
:12:41. > :12:46.So why would the Communist Party want to get rid of one of its own
:12:46. > :12:50.successful figures? Well, it says this case shows it's serious about
:12:50. > :12:55.tackling corruption. No favour is shown to anyone, not even its own
:12:56. > :13:03.elite. Many here believe this is really about eliminating Bo Xilai as
:13:03. > :13:11.a political force. Bo was building a power base among the 30 million
:13:11. > :13:14.people here. The city is famous -- city's famous porters liked the way
:13:14. > :13:19.he was tackling crime and corruption. He appealed to those
:13:20. > :13:23.disillusioned by the country's huge in inequalities, Chinese who feel
:13:23. > :13:29.most Communist officials don't care for the poor.
:13:29. > :13:32.TRANSLATION: He must have done something wrong to have been
:13:32. > :13:35.arrested. He was a talented politician. He was cleaning up
:13:35. > :13:40.crime. TRANSLATION: He was good at his job.
:13:40. > :13:46.We need more officials like him. He made this city safer. I hope he
:13:47. > :13:55.comes back. But power cupts. Bo's wife poisoned
:13:55. > :14:00.Neil Heywood when their deal soured. Bo's political rivals then moved in.
:14:00. > :14:06.Most Chinese leaders are very bland. Not Mr Bo. I'm sure there are others
:14:06. > :14:11.who felt was a potential threat to their careers. So it's welcome to
:14:11. > :14:14.some members of the elite, but it's their careers. So it's welcome to
:14:14. > :14:19.also a deep loss for people who their careers. So it's welcome to
:14:19. > :14:23.supported him. Were it not for the murder of Neil Heywood, Bo Xilai
:14:23. > :14:27.might today be one of the half dozen men at the pinnacle of power.
:14:27. > :14:31.Instead what's been exposed as the darkness behind this country's
:14:31. > :14:34.growing wealth, the way its elite are so divorced from ordinary
:14:34. > :14:41.people, the stains that run through the very vains of modern China.
:14:41. > :14:45.-- veins. Now all the sport with Lizzie at the
:14:45. > :14:48.BBC Sport Centre. Good evening, a busy day of sport
:14:48. > :14:52.and I'll have the Premier League scores in a minute. Let's start with
:14:52. > :14:56.England's women, who kicked off their World Cup qualifying campaign
:14:56. > :15:00.today in style with a 6-0 thrashing of Belarus. Ties new era for the
:15:00. > :15:08.team, playing in their first match since Hope Powell was sacked.
:15:08. > :15:11.This is a team under temporary management. Brent Hills has two
:15:11. > :15:18.games in his attempt to prove he can do the job permanently. He got the
:15:18. > :15:23.best possible start. England stalwart Karen Kearney scored within
:15:23. > :15:31.three minutes. Within half an hour, England were 2-0 up and Kearney got
:15:31. > :15:36.her second making it 3-0. Belarus never looked comfortable. By half
:15:36. > :15:44.halftime Kearney had a hat-trick. The rout was completed by A will you
:15:44. > :15:48.ko -- Aluko. They had renewed determination and confidence. This
:15:48. > :15:52.will do us good and confidence wise. Different goal scorers, getting the
:15:52. > :15:56.new girls on the score sheet as well. This was sclactly the start
:15:56. > :15:59.that England needed -- exactly the start that England needed, for a
:15:59. > :16:03.team that looked stronger and more motivated than in recent months.
:16:03. > :16:08.World Cup qualification is exactly what the women's game in England
:16:08. > :16:10.needs. Match the day follows this
:16:11. > :16:15.programme. If you don't want to know the day's scores, this is your
:16:15. > :16:19.chance to leave the room. Liverpool have lost their lead at
:16:19. > :16:23.the top of the table, beaten for the first time this season, a 1-0 home
:16:23. > :16:26.defeat to Southampton. Dejan Lovren was the scorer.
:16:26. > :16:32.Chelsea now lead the Premier League on goal difference, after winning
:16:32. > :16:39.the west London derby 2-0. Hull came from behind to beat
:16:39. > :16:44.Newcastle. Sunderland are still bottom losing to West Brom.
:16:44. > :16:53.In the Scottish Premiership, Inverness only lead on goal
:16:53. > :16:55.difference after losing to Aberdeen. Celtic are second with a game in
:16:55. > :17:13.hand. Mark Cavendish won a second stage of
:17:13. > :17:16.this year's tour of Britain. The Manx xman won the sprint finish.
:17:16. > :17:20.Bradley Wiggins is still favourite to win overall. He leads by 26
:17:20. > :17:25.seconds heading into the final stage in London.
:17:25. > :17:31.Notinghamshire have won their first one-day knock-out trophy, beating
:17:31. > :17:34.Glamorgan in the YB 40 today. Chris Read was the pick of the batsmen
:17:34. > :17:39.with a half century. Samit Patel took three wickets in nine ball, as
:17:39. > :17:43.they won by 87 runs. The result meant England's 2005 Ashes hero
:17:43. > :17:46.Simon Jones missed out on a trophy in the last one-day game of his
:17:46. > :17:51.career. Sebastien Vettel will start
:17:51. > :17:55.tomorrow's Singapore Grand Prix on pole position. Lewis Hamilton is
:17:55. > :18:00.fifth. That's the sport. The main news tonight: An Al-Qaeda
:18:00. > :18:04.linked group is said it's behind an attack on a shopping mall in Kenya's
:18:04. > :18:07.capital. At least 39 people have been killed. You can follow
:18:07. > :18:09.developments in Nairobi on the BBC News channel. That's all from us
:18:09. > :18:12.tonight. Have a very good night.