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Months of protests, thousands dead and growing international pressure. | :00:10. | :00:16. | |
Still, Syria's Foreign Minister reacts defiantly to the decision to | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
suspend his country from the Arab League. If the Arab League's | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
decision to suspend Syria's membership is a seriously dangerous | :00:24. | :00:34. | |
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Welcome to GMT, I'm Naga Munchetty. Also in the programme: They are | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
appointed, not elected, but Italy and Greece hope the new technocrat | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
leaders will put their economies back on-track. | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
If in Norway, Anders Behring Breivik, the man who confessed to | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
killing 77 people in July, has made his first court appearance. | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
Hello, it is 12:30pm here in London, 1:30pm in Brussels and it is early | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
afternoon in Damascus which is where international pressure is | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
mounting on Syria to end months of repression that began in March and | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
has left thousands of people dead. European foreign ministers are | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
meeting in Brussels to tighten sanctions against President Bashar | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
al-Assad's regime. The Arab League voted to suspend Syria's membership. | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
Still, Syria remains defiant. The country's Foreign Minister, Walid | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
Al-Moualem, has condemned the move and said Syria will not be treated | :01:35. | :01:43. | |
as another live via -- Libya. From the Syrian government, some | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
grand Theatre. A series of pro- government demonstrations | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
encouraged and choreographed by the authorities. It is all designed to | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
stress Syria's anger and defiance at being suspended from the Arab | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
League. Many of these Syrians genuinely support President Assad. | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
Many others have been pushed to attend. The government has not lost | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
its centre of self-righteousness. TRANSLATION: That Arab League | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
decision has not been issued by a unanimous vote. It is illegal. It | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
does not rely on the legality of the Charter of the league. We have | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
said in the past and we would like to stress again, that Syria has | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
dealt and is dealing with the fires of reforms and dialogue and for | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
halting blood spilling of the citizens. The the Foreign Minister | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
did apologise to these attacks at the weekend on the embassies of the | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
countries which have been toughest on Syria, including Qatar, Saudi | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
Arabia and Turkey. It seems Syria now regrets a move which just | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
antagonised its opponents and made any compromise with the Arab League | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
any less likely. Already, ministers from the European Union are meeting | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
to discuss further sanctions on Syria, with new pressure also for | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
action at the UN Security Council. We have taken very strong measures | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
in the European Union, as I said, we can add to those. I don't see | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
any other, the most specific proposition that we can react to. | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
We will discuss things further at the United Nations Security Council. | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
Sanctions are already biting, although these queues for gas at | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
the city of Homs, could have been caused by the government trying to | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
starve out the opposition who are strong there. A ban on the sale of | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
Syrian oil to Europe is hitting a vital source of currency for | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
President Assad's government. Opposition supporters have been | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
celebrating the Arab League decision but already calling for | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
more. They want a no-fly zone and military intervention but for the | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
moment, those are not on the agenda. In men, we will talk to our | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
correspondent Matthew Price in Brussels -- in a moment. First of | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
all, we can speak to Jonathan Head in Istanbul. I do not think Turkey | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
could have made its position any more clear? I think now the Turks | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
are making it absolutely clear that they have given up on President | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
Assad, a man with whom they have built the strongest relationship | :04:24. | :04:31. | |
with any government. Turkey says it will now back the justified demands | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
of the Syrian people by campaigning against the Syrian government. They | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
are angry about the attacks on its embassies but they also angry at | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
the failure of President Assad for the promises he made earlier this | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
year. It does not want to go out on its own taking international action | :04:51. | :04:57. | |
against Syria, it wants action from the United Nations, China and | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
Russia. That could change if the Arab League stands by its | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
suspension. Turkey is talking about imposing more sanctions and as one | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
of Syria's biggest trading partners, they could have a big impact, | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
especially if it targets banking or the oil industry. A lot of Turkish | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
businesses would lose out. It has not yet formally recognised the | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
Syrian National Council as a representative of the Syrian people. | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
The big steps from Turkey is yet to come but the language is very | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
hostile against the Syrian government. Jonathan, thank you. | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
Matthew, in Brussels, leaders' meeting today, what is expected to | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
come out of this meeting? I have been led to believe there what will | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
happen is there will be a tightening, if you like, of the | :05:49. | :05:56. | |
sanctions -- sanctions. Further sanctions against the individuals | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
who EU foreign ministers believe are connected with the repression | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
in Syria. Also trying to cut off even more the financial flows to | :06:07. | :06:15. | |
Damascus. It is expected the investment bank will cease | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
disbursing its loans to Syria. That is all part of a strategy from the | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
European Union to further isolate Damascus. What Jonathan has been | :06:24. | :06:32. | |
talking about also feeds into that strategy. As Jonathan said, they | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
need the Arab League countries to be applying pressure. And then that | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
other thread of this, if you like, the sanctions on one hand out of | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
Europe, the pressure from the Arab League but the third important | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
thing coming from the UN, trying to brush countries like Britain, | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
Germany, France and others, trying to push for a very strongly worded | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
Security Council resolution condemning what has been going on | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
in Syria. At the moment it looks like the Chinese are starting to | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
come more on to that side. The big hold out in the Security Council as | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
of are the Russians. The foreign policy chief for the European Union, | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
Catherine Ashton, is going to Moscow on Friday for talks with the | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
Russian Foreign Minister. One source has told me that although | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
they do not hold out great hopes that it might yield anything, she | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
will be trying to put as much pressure as possible on the | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
Russians to change their approach against Syria. There is not much | :07:30. | :07:39. | |
hope that at this stage they are likely to do that. Thank you. | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
The King of Jordan has called on the Syrian President to step down. | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
In an exclusive interview with the BBC's Lyse Doucet, King Abdullah | :07:50. | :07:57. | |
said he feared more violence. would believe that if I was in his | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
shoes, I would step down. However, if I was in his position, if it was | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
me, I would step down and make sure that whoever comes behind Make has | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
the ability to change the status quo of what we are seeing. I don't | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
think the system allows for that. If President Bashar al-Assad has | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
the interests of his country, he would step down but he would also | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
create a new phase of political life. Interesting comments. Lyse | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
Doucet is with me now. He has not said anything like this before, has | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
the? No, but we have not seen this action from the Arab League before. | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
It comes after a very long time of getting promises from President | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
Bashar al-Assad and those promises not been capped. What the king was | :08:45. | :08:52. | |
very adamant about was it was not a question of one individual. He was | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
very careful to say it is a system, it is not just one man. I think the | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
worry in the region and beyond that if one leader steps down, what | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
would come next? What instability would there be? The Arab League | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
have said they will meet some members of the Syrian opposition | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
later this week that is the Syrian opposition ready to take over? His | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
comments will represent a turning point in how Arab leaders will deal | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
with President Assad. Do you think he was aware of this? Is this a | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
move to intensify the pressure as we are seeing? Eight was very | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
interesting because he is a cautious King. It took him a long | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
time to say, if I was in his place. He said it with some regret. Don't | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
forget, these two leaders took power from their fathers at the | :09:44. | :09:52. | |
same time, a little over a decade ago. He mentioned how President | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
Assad had the soul of reform so he was frustrated that he had not been | :09:56. | :10:06. | |
able to move forward. We can now speak to the director of the Middle | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
East Centre at the London School of Economics. I'm not sure if you | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
heard what Lyse Doucet was saying, what do you make of these latest | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
comments from King Abdullah? If it tells you a great deal that even | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
the Arab states have come to the conclusion that President Assad's | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
position is extremely untenable. The Americans have made similar | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
remarks a few days ago. One of the major officials on the Middle East | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
said he has heard many Arab leaders saying President Assad's days are | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
numbered. What you have now is what I call the convergence between | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
international pressure from the international community, | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
particularly from the United States and Western Europe, and this is a | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
point want to make that the United States is waging a war against | :10:54. | :11:01. | |
Syria by other means, it is an economic war, the media war and a | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
psychological war. Now Turkey has joined. Now you have the Arab | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
League. Remember, what the Arab League has said, this is the first | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
step. On Wednesday, the Arab League will be meeting with the Syrian | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
opposition. It has threatened to pull out ambassadors from Damascus, | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
impose economic and political sanctions and even more importantly, | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
it has threatened to basically recognise the Syrian opposition. If | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
I was sitting in Damascus today, I would be extremely anxious. Syria's | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
response in the last few days, first they dismiss the Arab League | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
as worthless, they said it was an extension of the western American | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
conspiracy. Then they called for a meeting for the heads of the Arab | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
states and now you have Walid Al- Moualem, the Syrian Foreign | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
Minister St this is a very dangerous step. He said I hope our | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
Chinese and Russian friends would continue to lose the United Nations | :12:03. | :12:11. | |
council. -- to oppose. He said the Arab League might go to the | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
Security Council and ask for protection of Syrian civilians. It | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
seems to made the Libyan scenario all over again. You have the Arab | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
League taking the step by going to the United Nations Security Council. | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
This tells you that the game is changing. The crisis in Syria is | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
reaching a climax. The opposition and Syria does not appreciate the | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
gravity of the crisis. It is interesting that you say the Libyan | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
scenario all over again but I asked King Abdullah about the possibility | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
of military intervention and he says no one is calling for that. | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
Now I think there is some concern about whether that is desirable and | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
whether that is possible. He said he believes that the Syrian | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
leadership believes it is still in a comfortable place, in other words, | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
that the end is not in sight. I say the Libyan scenario, I do not | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
mean about NATO's military intervention in Syria. Both the | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
United States and European Community have made it clear that | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
there is no military option a long Libyan lines. Let me give you a | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
scenario whereby if you have military escalation, if you have | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
10,000 people killed and the next few weeks, you might have a very | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
different response by Washington and Europe and also by regional and | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
Arab states. You might have a no- fly zone, has a fare in Turkey, you | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
might have an escalation of tensions in Syria -- you might have | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
a safe haven in Turkey. Or the Arab League said was specifically it | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
called on the Syrian army to disobey the orders of the Syrian | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
government and not fire on civilians. What you might have, the | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
question of legitimacy legitimising the opposition, you might have more | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
and more security forces and Syrian army troops defecting to the | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
opposition and you might have the strategic situation change among | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
the ground in Syria as a result of Arab regional and international | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
actions on the ground. It is very good to get your opinion and | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
thoughts today. Thank you for joining me from the London School | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
of Economics and Lyse Doucet, thank you and to reiterate you have | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
interviewed the King of Jordan and he has called on the Syrian | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
President to step down. He said if he was in his shoes he would step | :14:35. | :14:42. | |
Let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
around the world today. Anders Behring Breivik, the man | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
who's confessed to killing 77 people in July, has been appearing | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
in court in Oslo. Hundreds of journalists, as well as family and | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
friends of those who were killed were waiting for him when he | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
arrived at court this morning. It's Brievik's first open court | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
appearance since he was taken into custody. He has said he wants to | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
explain why he carried out the attacks on Norway's government | :15:04. | :15:12. | |
offices in Oslo, and the nearby island of Utoeya. | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
With me now via webcam from Norway is Norwegian journalist, Ketil | :15:15. | :15:25. | |
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Stensru. Just described to me the mood, not only outside the court, | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
it is understandable the family and friends of victims are there, but | :15:30. | :15:36. | |
what about Norway? This was a country shattered by these events? | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
Today marked a special and strange occasion when Anders Behring | :15:40. | :15:47. | |
Breivik was able to meet people for the first time. When the same | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
applies for the victims' relatives when they were able to meet Anders | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
Behring Breivik in person and get some sense of what he felt like. | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
What is expected to be heard? He said he is going to explain why he | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
did what he did, what answers do people want? They want to get some | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
justification. How could he resonate himself to carrying out | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
these attacks and at what sort of ideological grounds can he justify | :16:16. | :16:23. | |
killing his own people? And I think it is incomprehensible what has | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
happened, so people have a great need to see him and see what kind | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
of frame of mind he is in. As he is brought to trial, is there any | :16:34. | :16:41. | |
expectation of what may be the outcome of this trial. Obviously, | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
today was another hearing were the state applied for solitary | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
confinement. The state wanted an extension of 12 weeks. I think they | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
got that. For him, he again pleaded not guilty to the charges. And for | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
him, it is another chance to be in the limelight for the first time | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
and a chance for him to spread his ideology and explain himself. | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
will keep a close eye on events. Thanks for speaking to me today. | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
They're the unelected leaders, the technocrats, whose job it now is to | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
guide their countries through economic crisis. Italy's Prime | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
Minister designate, Mario Monti, and Greece's Prime Minister, Lucas | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
Papademos, have been put in place to implement tough austerity | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
measures needed to balance the countries' books. It's an unusual | :17:26. | :17:36. | |
:17:36. | :17:36. | ||
position for both democracies to be in - as Humphrey Hawksley reports. | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
We can speak to our correspondent in Rome. David, it is an | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
interesting day for Mario Monti to begin this process. Is there much | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
faith in him being successful? has the goodwill of a lot of | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
Italians. They feel more com -- comfortable he is qualified to do | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
with this crisis. He has to choose his cabinet very carefully among | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
possible candidates, technocrats, in other words civil servants to | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
have given good service to their country and could be Government | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
ministers in the months to come. But I don't think we are going to | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
get a cabinet line-up until tomorrow some time. At which point, | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
he will be sworn in as Prime Minister, together with members of | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
his Cabinet. More importantly, later in the week he will have to | :18:29. | :18:38. | |
go before Parliament and get a confidence vote. This is I think it | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
a foregone conclusion also. However, it is important to see that Mr | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
Berlusconi, who has resigned during the weekend as Prime Minister, has | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
been leading the country for 17 years on and off. He has made it | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
clear he doesn't intend to retire from politics. He is going to | :18:56. | :19:03. | |
monitor, he says, the performance of Mario Monti and has made a | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
veiled threat, as he put it, to pull the plug on Mario Monti, if he | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
considers his performance is not up to scratch. Mr Berlusconi still has | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
a majority, a Parliamentary majority in one of the houses of | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
Parliament. He lost his majority in the Chamber of Deputies, he could | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
still muster a winning majority in the Senate, the Upper House. | :19:30. | :19:38. | |
Basically, he makes no secret of the fact he wants to see the Mario | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
Monti administration, if and when it is formed to have a very limited | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
shelf-life. Thanks for your thoughts. | :19:48. | :19:54. | |
Still to come: Digging up the dirt at all reinvestigate mining | :19:54. | :20:03. | |
corruption in the poorest paradise of Goa. | :20:03. | :20:10. | |
Now time to get the business news. Is it paradise for Italy yet? 7.48 | :20:10. | :20:18. | |
% and that it was the bonds yield? It has come down a little? | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
focus is the market reaction. The whole reason the Italians pushed | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
through the placement of Mario Monti, so everything would be in | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
place when the markets open this morning, Monday morning there would | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
be credibility. Some cautious optimism, they were higher, but if | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
you blinked you missed it because the markets have returned to having | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
a sour taste in their mouth. The market's love the fact there is a | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
technocrat, a respectable, highly credible technocrat in charge of | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
Italy but they want to see what Mario Monti is going to do about | :20:51. | :21:00. | |
the two trillion worth of debt it elicits on. What we do about the | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
poor business interests that has crippled Italy's growth. Let's have | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
a listen to the boss of the German exporters Association, what he has | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
to say about Italy and Mario Monti. We are fighting very hard for the | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
Euro but not at any price. The problem is here in Italy and the | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
Italians have to understand it is up to them to prevent us going into | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
a recession and going into a worldwide depression. Italy | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
borrowed 3 billion euros from the markets today. They got all they | :21:34. | :21:41. | |
wanted but they have to say 6.3% interest, very expensive. Not cheap. | :21:41. | :21:49. | |
Europe has been S -- asking China for help with limited success? | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
this whole crisis rumbles on, the pressure has been on the bigger | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
emerging economies. We know what the Europeans want from Beijing. | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
The focus over the weekend was on India. The World economic Forum was | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
taking place in Mumbai. Encouraging wells from India. I will quote the | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
commerce minister in India, he says India will be part of the | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
stabilisation process when it comes to what is happening in Europe. | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
Strong words. It doesn't mean India is going to put its hand in its | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
pocket and contribute to any form a bail-out. This isn't necessarily | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
about the money, it is about making sure a country like India and | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
emerging economy being looked at by the world is their bodies be parts | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
of the world that are struggling and keeping the trade routes | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
opening and keeping a sense of nurturing and fostering relations. | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
Many Indian companies have relied on areas like the eurozone to grow | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
and succeed over the past decade. So India is looking at this as, we | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
are here to help and open for business. Open for business but no | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
money at the moment. For more on Italy's new Prime | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
Minister designate, head to our website. There is a profile of | :23:02. | :23:12. | |
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Mario Monti and plenty more information and analysis. | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
The headlines: The Syrian foreign minister has spoken defiantly | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
following international condemnation of the country's | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
suppression of anti-government protests. | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
The new unelected leaders of Italy and Greece begin putting together | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
of the Government and policies they hope will put their economies back | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
on track. Another huge corruption scandal is | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
looming in India, this time over its mining industry. Exports of | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
iron ore have been stopped in the state of Karnataka amid allegations | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
corrupt officials allow widespread, illegal mining. Government inquiry | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
is looking into more serious violations by iron ore producers in | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
Goa. This is the view of Goa tourists | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
never see. A landscape scarred by a new kind of gold rush. For iron ore, | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
and almost all of it is going to China. That, says critics has led | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
to over mining, corruption and environmental disrupt -- | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
destruction and they are calling for the industry to be closed down. | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
More and more going to China, a superpower. It is making its strong | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
at the cost of the destruction of Goa. The constant flow of trucks | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
carrying iron ore from the minds leave a constant cloud of dust. | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
There is no escape from it for this spot primary school. The uniform is | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
paid for by the mining industry. The dust causes them breathing | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
problems and teachers say it is something the industry disputes. | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
Next stop on the Road to China, the iron ore is loaded on to barges. | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
But mining companies are worried that a Government inquiry into | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
illegal mining and corruption will smother them all. Everyone in Goa | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
has benefited from the iron ore bonanza they say, making it one of | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
India's richer states. There have been violations the Chief Mining | :25:20. | :25:26. | |
spokesman admits, but don't risk everything to read them out. | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
have free health care, free education and we have negligible | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
poverty. You cannot fight in legality, you have to address it. | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
The hardest part is to say, how do we address it without destroying an | :25:40. | :25:48. | |
economy. The next stage for Goa's iron ore? The slow boat to China. | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
Globalisation in action and some in India are reaping the benefits, but | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
with such huge needs for steel itself, they may be short-lived. | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
All this iron ore heading to China have made some people rich. India | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
is obsessed with the question of whether it was taken out of the | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
ground illegally. Very few people asking whether it should be taken | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
out of India at all. The simple answer is that India doesn't have | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
the technology to use this kind of iron ore. But China does, allowing | :26:19. | :26:29. | |
it to keep sailing ahead. We are coming to the end of the | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
programme, but let me remind you of the main story? | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
The BBC has interviewed King Abdullah of Jordan. He said if he | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
were in the shoes of the Syrian President, he would consider | :26:42. | :26:47. |