19/03/2012 BBC World News

A man riding a motor scooter has shot dead a teacher and three

children outside a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse.

There's speculation it is connected with the killings last week of

three soldiers in the same region. President Sarkozy has arrived in

Toulouse and is going to the school. TRANSLATION: It is shocking. It is

a tragedy. I have no details to explain why this happened, but I

cannot accept this. I cannot accept the massacre of children inside a

Jewish school. This is a tragedy. As renewed fighting is reported in

Damascus, camps in Turkey are being overwhelmed by Syrian refugees.

Welcome to BBC World News. Also in this programme:

Britain tops the G20 in its use of the internet for business,

contributing over 8% of its GDP. What do you do you do with a $100

billon? Electronics giant Apple to tell us

its plans for its fast-growing cash More on our top story. We are going

to take you to Ipswich where the Duchess of Cambridge is making her

first public speech. When I first visited the hospice, I

had a preconceived idea as to what to expect. Far from being a

clinical, depressing place for sick children, it was a home. Most

importantly, it was a family home. A happy place of stability, support

and care. It was a place of fun. Today I have seen again that the

try House is all about family and fun. For many, this is a home from

home. A lifeline, enabling families to live as normally as possible

during a very precious period of time. What do you do is

inspirational. It is a shining example of the support and the care

that is delivered, not just here, but in the children's hospice

movement at large up and down the country. The feelings you inspire,

the feelings of love and of hope. Offer a chance to families to live

a life they never thought could be possible. So thank you again for

inviting me here today. I feel enormously proud to be part of East

Anglia's children's hospices and to see the wonderful life changing

work that you do. Thank you. APPLAUSE

The Duchess of Cambridge there giving her first public speech at

the East Anglia Children's Hospices in the Tree House Charity where she

gets a warm reception. She is just starting her charitable tour of

duty. We will bring you up-to-date on our

top story today from France. A gunman on a motorcycle has killed

four people outside a Jewish school in Toulouse in France. The

prosecutor has reportedly said a man and his two sons aged three and

six have been shot dead as well as another young child aged between

eight and ten. A 17-year-old is seriously injured. The attack

happened as children were being dropped off at the start of the

school day at the Ozar Hatorah school. The gunman then sped off on

a black scooter. It's the third such gun attack in the Toulouse

area in the last eight days. The two previous attacks both targeted

soldiers of North African and Caribbean origin. President Sarkozy

has arrived at the scene where there is a massive search for the

gunmanpm. In the last few minutes he gave this reaction.

TRANSLATION: It is shocking. It is a tragedy. I have no details to

explain why this happened, but I cannot accept this. I cannot accept

the massacre of children inside a Jewish school. This is a tragedy.

The fact that there are some crazy people who do this this is a

tragedy itself. This takes us back to human nature to realise that

some people have nothing to do with with human nature other than by

name alone, they have no respect, no behaviour connected with human

life which should be be sacred. President Sarkozy.

Freelance journalist, Kate Davenport is in Toulouse. She says

a manhunt was already underway. you say, there have been three

previous killings and this comes as a real shock because the attack has

switched to a Jewish school, the previous attacks were aimed at

soldiers from the para troopers regiment. There is a lock down and

the whole, all the Jewish schools are very much under top security

and it seems like it is the same killer. Initially, he use add nine

miller meter weapon, but he swapped to another another another weapon,

which was the same weapon used to shoot the paratroopers.

President Sarkozy said it is too early to make a deficit link

between the attacks. Can you spell out what we know are the facts of

this morning's attacks? The prosecutor's office described this

in an alarming way? A man riding a scooter, he came in about 8am just

when the children were preparing to enter the school. It was in nursery

and primary aged schoolchildren and he then jumped off the motorcycle

and came into the school and started shooting at the students

inside the building. The adult that was killed is believed to be the

head rabbi of the school and one of the victims is his own little girl

and there is a 17-year-old who is also injured.

More on that as it comes in. Aaron is here with the business news and

the internet. What numbers have you got? I have got big numbers!

An interesting story about the internet economy which is made up

with online retail, investment company, investment online, things

like that. E commerce and they have done this global study which shows

that Britain tops the G20 chart in terms of what the internet economy

contributes to GDP, Gross Domestic Product in the UK. Britain beats

the US. It beats China and South Korea and basically they are doing

very well. We have got to remember that the internet was started in

English so a lot of small to medium sized companies have really

embraced that, but look Brits just love their internet. They did a

poll that showed just how much they love it because it says that Brits

were willing to give up for one year, 65% were willing to give up

alcohol for a year to keep their broadband. 25 25% said they would

give up sex for a year to keep their broadband. It is amazing.

The man who conducted this poll why the UK is number one in terms of e-

commerce. The UK is number one because we

lead the world in e-commerce, we are a nation of digital shopkeepers.

We have great broadband infrastructure and it is a really

important part of people's life. Some say it has more cash on hand

than the US Government, we are talking about Apple which is the

world's most valuable company. Today, shortly, it will announce

what it is going to do with its cash mountain. Apple's hoard has

grown rapidly in recent years, reaching $97 billion. Analysts

expect Apple to give a dividend to its shareholders and possibly

announce a share buy back. Some hinted at a large acquisition, but

there is a problem, a lot of the cash is held outside of the US and

bringing it back would require Apple to pay tax on it. Earlier,

Laurence Gosling explained why Apple might be considering paying

out a dividend. It has been ploughing money back.

We saw last week the latest version of the I iPad. When you are sitting

on $100 billion of cash, investors are saying, "Do something more

productive with it." Ie, give it back to us in the form of a

dividend. The world's top aluminium maker

posted a fall in annual net profits. The company was hit by a write down

and a slumped in the aluminium prices. It is grappling with a

damaging row as Jeremy Howell reports. This is the largest

producer of aluminium by by volume in the world and home to the

business world's fiery boardroom quarrels. The Chief Executive is

trying to restore order after his former chairman stormed out, angry.

Mr Deripaska used money to buy a 25% stake in Norilsk.

Rusal has been left carrying $11 billion of debt. Rusal was a hot

stock when it listed in Hong Kong two years, but investors confidence

melted away. Its share price dropped 40% since then and it faces

serious problems in the year to come.

Rusal investors should not expect good news in the future. There is

the falling commodity prices, there is the declining Chinese exports,

there is a hole number of legal cases open against Rusal.

Rusal's new chairman denied the charge that the firm is in deep

crisis. Its debt file is shrinking. Besides this aluminium prices may

UPS says that it reached an agreement to buy TNT Express. The

price they are paying is over �6.7 billion. This will give UPS about

the same European footprint as DHL. Australia's controversial mining

tax is expected to pass the the Senad this week.

There are lawmakers who argue the tax will drive jobs and and and

investments away from Australia. I can see the market board. The world

markets are a bit mixed to. This is what Asia did. European markets are

down and I hate to say it again, Greece has raised its ugly head or

at least the the concern for Greece. Now, Syrian opposition activists

say that fighting has broken out in Damascus. Witnesses reported

hearing explosions and heavy machine gunfire in the area. In the

north of the country, fighting in the province of Idlib pushed the

number of refugees in Turkey up to 16,000.

Jonathan Head reports from inside The people who have lost almost

everything. This woman helped oust a president in her own country, the

Yemen. The Syrian refugees were driven from their towns and

villages for trying to achieve the same goal. By bringing in someone

who won a Nobel prize, the Turkish authorities brought a bit of

glamour into a refugee camp where life is dreary, but it reminded the

inmates that their revolution unlike hers, is far from over.

"Bashar, you are a thug" she chants with the children. She has three

children of her own, but after what these people have been through at

the hands of President Assad's force, their revolution is taking

on a militant tone. And frustration is bubbling over their long exile

in Turkey. Every day here is like a year

complains this man. "we can only pray to God that we can get back to

our homes in Syria." With 2,000 people on this site,

they are living cheek by by jowel and there is little to do.

Television and the company of friend and neighbours are the only

comforts. Some of the men have gone over the border to fight. Some have

not returned. These were meant to be temporary

camps, but the drawn out agony of Syria's revolution is making them a

permanent fixture of Turkey's border country, safe, but unhappy

homes for Syria's growing army of You're watching BBC World News.

Still to come: Bolton Wanderers footballer Fabrice Muamba remains

in a critical condition, after collapsing on the pitch.

One year on from the start of the air campaign in Libya, NATO is

criticised over the deaths of civilians. In the Thai capital,

Bangkok, taxi drivers have, up until recently, remained largely

anonymous. In February, that changed for one

driver, when he witnessed the aftermath of a bomb explosion at a

house rented by Iranians. The explosion sparked an international

incident, and one man was there tweeting from the scene, as Jonah

Fisher finds out. Back in when the cars and buses

grind to way Holt, Bangkok's residents jump onto the back of a

motorbike taxi. It can be fast, thrilling and it dangerous. If you

need to get somewhere in a hurry, there is a way through, and the

motor soi is your best chance. 1 motor soi is looking for more than

gaps in traffic. This is an avid Twitter and blogger which has

turned him into Bangkok's most famous taxi-driver. Whether it be a

traffic accident. The contents of his next meal. Already possible

suicide jumper. He posts photos and update to his blog and Twitter feed.

TRANSLATION: Added Phil luggage earnest but a responsible member of

society. If something bad happens or something dodgy, I just want to

tell everyone about it. Then on Valentine's Day, a series of

explosions were heard near by. A house rented by Iranians was badly

damaged by a bomb, as was a taxi, and one of the men had his legs

blown off. Suddenly, he was tweeting Updates on a major

international story. You were here first after the bomb went off.

I was the first. I am taking pictures like this. When I am here,

and take the camera. And I use my mobile phone. That was an

Overnight, his tweets turned him into a celebrity. And he appeared

on TV and in Thailand's newspapers. Despite all the attention, he says

he is not interested in becoming a journalist full-time. Than Cox

tweeting taxi bringing breaking news from his bike. -- Bangkok's.

This is BBC World News. The headlines: A man riding a motor

scooter has shot dead a teacher and three children, outside a Jewish

school near the southern French city of Toulouse. It follows the

killings last week of three soldiers in the same region.

President Sarkosy has arrived in Toulouse and is going to the school.

Let's get more now on the condition of the Bolton Wanderers footballer,

Fabrice Muamba, who collapsed on the pitch during an FA Cup quarter-

final at Tottenham on Saturday. Tim Reid is outside the London Chest

Hospital, where the footballer is being treated. What is the latest

news? Way we are told that he is still in

a critical condition, that he is in intensive care, but his heart is in

a stable condition. The doctors are not giving very much a way about

the detailed medical situation, other than to say he is still in

that critical condition. Bruno his fiancee has been at his side around

the clock whilst he has been here, for 36 hours. The family, we are

told, have been overwhelmed by the messages of support they have had

from around the world, from the Football Committee, or that social

networking Sykes, and in Bolton, and here at the hospital. -- sites.

We are expecting to hear from the Bolton manager, Owen Coyle. We know

that his heart was not beating on its own for about two hours. We

don't know what treatment he has had, but it suggests his condition

is critical, and it raises the issue of testing people for

possible heart problems. It was a very serious heart attack. Evident

from the manner in which Fabrice fell to the ground at White Hart

Lane. We are expecting a statement very shortly from the club's --

club itself. It was evident from the way he fell on to the ground,

and him being brought to this award-winning Heart Hospital, he is

clearly being given the best treatment. But his is not clear how

long he will remain in this hospital. -- but it is not clear.

A year ago today, the Nato bombing campaign began in Libya, ostensibly

to protect civilians. It was seen by many as the turning point in the

popular uprising to overthrow Colonel Gaddafi. But a highly

critical report by Amnesty International says Nato has failed

to investigate why more than 50 civilians were killed in the air

strikes. Wyre Davies reports from Tripoli.

Last March, when Colonel Gaddafi's attacks were on the outskirts of

Benghazi, NATO's bombing campaign came not a moment too soon for the

rebels tried to overthrow the Libyan regime. Charged by the

security Castle with protecting the civilian population, some accused

NATO of becoming an official air force for the rebels. Destroying

hundreds of tanks, paving the way for the fall of Tripoli. In a new

report, Amnesty International says 55 civilians were killed, as a

result of NATO bombing, including many women and children. Amnesty

also accused NATO of failing to conduct investigations into what it

calls the forgotten victims. Most Libyans, especially in Benghazi,

view the NATO campaign as an overwhelming success, which saved

thousands of civilians, and celebrations are planned in some

cities. Five months after the death of Colonel Gaddafi, lid dee ate is

still a country in turmoil. Central government is weak. There are still

too many weapons on the streets. More than 8,000 people from both

sides are thought to still be missing, or disappeared.

Indonesian anti-terror police say they have killed five men on the

island of Bali, who they suspect were planning to rob money changers,

and use the cash to fund terror attacks on the island. Police found

weapons and ammunition on the men, and believe they had already chosen

their targets. They were shot dead in a raid on the island on Sunday

by the Indonesian anti-terror unit Detachment 88, which has come under

criticism in the past for its heavy-handed tactics. From Jakarta,

our Indonesia correspondent Karishma Vaswani sent this report.

This was a significant police operation. The two raids which took

place in batting macro on Sunday it involves several heavily armed

Indonesian policemen and members of the and 10 -- anti-terror

organisation. Witnesses say the gunshots were so loud and frequent

they were mistaken for fireworks. We presumed it was fireworks, but

when I think back, it sounded different. Later on, staff told us

what had happened. The first time, all of the Norway's, it got louder,

stopped. -- all of the noise. police say the five suspects had

been under surveillance for a month but only two handguns and two bars

of a mission were found which has made -- a raised questions of how

quickly they were to react. A police spokesman said the suspects

shot at the police and added that is thought the men were planning to

fund terrorist activities. TRANSLATION: It is clear they are

raising funds for jihad. They need to obtain money first in order to

get explosives. The killings come as batting macro prepares to mark

10 years since the 2002 bombings which left 200 people dead. -- Bali.

The anti-terror unit has often come under criticism for being too quick

to kill, but has defended its actions in the past, saying it

often has no choice. The famous Sydney Harbour Bridge is

celebrating its 80th birthday Monday. What's come to be the

symbol of Sydney, even Australia, was built by thousands of men at

the height of the Great Depression, and cost many lives.

Marking its 80th birthday. 134 metres up, the Sydney Symphony

Orchestra, and some guests sharing the same day. I was born on this

day, 80 years ago. Named in honour of Ralph Freeman, the chief

engineer. The main engineer and designer, Dr John Bedville.

better place to have a birthday party.

It took 14,000 men eight years to build. 16 lost their lives. The

bridge still contains the 6 million rivets they put in by hand, all

ready for the big day. People of Sydney have dreamed about

and works for this. This British loyalists tried to

hijack the day by cutting the ribbon first, and was arrested. 80

years on, and it is still standing, carrying 160,000 vehicles every day.

There are alternatives like a tunnel but for Sydneysiders and

Australians in general, it is the "Grand Old Lady", as they call her,

that really counts. For an octogenarian, she is looking good,