:00:09. > :00:19.Dozens of people have killed in a suicide bomb attack in the Yemeni
:00:19. > :00:20.
:00:20. > :00:30.capital, Sanaa. The pop legend - will remember the
:00:30. > :00:31.
:00:31. > :00:37.life of Robin -- Robin Gibb, who has died.
:00:37. > :00:47.Welcome to BBC World News. To be learned so head for the
:00:47. > :01:02.
:01:02. > :01:05.markets, as leaders failed to come Dozens of people have killed in a
:01:05. > :01:10.suicide bomb attack in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa. One report puts the
:01:10. > :01:12.death toll as high as 96. Here are the latest pictures from Sanaa
:01:12. > :01:20.showing the military parade moments before the attack and then people
:01:20. > :01:23.fleeing the scene after the explosion. Reports say a man in an
:01:23. > :01:26.army uniform had set off his explosives as an army unit was
:01:26. > :01:29.practicing for a parade. It's the first such attack in Sanaa since
:01:29. > :01:31.the new president Abd-Rabbuh Mansour Hadi took power in February.
:01:31. > :01:41.Earlier this month he ordered a major offensive against Islamist
:01:41. > :01:42.
:01:42. > :01:46.militant groups linked to Al Qaeda in the southern Yemen. Our security
:01:46. > :01:49.correspondent says attacks of this type are usually confined to the
:01:49. > :01:55.south of the country. It is unusual for something like
:01:55. > :02:04.this to take place in the capital, Sanaa. There has been an ongoing
:02:04. > :02:11.battle since Saturday, over 130 people killed and fighting between
:02:11. > :02:15.the Yemeni government forces. It has been a pretty fierce offensive
:02:15. > :02:20.going on, but what we have seen here in these pictures is the
:02:20. > :02:27.aftermath of the single man dressed in military uniform, who detonated
:02:27. > :02:32.his device, the suicide bomb, at a rehearsal for tomorrow's parade in
:02:32. > :02:38.Sanaa. It is possible they got the date wrong, but it is far more
:02:38. > :02:43.likely this was meant as a message to Yemen's rumours. Remember they
:02:43. > :02:48.have had a change of government. The previous President stepped down
:02:48. > :02:53.in February, his vice-president has now become President, and this will
:02:53. > :02:58.be a message to him - we can get you at any time. Already over the
:02:58. > :03:08.last few days, Al-Qaeda's replacement for Osama Bin Laden has
:03:08. > :03:25.
:03:25. > :03:27.said we consider him to be just as bad.
:03:27. > :03:31.Robin Gibb - one of three brothers who formed the hugely-successful
:03:31. > :03:34.Bee Gees pop group in the 1960s - has died aged 62. The Bee Gees
:03:34. > :03:37.helped define the disco era with hits like Stayin' Alive, How Deep
:03:37. > :03:40.Is Your Love and Night Fever. They sold more records than the Rolling
:03:40. > :03:43.Stones, Abba or Elton John. Robin Gibb had fought colon and liver
:03:43. > :03:45.cancer for several years. David Sillito looks back at his life.
:03:45. > :03:48.With his plaintive quavering voice, this 17 year-old was an unlikely
:03:48. > :03:53.star. But here he was, Robin Gibb, the frontman of what was to be one
:03:53. > :04:01.of the biggest pop band's in history. Is it true you write your
:04:01. > :04:09.own pieces? He had begun performing with his brothers when he was just
:04:09. > :04:13.six. The family then settled in Australia. They have released more
:04:13. > :04:20.than a dozen records before they returned to Britain and hit the
:04:20. > :04:28.big-time. # You don't know what it is like.
:04:28. > :04:35.However, increasingly it was his brother Barry who was in the
:04:35. > :04:40.spotlight. Robin Gibb resented this and, despite the rumours, he left.
:04:40. > :04:45.If I was to say that were true, I would be the premier of Russia.
:04:46. > :04:55.band reformed but soon found itself out of favour. What changed things
:04:56. > :04:58.
:04:58. > :05:01.around was moving to America, and very moving up a register. When
:05:01. > :05:06.Saturday Night Fever was at its peak, they were selling a million
:05:06. > :05:16.albums a week. The eventual backlash meant that Bee Gees songs
:05:16. > :05:18.
:05:18. > :05:26.in the 80s were often sung by Kenny and Dolly, Diana Ross, Barbra
:05:26. > :05:30.Streisand... We see ourselves as composers and artists second. You
:05:30. > :05:37.can't have the second without the first and we have always enjoyed
:05:37. > :05:43.writing for other people. A like the harmonies, the songwriting was
:05:43. > :05:47.an interplay between the three brothers.
:05:47. > :05:57.# I see the story. Sensitive teetotal vegetarian,
:05:57. > :06:03.Robin Gibb's solo career never took off in the same way. His place in
:06:03. > :06:13.pop history is with his brothers as one of pop's most successful
:06:13. > :06:16.songwriting teams. At least three people have died
:06:16. > :06:19.climbing Mount Everest over the weekend and there are reports that
:06:19. > :06:21.the number of fatalities could be even higher. Lets get more details
:06:21. > :06:28.now from the BBC's Joanna Jolly, who was our correspondent in
:06:28. > :06:32.Kathmandu until recently. What more can you tell us? We know the
:06:32. > :06:38.nationalities of the three people - a German, South Korean and Nepalese
:06:38. > :06:42.woman. We also know a Chinese man and his guide are also missing, and
:06:42. > :06:46.there could be more people missing. They were climbing at the beginning
:06:46. > :06:52.of the summit season, and this is when the weather is good enough to
:06:52. > :06:57.reach the top. Around 150 did make it to the summit by the end of
:06:57. > :07:03.Saturday, but then the wind picked up, the weather became worse, and
:07:03. > :07:08.it is believed these three climbers died because they became exhausted
:07:08. > :07:13.and suffered altitude sickness. worries more people could have lost
:07:14. > :07:20.their lives? Yes, it is popular to climb Mount Everest at this time of
:07:20. > :07:24.year, and some netball these guides say they worry that climbers are so
:07:24. > :07:29.focused to get to the summit they don't have the energy to get down
:07:29. > :07:33.again. They're all so long queues to get to the summit so sometimes
:07:33. > :07:42.climb has run out of oxygen, exposed for longer than they
:07:42. > :07:47.thought, making them susceptible to exhaustion. So, reports 6 or 7
:07:47. > :07:50.people could have been killed in the last few days? Yes, we are
:07:50. > :07:57.still getting reports from the base camp to find out how many people
:07:57. > :08:04.have been missing but the conditions are extremely dangerous,
:08:04. > :08:09.especially for amateur climbers. Now the business news, and the
:08:09. > :08:12.markets are a bit more stable this week. Yes, we have slight rises on
:08:12. > :08:15.the equity market but not particularly convincing. For
:08:15. > :08:18.Investors are looking for a fix to the eurozone debt crisis after G8
:08:18. > :08:20.leaders failed to come up with concrete plans over the weekend.
:08:20. > :08:23.Later today, German and French finance ministers meet in Berlin
:08:23. > :08:26.for talks. And in Greece, the flight of money from the country
:08:26. > :08:36.gains momentum. Greeks are taking savings out of their banks because
:08:36. > :08:38.
:08:38. > :08:43.they fear for the future. Georg Grodzki is head of Credit Research
:08:43. > :08:46.at Legal and General. He explained why one solution to the crisis
:08:46. > :08:55.would be the creation of so-called eurozone bonds would be met with
:08:55. > :09:00.opposition from Germany. They will favour supply side measures, such
:09:01. > :09:05.as market flexibility. France will press on with an abolition of the
:09:05. > :09:09.strict austerity policies which they think Germany is imposing on
:09:09. > :09:13.Europe. Between demand and supply there is quite a difference so they
:09:13. > :09:17.will have to employee some ghost writers to come up with a
:09:17. > :09:21.compromise. There seems to be somewhere cool room emerging in
:09:21. > :09:26.Germany because the German Finance Minister spoke to the press over
:09:26. > :09:32.the weekend saying we are open to look at all sorts of ideas as long
:09:32. > :09:42.as it doesn't increase debt. Do you think eurozone bombs is a good way
:09:42. > :09:43.
:09:43. > :09:49.of resolving the speculation in the market? -- eurozone bonds. For many
:09:49. > :09:54.they seem an easy way out, but it basically means borrowing your
:09:55. > :09:59.neighbour's credit card to fund euros spending spree. They only
:09:59. > :10:05.make sense if you haven't really common fiscal policy, if you
:10:05. > :10:09.basically give up your sovereignty. Otherwise countries can go on
:10:09. > :10:15.spending as much as they like and make other countries responsible
:10:15. > :10:19.for paying the dead, so it is difficult to see them working
:10:19. > :10:22.without increasing indebtedness and that is the problem Germany wants
:10:22. > :10:25.to avoid. Struggling Internet company Yahoo
:10:25. > :10:35.is to sell half of its stake in Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba
:10:35. > :10:37.
:10:37. > :10:44.for about $7.1 billion. Yahoo bought the 40% stake back in 2005
:10:44. > :10:49.for $1 billion. The deal moves China's Alibaba closer to a public
:10:49. > :10:54.listing. The BBC's Juliani Liu told me earlier just how big Alibaba is.
:10:54. > :11:01.It has a lot of subsidiaries, I would say probably the most famous
:11:01. > :11:06.in China is very similar to eBay, but according to some analysts in
:11:06. > :11:12.terms of total transactions it has already exceeded eBay about two
:11:12. > :11:17.years ago so it is gigantic. That is only one of its units, it also
:11:17. > :11:22.has one in which stores can set up online shops to sell directly to
:11:22. > :11:26.consumers. I'd just met the Western gentle man who wants to open that
:11:26. > :11:31.up to the rest of the world. He wants western companies to sell
:11:31. > :11:39.directly to Chinese, especially in some categories like organic food
:11:39. > :11:49.service is an absolute monster. China's Dalian Wanda Group is
:11:49. > :11:52.stepping into the US entertainment market. It is buying America's AMC
:11:52. > :11:55.Entertainment - the world's largest operator of IMAX screens - for $2.6
:11:55. > :12:04.billion. AMC operates 346 cinemas in the US and Canada. The deal
:12:04. > :12:08.makes Wanda the biggest theatre operator in the US by revenue. It
:12:08. > :12:13.is not a name well known outside of China, can you tell us something
:12:13. > :12:19.about it? It is one of China's biggest property conglomerate, and
:12:19. > :12:25.although it is only a small part of a very diverse set of interests, it
:12:25. > :12:30.currently owns some 80 cinemas here. As you say, if this deal is
:12:30. > :12:35.approved, it will add more than 300 cinemas, mostly in America and
:12:36. > :12:41.Canada, and that will make it the biggest cinema theatre operator in
:12:41. > :12:46.the world. The really interesting thing is to ask why, and why now?
:12:46. > :12:51.All of the audience growth at the moment is in China. American
:12:51. > :12:55.audiences are flat mining or declining. I think a lot of people
:12:55. > :13:02.will be wondering quite why a Chinese company sees this as such
:13:02. > :13:12.an attractive deal to be signing at the moment. Is it going to be an
:13:12. > :13:12.
:13:12. > :13:15.active investor? Is it going to be sharing technology? We are told
:13:15. > :13:19.that for the audiences in the States and in Canada they won't
:13:19. > :13:23.notice any difference, there will be no change in terms of the
:13:23. > :13:27.decisions being made on what films are shown. I think despite that,
:13:27. > :13:32.you may get some commentators raising the possibility that this
:13:32. > :13:38.is in some way an extension of Chinese soft power. I don't know
:13:38. > :13:43.how much credibility to give to that kind of thing, but in terms of
:13:43. > :13:48.its bosses, they are talking about pretty much only the bottom line.
:13:49. > :13:53.They say that once the debt issue is dealt with and the cinema chain
:13:53. > :13:57.opens a significant amount of debt, part of this deal will be to pay
:13:57. > :14:02.down some of that debt, they say that once that is done they see
:14:02. > :14:11.this as a positive investment on figures show that AMC were
:14:11. > :14:21.returning to profit this year. the markets, as I said earlier it
:14:21. > :14:25.
:14:25. > :14:30.There is a bit of a hiatus here, you can see these markets are
:14:30. > :14:40.pretty much unchanged, waiting to see if any resolution comes out of
:14:40. > :14:54.
:14:54. > :14:56.We've got a bit more from Greece later, but thank you for now.
:14:56. > :14:59.You're watching BBC World News. Coming up:
:14:59. > :15:09.The conlfict is long over, but Sierra Leone's search for diamonds
:15:09. > :15:09.
:15:10. > :15:12.Thousands of people made homeless by a powerful earthquake in
:15:12. > :15:16.northern Italy have spent the night in makeshift shelters. The tremor
:15:16. > :15:19.killed at least six people and injured more than 50. A clean-up
:15:19. > :15:28.operation is under way, but the fear of more aftershocks is still
:15:28. > :15:33.strong in the region. Alan Johnston It struck with colossal force,
:15:33. > :15:40.punching holes and tearing gashes in solid walls all across this
:15:40. > :15:44.region. Some hold buildings were flattened, two night shift workers
:15:44. > :15:51.died in this factory. One of them was only there because he had done
:15:51. > :15:57.a favour and swapped his shift with a colleague. And many others had a
:15:57. > :16:00.terrifying, a narrow escape in the night. TRANSLATION: So I didn't
:16:00. > :16:04.have the strength to react, I was stuck, a where the house would
:16:04. > :16:10.collapse on May, but I could not react. The only thing I could do
:16:10. > :16:15.was cover my wife with my body. Often, older and weaker, historic
:16:15. > :16:25.buildings were hit hardest and as we film around this one, suddenly
:16:25. > :16:28.
:16:28. > :16:32.All that is left of the tower dissolves into dust. In the moments
:16:32. > :16:36.just after that dramatic collapse, the police have moved everyone out
:16:36. > :16:40.of this square, but what happens here illustrates the problem this
:16:40. > :16:45.region has. Many of its ancient structures have been badly damaged.
:16:45. > :16:49.Aftershocks may bring others crashing down, too. To help deal
:16:50. > :16:58.with all of this, emergency workers from the length of Italy have been
:16:58. > :17:01.sent to the area. They are understandably wary. All through
:17:01. > :17:06.the day, they have had to endure those powerful, frightening
:17:06. > :17:08.aftershocks. French prosecutors have opened an
:17:08. > :17:12.investigation into accusations of rape against the disgraced former
:17:12. > :17:16.head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn. He
:17:16. > :17:19.denies the allegations linked to an incident in Washington in 2010.
:17:19. > :17:23.Prosecutors have already charged Mr Strauss-Kahn for involvement in a
:17:23. > :17:26.prostitution ring. He resigned as the IMF head following accusations
:17:26. > :17:36.he had sexually attacked a hotel maid in New York, although the
:17:36. > :17:37.
:17:37. > :17:47.charges were eventually dropped. Much more on that and all of our
:17:47. > :17:49.
:17:49. > :17:53.The headlines: At least 60 people have been killed
:17:53. > :17:56.by a suicide attack in the centre of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa.
:17:56. > :18:04.Tributes have been paid to the former Bee Gee, Robin Gibb, who has
:18:04. > :18:09.Tensions over the conflict in Syria has led to violence in neighbouring
:18:09. > :18:12.Lebanon. Several people were reported killed in street battles
:18:12. > :18:14.in the capital, Beirut. Lebanese security forces have now restored
:18:14. > :18:16.order in Sunni dominated neighbourhoods where supporters and
:18:16. > :18:26.opponents of the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, clashed overnight.
:18:26. > :18:27.
:18:27. > :18:30.Our correspondent in Beirut, Jim Muir, told me more.
:18:30. > :18:36.There were some violent scenes during the night on the southern
:18:36. > :18:40.edge of Beirut. Basically between two Sunni groups. One small group
:18:40. > :18:46.which is basically pro-Syrian, close to Hezbollah, whose offices
:18:46. > :18:51.came under attack by the majority Sunni movement headed by the son of
:18:51. > :18:54.the former prime minister. There were at least two or three people
:18:54. > :18:58.killed and getting on for 20 wounded in those clashes, which
:18:58. > :19:03.tapered off after the leader of the small group slipped out of the area.
:19:03. > :19:07.The Lebanese army came in and it is now still tense, but traffic is
:19:07. > :19:12.moving normally. Other parts of the country where there had been roads
:19:12. > :19:19.blocked by people burning tyres in protest at the killing of these two
:19:19. > :19:23.sheikhs who were shot dead at an army checkpoint on Sunday, protests
:19:23. > :19:26.throughout Sunni areas over VAT, but tensions are being kept under
:19:26. > :19:30.control apparently by both political and religious leadership,
:19:30. > :19:34.which are calling strongly for people to remain calm and try to
:19:34. > :19:40.avoid further tensions. For some of the problems surrounding dealing
:19:40. > :19:46.with Syria have been based on how tensions could spread in the region.
:19:46. > :19:49.What do the weekend's events tell us? Well, it shows just how tense
:19:49. > :19:54.and have divided it is in Lebanon. You basically have the strongest
:19:54. > :20:00.power in the land, Hezbollah, and its allies, basically supporting
:20:00. > :20:04.the Syrian regime, and the Sunnis are siding with the uprising, which
:20:04. > :20:09.is largely Sunni based and being accused by the Syrians and others
:20:09. > :20:13.of being -- smuggling arms across the border to the rebels. A real
:20:13. > :20:20.tinderbox situation, but because everybody is so aware of how the
:20:20. > :20:30.country could be done apart -- torn apart, there are strong pressures
:20:30. > :20:34.to prevent a clash. Hezbollah has kept well out of it. The smaller
:20:34. > :20:37.party leader has called for discipline and restraint, self-
:20:37. > :20:42.control, and there's an investigation going on very
:20:42. > :20:46.actively into how those two Sunni clerics were killed by the Lebanese
:20:46. > :20:49.army at that checkpoint. The threat posed by Greece leaving
:20:49. > :20:52.the euro will be high on the agenda when the economic bloc's leaders
:20:52. > :20:56.meet in Brussels later this week. The growing consensus from leaders
:20:56. > :20:59.is that they want Greece to stay with the euro, but Greek voters go
:20:59. > :21:02.to the polls next month and parties opposed to Greece's bail out are
:21:02. > :21:05.surging in popularity. Well, north- west of Athens, in the countryside,
:21:05. > :21:07.is Ioannina, a growing town but also one of the poorest areas in
:21:07. > :21:09.Greece. Tim Willcox has been gauging the mood there.
:21:09. > :21:11.Throughout this entire Greek crisis, we've seen mass demonstrations in
:21:11. > :21:13.the cities against the austerity measures, but what is the situation
:21:13. > :21:18.like in the countryside? We've given about five hours north-west
:21:18. > :21:23.of Athens to Ioannina. This man is a 67-year-old grandfather who has
:21:23. > :21:32.been farming may use most of his life. He has seen his salary drop
:21:32. > :21:39.from about 4,000 euros a month to just his pension. How difficult to
:21:39. > :21:44.has the situation been in the last few months? TRANSLATION: For five
:21:44. > :21:48.years ago, things were better. Nowadays the situation is very
:21:48. > :21:54.difficult, we can barely survive with a lower pension, around 400 to
:21:54. > :21:58.500 euros. We sell the corn, but expenses are more than the income.
:21:58. > :22:02.He also says that because he's able to work on the land, at least he
:22:02. > :22:08.can feed himself, but he's concerned about his two
:22:08. > :22:11.granddaughters. What are your fears for them? TRANSLATION: I have two
:22:11. > :22:16.grandchildren, one of them is that student and she will graduate soon.
:22:16. > :22:23.But what will she do next? Where will she work? In the farm we can
:22:23. > :22:33.barely survive, but we have sheep, chickens, things like that. He is
:22:33. > :22:36.
:22:36. > :22:39.going to carry on and checkout his fields and his animals. Thank you.
:22:39. > :22:41.NATO'S Secretary General says there will be "no rush for the exits" by
:22:41. > :22:44.the countries who have troops deployed in Afghanistan. The
:22:44. > :22:50.alliance is meeting in Chicago to discuss Afghanistan's future after
:22:50. > :22:53.the last Western combat troops leave in 2014. Against a dramatic
:22:53. > :22:58.backdrop, a memorial to those who gave their lives in combat, NATO
:22:58. > :23:02.leaders gathered for the traditional family photo. A
:23:02. > :23:08.souvenir of Chicago 2012. But like any family gathering, things rarely
:23:08. > :23:14.goes smoothly as planned. France wants to pull its combat troops out
:23:14. > :23:18.of Afghanistan sooner than later -- NATO would like, putting France's
:23:18. > :23:22.new leader on a collision course with the rest. It is disappointing
:23:22. > :23:26.that the French have chosen to take their combat troops out by the end
:23:26. > :23:31.of this year, but very reassuring that they've agreed they will have
:23:31. > :23:34.a continued presence, the continued involvement in the mission. Other
:23:35. > :23:40.reassurances were given by President Obama de President Karzai
:23:40. > :23:45.of Afghanistan, even as NATO troops begin to leave. Some members are
:23:45. > :23:49.proving slow to split the bill. But there are hopes that will be agreed
:23:49. > :23:53.on here today. But almost certainly won't be is a deal with the
:23:54. > :23:58.neighbours, Pakistan, on opening its borders to NATO convoys despite
:23:58. > :24:01.the Pakistani President being here. Outside the summit, demonstrators
:24:01. > :24:05.expressed their frustration with the war that has lasted more than a
:24:05. > :24:10.decade. It has cost billions while other spending has been cut back.
:24:10. > :24:15.It was a mostly peaceful protest that turned violent later. But from
:24:15. > :24:19.behind a tight security inside the summit, a message in return. For
:24:19. > :24:24.the West at least, the fighting and dying is coming to an end. In
:24:24. > :24:27.Chicago, NATO leaders are in pragmatic mood, by the time the
:24:27. > :24:33.summit ends they want to map out the relationship with Afghanistan
:24:33. > :24:36.after 24 team and ensure enough funding for the Afghan forces say
:24:36. > :24:46.they will have some credibility, but fast enough to satisfy the
:24:46. > :24:46.
:24:46. > :24:48.voters back home. The opposition candidate in Serbia,
:24:48. > :24:51.Tomislav Nikolic, has unexpectedly won the Serbian presidential
:24:51. > :24:53.election. A former nationalist best known for his hard line on Kosovo
:24:53. > :24:56.remaining part of Serbia, Mr Nikolic nevertheless stressed in
:24:56. > :24:58.his campaign that he wanted his country to pursue membership of the
:24:58. > :25:02.European Union. Tom Esslemont reports.
:25:02. > :25:07.Victory but not in the way many had predicted. The populist Tomislav
:25:07. > :25:11.Nikolic celebrates. He had lost his last two attempts to unseat this
:25:11. > :25:16.man, Boris Tadic, Serbia's former President, who had been popular in
:25:16. > :25:20.the West for starting negotiations on future European Union membership.
:25:20. > :25:25.But Mr Nikolic capitalised on the hard economic times that have
:25:25. > :25:29.forced many Serbs into joblessness. Even at once putting himself on
:25:29. > :25:37.hunger strike to trigger early elections. And on winning them he
:25:37. > :25:39.felt to be President of all Serbians. TRANSLATION: I won the
:25:39. > :25:42.President -- Presidential election thanks to the votes of the people
:25:42. > :25:47.thanks to the votes of the people of Serbia. A but what about his
:25:47. > :25:52.background? He was once a hardline nationalist. He was also at one
:25:52. > :25:55.stage allied with the nationalist firebrand Slobodan Milosevic in
:25:55. > :25:58.whose government he then served during the Kosovo war. Underpass
:25:58. > :26:02.during the Kosovo war. Underpass job at a cemetery gave him the
:26:02. > :26:07.nickname the undertaker. But these are images Mr Nikolic wants to
:26:07. > :26:12.shrug off. He has tempered his right-wing views, breaking up his
:26:12. > :26:18.old radical Party's allegiances with alleged war criminals. As he
:26:18. > :26:24.did so, his groundswell of support group. Now he says he is committed
:26:24. > :26:28.to a future in the EU. But there are doubts in Brussels that he will
:26:28. > :26:33.make any of the desired concessions on the divisive issue of Kosovo.
:26:33. > :26:40.Many EU members see the territory as independent. To Serbs, it is
:26:40. > :26:43.theirs. Mr Nikolic has a history of looking east towards Russia. He now
:26:43. > :26:52.has to convince his critics he is prepared to look west and that he
:26:52. > :26:56.will not allow Serbia to slide back into its dark past.