:00:18. > :00:22.Memorial services up under way in Marikana for the 44 miners killed.
:00:22. > :00:30.Germany and France are to hold talks to discuss whether to give
:00:30. > :00:40.Greece more time to make repayments. And over 50 people are killed in
:00:40. > :00:40.
:00:40. > :00:44.clashes in Kenya. Prince Harry's blushes are spared
:00:44. > :00:51.after a British newspapers decide not to publish pictures of him
:00:51. > :01:01.naked. And plans for a bullet train in the USA are met with opposition
:01:01. > :01:07.
:01:07. > :01:10.in California. Memorial services are taking place in South Africa to
:01:10. > :01:17.commemorate the deaths of the 44 people killed during the miners'
:01:17. > :01:23.strike last week. Last Thursday 34 miners were killed when police
:01:23. > :01:28.opened fire. Previously 10 people, two of them police officers have
:01:28. > :01:38.died in violent clashes. Services have begun with a ceremony in the
:01:38. > :01:39.
:01:39. > :01:44.town of Marikana where the killings took place. The community of
:01:44. > :01:49.Marikana mourn their dead. Hymns, prayers and tributes for those
:01:49. > :01:58.killed in the industrial unrest. 34 in a single tragic moment of
:01:58. > :02:08.gunfire last week. And an appeal for reconciliation. To go from a
:02:08. > :02:11.
:02:11. > :02:21.broken this to wholeness. To go from wrong doing to forgiveness.
:02:21. > :02:25.
:02:25. > :02:30.There is little mood for compromise. There should be docks, not killing,
:02:30. > :02:34.pleads the South African president to an angry audience.
:02:34. > :02:40.It is gruelling work deep below ground. The wages are $500 per
:02:40. > :02:45.month say the miners. But what bonuses and allowances that is more
:02:45. > :02:51.than doubled claims the company and a 10 % raised is due in October.
:02:51. > :02:54.Even so their living conditions remain squalid and poor. There is
:02:54. > :02:59.now concern that the sentiment of unfairness will spread rapidly
:02:59. > :03:03.throughout South Africa's mining industry.
:03:03. > :03:08.The police kept their distance from the service. Modern South Africa
:03:08. > :03:13.was not meant to be like this. More memorials are being held
:03:13. > :03:20.across the country. Many of the dead were migrant workers whose
:03:20. > :03:25.bodies have been returned to their home villages.
:03:25. > :03:30.A short while ago I spoke to the deputy chairman of the South
:03:30. > :03:40.African Institute of International Affairs. He is also the brother of
:03:40. > :03:43.
:03:43. > :03:47.a former president of South Africa. South Africa is in a state of shock.
:03:47. > :03:56.We thought we were over police and massacring demonstrations which is
:03:56. > :04:04.what we love with during their apartheid era. We are now seeing a
:04:04. > :04:14.repetition of this. The country is in as state of shock. What needs to
:04:14. > :04:16.
:04:16. > :04:22.be done to heal the country? There mining industry, which is the
:04:22. > :04:32.flashpoint of the issue, has been at the same way for hundreds of
:04:32. > :04:40.
:04:40. > :04:50.years. It was set up for her diamond mining. It is based on low
:04:50. > :04:54.
:04:54. > :04:59.wages. Their way of operating of the last 140 years has to go.
:04:59. > :05:05.reaction of the Police has shocked many people in South Africa. What
:05:05. > :05:15.can heal the rift between the police and citizens? Since the
:05:15. > :05:15.
:05:15. > :05:22.President came into power he has reversed policies brought in by
:05:22. > :05:29.Mandela. During the apartheid era or the police were militarised.
:05:29. > :05:36.They were up paramilitary force to suppress social movements. The
:05:36. > :05:44.current president has in three militarised the police. -- he has
:05:44. > :05:46.no demilitarised. Only recently have their heads of various
:05:46. > :05:52.churches brought together the two sides in this discussion. Why has
:05:52. > :05:57.it taken so long for this to happen? What has been happening in
:05:57. > :06:05.South Africa in the last 18 years or-so, but especially in the last
:06:05. > :06:12.10 years, is that there has been a huge amount of disintegration of
:06:12. > :06:17.civil society. Civil society has lost its cohesion. The South
:06:17. > :06:22.African Council of churches is in a shambles. This is the first time in
:06:22. > :06:32.many years we have seen the South African Council of churches
:06:32. > :06:40.
:06:41. > :06:47.appearing in public in this particular way.
:06:47. > :06:52.Their ANC itself has been it de mobilise. Conflict has been sold in
:06:52. > :06:56.the churches. There has been a lot of upheaval under the surface in
:06:56. > :07:02.this country, but it is only now because of the killings that they
:07:02. > :07:11.are becoming visible to the wide world. Something needs to be done
:07:11. > :07:16.by the a authorities. A South Africa is being touted as a great
:07:16. > :07:23.tourist destination. That will certainly affect that industry.
:07:23. > :07:27.you say we have a huge tourist industry. In Cape Town are there is
:07:27. > :07:32.a huge upheaval of gangs fighting amongst themselves. Many children
:07:32. > :07:37.are being killed in the crossfire of the gangs fighting. The
:07:37. > :07:41.government was asked by provisional governments to send in the army to
:07:41. > :07:48.restrain the gangsters. The current president has refused to do so.
:07:48. > :07:52.There is lot happening in South Africa that is unpalatable but the
:07:52. > :08:01.government appears to be oblivious to it, especially the current
:08:01. > :08:04.president. Francois Hollande travels to Berlin
:08:04. > :08:10.later to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel. They will discuss
:08:10. > :08:17.whether to give Greece more time to make the cuts required by the
:08:17. > :08:21.bailout. Angela Merkel has already said that Greece must stick to its
:08:21. > :08:25.commitments. As the ongoing tragedy of the Greek
:08:25. > :08:32.economy deepens, the leaders of France and Germany will meet yet
:08:32. > :08:37.again to discuss the fate of Greece. They will also meet the Greek Prime
:08:37. > :08:43.Minister later this week. He is pleading with these two to give
:08:43. > :08:49.Greece more time to bring down its borrowing. Who can blame him? Their
:08:49. > :08:57.economy here is on its knees with unemployment at 25 %. Greece is in
:08:57. > :09:05.its 5th year of recession and austerity. He has already pleaded
:09:05. > :09:08.with John Cobb Junker, ahead of the European finance ministers.
:09:08. > :09:14.TRANSLATION: that only thing for this government, for the Greek
:09:14. > :09:17.people to do, is to move towards recovery as soon as possible.
:09:17. > :09:24.in a press conference on Wednesday the German Chancellor was not
:09:24. > :09:28.willing to make any firm commitments. TRANSLATION: it will
:09:28. > :09:32.not be any different from what has been said in the past. We will not
:09:32. > :09:39.find any solutions on Friday. Instead we will wait for the report
:09:39. > :09:47.and then decisions will be made. But there is pressure at home for
:09:47. > :09:57.the Greek president to secure the deal. It seems this will be a
:09:57. > :10:08.
:10:08. > :10:11.They eurozone. It is important. We know what is going on in Greece,
:10:11. > :10:17.but they cannot ignore the relent this data.
:10:17. > :10:21.Absolutely. Today they will be watching these
:10:21. > :10:26.numbers. These numbers are extremely important. They are
:10:26. > :10:36.fundamentally important to any economy.
:10:36. > :10:39.
:10:39. > :10:45.These numbers are forward looking. What we have seen is that these
:10:45. > :10:49.numbers continue to shrink for the 7th consecutive month. The big
:10:49. > :10:55.problem is that we are starting to see the rot that started it on to
:10:55. > :10:58.the periphery of the euro-zone taking hold in the core. Their
:10:58. > :11:08.economies that we were relying on to keep the rest of the region
:11:08. > :11:10.
:11:10. > :11:14.afloat such as Germany and France, have slid back into reverse. The
:11:14. > :11:22.French numbers continue to shrink for the 6th consecutive month. It
:11:23. > :11:26.all points to their eurozone heading into its second recession
:11:26. > :11:30.in three years. Their extras I have been talking to this morning told
:11:30. > :11:35.me that there are big problems for Europe, but it is not just a
:11:35. > :11:42.European problem. We are seeing a tandem effect.
:11:42. > :11:48.Germany was hit by this. Renewed contraction in the services sector.
:11:48. > :11:53.But also the manufacturing sector is export dependent. Exports have
:11:53. > :11:59.fallen. This is endemic in the global economy. The global economy
:11:59. > :12:04.has hit a soft patch. We have seen this also in trade statistics for
:12:04. > :12:10.China and Japan. This is not a European thing. It is a global
:12:10. > :12:15.economic slowdown. There are also worries for the
:12:15. > :12:23.Australian airline because it posted its first annual loss since
:12:23. > :12:30.it was privatised in 1995. And all of this and at high fuel costs.
:12:30. > :12:37.We will have more on that, but first this report from Australia.
:12:37. > :12:44.This is an iconic airline with chronic finances. Losses of $245
:12:44. > :12:54.million for the last year were announced. Industrial disputes,
:12:54. > :13:00.high fuel, and restructuring costs have all played a part.
:13:00. > :13:05.We have been through an exceptional period. Yet over the course of the
:13:05. > :13:10.last year we have made progress in advancing our overall strategy. Our
:13:10. > :13:17.biggest challenge is our international operation. The
:13:17. > :13:20.transformation is on track. Our goal is to return to profit and
:13:20. > :13:25.ensure that we are at the flagship carrier.
:13:25. > :13:30.The domestic operation is doing well, controlling 65 % of the
:13:30. > :13:35.market. It is the international arm where the problems lie. It lost
:13:35. > :13:44.$450 million last year, in part because of greater competition in
:13:44. > :13:52.China. The usually outperform most other
:13:52. > :13:57.airlines, but in this case they have been outperformed. This is the
:13:57. > :14:01.worst loss since 1953. It is significant.
:14:01. > :14:05.The airline is trying to deal with its problems by splitting the
:14:05. > :14:08.company in two. One company looks after the domestic market and the
:14:09. > :14:15.other looks after the international side.
:14:15. > :14:20.There is talk of the aviation world about a tie-up between court has
:14:20. > :14:27.and another -- between the Australian airline and another
:14:27. > :14:37.airline. Shareholders and markets want the
:14:37. > :14:37.
:14:37. > :14:41.The world's largest drinks company, Diageo, posted a jump in profits.
:14:41. > :14:44.The maker of Guiness, Smirnoff vodka and Johnnie Walker whisky. It
:14:44. > :14:48.says growth in Latin America, Africa and Asia were the key
:14:48. > :14:54.drivers between profits of almost $2 billion. It has helped the
:14:54. > :14:58.company, which operates in 180 companies, to offset the weaker
:14:58. > :15:02.sales it's so near to its home in Europe. We asked the chief
:15:02. > :15:09.executive about the impact of Europe's economic problems.
:15:09. > :15:13.results in Europe, our sales contracted by 1%. But there are
:15:13. > :15:18.growth opportunities to be had in Europe. If you look at our very
:15:18. > :15:23.high and brands like Johnnie Walker Blue Label and tanker rates, we
:15:23. > :15:28.grew those by 10 %. Europe does need to sort itself out
:15:28. > :15:38.economically. Having said that, I don't think it is as dire as
:15:38. > :15:38.
:15:38. > :15:44.The computing giant Hewlett-Packard has announced a monumental
:15:44. > :15:48.quarterly loss of nearly $9 billion. It was pretty much forced to write
:15:48. > :15:52.down the value of some assets and really take a hefty reorganisation
:15:52. > :15:56.will charge. The world's largest technology company did attempt to
:15:56. > :16:01.reassure investors and said they are making decent progress despite
:16:01. > :16:04.those head wins. Egypt has requested a $4.8 billion loan from
:16:04. > :16:09.the International Monetary Fund to help stabilise and revive its
:16:09. > :16:13.ailing economy. The request was made during talks in Cairo between
:16:13. > :16:17.President Mohamed Morsi and the IMF chief, Christine Lagarde. The IMF's
:16:18. > :16:21.technical team will visit Egypt next month to study their economic
:16:21. > :16:26.programme and discuss possible forms of financial support from the
:16:26. > :16:31.IMF. The US economy could face recession if Congress does and
:16:31. > :16:39.avert a so-called fiscal cliff which could seek US GDP shrinks by
:16:39. > :16:43.half a % next year. That simply refers to Congress trying to agree
:16:43. > :16:48.to spending cuts and tax rises. A report by the Congressional Budget
:16:49. > :16:52.Office says it expects the US economy to continue at M Shed --
:16:52. > :16:57.modest pace for the rest of 2012, but warns that substantial changes
:16:57. > :17:07.to tax and spending policies would cause the US to to back into
:17:07. > :17:17.recession in 2013. On that cheery news, well, Diageo is doing well.
:17:17. > :17:18.
:17:18. > :17:28.It's not so great. Plenty to come on BBC News. British newspapers
:17:28. > :17:29.
:17:29. > :17:33.choose not to publish leaked photos The weather throughout the so-
:17:33. > :17:37.called British summer months has hit the bee population. The
:17:37. > :17:42.situation is being described as the worst in nearly 30 years. The
:17:42. > :17:48.National Bee Unit says that heavy rain has made it difficult for bees
:17:48. > :17:52.to gather food, putting them at risk of starvation. Much like us
:17:52. > :17:57.humans, honey bees aren't too keen on venturing out in wet weather.
:17:57. > :18:01.Torrential rain in June followed by downpours in July and August have
:18:01. > :18:07.all limited their time foraging for food. And without gathering enough
:18:07. > :18:11.nectar and pollen, some have been staffed. Right in the middle of the
:18:11. > :18:16.summer, in the middle of June when the nectar flows should have been
:18:16. > :18:21.at their very best, bees were starving. So beekeepers have had to
:18:21. > :18:27.feed their bee s, they feed them on sugar syrup. I've never known that
:18:27. > :18:32.before. A familiar buzz has been missing from Ian Storrar's orchard.
:18:32. > :18:36.Normally he can depend on bees to pollinate his crop, but this year
:18:36. > :18:42.three-quarters of the trees haven't borne fruit. This apple tree would
:18:42. > :18:47.normally be covered in fruit. This year, as you can see, it's almost
:18:47. > :18:52.totally barren, except for this brand here. I've lost about 75-80 %
:18:52. > :18:57.of my crop. This year's honey crop is also likely to suffer. Some
:18:57. > :19:03.beekeepers are predicting a drop of up to 60 % on last year. And
:19:03. > :19:07.there's one final sting in the tail. The rain may also have put a damper
:19:07. > :19:15.on mating for Virgin Queen Bees, threatening colony members in the
:19:15. > :19:20.future. More than 3000 people have been evacuated from mountainous
:19:20. > :19:23.areas of Taiwan, as a powerful Typhoo and approaches the island.
:19:23. > :19:30.Typhoon Tembin is due to meet land at around midday local time on
:19:30. > :19:34.Friday. Winds of 150 kilometres an hour are expected, along with more
:19:34. > :19:39.than a metre of rain. Locals fear this could cause landslides. Jordan
:19:39. > :19:42.has poured three of its athletes facing sexual assault charges out
:19:42. > :19:46.of the London 2012 Paralympic Games. The three athletes were arrested on
:19:46. > :19:51.Monday in Northern Ireland, where Jordan's Paralympic squad is Chick
:19:51. > :19:55.-- is training. The Jordanian government has said that the three,
:19:55. > :20:05.who were all members of the apparent -- power lifting team,
:20:05. > :20:09.
:20:09. > :20:14.The headlines. Memorial services take place in South Africa to
:20:14. > :20:18.commemorate the deaths of 44 people who were killed in a miners pay
:20:18. > :20:22.protest. Kenyan police are trying to bring two rival communities
:20:22. > :20:27.together after more than 50 people were killed in clashes in the south
:20:27. > :20:31.east of the country. Let's stay with Kenya, where police are trying
:20:31. > :20:34.to bring these rival communities together for a peace meeting. 50
:20:34. > :20:37.people were killed in the clashes in the south-east of the country.
:20:37. > :20:42.Most of those victims were women and children who were hacked or
:20:43. > :20:46.burned to death. Police say the attack was carried out by become a
:20:46. > :20:52.militia men against ethnic Orma herdsmen. They are in dispute over
:20:52. > :20:58.land and grazing rights. I should warn you you may find the images in
:20:58. > :21:03.this report disturbing. Burned-out homes like empty. But the signs of
:21:03. > :21:09.the deadly attack which devastated this village are still visible. Not
:21:09. > :21:14.much was spared, not even the animals. Those who survived a
:21:14. > :21:20.inconsolable. And this is why. Most of those killed were women and
:21:20. > :21:24.children, hacked to death with machetes. His eye witness their
:21:25. > :21:29.eyes, they started attacking us at 5am and started burning houses from
:21:29. > :21:37.that direction and also killing cattle. I was in the house and then
:21:37. > :21:41.saw them when some of them entered the houses. I ran away. This man
:21:41. > :21:45.says the entire area was surrounded and some of them had weapons that a
:21:45. > :21:51.villager would not have come and that's how they killed people. The
:21:51. > :21:55.attack is believed to be collected -- to be connected to land disputes
:21:55. > :22:05.between the Drive and Pokomo groups. It's not the first time the tribes
:22:05. > :22:06.
:22:06. > :22:12.have clashed. All this issue is about revenge. Everybody is just
:22:12. > :22:15.stamping. We are asking our people to make peace, so they can become
:22:15. > :22:19.peace-loving again. It looks as though it is entering through this
:22:19. > :22:26.year and coming out this ear. the most deadly outbreak of
:22:26. > :22:28.violence in Kenya in over four years. The police have been brought
:22:28. > :22:38.into court -- calm the situation. The people here have been left
:22:38. > :22:39.
:22:39. > :22:43.Immediate row was brewing in Britain after revealing photos of
:22:43. > :22:47.the Queen's grandson, Prince Harry, were published on an American
:22:47. > :22:50.website. So far, British newspapers have decided not to print the
:22:50. > :22:54.pictures. They were taken while the Prince was on holiday in Las Vegas
:22:54. > :22:59.at the weekend. Royal officials confirmed that the Press Complaints
:22:59. > :23:03.Commission has been contacted over privacy concerns. Our reporter at
:23:03. > :23:07.St James's Palace in central London, where Prince Harry's offices are
:23:07. > :23:13.based, said that the issue of privacy has come to the fore again.
:23:13. > :23:15.I have the official statement here. They've said they did contact the
:23:15. > :23:19.Press Complaints Commission over concerns that some British
:23:19. > :23:24.newspapers were considering publishing those photographs. The
:23:24. > :23:27.officials there say that if publications have been made, that
:23:27. > :23:31.constituted an unjustified intrusion into his privacy and
:23:31. > :23:35.breached the editor's code of practice, and this morning it seems
:23:35. > :23:39.from the papers in the UK that they have kept their word. There is
:23:39. > :23:43.still no publication of those photos of Prince Harry in Las Vegas.
:23:43. > :23:48.Maybe the British press are mind all that Lord Justice Leveson is
:23:48. > :23:52.going to begin writing his report into the standards on the British
:23:52. > :23:55.press. Now to the US, where President Obama has put his faith
:23:55. > :24:00.in big infrastructure projects as a way of helping the country out of
:24:00. > :24:04.recession. Among his plans is a high-speed rail link between Los
:24:04. > :24:08.Angeles and San Francisco. The first leg of this track is going to
:24:08. > :24:14.cut through California's Central Valley. Questions are already being
:24:14. > :24:19.asked about its viability. The cows of California don't know what is
:24:19. > :24:23.coming. The train is going to go right through the middle? North and
:24:23. > :24:28.south in this direction. About 50 feet away from where we are
:24:28. > :24:32.standing. This is some of the most productive farmland in the world.
:24:32. > :24:38.And it will be the first place in America to have its own bullet
:24:38. > :24:41.train. Not surprisingly they are curious as to why. If the line does
:24:41. > :24:45.come through, the impact of going to be tremendous. It will go
:24:45. > :24:52.through where we store our feet, through a crowd of cows. It takes
:24:52. > :24:56.at my dad's house, blogs to our facility and put the train way to
:24:56. > :25:01.close. The high-speed train will collect it LA and San Francisco, if
:25:01. > :25:03.it's ever finished. It will take decades to build and will cost at
:25:03. > :25:08.least $68 billion, and it is intended to help bring development
:25:08. > :25:11.to a very poor part of the state. California is the 9th largest
:25:11. > :25:15.economy in the world. One of the reasons we are where we are is
:25:15. > :25:19.because of prior investments like this in the state water system, the
:25:19. > :25:23.state universities and the state highway system. You have to invest
:25:23. > :25:28.in order to succeed and be competitive and provide a quality
:25:28. > :25:32.of life for people in this state. There's been big debate at the
:25:32. > :25:37.state capital in Sacramento. California owes billions. While
:25:37. > :25:41.funding Rail, the Governor is asking people to vote themselves a
:25:41. > :25:44.tax increase just to stop schools from closing. They say California's
:25:44. > :25:49.best days are behind us. That's not true. We are building for the
:25:49. > :25:52.future. One of the most polarising debates in American politics ahead
:25:52. > :25:56.of the elections around government spending. The Republicans want a
:25:56. > :26:01.far less. The Democrats are backing big projects like high-speed rail.
:26:01. > :26:06.Billions being put towards future infrastructure. But with a country
:26:06. > :26:10.so much in debt, is now the right time? Is it ever the right time?
:26:10. > :26:14.The massive Hoover dam was built at great expense during the Great
:26:14. > :26:18.Depression and created many jobs. On the first US transcontinental
:26:18. > :26:21.railway was commissioned in the middle of the American Civil War.
:26:21. > :26:25.Today's rail system needs investment but the people advising
:26:25. > :26:29.politicians have to spend money said it was a bad idea. We said
:26:29. > :26:32.that given those uncertainties regarding the funding, that they
:26:32. > :26:37.should and move forward with the project until a better funding plan
:26:37. > :26:42.was put forward. But phase one is going ahead here in the farming
:26:42. > :26:45.belt. Taxpayers will have to pay many billions more before the