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Is it shot dead 30 for striking Welcome to BBC World news. Also in | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
his programme, Samsung shares plunged after an American jury find | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
their company copied Apple's designs and business confidence in | :00:40. | :00:50. | |
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Germany falls to its lowest level Sorry about the problem with the | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
pictures there. Just to bring you the latest on our top story today. | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
Afghan officials say Taliban and surgeons have killed 17 Afghan | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
civilians including two women in southern Afghanistan. There are | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
conflicting reports as to whether the victims would be headed or had | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
their throats slit. The attacks happened at Helmand province in the | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
Ely and was a Sunday morning. The provincial authorities have also | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
reported a separate incident in another district in which 10 | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
soldiers were killed in an attack by insurgents on a checkpoint at. | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
For the latest, I spoke to our Correspondent. | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
The spokesman for the governor of Helmand province has now come out | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
and he says that two rival Taliban commanders were responsible for the | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
killing because they were both in love with the women who were killed. | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
Birds that is information which is contradicted by tribal elders, as | :01:55. | :02:02. | |
well as the district government. They told the BBC and use a party | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
is taking place in which 15 men were being entertained by two | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
female dancers. And that is why the Taliban insurgents came, according | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
to the district governor. All of the 17, including the two women | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
were beheaded and the bodies were taken to the does to governor's | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
office from where they were taken back to the village. The Interior | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
Ministry in Kabul released a statement this morning saying they | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
were civilians and the Taliban were responsible for the killing. | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
also, one report that the people were not fully beheaded. They had | :02:38. | :02:47. | |
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their throats slit. Well, again, according to the district governor, | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
as well as tribal elders, they all said that all of the 17 were | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
beheaded. And the victims had gunshot wounds as well as signs of | :02:58. | :03:08. | |
beatings. What we can know for sure, but not confirm, is the exact | :03:08. | :03:15. | |
details of what happened to all of them. All of these different Afghan | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
officials are coming up with different information but the | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
details coming out of the district, out of the tribal elders, as well | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
as villagers, are all consistent. It's been a very typical day in | :03:30. | :03:38. | |
Afghanistan. The Nato-led troops are of short and Afghan soldier. | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
The precise details of all this is not clear. One Afghan spokesman | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
said it was not intentional. He told a news conference that was an | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
investigation and explained it's sometimes hard to prove a link to | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
the insurgency in such attacks. can clearly identify a direct | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
insurgent connection to the attackers in about 10% of the cases. | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
And another 15% of the cases we expect an insurgent link with the | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
attacker, however Vitae cannot be definitely proven. Given these two | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
points, about 25% of these attacks are in some way related to the | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
insurgency. The spokesman on events in Afghanistan today. Fresh | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
violence has broken out in Syria today. By Rebels say they have shot | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
down a government helicopter, forcing it to crash in a | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
residential neighbourhood. Barbara Plett is following developments | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
from Beirut. We have had reports from the state television and from | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
the rebels that a helicopter has crashed and gone down in the | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
district in Damascus. Now, the Government has not given any | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
details, but rebels have claimed to have shot it down and the reports | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
we are getting up the fighting in Damascus this morning is that there | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
was heavy fighting in the district where the helicopters were engaged | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
in bombarding the area, and then it seems to have been hit by some kind | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
of projectile and fell into the neighbouring district. Again, we | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
can't verify that part of the story, but whether it was hit or crashed, | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
that is the story we are getting from the rebels. This fighting in | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
Damascus has been going on now for more than a week. A heavy onslaught | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
on one particular suburb, where opposition activists accuse the | :05:33. | :05:40. | |
Government of killing more than 300 people and in the rubble claims | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
regarding the helicopter, a spokesman said it was shot down in | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
revenge for that. Would it be surprising if rebels had the | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
capacity to shoot down the Government helicopter? Well, I | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
don't think it is a game changes. I'm not entirely sure it's the | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
first time it has certainly the first time it has happened in | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
Damascus. They do come in quite low, so are not as to double to shoot | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
down as an aeroplane, of course. It's possible the rebels have | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
missiles in the neighbourhoods of Damascus, that's nothing we can say | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
for sure. But it certainly shows that, of course, remember they were | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
claiming to have shot down a warplane in eastern provinces a | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
couple of weeks ago. Again, they were using anti-aircraft artillery | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
there but they are taken from the army and that plane, according to | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
reporters, was flying very low and not expecting to be shot, so it | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
involved a certain amount of luck, but every time and in Croft comes | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
down it's a big blow for the Government because it has been | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
using its aircraft considerably, especially in recent weeks, as part | :06:43. | :06:51. | |
Now the business news. A big ongoing story, the eurozone. The | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
numbers are creeping up on Germany. Be yes, the rot which starts in the | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
peripheral a few years ago, it's really taken hold. We continued to | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
see more and more evidence. We saw purchasing managers' numbers out of | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
Germany out of the eurozone at the end of last week and it does not | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
bode well but today we had another survey, a German business sentiment | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
survey and very important. Again, like the P M I numbers, which we | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
had at the end of last week, these are forward-looking numbers. They | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
tell us whether people are optimistic or pessimistic. It is | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
down at the moment. There are very pessimistic thought it it fell for | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
a 4th consecutive month to its lowest level since the beginning of | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
2010. I think when you see these numbers and start here and the | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
experts say they believe the German economy could start contracting, a | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
shrinking go into negative territory, towards the end of this | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
year, it doesn't bode well. That notion that the powerhouse of | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
Germany, Europe's largest economy can sustain the problems and keep | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
the rest of the region's head above water is out of the window at the | :08:07. | :08:15. | |
moment but it's the political side of things. It's not inevitable of | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
the such a long time, Spain. But this whole political uncertainty is | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
why German business kids are having problems making any decisions. | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
question is not how to solve the problems, but how to negotiate | :08:27. | :08:34. | |
other conditions. This is not good if you are a company and want to | :08:34. | :08:42. | |
make an investment. It's a pretty uncertain framework. What tools to | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
put the German government have in some ways to try and help the | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
manufacturing sector? If we look at those purchasing managers' index | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
numbers which can at last week, it showed orders from abroad for | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
German manufacturers foul at the fastest rate since April 2009. I | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
guess, at the end of the day, if you had an unhealthy Europe, your | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
biggest market, you have an unhealthy Germany. Yes, right, but | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
if you look at the figures for the second quarter, you will see that | :09:15. | :09:22. | |
the incoming orders also increased and the gross is mainly driven by | :09:22. | :09:29. | |
by the domestic sector. Course it pretty clear that the structural | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
reforms in countries like Spain and Italy need time and the German | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
labour market reforms, for example, for two years to have an effect and | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
now we have 1.5 billion less unemployed. So big problems at | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
least for the core of the eurozone at the moment. Let's move on. | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
Samsung Electronics shares tumbled more than 7% on Monday, wiping $12 | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
billion off the South Korean giant's market value. Comes after | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
Apple's resounding legal victory in their U.S. Patent battle on Friday | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
raised concerns about Samsung's smartphone business. Its biggest | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
cash cow. Apple is time to block sales of Samsung products in the | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
USA. There is a possibility they could now a target Samsung's latest | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
products. Sharon has all the details from the BBC office. They | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
had indeed taken a tumble, suffering their biggest fall in a | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
single day. That's after the US jury found the technology giant | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
copied designs from Apple. A decision from last week. The South | :10:38. | :10:47. | |
Korean company's shares fell 7%, the most since October 2009. The | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
company of course was ordered to pay just over $1 billion in damages | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
to Cup let Apple. Samsung, of course, say it will appeal that | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
verdict but fears are it may not rest there and Sampson may be in | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
for even more losses. Apple has said it will seek an injunction to | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
block sales of their products in the USA at a court hearing next | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
month and of course, one of the big concerns is whether Apple will | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
target the Galaxy S three but has not included in a recent trial. | :11:20. | :11:27. | |
That focus on older products. This is the best selling smart phone | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
from Samsung and would give them a key advantage in the market. | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
Today's sale of in the market has wiped off $12 billion from | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
Samsung's market value, so we will be watching that very closely | :11:41. | :11:51. | |
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indeed. We will. Profits at China's industrial firms have tipped for | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
the 4th successive month adding to a fear of a shock slowdown. It fell | :11:58. | :12:05. | |
by nearly 5.5% in July. That is compared with a 1.7% drop in June, | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
so a big drop. Chinese firms have been hit by a slowdown in global | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
demand as well as basically weaker domestic demand. Buyers can be to | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
burn in Venezuela Mac was biggest oil refinery after by a deadly | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
explosion early on Saturday. The two tanks are still on fire. The | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
Government says the situation is under control. Unfortunate, two | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
more victims have died of burns, bringing the number of dead to 41. | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
An Italian bank has confirmed it is co-operating with the US | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
investigation into a possible breach of sanctions. It is thought | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
to have broken sanctions against Iran according to reports, or that | :12:43. | :12:53. | |
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it has not been confirmed. It That's it would be business. See | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
you later. Now, a look at the rest of the day's news. The Government | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
in Nigeria says it's initiated informal talks with the Islamist | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
groups. The militant group wants to create an Islamic state is accused | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
of killing hundreds of people in the Muslim north. Senior officials | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
said talks were going on with some members. The Supreme Court in as | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
Anna but has granted the Prime Minister three more weeks to reopen | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
corruption cases against the President will stop the Prime | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
Minister appeared in court after being summoned several weeks ago. | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
His predecessor was found guilty of contempt over the same issue and | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
barred from office in June. Indonesian officials have found the | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
bodies of an Australian and three Indonesians who were killed in a | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
plane crash on Borneo on Friday. Rescuers finally made the way | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
through dense jungle to the crash site on Sunday. The cause of the | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
crash has not yet known. You are watching BBC World News. A | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
state of emergency is declared in four southern US states as Tropical | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
Storm Isaac grows ever stronger. And how a four-legged victim of a | :14:13. | :14:23. | |
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Mexican drugs gang is getting back 15 years ago fewer than half a | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
million Chinese tourists visited Thailand, but for the first time | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
ever it is expected that Thailand will see more visitors from China | :14:33. | :14:40. | |
than anywhere else. They came, they saw, and they kept | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
coming back. And in ever greater numbers. The Chinese tourist boom | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
has well and truly landed on the beaches of Thailand. This is my | :14:50. | :14:57. | |
first time visiting abroad, but I just want to have some relaxing | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
with the waves and the sunshine. Tough times in Europe and the US | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
have meant long-haul tourists number stagnating, but that is more | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
than being made up for by the increasingly adventurous for | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
Chinese middle-classes. Last year the numbers coming to Thailand | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
soared by almost 40%. Most of the Chinese here I in organised groups, | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
which means everything including the food, is thrown into an | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
affordable package. But if everything is being done on the | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
cheap, does more Chinese tourism meaning good news for the | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
businesses in Thailand? Well, prepare yourself for a surprise. No, | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
it is not the fact that these entertainers are really all men, or | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
Chinese tourists actually spend more per day than their British | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
counterparts. And the Thailand people are cashing in. This show is | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
specially tailored to an audience from China and it is packed out | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
twice a day. In my opinion the potential grows every year from | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
China. In the next 10 years the number coming here will never go | :16:03. | :16:10. | |
down, it will only go up. The surge in the number of Chinese has | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
certainly filled the coffers, but is it also changing the character | :16:13. | :16:20. | |
of Thailand tourist areas? 24 charter flights a week now arrive | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
from China here, and the authorities are getting a bit | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
concerned. The stereotype of the Chinese is that they are noisy, | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
messy and untidy. I think the tourism industry and other tourists | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
understand that and have moved away to more peaceful parts of Thailand. | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
They may be driving away the other tourists, but as most of the world | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
feels the economic pinch, it is the rush from China that is helping | :16:48. | :16:58. | |
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keep Thailand's tourist trade This is BBC World News. I'm Geeta | :17:11. | :17:20. | |
Guru-Murthy. The headlines: Officials in Afghanistan say 17 | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
people have been killed by the Taliban in Helmand province. Syrian | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
rebels say they've shot down a military helicopter which was | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
bombarding a neighbourhood of Damascus. The state of emergency | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
has been called in three more states in the US. Hurricane Isaac | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
is forecast to turn into a category to hurricane in the next couple of | :17:36. | :17:44. | |
days. An unwanted guest coming down in Florida. Isaac is a tropical | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
storm, not quite at hurricane strength, but still packing winds | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
of 65 mph. The surge brought localised flooding before long. | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
Earlier many had heeded the official warnings, boarding up and | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
getting out. Further north, Isaac has already disrupted the | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
Republican Party convention. The host city of Tampa is not directly | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
in the path of the storm that is close enough for organisers to have | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
put up to will tomorrow the first set speeches. This is where Mitt | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
Romney will be formally nominated for the presidency, and you can see | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
why republicans have delayed things. Just look how close it is to the | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
downtown waterfront in one of America's most flood prone cities. | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
The forecasts say it will pick up wind speed across the Gulf of | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
Mexico before making landfall as a hurricane in the midweek. | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
Emergencies have been declared in four state. Community is preparing | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
for the worst include New Orleans, which lived through the nightmare | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
of Katrina or seven years ago. sure you have a game plan and to | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
follow the advice of local leaders and pay attention to the changing | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
weather conditions, especially in the National weather Service. We | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
have seen the track changed significantly in the last few days. | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
With hundreds of flights already cancelled, schools closed and homes | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
scarred, this is a waiting game to see where Isaac will strike next | :19:08. | :19:18. | |
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There have been renewed disturbances at the South African | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
platinum mine where police shot dead 34 miners earlier this month | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
after a strike turned violent. The Lonmin Mine company says workers | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
arriving from the ships are being threatened. Our correspondent has | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
been talking to union officials say it workers are being harassed. | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
There are high levels of intimidation outside the mind. They | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
have been reports of out and out violence but there is a heavy | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
police presence, but the manager of the Lonmin Mine has said that just | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
13% of the workforce turned up today. That is a big drop over the | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
last few days. We are getting reports of a lot of intimidation | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
and a lot of workers simply choosing to stay away. They don't | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
feel it is safe enough to go back. Also this has taken on a large | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
political dimension. Absolutely. The National Executive Committee, | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
the top brass of the ANC, are meeting behind closed doors. Many | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
are said to be angry at the way President Zuma has handled the | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
matter and it comes at a critical time because President Zuma is | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
bidding for a second term at the end of this year as head of the ANC. | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
He faces a competitive leadership battle in December. It is the case | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
that the vast majority of the 34 miners there were killed by police | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
on 16th August came from the Eastern Cape, which is a | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
strategically significant province, because as a large number of votes | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
in determining whether or not Jacob Zuma will win the day. It is not | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
just ordinary members of the public to vote, but also members of the | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
ANC, but the grassroots anxiety is going to be played out at the | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
National Executive Committee as well. Police on the east coast of | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
England have advised residents they can now go out side that should be | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
cautious after am number of reported sightings of a lion. | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
Officers have been searching through the night in an attempt to | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
track down the big cat which was apparently first spotted on Sunday | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
evening. Earlier I spoke to our reporter at the scene. Colchester | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
Zoo which is not far away has been sending out a photograph sent by a | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
member of the public at about 7pm. They are in a caravan at the end of | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
this road, and they spotted a lion in the fields, and the police have | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
been examining that. Colchester Zoo said it could well be a lion, but I | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
don't think everybody here is convinced. The police have been | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
speaking to the people who took the photograph. There have been a | :21:52. | :21:59. | |
couple of sightings of it, but the question of course is whether it is | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
really a lion or not. Colchester zoo says it's not missing any Lions. | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
There was a circus down the road here a couple of weeks ago and they | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
have been contacted by the police and they say they are not missing | :22:10. | :22:18. | |
any animals and they don't have any Lions anyway. How are local people, | :22:18. | :22:25. | |
farmers, responding? Are they going outside still? The bespoke to the | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
farmer who is down the road here, and -- we spoke to the farmer down | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
the road here and he says he's keeping an open mind. He did cheque | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
or his pheasants were there this morning and we have not heard | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
whether they are or not. His elderly father who has worked the | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
farm said he would be very sceptical indeed if there is any | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
kind of big cat on his land. There are a few houses around here and I | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
spoke to some of the residents and they do not believe that there is a | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
big lie and around. But some have said they have been sightings of | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
peak cats for years around here and not everyone is convinced that is a | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
hoax, but clearly the police will be trying to examine some of the | :23:05. | :23:15. | |
poor Prince which may be around the siting area -- the paw prints. | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
mystery goes on. Aid agencies say they are beginning to distributes | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
of lies in the West African state of Niger following flooding. More | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
than 25,000 people made homeless and 65 have died when heavy rains | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
hit the capital. The River Niger burst banks after rising to the | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
highest level for more than a century. The President of Ecuador | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
Rafael chorea says he thinks the diplomatic row was over with the UK | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
after the UK threatened to storm the embassy to arrest WikiLeaks and | :23:45. | :23:53. | |
Julian Assange. He was granted asylum there, defying a Swedish | :23:53. | :24:03. | |
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charge of sexual assault. Some sports news, and Real Madrid have | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
reached agreement with English Premier League side Tottenham to | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
sign midfielder Luka Modric. The Croatian international scored 17 | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
goals in 160 appearances for the London side. Subject to passing a | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
medical, Modric is expected to sign a five-year contract with the | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
transfer fee in the region of $50 million. Women's golf has its Lee | :24:18. | :24:27. | |
youngest-ever champion. She became the 5th youngest champion in LPGA | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
history. She close to the five- under-par round of 67 for a three- | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
stroke victory and broke the age record of 16 set by Alexei Thompson | :24:36. | :24:44. | |
last September. A dog in Mexico has been given a new lease of life | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
after receiving a pair of prosthetic legs. It's claimed that | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
he had his paws cut off by members of a criminal gang. He was found in | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
a rubbish bin in the city of Fresnillo. The BBC's Tim Allman | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
reports. Gang violence is hardly unknown in Mexico, but even so this | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
seemed particularly vicious and cruel. The latest victim ended up | :25:02. | :25:09. | |
at this dog Selkirk in Mexico City -- dog shelter. His name is Lemon | :25:09. | :25:17. | |
Pie and he had to endure quite an ordeal. Lemon Pie had the | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
misfortune of running into an organised crime group and they used | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
him to practise cutting off pause, like they do when they cut off | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
people's fingers when they have been kidnapped. Unfortunately he | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
had to live through that. But thanks to a few good people who | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
rescued him, he was able to come to this shelter and here we tried to | :25:35. | :25:43. | |
give him the best life possible. And that involves prosthetic legs, | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
artificial course, to help him move around. Although he was a little | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
unsteady at first. They are not cheap. The shelter, called K 9 | :25:53. | :26:02. | |
miracles, had to raise $8,000 for help and had to look abroad. What | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
we did was take a mould which was made of plaster. It includes the | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
entire anatomical structure of the limbs. This was sent to the United | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
States. There they calculated the size that the prosthetic limbs | :26:15. | :26:22. | |
would be based on X-rays and other measurements. Over time, Lemon Pie | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
has got used to his cross-species and can wear them for longer | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
periods of times. -- his prosthetic arms. It is hoped that this will | :26:29. | :26:37. | |
let him lead a more normal life. reminder of the main news. Afghan | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
officials say Taliban insurgents have killed 17 Afghan civilians, | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
including two women in southern Afghanistan. There are conflicting | :26:45. | :26:49. |