:00:13. > :00:17.The oligarch, Boris Berezovsky, loses his multibillion dollar court
:00:17. > :00:20.case against fellow Russian tycoon, Roman Ambramovich. Herman Van
:00:20. > :00:27.Rompuy formally accepts the Republican Party's presidential
:00:27. > :00:30.nomination and promises a new start for America.
:00:30. > :00:40.It takes a special Government commission to tell us what nerk
:00:40. > :00:44.needs. America needs jobs, lots of jobs -- America.
:00:44. > :00:48.Yahoo hands over incriminating evidence. Welcome to BBC World News.
:00:48. > :00:52.I'm Chris Rodgers. Also in the programme, grounded planes and
:00:52. > :01:02.confused passengers as cabin crew strike at the German airline
:01:02. > :01:10.
:01:10. > :01:13.Exiled Russian oligarch, Boris Berezovsky, has lost his billion
:01:13. > :01:18.dollar legal battle with owner of Chelsea Football Club, Roman
:01:18. > :01:22.Ambramovich. Mr Berezovsky was suing Mr Ambramovich for $5 billion,
:01:22. > :01:25.claiming he was blackmailed and intimidated out of his rightful
:01:25. > :01:29.share in a Russian energy company in the 1990s. In the London
:01:29. > :01:33.courtroom, the judge dismissed Mr Berezovsky's claim saying she found
:01:33. > :01:38.him to be unimpressive and inherently unreliable as a witness.
:01:38. > :01:41.I'm joined in the studio by our World Affairs Correspondent, Nick
:01:41. > :01:44.Childs. This is a world most of us cannot comprehend, the money, the
:01:44. > :01:50.figures and the characters involved in this case?
:01:50. > :01:55.Absolutely. I mean, billions of dollars at stake in all of this and,
:01:55. > :01:59.although the issues around the details of the case itself were
:01:59. > :02:02.clearly contentious, the whole case did, if you like, give insight into
:02:02. > :02:07.the murkiness of the world in the aftermath of the collapse of the
:02:07. > :02:11.Soviet Union and communism, the carve up of the state institutions
:02:11. > :02:16.in Russian which read, to some extent, like an international crime
:02:16. > :02:20.thrill we are a bit of James Bond thrown in as well.
:02:20. > :02:24.There were political influences and manoeuvering behind-the-scenes and
:02:24. > :02:29.deals on yachts and in international five star hotels,
:02:29. > :02:33.even a mysterious death in a mysterious helicopter crash. One in
:02:33. > :02:38.some ways didn't envy the judge for having to pick her way through all
:02:38. > :02:44.of this. In spite of that, she has essentially said that because of
:02:44. > :02:50.all that murkiness prance, the burden of proof was on Mr
:02:50. > :02:55.Berezovsky to make his case -- murkiness perhaps. The verdict was
:02:55. > :03:01.damning for Mr Berezovsky wasn't it? Yes, she said at the heart of
:03:01. > :03:07.this case were four contentious oral agreements that allegedly took
:03:07. > :03:11.place between Mr Berezovsky and Mr Ambramovich over two companies, an
:03:11. > :03:16.oil company and an almoney yum company. She said in that respect,
:03:16. > :03:19.Mr Berezovsky, as you suggested, was an unemprisive and inherently
:03:19. > :03:25.unreliable witness, the bottom line, she suggested was that he would
:03:25. > :03:28.have said almost anything to make his case and support his case --
:03:28. > :03:34.unimpressive. On the other hand, she found Mr Ambramovich truthful
:03:34. > :03:37.and on the whole thoughtful in his answers. How Mr Berezovsky will
:03:37. > :03:41.reply to that, given the damning nature of the verdict, is very much
:03:42. > :03:46.open to question I think. Moscow correspondent, Daniel
:03:46. > :03:49.Sandford, has been looking at the careers of the two men who emerged
:03:49. > :03:53.from communism to become billionaires. Boris Berezovsky,
:03:53. > :04:00.once one to have most influential men in Russia, used to private jets
:04:00. > :04:04.and palaces in the south of France. And Roman Ambramovich, one of the
:04:04. > :04:10.elite billionaires, the so-called oligarchs who made a huge fortune
:04:10. > :04:15.in Russia in the chaotic '90s of communism collapsed. In the last
:04:15. > :04:22.years of the Soviet Union, Roman Ambramovich was officially a
:04:22. > :04:27.mechanic working at construction office 122 of this street. He was
:04:27. > :04:32.already a budding entrepreneur, his specially, plastic toys.
:04:32. > :04:36.His first factory still stands to this day in Moscow, thousands of
:04:36. > :04:40.miles from the glamour of Chelsea Football Club. Meanwhile, Boris
:04:41. > :04:45.Berezovsky was a mathematics and computer expert at this research
:04:45. > :04:52.institute. But he was about to become a second hand car salesman.
:04:52. > :04:58.A man of unlimited ambition, Boris Berezovsky soon owns the biggest
:04:58. > :05:02.car dealership in Russia and crucially, he had the ear of the
:05:02. > :05:06.President, Boris Yeltsin. When Roman Ambramovich wanted to buy a
:05:06. > :05:09.huge slice of the country's oil wealth at a knockdown price,
:05:09. > :05:14.Berezovsky was just the man to help him out.
:05:14. > :05:21.This is how the minister in charge of the privatisation remembers
:05:21. > :05:24.Berezovsky's role. TRANSLATION: A man approached me
:05:24. > :05:30.who said he could facilitate the privatisation of a bill oil company.
:05:30. > :05:37.Why would I turn him down? I helped him and I believed I helped the
:05:37. > :05:42.state. Berezovsky's reward was payments of
:05:42. > :05:47.$50 million a year or more, and he said there was dividends.
:05:47. > :05:50.Ambramovich said they were just payments for political services.
:05:50. > :05:55.Under Vladimir Putin, Berezovsky lost influence and fled the country.
:05:55. > :06:03.He felt Ambramovich's final pay off of over $1 billion was not enough,
:06:03. > :06:10.so he turned to the British courts asking for more.
:06:10. > :06:16.US presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has made perhaps the most important
:06:16. > :06:21.spaech of his career, a key note speech in Florida. He promised to
:06:21. > :06:25.cut Government spending while creating more jobs.
:06:25. > :06:28.Steve Kingston has more. Show time for a businessman turned politician
:06:28. > :06:36.promising to turn this country around.
:06:36. > :06:37.With millions watching Mitt Romney at home, he gave the speech of his
:06:37. > :06:43.life. Many Americans have given up on this President, but they have
:06:43. > :06:47.never thought about giving up. Not on themselves, not on each other
:06:47. > :06:50.and not on America. What is needed in our country today is not
:06:50. > :06:54.complicated or profound. It doesn't take a special Government
:06:54. > :06:59.commission to tell us what America needs. What America needs is jobs,
:06:59. > :07:04.lots of jobs. As ever, he looked the part. But this was really about
:07:04. > :07:08.a challenge of finding his voice, articulating why he believes
:07:08. > :07:18.America needs a change of direction. I wish President Obama succeeded
:07:18. > :07:21.because I want America to succeed. But his promise gave way to
:07:22. > :07:27.disappointment and division. Now there is a moment when we can stand
:07:27. > :07:30.up and say, I'm an American, we deserve better, my family and
:07:30. > :07:35.children deserves better, my country deserves better. At times
:07:35. > :07:41.it got deeply personal, as this normally reserved man opened up
:07:41. > :07:45.about faith and family. Every day, dad gave mum a rose
:07:45. > :07:50.which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what
:07:50. > :07:56.happened on the day my father died. She went looking for him because
:07:56. > :08:01.that morning there was no rose. My mom and dad were true partners.
:08:01. > :08:05.Then the closing arguments, that Barack Obama's bowed to America's
:08:05. > :08:15.foes, added trillions to the debt, failed the middle class.
:08:15. > :08:18.My promise is to help you and your family. That future is our destiny.
:08:18. > :08:22.That future is out there. It is waiting for us. Our children
:08:22. > :08:28.deserve it. Our nation depends on it. The peace and freedom of the
:08:28. > :08:33.world require it and with your help, we will deliver it. Let us begin
:08:33. > :08:39.that future for America tonight. rousing reception for a man who
:08:39. > :08:44.remember took a long time to seal this nomination, Conservatives were
:08:44. > :08:48.wary of Mitt Romney, but what we see is a party coming together here,
:08:48. > :08:52.energised and believing it could win.
:08:52. > :08:57.Jamie joins me now with the day's business news. The big story of the
:08:57. > :09:00.day is the problems being caused by the Lufthansa cabin crew strike?
:09:00. > :09:05.It's affecting a lot of people around the world trying to get on
:09:05. > :09:10.to flights because more than 150 have been cancelled at Germany's
:09:10. > :09:16.busiest airport, Frankfurt. It's following this strike by cabin crew.
:09:16. > :09:21.The union is asking for a 5% pay rise after three years of no pay
:09:21. > :09:26.rises at all. The company is offering 3.5%. Klaus Walther says
:09:26. > :09:32.the company's offer is a fair one. We think we have a valid offer on
:09:32. > :09:38.the bargaining table. We have offered 3.5%, as you announced. We
:09:38. > :09:45.have offered a guarantee that there will be no firing during the next
:09:45. > :09:50.tariff contract and that there also will be no foreign personnel
:09:50. > :09:56.introduced into our cabin staff. So we know our flight attendants are
:09:56. > :10:00.one of the best worldwide and they get better played as comparable
:10:00. > :10:05.attendants in Europe elsewhere. We offered them an increase of their
:10:05. > :10:12.payment after three years of zero, but we do not understand that they
:10:12. > :10:16.go on strike and that the customers are affected by that.
:10:16. > :10:21.Klaus Walther of Lufthansa. It's been a sluggish quarter for India's
:10:22. > :10:25.economy. It grew at a a rate of 5.5% in the April to June quarter,
:10:25. > :10:29.a little better than economists expected but well down on last
:10:29. > :10:32.year's growth rate. It's not the double digit growth that policy-
:10:32. > :10:37.makers say is needed to create sufficient jobs for the millions of
:10:37. > :10:42.young workers who're entering the labour force on a daily basis.
:10:42. > :10:47.BBC's Suzy Lamplugh is at our Mumbai bureau. What's gone wrong
:10:47. > :10:51.with the Indian economy -- Yogita Limaye? The numbers are slightly
:10:51. > :10:54.better than what most expected, but does that mean that manufacturing,
:10:54. > :10:58.that's been one of the main problems for India's economy, is
:10:58. > :11:04.turning a corner and getting back on the high growth path. If you
:11:05. > :11:08.look at the figures released today, you can see that although there's a
:11:08. > :11:13.marginal improvement, it still remains to be stalling. This sector
:11:13. > :11:16.is facing problems like rising costs of import materials, higher
:11:16. > :11:19.wages of labour and overall, there's a policy of uncertainty
:11:19. > :11:24.from the Government side that's rendering the companies incapable
:11:24. > :11:29.of planning to the long-term, of planning for the future. Even as we
:11:29. > :11:32.look at the data released today, we need to be cautious. Recently, the
:11:32. > :11:35.Government revised growth figures from two years ago, so there are
:11:35. > :11:39.now even questions being raised about how reliable or accurately
:11:39. > :11:44.these numbers reflect the state of India's economy.
:11:44. > :11:47.What about lowering interest rates? Would that help growth or are we
:11:47. > :11:50.stuck with the problem of inflation on the other side of the equation?
:11:50. > :11:54.That's rite. There's been a lot of pressure on the Central Bank of
:11:54. > :11:57.India to cut lending rates because many say this would stimulate
:11:57. > :12:02.growth. Of course, the Central Bank has said it's not just cutting
:12:02. > :12:06.interest rates or lending rates that will help, there need to be
:12:06. > :12:10.policy changes. To give you an example of what's happened in India
:12:10. > :12:13.is that the Government has been trying to bring in direct foreign
:12:13. > :12:16.investment in retail and aviation, for example. As far as retail was
:12:16. > :12:21.concerned, they brought in the policy and then had to backtrack.
:12:21. > :12:25.So they've not been able to build a political consensus at the central
:12:25. > :12:29.level and that's been one of the main impediments to the growth of
:12:29. > :12:34.India's economy. Yogita, thank you very much.
:12:34. > :12:38.Elsewhere in business, there was a sharp slide in activity at Japanese
:12:38. > :12:42.factories in July. Industrial production fell 1.2% from June
:12:42. > :12:48.there. Japanese firms are suffering from a global slowdown in demand
:12:48. > :12:54.and the effects of a strong yen which makes it harder for them to
:12:54. > :13:00.compete overseas. Unemployment in the euro remain at a record high
:13:00. > :13:04.11.3%. Figures for July show rates did not budge from June. Official
:13:04. > :13:13.figures from Italy showed that its rate was little changed from 10% in
:13:13. > :13:20.July. Profits have jumped at Danish toy maker Lego. It made almost $340
:13:20. > :13:24.million dollars. It's sold twice as many sets of Lego aimed at girls as
:13:24. > :13:28.expected. Whatever next! Lego for girls. I can hardly believe it.
:13:28. > :13:32.The thought of it, that's wrong! Let's turn attention to a
:13:32. > :13:37.developing story in south irn Spain where huge wildfires have forced
:13:37. > :13:41.thousands to flee their homes. Throughout the night, flames burnt
:13:41. > :13:45.out of control across an area in the Costa del Sol region. Driven by
:13:45. > :13:48.strong winds, the flames are said to be advancing rapidly. Hundreds
:13:48. > :13:54.of firefighters and a dozen aircraft are battling the blaze
:13:54. > :13:59.near the tourist resort Marbella. Let's get more on this now. Joining
:13:59. > :14:04.me from Madrid is the BBC's Tom Burridge. Goes without saying that
:14:04. > :14:06.the area affected is important to Spain's economy and important to
:14:06. > :14:10.holiday-makers? It is. I think it's important to
:14:10. > :14:15.say though that these fires, although they've affected a large
:14:15. > :14:20.area and they are near an important tourist area, they haven't affected
:14:20. > :14:26.that coastline, the Costa del Sol, which is so popular for many
:14:26. > :14:30.tourists across Europe. It's inland from there, an area of around 1,000
:14:30. > :14:36.hectares, that 5,000 people at least have been evacuated from
:14:36. > :14:40.their homes, many of them ending up in local sports centres, other now
:14:40. > :14:44.evacuation centres. As you say, the fire spread very quickly, starting
:14:44. > :14:48.late last night. This morning, it's still not under control. The
:14:48. > :14:53.Spanish authorities though will be hoping that the fact that the wind
:14:53. > :14:56.has dropped, so the weather conditions are better for the
:14:56. > :15:02.firefighters, they can begin to at least stabilise the forest fire.
:15:02. > :15:10.It's been a bad summer for Spain and forest fires, hasn't it?
:15:10. > :15:15.It has. People might have seen the forest fires in the canary Islands,
:15:15. > :15:21.lots of people evacuated from there. It was one of the driest winters in
:15:21. > :15:25.Spain in decades and that's why the fire season here in Spain's been
:15:25. > :15:29.particularly bad. Huge forest fires are nothing new. They're quite
:15:29. > :15:33.common up in the north-east in Catalonia and down in the south
:15:33. > :15:37.because it's just so dry. Because it was a particularly dry winter,
:15:37. > :15:43.the forest fire season, if you like, has been particularly bad and
:15:43. > :15:47.firefighters in this case, in this very southern region near the city
:15:47. > :15:57.of Malaga and Marbella still don't have this one under control.
:15:57. > :15:58.
:15:58. > :16:05.well resourced and prepared are The country is used to fighting the
:16:05. > :16:09.such -- type of fires. We have seen images on television of planes and
:16:09. > :16:13.helicopters going in to fight the fires. They have all the equipment
:16:13. > :16:18.necessary but because the conditions have been so dry and
:16:18. > :16:22.because if you have the high wind with that, these fires can be
:16:23. > :16:27.spread very quickly indeed. The authorities are not ruling out that
:16:27. > :16:30.this fire could have been started deliberately but it is the early
:16:30. > :16:37.stages and they are investigating the cause of this type of fire.
:16:37. > :16:41.Thank you.'s you are watching BBC World News. Still to come:
:16:41. > :16:45.Continued coverage of the Paralympic Games in London, we will
:16:45. > :16:50.be speaking to Israel's strongest hope for a medal.
:16:50. > :16:53.More than 50 people have been rescued after a boat packed with
:16:53. > :16:58.migrants sank off the coast of India the easier on Wednesday. 150
:16:58. > :17:01.people were thought to have been on board. Duncan Kennedy reports from
:17:01. > :17:05.Sydney. When news came through of the
:17:05. > :17:10.latest losses at sea, the Prime Minister Julia Gillard was in the
:17:10. > :17:13.Cook Islands discussing asylum- seekers. It is a regional problem.
:17:13. > :17:17.Most of them want to come to Australia. The rescue operation
:17:17. > :17:23.could not find them at first. When they were discovered, it was too
:17:23. > :17:27.late for most. Australia's home affairs minister said finding these
:17:27. > :17:32.vessels is extremely hard. It is very hard to find people who are in
:17:32. > :17:36.distress on a little wooden boat anywhere between Christmas Island
:17:36. > :17:41.and the coast of Indonesia. Indonesian say they want to stop
:17:41. > :17:45.the boat but once they reach open waters, they do not have the
:17:45. > :17:50.resources to do so. TRANSLATION: Whether we like it or not, whether
:17:50. > :17:55.we are ready or not, our capabilities are limited. We cannot
:17:55. > :18:00.conduct extensive searches because our capability is just as it is.
:18:00. > :18:02.300 asylum-seekers have drowned in the past three months trying to
:18:02. > :18:07.reach Australian soil before the government here changes its
:18:07. > :18:11.immigration policy. A policy the government hopes will beat the
:18:11. > :18:16.people smugglers. From next month, instead of using Christmas Island
:18:16. > :18:20.to the north-west, they will move to another island in the North East.
:18:20. > :18:23.The government does not apologise. It wants to make life difficult to
:18:23. > :18:28.deter the boats. But the government's opponents think
:18:28. > :18:34.Ireland swapping is not enough. my messages fit Julia Gillard needs
:18:34. > :18:43.to do more. Do you need to put in place the full sweep of the Howard
:18:43. > :18:53.government measures. If you want to get the boat stopped. Many people
:18:53. > :18:55.
:18:55. > :18:59.think it is inhumane to send people to faraway islands.
:18:59. > :19:04.Mexico's highest electoral court has confirmed the victory of
:19:04. > :19:08.Enrique Pena Nieto in July's presidential election. His main
:19:08. > :19:12.opponent, Anders Lopez Obrador, accused him of buying votes and
:19:13. > :19:19.breaking rules on campaign spending. But the judges ruled that there was
:19:19. > :19:24.no convincing evidence and said the result should stand.
:19:24. > :19:27.Can you are with BBC World News. A reminder of our headlines: The
:19:28. > :19:31.Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky has lost his court battle in London
:19:31. > :19:35.with the billionaire owner of Chelsea Football Club, Roman
:19:35. > :19:38.Abramovich. Mitt Romney set out his vision for
:19:38. > :19:42.the United States as he accepts the Republican Party presidential
:19:42. > :19:45.nomination. A Chinese dissident who was
:19:45. > :19:49.convicted of subversion with the help of evidence from the internet
:19:49. > :19:54.firm Yahoo has been released from jail. Wang Xiaoning was released
:19:54. > :20:01.early on Friday morning after spending ten years behind bars in
:20:01. > :20:06.Beijing. Yahoo drew widespread criticism for linking him with
:20:06. > :20:11.writing. The company later apologised. Martin Patience
:20:11. > :20:16.explained the significance it had on the internet company.
:20:16. > :20:19.It was a public relations disaster for the company back in 2002. This
:20:19. > :20:26.dissident went on trial and 2003 and he has just got out earlier
:20:26. > :20:31.this morning. We spoke to Wang Xiaoning's wife. She told us he was
:20:31. > :20:35.in good health and fine spirits but she said in regard to his release
:20:35. > :20:41.that he was not allowed to give media interviews. Four we are here,
:20:41. > :20:46.they did apologise. They did pay compensation to the family.
:20:46. > :20:51.According to executives from Yahoo, when a testified before the US
:20:51. > :20:56.Congress on this issue, they said that they needed to handover or
:20:56. > :21:01.evidence in regard to Chinese laws. This case, and there was another
:21:01. > :21:08.case concerning Yahoo when something similar happened, drew a
:21:08. > :21:11.huge amount of criticism and raised all sorts of questions as to where
:21:11. > :21:16.they internet companies should co- operate, some would say collaborate,
:21:16. > :21:20.with regimes or governments which suppress freedom of expression.
:21:20. > :21:25.it likely we will hear anything about his experiences while in jail
:21:25. > :21:30.for ten years? We spoke to his wife. She would not comment on his ten
:21:30. > :21:35.years in prison. As I said before, he is not being allowed to give
:21:35. > :21:39.media interviews. This is traditionally what happens. The
:21:39. > :21:43.Chinese authorities have let him out of prison but they do not want
:21:43. > :21:47.publicity surrounding this case. The reason for that is they do not
:21:47. > :21:52.like the idea is this man expressed. This man, using his Yahoo e-mail
:21:52. > :21:59.account, are distributed essays calling for democracy in China and
:21:59. > :22:05.an end to Communist Party rule in the country or one-party rule.
:22:05. > :22:09.A five-year inquiry into the CIA's interrogation into suspected
:22:09. > :22:14.militants has close to that charges. The review, following the line 11
:22:14. > :22:19.attacks, looked at how the agency treated 100 prisoners. It also
:22:19. > :22:23.included an investigation into two detainees in Afghanistan and Iraq.
:22:23. > :22:28.Julian Assange, founder of the website WikiLeaks says he expects
:22:28. > :22:34.to remain in Ecuador's embassy in London for another six to 12 months.
:22:34. > :22:38.Mr Assange lost his fight against extradition to Sweden was granted
:22:38. > :22:42.asylum by Ecuador earlier this month. He said the most likely
:22:42. > :22:47.scenario is Swedish prosecutors will drop the case against him.
:22:47. > :22:51.Global food prices went up by 10 % in July. The World Bank said a US
:22:51. > :22:57.heat wave and drought in parts of eastern Europe were partly to blame
:22:57. > :23:00.for the rising costs. The price of key staples like corn, wheat and
:23:00. > :23:03.soybean saw the most dramatic increases.
:23:04. > :23:08.De Angola now where voting has begun in the country's general
:23:08. > :23:11.election. It is only the second general election since the end of
:23:11. > :23:16.their 20 seven-year civil war. The biggest opposition party, you need
:23:16. > :23:21.to, has called for the poll to be delayed, saying authorities have
:23:21. > :23:26.done nothing to address concerns about the voters' roll and possible
:23:26. > :23:29.rigging. Our reporter said there have been problems with people
:23:29. > :23:33.trying to vote. People thought they were registered
:23:33. > :23:37.to vote at places near their home. When they got there they were told
:23:37. > :23:41.they were not on the list. It will be hard for them to find out where
:23:41. > :23:45.to vote so they may not bother. There are also issues in the rural
:23:45. > :23:49.provinces where people have been told to vote several hundred
:23:49. > :23:53.kilometres from where they live so they will not be able to. Those are
:23:53. > :23:58.the issues. There are also concerns about the party delegates who were
:23:58. > :24:02.here to observe the process. Many of them could not get accredited.
:24:02. > :24:07.Angola has become a big player on the African continent, they will be
:24:08. > :24:12.keen to show they can run their own political affairs? Absolutely.
:24:12. > :24:17.Angola has a very high expectation of itself. He wants to be a big
:24:18. > :24:21.player. It is the Continent's third largest economy. The 2008 election
:24:21. > :24:27.was successful because it did not end in any violence, although many
:24:27. > :24:30.feared that it would because in 1992, contested election led to a
:24:30. > :24:34.phase of civil war. This time around there is more pressure
:24:34. > :24:37.because they have done it before. The opposition said the government
:24:37. > :24:44.is trying to rig the vote. Electoral commission is denying
:24:44. > :24:49.that. It is hard to know what will happen at the end of the day.
:24:49. > :24:53.Israel failed to win a medal at the London Olympics so the country is
:24:53. > :24:57.hoping the paralympians will return with more to show for their efforts.
:24:57. > :25:01.The rower Moran Samuel has had a victory already this year, winning
:25:01. > :25:04.the Gavirate Adaptive Regatta in Italy. Jon Donnison reports on one
:25:04. > :25:09.of the strongest hopes for the Games.
:25:09. > :25:15.Moran Samuel find the light in the darkest of places. Training here in
:25:15. > :25:21.Tel Aviv, the single sculler is approaching London as she has every
:25:21. > :25:25.challenge in her life, with nothing but a quiet determination. Six
:25:25. > :25:31.years ago, she was a promising young basketball player and coach,
:25:31. > :25:36.but her life changed unimaginably one morning in 2006. Shortly after
:25:36. > :25:41.waking up, she suffered a spinal stroke. Within two hours she was
:25:41. > :25:46.paralysed. She has not walked since. But from the start, she was
:25:46. > :25:50.reaching for the positives. I felt that I could go through it. I felt
:25:50. > :25:55.that I have some calling him the world. It does not matter how I
:25:55. > :25:59.will accomplished my girls, but I will do it, whether it is in a
:26:00. > :26:05.wheelchair or on crutches. -- accomplished in my goals. The 35-
:26:06. > :26:10.year-old is among a team representing Israel. For Moran,
:26:10. > :26:16.sport has not just been a distraction for her disability, it
:26:16. > :26:21.has enabled her to overcome it. am rowing, playing basketball, I am
:26:21. > :26:28.strong, in good fit Les, more than the average person. I think it gave
:26:28. > :26:33.me the opportunity to make peace with my body again. A Israel's
:26:33. > :26:39.Olympic team had a dismal games this year. For the first time since
:26:39. > :26:43.1988, the country came away with no medals at all. Israel has a much
:26:43. > :26:52.better record at the Paralympics. If Moran Samuel has anything to do