:00:10. > :00:18.The new UN envoy to Syria tells the BBC the international community is
:00:18. > :00:23.doing little to stop Syrians from dying. We know how difficult it is.
:00:23. > :00:30.How nearly impossible. I can't say impossible, nearly impossible.
:00:30. > :00:31.At least three people die and five are wounded in a car bombing in
:00:31. > :00:37.Pakistan. A row breaks out between Oscar
:00:37. > :00:42.Pistorius and the man who beat him in the 200 meter final.
:00:42. > :00:47.Welcome to BBC World News. More worries over China's economy.
:00:48. > :00:51.Factories are slowing down as orders from Europe tail off.
:00:51. > :01:01.And from youth rebellion to mainstream export, can Japanese
:01:01. > :01:14.
:01:14. > :01:20.With many more people reported being killed in Syria following
:01:20. > :01:23.airstrikes in Aleppo, the new international envoy says he is
:01:23. > :01:33.pessimistic about the task he is facing. He says his mission is
:01:33. > :01:38.nearly impossible. In the latest, it is an uncon dpirmd report, a
:01:38. > :01:48.warplane killed as many as 25 people. This in a single strike in
:01:48. > :01:54.
:01:54. > :01:58.a town outside Aleppo. Speaking to the BBC's Lyse Doucet after taking
:01:58. > :02:00.up his new job, Mr Brahimi admitted to being scared of the weight of
:02:00. > :02:03.responsibility he is carrying. It is the toughest of jobs to make
:02:03. > :02:10.peace in Syria, engulfed in what many call a civil war. Kofi Annan
:02:10. > :02:17.tried for six months and then quit, calling it mission impossible.
:02:17. > :02:21.When I sat counsel with his successor, he wasn't m much more
:02:21. > :02:25.optimistic. I know how difficult it is. How
:02:25. > :02:30.nearly impossible it is. In public, you told the UN Secretary-General
:02:30. > :02:36.what you were honoured, but you were scared? Sure
:02:36. > :02:43.What are you scared of? I am scared of the weight of the responsibility.
:02:44. > :02:50.People are already saying, you know, people are dying. What are you
:02:50. > :02:55.doing to help? And indeed, we are not doing much.
:02:55. > :03:00.The veteran Algerian diplomat, has been one of the UN's most
:03:00. > :03:04.experienced troubleshooters. He took on demanding assignments. But
:03:04. > :03:10.as he starts what could be his toughest assignment, he says he
:03:10. > :03:17.needs time to draw up his own plan. I have a few ideas, but I don't
:03:17. > :03:25.have a plan yet. You see, I don't want to pretend that I have things
:03:25. > :03:28.that do not exist. I wish it were possible by announcing the
:03:28. > :03:33.appointment of somebody like me to stop the fighting, but it doesn't
:03:33. > :03:40.work that way. Kofi Annan's parting advice was
:03:40. > :03:47.that the president had to step down. Lakhdar Brahimi has refused to be
:03:47. > :03:53.drawn on this this issue, but he is calling for fundamental change.
:03:53. > :03:57.Change is indeSpencable. Change is unavoidable. It can not be cosmetic
:03:57. > :04:01.and governments have got to accept it otherwise they will have
:04:01. > :04:05.problems. You are being diplomatic? There
:04:05. > :04:09.will be a new order, who the people will be in that new order, I don't
:04:09. > :04:15.know. Change has to stap in New York too
:04:15. > :04:21.where the UN Security Council remains divided over how to resolve
:04:21. > :04:24.Syria's crisis. In the past, this mediator designed when he --
:04:24. > :04:28.resigned when he didn't get the support he needed. He said if he
:04:28. > :04:32.doesn't get it this time, he doesn't have a joob. His job is to
:04:32. > :04:42.talk to as many people as possible and to do everything he can, but he
:04:42. > :04:43.
:04:43. > :04:50.is lowering expectations of what he A car bomb exploded in Pakistan.
:04:50. > :05:00.Police say the blast happened near the residential quarters of the US
:05:00. > :05:03.
:05:03. > :05:07.Consulate. Let's talk to our correspondent.
:05:07. > :05:14.has been hours since the blast, but there was confusion over who was
:05:14. > :05:18.killed and injured, because we heard during the morning we heard
:05:18. > :05:22.our political official say that two Americans were killed, but we have
:05:22. > :05:28.had the American Embassy here say that no Americans were killed in
:05:28. > :05:31.the attack, but it was an attack on an American interest on an US
:05:31. > :05:37.consular car. What happened according to police was that
:05:37. > :05:41.another car packed with explosives was driven into the side of this US
:05:41. > :05:44.consular vehicle and it blew up and what we heard from police was that
:05:44. > :05:49.three people had been killed, one person from inside the car, a
:05:49. > :05:53.passer by and the suicide bomber. But that others were injured. Now
:05:53. > :05:57.the American Embassy here has confirmed that two of its American
:05:57. > :06:05.personnel have been injured and two Pakistani staff, but they deny that
:06:05. > :06:14.any Americans were killed. There are many non-governmental
:06:14. > :06:19.organisations and foreigners? is supposed to be a secure area,
:06:19. > :06:25.but there have been attacks in this area in the past. The US Consulate
:06:25. > :06:30.has been attacked in the past, in the spring of 2010, when there were
:06:31. > :06:35.attacks almost daily. The US Consulate was attacked and two
:06:35. > :06:39.guards were killed. The number of attacks has declined over the last
:06:39. > :06:44.18 months, but there is just the sense that things are building up
:06:44. > :06:49.again. The tension is building because there is lots of activity
:06:49. > :06:59.in the tribal belt where militants have their stronghold and that's
:06:59. > :07:03.
:07:03. > :07:06.In Islamabad, the bail hearing of a Christian girl, accused of
:07:06. > :07:08.blasphemy has been adjourned until Friday. Representatives of 14-year-
:07:08. > :07:11.old Rimsha Masih, who has learning difficulties, are seeking to have
:07:11. > :07:16.her released after a Muslim cleric was detained on suspicion of
:07:16. > :07:23.planting evidence. A BBC investigation found that the
:07:23. > :07:26.British Government is failing to freeze its assets of Hosni Mubarek.
:07:26. > :07:33.Publicly available documents showed property and companies linked to
:07:33. > :07:38.the key figures of the former Egyptian leaders regime has been
:07:38. > :07:41.unaffected by sanctions. The Ethiopian Government has
:07:41. > :07:46.announced that the body of the late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi will be
:07:46. > :07:48.housed in a special exhibition centre to celebrate his life. The
:07:48. > :07:57.acting Prime Minister, Haile Mariam Dessalegn, said the centre would
:07:57. > :08:03.display Mr Meles' life history from childhood to adulthood.
:08:03. > :08:07.Aaron is here. He has got the business news and starting with
:08:07. > :08:15.with with worries over China. China's manufacturing sector is
:08:15. > :08:19.stalling. This is a survey of PMI, it comes out, or it is released by
:08:19. > :08:24.HSBC. It indicated the weakest manufacturing activity since March
:08:24. > :08:28.2009. That tallies with an official Government report which was
:08:28. > :08:36.released over the weekend. There is no doubt China has been hit by the
:08:36. > :08:41.slowdown in Europe which is its biggest overseas overseas market.
:08:41. > :08:44.Martin Patience said the economy is being held back by the cautious
:08:44. > :08:53.attitude of China's banks. One of the reasons we are not
:08:53. > :08:59.seeing more lending in the economy is because the banks are wary about
:08:59. > :09:04.making bad loans. China unveiled a stimulus package of half a trillion
:09:04. > :09:09.dollars. The problem with what many bad loans were made and it led to
:09:09. > :09:13.an increase in inflation. That is politically sensitive for the
:09:13. > :09:18.authorities here. They are trying to fin the right path between
:09:18. > :09:22.stimulating the economy, whilst not pushing up inflation. The broader
:09:22. > :09:27.political context to all of this is that China is preparing for a once
:09:27. > :09:32.in a decade leadership change and China's leaders will have a close
:09:32. > :09:36.eye on the economy because they won't want that to overshadow the
:09:36. > :09:42.leadership change which is set to get underway in the next couple of
:09:42. > :09:45.months. One of the founders of the Pirate
:09:45. > :09:55.Bay website has been arrested in Cambodia.
:09:55. > :09:58.
:09:58. > :10:03.He was held in Phnom Penh. Pirate Bay is one of the world's biggest
:10:04. > :10:13.file sharing websites. Let's get more. The only person I
:10:13. > :10:23.can speak to is Rory. Remind us about the background.
:10:23. > :10:27.Well, Pirate Bay has been going since 2003. It was set-up in Sweden.
:10:27. > :10:36.It has a global audience and lots and lots of court actions against
:10:36. > :10:41.it including in its native Sweden. That's what this case is about. The
:10:41. > :10:46.music industry. By providing people with a directory of where they can
:10:46. > :10:52.get stuff rather than hosting it, all controversial, but it was shut
:10:52. > :10:55.down in Sweden. The founders were found guilty and ordered to pay big
:10:55. > :11:01.fines and serve short Jill sentences, but -- jail sentences,
:11:01. > :11:06.but it continues to live on. He did a runner and now he has been traced
:11:06. > :11:10.to Cambodia. There is no extradition treaty so it is not
:11:10. > :11:13.clear whether he will be coming back. It is part of a long and not
:11:13. > :11:18.successful battle by the authorities in various countries to
:11:18. > :11:22.stop the site from work. You talk about that briefly, I want
:11:22. > :11:26.to talk about technology. The site, it is still operating. They have
:11:26. > :11:29.been found guilty, but it is still operating? It has been shut down in
:11:29. > :11:33.Sweden, but they have taken it to other places and they have
:11:33. > :11:38.supporters and fans. In the UK, it has been blocked by a court order,
:11:38. > :11:42.but people have provided alternative routes to the site so
:11:42. > :11:50.this battle between piracy sites and the authorities continues.
:11:50. > :11:53.OK, I have got you in the studio. It is a phenomenal week with a
:11:53. > :11:57.handful of the giant makers of the hadn't sets and tablets. They are
:11:57. > :12:04.launching new devices. September will be the month of the
:12:04. > :12:11.smartphone and the tablet. Later this week, we have got got Nokia to
:12:11. > :12:17.make an impression on the new smartphone world launching its
:12:17. > :12:21.Windows 8 phone in New York. We have Google launching another phone.
:12:22. > :12:27.Next week, we are expecting an Apple iPhone and more through the
:12:27. > :12:33.month. Amazon with a new version of the Kindle. They are battling it
:12:33. > :12:37.out. MP. Who are you keeping your eyes on? In the short-term, I am
:12:37. > :12:47.interested to see whether Nokia can come up with something that will
:12:47. > :12:47.
:12:47. > :12:50.save it from the down ward spiral. Rory, thank you.
:12:50. > :13:00.Some of the other business stories making headlines.
:13:00. > :13:01.
:13:01. > :13:05.The French Government stepped into support the mortgage lender Credit
:13:06. > :13:09.Immobilier. The mortgage lender will stop providing new loans and
:13:09. > :13:16.it is thought the company will be wound down.
:13:16. > :13:26.Shares in Sharp fell more than 6%. Concerns continue about the
:13:26. > :13:27.
:13:27. > :13:35.company's future. And the Procession was top of the
:13:35. > :13:39.American box office over the weekend. It took almost $18 million.
:13:39. > :13:45.The horror story tells the story of a young woman possessed by a demon.
:13:45. > :13:49.Wow, OK, no demons on the market. The Asian markets are up. That's
:13:49. > :13:53.followed by the European market. That's the Asian markets and let's
:13:53. > :13:56.go back to the European markets. They are up. It is a funny thing.
:13:56. > :14:01.The the fall in the manufacturing activity in China because that
:14:01. > :14:11.means many of them think or believe or hope that Beijing will announce
:14:11. > :14:16.
:14:16. > :14:19.some type of economic stimulus and Ben Bernanke's speech is keeping
:14:19. > :14:23.hopes alive that more stimulus about continue. A row has broken
:14:23. > :14:30.out at the Paralympics over the length of the blades used by Oscar
:14:30. > :14:36.Pistorius and the other amputee athletes. Oscar Pistorius was
:14:36. > :14:42.expected to win the sprint last night, but he bost he lost to Alan
:14:42. > :14:48.Oliveira. Oscar Pistorius accused the Brazilian of using blades which
:14:48. > :14:50.are longer than the rules allow. Oscar Pistorius has had to
:14:50. > :14:54.apologise for the timing of his comments.
:14:54. > :15:00.It has been one of the biggest upsets of the Paralympics. Oscar
:15:00. > :15:06.Pistorius, widely tipped to win a hat trick of sprint titles came
:15:06. > :15:10.came second. No hope of repeating his Beijing achievement. He reacted
:15:10. > :15:20.angrily and claimed the winner, Alan Oliveira, was using blades
:15:20. > :15:26.
:15:26. > :15:32.It is a far cry from two days ago when a scoring blunder in the
:15:32. > :15:36.discus event saw her demoted from gold to silver. She says her anger
:15:36. > :15:41.at losing that title helped her come out on top. It was another
:15:41. > :15:48.successful day for the home nation, Great Britain. Aled Davies winning
:15:48. > :15:54.one of the team's seven golds in his discus event. As day five gets
:15:54. > :16:04.under way, Britain's Paralympics will hope to continue their winning
:16:04. > :16:05.
:16:05. > :16:11.It is the men's finals in four archery categories. 16 medals are
:16:11. > :16:16.up for grabs in the athletics, bewining the F11 men's putt shot.
:16:16. > :16:20.With medals being decided in equestrian, power-lifting and table
:16:20. > :16:30.tennis, day five promises to provide plenty more drama at the
:16:30. > :16:39.
:16:40. > :16:44.D Can Japanese fashion cut it on Here in the UK, MPs are return from
:16:44. > :16:47.their summer break. The Government is under pressure to do more to
:16:47. > :16:53.kick-start the ailing economy, as tensions continue between the
:16:53. > :16:57.Conservative Party on the one hand and their junior powers in the
:16:57. > :17:01.coalition Government, the Liberal Democrats. It was an inconclusive
:17:01. > :17:07.election result in 2010 which saw David Cameron and Nick Clegg thrown
:17:07. > :17:11.together in a marriage of convenience. We're all... Come
:17:11. > :17:18.back! Britain was not used to coalition Governments. Their
:17:18. > :17:22.personal chemistry seemed to bode well. Two years on, and inevitably
:17:22. > :17:26.the relationship has become more complicated, as the Government's
:17:26. > :17:30.austerity package has continues to bite and Britain's economy
:17:30. > :17:35.continues to flag. So the coalition partners have spepbtd the last few
:17:35. > :17:40.weeks field -- spent the last few weeks fielding questions about
:17:40. > :17:45.whether they will stick together until the next election in 2015.
:17:45. > :17:49.am not a bookmaker, I am not a big betting man, but I would not bet
:17:49. > :17:53.against it. We are committed to doing it. That is what we will do.
:17:53. > :17:58.It is not just the economy which threatens to destabilise the
:17:58. > :18:03.coalition. Inside each camp, the rank and file MPs are beginning to
:18:03. > :18:06.get restless. Recently, dozens of Conservatives rebelled against the
:18:06. > :18:11.Government in order to scupper Liberal Democrats plans to reform
:18:11. > :18:16.the House of Lords. The episode illustrated the tricky dynamics of
:18:16. > :18:20.the coalition. The relations between the two leaders of the two
:18:20. > :18:24.parties in the coalition are actually very good. Cameron is on
:18:24. > :18:29.the left of the Conservative Party. Clegg is on the right of the
:18:29. > :18:32.Liberal Democrats, at the edges, so they come together quite nicely,
:18:32. > :18:40.but it's the inlaws, the base voters of the Conservative Party,
:18:40. > :18:43.the grass roots of the Liberal Democrats, they have very different
:18:43. > :18:46.views. It's the difficulties which are causing tensions within the
:18:46. > :18:50.coalition. This year opinion polls suggestion the Labour Party has
:18:50. > :18:54.been maintaining a healthy lead over the others. Seen here in red,
:18:54. > :18:59.Labour now has a ten-point advantage over the Conservatives.
:18:59. > :19:04.And those opinion polls may indeed be the reason why the coalition
:19:04. > :19:09.does actually hold together. After all, if either of the Governing
:19:09. > :19:18.parties was to trigger an early general election, well they might
:19:18. > :19:25.just face a beating from the voters. You are with BBC World News. These
:19:25. > :19:28.are the top stories: The new UN Arab League envoy on Syria, Lakhdar
:19:28. > :19:33.Brahimi, has given a deeply pessimistic view of the task ahead
:19:33. > :19:38.of him. At least three people are killed, five are wounded in a car
:19:38. > :19:41.bomb explosion in north-western Pakistan.
:19:41. > :19:43.The former News International executive Rebekah Brooks has
:19:43. > :19:51.appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London. She
:19:51. > :20:01.faces three phone hacking charges, including allegedly intercepting
:20:01. > :20:03.
:20:03. > :20:08.messages of douldouldoul. -- Milly Dowler. 270 miners were
:20:08. > :20:13.charged after 34 of their colleagues were shot dead by police
:20:13. > :20:18.at the Marikana mine. On Sunday, prosecutors provisionally dropped
:20:18. > :20:24.murder charges against the miners following a public outcry.
:20:24. > :20:28.The BBC's Nomsa Maseko has more. The 270 mine workers are not off
:20:28. > :20:34.the hook just yet. Prosecutors say they provisionally withdraw the
:20:34. > :20:38.charges pending the outcome of the judicial inquiry. We are going to
:20:38. > :20:43.find out what happens in four months' time. What we have got is
:20:43. > :20:48.we have three separate incidents surrounding the debacle that took
:20:48. > :20:52.place in Marikana. We have mine workers who are on strike, because
:20:52. > :20:56.they are complaining about conditions and want more wages. We
:20:56. > :21:00.have now got a judicial inquiry that is looking into the
:21:00. > :21:07.circumstances surrounding the deaths of 44 people. We have these
:21:07. > :21:12.men now being released from detention. We also have an internal
:21:12. > :21:17.police probe into the deaths which took place and the internal police
:21:17. > :21:20.probe spokesperson says that more than 200 statements from witnesses
:21:20. > :21:25.have already been taken and ballistic evidence has been
:21:25. > :21:30.collected. We're not going to find out, you know, in terms of the
:21:30. > :21:34.findings, just yet what will happen. More than 100 or so of these
:21:34. > :21:38.mineworkers are expected to be released after a brief court
:21:38. > :21:42.appearance today. What has happened to the original calls for this
:21:42. > :21:47.incident, and that is of course the industrial dispute between the
:21:47. > :21:51.miners and Lonmin. What are Lonmin saying? At this stage, Lonmin is
:21:51. > :21:56.saying that it is urging its workers to go back to work, because
:21:56. > :21:59.it is now entering the fourth week without production. It is hoping
:21:59. > :22:04.that labour unions and workers will be able to sign a peace accord
:22:04. > :22:08.today, so that work starts tomorrow. It is highly unlikely that will
:22:08. > :22:13.happen, because mine workers are still adamant. They are saying they
:22:13. > :22:17.will not go back to work until better salaries... Until they get
:22:17. > :22:21.better salaries and their working conditions are improved.
:22:21. > :22:27.founder and head of the Unification Church, Sun Myung Moon, whose
:22:27. > :22:31.followers were often referred to as "Moonies" has died. He was 92. The
:22:31. > :22:37.Unification Church became a global movement and is perhaps best known
:22:37. > :22:42.for holding mass weddings involving thousands of couples.
:22:42. > :22:46.Here at the main Unification Church in Seoul, followers have been
:22:46. > :22:53.trickling in to pay their respects. The reaction to his death here has
:22:53. > :22:59.been fairly muted. His profile has declined since the 1970s and '80s
:22:59. > :23:03.when his mass weddings and publicity drives brought him
:23:03. > :23:08.followers, but also fierce criticism. In his 92 years,
:23:08. > :23:15.Reverend Moon was accused of brainwashing and fleezing
:23:15. > :23:20.supporters and also of being a a South Korean spy. He was jailed in
:23:20. > :23:26.the United States for tax evasion. Alongside his religious following,
:23:26. > :23:29.Reverend Moon built up a network of interests, with hotels in America
:23:29. > :23:35.and North Korea and newspapers in several countries. That legacy will
:23:35. > :23:39.now be managed by his wife and 11 surviving children, many of whom
:23:39. > :23:46.already have key roles within the Church. The question is whether the
:23:46. > :23:51.death of its controversial leader will lead to more appeal or less.
:23:51. > :23:54.If you think of Japan, you think about the export of cars and
:23:54. > :23:59.electronics. You don't think about the fashion, but the latest
:23:59. > :24:03.Government offering is a lot more colourful and it is based upon
:24:03. > :24:09.youth fashion. It is already popular in some parts of Asia and
:24:09. > :24:15.some parts of Europe. Now they want to double their exports by 2020.
:24:15. > :24:17.We report now from Tokyo. Welcome to Japan's fashion capital,
:24:17. > :24:21.where young Japanese express themselves through the way they
:24:21. > :24:28.look. They want to stand out in a country where everyone has black
:24:28. > :24:33.hair and dark eyes. The dress code is conservative. It may have
:24:33. > :24:43.started as youth rebellion, but now this is seen by the Government as
:24:43. > :24:45.
:24:45. > :24:51.exportable commodities. The Japanese pronounce of the word
:24:51. > :24:55.girl, gyaru. Their massive heels and dyed hair were often frowned
:24:55. > :25:01.upon. Then it was noticed. They wanted to keep one the latest
:25:01. > :25:07.fashions, so they would save up and spebd all their money on clothes --
:25:07. > :25:11.spend all their money on clothes and shoes. When other department
:25:11. > :25:18.stores have been falling with revenues, now it's not just young
:25:18. > :25:23.teens, but mothers come to shop with their children. Those young
:25:23. > :25:28.mothers are called gyaru-mama. The original gyaru who have now grown
:25:28. > :25:33.up. They are still dressing this way and spending T fashion industry
:25:33. > :25:36.realise it may not be just a youth fad. It has been around for two
:25:36. > :25:41.decades. The Government wants to export it
:25:41. > :25:50.as part of the culture. Gyaru and gyaru-mama even have their own
:25:50. > :25:53.dedicated magazines. TRANSLATION: Even some of our
:25:53. > :25:59.biggest clients think gyaru's ability to think out of the box is
:25:59. > :26:04.useful. We've had a number of products which we sold out of
:26:04. > :26:11.mediately. These gyaru mothers and their fashion could soon be setting
:26:11. > :26:20.trends around the world. The Government hopes cultural exports
:26:20. > :26:26.could add more than $50 billion to the income of the country. To
:26:26. > :26:31.fashion of another - these are the outfits warn by Margaret Thatcher,
:26:31. > :26:36.Britain's first female Prime Minister. Obviously they are no
:26:36. > :26:40.longer fashionable, shall we say! We are talking about the '70s. They
:26:40. > :26:46.are up for sale F you are interested, you have to go to
:26:46. > :26:50.Christie's, where they are being auctioned off. There are dresses,
:26:50. > :26:54.skirts, pearls she wore an awful lot of as well. That is Mr