03/09/2012 BBC World News

The new UN envoy to Syria tells the BBC the international community is

doing little to stop Syrians from dying. We know how difficult it is.

How nearly impossible. I can't say impossible, nearly impossible.

At least three people die and five are wounded in a car bombing in

Pakistan. A row breaks out between Oscar

Pistorius and the man who beat him in the 200 meter final.

Welcome to BBC World News. More worries over China's economy.

Factories are slowing down as orders from Europe tail off.

And from youth rebellion to mainstream export, can Japanese

With many more people reported being killed in Syria following

airstrikes in Aleppo, the new international envoy says he is

pessimistic about the task he is facing. He says his mission is

nearly impossible. In the latest, it is an uncon dpirmd report, a

warplane killed as many as 25 people. This in a single strike in

a town outside Aleppo. Speaking to the BBC's Lyse Doucet after taking

up his new job, Mr Brahimi admitted to being scared of the weight of

responsibility he is carrying. It is the toughest of jobs to make

peace in Syria, engulfed in what many call a civil war. Kofi Annan

tried for six months and then quit, calling it mission impossible.

When I sat counsel with his successor, he wasn't m much more

optimistic. I know how difficult it is. How

nearly impossible it is. In public, you told the UN Secretary-General

what you were honoured, but you were scared? Sure

What are you scared of? I am scared of the weight of the responsibility.

People are already saying, you know, people are dying. What are you

doing to help? And indeed, we are not doing much.

The veteran Algerian diplomat, has been one of the UN's most

experienced troubleshooters. He took on demanding assignments. But

as he starts what could be his toughest assignment, he says he

needs time to draw up his own plan. I have a few ideas, but I don't

have a plan yet. You see, I don't want to pretend that I have things

that do not exist. I wish it were possible by announcing the

appointment of somebody like me to stop the fighting, but it doesn't

work that way. Kofi Annan's parting advice was

that the president had to step down. Lakhdar Brahimi has refused to be

drawn on this this issue, but he is calling for fundamental change.

Change is indeSpencable. Change is unavoidable. It can not be cosmetic

and governments have got to accept it otherwise they will have

problems. You are being diplomatic? There

will be a new order, who the people will be in that new order, I don't

know. Change has to stap in New York too

where the UN Security Council remains divided over how to resolve

Syria's crisis. In the past, this mediator designed when he --

resigned when he didn't get the support he needed. He said if he

doesn't get it this time, he doesn't have a joob. His job is to

talk to as many people as possible and to do everything he can, but he

is lowering expectations of what he A car bomb exploded in Pakistan.

Police say the blast happened near the residential quarters of the US

Consulate. Let's talk to our correspondent.

has been hours since the blast, but there was confusion over who was

killed and injured, because we heard during the morning we heard

our political official say that two Americans were killed, but we have

had the American Embassy here say that no Americans were killed in

the attack, but it was an attack on an American interest on an US

consular car. What happened according to police was that

another car packed with explosives was driven into the side of this US

consular vehicle and it blew up and what we heard from police was that

three people had been killed, one person from inside the car, a

passer by and the suicide bomber. But that others were injured. Now

the American Embassy here has confirmed that two of its American

personnel have been injured and two Pakistani staff, but they deny that

any Americans were killed. There are many non-governmental

organisations and foreigners? is supposed to be a secure area,

but there have been attacks in this area in the past. The US Consulate

has been attacked in the past, in the spring of 2010, when there were

attacks almost daily. The US Consulate was attacked and two

guards were killed. The number of attacks has declined over the last

18 months, but there is just the sense that things are building up

again. The tension is building because there is lots of activity

in the tribal belt where militants have their stronghold and that's

In Islamabad, the bail hearing of a Christian girl, accused of

blasphemy has been adjourned until Friday. Representatives of 14-year-

old Rimsha Masih, who has learning difficulties, are seeking to have

her released after a Muslim cleric was detained on suspicion of

planting evidence. A BBC investigation found that the

British Government is failing to freeze its assets of Hosni Mubarek.

Publicly available documents showed property and companies linked to

the key figures of the former Egyptian leaders regime has been

unaffected by sanctions. The Ethiopian Government has

announced that the body of the late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi will be

housed in a special exhibition centre to celebrate his life. The

acting Prime Minister, Haile Mariam Dessalegn, said the centre would

display Mr Meles' life history from childhood to adulthood.

Aaron is here. He has got the business news and starting with

with with worries over China. China's manufacturing sector is

stalling. This is a survey of PMI, it comes out, or it is released by

HSBC. It indicated the weakest manufacturing activity since March

2009. That tallies with an official Government report which was

released over the weekend. There is no doubt China has been hit by the

slowdown in Europe which is its biggest overseas overseas market.

Martin Patience said the economy is being held back by the cautious

attitude of China's banks. One of the reasons we are not

seeing more lending in the economy is because the banks are wary about

making bad loans. China unveiled a stimulus package of half a trillion

dollars. The problem with what many bad loans were made and it led to

an increase in inflation. That is politically sensitive for the

authorities here. They are trying to fin the right path between

stimulating the economy, whilst not pushing up inflation. The broader

political context to all of this is that China is preparing for a once

in a decade leadership change and China's leaders will have a close

eye on the economy because they won't want that to overshadow the

leadership change which is set to get underway in the next couple of

months. One of the founders of the Pirate

Bay website has been arrested in Cambodia.

He was held in Phnom Penh. Pirate Bay is one of the world's biggest

file sharing websites. Let's get more. The only person I

can speak to is Rory. Remind us about the background.

Well, Pirate Bay has been going since 2003. It was set-up in Sweden.

It has a global audience and lots and lots of court actions against

it including in its native Sweden. That's what this case is about. The

music industry. By providing people with a directory of where they can

get stuff rather than hosting it, all controversial, but it was shut

down in Sweden. The founders were found guilty and ordered to pay big

fines and serve short Jill sentences, but -- jail sentences,

but it continues to live on. He did a runner and now he has been traced

to Cambodia. There is no extradition treaty so it is not

clear whether he will be coming back. It is part of a long and not

successful battle by the authorities in various countries to

stop the site from work. You talk about that briefly, I want

to talk about technology. The site, it is still operating. They have

been found guilty, but it is still operating? It has been shut down in

Sweden, but they have taken it to other places and they have

supporters and fans. In the UK, it has been blocked by a court order,

but people have provided alternative routes to the site so

this battle between piracy sites and the authorities continues.

OK, I have got you in the studio. It is a phenomenal week with a

handful of the giant makers of the hadn't sets and tablets. They are

launching new devices. September will be the month of the

smartphone and the tablet. Later this week, we have got got Nokia to

make an impression on the new smartphone world launching its

Windows 8 phone in New York. We have Google launching another phone.

Next week, we are expecting an Apple iPhone and more through the

month. Amazon with a new version of the Kindle. They are battling it

out. MP. Who are you keeping your eyes on? In the short-term, I am

interested to see whether Nokia can come up with something that will

save it from the down ward spiral. Rory, thank you.

Some of the other business stories making headlines.

The French Government stepped into support the mortgage lender Credit

Immobilier. The mortgage lender will stop providing new loans and

it is thought the company will be wound down.

Shares in Sharp fell more than 6%. Concerns continue about the

company's future. And the Procession was top of the

American box office over the weekend. It took almost $18 million.

The horror story tells the story of a young woman possessed by a demon.

Wow, OK, no demons on the market. The Asian markets are up. That's

followed by the European market. That's the Asian markets and let's

go back to the European markets. They are up. It is a funny thing.

The the fall in the manufacturing activity in China because that

means many of them think or believe or hope that Beijing will announce

some type of economic stimulus and Ben Bernanke's speech is keeping

hopes alive that more stimulus about continue. A row has broken

out at the Paralympics over the length of the blades used by Oscar

Pistorius and the other amputee athletes. Oscar Pistorius was

expected to win the sprint last night, but he bost he lost to Alan

Oliveira. Oscar Pistorius accused the Brazilian of using blades which

are longer than the rules allow. Oscar Pistorius has had to

apologise for the timing of his comments.

It has been one of the biggest upsets of the Paralympics. Oscar

Pistorius, widely tipped to win a hat trick of sprint titles came

came second. No hope of repeating his Beijing achievement. He reacted

angrily and claimed the winner, Alan Oliveira, was using blades

It is a far cry from two days ago when a scoring blunder in the

discus event saw her demoted from gold to silver. She says her anger

at losing that title helped her come out on top. It was another

successful day for the home nation, Great Britain. Aled Davies winning

one of the team's seven golds in his discus event. As day five gets

under way, Britain's Paralympics will hope to continue their winning

It is the men's finals in four archery categories. 16 medals are

up for grabs in the athletics, bewining the F11 men's putt shot.

With medals being decided in equestrian, power-lifting and table

tennis, day five promises to provide plenty more drama at the

D Can Japanese fashion cut it on Here in the UK, MPs are return from

their summer break. The Government is under pressure to do more to

kick-start the ailing economy, as tensions continue between the

Conservative Party on the one hand and their junior powers in the

coalition Government, the Liberal Democrats. It was an inconclusive

election result in 2010 which saw David Cameron and Nick Clegg thrown

together in a marriage of convenience. We're all... Come

back! Britain was not used to coalition Governments. Their

personal chemistry seemed to bode well. Two years on, and inevitably

the relationship has become more complicated, as the Government's

austerity package has continues to bite and Britain's economy

continues to flag. So the coalition partners have spepbtd the last few

weeks field -- spent the last few weeks fielding questions about

whether they will stick together until the next election in 2015.

am not a bookmaker, I am not a big betting man, but I would not bet

against it. We are committed to doing it. That is what we will do.

It is not just the economy which threatens to destabilise the

coalition. Inside each camp, the rank and file MPs are beginning to

get restless. Recently, dozens of Conservatives rebelled against the

Government in order to scupper Liberal Democrats plans to reform

the House of Lords. The episode illustrated the tricky dynamics of

the coalition. The relations between the two leaders of the two

parties in the coalition are actually very good. Cameron is on

the left of the Conservative Party. Clegg is on the right of the

Liberal Democrats, at the edges, so they come together quite nicely,

but it's the inlaws, the base voters of the Conservative Party,

the grass roots of the Liberal Democrats, they have very different

views. It's the difficulties which are causing tensions within the

coalition. This year opinion polls suggestion the Labour Party has

been maintaining a healthy lead over the others. Seen here in red,

Labour now has a ten-point advantage over the Conservatives.

And those opinion polls may indeed be the reason why the coalition

does actually hold together. After all, if either of the Governing

parties was to trigger an early general election, well they might

just face a beating from the voters. You are with BBC World News. These

are the top stories: The new UN Arab League envoy on Syria, Lakhdar

Brahimi, has given a deeply pessimistic view of the task ahead

of him. At least three people are killed, five are wounded in a car

bomb explosion in north-western Pakistan.

The former News International executive Rebekah Brooks has

appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London. She

faces three phone hacking charges, including allegedly intercepting

messages of douldouldoul. -- Milly Dowler. 270 miners were

charged after 34 of their colleagues were shot dead by police

at the Marikana mine. On Sunday, prosecutors provisionally dropped

murder charges against the miners following a public outcry.

The BBC's Nomsa Maseko has more. The 270 mine workers are not off

the hook just yet. Prosecutors say they provisionally withdraw the

charges pending the outcome of the judicial inquiry. We are going to

find out what happens in four months' time. What we have got is

we have three separate incidents surrounding the debacle that took

place in Marikana. We have mine workers who are on strike, because

they are complaining about conditions and want more wages. We

have now got a judicial inquiry that is looking into the

circumstances surrounding the deaths of 44 people. We have these

men now being released from detention. We also have an internal

police probe into the deaths which took place and the internal police

probe spokesperson says that more than 200 statements from witnesses

have already been taken and ballistic evidence has been

collected. We're not going to find out, you know, in terms of the

findings, just yet what will happen. More than 100 or so of these

mineworkers are expected to be released after a brief court

appearance today. What has happened to the original calls for this

incident, and that is of course the industrial dispute between the

miners and Lonmin. What are Lonmin saying? At this stage, Lonmin is

saying that it is urging its workers to go back to work, because

it is now entering the fourth week without production. It is hoping

that labour unions and workers will be able to sign a peace accord

today, so that work starts tomorrow. It is highly unlikely that will

happen, because mine workers are still adamant. They are saying they

will not go back to work until better salaries... Until they get

better salaries and their working conditions are improved.

founder and head of the Unification Church, Sun Myung Moon, whose

followers were often referred to as "Moonies" has died. He was 92. The

Unification Church became a global movement and is perhaps best known

for holding mass weddings involving thousands of couples.

Here at the main Unification Church in Seoul, followers have been

trickling in to pay their respects. The reaction to his death here has

been fairly muted. His profile has declined since the 1970s and '80s

when his mass weddings and publicity drives brought him

followers, but also fierce criticism. In his 92 years,

Reverend Moon was accused of brainwashing and fleezing

supporters and also of being a a South Korean spy. He was jailed in

the United States for tax evasion. Alongside his religious following,

Reverend Moon built up a network of interests, with hotels in America

and North Korea and newspapers in several countries. That legacy will

now be managed by his wife and 11 surviving children, many of whom

already have key roles within the Church. The question is whether the

death of its controversial leader will lead to more appeal or less.

If you think of Japan, you think about the export of cars and

electronics. You don't think about the fashion, but the latest

Government offering is a lot more colourful and it is based upon

youth fashion. It is already popular in some parts of Asia and

some parts of Europe. Now they want to double their exports by 2020.

We report now from Tokyo. Welcome to Japan's fashion capital,

where young Japanese express themselves through the way they

look. They want to stand out in a country where everyone has black

hair and dark eyes. The dress code is conservative. It may have

started as youth rebellion, but now this is seen by the Government as

exportable commodities. The Japanese pronounce of the word

girl, gyaru. Their massive heels and dyed hair were often frowned

upon. Then it was noticed. They wanted to keep one the latest

fashions, so they would save up and spebd all their money on clothes --

spend all their money on clothes and shoes. When other department

stores have been falling with revenues, now it's not just young

teens, but mothers come to shop with their children. Those young

mothers are called gyaru-mama. The original gyaru who have now grown

up. They are still dressing this way and spending T fashion industry

realise it may not be just a youth fad. It has been around for two

decades. The Government wants to export it

as part of the culture. Gyaru and gyaru-mama even have their own

dedicated magazines. TRANSLATION: Even some of our

biggest clients think gyaru's ability to think out of the box is

useful. We've had a number of products which we sold out of

mediately. These gyaru mothers and their fashion could soon be setting

trends around the world. The Government hopes cultural exports

could add more than $50 billion to the income of the country. To

fashion of another - these are the outfits warn by Margaret Thatcher,

Britain's first female Prime Minister. Obviously they are no

longer fashionable, shall we say! We are talking about the '70s. They

are up for sale F you are interested, you have to go to

Christie's, where they are being auctioned off. There are dresses,

skirts, pearls she wore an awful lot of as well. That is Mr