:00:10. > :00:12.French police investigate whether a family dispute about money led to
:00:12. > :00:16.four people being shot dead in the Alps.
:00:16. > :00:19.Give me more time to fix the economy - the plea to American
:00:20. > :00:24.voters from President Obama at the Democratic convention. Her the
:00:24. > :00:27.choice you face will not just be between two candidates or two
:00:27. > :00:30.parties, it will be a choice between two different paths for
:00:30. > :00:36.America, a choice between two fundamentally different visions for
:00:36. > :00:42.the future. Britain's Prince Harry is back in
:00:42. > :00:47.Afghanistan with the army. Welcome to BBC World News. Also in
:00:47. > :00:50.our programme: the battle between Amazon and Apple hots up.
:00:50. > :01:00.And could the shrinking of the polar ice lead to more storms over
:01:00. > :01:10.
:01:10. > :01:14.Police investigating the fatal shooting of a British family in the
:01:14. > :01:18.French Alps are looking into whether a family feud over money
:01:18. > :01:22.may have been behind the killings. A former Iraqi engineer was killed,
:01:22. > :01:27.together with his wife and mother- in-law. A French cyclist was also
:01:27. > :01:31.shot dead. It is possible that he may have been a passer-by. The
:01:31. > :01:37.couple's two young daughters survived. One was physically unhurt.
:01:37. > :01:41.The other, who is in hospital, is out of danger. Earlier, our
:01:41. > :01:44.correspondent spoke to the British ambassador to France. We are in the
:01:44. > :01:47.early stages of a major murder investigation, and it is inevitable
:01:47. > :01:52.that you have all sorts of information and theories
:01:52. > :01:57.circulating. It is the job of the prosecutors to follow each one. I
:01:57. > :02:01.am here to make sure the lines of communication are working between
:02:01. > :02:06.the British and French police. And every shred of information is being
:02:06. > :02:13.followed up. I will not comment on individual elements, because that
:02:13. > :02:17.will confuse things. But the corporation is excellent. Obviously,
:02:17. > :02:20.this is a huge murder investigation in south-eastern France. But I
:02:20. > :02:25.imagine there are substantial police inquiry is going on in the
:02:25. > :02:27.UK as well? Of course, and the whole resources of the police, as
:02:27. > :02:30.the Prime Minister said to President Hollande last night, are
:02:30. > :02:35.at the disposal of the French authorities. It is their
:02:35. > :02:40.investigation, but we support them. Your other role here is a consular
:02:40. > :02:44.one, helping British citizens in trouble when they are broad. There
:02:44. > :02:48.is a four-year-old girl and a seven-year-old girl in hospital,
:02:48. > :02:52.traumatised. What are you doing there? It is a heart-rending case.
:02:52. > :02:57.In addition to the terrible murder, we do have these two traumatised
:02:57. > :03:01.girls. The younger girl is not physically hurt, but deeply shocked.
:03:01. > :03:06.She has British consular staff with her, English-speaking, friendly
:03:06. > :03:12.faces to be with her alongside the French authorities. The older girl,
:03:12. > :03:16.who is still badly hurt, although stable, we will be with her as soon
:03:16. > :03:19.as it is medically feasible for us to be so, so that there is a
:03:19. > :03:23.friendly face around her before the family arrives.
:03:23. > :03:28.A president Obama has told American voters it will take more than a few
:03:28. > :03:31.years to solve the nation's economic problems. In his speech to
:03:31. > :03:35.the Democratic National Convention in North Carolina, he appealed for
:03:35. > :03:39.them to back him for a second term in office. Mr Obama said the US
:03:39. > :03:49.faces a choice between two fundamentally different visions of
:03:49. > :03:53.
:03:53. > :03:58.the future in November's election. Win or lose, this campaign is the
:03:58. > :04:01.last time Barack Obama will ask the American people for their trust.
:04:01. > :04:07.Democrats say that the moment, and he seemed impatient to address a
:04:07. > :04:14.troubled nation beyond the convention hall. Know this, America.
:04:14. > :04:18.Our problems can be solved. Our challenges can be met. The path we
:04:18. > :04:22.offer may be harder, bag and least -- it leads to a better place, and
:04:22. > :04:26.I am asking you to choose that future. Republicans framed this
:04:26. > :04:32.election as a referendum on the Obama economy, but he said voters
:04:32. > :04:35.faced a choice. On every issue, the choice you face will not just be
:04:35. > :04:41.between two candidates or two parties, it will be a choice
:04:41. > :04:45.between two different paths for America. RS is a fight to restore
:04:45. > :04:48.the values that built the largest middle-class in the strongest
:04:48. > :04:52.economy the world has ever known. By contrast, he said republicans
:04:53. > :04:56.were about little more than tax cuts for the rich, and he mocked
:04:56. > :04:59.Mitt Romney's inexperience on foreign policy. They want to take
:04:59. > :05:06.us back to an era of blustering and blundering that cost America so
:05:06. > :05:10.dearly. After all, he did call Russia our number-one enemy. Not
:05:10. > :05:15.Al-Qaeda, Russia, unless you are still stuck in a cold-war mindset.
:05:15. > :05:20.He rattled off goals for a second term - new manufacturing jobs, more
:05:20. > :05:26.science teachers, less imported oil. But it was a speech about direction
:05:26. > :05:30.more than detail, and it ended with a rallying point across. America, I
:05:30. > :05:36.never said this journey would be easy, and I will not promise that
:05:36. > :05:40.now. Yes, our parties harder, but it leads to a better place. We keep
:05:41. > :05:45.our eyes fixed on that distant horizon, knowing that Providence is
:05:45. > :05:51.with us and that we are surely blessed to be citizens of the
:05:51. > :05:58.greatest nation on earth. Thank you. A stirring performance by a man
:05:58. > :06:02.pleading for more time. Once again, Barack Obama showed he can turn on
:06:02. > :06:10.the style. But what really matters is what America far beyond this
:06:10. > :06:13.hall makes of the substance. Still in the US, officials at
:06:13. > :06:16.Yosemite National Park say thousands more people who stayed
:06:16. > :06:21.there during the summer may have been exposed to a potentially fatal
:06:21. > :06:24.virus. At least eight people have been infected with the virus, which
:06:24. > :06:29.can be picked up through mice droppings. Three of those have died.
:06:29. > :06:34.Health officials believe 22,000 visitors to the Californian Park
:06:34. > :06:40.could be at risk. Jamie Robertson is here now with
:06:40. > :06:43.the business. Amazon has unveiled larger versions
:06:43. > :06:49.of its Kindle Fire tablets, stepping up competition with Apple
:06:49. > :06:53.ahead of a holiday shopping season. The cheapest will sell for $159.
:06:53. > :06:57.Amazon said the first Kindle Fire had captured 22% of the US tablet
:06:57. > :07:02.market. But that was the only country it was sold in. The largest
:07:02. > :07:06.of the new models is pitched directly against Apple's iPad, the
:07:06. > :07:12.best-selling Ted Tablet on the market. I am joined now by Stuart
:07:12. > :07:18.Miles from media technology website pocketlint.com. Many think of the
:07:18. > :07:22.Kindle as just a simple reading device, but it is more than that?
:07:22. > :07:29.The Kindle is perfect for reading on the beach, because there is no
:07:29. > :07:35.backlit display. The Kindle Fire is a full-blown tablet which competes
:07:35. > :07:40.with Google's product and the Apple iPad. It does not just compete
:07:40. > :07:46.against Apple. What kind of criteria are dominated the
:07:46. > :07:51.competition? It is a fierce market. Apple rules the nest, but everybody
:07:51. > :07:56.wants a piece of the pie. You are seeing lots of smaller tablets,
:07:56. > :08:02.seven-inch devices like the Kindle Fire. There is also an 8.9 inch
:08:02. > :08:05.version. Doing it smaller means you can create a cheaper device. That
:08:05. > :08:15.is where they want to win out against Apple, which is more
:08:15. > :08:16.
:08:16. > :08:20.expensive. In recessionary times, price is the killer factor. Yes. If
:08:20. > :08:23.you want to give a device to a child, what a lot of people are
:08:23. > :08:28.doing, they are having their iPads nicked by their children to play
:08:28. > :08:33.games and stuff. If you hand over something worth $400, or we can get
:08:33. > :08:39.them there until $159, that is a compelling offer. What about the
:08:39. > :08:43.actual things it does? Are they comparable? They are. That is what
:08:43. > :08:47.is fascinating about the price difference. Because it is a smaller
:08:47. > :08:57.device with a smaller screen and smaller components, it doesn't cost
:08:57. > :08:57.
:08:57. > :09:06.as much. The screen takes a lot of the cash out of it. Amazon holds
:09:06. > :09:12.the rights to a lot of content. Amazon content will work on the
:09:12. > :09:16.iPhones. But once you have got a device in your hands, they can sell
:09:16. > :09:24.you books and get you into the store to buy things a lot easier.
:09:24. > :09:27.They will get their money elsewhere. It is an eleventh-hour attempt to
:09:27. > :09:31.salvage one of the biggest mergers in the corporate world which was on
:09:31. > :09:36.the brink of collapse and yesterday. Mining giant Glencore has just
:09:36. > :09:39.raised its offer for Xstrata hours before a crucial vote by the two
:09:39. > :09:43.company's' shareholders. Earlier this year Glencore and Xstrata
:09:43. > :09:47.agreed to form a single company in a deal worth $80 billion. But
:09:47. > :09:53.Xstrata shareholders, including Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, said
:09:53. > :09:57.the Glencore original offer was too low. But it has now increased its
:09:57. > :10:03.offer to 3.05 shares in the new company for every Xstrata share
:10:03. > :10:07.held. Alex Harrison is the editor of Metal Bulletin, and he thinks a
:10:07. > :10:12.tie-up of the two companies would make sense. It is not a cash offer,
:10:12. > :10:21.it is a share swap. You are talking about combining the two companies.
:10:21. > :10:26.A couple of weeks ago, when Glencore announced its results, its
:10:26. > :10:34.argument that its commodity trading in the market would protect it from
:10:34. > :10:39.a downturn appeared to be validated. So the deal does make sense. When
:10:39. > :10:44.Glencore listed last year, one of the reasons it listed was because
:10:44. > :10:51.it wants to get this deal done. It markets a lot of material for
:10:51. > :10:56.Xstrata and already owns a 34% stake in it. Whether the markets
:10:56. > :11:06.are rising or falling, the deal makes sense.
:11:06. > :11:06.
:11:06. > :11:48.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds
:11:48. > :11:53.You are watching BBC World News. Still to come, we will find out
:11:53. > :12:03.more about how Britain's Prince Harry is growing up and getting on
:12:03. > :12:06.to his next mission. A woman in the Indian state of West
:12:06. > :12:10.Bengal recently gave away her three daughters because she said she was
:12:10. > :12:14.unable to feed them. The girls were later rescued by the authorities
:12:14. > :12:23.and reunited with their mother. Trafficking is common in this area
:12:23. > :12:28.of India. Media reports suggest she saw the girls for as little as $3.
:12:28. > :12:32.A hot meal for this girl, and the mother who sold her and her two
:12:32. > :12:37.sisters for $3 and some bread. Only because they have been rescued and
:12:37. > :12:42.are now in a refuge has their story come to light. There are dozens of
:12:42. > :12:46.girls here, saved from human traffickers. Workers at the refuge
:12:46. > :12:52.suspect that the three sisters would have met the same fate. A
:12:52. > :12:57.woman took the eight-year-old and said she would send her to school.
:12:57. > :13:01.I miss my mum, she tells me. I tried to run away, but then they
:13:01. > :13:08.caught me. Of it is a story that starts with them being kicked out
:13:08. > :13:12.of their home by their father. TRANSLATION: He used to get drunk
:13:12. > :13:18.and beat me and the girls. One day he kicked me and my youngest
:13:18. > :13:22.daughter, and told us to go. They ended up living rough on this
:13:22. > :13:27.station. It was here that their mother was persuaded to sell them
:13:27. > :13:32.to people who promised to give the girls a better life. It shows how
:13:32. > :13:34.few options the mother thought she had that she says she gave away her
:13:35. > :13:39.daughter's here at the station for their safety, because she feared
:13:39. > :13:44.they would be abducted. She ended up handing them over to run even
:13:44. > :13:47.more uncertain fate, in an area where human trafficking is rife.
:13:47. > :13:52.More than 15,000 children have disappeared into the hands of
:13:52. > :13:57.traffickers here in West Bengal in the last year. Most of them were
:13:57. > :14:01.girls who were sold for forced marriages or prostitution.
:14:01. > :14:04.TRANSLATION: In India, when a girl is born, she is seen as a burden.
:14:04. > :14:08.Here, where there is so much poverty, they think they will not
:14:08. > :14:13.get any income from AA Gill and will just have to pay for her
:14:13. > :14:17.marriage. In their new home, the girls are getting lessons. But they
:14:17. > :14:22.are finding it hard to settle, still traumatised by their
:14:22. > :14:32.experiences. Then one of them walked out. She knows her mother
:14:32. > :14:38.
:14:38. > :14:43.still wants to give her daughters away.
:14:43. > :14:47.This is BBC World News. The headlines: a family rift is
:14:47. > :14:50.being investigated as a possible motive behind the murders of four
:14:50. > :14:53.people in the French Alps. A president Obama has made his bid
:14:53. > :15:01.for his second term in office, vowing to create new jobs, cut debt
:15:01. > :15:04.and put the US economy on a Prince Harry has arrived in
:15:04. > :15:08.Afghanistan at the start of a four- month deployment as an Apache
:15:08. > :15:12.commander. The Prince, known as Captain Wales in the army, is based
:15:12. > :15:16.at Camp Bastion in Helmand. He last served in Afghanistan in 2008, but
:15:16. > :15:24.his tour was cut short when news leaked that he was there.
:15:24. > :15:28.The BBC's defence correspondent joins me now from Kabul. Is the
:15:28. > :15:34.Prince, but the third in line to the throne, going back to frontline
:15:34. > :15:39.duties? It is frontline duties because he
:15:39. > :15:43.will be involved in combat operations. He has been trained for
:15:43. > :15:50.combat but it is a very different role from that that he fulfilled
:15:50. > :15:54.last time he was in Helmand in 2007. A very different situation. He was
:15:54. > :16:04.on the ground then. He was a forward air controller co-
:16:04. > :16:09.ordinating strikes. They also used blackouts. -- there was a news
:16:09. > :16:14.blackout. That blackout was broken and after that, the MoD decided to
:16:14. > :16:20.bring Prince Harry back much earlier, much to his frustration.
:16:20. > :16:26.This time they are telling us he arrived. It is a very different
:16:26. > :16:32.role. He will be flying the Apache helicopter. It is a sophisticated
:16:32. > :16:36.weapon with a lot of self-defence systems on board. It is essentially
:16:36. > :16:41.a flying tank. It is used to support ground troops. There is a
:16:41. > :16:46.risk but the MoD believes it is low, simply because the threat from
:16:47. > :16:53.ground to air weaponry in Helmand Province from the Taliban is less
:16:53. > :16:58.sophisticated than say, Libya, so there have been up no instances
:16:58. > :17:03.where British Apaches have been shot down in Afghanistan. They are
:17:03. > :17:09.more confident he will be in a safe environment. That said, no doubt
:17:09. > :17:14.about it, the fact that this news is out, there will be Taliban out
:17:14. > :17:17.there who will try to target British Apaches.
:17:17. > :17:24.Prince Harry has made no secret of the fact that he wanted to get back.
:17:24. > :17:31.Yes. He said he was not going to go through all the expensive training,
:17:31. > :17:34.millions of dollars it costs to train and Apache pilot, it is more
:17:34. > :17:39.than $60 million as a weapon system, and less he was given to be
:17:39. > :17:46.deployed with his unit. He went through the training in Arizona,
:17:46. > :17:53.California. He was voted the top gun by his own class. His job he
:17:53. > :17:56.will be the commander of the Apache. Two pilots on board. He will be in
:17:57. > :18:02.charge of the weapons system and will make the difficult judgments
:18:02. > :18:08.about when to use the weapons. But yes, he wanted to get back to
:18:08. > :18:16.Afghanistan. I think he wants to be known as captain Wales and to do a
:18:16. > :18:22.proper job. As I said, it is a very different situation to last time.
:18:22. > :18:25.He will see through this four months in Helmand in his operations,
:18:25. > :18:30.obviously not just supporting troops on the ground but in
:18:30. > :18:34.surveillance roles as well. It is an important role for the Prince
:18:34. > :18:36.and it is a risky one, but not as risky as last time.
:18:36. > :18:39.South Korea is hosting the World Conservation Congress this week
:18:39. > :18:43.against a backdrop of criticism for failing to observe the
:18:43. > :18:46.international ban on whaling. It plans to begin whaling for what it
:18:46. > :18:49.says are scientific purposes next year, but as Lucy Williamson
:18:49. > :18:59.reports from the southern town of Jangsengpo, there are some parts of
:18:59. > :19:03.South Korea where it seems the ban never existed.
:19:03. > :19:08.The old ways have a habit of clinging on in Jangsengpo. This
:19:08. > :19:14.sleepy town used to be the heart of Korea's whaling industry. These
:19:14. > :19:19.days, his activity and population has waned because of the
:19:19. > :19:24.international whaling ban. But the old culture lingers. At the. Along
:19:24. > :19:28.the harbour wall. And in the restaurants that line it. The
:19:28. > :19:34.streets are packed with whale meat restaurants and all of them have
:19:34. > :19:38.signs prominently displayed outside, advertising their wares. Commercial
:19:38. > :19:43.whaling is illegal in South Korea but there is still plenty of whale
:19:43. > :19:48.meat around. The restaurants have changed little since the industry's
:19:48. > :19:54.heyday. The meat is still boiled in large vats and hacked into lunch on
:19:54. > :19:59.the concrete kitchen floor. TRANSLATION: For many years, we
:19:59. > :20:03.used to catch them, so despite the ban, we can still get hold of them,
:20:03. > :20:08.whether they are being caught illegally or through accidental
:20:08. > :20:13.catches. Organisations like Greenpeace come and create a big
:20:13. > :20:19.scene but there is no reason for them to stop us. Wales are
:20:19. > :20:22.important to this community. South Korea wants to follow Japan's lead
:20:22. > :20:27.and allow scientific whaling as a way to assess whether to resume it
:20:27. > :20:31.commercially. At the moment, the only way to catch them at legally
:20:31. > :20:37.is by accident, when they are trapped in fishing nets, but
:20:37. > :20:47.Greenpeace say that 80 up to 100 large whales are call this way in
:20:47. > :20:48.
:20:48. > :20:54.Korea every year, more than 30% of the global total -- court this way.
:20:54. > :21:00.They have a strangely large number of by a-catch, which is very
:21:00. > :21:04.suspicious. Even Jangsengpo's coastguards will privately admit
:21:04. > :21:09.that some fishermen catch them for money. The ban has raised the
:21:09. > :21:14.market price so much that the Wales have now been nicknamed the Sea
:21:14. > :21:20.Lottery. Amid the controversy, many are focusing on the area's history,
:21:20. > :21:26.with their in new museum dedicated to the town's whaling culture, but
:21:26. > :21:29.in Jangsengpo itself, few people are ready to consign it to the past.
:21:29. > :21:32.A Christian girl arrested in Pakistan for defaming Islam has
:21:32. > :21:35.been granted bail. The 14-year-old was arrested in a poor Islamabad
:21:35. > :21:41.suburb three weeks ago, accused of burning papers containing verses
:21:42. > :21:45.from the Koran. And on Saturday police detained a Muslim cleric on
:21:45. > :21:55.suspicion of planting evidence to frame the girl.
:21:55. > :21:55.
:21:55. > :22:01.Our correspondent in Islamabad has more. A case that started three
:22:01. > :22:05.weeks ago when Rimsha, a Christian girl who lives in Islamabad, was
:22:05. > :22:10.accused by a neighbour of carrying these burnt pages of the Qur'an and
:22:10. > :22:15.blasphemy as an offence is taken very seriously in Pakistan. She was
:22:15. > :22:21.immediately jailed, even though at subsequent medical report showed
:22:21. > :22:28.that she was a charred and one with learning difficulties. -- she was a
:22:28. > :22:32.child. She has now been released on bail. She will have to face a trial.
:22:32. > :22:36.Human rights groups are pleased about the fact that she has been
:22:36. > :22:40.released on what was considered before this an unbailable offence
:22:40. > :22:43.in Pakistan but they are also pointing to the fact that she
:22:43. > :22:48.should never have been jailed in the first place and also to the
:22:48. > :22:52.fact that a lot of human rights groups in Pakistan feel that things
:22:52. > :22:54.in general for minorities in Pakistan are going in the wrong
:22:55. > :22:58.direction. Two earthquakes have hit south-
:22:58. > :23:01.western China, killing at least 43 people. The tremors with a
:23:01. > :23:05.magnitude of up to 5.7 hit the border between the provinces of
:23:05. > :23:15.Yunnan and Guizhou. State media say more than 20,000 houses have
:23:15. > :23:16.
:23:16. > :23:19.collapsed or have been damaged. Scientists in the Arctic have
:23:19. > :23:23.warned that the melting of polar ice is likely to accelerate over
:23:23. > :23:27.the next few years. The thaw set a new record last month and the
:23:27. > :23:30.summer melt is still under way. One of the world's leading weather
:23:30. > :23:34.research centres says the shrinking of the polar ice could lead to more
:23:34. > :23:43.storms over Europe. From Svalbard, deep within the arctic circle, here
:23:43. > :23:47.is David Shukman. A heavy swell in the High Arctic.
:23:47. > :23:52.These latest pictures are from the Norwegian Polar Institute and they
:23:52. > :23:59.were filmed in the past few days. Huge areas of ice have broken up
:23:59. > :24:04.and more has melted than at any time for at least the last 30 years.
:24:04. > :24:08.On the deck of a Norwegian research ship, the high-tech device to
:24:08. > :24:14.measure the ice is lifted into the air. A helicopter flies the
:24:14. > :24:21.instrument over the ocean. All the signs are that the ice is getting
:24:21. > :24:24.thin and weak. Moored at Norway's Arctic research station, the
:24:25. > :24:32.scientists are assessing the data. The milk has been far faster than
:24:32. > :24:38.predicted. There was a big change, bigger than we could imagine even
:24:38. > :24:44.ten years ago, and it has taken us by surprise and we must adjust our
:24:44. > :24:49.understanding of the system and our science, and we must adjust our
:24:49. > :24:54.feelings for the nature around us. I have seen for myself how rapidly
:24:54. > :24:58.the Arctic is changing and the more ice disappears, the more the
:24:58. > :25:03.melting will speed up. The Arctic is warming faster than any other
:25:03. > :25:08.region on earth it there is a simple reason for that. When the
:25:08. > :25:13.Sun's rays land on the bright white surface of the ice, most of the
:25:13. > :25:18.energy is reflected back into space and the region stays cool but when
:25:18. > :25:23.the ice retreats, the Sun's rays falls on the dark recesses of the
:25:23. > :25:27.ocean and that energy gets absorb, warming the ocean, melting the ice,
:25:28. > :25:33.and a vicious scientist begins. The scientists call that positive
:25:33. > :25:38.feedback, and acceleration of this change. The Arctic may seem remote
:25:38. > :25:45.but that changes could be far reaching. It could even implement
:25:45. > :25:49.the pattern of the weather in your room. If we have warmer than
:25:49. > :25:55.average sea surface temperatures in the north-west Atlantic, and a ice
:25:55. > :26:01.mulcting in summer, leads to storms been steered over the UK in summer,
:26:01. > :26:06.which is not the normal situation. We find a seal on a tiny ice bed,
:26:06. > :26:11.one of many creatures that meet the ice. The ocean will freeze again
:26:11. > :26:18.this winter but sometimes you are there may be a summer with no ice
:26:18. > :26:22.at all. -- but some time soon. Our top story about the shooting
:26:22. > :26:26.dead of four people in the French Alps. The BBC has learned that one
:26:26. > :26:32.of the lines of inquiry by the French prosecutors concerning the
:26:32. > :26:36.murder of this British Iraqi man Saad Al-Hilli, his wife and mother-
:26:36. > :26:42.in-law and a French passer-by, one of the lines of inquiry is about a
:26:42. > :26:47.dispute between him and his brother over family property and family