:00:11. > :00:14.Demonstrators storm the US embassy in Yemen's capital Sanaa, in
:00:14. > :00:17.protest at a film deemed blasphemous to Islam. We've the
:00:17. > :00:21.latest from Cairo, where Egyptian protesters clash with police
:00:21. > :00:25.outside the US embassy. Dutch voters reject anti-Europe
:00:25. > :00:30.parties, and back caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte, to build a new
:00:30. > :00:37.coalition. Welcome to BBC World News. Also in
:00:37. > :00:41.this programme: Preparing for life in space. Underground. European
:00:41. > :00:45.astronauts plumb the depths of the Earth ahead of their next mission.
:00:45. > :00:55.And throwing money away in LA. Why are these bank robbers so keen to
:00:55. > :01:03.
:01:03. > :01:06.Hundreds of Yemeni demonstrators, protesting against a film seen as
:01:06. > :01:10.blasphemous to Islam, have stormed the American embassy in the capital,
:01:10. > :01:14.Sanaa. Violent clashes between police and demonstrators are also
:01:14. > :01:18.taking place outside the US embassy in Cairo. The protests follow an
:01:18. > :01:23.attack on the American consulate in Benghazi in Libya, where the
:01:23. > :01:31.ambassador and three other staff were killed. Humphrey Hawksley
:01:31. > :01:36.reports. Bien there can embassy in Yemen
:01:36. > :01:41.this morning. Protests spreading. As demonstrators clambered up the
:01:41. > :01:48.walls, and stood on the roof, security guards reportedly opened
:01:48. > :01:52.fire. The cause, and obscure, crudely made film deemed insulting
:01:52. > :02:00.to the Prophet Mohammed. The question, how much further might
:02:00. > :02:05.the anger spread? Cairo today, riots with petrol bombs, rocks and
:02:05. > :02:10.tear-gas, as reports came in trouble in proper, to this, Gaza
:02:10. > :02:20.and elsewhere. Egypt's President treading a finely balanced line in
:02:20. > :02:24.his response. TRANSLATION: American people, I
:02:24. > :02:31.have called on them to reject this behaviour, this horrible behaviour
:02:31. > :02:37.of which actually causes harm. They do not benefit anybody. We cannot
:02:37. > :02:43.accept there is such aggression against embassies or against people,
:02:43. > :02:47.or the killing of anybody. America is sending more warships
:02:47. > :02:51.and troops to Libya to protect its buildings as well as FBI agents to
:02:51. > :02:55.investigate the killing of its ambassador, and three other
:02:55. > :03:00.diplomats on Tuesday. Christopher Stevens was a popular Arabic-
:03:00. > :03:07.speaking envoy, based in Benghazi, with antique Gaddafi rebels during
:03:07. > :03:12.the uprising. This is the ransacked concert by he was killed. Flags at
:03:12. > :03:16.American embassies are fly at half mast, while an actor who was in the
:03:16. > :03:22.low-budget film said she had no idea how it would be used.
:03:22. > :03:26.We were filming a film which was in an era of 2000 years ago. It was
:03:26. > :03:34.little about the way things were back then. I think what he did to
:03:34. > :03:40.us was wrong. And... Perhaps we can all learn a lot from this. And it
:03:40. > :03:45.know what I'm going to do. A candle lit vigil in Washington for
:03:45. > :03:55.Christopher Stevens. With questions of how much his death will be a
:03:55. > :03:56.
:03:56. > :04:00.turning point in the Arab Spring. This is the scene near the US
:04:00. > :04:05.embassy in Cairo, where there have been clashes between police and
:04:05. > :04:14.protesters for a second day. You can see the line of riot police,
:04:14. > :04:20.police being pelted with rocks. They are keeping protesters back
:04:20. > :04:29.from the embassy itself. This is the senior by the embassy. Those
:04:29. > :04:34.protests have been going on through the night.
:04:34. > :04:43.Security has been stepped up at embassies across the world. In
:04:43. > :04:48.Yemen, the US embassy was stormed by protesters, some of whom managed
:04:48. > :04:52.to get over the perimeter fence. A few minutes ago, there was still a
:04:52. > :04:56.big crowd. A short time ago, I spoke to the freelance journalist
:04:56. > :04:58.Iona Craig, who has been at the protests outside the embassy. She
:04:58. > :05:04.told me what the demonstrators were doing.
:05:04. > :05:14.They have been dispersed at several different points. Security has
:05:14. > :05:15.
:05:15. > :05:23.opened up with gunfire and machine guns. The crowd is dispersing,
:05:23. > :05:26.gathering again. They stepped through the cordon at one point.
:05:26. > :05:34.The security forces had allowed them to walk through, alongside
:05:34. > :05:38.them. Once 50 metres inside the cordon, they ought correction
:05:38. > :05:43.Margaret they opened fire. Is it clear they are protesting about
:05:43. > :05:49.this video? From the banners, the chance, about this perceived
:05:49. > :05:56.blasphemy against the Prophet Mohammed? Yes, that is what they're
:05:56. > :06:04.telling me they are here about. They're calling for the US embassy
:06:04. > :06:12.to be closed, that is definitely why they are here. Many haven't
:06:12. > :06:20.even seen the film but have heard about it. It has been posted on
:06:20. > :06:30.YouTube. What about security? After what happened in Libya and the
:06:30. > :06:38.death of the ambassador, was buried sense security had been a priest --
:06:38. > :06:48.increased -- was very sense security had been increased here?
:06:48. > :06:56.
:06:56. > :06:59.There are three entrances, on this road. The embassy is setback.
:06:59. > :07:09.Reports say people have stormed the building, they have got through
:07:09. > :07:10.
:07:10. > :07:15.this cordon, and have stormed the area within range of the embassy.
:07:15. > :07:20.Protests have also broken out in Iraq, in Baghdad, hundreds of
:07:20. > :07:23.Iraqis have taken to the streets to protest against this film.
:07:23. > :07:28.Demonstrators have burned an American flag and chanted slogans
:07:28. > :07:34.denouncing his role. You can see, a lot of protests
:07:34. > :07:43.stemming from this long. A full which it is not clear if ever aired,
:07:43. > :07:46.least of all in America. We are getting reports from the network in
:07:46. > :07:53.America that law-enforcement agencies have appeared to identify
:07:53. > :08:03.the film-maker, and the county sheriff says it is with demand now,
:08:03. > :08:03.
:08:03. > :08:06.he is good for his life, and his family members. Voters in the
:08:06. > :08:09.Netherlands have rejected fringe parties, and given their firm
:08:09. > :08:11.backing to centrist pro-European Union parties in Wednesday's
:08:11. > :08:14.general election. The leader of the centre-right
:08:14. > :08:17.Liberals, the caretaker prime minister Mark Rutte, says he will
:08:17. > :08:27.work to build a new coalition government. Anna Holligan reports
:08:27. > :08:28.
:08:28. > :08:32.from the Hague. TRANSLATION: -- This is the man
:08:32. > :08:35.likely to lead the next collision, the Liberal leader is known as the
:08:35. > :08:40.Teflon Prime Minister or his ability to emerge, and stayed,
:08:40. > :08:50.through times of crisis. Today he is celebrating his party's biggest
:08:50. > :08:52.
:08:52. > :08:59.victory in decades. TRANSLATION: Congratulations! We have never been
:08:59. > :09:05.such a bid in history as tonight. Very different scenes elsewhere.
:09:05. > :09:09.Here, Geert Wilders, leader of the Freedom Party, took a gamble,
:09:09. > :09:15.calling for the Netherlands to abandon the euro, but it didn't pay
:09:15. > :09:18.off. We had a party to Madrid years ago and now we've lost. We are
:09:18. > :09:22.optimists. When you look at the European Union, the mass
:09:22. > :09:26.immigration from Islamic countries, the problems will only become
:09:26. > :09:33.larger, and the best years for my party are still to come in the
:09:33. > :09:36.future. The centre-left Labor Party came second. The leaders Diederik
:09:36. > :09:42.Samsom impress the voters with a moderate message on Europe,
:09:42. > :09:46.countries should be given more time to hit those tough targets. These
:09:46. > :09:50.elections were being seen as a crossroads for the Netherlands, a
:09:50. > :09:53.chance for the country to look at his relationship with Europe, and
:09:53. > :09:58.what the murders had decided his they believe their interests are
:09:58. > :10:02.best served on the within the eurozone. Now begins the process of
:10:02. > :10:06.forming a new coalition. And working out where the next
:10:06. > :10:11.government should stand on austerity, spending cuts, and the
:10:11. > :10:21.future. A future the Dutch voters have decided his best served for
:10:21. > :10:25.
:10:25. > :10:28.only within the eurozone. Aaron Heslehurst joins me now with
:10:28. > :10:32.the business. The eyes of the global markets are
:10:32. > :10:35.fixed firmly on the world's most powerful central banker, Federal
:10:35. > :10:39.Reserve chief, Ben Bernanke, and what he can do to re-invigorate the
:10:39. > :10:43.US economy. The Fed concludes its two-day meeting later today, with
:10:43. > :10:47.an announcement at 1630 GMT. Some on Wall Street are hoping for a
:10:47. > :10:57.third round of quantitative easing, effectively printing money to spur
:10:57. > :10:58.
:10:58. > :11:02.borrowing and spending. There is a lot of expectation this time round
:11:02. > :11:08.on the back he may do so Bing is because, for a couple of months, he
:11:08. > :11:15.has hinted the federal standard will be keeping an eye on the US
:11:15. > :11:20.economy. It is growing, but the jobs market is still very stagnant.
:11:20. > :11:25.He has referred to that. We had jobs numbers last Friday which were
:11:25. > :11:33.disappointing. Hence, an expectation he will do something to
:11:33. > :11:37.meet -- to kick-start the US economy. Michelle Fleury has more.
:11:37. > :11:42.A America's economic recovery is pretty feeble right now. Housing
:11:42. > :11:48.remains weak, recent data on manufacturing disappointed, and the
:11:48. > :11:51.unemployment rate is stuck above 8%. Enter this man, US Federal Reserve
:11:51. > :11:57.chairman Ben Bernanke, widely expected to do more to stimulate
:11:57. > :12:01.growth. With interest rates already near zero, one policy option for
:12:01. > :12:05.the Central Bank is to buy bonds. Perhaps housing-related debt, in
:12:05. > :12:11.the hope it will drive mortgage rates lower. A side effect is to
:12:11. > :12:14.encourage investors to place money in riskier assets like stocks,
:12:14. > :12:20.chasing higher returns on investment. Not everyone is
:12:20. > :12:30.convinced this would give a push to the housing sector. The issue is
:12:30. > :12:30.
:12:30. > :12:36.not how lower rates could go, but hard to get people to get him
:12:36. > :12:43.approval -- approval for their mortgages. A more measured response
:12:43. > :12:47.could be possible, such as extending the timetable for zero
:12:47. > :12:51.rate growth. Some economists warned the Fed to
:12:51. > :12:57.do more. I think they should be doing and not more. They have been
:12:57. > :13:03.weighed too timid, they have been doing tiny steps and it is
:13:03. > :13:08.disappointing, after three years in a row. I think they need to take a
:13:08. > :13:12.lesson, and then bid. In America's capital, all agree that the US
:13:12. > :13:19.economy is growing too slowly. There's less consensus on what to
:13:19. > :13:22.do about it. Even before they started their two day beating,
:13:22. > :13:26.Republicans had criticised officials for their non-
:13:26. > :13:29.conventional efforts on boosting the economy. Their decisions will
:13:29. > :13:38.be pored over not just by the financial markets but also by
:13:38. > :13:42.politicians. Shares in British Aerospace and
:13:42. > :13:45.EADS are both down more than 5% this morning. That's after the
:13:45. > :13:49.firms announced on Wednesday that they are discussing a merger.
:13:49. > :13:53.Combined, they would be the world biggest aerospace and defence
:13:53. > :14:02.company, bigger than the US giant, Boeing. The group would produce
:14:02. > :14:05.Airbus commercial plans, submarines and combat jets.
:14:05. > :14:13.Alex Ashbourne Walmsley is an independent defence analyst. She
:14:13. > :14:17.explained why the two companies are considering this deal.
:14:18. > :14:21.It clearly gets a lot out of it because British Aerospace has a
:14:21. > :14:25.strong footprints in the United States, which is where all of the
:14:25. > :14:33.defence spending is, even though they are talking about cuts, it is
:14:33. > :14:38.still 20 times more than in Europe. British Aerospace is, it is hard to
:14:38. > :14:42.see what they get out of it. They have a solid position as the 4th
:14:42. > :14:52.largest defence company, big customers in the United States and
:14:52. > :14:58.
:14:58. > :15:04.in Saudi Arabia. EADS wants to crack the US market. The each year
:15:04. > :15:10.visited his driving this. Collection grew the chief executive
:15:10. > :15:15.is driving this. Could this end up coming down to
:15:15. > :15:20.the customers? British Aerospace Systems has good US customers,
:15:20. > :15:30.strong Saudi Arabian customers, they do good business. With those
:15:30. > :15:31.
:15:31. > :15:36.customers, would they be willing to I think this is what we will see
:15:36. > :15:42.when the deal has to progress or be cancelled. The US has a history of
:15:42. > :15:46.preferring bilateral relationships, that is one the reasons that the
:15:46. > :15:50.UK/US relationship works well in situation that are political and
:15:50. > :15:56.defence trade. Now, some of the other business
:15:56. > :16:01.news making headlines: Nintendo says it is to launch its new
:16:01. > :16:09.computer Games console in Japan on December the 8th. It is called
:16:09. > :16:11.product for the company who is hoping that it can repeat the huge
:16:11. > :16:14.success of the original Wii that sold nearly 100 million units
:16:15. > :16:24.worldwide. And a fresh move in the battle for
:16:24. > :16:30.the control of Singapore's iconic beer brand, Tiger. It is known that
:16:30. > :16:34.a cash offer has been made for Fraser and Neave, one of the owners
:16:34. > :16:40.of Tiger Beer's brewer. That is a challenge to Heineken, also trying
:16:40. > :16:44.to win control of the Tiger brand. And Apple, well, a big day
:16:44. > :16:50.yesterday it unveiled the fifth generation of its iPhone to go on
:16:50. > :16:55.sale on September the 21st. The iPhone 5 is thinner and lighter
:16:55. > :17:00.than the previous model with a larger screen and a faster
:17:00. > :17:05.processor. It is compatible with the 4G networks. Analysts have
:17:05. > :17:11.little to say about the new phone, but welcomed it. Apple's stock,
:17:11. > :17:14.well it rose in trade. It is up 65% this year. That little baby that
:17:14. > :17:18.they unveiled yesterday, they believe that 10 million will be
:17:18. > :17:21.sold in the first week alone. Staggering.
:17:21. > :17:29.Aaron Heselhurst, thank you very much. This is BBC World News, still
:17:29. > :17:33.to come, the underground astflauts, plumbing the depths of the earth
:17:33. > :17:36.ahead of their next mission in space.
:17:36. > :17:43.The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have arrived in South East Asia and
:17:43. > :17:49.the South Pacific as part of their Diamond Jubilee tour. Following her
:17:49. > :17:52.arrival, the Duchess of Cambridge made her first overseas speech,
:17:52. > :17:58.keenly awaited after visiting a hospice. She described the centre
:17:58. > :18:02.that cared for and supported the terminally ill as life-changing.
:18:02. > :18:06.William and I are hugely compensated to be in Malaysia. This
:18:06. > :18:12.is our first visit. I'm delighted to have been invited to join you
:18:12. > :18:18.all here at Hospis Malasyia it is so exciting to learn about the
:18:18. > :18:23.country's very first paediatric palliative care programme. To
:18:23. > :18:29.witness for myself, something of the wonderful work of Hospis
:18:29. > :18:34.Malasyia's superb staff. As patron of East Anglia's
:18:34. > :18:38.Children's Hospice, the UK-based charity, I am thrilled to hear you
:18:38. > :18:42.have been working with Hospis Malasyia, that you plan to
:18:42. > :18:47.collaborate as you roll out this new programme.
:18:47. > :18:51.Through this patronage, I have learned that delivering the best
:18:51. > :18:54.possible palailtive care to children is vital -- palliative
:18:54. > :18:59.care to children is vital, providing children and their
:18:59. > :19:09.families with a place of support, care and enhancement at a time of
:19:09. > :19:14.great need, it is sim life-changing. With effective palliative care
:19:14. > :19:21.lives can be trance formed. Treatment, support, care and advice
:19:21. > :19:27.can provide life lines to families at a time of great need.
:19:27. > :19:32.This is a very special place and so much is already being achieved. It
:19:32. > :19:36.has been wonderful meeting the patients, families and all of the
:19:36. > :19:42.staff here. You have given us the most wonderful welcome.
:19:42. > :19:46.Thank you again for inviting us here, and all the very best to this
:19:46. > :19:49.exciting new initiative. The Duchess of Cambridge. The Cuban
:19:49. > :19:54.government says it is prepared to negotiate with the United States to
:19:54. > :20:04.find a solution in the case of the detained American contractor, Alan
:20:04. > :20:09.Gross. He is serving 15 years in prison sentence for taking internet
:20:09. > :20:13.to Cuba, quite a problem for US/Cuban relations.
:20:13. > :20:19.This is BBC World News. I'm Philippa Thomas. The headlines:
:20:19. > :20:24.Demonstrators protest at the US embassy in Yemen's capital, Sanaa,
:20:24. > :20:31.against a film deemed blasphemous to Islam. In Cairo Egyptians
:20:31. > :20:35.protestors clash with the police outside of the US embassy there.
:20:35. > :20:40.The UN's Arab League envoy, Mr Brahimi is beginning a three-day
:20:40. > :20:45.visit to Syria, he is to hold a meeting there with Bashar al-Assad.
:20:45. > :20:50.Mr Brahimi is to meet members of the Syrian opposition and says he
:20:50. > :20:57.knows he faces a difficult task in trying to bring an tend to the
:20:57. > :21:02.violence in the country. Mr Brahimi started work after Kofi
:21:02. > :21:07.Annan resigned. The IAEA is meeting to discuss
:21:07. > :21:12.whether a to rebuke Iran with regards to its nuclear programme.
:21:12. > :21:18.China and Russia are expected to join the US, Britain, France and
:21:18. > :21:24.Germany in expressing concern about Iran's urine enrichment activities.
:21:24. > :21:28.The resolution is seen as a display of unit as a time when Israel has
:21:28. > :21:34.hinted as to a possible strike against Iran.
:21:34. > :21:40.The FARC has told the BBC that they are optimistic about a new round of
:21:40. > :21:45.peace talks due to start next month N a rare interview, Rodrigo Granda
:21:45. > :21:51.insisted that the FARC had not agreed to talks because it was
:21:51. > :21:54.beaten militaryy, but said that the conflict could be stopped in the
:21:54. > :21:59.government were willing to address root causes.
:21:59. > :22:03.The FARC rarely give intervuerbgs but senior members are now here in
:22:03. > :22:07.Havana preparing for the first peace talks in a decade. Rodrigo
:22:07. > :22:11.Granda is one of the key negotiators. When we met he told me
:22:11. > :22:14.that the FARC is committed to ending five decades of violence,
:22:14. > :22:22.but he had no regrets for all of the suffering.
:22:22. > :22:27.TRANSLATION: We did not make anyone suffer. Ours is a defensive war. If
:22:27. > :22:32.there was no war, there would not have been atrocities. We did not
:22:32. > :22:36.provoke the war, we are the victims. The state is to blame for
:22:36. > :22:40.everything that happened in this period. Yes, sir, there has been
:22:40. > :22:46.dlat ral damage, that is unavoidable, but we did not want to
:22:46. > :22:52.harm anyone -- collateral. Marxist rebels were fighting for
:22:52. > :22:59.the poor and the marginallised in a country of deep inequallities, but
:22:59. > :23:05.the fight involved bombing, assassination and extortion.
:23:05. > :23:09.Ingrid Bettencourt was one of the best-known FARC hostages. Many more
:23:09. > :23:12.Colombians and foreigners were kidnapped for ransoms to fund the
:23:12. > :23:18.insurgent. Speaking here in Havana, though,
:23:18. > :23:21.the FARC insisted it has no more hostages, that was a condition of
:23:21. > :23:26.the Peace Talks. It continues to justify the practise as a tax on
:23:26. > :23:30.the rich. In a video statement, released here,
:23:30. > :23:35.the group's leader denied that the talks represented defeat for the
:23:35. > :23:40.FARC or it has been crippled by a major military crackdown. Instead,
:23:40. > :23:44.the rebels want the process to address the historic causes of the
:23:44. > :23:50.conflict. TRANSLATION: I am optimistic. We
:23:50. > :23:53.are going to the talks without bitterness or arrogance. We hope
:23:53. > :23:57.that the government will go without pride or arrogance and that we can
:23:57. > :24:03.work things out. If they end those things that caused this war, we can
:24:03. > :24:08.work things out. There will be no ceasefire, at
:24:08. > :24:13.least to start. There is too little trust and Colombia's President will
:24:13. > :24:17.not want the process to drag on too long without results. The last
:24:17. > :24:21.talks a decade ago, collapsed in disaster, but both sides insist
:24:21. > :24:26.that they want peace. They will start to negotiate how they may get
:24:26. > :24:29.there next month. A team of astronauts is set to
:24:29. > :24:35.return from a mission with a difference. It did not take them
:24:35. > :24:39.into space. They are due to surface after a week under ground. The
:24:39. > :24:47.European Space Agency sent the crew into a vast cave network on the
:24:47. > :24:52.island of Sardinia. Down, down, into the depths of the
:24:53. > :25:01.Earth. It is certainly not outer space, but still, it is a useful
:25:01. > :25:05.astronaut training ground. This small team is far from the
:25:05. > :25:09.comforts of the Earth's surface. They are dependant on each other,
:25:09. > :25:12.working in a dark, dangerous environment, so there are some
:25:12. > :25:17.parallels with life on a space mission. They were given complex
:25:17. > :25:23.tasks to do, getting used to conducting scientific research in
:25:23. > :25:32.strange and difficult conditions. Again, it is useful practise for
:25:32. > :25:37.space. Even the food in the Sardinia can -
:25:37. > :25:43.- cave is not so different from what is served up on a space
:25:43. > :25:50.mission. The next time the trainee astronauts find themselves inching
:25:50. > :25:53.along on a cheer cliff in the dark, they could be just looking down on
:25:53. > :25:57.Earth. It is not every day that a fistful
:25:57. > :26:03.of cash is thrown from a car out into the streets, but that is what
:26:03. > :26:08.happened in LA when suspected bank robbers hurled cash from the car
:26:08. > :26:12.while being pursued by the police. People were seen running on to the
:26:12. > :26:17.road to collect the cash and that was the point. The suspects
:26:17. > :26:22.throwing the money into the hopes of drawing people on to the road so
:26:23. > :26:28.that the pursuing patrol cars could not get to them, but a truck from a
:26:28. > :26:33.side street then block the cars. There you can see the crowds
:26:33. > :26:36.gathering as the police trying to make arrests with some members of
:26:36. > :26:41.the public hoping that there was still money coming from the car.
:26:41. > :26:47.The crooks did not get awhich with The top story: Protestors have
:26:47. > :26:52.stormed the grounds of the US embassy in Sanaa in reaction to a