13/09/2012 BBC World News

Demonstrators storm the US embassy in Yemen's capital Sanaa, in

protest at a film deemed blasphemous to Islam. We've the

latest from Cairo, where Egyptian protesters clash with police

outside the US embassy. Dutch voters reject anti-Europe

parties, and back caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte, to build a new

coalition. Welcome to BBC World News. Also in

this programme: Preparing for life in space. Underground. European

astronauts plumb the depths of the Earth ahead of their next mission.

And throwing money away in LA. Why are these bank robbers so keen to

Hundreds of Yemeni demonstrators, protesting against a film seen as

blasphemous to Islam, have stormed the American embassy in the capital,

Sanaa. Violent clashes between police and demonstrators are also

taking place outside the US embassy in Cairo. The protests follow an

attack on the American consulate in Benghazi in Libya, where the

ambassador and three other staff were killed. Humphrey Hawksley

reports. Bien there can embassy in Yemen

this morning. Protests spreading. As demonstrators clambered up the

walls, and stood on the roof, security guards reportedly opened

fire. The cause, and obscure, crudely made film deemed insulting

to the Prophet Mohammed. The question, how much further might

the anger spread? Cairo today, riots with petrol bombs, rocks and

tear-gas, as reports came in trouble in proper, to this, Gaza

and elsewhere. Egypt's President treading a finely balanced line in

his response. TRANSLATION: American people, I

have called on them to reject this behaviour, this horrible behaviour

of which actually causes harm. They do not benefit anybody. We cannot

accept there is such aggression against embassies or against people,

or the killing of anybody. America is sending more warships

and troops to Libya to protect its buildings as well as FBI agents to

investigate the killing of its ambassador, and three other

diplomats on Tuesday. Christopher Stevens was a popular Arabic-

speaking envoy, based in Benghazi, with antique Gaddafi rebels during

the uprising. This is the ransacked concert by he was killed. Flags at

American embassies are fly at half mast, while an actor who was in the

low-budget film said she had no idea how it would be used.

We were filming a film which was in an era of 2000 years ago. It was

little about the way things were back then. I think what he did to

us was wrong. And... Perhaps we can all learn a lot from this. And it

know what I'm going to do. A candle lit vigil in Washington for

Christopher Stevens. With questions of how much his death will be a

turning point in the Arab Spring. This is the scene near the US

embassy in Cairo, where there have been clashes between police and

protesters for a second day. You can see the line of riot police,

police being pelted with rocks. They are keeping protesters back

from the embassy itself. This is the senior by the embassy. Those

protests have been going on through the night.

Security has been stepped up at embassies across the world. In

Yemen, the US embassy was stormed by protesters, some of whom managed

to get over the perimeter fence. A few minutes ago, there was still a

big crowd. A short time ago, I spoke to the freelance journalist

Iona Craig, who has been at the protests outside the embassy. She

told me what the demonstrators were doing.

They have been dispersed at several different points. Security has

opened up with gunfire and machine guns. The crowd is dispersing,

gathering again. They stepped through the cordon at one point.

The security forces had allowed them to walk through, alongside

them. Once 50 metres inside the cordon, they ought correction

Margaret they opened fire. Is it clear they are protesting about

this video? From the banners, the chance, about this perceived

blasphemy against the Prophet Mohammed? Yes, that is what they're

telling me they are here about. They're calling for the US embassy

to be closed, that is definitely why they are here. Many haven't

even seen the film but have heard about it. It has been posted on

YouTube. What about security? After what happened in Libya and the

death of the ambassador, was buried sense security had been a priest --

increased -- was very sense security had been increased here?

There are three entrances, on this road. The embassy is setback.

Reports say people have stormed the building, they have got through

this cordon, and have stormed the area within range of the embassy.

Protests have also broken out in Iraq, in Baghdad, hundreds of

Iraqis have taken to the streets to protest against this film.

Demonstrators have burned an American flag and chanted slogans

denouncing his role. You can see, a lot of protests

stemming from this long. A full which it is not clear if ever aired,

least of all in America. We are getting reports from the network in

America that law-enforcement agencies have appeared to identify

the film-maker, and the county sheriff says it is with demand now,

he is good for his life, and his family members. Voters in the

Netherlands have rejected fringe parties, and given their firm

backing to centrist pro-European Union parties in Wednesday's

general election. The leader of the centre-right

Liberals, the caretaker prime minister Mark Rutte, says he will

work to build a new coalition government. Anna Holligan reports

from the Hague. TRANSLATION: -- This is the man

likely to lead the next collision, the Liberal leader is known as the

Teflon Prime Minister or his ability to emerge, and stayed,

through times of crisis. Today he is celebrating his party's biggest

victory in decades. TRANSLATION: Congratulations! We have never been

such a bid in history as tonight. Very different scenes elsewhere.

Here, Geert Wilders, leader of the Freedom Party, took a gamble,

calling for the Netherlands to abandon the euro, but it didn't pay

off. We had a party to Madrid years ago and now we've lost. We are

optimists. When you look at the European Union, the mass

immigration from Islamic countries, the problems will only become

larger, and the best years for my party are still to come in the

future. The centre-left Labor Party came second. The leaders Diederik

Samsom impress the voters with a moderate message on Europe,

countries should be given more time to hit those tough targets. These

elections were being seen as a crossroads for the Netherlands, a

chance for the country to look at his relationship with Europe, and

what the murders had decided his they believe their interests are

best served on the within the eurozone. Now begins the process of

forming a new coalition. And working out where the next

government should stand on austerity, spending cuts, and the

future. A future the Dutch voters have decided his best served for

only within the eurozone. Aaron Heslehurst joins me now with

the business. The eyes of the global markets are

fixed firmly on the world's most powerful central banker, Federal

Reserve chief, Ben Bernanke, and what he can do to re-invigorate the

US economy. The Fed concludes its two-day meeting later today, with

an announcement at 1630 GMT. Some on Wall Street are hoping for a

third round of quantitative easing, effectively printing money to spur

borrowing and spending. There is a lot of expectation this time round

on the back he may do so Bing is because, for a couple of months, he

has hinted the federal standard will be keeping an eye on the US

economy. It is growing, but the jobs market is still very stagnant.

He has referred to that. We had jobs numbers last Friday which were

disappointing. Hence, an expectation he will do something to

meet -- to kick-start the US economy. Michelle Fleury has more.

A America's economic recovery is pretty feeble right now. Housing

remains weak, recent data on manufacturing disappointed, and the

unemployment rate is stuck above 8%. Enter this man, US Federal Reserve

chairman Ben Bernanke, widely expected to do more to stimulate

growth. With interest rates already near zero, one policy option for

the Central Bank is to buy bonds. Perhaps housing-related debt, in

the hope it will drive mortgage rates lower. A side effect is to

encourage investors to place money in riskier assets like stocks,

chasing higher returns on investment. Not everyone is

convinced this would give a push to the housing sector. The issue is

not how lower rates could go, but hard to get people to get him

approval -- approval for their mortgages. A more measured response

could be possible, such as extending the timetable for zero

rate growth. Some economists warned the Fed to

do more. I think they should be doing and not more. They have been

weighed too timid, they have been doing tiny steps and it is

disappointing, after three years in a row. I think they need to take a

lesson, and then bid. In America's capital, all agree that the US

economy is growing too slowly. There's less consensus on what to

do about it. Even before they started their two day beating,

Republicans had criticised officials for their non-

conventional efforts on boosting the economy. Their decisions will

be pored over not just by the financial markets but also by

politicians. Shares in British Aerospace and

EADS are both down more than 5% this morning. That's after the

firms announced on Wednesday that they are discussing a merger.

Combined, they would be the world biggest aerospace and defence

company, bigger than the US giant, Boeing. The group would produce

Airbus commercial plans, submarines and combat jets.

Alex Ashbourne Walmsley is an independent defence analyst. She

explained why the two companies are considering this deal.

It clearly gets a lot out of it because British Aerospace has a

strong footprints in the United States, which is where all of the

defence spending is, even though they are talking about cuts, it is

still 20 times more than in Europe. British Aerospace is, it is hard to

see what they get out of it. They have a solid position as the 4th

largest defence company, big customers in the United States and

in Saudi Arabia. EADS wants to crack the US market. The each year

visited his driving this. Collection grew the chief executive

is driving this. Could this end up coming down to

the customers? British Aerospace Systems has good US customers,

strong Saudi Arabian customers, they do good business. With those

customers, would they be willing to I think this is what we will see

when the deal has to progress or be cancelled. The US has a history of

preferring bilateral relationships, that is one the reasons that the

UK/US relationship works well in situation that are political and

defence trade. Now, some of the other business

news making headlines: Nintendo says it is to launch its new

computer Games console in Japan on December the 8th. It is called

product for the company who is hoping that it can repeat the huge

success of the original Wii that sold nearly 100 million units

worldwide. And a fresh move in the battle for

the control of Singapore's iconic beer brand, Tiger. It is known that

a cash offer has been made for Fraser and Neave, one of the owners

of Tiger Beer's brewer. That is a challenge to Heineken, also trying

to win control of the Tiger brand. And Apple, well, a big day

yesterday it unveiled the fifth generation of its iPhone to go on

sale on September the 21st. The iPhone 5 is thinner and lighter

than the previous model with a larger screen and a faster

processor. It is compatible with the 4G networks. Analysts have

little to say about the new phone, but welcomed it. Apple's stock,

well it rose in trade. It is up 65% this year. That little baby that

they unveiled yesterday, they believe that 10 million will be

sold in the first week alone. Staggering.

Aaron Heselhurst, thank you very much. This is BBC World News, still

to come, the underground astflauts, plumbing the depths of the earth

ahead of their next mission in space.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have arrived in South East Asia and

the South Pacific as part of their Diamond Jubilee tour. Following her

arrival, the Duchess of Cambridge made her first overseas speech,

keenly awaited after visiting a hospice. She described the centre

that cared for and supported the terminally ill as life-changing.

William and I are hugely compensated to be in Malaysia. This

is our first visit. I'm delighted to have been invited to join you

all here at Hospis Malasyia it is so exciting to learn about the

country's very first paediatric palliative care programme. To

witness for myself, something of the wonderful work of Hospis

Malasyia's superb staff. As patron of East Anglia's

Children's Hospice, the UK-based charity, I am thrilled to hear you

have been working with Hospis Malasyia, that you plan to

collaborate as you roll out this new programme.

Through this patronage, I have learned that delivering the best

possible palailtive care to children is vital -- palliative

care to children is vital, providing children and their

families with a place of support, care and enhancement at a time of

great need, it is sim life-changing. With effective palliative care

lives can be trance formed. Treatment, support, care and advice

can provide life lines to families at a time of great need.

This is a very special place and so much is already being achieved. It

has been wonderful meeting the patients, families and all of the

staff here. You have given us the most wonderful welcome.

Thank you again for inviting us here, and all the very best to this

exciting new initiative. The Duchess of Cambridge. The Cuban

government says it is prepared to negotiate with the United States to

find a solution in the case of the detained American contractor, Alan

Gross. He is serving 15 years in prison sentence for taking internet

to Cuba, quite a problem for US/Cuban relations.

This is BBC World News. I'm Philippa Thomas. The headlines:

Demonstrators protest at the US embassy in Yemen's capital, Sanaa,

against a film deemed blasphemous to Islam. In Cairo Egyptians

protestors clash with the police outside of the US embassy there.

The UN's Arab League envoy, Mr Brahimi is beginning a three-day

visit to Syria, he is to hold a meeting there with Bashar al-Assad.

Mr Brahimi is to meet members of the Syrian opposition and says he

knows he faces a difficult task in trying to bring an tend to the

violence in the country. Mr Brahimi started work after Kofi

Annan resigned. The IAEA is meeting to discuss

whether a to rebuke Iran with regards to its nuclear programme.

China and Russia are expected to join the US, Britain, France and

Germany in expressing concern about Iran's urine enrichment activities.

The resolution is seen as a display of unit as a time when Israel has

hinted as to a possible strike against Iran.

The FARC has told the BBC that they are optimistic about a new round of

peace talks due to start next month N a rare interview, Rodrigo Granda

insisted that the FARC had not agreed to talks because it was

beaten militaryy, but said that the conflict could be stopped in the

government were willing to address root causes.

The FARC rarely give intervuerbgs but senior members are now here in

Havana preparing for the first peace talks in a decade. Rodrigo

Granda is one of the key negotiators. When we met he told me

that the FARC is committed to ending five decades of violence,

but he had no regrets for all of the suffering.

TRANSLATION: We did not make anyone suffer. Ours is a defensive war. If

there was no war, there would not have been atrocities. We did not

provoke the war, we are the victims. The state is to blame for

everything that happened in this period. Yes, sir, there has been

dlat ral damage, that is unavoidable, but we did not want to

harm anyone -- collateral. Marxist rebels were fighting for

the poor and the marginallised in a country of deep inequallities, but

the fight involved bombing, assassination and extortion.

Ingrid Bettencourt was one of the best-known FARC hostages. Many more

Colombians and foreigners were kidnapped for ransoms to fund the

insurgent. Speaking here in Havana, though,

the FARC insisted it has no more hostages, that was a condition of

the Peace Talks. It continues to justify the practise as a tax on

the rich. In a video statement, released here,

the group's leader denied that the talks represented defeat for the

FARC or it has been crippled by a major military crackdown. Instead,

the rebels want the process to address the historic causes of the

conflict. TRANSLATION: I am optimistic. We

are going to the talks without bitterness or arrogance. We hope

that the government will go without pride or arrogance and that we can

work things out. If they end those things that caused this war, we can

work things out. There will be no ceasefire, at

least to start. There is too little trust and Colombia's President will

not want the process to drag on too long without results. The last

talks a decade ago, collapsed in disaster, but both sides insist

that they want peace. They will start to negotiate how they may get

there next month. A team of astronauts is set to

return from a mission with a difference. It did not take them

into space. They are due to surface after a week under ground. The

European Space Agency sent the crew into a vast cave network on the

island of Sardinia. Down, down, into the depths of the

Earth. It is certainly not outer space, but still, it is a useful

astronaut training ground. This small team is far from the

comforts of the Earth's surface. They are dependant on each other,

working in a dark, dangerous environment, so there are some

parallels with life on a space mission. They were given complex

tasks to do, getting used to conducting scientific research in

strange and difficult conditions. Again, it is useful practise for

space. Even the food in the Sardinia can -

- cave is not so different from what is served up on a space

mission. The next time the trainee astronauts find themselves inching

along on a cheer cliff in the dark, they could be just looking down on

Earth. It is not every day that a fistful

of cash is thrown from a car out into the streets, but that is what

happened in LA when suspected bank robbers hurled cash from the car

while being pursued by the police. People were seen running on to the

road to collect the cash and that was the point. The suspects

throwing the money into the hopes of drawing people on to the road so

that the pursuing patrol cars could not get to them, but a truck from a

side street then block the cars. There you can see the crowds

gathering as the police trying to make arrests with some members of

the public hoping that there was still money coming from the car.

The crooks did not get awhich with The top story: Protestors have

stormed the grounds of the US embassy in Sanaa in reaction to a