:00:13. > :00:15.Air strikes in Aleppo intensify as the UN warns that foreigners
:00:15. > :00:22.including Jihadis are increasingly fighting in Syria including with
:00:22. > :00:25.the rebels. Demonstrations in Beijing as fears grow that tensions
:00:25. > :00:29.over a disputed set of islands could lead to armed conflict
:00:29. > :00:32.between China and Japan. Protestors in Kabul have been burning cars and
:00:32. > :00:42.throwing rocks at a US military base as the row continues over an
:00:42. > :00:43.
:00:43. > :00:48.anti-Islamic film. Welcome to the programme. Also in this programme -
:00:48. > :00:56.one baby, three parent. The new technique that uses DNA from three
:00:56. > :01:06.people to prevent conditions being passed on. It's back to Earth with
:01:06. > :01:13.
:01:13. > :01:15.a bump was the rocket lands in Kazakhstan. The UN Human Rights
:01:15. > :01:19.Council says the scale of atrocities in Syria is getting
:01:19. > :01:22.worse. The Council is meeting in Geneva to consider a report on
:01:22. > :01:26.Syria in which its investigators accuse both the government and
:01:26. > :01:29.rebels of committing war crimes. The head of a UN enquiry said gross
:01:29. > :01:39.violations of human rights had grown in number, in pace and in
:01:39. > :01:40.
:01:40. > :01:44.scale. Rour reporter is there and says the report highlights the
:01:44. > :01:50.complexity of the report in Syria. It's really complicated and this
:01:50. > :01:56.report that we are looking at this morning here at the UN reflects
:01:56. > :01:59.that very accurately. 104 pages long. It looks in detail as
:01:59. > :02:04.violations allegedly committed by government forces and militia
:02:04. > :02:10.supportive of the government. The investigators say these clearly
:02:10. > :02:14.amount to war crimes and against humanity, but they also say that
:02:14. > :02:21.opposition forces, despite very publicly recently saying they've
:02:21. > :02:25.signed up to a Code of Conduct in war, that they too have committed
:02:25. > :02:32.atrocities, in particular the summary execution of Syrian
:02:32. > :02:36.soldiers taken prisoner, so a very, very nasty, violent conflict which,
:02:36. > :02:40.as we saw in Paul's report has spread right across the country,
:02:40. > :02:50.focusing on particularly on big cities like Aleppo, where civilians
:02:50. > :02:58.
:02:58. > :03:04.seem to be in the firing line again and again. Violent protests have
:03:04. > :03:07.taken place following a film against the prophet Mohammed. One
:03:07. > :03:12.person has been killed in clashes with police. Several buildings have
:03:12. > :03:17.been damaged. There have been demonstrations in Indian-
:03:17. > :03:25.administered Kashmir after days of peaceful protests. Demonstrations
:03:25. > :03:29.have turned violent in sinned kneesia. People hurled petrol bombs.
:03:29. > :03:38.Police responded with water cannon and fired warning shots into the
:03:38. > :03:42.air to try to disperse the crowd. China is already at loggerheads
:03:42. > :03:45.with Japan over disputed islands in the South China Sea. Now the US is
:03:45. > :03:48.stepping into the argument. It's announced a deal with Japan to
:03:48. > :03:51.install a second missile defence system on Japanese soil. Officially,
:03:51. > :03:54.at least, it's aimed at containing the threat from North Korea. But
:03:54. > :03:56.it's likely to anger Beijing. On a visit to Japan, the American
:03:56. > :03:59.Defence Secretary, Leon Panetta, called on his hosts to resolve
:03:59. > :04:09.their current dispute with China and prevent the situation from
:04:09. > :04:10.
:04:10. > :04:14.escalating any further. It is in everybody's interests for Japan and
:04:14. > :04:21.China to maintain good relations and to find a way to avoid further
:04:21. > :04:23.escalation. Meanwhile, there have been more protests in China
:04:23. > :04:26.targeting Japanese businesses and buildings, over the disputed
:04:26. > :04:28.ownership of islands in the East China sea. The uninhabited
:04:28. > :04:30.archipelago is administered by Japan, but are claimed by China,
:04:30. > :04:34.among others. The violent protests in China followed Japan's
:04:34. > :04:41.announcement that it was buying the islands from a private owner. The
:04:41. > :04:44.BBC's Martin Patience is watching events from Beijing. There hasn't
:04:44. > :04:49.been any immediate reaction to the second missile defence system,
:04:49. > :04:53.which will be set up in Japan. It's interesting that the Americans are
:04:53. > :05:00.stressing that this is a defence from North Korea and it's not
:05:00. > :05:05.directed at China. There will, however, be concern about this
:05:05. > :05:13.defence shield in Japan from chin knees views. In the past, they have
:05:13. > :05:17.raised concern about America's military presence in Asia, which in
:05:17. > :05:21.many ways China considers its own back yard and we have seen recently
:05:21. > :05:28.President Obama talking about the strategic pivot, a move away from
:05:28. > :05:34.the Middle East and Europe and putting more American resources in
:05:34. > :05:39.Asia. China has perceived that as some way as a threat against the
:05:39. > :05:46.country. They believe that America - some Chinese officials, believe
:05:46. > :05:51.that America is trying to encircle China. Now all the business news. -
:05:51. > :05:59.- sorry, we are been talking about the tension and it's spilled over
:05:59. > :06:06.into trade and that's between China and Japan. Absolutely. The economic
:06:06. > :06:10.problems. $345 billion, the two-way trade between the two last year. We
:06:10. > :06:13.are looking at that the Chinese companies on the mainland that have
:06:13. > :06:21.some sort of link to Japanese business or firms they are seeing a
:06:21. > :06:25.bit of a sell-off. In particular, for example, Chinese motor
:06:25. > :06:30.manufacturers that have a link to Toyota, they are down. Across the
:06:30. > :06:36.board Chinese shares have fallen 2%. We are talking about business names
:06:36. > :06:40.on the ground in China that have been targeted, the Toyotas and
:06:40. > :06:48.Hondas, dealerships. Both sides vulnerable. Indeed. We'll get more
:06:48. > :06:54.on this and go over to a Singapore reporter is joining us. Great to
:06:54. > :06:58.see you. We're talking about the economic implications, $345 billion
:06:58. > :07:02.of trade between the two, but not only just Japanese companies
:07:02. > :07:07.targeted, but Chinese companies who have a link to Japan, they are seg
:07:07. > :07:11.a sell-off. That's right. If you look at shock markets, Japan was
:07:11. > :07:16.closed for a public holiday, but if you look at China, they're down
:07:16. > :07:19.about 2% and that's because Chinese companies, which have links to
:07:19. > :07:23.Japan, their shares fell quite sharply today, because of this on-
:07:23. > :07:27.going dispute. As you mentioned, we had confirmation from Panasonic
:07:27. > :07:33.spending some of the operations in China, at least until tomorrow and
:07:33. > :07:37.there are reports that Canon has done the same and we heard from
:07:37. > :07:41.airlines, who have seen cancellations of flights to China
:07:41. > :07:46.and to Japan. It is quite an important relationship between the
:07:46. > :07:53.two, but because of the on-going disputes over the islands, which
:07:53. > :07:57.are known between them, the violent protests have been taking place,
:07:57. > :08:01.especially after the Japanese government said last week it has
:08:01. > :08:05.agreed to purchase the islands from a private owner, who is a Japanese
:08:05. > :08:08.national. What about the reports and I know they are only newspaper
:08:08. > :08:13.reports, I don't think we've had anything official from Beijing, but
:08:13. > :08:23.the reports suggesting that Beijing could quite easily take economic
:08:23. > :08:24.
:08:24. > :08:29.retaliation, but you say the trading partnership is both --
:08:29. > :08:36.important for both? Any type of economic retaliation by China given
:08:36. > :08:42.China's already showing down could be severe on both sides? That's
:08:42. > :08:46.right. As you say, China's state media has warned that Japan could
:08:46. > :08:50.face another lost decade it's not careful with the handling of this
:08:50. > :08:55.dispute over the islands, but if you look at reactions in Japan,
:08:55. > :08:59.some of the local press as well as reactions in Twitter, opinions are
:08:59. > :09:05.split, but there are some who are saying that Japanese companies
:09:05. > :09:11.should move outside China to other Asian countries, but also from
:09:11. > :09:18.Japanese companies' point of view, the appetite for product has been
:09:18. > :09:24.one of very few positive aspects to boost the economy, when the yen has
:09:24. > :09:27.been strong and Europe has been slow. It's a very sensive balancing
:09:27. > :09:31.act between the two -- sensitive balancing act between the two
:09:31. > :09:34.countries, but the government of Japan is unlikely to back down with
:09:34. > :09:40.elections looming and neither is chin fa. It will be interesting to
:09:40. > :09:45.see how -- China. It will be interesting to see how it pans out.
:09:45. > :09:49.Tomorrow it's the anniversary of the beginning of Japan's invasion
:09:49. > :09:54.of China and the Japanese companies are fearing there could be more
:09:54. > :09:57.anti-Japan protests taking place on Tuesday. Absolutely. You say it's
:09:57. > :10:07.sensitive. Indeed. We'll keep our eyes on this and talk very soon to
:10:07. > :10:23.
:10:23. > :10:27.you. Now on to the Lonmin. 44 people have died in clashes between
:10:27. > :10:31.the strikers and the police since the pay dispute began five weeks
:10:31. > :10:37.ago. Our reporter in Johannesburg says there's not much optimism over
:10:37. > :10:44.the wage negotiations. They are still engaged in the talks, but it
:10:44. > :10:51.doesn't look like they'll close the gap. The miners want 15,500 and the
:10:51. > :10:56.mine only offered last week 960, which was about $100 or so. That is
:10:56. > :11:00.the difficulty, but beyond Lonmin, outside the area where in the plait
:11:00. > :11:04.mum belt of South Africa there are other mines that have joined the
:11:04. > :11:09.strike and those negotiations are going on there as well. It's not
:11:09. > :11:13.entirely clear where this is going, because a lot of the miners, as you
:11:13. > :11:19.would know are negotiatinging on their behalf without the unions
:11:19. > :11:29.representing them, because they say the unions have abandoned them.
:11:29. > :11:30.
:11:30. > :11:33.We'll keep across that story. There's been disruption in Spain's
:11:33. > :11:38.two biggest cities Madrid and Barcelona, following a strike by
:11:38. > :11:42.rail and subway workers protesting over wage cuts and reforms. High-
:11:42. > :11:48.speed services have also been affected. India's Central Bank has
:11:48. > :11:51.kept interest rates on hold. It's been under immense pressure to cut.
:11:51. > :11:58.This is because the economy is slowing, but the bank is reluctant
:11:58. > :12:01.to make the move, because inflation remains well above its target level.
:12:01. > :12:08.President Obama is to launch a trade complaint against China,
:12:08. > :12:13.claiming the company is using illegal subsidies for support
:12:13. > :12:18.vehicles and motor-part makers. He's due to make that announcement
:12:18. > :12:23.during a campaign tour of Ohio. Ohio relies on the industry and is
:12:23. > :12:27.an important swing state in the coming presidential elections. Hot
:12:27. > :12:33.off the press, we are talking about what President Obama is possibly
:12:33. > :12:38.about to say. Here we are talking about China and it says it is
:12:38. > :12:43.filing disputes against the US and challenging duties on a wide range
:12:44. > :12:47.of goods, including paper, steel, chemicals tyres, wind towers and so
:12:47. > :12:57.on, so no peace and harmony. Everybody loves everybody at the
:12:57. > :13:00.moment, don't they? Thank you. Still to come, a new IVF technique
:13:00. > :13:10.to eliminate genetic conditions passed on from mothers to babies,
:13:10. > :13:11.
:13:11. > :13:15.but is it ethical? An Italian gossip magazine has become the
:13:15. > :13:18.latest to publish pictures of Britain's Duchess of Cambridge.
:13:18. > :13:22.Lawyers representing the Royal couple headed to court in France to
:13:22. > :13:24.press for criminal charges against the photographer, who took the
:13:24. > :13:30.images, as well as the French Closer magazine which first
:13:30. > :13:34.published them. The magazine normally comes out on a Wednesday,
:13:34. > :13:40.but rushing out this special edition, what it calls the historic
:13:40. > :13:45.edition, two days early. The front cover features a picture of the
:13:45. > :13:49.Duchess of Cambridge topless and the headline is, "The Queen is
:13:49. > :13:53.nude." Inside there are pages about the better part of the many
:13:53. > :13:58.pictures of which the Duchess appears with her top off as she
:13:58. > :14:02.sits or moves around on the balcony, where she was sunbathing, so this
:14:02. > :14:10.is a larger run of those pictures than we saw published by the French
:14:10. > :14:18.magazine last week, but actually no more revealing than those pictures
:14:18. > :14:23.in France. There's minutal images of the Royal couple in any --
:14:23. > :14:30.minimal images of the Royal couple and in his defence of his
:14:30. > :14:34.publication, the editor says that he has believes he hasn't harmed
:14:34. > :14:38.the dignity of the Duchess in anyway, although he discuss her
:14:38. > :14:42.body shape in quite industry mate ways. And at the same time the
:14:42. > :14:46.editor stugts the family should laugh this off. -- suggests that
:14:46. > :14:50.the family should laugh this off and he argues he has somehow
:14:50. > :14:55.enhanced her image by somehow humanising her and showing her as a
:14:55. > :15:05.beautiful young woman in love on a holiday, like so many other people
:15:05. > :15:06.
:15:06. > :15:12.Has there been any behind-the- scenes contact between Buckingham
:15:12. > :15:17.Palace and Mr Berlusconi? There is a sense this deepening row is
:15:17. > :15:22.piting the house of Windsor against the house of Berlusconi. The
:15:22. > :15:27.publishing house, which is part of the Berlusconi network, runs both
:15:27. > :15:30.these magazines. In fact, Mr Berlusconi's daughter chairs the
:15:30. > :15:40.Italian publication, so the row between these two sides deepening
:15:40. > :15:46.
:15:46. > :15:48.This is BBC World News. The headlines:
:15:48. > :15:50.Heavy airstrikes on Aleppo as the UN warns that foreign fighters
:15:50. > :15:53.including Jihadis are joining the conflict in Syria.
:15:53. > :16:02.Protests in China as fears grow that a territorial dispute with
:16:02. > :16:06.Japan could escalate into armed conflict.
:16:06. > :16:08.In the UK, the public are being asked for their views on a new IVF
:16:08. > :16:10.technique which creates embryos using DNA taken from three people.
:16:10. > :16:13.The potential treatments, currently only at research stage, would
:16:13. > :16:23.involve implanting genetically modified embryos into women for the
:16:23. > :16:29.
:16:29. > :16:34.first time. It could eliminate some inherited conditions. The use of
:16:34. > :16:38.genetically modified human eggs can eliminate some inherited conditions.
:16:38. > :16:40.Our health correspondent Fergus Walsh has this explanation how this
:16:40. > :16:44.process works. Mitochondrial - they're the power
:16:44. > :16:50.packs for each cell and have their own DNA. They're passed on through
:16:50. > :16:55.the woman's egg. This research used newly fertilised eggs donated after
:16:55. > :17:00.IVF. The nuclei of the sperm and egg contain the crucial genes from
:17:00. > :17:06.both parents. These were removed, leaving behind the mother's
:17:06. > :17:12.mitochondria. The Nike Lee it's were transferred to another woman's
:17:12. > :17:18.egg carrying itsene mitochondria. It had the parents' genes plus a
:17:18. > :17:20.tiny bit of DNA from a second woman. That explanation hopefully
:17:20. > :17:30.clarifies how that would work but the Human Fertilisation and
:17:30. > :17:33.Embryology Authority's consultation could pave the way for changes to
:17:33. > :17:35.the law in the UK. I asked Lisa Jardine, chair of the HFEA, to
:17:35. > :17:43.explain how this IVF technique would work. Some woman's egg
:17:43. > :17:47.contains in the outer area - not the nucleus - the black dot in the
:17:47. > :17:52.frogspawn, they have faulty DNA in that area. The research has always
:17:52. > :17:57.shown you can take a healthy egg from a donor woman and remove the
:17:57. > :18:01.nucleus from that healthy egg and replace it from the nuclei from the
:18:01. > :18:07.woman who has faulty DNA in her mitochondrial DNA and use that egg
:18:07. > :18:14.which is now a mix of the woman who has provided the outer area and the
:18:14. > :18:18.woman's own nucleus and fertilise that egg and you could notely - not
:18:18. > :18:24.legally because it hasn't been done yet - but produce a baby that
:18:24. > :18:31.wouldn't have that genetic defect. You have two maternal sets of input
:18:31. > :18:34.into a child. What are the ethical problems with that potentially?
:18:34. > :18:40.Ethical problems are what the public sees fit to be anxious about
:18:40. > :18:43.and talk about, and I think the ethical issue here is bound to be
:18:43. > :18:50.how do we feel about doing something that could not happen in
:18:50. > :18:55.nature which is to combine the genetic material from three people
:18:55. > :19:00.to produce a healthy child. The child might have views. We have to
:19:00. > :19:04.think ethically about that. How would a child feel about having
:19:04. > :19:09.multiple parents? These are the issues. The issues are not about
:19:09. > :19:14.safety because the science seems to show it's proven. The issue is are
:19:14. > :19:20.we comfortable as a society with introducing a modification in the
:19:20. > :19:25.birth process which might - we have no real way of knowing several
:19:25. > :19:28.generations down the line - throw up something uncomfortable or even
:19:28. > :19:33.might upset people. Much more on that at the website, of course.
:19:33. > :19:37.Tens of thousands of people in Japan have been left without power
:19:37. > :19:47.after Typhoon Sanba passed over the country's southern most pre
:19:47. > :19:55.
:19:55. > :19:59.frekture. The killings in Jalisko state are
:19:59. > :20:05.thought to be carried out by one of the gangs fighting for Mexico's
:20:05. > :20:11.illegal drug trade. It's in one of the world's most
:20:11. > :20:19.dangerous countries and is the toughest golf club in the world.
:20:19. > :20:24.Cardboard golf club was the scene of fighting in the '90s and it had
:20:24. > :20:29.to be made playable. It might not look like much but
:20:29. > :20:33.here on the outskirts of Kabul is the city's only golf course. It
:20:33. > :20:41.opened in 2004 after 2004 and after they'd removed all the landmines.
:20:41. > :20:45.It's popular with Western diplomats. Today on the first is the EU
:20:45. > :20:49.ambassador. To play this course requires some fairly heavy irons.
:20:49. > :20:53.You're a King golfer. Of all the courses you have played this must
:20:53. > :20:58.be the most unusual. Yes, this is most challenging golf course. First
:20:58. > :21:02.of all, it's hard to find the hole. LAUGHTER
:21:02. > :21:09.Because it's under renovation. what's the great attraction of
:21:09. > :21:13.coming out here? You get out of the city arpblgtsd you just have -- and
:21:13. > :21:18.you just practise your walk. You have your swing. You can't practise
:21:18. > :21:23.putting so much. There are some greens which are sand, and then you
:21:23. > :21:26.see the people. That's what makes the difference. You've got a rod
:21:26. > :21:31.running through the middle of the course. These power lines - these
:21:31. > :21:39.aren't the main hazards. There are others. There are. There's some
:21:39. > :21:48.water and some mines. Actually, the course was de-mined. Landmines?
:21:48. > :21:53.Landmines, yes. When it was demined naturally, we can feel pretty
:21:53. > :21:59.secure. You feel comfortable all the mines have gone? Yeah. Yeah.
:22:00. > :22:07.this is about as extreme as golf can get, isn't it? There is no more
:22:07. > :22:12.single, as far as I know. All right, master, go on. We find your ball.
:22:12. > :22:16.Just watch yourself. Step back. think any golfer who wants to be
:22:16. > :22:25.called a true golfer should come to Kabul to play. Correct?
:22:25. > :22:29.LAUGHTER Very good. Golf courses have many
:22:29. > :22:35.hazard, but few have a hazard like this. There is a road running down
:22:35. > :22:39.the middle of this course, but we think we know where the
:22:39. > :22:48.ambassador's ball is so we're going to actually find a hole to putt it
:22:48. > :22:58.into. A great deal of determination is required. Thorn bushes and the
:22:58. > :23:03.
:23:03. > :23:10.lack of flags at holes make sinking Fantastic. After 123 days in space,
:23:10. > :23:14.three astronauts have landed back on earth. Their Soyuz spacecraft
:23:14. > :23:18.landed safely in central Kazakhstan. The two Russians and one American
:23:18. > :23:23.had been onboard the interspace station since May.
:23:24. > :23:29.The final moments of the descent of the Soyuz spacecraft under its
:23:29. > :23:34.chute and standing by for touchdown. Dangling by some very strong
:23:34. > :23:38.threads the landing module descended on to the last plane of
:23:38. > :23:43.Kazakhstan. The journey to earth had taken just four hours.
:23:43. > :23:49.Touchdown confirmed. The soft landing engines firing. The
:23:49. > :23:54.touchdown has occurred. Recovery helicopters landed, and rescue
:23:54. > :24:00.crews extracted the astronauts. After so long in zero gravity, they
:24:00. > :24:07.had to be carried from the craft. The flight engineer is home after
:24:07. > :24:11.his first spaceflight. The three seemed well despite the bumpy
:24:11. > :24:17.landing. The three cosmonauts and one astronaut had spent three
:24:17. > :24:23.months onboard the International Space Station. They had a packed
:24:23. > :24:28.schedule ranging from experiments on human blood and hair and another
:24:28. > :24:33.on fresh water fish and satellites. They completed three space walks,
:24:33. > :24:36.installed a new camera and prepared for the arrival of a new Russian
:24:36. > :24:41.lab. They left behind three colleagues who will stay until
:24:41. > :24:44.November and will be joined by three others in about a month's
:24:44. > :24:49.time. Something a little more down to
:24:49. > :24:56.earth - the world of competitive veg Tal growing in the UK - the
:24:56. > :25:01.contest to come up with the biggest produce. The prize s were on show
:25:01. > :25:06.at Harrogate. We went to have a look at the gardener who scooped
:25:06. > :25:10.all the major awards to have a look at his secrets. Here is the man who
:25:10. > :25:14.spent 25 years perfecting his techniques in order to grow
:25:14. > :25:20.something as huge as this. Good morning. Good morning. There must
:25:20. > :25:24.be a secret. What are your tips? How do you make something as large
:25:24. > :25:30.as this? You spend all year nurturing them, growing them up.
:25:30. > :25:35.You have a few years of experience behind it to do it. It takes a lot
:25:35. > :25:39.of dedication to grow in a large onion. Let me bring in your wife
:25:39. > :25:44.and assistant Mary. What's your role in this? I am the backup team.
:25:45. > :25:54.I do the fetching, carrying. Whatever he tells me, I have to do.
:25:54. > :25:57.You have won all sorts of prizes. Yes, I grow 15 types of giant
:25:57. > :26:03.vegetables. This cucumber won a prize at the festival. What's going
:26:03. > :26:08.to happen to this? I am thinking French onion soup, but maybe you
:26:08. > :26:13.have other plans. We'll keep it safe and sound and seed it down the
:26:13. > :26:19.following year. Hopefully, we'll get good seed from it in future
:26:19. > :26:25.years. I have heard Peter talks to his plants to make them grow.
:26:25. > :26:29.not really. I suppose he says, "Come along, boys." Thank you so
:26:29. > :26:35.much for joining us this morning. Before I hand back to you, I have
:26:35. > :26:39.to show you this monster down here. This is also a prize-winning
:26:39. > :26:45.vegetable, the giant winning marrow from the Harrogate show. I am told
:26:45. > :26:49.they wrapped this in a fleece to keep it warm. I am thinking