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Heavy fighting in the Syrian capital Damascus, as government | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
troops are reported to be closing in from all sides on the southern | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
suburb of Al Hajar Al Aswad. Back at the helm after an | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
unexplained absence, the man tipped to become China's next leader holds | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
a very public meeting with the US Defence Secretary, Leon Panetta. | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
Mass protests in Georgia, as the country's prisons minister resigns | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
over allegations that inmates were beaten and raped in jail. | :00:33. | :00:43. | |
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Welcome to BBC World News. Also in this programme, Japan | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
Airlines reborn - back from bankruptcy the national carrier | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
returns to the stock market. Got a headache? Don't reach for the | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
tablets. New research suggests taking too many painkillers can | :00:52. | :01:02. | |
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There has been further heavy fighting in the Syrian capital, | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
Damascus, with government forces reported to be closing in on the | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
southern suburb of Al-Hajar Al- Aswad. Activists say the situation | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
for residents there is desperate with troops moving in from all | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
sides, bombarding the area. Syrian State TV says many rebels, | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
described as terrorists, had been killed in Damascus. Jim Muir has | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
the latest from neighbouring Beirut. The activists are saying in Al- | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
Hajar Al-Aswad which is the quarter, it is on the southern edge of | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
Damascus, it is being heavily bombarded now. Troops are moving in | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
or pressing in from all sides and that helicopter gunships have been | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
carrying out airstrikes there as well. This is just one of many | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
areas, there are adjacent quarters affected, but many parts of the | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
control. Up in Aleppo, it is the biggest city, the commercial hub. | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
That goes on with again, the Government using its air power, its | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
monopoly of air power to strike at rebel-held areas. There is a -- it | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
is a very fluid situation. The battle has been going on there for | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
two months and it is unresolved. People in Damascus can hear the | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
thumping as artillery goes off and hits the areas on the southern side | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
of the capital. On the diplomatic front, the | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
Iranian Foreign Minister is in Damascus today. Is anyone taking | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
any diplomatic moves by any side seriously? | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
Well, the outside world is really concerned and that includes Syria's | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
closest allies, Iran. They can see the regime is in distress. It maybe | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
in danger of collapse and they are trying to see if there is a | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
political way out of it. So the Foreign Minister of Iran, he is | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
coming from Cairo, where he has been conferring with the Egyptian | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
and Turkish Foreign Ministers, the Saudis were supposed to be there, | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
but didn't turn up. Iran Iran doesn't see eye to eye with Turkey | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
and Egypt, both of which want President Assad to go. The Foreign | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
Minister will be trying to find if there is any common ground where | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
Iran and the regime insist on keeping going and refusing to bow | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
to the demands of the rebels and others, that the regime has to go | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
or whether they can find some half- way ground, but he is exploring | :03:41. | :03:50. | |
what possibilities there maybe, but nobody is holding out a lot of hope. | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
China's vice-president, Xi Jinping, has said that Japan should "reign | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
in its behaviour" and stop undermining China's sovereignty, | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
according to Chinese state media. His comments follow days of anti- | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
Japanese protests over a chain of disputed islands in the East China | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
Sea. Mr Xi, who is widely expected to become the next leader of China, | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
has been meeting with the US Defence Secretary, Leon Panetta in | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
Beijing. Before the meeting, the Chinese vice-president hadn't been | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
seen in public for two weeks, with officials giving only vague reasons | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
of unspecified health problems. Let's get the latest from Martin | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
Patience. Martin, on the comments regarding Japan, are they | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
surprising? Will they be seen as infamiliartry? How -- inflammatory. | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
How will they be responded to, do you think? I don't think they are | :04:35. | :04:42. | |
surprising. The man who is expected to be the country's next leader is | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
shoring up the country's credentials. He ruled the Japanese | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
decision to buy thise lands from its -- these islands from the | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
private owners as a farce. That triggered the protests across China. | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
Many Of them have been violent and it has been the worst violence, | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
anti-Japanese violence we have seen in China for years. But the fact | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
that he is talking tough just as he is about to take up the reigns of | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
power, I don't think that's a surprise for anyone. | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
He has not been seen in public for two weeks. There is all sorts of | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
speculation. I don't know if that has died down and he has been | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
holding talks with Leon Panetta? That's right, he was seen over the | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
weekend, but this is the first time he met a foreign dignitary. He held | :05:27. | :05:35. | |
talks with the US secretary of defence, Leo Panetta. America are | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
concerned about China's military programmes. From China's point of | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
view, well, they are concerned about America's increased military | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
presence in the region. So this trip is about reassuring both sides | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
and Leon Panetta said that co- operation is the way that America | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
and China can develop and improve the relations going into the tu | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
ture. What about the speculation as to | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
his whereabouts? Was it something to do with his health or the power | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
struggle? There is a leadership change coming up, isn't there? | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
Well, that's right. The fact is we don't know. We have had from one | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
top insider, he told another broadcaster that Xi Jinping had | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
injured himself whilst swimming, but the fact that the man who is | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
tipped to become China's next leader, become one of the most | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
powerful men on earth, the fact that for two weeks, nobody apart | :06:27. | :06:36. | |
from within the party knew where he was just shows how opaque China's | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
political system remains and many people around the world and some in | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
China think there needs to be changes, that the party needs to be | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
more accountable. The fact is that China now matters. It is a major | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
player in the world and it is the world's second largest economy. | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
Martin Patience, thank you very much. | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
To Georgia, there are reports ten people have been arrested before | :07:00. | :07:07. | |
the publication of graphic pictures showing prison inmates being abused | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
by guards. The film shows officers beating prisoners and one inmate | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
being sexually assaulted. The video sparked anti-Government | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
demonstrations weeks before Parliamentary elections and forced | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
the minister in charge of prisons to resign. | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
The French Government is calling for restraint and has condemned a | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
satirical magazine, for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
The images feature in the French weekly Charlie Hebdo. The last time | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
it published similar cartoons, its Paris offices were firebombed. | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
France's Foreign Ministry says it has increased security at its | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
embassies, fearing a backlash over the cartoons. The controversy | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
coincides with continuing anger in the Muslim world, over an amateur | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
anti-Islam film made in the United States. | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
There is just more, the latest line on the film, Pakistan are reported | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
to be giving Friday this week as a national holiday to try and perhaps | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
ease tensions around that. How do you deal with a headache? Do | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
you wait for it to go away on its own or do you take a painkiller? If | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
your first response is to rush to the medicine cabinet for a tablet, | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
you might want to think again. Doctors are warning that people who | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
regularly take tablets could be causing themselves extra pain. | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
Fergus Walsh explains. Aspirin, paracetamol and other painkillers | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
can be effective in treating headaches, but doctors say those | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
who take them more than 10 to 15 days a month are at risk of causing | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
themselves more pain than relief. This can end up up get nothing a | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
vicious cycle where your headache gets worse and you take more | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
painkillers and this is a very difficult disorder to treat. The | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
advice sounds simple which just says stop taking your painkillers, | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
but it is difficult advice. You have to be a strong patient to go | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
through this. This woman was shocked to find out | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
she had been taking over the recommended dose for her migraines | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
and it was giving her more headaches, so she stopped taking | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
them. I had to be signed off work for six | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
weeks whilst I was coming off the medication. The pain during that | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
six weeks wag really unbearable -- was really unbearable. It was like | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
having a terrible hangover every day, really sensitive to light and | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
sound. Specialists say stopping | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
painkillers abruptly makes the problem worse in the short-term, | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
but usually results in dramatically fewer headaches for patients. The | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
new guidance is for doctors in England and Wales. But the limited | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
research in this area suggests the problem is global affecting up to | :09:52. | :10:00. | |
one in 50 people worldwide. Jamie is here with all the business. | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
Two stories from Japan. The Bank of Japan, injecting more money? They | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
are going similar things to what the Federal Reserve was doing last | :10:11. | :10:19. | |
week. The Japanese plans to spend an extra $128 billion. It is an | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
idea that puts extra cash to allow banks to loan more and that's going | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
to, it hopes, boost investment and boost spending. It will hoped the | :10:29. | :10:36. | |
scheme will weaken the Japanese yen. The programme is due to last until | :10:36. | :10:45. | |
next year. I am joined by the head of research of Japanese markets. | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
Monetary policy can only go so far to encourage people to take out | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
loans. If this money isn't passed on to borrowers in terms of more | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
lending, what we might find and we would expect to find is that this | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
money will trickle out from banks into other financial assets such as | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
the equity market or into assets overseas which is something that | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
helps to weaken the exchange rates as well. So you know, I don't think | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
one needs to assess the success only in terms of the amount of | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
lending which we expect to remain modest in Japan given the weak | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
global economic environment and also certain factors at home that | :11:28. | :11:36. | |
are weighing on demand now. Today, Japan Airlines returned to | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
the Tokyo Tokyo stock market. It raised $8.5 billion from investors. | :11:41. | :11:48. | |
It is the second biggest share of the sale after Facebook. | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
One of Japan's most celebrated chief executives oversaw the | :11:54. | :12:01. | |
reorganisation of JAL. I asked Doug McNeil to assess his | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
performance. It has been an extraordinary turn | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
around. This is a company that was losing over �1 billion a year when | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
he took over. It is making over �1 billion a year. He managed to push | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
through enormous job cuts, something like 40% of the employees | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
have gone, that's 15,000 redundancies in a society, in a | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
culture, where redundancies are hard to effect. There is no | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
question that he has done an extraordinary job. | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
The German State rail operator has placed its first order in Poland. | :12:36. | :12:46. | |
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It ordered 470 low co motives. It already supplies eng jince to -- | :12:47. | :12:56. | |
engines to Italian and lith winian -- lith uwaneian railways. | :12:56. | :13:06. | |
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Shares in Zara are up today. The company made �1.-- $1..2 billion. | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
-- $172 billion. -- -- $1.2 billion. | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
Miners in South Africa have have accepted a hefty pay rise. The | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
agreement includes a 2,000 rand bonus, a rise in wages as well of | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
between 1 and 22% -- 11% and 22%. Some analysts warned that the wage | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
increase could lead to a rash of pay demands across the mining | :13:36. | :13:46. | |
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sector. Plans for a new carrier has cause | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
upset in Germany. We could be entering a period of | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
food prices rising shortly. A report by commodities specialist, | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
warned that drought and poor harvests around the world will | :14:13. | :14:19. | |
raise the price of grains and animal feed. Staple feeds could | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
become more expensive. Meat could return to being a a luxury for | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
people on lower incomes. An analyst said food producers will need time | :14:30. | :14:37. | |
in order to raise production levels. We are likely to see much increased | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
acreage and in America next year, but we are at thread bare stock | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
levels and exposed to any negative weather impacts again next year, | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
but at the moment we have got to deal with the fact that there is | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
not nearly enough corn and soya beans in the world to supply what | :14:53. | :14:59. | |
would be the ideal level of needs for the people. | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
The markets. The FTSE is up just a fraction. | :15:04. | :15:11. | |
Little movement. Even the I had taleian market hard -- Italian | :15:11. | :15:21. | |
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In the United States, it goes on for a longer period of time, until | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
2016. This Bank of Japan action will go on until the end of next | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
year. That is the business. You're watching BBC World News. | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
Still to come: What happens when marrying into the family firm isn't | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
enough? We'll find out why tens of thousands of Japanese men are | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
willing to go one step further to prove their loyalty to the business. | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
President Obama has accused his Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, | :15:54. | :16:01. | |
of writing off a large part of America. It's after Mr Romney made | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
disparaging comments about a wide section of voters at a private | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
fund-raising gala. Appearing on The Letterman Show, Mr Obama said one | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
of the first things he'd learned as President was that he had to | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
represent the whole of the country - Republicans and Democrats. | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
All smiles from the President and at a surprise gift from his | :16:21. | :16:29. | |
opponent. Here, making the most of it on the Late Show. You represent | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
the entire country as President. When I meet Republicans, as I am | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
travelling around the country, they are hard-working family people, who | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
care deeply about this country. My expectation is that if you want to | :16:46. | :16:53. | |
be President, you have to work for everybody, not just for some. | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
Romney putting on a brave face as he shows his grandchildren his | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
campaign plane in Salt Lake City. His campaign is again in damage- | :17:03. | :17:13. | |
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control. Tonight on World News... The news bulletins announced a | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
political earthquake that has shaken up the race. All this thanks | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
to comments Mitt Romney made four months ago inside a Florida mansion | :17:24. | :17:34. | |
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at a private $50,000 a head At a fund-raising lunch, the | :17:41. | :17:48. | |
cameras were allowed in. approach is a government-centred | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
America, where government takes more and more and then gives to | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
those who believe they need that help. We all believe that when | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
people are in distress and when they need help, we pull them back | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
up, but we don't believe in redistribution. Four years ago, | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
then candidate Barack Obama was taped at a fundraiser talking about | :18:09. | :18:15. | |
voters who cling to their God and their guns. That was months before | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
the election. Mitt Romney has only seven weeks left of a very tight | :18:19. | :18:29. | |
race. This is BBC World News. The | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
headlines: Rebels say there's heavy fighting | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
in Damascus, as government troops close in on the southern suburb of | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
Al Haja Al Aswad. The man tipped to be China's next | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
leader, Xi Jin Ping, says Japan should "rein in" its behaviour over | :18:40. | :18:48. | |
a chain of disputed islands in the East China Sea. | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
Last Wednesday, in a devastating night-time attack on the United | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
States Consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi, the American | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
Ambassador and three of his staff were killed. In an exclusive | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
interview with the BBC, an ultra- conservative Muslim group denied | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
any involvement in that and other attacks against Western targets but | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
said it rejected what it saw as the imposition of democracy in Libya, | :19:05. | :19:15. | |
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as Wyre Davies reports from Benghazi. Libyans celebrating | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
Martyrs' Day as perhaps they know best - with guns. In the city where | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi began, there are reminders | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
of the sacrifices these people made to win their freedom. There are | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
some here who still refuse to lay down their weapons. Radical | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
Islamist groups say the fight for Libya is not over. Ominously, they | :19:46. | :19:55. | |
reject a Western Style solution. TRANSLATION: We don't believe in | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
the democratic system, even those countries who pretend they are | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
wooed by democracy. We want to tell the whole world the project of | :20:06. | :20:13. | |
democracy is not for us and it doesn't suit Islam. They deny | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
allegations it was responsible for the death of the American | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
Ambassador, although it supports the rights of Muslims to protest | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
and says it sympathises with other organisations including Al-Qaeda. | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
The authorities have identified or arrested 50 people in connection | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
with last week's attack. They won't say who they are nor what the | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
evidence against them is. They admit many of the perpetrators may | :20:40. | :20:46. | |
already have left Libya. Much of this is just for show and Libya's | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
new authorities have been criticised for failing to get on | :20:48. | :20:58. | |
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top of a worsening security situation. That's what we believe, | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
public opinion, the majority of Libyans are against this. Then | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
there is the impact of all this instability on Benghazi's ambitions | :21:10. | :21:17. | |
to rebuild. This sprawling half- built new town for 200,000 people | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
was abandoned last year by its Chinese developers. They have yet | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
to return. Many of the foreign companies will be very hesitant to | :21:27. | :21:35. | |
come back to Benghazi and this is tragic for Libya and for Benghazi. | :21:35. | :21:42. | |
We are shooting ourself in the foot. The majority of Libyans clearly | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
support the democratic project and this city has an overwhelmingly | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
positive feel. But a handful of radical militants could still spoil | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
everything. Family businesses dominate Asia's | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
corporate landscape. But Japan has the largest number of them, some | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
with a very long history. They include household names such as | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
Suzuki. For generations, sons have always taken on the top job and | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
there's been a unique method to ensure there's always a male heir | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
to inherit the business - formally adopting a son-in-law into the | :22:10. | :22:20. | |
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family. It was in 718 when this hot spring inn was founded by a | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
Buddhist monk. For 46 generations, the hotel and the name of the monk | :22:27. | :22:37. | |
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have been passed down from father to son. Meet the latest Zengoro | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
Hoshi. How have they always managed to have a boy for 1,300 years? | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
There is a catch. TRANSLATION: When there were only | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
girls, the family would adopt a daughter's husband. My father was | :23:00. | :23:08. | |
adopted like that. It is very important for us to keep the name. | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
Most family businesses aren't as old as this one. Here in Japan it | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
is not uncommon for sons-in-law to be legally adopted to take over the | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
family business. In fact, even today there are more than 80,000 | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
men who are adopted and change their surnames each year. And now | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
the traditional practice has gone online. This woman has started a | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
match-making website. It is for women looking for a husband who is | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
willing to be legally adopted by his wife's family. She says in a | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
poor economy more men are seeking opportunities to use their business | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
skills outside the corporate world. This man is one of them. He has | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
signed up to the website in November. He lost his own business | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
to his ex-wife. Now he wants to get remarried and take over another | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
business. TRANSLATION: I don't have a problem | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
changing my family name because I see it like a nickname given by the | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
government for the family registry. If there is a chance for me to | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
inherit a family business and make it successful, then that would be | :24:20. | :24:30. | |
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best for everyone. For the family who runs the inn, it's time to pray | :24:33. | :24:40. | |
for their business to continue its success and for the name to live on | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
in many more generations. And since that report was made, | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
Zengoro Hoshi has told us of his son's death. He says he'll now | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
groom his teenage grandson to take over the business - and the name | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
Zengoro Hoshi. You can hear more about that story on Assignment on | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
BBC World Service. Visit our website for more details. Doctors | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
in Sweden have carried out the first transplant of wombs from | :25:00. | :25:07. | |
mothers to their daughters. The operations were carried out in | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
Gothenburg over the weekend. It was an operation that a team of | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
ten surgeons had trained for several years to carry out. At the | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
weekend, they finally completed the world's first mother to daughter | :25:21. | :25:28. | |
uterus transplants. TRANSLATION: Transplant surgery has | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
moved on to transplanting organs that improve the quality of life. | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
That's what a uterus transplant does. One of the recipients had | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
lost her womb to cancer. The other had been born without a uterus. Now | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
that both of them have received their mother's wombs, they are | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
hoping they will be able to carry their own babies. Surgeons believe | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
they will be ready to conceive in a year from now. | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
TRANSLATION: We have already done IVF on these women and we have a | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
large number of embryos in the freezer. We want to wait 12 months | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
so the rejection risk is minimal and then, like with normal IVF, we | :26:05. | :26:12. | |
will put in one embryo at a time to try and achieve pregnancy. The two | :26:12. | :26:18. | |
mothers who donated their organs will be discharged from hospital in | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
a few days. The surgeons say they will only judge the operations a | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
success if they give birth to healthy babies. | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
I want to show you these pictures before we go. | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
One of nature's rarest weather events has been captured on camera | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
by an Australian film maker. A fire tornado, made up of flames reaching | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
around 30 metres off the ground, was filmed by Chris Tangey. He was | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
out in the outback searching for film locations when he saw the | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
twister. Fire tornados are also known as "fire whirls" or "fire | :26:49. | :26:52. |