:00:15. > :00:19.At least 30 people killed in bomb- blasts in Aleppo, Syria's second
:00:19. > :00:21.city. Hamas is accused of torture, police
:00:21. > :00:26.brutality and arbitrary arrests in Gaza.
:00:27. > :00:30.And further tensions between China and Japan in their islands dispute.
:00:30. > :00:39.This time three Chinese ships enter the frame.
:00:39. > :00:42.Welcome to BBC World News. I'm pert Dobbie. -- Peter Dobbie. Also in
:00:42. > :00:46.the programme: The US presidential campaign heats up. Barack Obama and
:00:46. > :00:47.Mitt Romney prepare to go head to head in a televised debate on the
:00:47. > :00:57.economy. And supermarket giant Tesco posts
:00:57. > :01:04.
:01:04. > :01:08.its first fall in profits in nearly Our top story.
:01:08. > :01:11.In Syria, at least 30 people have been killed in a series of
:01:11. > :01:13.explosions in the northern city of Aleppo. Three bombs exploded in an
:01:13. > :01:16.area controlled by Government forces. Two of the attacks took
:01:16. > :01:18.place in a central square and another outside the nearby town
:01:18. > :01:22.hall. Fighting between Government forces and rebels in Aleppo has
:01:22. > :01:29.recently intensified, splitting the city in two. Our correspondent, Jim
:01:29. > :01:33.Muir, is in Beirut. He says the death toll is set to rise.
:01:33. > :01:37.Obviously there are people who are being pulled from the rubble
:01:37. > :01:42.probably even as we speak, some of them alive, some dead, some of them
:01:42. > :01:48.with injuries to which they will later succumb. Initially the
:01:48. > :01:53.figures start going up. State TV is saying 31 killed and dozens injured.
:01:53. > :01:56.Other figures from other killed are higher, 40 killed and so on.
:01:56. > :02:01.There'll finally be a reliable figure at the end of the day but it
:02:01. > :02:05.may be some time before the full magnitude becomes clear. What's
:02:05. > :02:08.clear from the pictures from state TV and others, as there are several
:02:08. > :02:13.sympathetic to the Government TV stations in the Aleppo area.
:02:14. > :02:19.They've all been with live pictures showing huv devastation. Several
:02:19. > :02:23.build "their fronts ripped off. Others virtually demolished, huge
:02:23. > :02:28.piles of debris going down into the square. Very big blasts leaving
:02:28. > :02:33.huge craters as well. And casualties being carried away in
:02:33. > :02:39.improvised stretchers made from blankets and so on. It's a scene of
:02:39. > :02:45.complete devastation. Right at the heart of the part of Aleppo still
:02:45. > :02:51.under control, in Saadallah al- Jabari Square. A hotel there
:02:51. > :02:56.virtually demolished. The officers club directly hit. Right at the
:02:56. > :03:00.heart of the Government's power, or symbols, in the middle of Aleppo,
:03:00. > :03:04.the biggest city in the country, over which there's been a struggle
:03:04. > :03:09.since July, an unresolved one. The Government is trying to break it
:03:09. > :03:13.but bring up more troops to launch an offensive in the next few days
:03:13. > :03:18.to try to break the grip of the rebels in the parts of the city
:03:18. > :03:26.where they are dug Such a difficult couple of days for the people of
:03:26. > :03:33.Aleppo. One remembers the pictures on Sunday of the central souk being
:03:33. > :03:36.burnt to the ground almost. That's right. It may have been that which
:03:36. > :03:42.decided that President Assad according to some reports to finish
:03:42. > :03:46.the story in Aleppo as quickly as possible, apparently ordering fresh
:03:46. > :03:49.troops from other areas in the east to try and crack this particularly
:03:49. > :03:53.difficult nut. There's a kind of axiom that whoever controls Aleppo
:03:53. > :03:57.will control the country, so I think both sides realise that this
:03:57. > :04:00.is a vital battle to win in the case of the rebels, if they are to
:04:00. > :04:05.have a chance of overthrough the regime. And in the case of the
:04:05. > :04:07.regime if it is a to have a chance of clinging on. Jim Muir in Beirut
:04:07. > :04:09.there. The Hamas Government in Gaza is
:04:09. > :04:12.being accused of using torture, police brutality and arbitrary
:04:12. > :04:15.arrests within its criminal justice system. The allegations come in a
:04:15. > :04:19.new report from the group, Human Rights Watch. Hamas has denied
:04:19. > :04:22.widespread abuse. The BBC's Jon Donnison is in Gaza City. A short
:04:22. > :04:29.time ago he said the Human Rights Watch report contains some fairly
:04:29. > :04:34.damning accusations. Some pretty strong language from Human Rights
:04:34. > :04:39.Watch saying that the criminal justice system in Gaza reeks of
:04:39. > :04:46.injustice. As you say, widespread police brutality, the use of
:04:46. > :04:49.torture, beatings, in some cases electric shock treatment and people
:04:49. > :04:54.being arrested arbitrarily. In some cases they've said that three
:04:54. > :04:59.people, at least, in the last five years have been executed as the
:04:59. > :05:03.result of confessions extracted through torture. I've been speaking
:05:03. > :05:07.to one young man who Human Rights Watch spoke to for this report.
:05:07. > :05:11.He's a supporter of Hamas's rivals, the Fatah movement. He's been
:05:11. > :05:15.arrested many times in recent years. We've concealed his identity for
:05:16. > :05:19.obvious reasons but I asked him what happened to him in detention.
:05:19. > :05:25.TRANSLATION: Conditions of detention were more than bad. I was
:05:25. > :05:31.subjected to torture, beatings and humiliation. I was not allowed to
:05:31. > :05:35.sleep for a few days. They put a stinky and heavy bad over my head.
:05:35. > :05:42.The torture led to a severe pain in my body, especially my neck and
:05:42. > :05:47.back. The beatings and humiliation continued for several days. One
:05:47. > :05:53.stripped my leg and burned my foot with a cigarette lighter. I tried
:05:53. > :05:57.to move my foot and they held me down and burned me again. What's
:05:57. > :06:01.the reaction there? It is interesting, as Ingham as have been
:06:01. > :06:05.more open to this criticism as they would have been in the past. Human
:06:05. > :06:07.Rights Watch have held a press conference the last hour sitting
:06:07. > :06:12.alongside Hamas officials, something I don't think would have
:06:12. > :06:17.happened in the past. As you might expect, Hamas have denied some of
:06:17. > :06:23.the allegations made in this report. I've been speaking to Hamas's
:06:23. > :06:28.Deputy Foreign Minister. I think the situation now has become more
:06:28. > :06:34.better than in the past. Can I confirm that there is no kind of
:06:34. > :06:38.torture inside Gaza. Because our rules and the censorship inside the
:06:38. > :06:45.prisons and the jail centres and everywhere. I have a good
:06:45. > :06:47.connection with all human rights organisations here in Gaza. I think
:06:47. > :06:56.one of the interesting things here that in the climate of the Arab
:06:56. > :07:01.Spring, where Hamas had been very critical of brutality in Basharal
:07:01. > :07:08.Assad's Syria and Hosni Mubarak's Egypt, Hamas perhaps not wanting to
:07:09. > :07:16.be tarred with the same brush. Figures from Tesco out today.
:07:16. > :07:23.the biggest retailer in the UK. In fact every �1 out of �7 or �8 spent
:07:23. > :07:27.on the ground in the UK, that �1 goes through a Tesco till. They are
:07:27. > :07:32.a giant. But we are seeing a first drop in profits for 20 years. 1994
:07:32. > :07:37.was the last time we saw a drop in profits. Big problems at home.
:07:37. > :07:41.They've been spending $1.5 billion on a revamp in the UK business,
:07:41. > :07:44.employing 8,000 staff and trying to turn that around. But the other
:07:44. > :07:47.problem is Tesco is in many places around the world and the
:07:47. > :07:51.international operations are struggling. You've got the eurozone
:07:51. > :07:56.crisis having a big impact on its European operations. The US, which
:07:56. > :08:00.has always been a bit of a struggle with its US operations. That
:08:00. > :08:06.continues drag its feet. And south Korea. They were pinning a lot of
:08:06. > :08:12.hopes there, but new regulations about store opening hours for big
:08:12. > :08:16.retailers is having an impact. New foods for customers to pop in
:08:16. > :08:21.their trolleys, more staff to give service on the shop floor. Tesco
:08:21. > :08:25.has been battling for months to stop customers drifting off to
:08:25. > :08:30.rivals. The hope is that halfway through its financial year it may
:08:30. > :08:34.just have arrested decline at home. But a third of Tesco's trade is now
:08:34. > :08:38.international and here, too, trouble seemed to be mounting.
:08:38. > :08:43.Countries in Asia and Eastern Europe have been success stories,
:08:43. > :08:47.but international operations are becoming volatile, and overall they
:08:47. > :08:51.aren't providing sufficient return for investors Particular, South
:08:51. > :08:55.Korea has ordered twice-monthly Sunday closures to protect local
:08:55. > :08:59.markets, and that is Tesco's biggest singlet overseas territory.
:09:00. > :09:06.And questions remain among analysts as to whether Tesco might decide to
:09:06. > :09:09.quit its loss-making US Fresh and Easy chain. Priority number one is
:09:09. > :09:13.stabilising the UK business. We've seen progress there. They need to
:09:13. > :09:17.ride out the storm in Ireland, a tricky market. The next item on
:09:17. > :09:22.their list is fissioning the US business and turning that into a
:09:22. > :09:26.profitable operation, probably a couple of years away. Perhaps lower
:09:26. > :09:30.down are rolling out e-commerce to the rest of their markets in
:09:30. > :09:33.Eastern Europe and Asia. Operational issues such as those.
:09:33. > :09:38.Tesco may be part of the community here but it has just pulled out of
:09:38. > :09:43.Japan. It has shown it is ready to take tough decisions. The problem
:09:43. > :09:52.is it is trying to fix the business overseas while also trying to
:09:52. > :10:01.revive it at home. Retail expert Raoul Sharma
:10:01. > :10:06.explained what has gone wrong for tegs cooverseas. -- Tesco overseas.
:10:06. > :10:10.In Europe and Asia Tesco are not doing as well as their peers are.
:10:10. > :10:15.It is to do with exposure to large stores. Consumers don't like the
:10:15. > :10:19.fact that potentially the price image isn't as good. They don't
:10:19. > :10:23.like the temptation of going into large stores, where in tough times
:10:23. > :10:26.they end up buying things they don't want to. You see the mistakes
:10:26. > :10:30.in the UK potentially being made overseas.
:10:30. > :10:37.Talks are continuing together between the Greek Government and
:10:37. > :10:41.its international lenders, known as the troika. The two parties are at
:10:41. > :10:45.loggerheads over 2 billion euros worth of savings in the package of
:10:45. > :10:51.austerity measures. The total package is 13.5 billion euros. The
:10:51. > :10:56.Greeks must pass all of us in order to get the next vital stalment of
:10:56. > :11:00.that bail-out money. -- instalment of that bail-out money. There's
:11:00. > :11:04.still real deadlock over these 2 billion euros worth of cuts within
:11:04. > :11:08.the larger package. What the Government wants is to be able to
:11:08. > :11:12.cut back in defence, health and local authority spending. What the
:11:12. > :11:17.troika says is that's not going to work. They want more across the
:11:17. > :11:20.board cuts to jobs, salaries and pensions. But the Finance Minister
:11:20. > :11:25.says that could prompt such an outburst of anger here that it
:11:25. > :11:29.could lead the Government to fall. We saw a huge demonstration last
:11:29. > :11:33.week. 50,000 people on the streets here. There's a lot of anger over
:11:33. > :11:36.the cuts to come. Already lots of job cuts and salary cuts included
:11:36. > :11:40.in the package. The Government feels they need to try to soften
:11:40. > :11:46.the blow by restructuring other areas. The troika says that
:11:46. > :11:50.wouldn't work. All of this means that Greece's payout of the next
:11:50. > :11:55.instalment of its loan may be delayed. The 21 billion euros that
:11:55. > :11:58.was going to be signed off at the EU summit in October might be
:11:58. > :12:03.pushed back because of this disagreement. Let's touch on some
:12:03. > :12:08.of the other business stories. A post-Olympic snurge the number of
:12:08. > :12:13.holiday-makers visiting the -- surge in the number of lol day
:12:13. > :12:21.makers visiting the -- holiday- makers visiting the UK, according
:12:21. > :12:30.to EasyJet. The hivery coast has fixed its
:12:30. > :12:34.price for cocoa at $2.41 per kilo. Farmers will receive 60% of that
:12:35. > :12:37.price 2. 2% goes to exporters and middlemen. The next to the
:12:37. > :12:46.Government. The Ivory Coast has been trying to boost the income tax
:12:46. > :12:52.of farmers to encourage investment. As Iran's currency continues to
:12:52. > :12:59.fall, official money trade ers in Tehran have held a protest
:12:59. > :13:01.demanding the Governor's resignation, and chanting anti-
:13:01. > :13:07.Government slogans. The President has blamed western sanctions for
:13:07. > :13:12.the crisis, but many Iranians accuse him of financial
:13:12. > :13:17.accuse him of financial mismanagement.
:13:17. > :13:23.European markets, a bit of a mixed bag. Every waiting to see the
:13:23. > :13:28.decision by these international lenders to Greece. This is vital
:13:28. > :13:32.for Greece to get its next chunk of bail-out money. Those international
:13:32. > :13:39.lenders are finalising this report card. We should have it in a week's
:13:39. > :13:44.time. The Asian markets, they are a bit mixed as well. All eyes on the
:13:44. > :13:49.US jobs numbers on Friday. Whether or not the US can shake
:13:49. > :13:57.that stubborn 8% unemployment. that televised debate today about
:13:57. > :14:06.Still to come: further tensions between China and Japan in their
:14:06. > :14:13.islands dispute. This time three Chinese ships enter the fray.
:14:13. > :14:18.In the Ukraine the Parliament has given initial backing on a ban on
:14:18. > :14:22.the promotion of gay rights activity. A similar law was adopted
:14:22. > :14:30.in the Russian city of St Peter's bug recently and led to the arrest
:14:30. > :14:35.of several same sex couples. The group outside the Ukrainian
:14:35. > :14:38.Parliament was small but vocal. Gay rights campaigners gathered to
:14:38. > :14:42.protest about a bill that would make this demonstration illegal.
:14:42. > :14:50.The bill which has just passed its first reading would make promoting
:14:50. > :14:54.homosexuality a criminal offence, with those found guilty facing jail.
:14:54. > :15:00.TRANSLATION: We will not be able to come out with posters like today
:15:00. > :15:04.with our symbols. To say publicly that you are a homosexual or a less
:15:04. > :15:08.ban would be considered propaganda. The Bill has been criticised by
:15:08. > :15:18.human rights groups but is not without its supporters, who held
:15:18. > :15:23.
:15:23. > :15:27.their own counter protest outside TRANSLATION: This worries us and we
:15:27. > :15:31.demand a ban and punishment. The decision to pass the bill was
:15:31. > :15:35.supported by more than half of Ukraine's members of Parliament.
:15:35. > :15:38.The bill doesn't clearly define what the promotion of homosexuality
:15:39. > :15:44.is, but it states that it's a threat to national security and
:15:44. > :15:48.threatens family life. Gay rights campaigners fear the country could
:15:48. > :15:52.follow the city of St Petersburg in Russia, where gay couples have been
:15:52. > :16:02.arrested, but the bill has to pass a second reading and be approved by
:16:02. > :16:04.
:16:04. > :16:09.the President, before it becomes law. A leaked draft report has
:16:09. > :16:13.uncovered problems. It says some measures agreed 20 years ago still
:16:13. > :16:19.haven't been implemented in certain countries and it might need up to
:16:19. > :16:22.$30 billion to put it right. Now, look very closely. This is the
:16:22. > :16:26.scene in Rome, the dome of St Peter's Basilica shining in the
:16:26. > :16:28.autumn sunlight, but if you look near the top half, you can see the
:16:28. > :16:31.figure of a man. Marcello Di Finizio jumped over the railings
:16:31. > :16:34.near the top of the 137-metre-high dome on Tuesday and abseiled to
:16:34. > :16:44.that ledge over the window to unfurl his banner. He's protesting
:16:44. > :16:47.
:16:47. > :16:50.against austerity measures. This is BBC World News. The headlines - at
:16:50. > :16:55.least 30 people are killed in a series of explosions in Aleppo,
:16:55. > :17:02.Syria's second city. The Hamas government denies accusations of
:17:03. > :17:05.torture, police brutality and arbitrary arrests in Gaza. A
:17:05. > :17:12.Chinese-owned firm in the US is suing President Barack Obama after
:17:12. > :17:16.he blocked a wind farm deal on national security grounds. Ralls
:17:16. > :17:20.Corp, a private firm, bought four wind farm projects near a US naval
:17:20. > :17:24.facility in Oregon earlier this year. Mr Obama signed the order
:17:24. > :17:34.blocking the deal last week. The lawsuit alleges the US Government
:17:34. > :17:37.overstepped its authority. There's been a renewed flare-up in tension
:17:37. > :17:39.between China and Japan over disputed islands in the East China
:17:39. > :17:40.Sea. Three Chinese maritime surveillance vessels have entered
:17:40. > :17:44.Japan's territorial waters around the Japanese-controlled Senkaku
:17:44. > :17:47.Islands, known as the Diaoyu Islands in Chinese. This follows
:17:47. > :17:51.further incursions by Chinese vessels into Japanese waters on
:17:51. > :17:59.Monday and Tuesday. Our correspondent in Tokyo is Rupert
:17:59. > :18:03.Wingfield-Hayes. It's pretty clear now that the Japanese Government
:18:03. > :18:08.badly miscalculated when it moved to nationalise three of the islands
:18:08. > :18:11.in the East China Sea last month. That move has prompted Beijing to
:18:11. > :18:16.assert its sovereignty claim to the Senkaku Islands or Diaoyu Islands
:18:16. > :18:22.as never before. Chinese ships are sailing into waters around the
:18:22. > :18:26.islands on a regular, almost, daily basis, testing Japan's resolve.
:18:26. > :18:31.After the latest incursion today the Foreign Minister said the
:18:31. > :18:34.dispute must be calmed down peacefully, but the Chinese side
:18:34. > :18:40.appears in no mood for dialogue. There are reports from Tokyo today
:18:40. > :18:45.that several Chinese-state-run banks have pulled out of a major
:18:45. > :18:48.International Monetary Fund and World Bank conference here in Tokyo
:18:48. > :18:52.next week without any explanation and while the Japanese Foreign
:18:52. > :18:56.Minister is saying he wants this resolved peacefully, he also said
:18:56. > :19:01.today that Japan will never back down on its sovereignty claim. We
:19:01. > :19:06.cannot see what we cannot see, he told Japanese journalists. The
:19:06. > :19:16.danger now is that as China continues to test Japan's resolve
:19:16. > :19:30.
:19:31. > :19:32.there will come a point where Tokyo feels it has to respond. In South
:19:33. > :19:36.Africa, the commission investigating the killing of 34
:19:36. > :19:38.miners at the Lonmin Platinum Mine in Marikana will be hearing from
:19:38. > :19:40.forensic experts and crime scene investigators and will examine
:19:40. > :19:43.pathology reports. The Judicial Commission, which is led by judge
:19:43. > :19:46.Ian Farlam, will look into the roles of the police, the mine
:19:46. > :19:49.management, government and the unions. With just over one month to
:19:49. > :19:53.go until election day in the US, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney will
:19:53. > :20:01.go head to head for the first time in a televised debate on the
:20:01. > :20:03.economy. Live now to Rome to our reporter regarding the trial of the
:20:03. > :20:08.Pope's butler. In terms of testimony this gets more
:20:08. > :20:13.interesting and more interesting. It does, indeed. We heard today in
:20:13. > :20:18.court from four police officers who conducted a search of the butler's
:20:18. > :20:22.apartment and they said they came across a vast number of documents.
:20:23. > :20:28.We knew that they were kept in something like more than 80 boxes
:20:28. > :20:34.in different parts of the butler's home and it included many, many
:20:34. > :20:42.printouts on all kinds of subjects. As you say, secret sex, on masonry
:20:42. > :20:46.and on Silvio Berlusconi and yoga - a vast range of subjects, but the
:20:46. > :20:54.police narrowed down about 1,000 documents, which they felt were
:20:54. > :20:58.directly relevant to the case against the butler. A number of
:20:58. > :21:04.photo copies and among them several original documents that would have
:21:04. > :21:09.passed across the Pope's desk. far as this evidence today from
:21:09. > :21:15.these three or four Vatican police officers giving evidence, doing
:21:15. > :21:18.research into the occult and yoga it's perfectly legal and allowable
:21:18. > :21:24.and it -- allowable and it doesn't prove membership and we get the
:21:24. > :21:28.indicator and we are nudged to the idea that the Vatican is not
:21:28. > :21:33.holding back when it is going after this man in anyway at all?
:21:33. > :21:37.Certainly, we are finding out a great deal more about the butler's
:21:37. > :21:43.private interests, but I don't think that they are going to count
:21:43. > :21:48.for a very great deal in the end. This case is about aggravated theft,
:21:48. > :21:54.the official theft. It will narrow down to whether the judges decide
:21:54. > :21:59.that he did indeed take documents from his employer's study and
:21:59. > :22:05.whether he took, as well, three other items, a rare book, a nugget
:22:05. > :22:09.of gold, he's accused of taking that home with him and
:22:09. > :22:14.extraordinarily, 100,000 euro cheque made out in the name of the
:22:14. > :22:17.Pope. Now, he says with regard to those items he had been allowed to
:22:17. > :22:21.borrow the book. He didn't know the nugget was there. Denied it was
:22:21. > :22:26.part of his possessions or anything like that. He said that he had
:22:26. > :22:32.never seen the cheque, as part of the documents that he was scooping
:22:32. > :22:37.up and taking home with him. Thank you very much. With over one month
:22:37. > :22:41.to go until election day in the US, President Obama and Mitt Romney go
:22:41. > :22:46.head to head for the first time in a televised debate later today
:22:46. > :22:48.focusing on the economy. The president is under attack from the
:22:48. > :22:51.Republicans, accused of failing to deliver strong economic growth and
:22:51. > :22:54.crucially, much-needed jobs after the recession. Nowhere is that felt
:22:54. > :23:04.more than in Reno Nevada, home to the highest unemployment rate in
:23:04. > :23:09.
:23:09. > :23:15.the country. Reno is a bit less Vegas than Las Vegas. It might be
:23:15. > :23:21.little, but the voters could have a big impact. Casinos - once the
:23:21. > :23:24.city's lifeblood are in decline. Few places in America were worse
:23:24. > :23:28.hit by recession. Nevada has the highest unemployment rate in the
:23:28. > :23:33.country. President Obama won here comfortably four years ago. This
:23:33. > :23:38.time it will be closer. You are going to have a big choice to make
:23:38. > :23:43.and it's not just a choice between two candidates or two political
:23:43. > :23:48.parties. It's a choice between two different paths for this Government.
:23:48. > :23:51.-- for this country. This is the other path, Mitt Romney, the
:23:51. > :23:55.businessman turned politician, who is promising to turn the economy
:23:55. > :23:59.around. He has slipped a little in the polls, but it's still too close
:23:59. > :24:02.to call. He's debates are an opportunity for each of us to
:24:02. > :24:06.describe the path forward we choose and the American people are going
:24:06. > :24:10.to have to make their choices as to what kind of America they want.
:24:10. > :24:14.More money is being spent on this election than ever before. Who wins
:24:14. > :24:19.depends on how people vote in a handful of swing states and more
:24:19. > :24:23.specifically in a few areas of those states. And so all that money
:24:23. > :24:30.is being spent on bombarding the undecided with TV ads and with
:24:30. > :24:36.phone calls. This is the President Obama campaign. I'm a volunteer.
:24:36. > :24:40.The Democrats have a well-oiled campaign machine. It was grassroots
:24:40. > :24:44.supporters inspiring new voters who won the President his first term in
:24:44. > :24:48.office. We are outnumbering Republicans with new voter
:24:48. > :24:52.registration and we have volunteers in here every day making phone
:24:52. > :24:56.calls and we have a paid canvassing team that's been on the ground for
:24:56. > :25:02.months now and we'll have a large army of volunteers on the ground
:25:02. > :25:06.when it's time to get out to vote. Just down the road, the Republicans
:25:06. > :25:14.are doing exactly the same thing, and in a swing state your phone's
:25:14. > :25:19.always ringing. We always know that down near Las Vegas that always
:25:19. > :25:26.goes Democrat and in the others all Republican. This county here right
:25:26. > :25:30.here, whichever way it goes it will term how the state goes. How is it
:25:30. > :25:35.going? The competition is very much on and people are divided. The man
:25:35. > :25:40.that can put more people to work, that can get our economy better is
:25:40. > :25:46.the man who is going to go through. Have you decided how to vote?
:25:46. > :25:49.Who? I'm going with Romney. Romney is for the rich and we are just the
:25:49. > :25:52.middle class that is talked about. I hope whoever wins is going to do
:25:52. > :25:58.the job for all the people not just some of the people. Have you
:25:58. > :26:04.decided how you'll vote? Not yet. Which way the undecided voters go
:26:04. > :26:07.depends on what happens in four short weeks. Well, in some US
:26:07. > :26:10.states people don't have to wait for the official election day
:26:10. > :26:13.before they can vote. Ballot boxes in Ohio opened for the first time
:26:13. > :26:16.on Tuesday morning and some people camped overnight so they could be
:26:16. > :26:19.amongst the first to make their choice. Ohio is one of several
:26:19. > :26:22.states where residents don't have to give a reason to vote early, a
:26:22. > :26:32.system which helps avoid long queues at polling stations on
:26:32. > :26:35.
:26:35. > :26:38.election day. At least 30 people have been killed in a series of
:26:39. > :26:42.explosions in Aleppo. Three bombs, maybe four, according to one report,
:26:42. > :26:46.explode ing in an area controlled by Government forces. Two of the
:26:46. > :26:52.attacks took place in a central square and another outside the