:00:11. > :00:14.The ceasefire in Gaza between Hamas and Israel is holding. In the past
:00:14. > :00:17.few minutes, the Israeli Prime Minister has said he'll work around
:00:17. > :00:21.the clock to preserve stability and security.
:00:21. > :00:24.A trillion euros on the line, as EU leaders meet in Brussels to thrash
:00:24. > :00:30.out a deal for the next sevens years of spending. British Prime
:00:30. > :00:36.Minister David Cameron is campaigning to freeze the budget.
:00:36. > :00:40.Gap clearly, at a time when we are making difficult decisions at home
:00:40. > :00:43.about public spending, it is wrong for there to be proposals for this
:00:43. > :00:47.increased extra spending in the EU. Rebel forces in Syria say they've
:00:47. > :00:51.captured an important military base in the east of the country, after a
:00:51. > :00:56.battle lasting three weeks. Welcome to BBC World News.
:00:56. > :01:00.Also in this programme: At least two Tottenham fans are seriously
:01:00. > :01:05.injured in Rome. They were attacked by masked men with iron bars in a
:01:05. > :01:08.bar. Spurs play Lazio in the Europa League tonight.
:01:08. > :01:18.And, the chance to buy a British seaside pier, and secure its future
:01:18. > :01:30.
:01:30. > :01:33.A ceasefire agreed on Wednesday between Israel and Hamas has
:01:33. > :01:36.largely held overnight. A number of rockets were fired towards southern
:01:36. > :01:40.Israel from Gaza in the first few hours, but Israel did not respond
:01:40. > :01:43.and appears not to be regarding this as a breach of the ceasefire.
:01:43. > :01:53.Israel says it's arrested what it described as 55 terror operatives
:01:53. > :02:10.
:02:10. > :02:13.in the West Bank overnight. I'm joined in the studio by Yossi
:02:13. > :02:19.Mekelberg, Associate Fellow at Chatham House, and Programme
:02:19. > :02:25.Director at Regent's College. Let us start with these remarks
:02:25. > :02:30.from Binyamin Netanyahu. Pretty solid stuff, saying, our prime
:02:30. > :02:35.objective is security. You would expect that. He has also said many
:02:35. > :02:45.citizens expect more to come in turns of turning the military power
:02:45. > :02:52.on Gaza. That is a different message. Ideal for now, he says,
:02:52. > :02:58.that is a euphemism. 70% in a recent survey said they would like
:02:58. > :03:04.to see a wider operation to completely eradicate the military
:03:04. > :03:14.capability of Hamas in Gaza. On the other hand, I hear a lot of voices,
:03:14. > :03:18.
:03:18. > :03:26.there will be many casualties, also on the Palestinian side. We have to
:03:26. > :03:32.watch this very carefully. It shows how the time is of the essence. 24
:03:32. > :03:36.hours before they move into talking about ending possibly the blockade
:03:36. > :03:44.on Gaza. There really is very little time for the next step to be
:03:44. > :03:47.taken, can you see it happening? am not so sure. This is left for
:03:47. > :03:55.the international community. The United States, United Nations,
:03:55. > :04:02.especially Egypt. The thing we have learned from the past 20 years, if
:04:02. > :04:07.we procrastinate, it will end in another military campaign. There is
:04:07. > :04:14.some political agreement, for the first time for a while, there is a
:04:14. > :04:18.political agreement that Hamas and it is rare and Egypt and the United
:04:18. > :04:27.States and United Nations, if they can take it to the most logical
:04:27. > :04:35.next step of creating a political environment about stopping violence
:04:35. > :04:39.long turn, may be something good can come out of it. How important
:04:39. > :04:45.is it, the role that Egypt will have to play? The result from the
:04:45. > :04:51.last few days is Hamas has been turned into a real player.
:04:51. > :05:01.fight that the agreement is between Hamas and Egypt and Israel and
:05:01. > :05:05.
:05:05. > :05:08.Egypt shows Egypt has a significant role to play. I think they can
:05:08. > :05:17.start in this political process leading to close to negotiations
:05:17. > :05:23.with Hamas, the west Bank intifada. First, to make life liveable for
:05:23. > :05:26.the people, and maybe to deal with those other massive issues.
:05:26. > :05:29.Europe's leaders have started to arrive in Brussels for the multi-
:05:29. > :05:33.billion euro negotiations over the EU's long-term budget. 27 countries
:05:33. > :05:36.will have to come to an agreement over the next few days, with some
:05:36. > :05:38.nations supporting the proposed 5% increase. But several key players,
:05:38. > :05:42.including Britain and the Netherlands, want a spending freeze
:05:42. > :05:51.or a reduction. One of the keenest budget hawks, the UK Prime Minister
:05:51. > :05:55.David Cameron, arrived this morning in a confrontational mood.
:05:55. > :06:03.Head south from Brussels to France, you immediately hit tricky
:06:03. > :06:07.territory. The EU spends much of its money on farming subsidies.
:06:07. > :06:13.Farming subsidies that keep businesses like this one a float,
:06:13. > :06:20.and food prices down. What if the French President were to agree to a
:06:20. > :06:24.reduction in subsidy as part of a deal on the EU budget? That would
:06:24. > :06:29.be a great deception for me and I think for most of the farmers in
:06:29. > :06:33.France. You would feel let down by the President? Of course,
:06:34. > :06:38.completely let down. While the French are digging their heels in
:06:38. > :06:43.on agriculture spending, in Poland, for instance, they are saying there
:06:43. > :06:47.must be increases in regional development funding. The problem
:06:47. > :06:52.for Brussels is that if -- at every single country has to agree
:06:52. > :06:56.otherwise there is no deal. That means every single country has to
:06:56. > :07:01.give something up, including Britain. I am quite prepared to use
:07:01. > :07:06.the veto if we don't get a deal good for Britain. To David Cameron
:07:06. > :07:11.has promised to fight for a real- terms freeze in EU spending. Some
:07:11. > :07:15.fear there is a cost for Britain in any part of a deal, it could mean
:07:15. > :07:21.less EU money being spent on development projects like this one
:07:21. > :07:25.in Wales. Wales probably get �1 billion a year it in EU funding.
:07:25. > :07:29.Any cut in the Budget will have a big impact. Across Eastern Europe
:07:29. > :07:35.in particular, they have the same fear. Infrastructure projects get
:07:35. > :07:42.much of their money from the EU. In indebted Spain and Italy, they are
:07:42. > :07:46.fighting against cuts to regional funding. The EU budget is, in
:07:46. > :07:52.comparison to national spending, tiny. But in Brussels the argument
:07:52. > :07:58.is about both how much money is spent, and how it is spent. And it
:07:58. > :08:07.is an argument that may not be resolved at this summit.
:08:07. > :08:10.Now it's time for the business. The eurozone is on course for its
:08:10. > :08:15.worst quarterly performance since the dark days of 2009, according to
:08:15. > :08:17.a key business survey published this morning. The closely-watched
:08:17. > :08:20.Markit Purchasing Managers' survey, which measures activity in
:08:20. > :08:24.manufacturing and services, points to a significant contraction of up
:08:24. > :08:27.to 0.5% in the last three months of the year. Separate figures for
:08:27. > :08:29.Germany and France also show activity continuing to shrink in
:08:29. > :08:39.November, with services in Germany's economy slowing down at
:08:39. > :08:40.
:08:40. > :08:50.their fastest rate for three-and-a- half years.
:08:50. > :08:51.
:08:51. > :08:56.I'm joined by Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit. He says
:08:56. > :09:02.the latest survey shows it will be tougher for the region going for it.
:09:02. > :09:06.We had a mild downturn in the third quarter. Surveys have signalled
:09:06. > :09:12.there were strong downward pressures building. They are coming
:09:12. > :09:18.into force now in the 4th quarter. Eurozone recession is deepening and
:09:18. > :09:23.spreading across the regions. Not just the usual suspects, Spain,
:09:23. > :09:28.Italy and Greece contracting, but the previously held the regions,
:09:28. > :09:32.Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. Would you say these
:09:32. > :09:37.results are a benchmark of where the eurozone is out, perhaps the
:09:37. > :09:43.third quarter results gave an optimistic view? We think there
:09:43. > :09:47.were some factors which boosted the eurozone economy in summer, strong
:09:47. > :09:52.car production and car exports, certainly from France and Germany.
:09:52. > :09:59.Those factors are fading now leading a general picture of
:09:59. > :10:04.contraction. What has been the real driver behind this? In Germany, it
:10:04. > :10:09.has been the manufacturing sector which has pulled it down? Global
:10:09. > :10:16.trade has been very weak, with declining demand in Asia and the UK
:10:16. > :10:26.and US as well. That has hit exports. Also, the eurozone has a
:10:26. > :10:33.weak domestic demand. Austerity measures are having an impact. We
:10:33. > :10:36.are seeing steep decline in domestic demand.
:10:36. > :10:39.China's economy has been losing steam for almost two years. This
:10:39. > :10:42.morning, some more evidence that growth is beginning to rebound.
:10:42. > :10:47.Here's Sharanjit Leyl, in the BBC's Singapore office, with the details.
:10:47. > :10:57.The China manufacturing has picked up pace, according to a HSBC report,
:10:57. > :10:57.
:10:57. > :11:04.the latest sign growth may be rebounding. The purchasing index
:11:04. > :11:09.rose to 15.4 -- over 50, which means expansion. The first time in
:11:09. > :11:15.12 months the index has been above that level. It follows a rise in
:11:15. > :11:19.industrial production, retail sales in October. All of which were
:11:19. > :11:25.announced before the leadership transition. China's manufacturing
:11:25. > :11:30.sector is worth watching. A key driver in its economic growth. It
:11:30. > :11:36.has been hit by the slowdown in demand for Chinese exports from a
:11:36. > :11:42.lot of the major markets, the eurozone, US and Japan, which has
:11:42. > :11:46.hurt China's economic growth which fell to a three year low. Chinese
:11:46. > :11:51.authorities have done a lot to introduce different measures to
:11:51. > :11:55.revive growth, the central bank has cut the amount of money banks need
:11:55. > :12:01.to keep in reserve, they have done this three times in the past few
:12:01. > :12:04.months. They have cut interest rates twice to ease the burden for
:12:04. > :12:08.consumers and businesses. All of this having something of a positive
:12:08. > :12:11.effect. Millions more people in the fast-growing economies of Africa
:12:11. > :12:14.and South America can afford the price of a beer nowadays, boosting
:12:14. > :12:18.the fortunes of global brewers, like SAB Miller. It's just reported
:12:18. > :12:21.a better than expected 12% jump in profits for the first half of the
:12:21. > :12:24.year. Despite declining sales in places like the UK, it's been
:12:24. > :12:34.enjoying what it calls "broad-based growth in emerging markets", as
:12:34. > :12:38.
:12:39. > :12:44.Graham Mackay, executive chairman of SAB Miller explains.
:12:44. > :12:48.Deal rate of growth is slowing down. There is a differential between the
:12:48. > :12:54.developed and developing markets, that structural difference we think
:12:54. > :12:58.will continue for a good time to come. The question is whether the
:12:58. > :13:03.moderation in growth in the emerging markets has finished, has
:13:03. > :13:11.hit a bottom, or not. That is what many commentators are focusing on.
:13:11. > :13:15.It is hard to tell, when looking at the average. Every country has a
:13:15. > :13:20.different situation. Many emerging markets are growing as strongly now
:13:20. > :13:25.as they were last year and the year before. The area of the world which
:13:25. > :13:35.is growing fastest and the most profitable for us, as well as Latin
:13:35. > :13:36.
:13:37. > :13:41.America, the volumes are in fact in Africa. Latin America has shown
:13:41. > :13:46.great profitability for us. If you try to single out one area doing
:13:46. > :13:54.better than the rest, you would pick on Latin America, followed
:13:54. > :14:01.closely by Africa. Let us look at the markets. In
:14:01. > :14:05.Europe, a boost by the rise we saw in Asia overnight, and news that
:14:05. > :14:14.manufacturing in China is improving and the US jobs market is
:14:14. > :14:17.stabilising. You're watching BBC World News. Still to come: They
:14:17. > :14:27.were once an icon of the family holiday. But, with so many falling
:14:27. > :14:32.
:14:32. > :14:36.into disrepair, is there any future A damning report into the UK Border
:14:36. > :14:43.Agency has found what it has called significant failings into the way
:14:43. > :14:46.the organisation has handled its backlog of asylum cases. The
:14:46. > :14:53.independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration has accused
:14:53. > :14:59.them of misleading MPs. He has called it unacceptable.
:14:59. > :15:03.These are the immigration queues most people see, but since 2006,
:15:03. > :15:10.the UK Border Agency has been trying to cut a 450,000 strong
:15:10. > :15:13.backlog of asylum cases. The independent Chief Inspector of
:15:13. > :15:19.Borders and Immigration says updates on the progress the agency
:15:19. > :15:23.been inaccurate. Assurances being given were at odds with what was
:15:23. > :15:28.really happening and a unit tackling the backlog was quickly
:15:28. > :15:32.overwhelmed by the case work. Perhaps of most concern was an
:15:32. > :15:36.identified lack of security checks with unresolved cases. I am very
:15:36. > :15:40.concerned and I have said the performance in this regard as
:15:40. > :15:45.unacceptable. This is an area of public concern going back many
:15:45. > :15:49.years. In addition, people who have been genuinely in the queue and F
:15:50. > :15:55.tried to comply with the requirements of the Border Agency,
:15:55. > :16:00.has found their correspondence has not been responded to by the agency.
:16:00. > :16:05.At one point, the report said 150 cases of male sat unopened in a
:16:05. > :16:11.room in liveable. The Home Office said the UK Border Agency is a
:16:11. > :16:14.troubled organisation but insist its performance is improving. It
:16:14. > :16:22.says cheques are in place to ensure information it releases his robust
:16:22. > :16:27.and reliable. Frida Kahlo's clothing is going on
:16:27. > :16:32.display in Mexico City after being locked away for nearly 50 years.
:16:32. > :16:38.When the Mexican artist died back in 1954, her husband and friends
:16:38. > :16:41.kept her archive of letters, cloves, photos and jury or locked away
:16:41. > :16:45.until 2004. This will be the first time the public can see her
:16:45. > :16:50.clothing. It is Thanksgiving in America. The
:16:50. > :16:55.annual turkey pardoning has taken place. President Obama and his two
:16:55. > :17:02.daughters took part in that ceremony. The tradition took --
:17:02. > :17:07.first started during the Kennedy administration in the 1960s.
:17:07. > :17:11.This is BBC World News. These are the headlines: A ceasefire in Gaza
:17:12. > :17:17.is holding. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says a
:17:17. > :17:21.truce is the ideal step for Israel for now. He promised to work around
:17:21. > :17:25.the clock to provide stability and security.
:17:25. > :17:31.European leaders are in Brussels to thrash out the EU's budget for the
:17:31. > :17:34.six years until 2014. Britain wants a freeze. Other nations are backing
:17:34. > :17:37.the European Commission's call for higher spending.
:17:37. > :17:42.The Italian police say several British football fans have been
:17:42. > :17:46.injured, one of them at least seriously during violence in Rome.
:17:46. > :17:51.The Tottenham fans were in the city ahead of the match against Lazio
:17:51. > :17:55.tonight. A short time ago, the BBC's Alan Johnston in Rome gave us
:17:55. > :17:59.some update. This violence came in a beautiful
:18:00. > :18:03.ancient square in the heart of historic central Rome, an area
:18:03. > :18:07.known for its nightlife full of bars and cafes and restaurants.
:18:08. > :18:12.These Tottenham fans had apparently been drinking in one of the pubs
:18:12. > :18:17.when at about 1 o'clock in the morning, a group of about 30 men
:18:17. > :18:22.with their faces covered and armed with iron bars approached the
:18:22. > :18:27.premises and the bar owner tells us that what happened next was in his
:18:27. > :18:31.year, a planned attack. The armed men smashed the window, forced
:18:31. > :18:37.their way into the bar, the Tottenham fans tried to side, he
:18:37. > :18:41.said, but they were cornered. As the violence erupted, the bar was
:18:41. > :18:46.wrecked and 10 of the Spurs fans were injured, one of them seriously.
:18:46. > :18:51.A police say they made five arrests, all of them Italian men. They say
:18:51. > :18:57.they believe these were supporters of the local club Lazio, head of a
:18:57. > :19:01.game tonight between Tottenham and Lazio. The local media is much more
:19:01. > :19:06.forthright. This is front page news here. Local media are blaming this
:19:06. > :19:12.on what they call a blitz, by the hard core element in the Lazio
:19:12. > :19:16.support. What do you do with old relics of
:19:16. > :19:21.the past? Structures way past their best and no longer the focal points
:19:21. > :19:26.of our lives that they once were. That is the issue facing Britain's
:19:26. > :19:29.seaside Piers which date back to the Victorian and Edwardian times.
:19:29. > :19:34.Keeping them going today is a very expensive business.
:19:34. > :19:38.The seaside pier is a British institution, as much a part of a
:19:38. > :19:44.beachside holiday as a bucket and spade and now there is a rare
:19:44. > :19:48.opportunity to own one. Southsea Pier is up for auction and could be
:19:48. > :19:53.yours for �200,000. The sale includes two bars, a theatre and
:19:53. > :19:57.views you cannot put a price on. Local resident Leon Reis is
:19:57. > :20:01.chairman of a community group hoping to buy the land mark. There
:20:01. > :20:04.are people in Portsmouth who are born because their parents met on
:20:04. > :20:10.this pier. We would like to see the pier owned by the people who love
:20:10. > :20:16.it, just as it should be all around the country. South Parade opened in
:20:16. > :20:21.1879 and began life as if it -- a terminal for ferries taking
:20:21. > :20:25.passengers to and from the Isle of Wight. Following a fire, the pier
:20:25. > :20:28.was opened for pleasure. It was requisitioned by the military
:20:28. > :20:33.during the Second World War and used as a preparation area for the
:20:33. > :20:38.D-Day landings. Later, in 1950 when Winston Churchill was given the
:20:38. > :20:42.freedom of the city of Portsmouth, the event took place on the pier.
:20:42. > :20:46.These icons of the seaside have been a feature of the British
:20:46. > :20:52.family holiday since the Victorian and Edwardian eras when people made
:20:52. > :20:58.a pilgrimage to the beach to escape the towns and cities. Up there were
:20:58. > :21:02.once 100 around our coastline, now just 55 remain. Unfortunately, we
:21:02. > :21:07.do not have many which are original any more. Partly because tourism
:21:07. > :21:13.has changed and now seaside pier owners will have to think outside
:21:13. > :21:17.the box on how to make them commercially successful and useful
:21:18. > :21:22.to their communities. The fate of this pier is uncertain, but in
:21:22. > :21:27.recent years, other coastal towns have brought the concept of the
:21:27. > :21:34.seaside pier back into the future, by turning disaster into
:21:34. > :21:37.opportunity. In July 2008, it took just 90 minutes for a fire to
:21:37. > :21:41.destroy the century-old a pavilion on Weston-super-Mare's Grand Pier.
:21:41. > :21:46.The owners were determined it would reopen and two years later, a
:21:46. > :21:50.modern replacement pavilion was reopened. It is now one of the
:21:50. > :21:55.biggest attractions. This charred skeleton was all that was left of
:21:56. > :22:00.Hastings Pier after an arson attack in 2010, but local people worked
:22:00. > :22:06.hard to keep this venue which had once played host to huge names that
:22:06. > :22:10.Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd. This week it was given an �11 million
:22:10. > :22:14.Lottery Heritage grant. Other coastal towns have not been so
:22:14. > :22:19.fortunate. Felipe would pier had been empty for years when it burned
:22:19. > :22:25.down in 2008 and it is unlikely to ever be rebuilt -- Fleetwood pier.
:22:25. > :22:29.What will become of South Parade if it is auctioned next month? Experts
:22:29. > :22:34.say it could take a couple of million pounds to make it
:22:34. > :22:39.structurally secure but the real appeal before any buyer is to make
:22:39. > :22:44.it appeal for the modern consumer. Local people will hope the sun has
:22:44. > :22:49.not sat on this iconic piece of British heritage.
:22:49. > :22:53.From old relics to a new hope for, an Italian singer who is hoping to
:22:53. > :22:59.make his mark on New York. In his native country, Lorenzo Cherubini,
:22:59. > :23:03.better known as Jovanotti, has sold 5 million albums. He has more
:23:03. > :23:07.Twitter followers than the Pope. He has left his superstar status
:23:08. > :23:13.behind him for a chance to win over the Big Apple. We caught up with
:23:13. > :23:23.him in downtown Manhattan. In Italy, I am blessed, I'm playing in
:23:23. > :23:31.
:23:31. > :23:36.football stadiums. Here I am Mr Living in New York is something
:23:36. > :23:45.that I was dreaming to do once in my life and now that is what I am
:23:45. > :23:53.doing. I like to tour in America. I feel like an exotic animal, like a
:23:53. > :23:59.giraffe in a place where giraffes do not grow up! It is like to see a
:23:59. > :24:03.lot of tears, a lot of dogs, rattlesnakes and then a giraffe and
:24:03. > :24:10.you say, I know that giraffes existing the world but I never saw
:24:10. > :24:16.one. My father was working in the Vatican City. He was travelling
:24:16. > :24:26.some times and came to New York. He bought a soubrette camera and shot
:24:26. > :24:34.
:24:34. > :24:44.some footage. It was 1972 -- a # in New York I found Rome, Milan,
:24:44. > :24:47.Paris. Grandmaster Flash, you read, Beastie Boys, I want to wake up in
:24:47. > :24:55.the city with Frankie and his voice...
:24:55. > :24:59.I was six years old. At that time, this town infected me. The Beastie
:24:59. > :25:04.Boys were the real life-changing experience for me. I listened to
:25:04. > :25:09.hip-hop and I listened to the Beastie Boys and I said, I want to
:25:09. > :25:19.do this, I can do this. I thought about doing that in Italy, in
:25:19. > :25:31.
:25:31. > :25:40.I think America is no longer the most important economy but it is
:25:40. > :25:44.the most important centre of production. It is like being in
:25:44. > :25:51.Florence and during the Renaissance period. Here, history is happening
:25:51. > :25:59.now. All I am doing here is feeding my energy to give it back to my
:25:59. > :26:09.people. I like to think that they are waiting for me coming back from
:26:09. > :26:12.
:26:12. > :26:17.The Italian rapper Jovanotti talking about the challenge of
:26:17. > :26:21.moving to New York to introduce his music to whole new audience.
:26:21. > :26:26.Around 4,000 Bosnian football fans turned out for a game with a
:26:26. > :26:33.difference, as a team of Catholic priests took on a side of Muslim
:26:33. > :26:37.imams the charity. And into a religious charity organised the
:26:37. > :26:42.game. It is to collect money for rebuilding a multi-faith
:26:42. > :26:47.kindergarten. It was the priest in the White who ran out the winners