:00:13. > :00:17.Hello. This is BBC World News. Our top stories: Official warning that
:00:17. > :00:21.the deadly new corona virus can be spread by close human contact.
:00:21. > :00:23.Back for more - Nawaz Shariff looks set to become Prime Minister of
:00:23. > :00:30.Pakistan for the third time. The world's second-biggest economy
:00:30. > :00:32.focuses on growing at home - we have a special report.
:00:33. > :00:42.And Greece sends a demand to Germany to pay reparations for
:00:43. > :01:03.
:01:03. > :01:08.atrocities committed during the It looks increasingly likely the
:01:08. > :01:12.former Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, will be able to form a Government
:01:12. > :01:17.without going into coalition with other parties. His Muslim League
:01:17. > :01:21.party is expected to fall short of an outright majority, but is
:01:21. > :01:27.talking to independent candidates. It will be his third time as Prime
:01:27. > :01:31.Minister. Let's get more from Karachi from our Correspondent. Is
:01:31. > :01:37.it likely he is going to get a majority now? We did think it was
:01:37. > :01:42.going to be a coalition Government originally. Absolutely. He has done
:01:42. > :01:48.better than was expected. He is only slightly short of a simple
:01:48. > :01:52.majority. His party is reaching out to independent candidates. The
:01:52. > :01:56.impression is he wants to avoid a coalition Government because he
:01:56. > :02:01.would rather not share power with his rival parties. In the last few
:02:01. > :02:06.hours there are reports from Lahore the party is drawing up a national
:02:06. > :02:14.charter. Basically a common agenda to see if other parties will sign
:02:14. > :02:17.up to it to have a more inclusive Government. Nawaz Sharif realises
:02:17. > :02:25.Pakistan's policies are huge and he cannot sort them out single-
:02:25. > :02:31.handedly. What is expected from him in terms of the militants? He has
:02:31. > :02:34.tried to distance himself from the US attacks on the militants, but he
:02:34. > :02:43.will have to deal with them in some form otherwise he will come under
:02:43. > :02:48.massive pressure? Yes, during his election campaign, he denounced
:02:48. > :02:58.American joint strikes in tribal areas as a violation of Pakistan's
:02:58. > :03:00.
:03:00. > :03:05.severity. -- sovereignty. He has been at pains also to win over the
:03:05. > :03:08.administration in Washington to put Americans at ease that he is a
:03:09. > :03:16.pragmatist and he is looking forward to a good relationship with
:03:16. > :03:26.the US. He has his strong backing from the Saudi family, because he
:03:26. > :03:28.
:03:28. > :03:38.was seen as not hard on the Taliban, the Taliban were not allowed to
:03:38. > :03:43.campaign openly. But they hold huge rallies in to it -- Punjab. His
:03:43. > :03:47.party got in the lines with some of this and the extremist groups in
:03:47. > :03:53.Punjab. He says he wants to have dialogue with the militants. But
:03:53. > :03:59.people are sceptical how he can have dialogue with extremists who
:03:59. > :04:03.believe in the headings. If he has this level of political support,
:04:03. > :04:07.what will his critics say? He has been accused of being incompetent,
:04:08. > :04:14.of corruption, it is quite an extraordinary comeback if you look
:04:14. > :04:19.at his political history? You are right. It you go back to 1999 when
:04:19. > :04:24.he is elected Government was dismissed in a military coup and he
:04:24. > :04:31.was deposed. There was not a strong reaction against his dismissal. He
:04:31. > :04:37.went into exile. When he came back into 1008, he tried to present
:04:37. > :04:42.himself as a more mature politician and had learnt from his mistakes.
:04:42. > :04:48.When his brother was Prime Minister in Punjab province, it wasn't a bad
:04:48. > :04:53.place, with respect to what was going on in the rest of the country.
:04:53. > :04:57.They were giving laptops to young people. The administration in
:04:58. > :05:03.Punjab was seen as better than the other provinces. That is part of
:05:03. > :05:08.the reason he has been voted for so strongly in Punjab province. He is
:05:08. > :05:13.saying I am the man who can do things, I believe in developments
:05:13. > :05:20.and I can only improve things in Pakistan. Thanks very much. It will
:05:21. > :05:23.be interesting few days ahead. It's called the novel corona virus.
:05:23. > :05:27.And it kills. But what worries the World Health Organisation is
:05:27. > :05:30.evidence that it can spread through close contact between people. In
:05:30. > :05:33.France a man is in intensive care with the disease after sharing a
:05:33. > :05:36.hospital room with the country's first victim. The virus causes
:05:36. > :05:40.pneumonia and kidney failure and has led to at least 20 deaths since
:05:40. > :05:46.last year, most of them in Saudi Arabia.
:05:46. > :05:50.With me is the BBC's health correspondent, Fergus Walsh.
:05:50. > :05:54.Initially when I have read this and saw this man is in isolation in
:05:54. > :05:58.France, how has he been in close contact with somebody else?
:05:58. > :06:02.Presumably the of authorities did not know the first victim had this,
:06:02. > :06:09.and that its spread from one person to another? It would spread in the
:06:09. > :06:15.same way as any respiratory infection, cold or the fluke by
:06:15. > :06:21.droplets in the earth. -- the flu. In France, the man came back from
:06:21. > :06:28.Dubai, he was ill and was sharing a room with another man who then
:06:28. > :06:33.picked up the virus from him. That is the firmest evidence to date of
:06:33. > :06:37.person-to-person contact. We did have something similar in Britain,
:06:37. > :06:43.among a came back from the Middle East, went on a long car journey
:06:43. > :06:47.with his son, and his son picked up the virus. The World Health
:06:47. > :06:52.Organisation is saying health authorities should be vigilant with
:06:52. > :06:56.people who have returned from these areas who have contracted it. How
:06:56. > :07:01.worried should we be? To see a deadly virus like this that can
:07:01. > :07:06.spread so easily, is alarming? it did spread so easily then we
:07:06. > :07:10.should be worried, but it does not spread so easily. The cases we have
:07:10. > :07:17.had from person-to-person transmission are isolated and
:07:17. > :07:25.involved a very close contest -- contact. It is often referred to as
:07:25. > :07:32.being from the same family as the virus that causes the common cold.
:07:32. > :07:36.It you get it, it is very bad luck. You say close contact, if these two
:07:36. > :07:43.people sharing a hospital room had passed it between and, it is not
:07:43. > :07:50.intimate contact? Yes, but over a sustained period. So, it is close
:07:50. > :07:58.contact, it does not seem to be very contagious. The fact it has
:07:58. > :08:02.been around, mostly in Saudi Arabia, for a year or so now. We have had
:08:02. > :08:08.something like 30 to 40 confirmed cases, suggests it is a very rare
:08:08. > :08:11.event. At the moment, Wells public health officials say it is
:08:11. > :08:16.occupying a lot of their attention, I don't think generally people
:08:16. > :08:20.should be concerned about it. In terms of travelling to those areas,
:08:20. > :08:23.people should be concerned if they develop a fever and it causes a
:08:23. > :08:30.pneumonia like infection and then perhaps people should pay attention
:08:30. > :08:35.and seek medical help. Symptoms are common to a number of illnesses,
:08:35. > :08:39.including pneumonia. What is being done by the World Health
:08:39. > :08:45.Organisation at a cure or a vaccine? Our scientists working on
:08:45. > :08:48.that? Yes, across the world but they are examining this in high
:08:48. > :08:55.containment laboratories to look at ways in which they could develop a
:08:55. > :08:59.vaccine, and treatments against it. Also to monitor the spread. It is
:08:59. > :09:06.watchful waiting at the moment, and these are viruses do come up from
:09:06. > :09:10.time to time. This possibly came from bats. There is a limited
:09:10. > :09:19.amount we can do in the early stages. He would eyes is, don't
:09:19. > :09:22.panic? Absolutely don't panic. China may be the world's second-
:09:22. > :09:25.largest economy but it still faces big challenges like many other
:09:25. > :09:28.countries. Since the handover of power to new leaders at the end of
:09:28. > :09:31.last year, the emphasis has been on fostering growth from within.
:09:31. > :09:33.Before, it was fuelled by exports to the rest of the world. So, how
:09:33. > :09:36.is China managing this re-balancing act?
:09:36. > :09:43.Let's go to our Chief Business Correspondent, Linda Yueh, who is
:09:43. > :09:51.in Hong Kong. It has looked stunning there for
:09:51. > :09:56.the last few hours? It is certainly stunning in Hong Kong harbour. It
:09:56. > :10:02.is picking up. This sign of the crucial rebalancing of the Chinese
:10:02. > :10:10.economy away from factories and towards services. Many here are
:10:10. > :10:15.from many -- main line China. For the first time ever, it is larger
:10:15. > :10:21.than manufacturing in mainland China. But to be clear, and put in
:10:21. > :10:27.the factories is still growing, is just means services is growing more
:10:27. > :10:32.quickly. It has taken China and number of years to do this, which
:10:32. > :10:36.means rebalancing for China is as difficult as it is for other
:10:36. > :10:42.economies. It you want to make it to the top and stay there, it is
:10:42. > :10:49.all about finding your balance. That is true, whether it is a
:10:49. > :10:54.dancing client in Hong Kong or the economy. China is slowing. It needs
:10:54. > :10:58.to find new ways to grow without crashing. Hong Kong used to rely on
:10:58. > :11:04.factories, 15 years ago this street would have been full of pedallers.
:11:04. > :11:10.As the economy has developed, they shifted to the services sector. But
:11:10. > :11:15.most of the people they are serving on this street are mainland Chinese.
:11:15. > :11:25.TRANSLATION: When I first came here in 2005, it was not like this.
:11:25. > :11:26.
:11:26. > :11:31.Since 2010, they have lots of money. These mainland Chinese are heading
:11:31. > :11:35.home. These consumers are who the Chinese Government is counting on
:11:35. > :11:41.to make a crucial shift in the economy away from factories and
:11:41. > :11:46.towards services. Shops, education, insurance. For the first time ever
:11:46. > :11:51.this year, the service sector is a bigger part of the economy than
:11:51. > :11:55.many -- manufacturing. It is that not that Chinese factories are
:11:55. > :12:00.going out of business, industry is still growing, it is just that
:12:00. > :12:07.services are growing more quickly. But it is still raising worries.
:12:07. > :12:13.You want to look into a sustainable, long-term growth. I think that
:12:13. > :12:21.should be treated as a goal. But I would never recommend any society,
:12:21. > :12:25.any country to treat consumption as a driver of growth alone. Hong Kong
:12:25. > :12:31.may have gone too far, and relying on shoppers and China has been
:12:31. > :12:36.watching. Still, one of Hong Kong's most prominent businessman warns,
:12:36. > :12:41.China has no other option. We're talking about 100 million, 200
:12:41. > :12:47.million, perhaps 300 million being able to spend their money on their
:12:47. > :12:52.own goods, which of course it would strengthen the economy in a very
:12:52. > :12:56.balanced way, rather than having to rely on outward investment. It is
:12:56. > :13:01.not a question of whether you succeed or not, it has got to be
:13:01. > :13:06.the way forward. If China takes the easier path and relies on debt
:13:06. > :13:14.fuelled Investment, it could lose its balance. It may not crash, but
:13:14. > :13:24.it could slow considerably. The last thing that anyone wants to see.
:13:24. > :13:24.
:13:24. > :13:29.We have been aster -- asking for Twitter questions. One question
:13:29. > :13:37.saying, China's economy has the attributes of a bubble that is
:13:37. > :13:40.about to burst, how true is that?"what would you say to that?
:13:40. > :13:45.certainly think it is a true characteristic of some segments of
:13:45. > :13:49.the economy. For instance, the housing sector, construction and
:13:50. > :13:55.the reason is, China has grown through investments and
:13:55. > :14:00.construction for the past 30 years. In port and the biggest driver of
:14:00. > :14:04.growth until this year. And the unleashing of credit to fund
:14:04. > :14:09.investment, is a temptation that is there and something we have seen
:14:09. > :14:14.over the last few years. But the bigger way to think about it in
:14:14. > :14:19.some sense is to say, if there is a bubble, are the Government aware of
:14:19. > :14:26.it? The answer is, yes, they are aware of it. It some of the banks
:14:26. > :14:29.get dragged down, week are staying with commercial banks. The
:14:29. > :14:35.Government has enough money to put more money into the banks. For
:14:35. > :14:40.those reasons, yes there are some worrying sectors in the economy,
:14:40. > :14:46.but China is unlikely to have the same systemic meltdown we have seen
:14:46. > :14:51.in the West. Because, at the moment, the Government seems to have enough
:14:51. > :14:56.cash to support the banks should the housing sector become unstable.
:14:56. > :15:01.That is the biggest worry in the Chinese economy. Instead of
:15:01. > :15:06.rebalancing, they go down this road of unsustainable development. If
:15:06. > :15:09.they were to do that, I think China would struggle to rebalance its
:15:09. > :15:19.economy and Mace low. That is bad news for anyone else and the rest
:15:19. > :15:41.
:15:41. > :15:46.He has become well-known for his Twitters from space, now a swansong
:15:46. > :15:51.from the space station commander. Now, Prince Harry has started the
:15:51. > :16:01.first event of the Warrior Games for injured service personnel held in
:16:01. > :16:09.
:16:09. > :16:14.He has never been one to turn down a challenge. Which is why Harry was to
:16:14. > :16:19.be found forming the base of a human be found forming the base of a human
:16:19. > :16:25.pyramid. Why were they doing it? Where was there a man dressed as a
:16:25. > :16:30.bird on the top? There are no clear answers, but the challenge that
:16:31. > :16:36.matters to Harry is bringing a important sporting event as this to
:16:36. > :16:42.Britain. The Warrior Games have been Ann newel event in the United States
:16:42. > :16:46.for the past four year. As the name implies, these are games for wounded
:16:46. > :16:51.servicemen and women. They help rehabilitation, they are good for
:16:51. > :16:56.moral and Harry's plan is to create a British version.
:16:56. > :17:01.I'm hoping to bring such a fantastic idea to the UK and why not? This is
:17:01. > :17:04.far more than a whim on Harry's part. The ambition is to have games
:17:04. > :17:09.such as this, taking place in Britain within the next couple of
:17:09. > :17:12.years. That's the as passion and behind the
:17:12. > :17:17.scenes, Harry and his officials are working to turn it into a reality.
:17:17. > :17:27.It mean as lot to the athletes it matters to Harry, and he is
:17:27. > :17:31.Now, the police in the US are hunting for three people in
:17:31. > :17:36.connection with a shooting spree at a Mother's Day parade in New
:17:36. > :17:40.Orleans. There were no deaths but at least 19 people were wounded, the
:17:40. > :17:45.victims included two children, grazed by bullets. The police say
:17:45. > :17:48.most injuries are not life-threatening. The the Chinese
:17:48. > :17:52.authorities have launched an investigation into allegations of
:17:52. > :17:57.corruption made against a senior official it is being seen as the
:17:57. > :18:04.latest move by the country's leader, Xi Jinping to clamp down on
:18:04. > :18:07.corruption. China's state-run news agency, says that the top economic
:18:07. > :18:11.policy maker, Liu Tienan was expected of grave violations of
:18:11. > :18:16.discipline, though they have not yet specified the allegations against
:18:16. > :18:25.him. There is more on the news stories at the BBC website. There is
:18:25. > :18:29.much more to come, do stay with us. This is BBC World News, the
:18:29. > :18:33.headlines: Official warning that the deadly new coronavirus, which has
:18:33. > :18:37.killed 18 people, can be spread by close human contact. That warning
:18:37. > :18:41.from the World Health Organisation. The former Pakistani Prime Minister,
:18:41. > :18:44.Nawaz Sharif, is focussing on forming a new government. Possibly
:18:44. > :18:51.with a majority after his party's victory in Saturday's general
:18:51. > :18:56.election. It will be his third time as the Prime Minister in Pakistan.
:18:56. > :19:00.Now, the Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, is to meet the
:19:00. > :19:06.Russian President, Vladimir Putin on Tuesday for talks on Syria. Israel's
:19:06. > :19:08.concerned about the supply of Russian missiles systems to Syria N
:19:09. > :19:13.Damascus, President Bashar al-Assad's government denied it had
:19:13. > :19:17.anything to do with two car bombs that killed 46 people in a Turkish
:19:17. > :19:23.town on the border between the two countries. Well, Wyre Davies, our
:19:23. > :19:27.correspondent, is in the southern Turkish province of Hatay, where the
:19:27. > :19:31.attacks happened. I asked if there issing in to be done to stop the
:19:32. > :19:36.conflict spilling out of Syria. It is a good question. I think that
:19:36. > :19:38.the conflict is broadening, widening, irrespective of what the
:19:38. > :19:44.Turkish governments or the neighbouring governments in the
:19:44. > :19:49.region do. That was the danger, that Syria's Civil War, given its
:19:49. > :19:54.sectarian nature would spill over to neighbouring countries, we have seen
:19:54. > :19:59.the effects of that not just in Turkish but in other areas. There
:19:59. > :20:06.are two issue, one is that the towns on the borders where so many
:20:06. > :20:10.thousands of Syrian -- Syrian refugees have come, it appears those
:20:10. > :20:14.towns are targeted by the Syrian regime. So there is instate on the
:20:14. > :20:21.ground and the other thing, is what does a government like that of,
:20:21. > :20:25.Recep Tayyip Erdogan do? Nobody in Turkey really wants to go into this
:20:25. > :20:29.situation in Syria, even opponents are obviously very much against that
:20:29. > :20:33.but even Harold liners and other governments see the folly of doing
:20:34. > :20:37.that what is needed is perhaps a united international response to the
:20:37. > :20:42.crisis in Syria, but because of the way that the Russians and the
:20:42. > :20:47.Chinese and others have resisted that, that is also, very, very
:20:47. > :20:51.difficult. It is an open-ended question, there is no obvious answer
:20:51. > :20:56.as to how Turkey responds now. There may abshort military response from
:20:56. > :21:00.Turkey but it could be limited in its scope. How to address the big
:21:00. > :21:03.problem of Syria's Civil War spilling into Turkey is a deeper
:21:03. > :21:08.question for which there is no obvious answer.
:21:08. > :21:11.The pilot of a military jet has reported by been killed after his
:21:11. > :21:17.aircraft crashed into the Yemeni capital of Sanaa. The plane came
:21:17. > :21:27.down in a residential district in southern Sanaa. The incident
:21:27. > :21:27.
:21:28. > :21:32.reportedly took place during a training exercise that isless
:21:32. > :21:35.INAUDIBLE. Now, Greece is demand demanding
:21:35. > :21:40.compensation from Germany after its occupation in the Second World War.
:21:40. > :21:44.It is thought that Athens may ask for as much as �162 billion in
:21:44. > :21:50.damages. It is creating tension between the two countries.
:21:50. > :21:57.We have this report. 70 years on, a town that cannot forget.
:21:57. > :22:04.Around 500 were killed in Kalavryta on one day. Every adult male and the
:22:04. > :22:08.town destroyed. War crimes for which Greece still seeks amends.
:22:08. > :22:13.250,000 Greeks died in the German occupation. The Nazis took a forced
:22:13. > :22:17.loan, never repaid. Germany gave Greece some compensation after the
:22:17. > :22:22.war but far less than was demanded. So this is where you were taken?
:22:22. > :22:26.This man has not given up the fight. At 13 years old, he was locked in
:22:26. > :22:29.the school with the women and the children while his father and uncle
:22:29. > :22:35.were shot. TRANSLATION: Of course they must pay
:22:35. > :22:40.us. We will never forgive them. I remember people screaming, crying,
:22:40. > :22:48.praying. The sun turned red from the smoke. I still see the image of my
:22:48. > :22:51.father's body and now when I hear the word "German" I think it is the
:22:51. > :22:56.devil. The memories are everywhere but here
:22:56. > :23:00.is the prob Lib Dem, Greece's wartime enemy is now the Paymaster
:23:01. > :23:05.General, Germany providing the largest share of the bail out, but
:23:05. > :23:09.do they heal the wounds here, or does this country feel that is too
:23:09. > :23:14.dangerous for today's delicate relationship? The Greek government
:23:14. > :23:17.has cautiously gone ahead. It has compiled a report on reparations and
:23:17. > :23:22.on the loan and is decided whether or not to pass it to Berlin.
:23:22. > :23:27.We have to give a response to many German politicians, that they have
:23:27. > :23:34.said over so many years that Greeks are lazy, take taking their money.
:23:34. > :23:39.So we have to set them clear in the giving of the loan but to remember
:23:39. > :23:43.that we had this money that we never had before these decades.
:23:44. > :23:48.The public is pressure is growing. This is how Angela Merkel was
:23:48. > :23:53.greeted last year, protestors talk of an economic occupation.
:23:53. > :23:57.Germany says that some compensation paid in 1960 was with the agreement
:23:57. > :24:04.that there would be no more. We cannot understand what the Greek
:24:04. > :24:07.government is doing. Germany and the German taxpayer is showing very much
:24:07. > :24:11.solidarity with the difficult situation in Greece. In the end they
:24:11. > :24:15.will now send us a bill for something that is far away in our
:24:15. > :24:19.history, and something that was resolved.
:24:19. > :24:23.Now, have a look at this extraordinary photograph behind me
:24:23. > :24:27.it is one of a series that has attracted more than #3
:24:27. > :24:32.three-quarters of a million followers on Twitter, but Commander
:24:32. > :24:40.Chris Hadfield did have a unique advantage point, the International
:24:40. > :24:45.Space Station. After five months of tweeting from space has come back
:24:45. > :24:49.down to earth. They are the images that captivated hundreds of
:24:49. > :24:53.thousands of people on earth earth. Pictures tweeted from the
:24:53. > :24:57.International Space Station, more than 200 miles above us. This is the
:24:57. > :25:00.man who has been taking them, Commander Chris Hadfield. He has
:25:00. > :25:06.used every opportunity to pick up his camera.
:25:06. > :25:11.If I have a couple of minutes I grab the camera and race to the windows
:25:11. > :25:15.to get a picture of what part of the world is under neath us.
:25:15. > :25:21.Here is the International Space Station in the skies over the UK.
:25:21. > :25:26.Regular passers overhead have often been followed by stunning images.
:25:26. > :25:33.At night most towns and cities in the UK and near continents can be
:25:33. > :25:37.seen. Close up, this is how London looks. Daytime passes have yielded
:25:37. > :25:42.fantastic views. This is the Straits of Dover, further to the west, the
:25:42. > :25:46.Isle of Wight. How about the Humber area with the dots of Christ clouds?
:25:46. > :25:50.Or the Lake District with the winter snow on the tops? And when those
:25:50. > :25:55.pictures have tweeted from way up there in space, there has been a
:25:55. > :25:59.huge response from the people living down here in the UK.
:25:59. > :26:05.We managed to get a question to Commander Chris Hadfield in one of
:26:05. > :26:09.his recent link-ups from Earth. We asked him what he thought.
:26:09. > :26:13.It is delightful to be able to see something interesting, to be able to
:26:13. > :26:16.take a picture of it, and then to have so many others delight in it.
:26:17. > :26:21.People that may see something in the way that they had not thought about
:26:21. > :26:25.it before. They see their town, the region, the aisle of wooit or some
:26:25. > :26:30.of the northern regions or into southern Scotland, they just, they
:26:30. > :26:33.have a perspective on it that maybe did not exist for them in the
:26:33. > :26:37.regular two-dimensional way that we see things.
:26:37. > :26:43.But from now on Commander Chris Hadfield's Twitter feed will be less
:26:43. > :26:46.dramatic. Today he returns to Earth, at the end of a six-month mission.
:26:46. > :26:51.Although we will be able to still take pictures of the passing space