:00:14. > :00:19.The Duchess of Cambridge is in labour with her first baby. She is
:00:19. > :00:22.in a hospital in London. A spokesperson for Kate and William
:00:22. > :00:31.said that things are progressing as normal. The Prime Minister had these
:00:31. > :00:36.words: A very exciting occasion, and the whole country is excited with
:00:36. > :00:40.them. Rescue teams in western China try to
:00:40. > :00:44.reach survivors and those left homeless by a big earthquake.
:00:44. > :00:49.More than 70 people are confirmed dead. Three days of terrible
:00:49. > :00:55.violence across Iraq leaves more than 20 dead. We ask why the surge,
:00:55. > :00:58.and why now. And a BBC investigation on how new
:00:58. > :01:08.EU regulations do little to stop illegal timber reaching shops across
:01:08. > :01:26.
:01:26. > :01:34.has gone into the early stages of labour. The confirmation came from
:01:34. > :01:37.Kensington Palace for hours ago. Royal vehicles had been seen at the
:01:37. > :01:43.hospital at six o'clock this morning. This is the scene now at
:01:43. > :01:47.the hospital in central London, near Paddington. For weeks, her every
:01:47. > :01:52.move has been under close scrutiny, but it had never been confirmed
:01:52. > :02:01.officially when the baby was due. Prince William has taken leave of
:02:01. > :02:05.absence. He will then get paternity leave from the British Armed Forces.
:02:05. > :02:11.This report now from our royal correspondence Nicolas Witchell.
:02:11. > :02:15.This was the last time she was seen in public, more than a month ago at
:02:15. > :02:19.the Queen's Birthday Parade Trooping the Colour. After that, for the
:02:19. > :02:22.final weeks of her pregnancy, Kate disappeared from view. She spent
:02:22. > :02:29.quite a bit of time at the Middleton family home in Berkshire with her
:02:29. > :02:34.mother and father. William has also been with her, although last weekend
:02:34. > :02:38.he went off to play polo, competing in a competition in Gloucestershire
:02:38. > :02:42.with his brother, Harry. Now that Kate has finally been admitted to
:02:42. > :02:47.hospital, responsibility for the safe delivery of the baby rests in
:02:47. > :02:52.the hands of the Royal gynaecologists, Marcus Setchell and
:02:52. > :02:55.Alan Farthing, who have kept in touch with the pregnancy right from
:02:55. > :03:01.its anxious early days when Kate had to be hospitalised suffering from
:03:01. > :03:04.acute pregnancy sickness. Since then, she has coped without any
:03:04. > :03:10.further difficulties, carrying on with a limited programme of public
:03:10. > :03:13.engagements throughout the spring and early summer. Now, though, her
:03:13. > :03:17.priorities are about to change as she gives birth to a child which
:03:17. > :03:23.will be the Queen's third great-grandchild, and which, whether
:03:23. > :03:28.a boy or a girl, will be third in line to the British throne. A rare
:03:28. > :03:35.moment indeed when the world's best-known hereditary monarchy can
:03:35. > :03:40.look forward to having four generations alongside each other.
:03:40. > :03:46.In China, rescuers are searching for earthquake survivors in the western
:03:46. > :03:52.province. The region is mountainous and relatively remote. It was hit by
:03:52. > :04:00.an initial tremor with a magnitude of 5.9. So far, officials are
:04:00. > :04:07.reporting more than 400 people injured, and 70 killed. This report
:04:07. > :04:13.from Beijing came before the latest figure of 75 dead came in.
:04:13. > :04:18.Unfortunately, the death toll keeps rising. Authorities are having
:04:18. > :04:24.trouble reaching the area, because rock slides have affected some of
:04:24. > :04:28.the major roads. It is difficult for emergency vehicles to get through.
:04:28. > :04:36.Many people are focusing on the death toll. Initial reports said
:04:36. > :04:41.that three were dead, and now the number is up to 56, so that gives
:04:41. > :04:44.you a small glimmer that this quake is serious. What is your reflection
:04:44. > :04:52.on how well the authorities in every region are now prepared to cope with
:04:52. > :04:58.this? It seems that the Chinese government have become masters at
:04:58. > :05:02.despatching emergency crews very quickly. The 2008 earthquake, they
:05:02. > :05:08.were dispatched within 12 minutes, and it seems to be a similar case
:05:08. > :05:11.today. Reports came out very quickly that fire trucks were on their way
:05:11. > :05:17.to the affected areas, rescue dogs and many troops, as well.
:05:17. > :05:25.The latest from China. The European Union has just agreed to declare
:05:25. > :05:28.Hezbollah's military wing a terrorist organisation. Ministers
:05:28. > :05:32.say that the armed branch is responsible for terror attacks in
:05:32. > :05:36.Europe. Speaking before the decision, Britain's Foreign
:05:36. > :05:39.Secretary, William Hague, said he would be pushing for an agreement
:05:39. > :05:43.over the classification. A high priority for the United Kingdom at
:05:43. > :05:53.this meeting today is the designation of the military wing of
:05:53. > :05:59.
:05:59. > :06:05.has bollard as a terror organisation or the European Union -- his
:06:05. > :06:11.Hizbollah. We believe that it is important that Europe gives a firm
:06:11. > :06:19.and clear response on the attacks. Confirmation that the military wing
:06:19. > :06:24.has been outlawed. Voters have given Japan's Prime
:06:24. > :06:31.Minister and his government a green light for the next round of tough
:06:31. > :06:34.economic laws. Experts suggest that the coalition now have control of
:06:34. > :06:44.both Houses of Parliament after Sunday's elections for the upper
:06:44. > :06:48.
:06:48. > :06:55.house. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes is the BBC's correspondence there. What the
:06:55. > :07:00.prime Minister now has is control of both houses, and there will be no
:07:00. > :07:05.election again in Japan until at least 2016. That means he has the
:07:05. > :07:10.power and the time to implement his economic plan, and he says that he
:07:10. > :07:15.is committed to serious and painful structural reform of Japan's
:07:15. > :07:18.economy. What he is likely to face now is opposition not from
:07:18. > :07:25.opposition political parties but from within his own Liberal
:07:25. > :07:29.Democratic party. There are many members of Parliament who come from
:07:29. > :07:34.rural constituencies, who have deep vested interests, who are against
:07:34. > :07:38.opening Japan's economy to greater international competition, and
:07:38. > :07:41.particularly varies resistance to opening Japan's agricultural sector
:07:41. > :07:49.to greater international competition. It is a heavily
:07:49. > :07:54.protected area of the economy. But he says there is no other
:07:54. > :07:59.alternative. If Japan is to rebuild its economy, then this is the only
:07:59. > :08:08.road forward. And there is another factor playing here, and that is the
:08:08. > :08:12.rise of China. Mr Abbey is a nationalist who believes that Japan
:08:12. > :08:22.must be able to stand up to China, politically and militarily, and he
:08:22. > :08:25.believes that only a strong economy can be the basis for that.
:08:25. > :08:34.Let's get more on the European Union decision to put the military wing of
:08:34. > :08:44.has bollard on the terror list. What has driven the foreign ministers to
:08:44. > :08:44.
:08:45. > :08:48.move this far? On the surface, it is an action taken because of a
:08:48. > :08:53.reaction to terrorism, the bombing in Bulgaria last year, in which five
:08:53. > :08:57.Israeli citizens and their Bulgarian driver were killed by a suicide
:08:57. > :09:01.bombing, and this is seen as a response to that, but you have to
:09:01. > :09:05.take this decision in its broader context as well. There is a lot
:09:05. > :09:08.going on in the Middle East. The catastrophic war across the border
:09:08. > :09:16.from Lebanon in Syria, where Hezbollah has been fighting
:09:16. > :09:21.alongside forces of resident Assad. And I think even though ministers
:09:21. > :09:27.will not make this link explicit, this can be seen as a warning shot
:09:27. > :09:35.across Hezbollah's bow to behave better in that broader Middle East
:09:35. > :09:38.and context, as well as the specific case and what many believe is
:09:38. > :09:42.evidence that Hezbollah carried out that case, although they strongly
:09:42. > :09:51.deny it. And what about that argument the din display Missy, you
:09:51. > :09:55.have more chance of having success -- in diplomacy, you have more
:09:55. > :10:02.chance of success if you are seen to understand what both sides are
:10:02. > :10:08.thinking? As ever, the European Union is trying to play a delicate
:10:09. > :10:14.balancing act. It will maintain contact with Hezbollah's political
:10:15. > :10:23.wing, a party that plays a major political role in Lebanon on, and
:10:23. > :10:27.that is critical for countries here. They will break off links with
:10:27. > :10:33.the military wing, but maintain links with the political wing, which
:10:33. > :10:39.is a blurred line, because Hezbollah say that all of their wings will
:10:39. > :10:46.fight for them if they need to. But nevertheless, that is a distinction
:10:46. > :10:51.that the European Union will try to draw. Legitimate financial transfers
:10:51. > :10:55.to Lebanon will continue, so it will be very difficult for anyone in
:10:55. > :10:59.Europe to make specific financial contributions to Hezbollah's
:10:59. > :11:03.military wing, but other types of financial transactions, as long as
:11:03. > :11:08.lawyers consider them to be legitimate, will be continued.
:11:08. > :11:17.Chris Morris, thank you. Britain is celebrating its second successive
:11:17. > :11:24.win in cycling's most prestigious event, the Tour de France. Chris
:11:24. > :11:32.Froome's wind has lifted spirits as far away as Africa. He was born in
:11:32. > :11:37.Kenya, and rides for Britain because of his father. As a teenager, he
:11:37. > :11:42.wrote with a local group, and cut his teeth on the high altitude hills
:11:42. > :11:49.around Nairobi. One of his former team-mate says he hopes Chris
:11:49. > :11:57.Froome's victory will bring some attention to Kenny and riders. --
:11:57. > :12:02.Kenyan riders. The best thing is they will be a lot of attention for
:12:02. > :12:06.our young riders here, and that gives us a chance to approve more
:12:06. > :12:16.and more what we have already been delivering. But he was at Saint
:12:16. > :12:16.
:12:16. > :12:22.Johns College, where he was at school in Johannesburg. Let's go
:12:22. > :12:28.live to their head of sport, who was a teacher when Chris was there.
:12:28. > :12:33.do you remember him? He was a gentleman, an outstanding scholar at
:12:33. > :12:36.the school, participating in all the sporting events. Not one of the top
:12:36. > :12:44.sportsmen, but total involvement, a smile on his face and always
:12:44. > :12:48.positive. What do you remember about him and bicycles? Me being involved
:12:48. > :12:52.in the sport, he came to me and asked if we could start a cycling
:12:52. > :12:58.club as part of our cultural activities on a Tuesday and Thursday
:12:58. > :13:05.afternoon. We don't offer it as a school sport, so he asked if we
:13:05. > :13:10.could set that up, and we did. That is where it all started. What about
:13:10. > :13:14.his physique and his determination? What did you see in him as a student
:13:14. > :13:21.which prepared him for something as gruelling and testing as the Tour de
:13:21. > :13:26.France? He wasn't one of the biggest boys around, so he didn't play in
:13:27. > :13:35.first-team rugby, that sort of thing. But he was always positive
:13:35. > :13:41.and involved in every sport. what it requires is absolute
:13:41. > :13:45.determination. It is a very lonely job being a cyclist, training Day
:13:45. > :13:51.after day for long hours, getting fit. Did you see that level of
:13:51. > :13:54.determination in him? It is difficult at that age, because you
:13:54. > :13:59.don't comprehend that they could go on to that sort of level, but there
:13:59. > :14:05.must have been an intrinsic characteristic in him that has now
:14:05. > :14:09.come to the fore. He was always participating in all events, so his
:14:09. > :14:13.positivity and his approach was there right from the start. Thank
:14:13. > :14:21.you for joining us from the school in Johannesburg.
:14:21. > :14:24.Stay with us here on BBC world News -- temper one. The gruesome
:14:24. > :14:34.discovery in Cleveland, Ohio, the bodies of three women found wrapped
:14:34. > :14:37.
:14:37. > :14:47.in plastic. We have the latest on Pakistani boys spend their days, but
:14:47. > :14:48.
:14:48. > :14:55.these boys are providing much-needed cash for their families. At the
:14:55. > :15:05.break of dawn, they start. These young friends are not professional
:15:05. > :15:06.
:15:06. > :15:10.they have invented one that does the job but is not the safest form of
:15:10. > :15:15.transportation. After battling for two kilometres, they reach their
:15:15. > :15:21.destination. Thick mangrove forests. They will try their luck at crab
:15:21. > :15:26.hunting. It is a dangerous job and the grown-ups prefer catching fish.
:15:26. > :15:30.However, this means the young boys get a much-needed chance to bring
:15:30. > :15:36.some money home to their families after selling these crabs in local
:15:36. > :15:40.markets. With a long iron rod, they pry the crabs from their hiding
:15:40. > :15:50.places. Sometimes they have to insert their arms inside to catch
:15:50. > :15:51.
:15:51. > :15:59.them. Without gloves. I get round 10-15 each day, sometimes 20. But if
:15:59. > :16:04.the legs are broken, it is no use. All about hard work wasted. Other
:16:04. > :16:14.times, they try lowering the crabs with the help of small rope. And
:16:14. > :16:19.pieces of fish tied on as bait. catch the crabs and whatever money
:16:19. > :16:26.we have made, we give it to the family. Then my mother makes red and
:16:26. > :16:30.we eat and go back to work. It was a fruitful day. Even though they will
:16:30. > :16:36.only make the equivalent of $3, these little hunters are happy, even
:16:36. > :16:42.with this small amount. Decades ago, the fishermen of Karachi were
:16:42. > :16:45.prosperous as fish were in abundance in the Arabian Sea. Now, it has been
:16:45. > :16:52.polluted by industrial and domestic waste. And the fish have left these
:16:52. > :16:57.waters. And that has brought poverty too many. It means that instead of
:16:57. > :17:07.getting to enjoy their childhood, these boys have to go out and earn a
:17:07. > :17:16.
:17:16. > :17:20.Cambridge is in labour with her first baby. She is in Saint Mary 's
:17:20. > :17:24.Hospital in London. A spokesperson said that things are progressing as
:17:24. > :17:30.normal. Rescue teams and western China are trying to reach survivors
:17:30. > :17:37.and those left homeless by an earthquake. More than 70 people are
:17:37. > :17:39.known to be dead. There's been yet more deadly violence in Iraq. Two
:17:39. > :17:41.prisons on the outskirts of Baghdad were attacked by gunmen who were
:17:41. > :17:43.reportedly trying to free the inmates. At least 25 members of the
:17:43. > :17:46.security forces were killed. Separately, in Mosul, at least 12
:17:46. > :17:56.people were killed when a suicide bomber rammed his vehicle into an
:17:56. > :17:58.
:17:58. > :18:00.army convoy.. For more on this story we can speak to the BBC's Arab
:18:00. > :18:05.affairs editor, Rami Ruhayem. 200 people dead since the beginning of
:18:05. > :18:09.the weekend. What is going on? of what has been going on for about
:18:09. > :18:16.ten years. This is the kind of thing we have been seeing ever since the
:18:16. > :18:19.United States invaded. And the levels differ from time to time and
:18:19. > :18:23.they are all linked at times to different domestic of elements and
:18:23. > :18:29.at times to regional developments. But we have not seen any stop to
:18:29. > :18:38.this violence. Today's violence in Mosul and yesterday 's attack on the
:18:38. > :18:41.prison is slightly different. The attacks over the weekend mostly
:18:42. > :18:44.attacked civilians and the prison attacks or to free inmates, and
:18:45. > :18:52.previous ones were successful but this time the authorities have
:18:52. > :18:57.managed to foil this attack. But they took a lot of pain in Mosul,
:18:57. > :19:02.and many were killed, army and police. What is your feeling about
:19:02. > :19:09.the capacity of the security forces of the political leadership, given
:19:09. > :19:14.just how difficult this has become? The main criticism has been
:19:14. > :19:17.infiltration and accusations that they are infiltrated. In addition,
:19:17. > :19:23.they do not coordinate activities well enough to stop this violence.
:19:23. > :19:29.And all of this is amid deep political divisions, not normal
:19:29. > :19:36.divisions but over legitimacy and whether the new order after the
:19:36. > :19:42.invasion is legitimate or not. It is against this background that perhaps
:19:42. > :19:47.gives the violence more steam to continue unabated as we have seen.
:19:47. > :19:54.What signs are there that this has become more radicalised? If you look
:19:54. > :20:04.at the levels of violence, it is hard to measure. In terms of who is
:20:04. > :20:05.
:20:06. > :20:12.involved? The Islamic state is very much active in Syria. This perhaps
:20:12. > :20:18.indicates mutual spill over. We do not know if Iraq is affecting Syria
:20:18. > :20:22.or vice versa. They are opposed to the political opposition to the new
:20:22. > :20:26.order and they think proper opposition is armed opposition to
:20:26. > :20:33.overthrow the order. A lot of this violence is also aimed at those who
:20:33. > :20:38.oppose the Iraqi government through political means. They are the main,
:20:38. > :20:42.or according to the government, they are behind most of these attacks but
:20:42. > :20:48.there are different narratives about who is really behind this. There are
:20:48. > :20:58.many theories about different geopolitical influences and it is
:20:58. > :20:59.
:20:59. > :21:03.hard to tell which is correct. you very much. A Norwegian woman in
:21:03. > :21:09.to buy at the centre of a rape claim dispute has been pardoned. She has
:21:09. > :21:12.been free to leave the country. The woman had been given a 16 month
:21:12. > :21:18.sentence last week for having sex outside marriage. The verdict
:21:18. > :21:24.sparked outrage in the West. She says she has been pardoned, has been
:21:24. > :21:30.returned. The charges date back to March, when she was reportedly raped
:21:30. > :21:32.by her co-worker. Police in the US city of Cleveland are searching a
:21:32. > :21:34.neighbourhood after the bodies of three dead women were discovered.
:21:34. > :21:43.They'd been wrapped in plastic bags. It is thought they were killed
:21:43. > :21:46.within the last ten days. Jane Little has more details. Police and
:21:46. > :21:50.local volunteers spent Sunday searching dozens of homes in this
:21:50. > :21:54.rundown Cleveland neighbourhood, looking for more possible victims.
:21:54. > :22:02.None have been found. On Friday, they discovered the body of a woman
:22:02. > :22:06.in a garage and, later, arrested a suspect. He is Michael Maddison, a
:22:06. > :22:10.registered sex offender who lived nearby. On Saturday, they uncovered
:22:10. > :22:17.the bodies of two more women. One in the backyard and another in a
:22:17. > :22:22.neighbour 's basement. All were wrapped in plastic bags. They are
:22:22. > :22:27.connected and hopefully this will be at. It will do the best we can to
:22:27. > :22:31.contain this within the neighbourhood. The local Mayor said
:22:31. > :22:35.that Madison suggested he was influenced by a local serial killer.
:22:35. > :22:42.Anthony Sobel was sentenced to death two years ago after being convicted
:22:42. > :22:46.of killing 11 woman. Their remains were found in his Cleveland home.
:22:46. > :22:50.The city made headlines in another grim case in May, when three women
:22:50. > :22:57.who vanished more than one decade ago were found alive in the home of
:22:57. > :23:01.a real Castro just ten miles from this latest crime scene. He faces
:23:01. > :23:05.multiple counts of kidnapping, rape and murder. Police have not released
:23:05. > :23:14.the names of these three women and say it could take some time to
:23:14. > :23:16.identify them. A BBC investigation has revealed that new EU regulations
:23:16. > :23:18.on logging are failing to stop illegal wood reaching Europe's
:23:18. > :23:21.shops. The Panorama programme has spent six months tracking illegal
:23:21. > :23:31.logs from the rainforest of Republic of Congo to Western Europe. Raphael
:23:31. > :23:37.
:23:37. > :23:41.Rowe reports. I am on a stake out waiting for this ship carrying
:23:41. > :23:45.suspected illegal logs to dock in the west of France. After two days,
:23:45. > :23:52.the cargo is unloaded and we can finally inspect it. The markings on
:23:52. > :23:58.some show it is tropical hardwood from one of two forest cutting zones
:23:58. > :24:06.in the Republic of Congo. It is used by a logging company. Nice to meet
:24:06. > :24:13.you. Investigators say the markings showing the area of origin have been
:24:13. > :24:17.changed. There has been some falsification of the numbers. It
:24:17. > :24:22.looks a little awkward. It could be changed. They believe the stands
:24:22. > :24:26.were changed to show the wood came from an area where logging is
:24:26. > :24:35.unrestricted, when it had actually come from the other forest cutting
:24:35. > :24:37.some. This second zone was subject to an export ban imposed last year
:24:37. > :24:43.after 12 logging companies had exceeded their annual quota in the
:24:43. > :24:49.first five months. They wanted to make it seem like these logs were
:24:49. > :24:55.cut here and not here. Based on the sheer volumes that were coming out,
:24:55. > :24:59.we thought, this does not seem right for possible that they are cutting
:24:59. > :25:04.down that many trees. The company said at the stake had been made
:25:04. > :25:09.because of human error and they admitted the markings we filmed
:25:09. > :25:19.appeared to have been altered. They promised to get back to us with
:25:19. > :25:19.
:25:19. > :25:22.further details but never did. No European Union regulation in related
:25:22. > :25:27.in March helped, they made the responsibility of the importer to
:25:27. > :25:34.make sure they would is imported legally. For the logs that we fund,
:25:34. > :25:37.that was the responsibility of the French importer. We contacted them
:25:37. > :25:43.to see what checks were carried out on sourcing the word, but many
:25:43. > :25:47.questions remain unanswered. I need to as Giesen questions about the
:25:47. > :25:52.wood you brought in? And your due diligence? Should you have done
:25:53. > :25:58.more? Under the new law, environmental campaigners say that
:25:58. > :26:03.more checks should have been made by the importer and French authorities.
:26:03. > :26:09.The import of this timber into France should have raised red flags.
:26:09. > :26:13.This is at the highest risk of what these regulations are about. And the
:26:13. > :26:18.operator importing them should have been held to account. Elsewhere, the
:26:18. > :26:23.timber industry as it she and of good intentions but very weak links.
:26:23. > :26:27.Until something is done about this, thousands of trees will be plundered
:26:27. > :26:37.illegally and exported from ports like this, processed into the many
:26:37. > :26:38.
:26:38. > :26:41.wooden products we see in our homes. And the menus is the Duchess of
:26:41. > :26:46.Cambridge has been admitted to hospital to have her baby. The
:26:46. > :26:51.hospital is in central London, she arrived by car and here is the