24/07/2013 BBC World News

top stories: The search for survivors after a boat with asylum

seekers heading frost Rayleigh sinks off Indonesia's closed. 150 people

are rescued. Many more asked missing. A British

court rules that the honeymoon is murder suspect Shrien Dewani is now

fit enough to be extradited to South Africa.

Using your plastic card in Europe should soon become much cheaper will

stop the European commission wants to Australia has sunk. It was packed

with immigrants who were mainly from Iraq, Iran and Sri Lanka. It went

down shortly after leaving Indonesia. The authorities there say

that so far, they have rescued 157 people and recovered four bodies off

the coast of Java. It is likely that they were heading for the Australian

territory of Christmas Island. The incident comes days after prime

minister Kevin Rudd of Australia announced tough new rules to divert

all asylum seekers away from Australian shores to camps in Papua

New Guinea. Then came a mass riot by several hundred asylum detainees on

the island of Nauru after the announcement. This underlines the

need for policy changes in Australia on asylum seekers which sends a

clear message to people smugglers to stop sending people by boat to

Australia. We have seen too many drownings, too many innocent people

being lost. Mr Rudd has to set an election date soon. The issue of

asylum seekers is a daily focus of political debate in Australia. I was

joined from Canberra by ABC's political correspondent Greg

Jennett, and I asked him about the complex political pressures inside

Australia highlighted by this latest sinking. It must be clear to anyone

boarding a boat to make that treacherous journey from Indonesia

to Australia that they are not only picking on the dangers that the

oceans might throw at them, but there are also sailing into very

turbulent political times in Australia. We are, after all, only

days or weeks away from the calling of an election by prime minister

Rudd, and this is emerging as the dominant domestic political issue,

how to stop the boats. That is the jargon adopted in the debate here.

Kevin Rudd has his suite of policies, or just to try and deter

people smugglers by removing anyone who arrives by boat and sending them

to Papua New Guinea. His opponent, Tony Abbott, from the coalition side

of, has another set of policies. Going head to head on this is very

much a daily episode in political debate right now. How much was the

prime minister's recent visit to Papua New Guinea -- to Indonesia,

and under deal with Papua New Guinea, how much has that defused

the issue? That is part of a deliberate campaign strategy by

Kevin Rudd to rebuild policy and alter it in the image of himself

after some calibration failures on the part of his predecessor, Julia

Gillard. Kevin Rudd tried to build a regional level of support both in

Jakarta, with their president, and also in Port Moresby, with prime

minister Peter O'Neill. So putting in those pieces are important in

building this alternative set of policies that Kevin Rudd has

outlined. The question is, will it stop the boats and deter people

smugglers from putting together these voyages? There is no immediate

evidence that it is. Kevin Rudd has an answer to that. He says, we

expect it to be tested by the people smugglers, and if this policy is to

be effective, it will take time. is this still such a major political

problem? It is almost ten years since John Howard, who got himself

into difficulty over the so-called kids overboard scandal, where there

was a deception which went on. Why is it still such a major unresolved

issue with neighbouring countries? Because the pendulum has swung in

different ways since that time. Early on, a hard-line position taken

by John Howard. Later, the Rudd labour government came into power

and moved the emphasis back towards compassion, accepting what were

regarded as the world's most vulnerable people into Australia as

asylum seekers. Now the sheer weight of numbers has persuaded the Labour

side of politics that that policy setting was not right, that they are

being tested by people smugglers and a stern response was required. This

is not just one tragedy today. There were many before it. Some estimates

of lives lost in these journeys in recent years go above 1000. Lives

are lost and attempt are being made to slow the boats for political

reasons, but also for humanitarian ones.

In the last half-hour, Queen Elizabeth has arrived at Kensington

Palace in London to see her new great-grandson. It follows a first

Mac at home that, judging by his father's comments outside the

hospital on Tuesday, is likely to have been one of broken sleep for

the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Let's go to Sarah Campbell, who is

at Kensington Palace. We can see the palace behind you. Where are the new

living areas and accommodation for the Duke of the Duchess and the

Prince of Cambridge? They are actually staying in a two-bedroom

cottage which is in the grounds behind the main building that you

can see. That is where they will be staying for the first couple of

weeks, getting used to those sleepless nights and nappy changing.

As you say, the Queen arrived just over half an hour ago. We are not

sure where that meeting took place, whether it was in this small cottage

or one of the larger rooms of Kensington Palace. The Queen was

reported to say she was thrilled at the birth of her great-grandson, so

we expect to know about her visit here in the next couple of days. On

Friday, she travels to Balmoral for her summer holiday. Last week, she

was quoted as saying she hoped her great-grandson would get a move on

because she wanted to see him before she went on her holiday. So it is

good to know he is listening already. We are not expecting any

private photographs, but what a special moment for any child to meet

their great grandparent, which is unusual in itself. But what is

especially unusual is that the great-grandmother is the Queen, who

has ruled Britain and the Commonwealth for 60 years and is the

person that this baby will have two follow in their footsteps and take

on the immense responsibility that she has one so well. So it is a

significant and important meeting, but on a personal level, how lovely

for a great-grandmother to meet her great-grandson. We are waiting for

other visitors we might expect. The other big news that everybody is

waiting for is the name. We had to wait a week to find out Prince

William's name. In 1948, we had to wait a whole month for Prince

Charles' name. Hopefully, it will be less than that.

We got a taste of the people around you in Kensington Gardens, jogging,

cycling and enjoying London in late July.

Now, if you live in the European Union and you use credit or debit

cards to buy things, you could soon benefit from lower charges, cost the

European commission says it wants to cap the fees that banks charge

retailers when processing the payments. They could be set at 0.2%

for debit cards and 0.3% for credit cards. Let's go to Duncan Crawford

in Brussels. 0.2 and 0.3%. How does that compare to how people feel they

are being stung at the moment? a lot lower than the current

transaction fees, known as inter-charge fees, which shops have

to pay every time a credit card or debit card is used in a transaction.

The transaction costs themselves vary from country to country,

depending on what kind of card you use. They can be as high as 1.5% at

the moment. If you think of all the transactions taking place every day

across Europe, it is a huge amount of money, millions of pounds which

go to the banks every year. That is why the banks have been fighting

this. But today, the European commission, the EU's anti-trust

regulator, said it wanted to put this cap on transaction fees so that

it will be 0.2% for debit cards and 0.3% for credit cards. The mobile

phone operators went through this a couple of years ago and were told to

lower their charges. They then found other ways of making sure they got

the money back. Will the banks find another way of getting their money

back 's it is certainly a possibility. This is a real

moneyspinner for the banks. They make millions of pounds a year, like

I say will stop already, some banking officials have warned that

they will try to raise these funds in other ways. The banks have argued

that these transaction costs are needed to process all the

transactions. There has been speculation by financial experts who

have said that banks may, as a result of this, impose annual

charges on credit cards and debit cards, where people would have to

pay yearly fees. For a debit card, it has been suggested that people

could a �11 a year. For a credit card, �55 a year. But these are

still just suggestions. This is at the proposal stage and still needs

to be passed why the European Parliament and all the EU member

states. We brought Duncan Crawford to you

without any transaction charge from Brussels.

Now, a British businessman has lost his bid to avoid extradition to

South Africa over the death of his wife during their honeymoon. Shrien

Dewani is accused of ordering the killing of his wife, who was shot

dead in a taxi on the outskirts of Cape Town nearly three years ago.

Three men have already been convicted over the killing. Anni

Dewani's sister said her family would continue their fight for

answers. We as a family are satisfied with the decision today

made by the British justice system. But it is still a long way to the

answers we are looking for. For us, it is all about Anni. It is about

finding out what happened to her. We will fight this battle to the end.

It has just begun. Let's go to Johannesburg and the

BBC's Milton Nkosi. What is Mr Dewani facing, and why do the South

African courts want him back where you are? The South Africans want Mr

Dewani to come here and cancer to the charge that he masterminded the

murder of his wife during their honeymoon trip to Cape Town. The

taxi driver who drove them told the authorities here that he was asked

why Mr Dewani to try and orchestrate a car hijacking, and in the process

kill his wife. He entered a plea but with the national persecuting

authorities here and got 18 years for that. Soon after that, the

people who conducted the hijacking on that fateful night in November

then got sentenced as well. The man who pulled the trigger, a

25-year-old man, got a life sentence in Cape Town last year. So the South

African prosecuting authorities are keen to hear Mr Dewani's side of the

story, either to clear his name or to find him guilty for masterminding

his wife's murder. In Egypt, army chief Abdel Fattah

al-Sisi has called for nationwide rallies on Friday to give the

military mandate to confront what he termed violence and terrorism

following the ousting of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi. In a

speech at a military graduation ceremony, he said his appeal for

protests was not a call for violence, and expressed support for

efforts for national reconciliation. Meanwhile, an overnight bomb

explosion outside a police station in the northern Egyptian city of

Mansoura has killed a soldier, injuring 17 people, including police

and civilians. Separately, a gunman shot dead two supporters of the

deposed president, Mohammed Morsi. Let's go to our reporter in Cairo.

He is defence minister and head of the army. Essentially, he

masterminded the removal of President Morsi. What kind of gamble

is this? The army are asking for expressions of public support.

a very provocative gamble. As you said, he is the head of the army. He

is not to interim president. Why does a military officer need a

mandate? He said, I urge people to take to the streets this Friday to

prove their will and give me, the army and the police a mandate to

confront possible violence and terrorism. We have already heard

from the Muslim Brotherhood, who have said this is a threat. Some in

the Muslim Brotherhood say it may even be a civil war. That may be

going a little far, but this is an extraordinary provocative statement

from the head of the military in Egypt. It goes some way to

explaining who is in charge in this country. It is not the politicians,

it is clearly the military. I do not want to incite pessimism here, but

it almost looks as if the military are inviting people into a potential

confrontation on Friday with the Muslim Brotherhood? Yes, and you

need to ask, why would the head of the Armed Forces, who already has a

huge amount of troops on the streets throughout Egypt, heavily armed in

some cases, is without doubt a very put up -- provocative statement. We

have seen the reaction from the Muslim Brotherhood. What exactly is

happening? Are we seeing ratcheting up of tension? Perhaps we are seeing

a sense of frustration that President Morsi supporters have not

abandoned their protests. They still want their man to be reinstated. He

is in army custody. Nobody knows where he is. Perhaps we are seeing a

sense of frustration from the military that they haven't been able

to find a sense of frustration from the military that they haven't been

able to finally shut up President Morsi's supporters so now they are

calling on the people of Egypt to join them to do just that.

Thank you for that update after what the head of the army said. Still to

come on BBC World News: We are in Hong Kong to ask traditional

astrologers what the future might hold for the new Prince of

Cambridge. A year ago, London 2012 make heroes

out of footage athletes competing in the unlikeliest of sports. One of

them was handball. But they came last. That means they have now been

given no state funding. Summer 2012 and we are in the midst

of Olympic fever. 12 months on and the excitement around Team GB

continues but beneath the smiles and signed T-shirts, some Olympians,

such as Chris Smith Dermott, have come back down to earth with a bump

after losing funding. I cannot do the same level of training I was

used to do ring. I used to be training two or three times a day.

Now it is once a day unless I have got work so life has changed a lot.

It is not what I anticipated, coming to the job centre to sign on! I was

wearing my Team GB jogging bottoms in an Olympic days. Chris is the

guest of honour at the Cheshire School games where his chosen sport

is proving very popular. It is very good and fast but it can be quite

dangerous but I really enjoy it. is seven-a-side so there is less

people to past two and it is a real team sport. 4:24pm?I will think

about it! But with so many sports competing for funding, decisions

have been made and handball have missed out. There are a small number

of sports who competed in London that do not have the potential in

2016 and it is a step too far to be investing in a 12 year pathway with

no guarantees of medal success. now, Chris is working in a Liverpool

bar in between his training but when handball returns to the Olympic

stage in Rio de Janeiro, it is very unlikely that Team GB will be there.

the headlines: Indonesian naval patrols have rescued more than 150

asylum seekers after their boat sank. They were heading for

Australia. The head of the Egyptian army calls

for people to take to the streets on Friday to support the military's

efforts to fight what he calls terrorism.

One of the leading candidates for New York City Mayor has admitted

sending more sexually explicit messages to a woman. The revelations

come two years after he left Congress for a similar offence.

Anthony Weiner said he was very sorry for the messages but will not

withdraw from the mayoral election in November.

Two years after resigning from Congress for exchanging sexually

explicit messages with young women, Anthony Weiner admitted engaging in

similar behaviour after he stepped down. He used the alias Carlos

Danger but it is the timing that is particularly shocking, coming just

months after he promised to put things right with his wife. I said

that other texts and photos were likely to come out and today they

have. These things were wrong and hurtful to my wife and caused us to

go through many challenges in our marriages marriage. His resignation

followed a sex scandal of the Twitter age, where he used social

media. But he is trying to make a comeback. With rivals calling for

him to quit the race, his wife Huma Abedin not only stood by his side

but also spoke on his behalf. made mistakes, before he resigned

and after, but I do very strongly believe that it is between us and

our marriage. The political question now is whether New York voters will

be so benevolent. We do not know how much more will come out. We do not

know if we can trust this man or if he will tell the truth. When does it

end? It wasn't good but it has nothing to do with how he

represented the people. Anthony Weiner claims his bad behaviour is

behind him, that his sexting stopped last summer, but can he survive a

second scandal that so closely resembles the first?

The Bollywood superstar Salman Khan is to go on trial for murder. It

relates to a hit and run incident. He is accused of driving it cheap

which ran over five homeless people on a pavement in Mumbai -- driving a

Jeep. The actor faces a jail sentence of up to ten years if

convicted. I asked why it has taken 11 years to come to trial. This was

a case from 2002 but earlier found man Khan was being tried for lower

charges which meant that if he had been convicted, he would have faced

a jail term of two years. There was a fresh case files and they are

asking for more severe charges, so it is starting again from scratch.

Under the new trial, he could end up facing a longer jail term. Why has

he been exempt from appearing in court? His lawyer presented the case

that because he is giving so many movies and have to travel a lot, it

may not be possible to come to the trial on a day-to-day basis and the

court has agreed to that, but the court has also added that if he is

required in court, he will have to be present. The retrial starts next

month. He won't be there on the first day of hearing but he will

have to be present if the court asks him to. Fans of the British Royal

family continue to celebrate the arrival of a new unnamed prints but

what my destiny hold for the future King? In Hong Kong, traditional

Chinese astrologists are using details of the baby's birth to tell

his future. Looking to tradition to predict the

future. Many Chinese believe their destiny is written when they are

born. This is Wong Tai Sin Temple, one of Hong Kong's most popular

places of worship for followers of Taoism, a Chinese religion which

roughly translates as the way. This temple is well regarded as a place

where wishes and blessings are granted and devoted regularly come

to have their fortune told. A common way of doing this is through baat

zu, using the hour of birth as well as the day, month and year to tell a

person 's future. Master Raymond Lo is a Chinese astrologer. The little

baby was born in the late afternoon on the 22nd of July. Was that an

auspicious moment to be born? moment of time is a metal element

and Earth produces metal, and that means intelligence. It is also

nobleman, which means the baby will have support and health all his

life. Power comes up after 35, that could be the time he would be King.

It is far too soon to tell whether Master Raymond Lo's prediction will

come true. The Taoist elders have asked their God to bless the newest

royal baby in the belief that divine protection may help him to enjoy a

long and happy life. Finally something most of us do not

want to go through. The most difficult part of a flight in a

balloon is the landing. Watch this picture from the Netherlands. This

hot air balloon was flying when it made what we understand to be an

emergency landing in a lake. Speed suggests the wind was pretty strong

at the time. There were 11 people on board. All of them were able to

climb out of the gondola but two passengers were later treated for

minor injuries. The Dutch authorities say they are