:00:13. > :00:21.After the massive fire at Kenya's main airport, international flights
:00:21. > :00:25.start to resume along with domestic and cargo services.
:00:25. > :00:29.Australia's general election is under way. Rupert Murdoch versus
:00:29. > :00:35.Kevin Rudd, depicted as a bumbling character Colonel Klink in one
:00:35. > :00:38.paper. A quarter of a century later,
:00:38. > :00:44.Myanmar marks 25 years since these pro-democracy protests against
:00:44. > :00:54.military rule. And we meet the heavy hitters when
:00:54. > :01:05.
:01:05. > :01:09.it comes to clearing out unwanted Hello. Some international flights
:01:09. > :01:13.have resumed at East Africa's busiest airport. That is a day after
:01:13. > :01:20.a huge fire destroyed its arrivals terminal. The Jomo Kenyatta Airport
:01:20. > :01:23.in Nairobi handles around 16,000 passengers a day. Because of the
:01:23. > :01:29.fire is still not clear. Engineers say the work needed to repair the
:01:29. > :01:32.damage be huge. Questions continue to be asked about the speed and
:01:32. > :01:42.effectiveness of the emergency response. Let's go to the BBC's
:01:42. > :01:45.
:01:45. > :01:48.Emmanuel Igunza, who is live outside the Jomo Kenyatta Airport.
:01:48. > :01:56.airport authorities have set up a temporary area where passengers who
:01:56. > :02:00.will be travelling from the Jomo Kenyatta Airport will process their
:02:00. > :02:03.papers before boarding flights. They have set up huge tents at the
:02:03. > :02:09.domestic arrivals unit of the airport. They have also provided
:02:09. > :02:14.amenities. Some of the flights have taken off from the Jomo Kenyatta
:02:14. > :02:19.Airport. We have got reports from the airport authorities that a
:02:19. > :02:24.flight has taken off to Amsterdam and also another one to Johannesburg
:02:24. > :02:30.in South Africa. We need to know and passengers need to know how they
:02:30. > :02:39.will be processed? They cannot get into the building for their baggage
:02:39. > :02:43.or immigration processing. They have set up an area outside where they
:02:43. > :02:47.will be processing the passengers. Even though there is confusion
:02:47. > :02:52.amongst some passengers who I get to know the fate of their flights, we
:02:52. > :02:56.spoke to a few of them who said they have been stranded for two days.
:02:56. > :03:00.They were taken to another city, Mombasa, and then brought back to
:03:00. > :03:05.Nairobi. Still no information as to when they will get out of Nairobi.
:03:05. > :03:10.Some of them were going to Europe and others for holidays in Tanzania
:03:10. > :03:15.and other parts of the country. That information has not been available
:03:15. > :03:21.to them. Finally, the scale of damage. One senior engineer has
:03:21. > :03:24.already reported saying that the damage is huge. In other words it
:03:24. > :03:34.could be a couple of years before that will drink is anything like
:03:34. > :03:36.
:03:36. > :03:41.operational again. -- that building behind you. Yes, they have given no
:03:41. > :03:50.information as to the massive, massive damage with the building and
:03:50. > :03:53.it will take some time before they complete the renovations. We are
:03:53. > :03:57.expecting the Cabinet Secretary in charge of transport to give an
:03:57. > :04:03.indication as to when the operations or repairs to the building will
:04:03. > :04:08.start. Now to Australia. Relations between
:04:08. > :04:12.the ruling Labour Party and press have hit a new low. One of Rupert
:04:12. > :04:17.Murdoch's newspapers has likened the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to a
:04:17. > :04:21.bumbling incompetent character from a well-known sitcom. This is the
:04:21. > :04:25.Sydney daily to's front page showing Kevin Rudd as Colonel Klink, a
:04:25. > :04:31.German officer from the World War II series. Mr Rudd has called an
:04:31. > :04:36.election for September, just ahead of -- he's just ahead of the
:04:36. > :04:41.opposition leader in the opinion polls.
:04:41. > :04:51.I have a newspaper here. On the right you have Colonel Klink or
:04:51. > :04:51.
:04:51. > :04:56.Kevin Rudd. On the left you have the Deputy Prime Minister as a Sergeant.
:04:56. > :05:04.The German team came about because the Deputy Prime Minister was caught
:05:04. > :05:09.having a drink in a Bavarian beer Tavern with a somewhat disgraced
:05:09. > :05:15.Labour Party member who has been investigated on several members --
:05:15. > :05:19.several allegations of fraud and has been paying for prostitutes. Mr
:05:19. > :05:26.Murdoch is gunning for Kevin Rudd in this election. It is the second time
:05:26. > :05:31.this week he has had a go at him in The Daily Telegraph. This is on day
:05:31. > :05:37.one of the election campaign. Kick this mob out. Murdoch has clearly
:05:38. > :05:41.chosen sides. It is now four weeks this weekend until the election.
:05:41. > :05:46.thought, or there was clear evidence, that Rupert Murdoch and
:05:46. > :05:50.Kevin Rudd got on with each other litter clay. Certainly, a few years
:05:50. > :05:57.ago when Kevin Rudd was Prime Minister. You're absolutely right.
:05:57. > :06:00.When Kevin Rudd first became Prime Minister in 2007 Mr Murdoch and his
:06:00. > :06:05.newspapers backed Kevin Rudd. That seems to have changed. Rupert
:06:05. > :06:09.Murdoch is very good at picking up at the public mood. There has been a
:06:09. > :06:14.lot of discontent with the Labour Party and a lot of allegations of
:06:14. > :06:21.scandal. A lot of internal infighting. Kevin Rudd's feud with
:06:21. > :06:26.his long-term rival Julia Gillard, which resulted in him ousting her
:06:26. > :06:32.just a few months ago. I think the key point is that Kevin Rudd has
:06:32. > :06:35.really revitalised this race. A month or so ago the Labour Party was
:06:35. > :06:44.being written off against the conservative opposition of Tony
:06:44. > :06:48.Abbott. Now the opposition are still ahead but things are much closer.
:06:48. > :06:53.And it is near the beginning of the election campaign in Australia.
:06:53. > :06:57.It is 25 years since the uprising in Burma, the result was brutally
:06:57. > :07:01.suppressed. More than 3000 protesters were killed. Now for the
:07:01. > :07:08.first time the date has been publicly marked in Yangon. In March
:07:08. > :07:14.has taken place to mark the anniversary. Most of those taking
:07:14. > :07:18.part were activists from the 88 uprising, former blue to call
:07:19. > :07:24.prisoners, students and militants of those who died. -- former political
:07:24. > :07:33.prisoners. We will cross to our south-east Asia correspondent live
:07:33. > :07:38.from Yangon. Those who are attending this meeting where you are at the
:07:38. > :07:43.moment, how many of them were former political prisoners? Quite a large
:07:43. > :07:51.number. People who actually suffered terribly at the hands of the
:07:51. > :07:55.military. Some leaders of the 88 generation spent 19 years in prison
:07:55. > :07:59.and were horribly tortured. The tone is both consider Cherry and
:07:59. > :08:03.light-hearted today. It is a big day but they have been determined not to
:08:03. > :08:05.make it too heavy. A lot of the photography exhibitions which have
:08:05. > :08:11.never been publicly shown before the picked some of the gruesomeness of
:08:11. > :08:16.the events, both with the mass student uprising in 1988 and the
:08:16. > :08:26.terrible military crackdown. Right now we have a comic strip going on
:08:26. > :08:29.
:08:29. > :08:36.and light-hearted banter. Also, a light-hearted speech. It was from a
:08:36. > :08:39.lady who joined the uprising freely that I agree three weeks later. She
:08:39. > :08:43.said it belonged to those students back then as they have the courage
:08:43. > :08:47.to stand up to the military. It is a time for reflection and
:08:47. > :08:52.commemorating those who died. And there is some discussion about what
:08:52. > :08:57.future all these former dissidents will have in Myanmar. The former
:08:57. > :09:02.general was in London a couple of weeks ago. I heard him say, we have
:09:02. > :09:07.to do an awful lot very quickly. We need patience and understanding. Is
:09:07. > :09:10.there patience and understanding where you are at the moment?
:09:10. > :09:17.more than you would expect. These are people who have every reason to
:09:17. > :09:20.hate the military. They have not forgotten. They have made it very
:09:20. > :09:24.clear that they cannot forget the past but should learn from it. I
:09:25. > :09:31.think they have understood in a way that Burma's transition has been
:09:31. > :09:36.long and painful. But what one prisoner said to me was that he had
:09:36. > :09:40.time to think in prison. We were getting nowhere confronting the
:09:40. > :09:44.generals and trying to demonise them. Now we have a chance to work
:09:44. > :09:47.with them and build something more constructive. That move has really
:09:47. > :09:52.dominated at a meeting which could have been full of anger. There are
:09:52. > :09:55.angry people here and has been fierce debate about the right way to
:09:56. > :09:58.engage but there is still uncertain reform in the transition process but
:09:58. > :10:06.broadly people here, who have every reason to hate the military, appear
:10:06. > :10:11.to be willing to work with this government.
:10:11. > :10:15.Two British women who had acid thrown in their faces in the East
:10:15. > :10:20.African island of Zanzibar receiving treatment in hospital. The two
:10:20. > :10:24.volunteer teachers were dining at a restaurant. It was an area popular
:10:24. > :10:28.with tourists. Two men on a mopeds splashed acid at them. It is the
:10:28. > :10:31.first time foreigners are known to have been attacked in this way on
:10:31. > :10:36.the island, part of Tanzania. They have been flown to the mainland for
:10:36. > :10:40.treatment. The motive for the attack is not clear.
:10:40. > :10:44.To Egypt and the start of the Muslim festival of Eid marks the end of
:10:44. > :10:48.Ramadan. The holiday atmosphere is anxious. It tends stand-off
:10:48. > :10:53.continues between interim government and supporters of the deposed
:10:53. > :11:01.President Mohamed Morsi. They are staging to massive sit ins in Cairo
:11:01. > :11:05.which the government says it is determined to break up.
:11:05. > :11:09.Young families and old say they will not be moved. Defying the interim
:11:09. > :11:12.government. Even after five weeks the makeshift camp in the middle of
:11:12. > :11:17.a Maine Road is still home to thousands demanding the
:11:17. > :11:19.reinstatement of the ousted Muslim Brotherhood resident Mohamed Morsi.
:11:19. > :11:26.The brotherhood called for his release from jail without success.
:11:26. > :11:29.Talks broke down. Now the interim Egyptian government, backed by the
:11:30. > :11:39.military, has said the camps must be disbursed. It is not clear when or
:11:39. > :11:43.how. The last confrontation with the security forces proved Bud Luddy --
:11:43. > :11:48.bloody. 80 protesters have been killed in just one incident. As dusk
:11:48. > :11:54.fell at the camp protesters prepared to break their Ramadan fast, still
:11:54. > :12:01.refusing to go home. Mohamed Morsi has to come back, our president.
:12:01. > :12:05.This is where we have to start. He has to come back. Families are
:12:05. > :12:07.living here, eating and sleeping, women and children. They are not
:12:07. > :12:11.worried about what the security forces might do because they are
:12:11. > :12:19.ready to die for their cause. The presence of children has been
:12:19. > :12:22.criticised in a nation that is becoming more polarised. It is
:12:22. > :12:27.increasingly against the brotherhood. They have been accused
:12:27. > :12:34.of using children as potential martyrs. It is a good cause. I do
:12:34. > :12:44.not mind if I die. It is for a good cause. These tensions matter in a
:12:44. > :12:45.
:12:45. > :12:49.nation of over 80 million. There are fears this could further destabilise
:12:49. > :12:54.and unstable region. I'm deeply concerned about the period ahead in
:12:54. > :13:02.Egypt. This forcible dispersal of a demonstration could result in an
:13:02. > :13:05.extremely high death toll which will create a political crisis and be
:13:05. > :13:10.impossible to overcome. Some see this as a country on the edge of an
:13:10. > :13:17.abyss. The interim government has promised to take steps to avoid
:13:17. > :13:21.bloodshed and has called for the nation to unite to celebrate Eid.
:13:21. > :13:27.Stay with us on BBC world News. Still to come: The holy month of
:13:27. > :13:33.Ramadan is coming to an end. There is confusion over whether the
:13:33. > :13:39.holiday -- when the holiday actually starts. Some have more reason to
:13:39. > :13:45.celebrate than others. Five years after Russia and Georgia
:13:45. > :13:49.went to war over the disputed region Moscow's relationship with its
:13:49. > :13:56.neighbour remains tense. Diplomatic ties have not been re-established.
:13:56. > :14:01.Both countries still blame each other for the conflict.
:14:01. > :14:05.Five years on and Georgians are still counting the cost of the war
:14:05. > :14:10.with Russia. The conflict may have lasted five days but it has left
:14:10. > :14:14.deep scars. Newly 400 people were killed and thousands wounded. These
:14:15. > :14:21.activists want to make sure that they and their cause are not
:14:21. > :14:27.forgotten. The conflict erupted in August 2008. Georgia tried to retake
:14:27. > :14:31.control of the breakaway province. Russian forces responded rapidly.
:14:31. > :14:35.They pushed further into Georgian territory causing fears they would
:14:35. > :14:39.take over the capital. Tens of thousands of civilians were
:14:39. > :14:44.displaced before a cease-fire was agreed. After the war Russia
:14:44. > :14:51.recognised the independence of South Sethi, cutting off to erratic ties
:14:51. > :14:55.with Moscow. And the war of words continues. Act by its US allies
:14:55. > :15:00.Georgia maintained that Russia bears full response bloody.
:15:00. > :15:06.TRANSLATION: The inevitability of the Georgian Russian war could have
:15:06. > :15:12.been avoided under one condition, in which Georgia became a failed state.
:15:12. > :15:20.It would have agreed to Russia's demands not in 2008, not in 2007,
:15:20. > :15:25.but starting from 2004, or even at the end of 2003. Russian troops
:15:25. > :15:28.remain in control of the territory and continue to tighten the borders.
:15:28. > :15:37.As they struggle to rebuild it remained central to the tug of war
:15:37. > :15:41.between its neighbours. Speaking recently on TV the Russian president
:15:41. > :15:47.continued to blame the Georgian president for the conflict.
:15:47. > :15:57.TRANSLATION: My colleagues and I will never shake. We consider him a
:15:57. > :16:03.
:16:03. > :16:13.While Russia continues to flex its diplomatic muscles internationally,
:16:13. > :16:16.
:16:16. > :16:21.it is clear his neighbour is not ready to back down soon. You are
:16:21. > :16:25.with BBC World News. The headlines: International flights have slowly
:16:25. > :16:30.started resuming at the main airport in Nairobi after
:16:30. > :16:34.Wednesday's devastating fire in the arrivals building. The cause of the
:16:34. > :16:39.blaze is not yet known. Press baron Rupert Murdoch versus
:16:39. > :16:43.prime minister Kevin Rudd in Australia, depicted by one of his
:16:43. > :16:49.newspapers as the bumbling Colonel Klink character, just weeks ahead
:16:49. > :16:53.of the general election in Australia. Spain's rail chiefs have
:16:53. > :16:57.been addressing a special hearing of Parliament over the deadly high-
:16:57. > :17:02.speed train crash two wits ago in the north-west of the country. MPs
:17:02. > :17:07.are expected to ask the presidents of the rail infrastructure firms
:17:07. > :17:13.and the train operator about safety since the accident near Santiago de
:17:13. > :17:18.Compostela. 78 people were killed when their train it derailed on a
:17:18. > :17:23.bend. It is emerge to the driver was talking on his telephone to a
:17:23. > :17:27.male company colleague just before the accident. He remains under
:17:27. > :17:33.investigation, but has not been formally charged. The president of
:17:33. > :17:39.the train operator Renfe says the President is doing everything they
:17:39. > :17:45.can. Transpac I want to tell you that Renfe works so that as soon as
:17:45. > :17:49.possible we are able to note the causes of the accident which will
:17:49. > :17:55.enable us to reach of the conclusions conducive to measures
:17:55. > :17:59.which would prevent this sort of accident taking place again.
:17:59. > :18:07.According to the directions from the Ministry of infrastructure we
:18:07. > :18:10.have started analysis so that we never have an accident of this sort.
:18:10. > :18:16.Guy Hedgecoe is following that parliamentary hearing in Madrid and
:18:16. > :18:20.I asked him what the rail chiefs have been saved. It has been a wide
:18:20. > :18:28.ranging appearance so far. They have talked very generally about
:18:28. > :18:32.Spain's rail infrastructure and Spain's safety on his rail lines,
:18:32. > :18:38.investments in Spanish railways, the technology that has been
:18:38. > :18:41.installed, and both of them have insisted that Spain's railways are
:18:41. > :18:46.essentially safe in terms of the investment they have received and
:18:46. > :18:52.the technology they have. They talked more specifically about a
:18:52. > :18:58.particular stretch of track leading up to where the accident took place
:18:58. > :19:00.on 24th July in north-west Spain just outside Santiago de Compostela.
:19:00. > :19:05.They head of the Railtrack administrators said it was checked
:19:05. > :19:09.by experts and employees of the company as recently as April. He
:19:09. > :19:14.said there should not be any reason therefore this accident to have
:19:14. > :19:20.happened in terms of the state of the rail line. But he did say on an
:19:20. > :19:23.emotional note that everybody in the industry needed to think long
:19:23. > :19:29.and hard about how they could have prevented this accident from
:19:29. > :19:34.happening. What about a specific issue, the pain was reportedly
:19:34. > :19:38.doing 210 kilometres per hour on a stretch where the limit is 80
:19:38. > :19:43.kilometres an hour? The driver confirmed he was on the telephone
:19:43. > :19:47.to his company? That is right the investigation into the causes of
:19:47. > :19:51.the accident has focused very much on the drive up. We have
:19:51. > :19:55.confirmation from him he was going too fast and from the black box on
:19:55. > :20:04.the train as well. The driver said he was speaking to a colleague on
:20:04. > :20:08.the same train itself. It appears he got distracted. He was going too
:20:08. > :20:12.fast. We do not know if the telephone call caused the
:20:12. > :20:17.destruction, but it may have made things worse. But he did a slowdown
:20:17. > :20:23.fast enough or early enough going into the tight curve. In terms of
:20:24. > :20:28.the general reason so far it looks like a human error. What they are
:20:28. > :20:32.trying to do today is to find out how the technology and the rail
:20:32. > :20:38.companies can reduce the possibility of human error in the
:20:38. > :20:42.future. In Pakistan reports say a suicide bomber has killed at least
:20:42. > :20:48.six people. The bomb went off at the funeral of a police officer
:20:48. > :20:53.killed earlier on Thursday. Several officials were in attendance. We
:20:53. > :20:58.were reporting from Egypt a moment ago at the beginning of Eid. For
:20:58. > :21:04.tens of millions of Muslims the holy month of Ramadan is at an end
:21:04. > :21:09.and they were no longer have to fast. It is marked by three days of
:21:09. > :21:13.celebrations called Eid. But there is confusion over when its stars.
:21:13. > :21:21.Celebrations are already under way in Egypt, while others will have to
:21:21. > :21:27.fast for another day. Preparations for Eid are well under way. The
:21:27. > :21:31.Islamic holiday that marks the end of Ramadan. In Pakistan People's
:21:31. > :21:41.around stalls offering special merchandise for the holiday season.
:21:41. > :21:47.In Gaza these Palestinian women are busy baking traditional sweets.
:21:47. > :21:50.TRANSLATION: We are making the cake for Eid, for our boys and girls to
:21:50. > :21:55.be happy. It is what our grandfathers and grandmothers would
:21:55. > :21:59.make. But it is all dependent on the site of the new crescent moon
:21:59. > :22:06.and every year confusion surrounds went to start the new celebration.
:22:06. > :22:12.This is how the announcement came. On Twitter it was announced he
:22:12. > :22:15.would be -- Eid would be on Thursday in Saudi Arabia. From
:22:15. > :22:23.South Africa at a message announcing fasting would end on
:22:23. > :22:28.Friday. When to celebrate Eid is a complicated religious issue.
:22:29. > :22:32.Usually Muslims celebrate with Saudi Arabia, but some countries
:22:32. > :22:37.like Pakistan preferred to pinpoint the men themselves. In London it
:22:37. > :22:43.has caused a split. This mosque in Regent's Park will be celebrating
:22:43. > :22:48.on Thursday, following Saudi Arabia. But some Pakistani mosques will be
:22:48. > :22:54.celebrating on Friday. To add to this confusion fasting is usually
:22:54. > :22:59.30 days, but this year it has fallen a day short, so some purists
:22:59. > :23:03.want to complete the full 30 days. People in nidus up -- celebrated
:23:03. > :23:07.the end of the holy month of Ramadan on Wednesday, one of the
:23:07. > :23:12.first countries to start. They celebrated with their own unique
:23:12. > :23:20.twist. It is not wrong now for the millions of Muslims around the
:23:20. > :23:24.world before they can join in the festivities and feasting us. In
:23:24. > :23:29.Hungary the Government has intervened in a dispute between a
:23:29. > :23:33.mayor in a northern town and the LOCOG Roma community. The mayor has
:23:33. > :23:42.been ordered to restore water supplies after he closed down many
:23:42. > :23:47.roadside pumps, which the Roman rely on. More than 10,000 M1 live
:23:47. > :23:56.in this town, they are poor and have many children and since last
:23:56. > :24:00.Friday in the scorching heat they have been thirsty. Plans but it is
:24:00. > :24:07.crazy age at down the water. The kids used to splash and spray a lot
:24:07. > :24:14.of water, beat -- but we are poised to go further up. I would go but I
:24:14. > :24:17.am unable. I cannot go and get waters so far away. Last week the
:24:17. > :24:24.water authority implemented a decision of the town council to
:24:24. > :24:31.shut down 27 Wells and drastically reduce water supply to 61. The
:24:31. > :24:35.mayor says the move was designed to prevent waste. TRANSLATION: We can
:24:36. > :24:40.only provide a drinking water service. We cannot ensure water for
:24:40. > :24:45.washing cars or taking away large tanks were those who do not pay.
:24:46. > :24:51.This is not an issue of Roman settlements. But if there is
:24:51. > :24:56.wastage, others say the council should have tracked down the
:24:56. > :25:00.culprits, not punished a whole community. Transpac there is a lot
:25:00. > :25:05.of poverty and unemployment and people are dissatisfied. They need
:25:05. > :25:11.a scapegoat and if that scapegoat is physically punished, they feel
:25:11. > :25:16.satisfied. After five days of queues at water pumps and growing
:25:16. > :25:21.political pressure, the Government intervened and told its local
:25:21. > :25:25.representatives to restore full supply while the heatwave lasts.
:25:25. > :25:32.But the crisis has underlined a bigger problem, how little trust
:25:32. > :25:39.exists between the Roma minority and the wider society.
:25:39. > :25:44.How to clear land that is overgrown with weeds, shrubs and poison Ivy?
:25:44. > :25:50.You could use drastic pesticides or heavy machinery, or you could sent
:25:50. > :25:54.in a team of goats. That is what is happening in Washington DC. And
:25:54. > :25:58.unloved patch of ground, a cemetery, the final resting place for
:25:58. > :26:04.politicians, is being cleared in an unusual way.
:26:04. > :26:09.It is an unconventional approach to a growing problem. These hungry
:26:09. > :26:15.visitors are reporting for duty. Their mission is to march through
:26:15. > :26:20.vines, weeds and even poison ivy. A four-legged alternative to machines
:26:20. > :26:25.and pesticides. We have a wooded area adjacent to the cemetery that
:26:25. > :26:29.is full of invasive species and they are killing our trees. We
:26:29. > :26:35.expect everything between seven feet and below it to be consumed by
:26:35. > :26:43.the goats. The goats are penned in so they do not disturb the
:26:43. > :26:47.tombstones. Among those resting here include J Edgar Hoover and the
:26:47. > :26:53.vice-president who signed the declaration of independence. The