:00:18. > :00:21.top stories: Despite controversial new settlements planned by Israel,
:00:21. > :00:23.the US Secretary of State says Middle East peace talks will go
:00:23. > :00:29.ahead. Two men are sentenced to death after
:00:29. > :00:33.violent clashes in north west China. I was forced to take these bags in
:00:33. > :00:36.my luggage. Two British women arrested on
:00:36. > :00:40.suspicion of drug trafficking in Peru say they did not know they were
:00:40. > :00:44.carrying cocaine. And it was one of the biggest art
:00:44. > :00:54.heists in modern history - were these pictures burned to destroy the
:00:54. > :01:14.
:01:14. > :01:17.of State John Kerry has said the latest round of Middle East peace
:01:17. > :01:19.talks should not be derailed by Israel's decision on Sunday, to
:01:20. > :01:22.approve well over a thousand new settler homes. Palestinian
:01:23. > :01:26.negotiators have accused Israel of trying sabotage the talks, which are
:01:26. > :01:29.due to begin later this week. But speaking in Colombia, Mr Kerry
:01:29. > :01:35.stressed the need for both sides to return to the negotiating table and
:01:35. > :01:38.focus on peace talks. I think what this underscores actually is the
:01:38. > :01:41.importance of getting to the table, getting to the table quickly and
:01:41. > :01:47.resolving the questions with respect to settlements, which are best
:01:47. > :01:50.resolved by solving the problem of security and borders. Once you have
:01:50. > :01:58.security and borders solved, you have resolved the question of
:01:58. > :02:05.settlements. The BBC's Yolande Knell in Jerusalem
:02:05. > :02:09.says the situation between both sides remains extremely tense.
:02:09. > :02:15.What I think we have here is a lot of tension building up ahead of
:02:15. > :02:18.these talks due to take place in Jerusalem tomorrow and on Wednesday
:02:18. > :02:24.between the Israelis and Palestinians, sitting down together
:02:24. > :02:30.at negotiating table. As well as the settlement announcement that came
:02:30. > :02:36.through on Sunday of 1200 new settlement homes to be built in East
:02:36. > :02:41.Jerusalem and the West Bank, land that the Palestinians claim as part
:02:41. > :02:46.of their state, after that we had a committee getting together to
:02:46. > :02:51.approve a list of 26 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails that are
:02:51. > :02:56.to be released as part of the deal that was struck to get these peace
:02:56. > :03:01.talks restarted. There has been a lot of resistance to that within the
:03:01. > :03:08.Israeli government and wider Israeli society. That prisoner release is
:03:08. > :03:11.expected to take place very late tonight, just 26 prisoners. They
:03:12. > :03:20.will be part of a group of 104 scheduled to be released. Most have
:03:20. > :03:24.been in prison for some 20 years since the 1993 Oslo accords and a
:03:24. > :03:30.roundabout blend so this is a big deal for the Palestinians. It is a
:03:30. > :03:36.sensitive issue for the Israelis and at the moment there is this delicate
:03:36. > :03:40.balancing act going on. John Kerry, in his words, and sending the envoys
:03:40. > :03:48.tomorrow, really trying to smooth things over and keep things on
:03:48. > :03:54.track. He paid six visits to this region trying to get talks to
:03:54. > :04:01.restart after they stalled last time. Is their optimism the talks
:04:01. > :04:07.will happen? There is scepticism on both sides, but we have a real
:04:07. > :04:14.determination from the officials who are involved, and the negotiators,
:04:14. > :04:19.that they will sit down and they will start off talking about issues
:04:19. > :04:23.like Borders and security and put off the more difficult core issues
:04:23. > :04:28.like Jerusalem until later. They are being very secretive about the
:04:28. > :04:31.content of the talks and when I have spoken to people involved in the
:04:31. > :04:35.negotiations previously, particularly those in the run-up to
:04:36. > :04:40.the Oslo accords, they say this is very important at the moment, that
:04:40. > :04:46.there should be secrecy, they should be keeping quiet, and trying to push
:04:46. > :04:50.ahead with these talks despite the controversy surrounding them and the
:04:50. > :04:54.tension that exists. And as those tensions continue across the region,
:04:54. > :04:57.Israel says it's shot down a rocket that was targeting the southern port
:04:57. > :05:00.city of Eilat. The Iron Dome defence system intercepted the rocket which
:05:00. > :05:04.Israeli authorities say was fired from Egypt early on Tuesday. It
:05:04. > :05:09.comes just days after the city's airport was closed because of a
:05:09. > :05:16.security threat. Crime in the US is at a 40-year low
:05:16. > :05:19.but it still has one of the biggest prison populations in the world.
:05:19. > :05:21.Sweeping changes are being planned, which could dramatically reduce
:05:21. > :05:24.America's bulging prison population. The Obama administration wants to
:05:24. > :05:30.scrap mandatory prison sentences for drugs offences unless they involve
:05:30. > :05:40.violence or organised crime. The move could save the US billions of
:05:40. > :05:43.
:05:44. > :05:47.dollars a year. America's prisons are overflowing. Here in California,
:05:47. > :05:52.gymnasiums are turned into dormitories as the prison system
:05:52. > :05:57.struggles to cope. The numbers are striking, almost 1% of the adult
:05:58. > :06:03.population in the US is in prison, and close to half of all inmates are
:06:03. > :06:10.serving time for drug-related offences. In 2010 it cost the
:06:10. > :06:14.taxpayer $80 billion. It is a legacy of the war on drugs which enforced
:06:14. > :06:21.mandatory minimum sentences for even low-level drug crimes. The Attorney
:06:21. > :06:26.General wants to change that. a vicious cycle of poverty,
:06:26. > :06:30.criminality and incarceration traps to many Americans and weakens to
:06:30. > :06:36.many communities. Many aspects of our criminal justice system may
:06:36. > :06:46.exacerbate these problems rather than alleviate them. The prison
:06:46. > :06:47.
:06:47. > :06:52.population is disproportionately black and Hispanic. He wants to give
:06:52. > :06:57.judges greater discretion over sentencing to divert non-violent
:06:57. > :07:02.drug offenders into treatment programmes rather than prisons. Many
:07:02. > :07:07.states are already shifting funding away from prison building towards
:07:07. > :07:11.rehabilitation centres, and some are red states such as Texas. Critics
:07:12. > :07:15.say these measures are futile, that they will not significantly reduce
:07:15. > :07:20.overcrowding, but the administration has clearly signalled the start of
:07:20. > :07:25.the process, as well as an end to that of medicine in Iraq that
:07:25. > :07:28.characterised the war on drugs. A court in China has sentenced two men
:07:28. > :07:30.to death, following the outbreak of ethnic violence in the Western
:07:30. > :07:33.province of Xinjiang earlier this year.
:07:33. > :07:43.State media says the two men were found guilty of murder and
:07:43. > :07:43.
:07:43. > :07:46.terrorism. Three others were given nine years in jail. 21 people were
:07:46. > :07:49.killed in fighting between police and residents in what the
:07:49. > :07:52.authorities there describe as a terrorist attack. Earlier I spoke to
:07:52. > :07:57.Zhuang Chen of the BBC's China Service. He explained what's
:07:57. > :08:04.believed to have happened in April. 15 of the community workers and the
:08:04. > :08:10.policemen have found suspicious movement in the house, and official
:08:10. > :08:17.media say they were surrounded by local people and they were chased,
:08:17. > :08:22.they were killed by knives and some of the policemen were herded in a
:08:22. > :08:28.room and the room was burned down. 15 of them died and another six of
:08:28. > :08:34.the local people were killed during the chase. What happened in the
:08:34. > :08:38.aftermath? The government arrested those involved in the incident and
:08:38. > :08:44.yesterday sentenced two of them to the death sentence, which is a
:08:44. > :08:48.severe sentence and a long-term jail imprisonment for the rest. Xinjiang
:08:48. > :08:54.is one of the flash point in terms of China's ethnic regions and the
:08:54. > :08:58.series of incidents that happened in the past, for instance the biggest
:08:58. > :09:02.one happened in 2009 when nearly 100 people were killed. That is the
:09:02. > :09:11.issue which is very difficult for the Chinese government to deal with
:09:11. > :09:21.because the ethnic minorities were all there. Describe the area, where
:09:21. > :09:24.
:09:24. > :09:27.does it border? Pakistan, Afghanistan, and obviously the
:09:27. > :09:31.Congress said they are not terrorists, it is only because of
:09:31. > :09:35.the oppression of the Chinese government that leads to those
:09:35. > :09:45.instances. Obviously the state media and local groups have different
:09:45. > :09:51.
:09:51. > :09:54.versions on what is happening on the ground. She has grown up in the
:09:54. > :09:58.spotlight, the white heat of the White House - Chelsea Clinton has
:09:58. > :10:02.worked in Wall Street but is now focused on her father's charity, the
:10:02. > :10:05.Clinton Foundation. Touring Rwanda and Tanzania amongst a number of
:10:06. > :10:09.countries in Africa, she talked to my colleague Komla Dumor about what
:10:09. > :10:11.drives her right now and whether she will one day follow in her parents'
:10:11. > :10:17.footsteps. As the foundation expands its footprint and influence in
:10:17. > :10:25.Africa, another Clinton is taking up a bigger role. Chelsea Clinton sits
:10:25. > :10:33.on the foundation's board, and this project demonstrates how simple
:10:33. > :10:38.interventions can provide clean water in poor communities. I think
:10:38. > :10:42.success in your life really matters and as much as I loved solving a
:10:42. > :10:49.problem on Wall Street and seeing I was right, and investment idea, I
:10:49. > :10:53.didn't ultimately want to dominate the number of my life in dollars but
:10:53. > :10:59.in how many people I can say is, the number of people I can help in power
:10:59. > :11:06.to lead their own lives. You come from the very influential political
:11:07. > :11:12.dynasty, why not make that choice as opposed to pursuing this? Right now,
:11:12. > :11:17.I feel called to participate in the nonprofit sector. I am also grateful
:11:17. > :11:22.to live in a city under state and a country where I really believe in my
:11:22. > :11:30.elected representatives. If ever one of those changed and I thought I
:11:30. > :11:36.could make more of a distance -- difference, or I no longer believed
:11:36. > :11:46.in the ethics and the competences of my political leaders, then I would
:11:46. > :11:52.
:11:52. > :11:55.have two ask myself honestly whether that would be a better path.
:11:55. > :11:58.young British women accused of attempting to smuggle more than two
:11:58. > :12:01.million dollars worth of cocaine from Peru to Spain have said they
:12:01. > :12:04.were not aware that they were carrying drugs. Michaella Connolly,
:12:04. > :12:07.from Belfast, and Melissa Reid from Scotland, were stopped in Lima last
:12:07. > :12:10.Tuesday. Officials say almost 12 kilos of cocaine was found inside
:12:11. > :12:14.food packages in their luggage. In footage which has emerged of their
:12:14. > :12:22.police interview, Melissa Reid said she didn't know what was inside the
:12:22. > :12:31.bags. I was forced to take these bags in my luggage. You know it
:12:31. > :12:34.contained drugs? I did not know that. Melissa Reid, 19 years old,
:12:34. > :12:40.and her co-accused Michaella McCollum Connolly is 20 from
:12:40. > :12:49.Belfast. Still to come: And mass jailbreak in Brazil, nearly 40
:12:49. > :12:59.inmates are still on the loose after a riot in Sao Paulo.
:12:59. > :12:59.
:12:59. > :13:08.Tens of thousands of people have been left homeless after the worst
:13:08. > :13:10.typhoon this year in the Philippines. Two people have been
:13:10. > :13:14.confirmed dead and several others are still missing, following the
:13:14. > :13:20.trail of destruction left by Typhoon Utor. Typhoon Utor, tearing homes
:13:20. > :13:24.apart. Worst hit the neighbouring coastal towns north-east of the
:13:24. > :13:30.capital, Manila. Trees were uprooted, power lines tangled,
:13:30. > :13:35.houses flattened. This villager says she saw her house shaking like it
:13:35. > :13:41.was being lifted up. Her family hurried to take shelter in a bigger
:13:41. > :13:50.house. Not everyone was so lucky, many people are still missing. This
:13:50. > :13:59.woman struggles against the raging waters. She is OK for now, but her
:13:59. > :14:03.fate is unknown. Manila escaped the path of the storm. The flooding was
:14:04. > :14:08.not too extensive here. Schools were still closed bow, precautionary
:14:08. > :14:13.measures have become standard after the high death tolls of storms in
:14:13. > :14:17.recent years. About 20 typhoons hit the Philippines every year and
:14:17. > :14:26.people are resigned to them, but this is the largest yet, and the
:14:26. > :14:33.clean-up will be a challenge. This Typhoon Utor is being described as
:14:33. > :14:37.the most powerful storm to have formed globally this year. The winds
:14:37. > :14:42.are 175 kilometres per hour, it is now moving on and the worst for the
:14:42. > :14:47.Philippines is over, but the typhoon has accelerated as it moves into the
:14:47. > :14:51.South China Sea. It is forecast to make landfall in China on Wednesday
:14:51. > :14:56.so the immediate danger has passed but huge destruction has taken
:14:56. > :15:00.place. The people here are now left to count the cost and repair the
:15:00. > :15:03.damage. A group of 20 condors, one of the
:15:03. > :15:06.largest flying birds in the world, has been found poisoned in the
:15:06. > :15:09.Chilean Andes. Rescuers near the town of Los Andes found two dead
:15:09. > :15:12.condors, while 18 others were foaming from the beak or too frail
:15:13. > :15:22.to fly. It's thought they may have eaten poisoned carcasses, or drunk
:15:23. > :15:28.
:15:28. > :15:31.water contaminted with insecticide. The latest headlines: US Secretary
:15:31. > :15:34.of State says Middle East peace talks will go ahead, despite
:15:34. > :15:37.controversial new settlements planned by Israel.
:15:37. > :15:47.A court in China has sentenced two men to death following clashes in
:15:47. > :15:54.
:15:54. > :15:59.the Western province of Xinjiang by Picasso, Matisse and Monet stolen
:16:00. > :16:04.from a museum in Rotterdam October last year? The trial of three men
:16:04. > :16:08.accused of stealing the patience has been opened and adjourned in a
:16:08. > :16:10.mania, but suspicion is growing that the paintings may never be seen
:16:10. > :16:15.again. Dr Bendor Grosvenor is an art dealer
:16:15. > :16:19.and art historian and is here in the studio. Obviously there is a trial
:16:19. > :16:25.going on so we must be careful about what we say, but give us the
:16:25. > :16:30.background? We have had a theft in the Kunsthal Gallery in Rotterdam,
:16:30. > :16:35.seven important pictures missing by Picasso, Monet, Matisse, big names.
:16:35. > :16:39.The ringleader was arrested, but apparently his mother has said that
:16:39. > :16:49.she burned the pictures, so that is the great mystery, whether we will
:16:49. > :16:54.ever see them again. Why were these pictures targeted? It is the big
:16:54. > :16:56.names of art, they are worth a lot of money. Famous images that the
:16:56. > :17:03.viewers might recognise, one of them was Monet's scene of Charing Cross
:17:03. > :17:07.bridge. How big a loss would that be if they had been burned? Monet
:17:07. > :17:13.painted that seen a few times, we're not talking about the Mona Lisa, but
:17:13. > :17:20.it is always sad when a great painting is lost. I have just been
:17:20. > :17:25.to his house and see many of his great paintings. What could be done
:17:25. > :17:30.with these pictures if they were not burned is a big question, you can't
:17:30. > :17:34.just hide one in your bedroom? is a great myth that Lott of these
:17:34. > :17:38.pictures are stolen by collectors who just want to have them, that
:17:38. > :17:41.does not really happen. There is also a myth that they are stolen as
:17:41. > :17:46.collateral in drug dealings by underworld criminals, but does not
:17:46. > :17:50.really happen either. Most of them are basically taken hostage, ransom
:17:50. > :17:55.money. The pictures are buried or hidden for a number of years, the
:17:55. > :18:01.heat dies down and then five, ten or 20 years down the line, the thieves
:18:01. > :18:06.say, hey, I have got your picture, give me a fee for information,
:18:06. > :18:09.basically a ransom, the picture is returned. That makes the suspicious,
:18:09. > :18:14.I don't think, despite some of the evidence coming out of Romania, that
:18:14. > :18:18.the pictures have been burned. I would be willing to bet that they
:18:18. > :18:24.will somehow turn up out of the woodwork in a few years. It is a
:18:24. > :18:29.good way to get the heat off you and stop people looking for the pictures
:18:29. > :18:31.if you say they are burned, the police might give up and look at
:18:31. > :18:35.something else. What about security? I often take my kids around
:18:35. > :18:40.galleries and I am often terrified that they will fall into a picture
:18:40. > :18:46.of great worth and bankrupt me, but security is often quite lax? It is
:18:46. > :18:50.pretty good in many places. There were some flaws in this particular
:18:50. > :18:54.museum. It is alleged that once the alarm was triggered, the Lochs went
:18:54. > :18:59.off as part of the fire safety precaution, so they could go
:18:59. > :19:05.wherever they wanted. These thieves only need a few minutes, in this
:19:05. > :19:10.case they were in and out in less than two minutes. Are these things
:19:10. > :19:14.becoming more common or we just hearing about all? We need to stop
:19:14. > :19:18.paying these ransoms. In every case it is very tempting because museum
:19:18. > :19:21.owners and private owners want the pictures back, but it makes things
:19:21. > :19:25.worse in the long run. China is targeting dozens of foreign
:19:25. > :19:27.and domestic drugs companies in a crackdown on corruption in its vast
:19:28. > :19:32.health care system. It follows a bribery scandal there involving the
:19:32. > :19:34.British drugs giant, GlaxoSmithKline. Now, five drugs
:19:34. > :19:37.salesmen working for other foreign pharmaceutical companies in China
:19:37. > :19:39.have told the BBC that they routinely pay bribes to Chinese
:19:39. > :19:49.doctors to get their drugs prescribed. Our Beijing
:19:49. > :19:54.
:19:54. > :20:00.correspondent, Martin Patience has China is counting the cost of its
:20:00. > :20:04.health care. This bus conductor spends her entire salary on her
:20:04. > :20:08.husband's medication. He is suffering from a brain tumour and
:20:08. > :20:12.government health insurance only covers part of the cost. The family
:20:12. > :20:17.survives with hand-outs from relatives.
:20:17. > :20:22.TRANSLATION: When my husband felt sick, he was a young man. We didn't
:20:22. > :20:26.have a lot of savings. It is a huge burden for us. As Beijing expands
:20:27. > :20:30.provisions for health care, government spending is soaring. It
:20:30. > :20:35.has made clear that reform is required to rein in costs. It is
:20:35. > :20:41.investigating possible price-fixing in up to 60 pharmaceutical
:20:41. > :20:46.companies. Last month a detained executive from the British firm
:20:46. > :20:50.GlaxoSmithKline confessed on state television that his company paid
:20:50. > :20:55.bribes to doctors so they would prescribe its drugs. He said the
:20:55. > :21:01.bribes were then absorbed into the cost of the drugs, pushing up prices
:21:01. > :21:07.by a third. GlaxoSmithKline has said it appears some of its local staff
:21:07. > :21:11.acted outside the company 's processes. Five employees working
:21:11. > :21:15.for other foreign drugs firms have confirmed to us that they have with
:21:15. > :21:20.this corruption, including this salesman, who did not want to be
:21:20. > :21:25.identified for fear of losing his job.
:21:25. > :21:29.TRANSLATION: At one hospital our product was no longer on sale, so we
:21:29. > :21:35.paid about $1000 to a senior doctor to get it back on the shelves. My
:21:35. > :21:44.manager approved it. In a system overwhelmed by patient
:21:44. > :21:46.is, corruption is not limited to drug sales. Using hidden cameras, we
:21:47. > :21:50.filmed touts illegally selling appointments outside a Beijing
:21:50. > :21:56.hospital. They are so well-established they even have
:21:56. > :22:00.business cards. This touts told is that if we paid $50 he could get is
:22:00. > :22:05.an appointment that afternoon. -- this man told us that if we paid
:22:05. > :22:10.$50. I tackling corruption, the authorities are hoping to make
:22:10. > :22:14.health care cheaper. -- by tackling corruption. The
:22:14. > :22:19.government wants people to spend their money in other ways in order
:22:19. > :22:24.to drive domestic growth. But for this woman, any thoughts of holidays
:22:24. > :22:32.or new furniture remain a distant dream. Until the drugs get cheaper,
:22:32. > :22:35.the best they can hope for is to just scrape by.
:22:35. > :22:38.Dozens of prisoners have escaped from a youth detention facility in
:22:38. > :22:43.Brazil following a riot. The inmates set fire to mattresses and held some
:22:43. > :22:49.of the prison's staff hostage. Police in Sao Paulo say at least
:22:49. > :22:55.thirty inmates are still on the run. Serena Chaudhry reports.
:22:55. > :23:00.A daring climb-down, and then a leap to freedom. These are just two
:23:00. > :23:07.prisoners who escaped from a youth detention facility in Sao Paulo. 54
:23:07. > :23:11.inmates fled in total. The prisoners made their escape after a riot broke
:23:11. > :23:16.out at the Fundacao Casa facility, which houses more than 100 detail
:23:16. > :23:22.needs. Dozens of the underage offenders set fire to the
:23:22. > :23:26.mattresses, sparking a blaze in the prison's central yard. Nearly 30
:23:26. > :23:31.staff members were held hostage during the riots and the facilities
:23:31. > :23:34.director was taken to hospital with cuts to his head and bruised ribs.
:23:34. > :23:37.Police are still searching for the escapades.
:23:38. > :23:40.It's Proms season here in the UK, the summer classical music festival
:23:41. > :23:43.at London's Royal Albert Hall. This year the world famous violinist
:23:43. > :23:46.Nigel Kennedy has returned to Vivaldi's Four Seasons, and he's
:23:46. > :23:49.accompanied by a youth orchestra from the Palestinian territories.
:23:49. > :23:59.Wissam Sayegh of BBC Arabic met the musicians and Nigel Kennedy himself
:23:59. > :24:08.
:24:08. > :24:12.This classical masterpiece, Vivaldi's four seasons, is known to
:24:12. > :24:21.millions around the world. But here it has been given a very different
:24:21. > :24:30.tone. It has been transformed into a
:24:30. > :24:34.musical dialogue between East and West.
:24:34. > :24:39.They are bringing such a fresh perspective on Western classical
:24:39. > :24:42.music, at the same time are still having contact with the route 's
:24:42. > :24:49.fall of the music from their forefathers, which is so wonderful,
:24:49. > :24:52.to hear people play Arabic music. I am giving space for some of the kids
:24:52. > :25:00.to play their own music as well as the classical format to show what a
:25:00. > :25:04.beautiful soul they have, it is phenomenal. 17 music students have
:25:04. > :25:09.spent four days in London with this world-famous violinist preparing for
:25:09. > :25:14.the opportunity of a lifetime, to perform in the BBC Proms, the most
:25:14. > :25:18.respected classical music festival in the world. Nigel Kennedy is one
:25:18. > :25:20.of the most acclaimed musicians in Britain, but his aim is to give a
:25:20. > :25:24.platform to these young and promising musicians from the
:25:24. > :25:32.Palestinian territories. This is the first time the
:25:32. > :25:35.Palestinian trip -- the Palestinian Strings Orchestra will perform to an
:25:35. > :25:42.audience of this size, not to mention the millions watching at
:25:42. > :25:48.home. Allah it is an amazing experience and gives Palestine a
:25:48. > :25:53.boost. We are showing people that we are not what they think we are.
:25:53. > :26:00.is an opportunity for us to perform before people. It is a real
:26:00. > :26:07.connection between us. It helps them to see what is happening in
:26:07. > :26:12.Palestine and the music we play. This orchestra was formed two years
:26:12. > :26:15.ago and has been praised for its celebration of Palestinian culture.
:26:15. > :26:20.We are bringing something very positive vote from Palestine, this
:26:20. > :26:24.is Palestine, these are young Palestinians, we have something to
:26:24. > :26:31.show people -- we are bringing something positive forward from
:26:31. > :26:35.Palestine. Nigel Kennedy's unique ambition is opening doors for this