:00:09. > :00:17.Our top stories: US Secretary of State John Kerry lobbied hard for
:00:17. > :00:22.air strikes on Syria, saying it is the only way to kick-start
:00:22. > :00:25.diplomacy. The end to the conflict in Syria requires a political
:00:25. > :00:31.solution. There is no military solution. We have no illusions about
:00:31. > :00:34.that. Syria and Russia's foreign ministers urge America to avoid
:00:34. > :00:38.military action and to work for peace talks instead. Philippine
:00:38. > :00:45.government forces in a stand-off with rebels after clashes in a
:00:45. > :00:49.southern port city let chilly left seven people dead. And an Italian
:00:49. > :00:52.Parliamentary Committee decides if former premier Silvio Berlusconi
:00:52. > :01:09.will be stripped of his Senate seat after tax fraud conviction.
:01:09. > :01:16.Hello. The US government is intensifying efforts to win
:01:16. > :01:20.international and domestic backing for strikes against Syria. The US
:01:20. > :01:26.secretary of state has met William Hague in London. John Kerry said the
:01:26. > :01:32.use of chemical weapons was a catastrophe of global proportions
:01:32. > :01:37.that demanded action. Syria and Iran have admitted that there was a
:01:37. > :01:43.chemical attack. They just tried to blame it on people that have no
:01:43. > :01:46.scientific capacity to do this, and where there is no evidence that they
:01:46. > :01:51.have any of the weaponry to be able to do it. Most importantly, just as
:01:51. > :01:58.a matter of logic, tell me how they would do it from the centre of the
:01:58. > :02:06.regime controlled area and put it into their own people? It defies
:02:06. > :02:12.logic. It defies common sense here. So, the evidence is powerful. The
:02:12. > :02:17.question for all of us is, what are we going to do about it? Turn our
:02:17. > :02:21.backs? Have a moment of silence? Where a dictator can, with impunity,
:02:21. > :02:25.threaten the rest of the world that he is going to palliate for his own
:02:25. > :02:28.criminal activity because he is being held accountable? We live in a
:02:28. > :02:31.criminal activity because he is dangerous world as it is, folks. And
:02:31. > :02:37.that kind of threat is nothing different than the threat that we
:02:37. > :02:39.face every single day. If we do not stand up to it, we will face more
:02:39. > :02:43.and they will think they can stand up to it, we will face more
:02:43. > :02:47.intimidate anybody. I don't believe that we should shine from this
:02:47. > :02:54.moment. The risk of not acting is greater than the risk of acting.
:02:54. > :02:59.Everybody needs to stop and think about that hard. William Hague said
:02:59. > :03:03.Britain may not be able to offer military support, after the motion
:03:03. > :03:10.was defeated by Parliament. But it is working on other pressing issues
:03:10. > :03:17.related to Syria. Our objectives and efforts, between the UK and the US,
:03:17. > :03:24.remain closely aligned in four areas in particular. First, working to
:03:24. > :03:27.create the conditions for a Geneva 2 process. Secondly, addressing the
:03:27. > :03:32.desperate humanitarian situation. Third, supporting the moderate
:03:32. > :03:37.Syrian opposition and saving lives on the ground. Fourth, mustering a
:03:37. > :03:41.strong international response to the use of chemical weapons. Our
:03:41. > :03:44.government supports the objective of ensuring there can be no impunity
:03:44. > :03:50.for the first use of chemical warfare in the 21st century. As an
:03:50. > :03:55.international community, we must deter further attacks and hold those
:03:55. > :04:00.responsible for them accountable. In Moscow, Syria's Foreign Minister
:04:00. > :04:05.that one Mac, that his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. Russia is
:04:05. > :04:09.Syria's main ally. -- Walid Moallem. He warned of an outbreak of
:04:09. > :04:12.terrorism and a bigger wave of refugees if there were military
:04:13. > :04:16.strikes against the Assad government. Both foreign ministers
:04:16. > :04:21.urge to United states to focus on efforts to convene a peace
:04:21. > :04:24.conference instead. TRANSLATION: We in Syria leave that a political
:04:24. > :04:29.solution remains the only solution to our crisis. -- believe. If
:04:29. > :04:34.aggression takes place, we will have a different position. I asked the
:04:34. > :04:38.BBC's Daniel Sandford how significant the message from both
:04:39. > :04:42.foreign ministers was. We did not get much of a shift this morning. It
:04:42. > :04:47.was interesting to see the Syrian and Russian Foreign Minister sitting
:04:47. > :04:49.down at this trim at the moment in Syria's history and
:04:49. > :04:52.down at this trim at the moment in saying much, other than restating
:04:52. > :04:59.their positions. Perhaps the strongest thing that they said was
:04:59. > :05:01.that they are doing their best to bring about a peaceful solution,
:05:01. > :05:05.that the United Nations Secretary General is doing his best to do
:05:05. > :05:08.that, and they are calling on the Americans to be working on peace
:05:08. > :05:13.rather than preparing for war. Beyond that, they were talking about
:05:13. > :05:16.the fact that they denied again the chemical weapons attacks were their
:05:16. > :05:19.responsibility. In fact, they said there had been some earlier chemical
:05:19. > :05:25.weapons attacks this year. They were very keen that the United Nations
:05:25. > :05:26.inspectors returned to Syria to investigate the attacks, which they
:05:26. > :05:32.claim had been effectively ignored investigate the attacks, which they
:05:32. > :05:38.by the world. There were very insistent that Syria is ready to go
:05:38. > :05:42.and sit down at peace talks for the so-called Geneva 2 talks. They say
:05:42. > :05:46.the reason why the talks have not got off the ground is because the
:05:46. > :05:47.French, British and Americans have been dissuading the Syrian
:05:47. > :05:51.French, British and Americans have opposition from going to those
:05:51. > :05:55.talks. That is the allegation. What is your assessment of the strength
:05:55. > :06:00.and self-confidence in the Russian position now, particularly after
:06:00. > :06:03.resident Putin was chairing all of those meetings, multilateral or
:06:03. > :06:11.bilateral, in Saint last Friday and Thursday? -- St Petersburg. They
:06:11. > :06:17.feel comfortable in terms of their PR strategy. They can say, happily,
:06:17. > :06:20.we do think that the world is listening. We are pleased with the
:06:20. > :06:25.decision the British Parliament made. We hope that President Obama
:06:25. > :06:29.will listen to his own people, who are opposed to military strikes.
:06:29. > :06:32.That works very well for them. They say they are glad that people around
:06:32. > :06:35.the world agree with them that military strikes are not the right
:06:35. > :06:39.option. I think Russia feels comfortable on that. I think the
:06:39. > :06:45.discomfort comes from the fact that they are seen to be allies with
:06:45. > :06:50.President Assad's government. And the allegation, of course, from the
:06:50. > :06:54.Americans is that President Assad's government has been using weapons
:06:54. > :06:56.against women and children, many of whom subsequently died. That is
:06:56. > :07:01.obviously still uncomfortable for Russia. As far as the diplomatic
:07:01. > :07:06.game is concerned, I think it is going very well for them. Meanwhile,
:07:06. > :07:10.the International Committee of the Red Cross says its work inside Syria
:07:10. > :07:17.is being impaired by restricted access. The head of the ICRC in
:07:17. > :07:26.Syria, Magne Barth, spoke to Jeremy Bowen in Damascus. We are able to
:07:26. > :07:29.do, with Syria, a lot. Particularly huge water programmes, helping 20
:07:29. > :07:34.million people get water. But, unfortunately, we are not able to do
:07:34. > :07:37.enough as we should because we lack access, also in places where there
:07:37. > :07:42.is great suffering. There is no doubt about that. Where would you
:07:42. > :07:46.like to get to? Some of the places that are most difficult are the
:07:46. > :07:50.places which are really hot. Fighting is going on, or close to
:07:50. > :07:55.fighting, where people are displaced. There are many wounded
:07:55. > :07:56.and people are suffering. Around Damascus, different communities
:07:56. > :08:05.and people are suffering. Around where we are not getting into. Some
:08:05. > :08:10.of these places are very tough to get into. Are their civilians there
:08:11. > :08:14.as well as fighters? There are definitely civilians. It is
:08:14. > :08:17.difficult to say the numbers, except the because we do not have access.
:08:18. > :08:22.You cannot measure this. But certainly there are civilians, for a
:08:22. > :08:27.privacy of reasons. But there are also fighters. Our point is that
:08:27. > :08:30.civilians have a right to aid. But anybody wounded, whether he is a
:08:30. > :08:36.soldier, a fighter on the other side, a woman or a child, they have
:08:36. > :08:41.a genuine right to medical aid. So, both civilians and the wounded have
:08:41. > :08:45.a right to aid and we would like to bring that. But we are not always
:08:45. > :08:49.allowed to do it. Who is stopping you? That is a different constraint.
:08:49. > :08:53.Sometimes it is security constraints. We had a kidnapping a
:08:53. > :08:59.couple of months back. But then there are sometimes come in this
:08:59. > :09:01.case, in the east of Damascus, we are not getting the permission the
:09:01. > :09:05.way that we wanted from the authorities to go in. You are
:09:06. > :09:10.talking about the government? I am talking about the government, but I
:09:10. > :09:12.want to make a couple of points. The government also has security
:09:13. > :09:18.concerns. Sometimes the fighting is so that we cannot go in. And I
:09:19. > :09:23.respect that. But there are other times, when we have to find space in
:09:23. > :09:30.a lull in the fighting. If we look on the 21st of August, where both
:09:30. > :09:36.parties agree there was a chemical attack in Ghouta, there was only the
:09:36. > :09:44.question of inspectors going in. There was no question of aid. We
:09:44. > :09:49.were ready to support them, but there was no space. So there are
:09:49. > :09:51.opportunities. Are you saying that the Syrian government is blocking
:09:51. > :09:57.access? I am not here to the Syrian government is blocking
:09:57. > :10:03.characterise anything in particular. I am saying that we are pleading for
:10:03. > :10:07.access, we have asked to have it, and I am not going to come in public
:10:07. > :10:10.or private, characterise what the government do. But I am pleading on
:10:10. > :10:20.them to open up. And the opposition, which controls parts around Western
:10:20. > :10:24.Aleppo. I hope that things open up. The people that have the guns need
:10:24. > :10:30.to give space for those that have human aid to do it.
:10:30. > :10:33.The Philippines, and a group of about 100 Muslim rebels has launched
:10:33. > :10:37.an attack on the Philippine city of samba languor. Fighters from the
:10:37. > :10:43.morrow and the liberation front entered the city by boat. They
:10:43. > :10:48.clashed with naval security forces. -- Moro National Liberation Front.
:10:48. > :10:56.There are reports that hostages have been taken. Not for the first time,
:10:56. > :10:59.the residents of Zamboanga woke to the sound of gunfire and the sight
:10:59. > :11:03.of troops rushing through their streets. The fighting moved into the
:11:03. > :11:09.city's neighbourhoods, forcing families to free to safety. The
:11:09. > :11:15.exchanges of fire claimed several victims. TRANSLATION: This man said
:11:15. > :11:21.that the men took away the family and has he works in. Since signing a
:11:21. > :11:25.landmark cease-fire agreement, the Philippines government has been
:11:25. > :11:31.making progress in negotiations with the largest insurgent group, the
:11:31. > :11:36.MNLF. They are already talking about sharing resources and forms of
:11:36. > :11:40.autonomy. But there are many other armed groups operating in the
:11:40. > :11:43.Philippines. The fighters that ended Zamboanga from a rival group that
:11:44. > :11:51.made peace with the government 17 years ago, but is once again
:11:51. > :11:56.fighting for complete independence. Our mission is to establish our own
:11:56. > :12:04.place. But the conclusion of that, we want to establish our own
:12:04. > :12:11.Zamboanga government. We want independence. Piece in this
:12:11. > :12:14.chaotic, lawless region has always been an elusive goal. It certainly
:12:14. > :12:15.chaotic, lawless region has always felt very distant in Zamboanga
:12:15. > :12:28.today. Italy, where the former Prime
:12:28. > :12:30.Minister Silvio Berlusconi is battling to avoid being expelled
:12:30. > :12:34.from Parliament. That is after he was found guilty of tax fraud. The
:12:34. > :12:39.process could lead to him being stripped of his Senate seat. The
:12:39. > :12:45.move is proving controversial, especially amongst Jalisco only
:12:45. > :12:48.supporters. -- Silvio Berlusconi supporters. Let's find out what is
:12:48. > :12:59.going to happen. What is the process here? We are seeing the start of a
:12:59. > :13:04.process where the former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi could be
:13:04. > :13:08.expelled from office. This colossal figure could be stripped of his
:13:08. > :13:11.Senate seat, as you say. Through this afternoon, we are expecting a
:13:11. > :13:16.Senate committee to begin reviewing the law, as it applies, particularly
:13:16. > :13:20.in his case. The committee could well come in the weeks ahead,
:13:20. > :13:27.referred this matter to a vote of the full about house, where he is
:13:27. > :13:30.badly outnumbered. You would expect the vote to go against him. You
:13:30. > :13:37.might also expect him to fight this all the way, to throw everything he
:13:37. > :13:40.has into an effort to avoid this expulsion. There is more than just
:13:40. > :13:45.pride at stake. If he was expelled from Parliament, he would inevitably
:13:45. > :13:50.become a slightly more marginalised figure, less directly influential.
:13:50. > :13:56.As I say, everything will go into this fight to stop that happening.
:13:56. > :14:00.Does he have available any legal or procedural ways of somehow saving
:14:00. > :14:07.his skin here? He tends to have something up his sleeve. He is often
:14:07. > :14:15.at his best when the odds seem stacked most highly against him. He
:14:15. > :14:18.does have a few cards to play. Remember, his party is a major
:14:18. > :14:23.pillar in the current Italian coalition government. He may be
:14:24. > :14:27.tempted, as some of his more hawkish followers have suggested, to pull
:14:27. > :14:30.the plug on that government, bring it crashing down and go for
:14:30. > :14:36.elections. That could easily backfire. Voters may well blame him
:14:36. > :14:39.for wanting the country into political chaos at a time when it is
:14:39. > :14:43.beginning to look like it may start emerging from its economic crisis.
:14:43. > :14:48.At the moment, at least, he seems to be going that route of trying to
:14:48. > :14:52.delay the expulsion process. He is appealing to the European Court of
:14:52. > :15:01.Human Rights and elsewhere, trying to contest the validity of this
:15:01. > :15:04.law, as it applies in his case. He argues the crime was committed
:15:04. > :15:08.before the law on expulsion was brought into effect. He says this
:15:08. > :15:25.law cannot be applied to him retroactively. Still to come: How
:15:25. > :15:30.Asia's economic giant China sees new business opportunities investing in
:15:30. > :15:37.Greece is depressed economy. And we analyse speculation that North
:15:37. > :15:46.Korea's leader is a new father after basketball star describes him as a
:15:46. > :15:50.good dad. Now to the car workshop whose management is challenging
:15:50. > :16:01.traditional stereotypes. Women in Senegal have proudly named their own
:16:01. > :16:07.workshop Women Auto, they want only female mechanics but have had to
:16:07. > :16:12.hire male colleagues. When she opened her own garage a few years
:16:12. > :16:21.ago, this woman surprised many in the country. The rise of female
:16:21. > :16:30.mechanics made it to the news bulletin on national television. Our
:16:30. > :16:34.final aim is to have female mechanics only but given the last of
:16:34. > :16:42.sophisticated equipment we still need the physical strength of our
:16:42. > :16:47.male colleagues to help us. Today with eight female mechanics, as
:16:47. > :16:55.staff is still dominated by men, but here it is the women who decide who
:16:55. > :16:59.does what. I have always been attracted to cars. I love driving
:16:59. > :17:04.and I wanted to show my friends I could be a mechanic. I hope more
:17:04. > :17:07.women join because there is no problem working with men. What do
:17:07. > :17:11.women join because there is no the men make of being supervised by
:17:11. > :17:19.women here, in what is often thought to be a man's world? I think these
:17:19. > :17:24.girls and women doing this like to be challenged, and they show that
:17:24. > :17:28.thinking of this is a man's job is not ideal. Women are running the
:17:28. > :17:47.show here and doing it for themselves.
:17:47. > :17:50.The Mexican president, Enrique Pena Nieto, has proposed a levy on soft
:17:50. > :17:53.drinks to help tackle the country's serious obesity problem. Mr Pena
:17:53. > :17:57.Nieto described it as a health tax for Mexico, which has the second
:17:57. > :18:00.highest rate of obesity in the world. The measure is part of a
:18:00. > :18:03.series of social and fiscal reforms. Among the proposals are the
:18:03. > :18:06.country's first carbon tax and plans to introduce unemployment benefits
:18:06. > :18:10.and a national pension scheme. The plan needs to be approved by both
:18:10. > :18:21.houses of the Congress and by a majority of Mexico's states.
:18:21. > :18:25.houses of the Congress and by a You are with BBC world News. The
:18:25. > :18:29.headlines: US Secretary of State John Kerry lobbies hard for air
:18:29. > :18:35.strikes on Syria. In a visit to London, he said it was the only way
:18:35. > :18:39.to kick-start diplomacy. Russia's Foreign Minister has warned US
:18:39. > :18:46.military strike could lead to the spread of terrorism.
:18:46. > :18:50.Norwegians are going to the polls to spread of terrorism.
:18:50. > :18:51.elect a new parliament. The country's anti-immigration
:18:51. > :18:54.centre-right opposition is predicted to win. It promises tax cuts,
:18:54. > :19:02.privatisation and smaller government. It's the first election
:19:02. > :19:05.since Anders Behring Breivik's attacks on Norway's Labour
:19:05. > :19:09.government and youth movement two years ago. Catharina Moh reports.
:19:09. > :19:11.Casting his vote, the Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg
:19:11. > :19:18.remains positive he can win the election, but critics accused him of
:19:18. > :19:23.squandering Norway's oil revenues. We have shown we are able to take
:19:23. > :19:27.responsibility for the country. We have the lowest unemployment in
:19:27. > :19:32.Europe. We have a strong economy and we have been able to improve the
:19:32. > :19:45.quality of health care and education. The Conservatives damned
:19:45. > :19:50.good chance of winning, promising to cut taxes. This is her third attempt
:19:50. > :19:58.and she has steered her party closer to the centre. The four leader is
:19:58. > :20:04.seen here during the election campaign could clinch a majority
:20:04. > :20:09.according to the national newspaper. The anti-immigration progress party
:20:09. > :20:15.would enter government in a coalition for the first time in this
:20:15. > :20:22.scenario. One of its members included Anders Behring Breivik,
:20:22. > :20:36.responsible for shooting spree in 2011. In this case, there may be a
:20:36. > :20:40.minority government. Monday is the official election day and 3.64
:20:40. > :20:47.million people are eligible to vote. Already more than 800,000 Norwegians
:20:47. > :20:50.have cast their votes in advance. There is still a chance for Jens
:20:50. > :21:03.Stoltenberg to remain Prime Minister. Today the Norwegian people
:21:03. > :21:08.decide on how much change they want. China's growth is slowing. But it
:21:08. > :21:10.remains the strong eastern economy that everyone is trying to court -
:21:10. > :21:13.not least, troubled Eurozone members. Greece has suffered most
:21:13. > :21:17.from the financial crisis. The economy has shrunk by a quarter. But
:21:17. > :21:20.Chinese investment in Greece and the exchange between the two countries
:21:20. > :21:25.is growing. Is China coming to Greece's rescue? From Athens, the
:21:25. > :21:32.BBC's Mark Lowen. At this southern Greek port, the Chinese are in the
:21:32. > :21:38.driving seat. China's date shipping company paid 500 million euros for
:21:38. > :21:46.this terminal, building new equipment. It gives China a key
:21:46. > :21:54.access point to Europe. This is a business chance. China is interested
:21:54. > :22:01.in a business opportunity here? Yes, sure. Until now we are successful
:22:01. > :22:08.here. Greece's rushed to privatise has attracted the Chinese. China has
:22:08. > :22:12.arrived as Greece is on its knees, desperate for foreign investment.
:22:12. > :22:17.European companies are still wary of this country so it has left the
:22:17. > :22:21.field clear to the emerging economies of the east. They can now
:22:21. > :22:26.get a foothold on very favourable terms. But it works both ways, this
:22:27. > :22:31.drinks factory has tripled its exports by sales to China. Other
:22:31. > :22:39.businesses are following but they are still dwarfed by Chinese exports
:22:39. > :22:44.here. With the market reduction, Greek companies have a great chance
:22:45. > :22:52.to make a big effort to enter new markets, and China should be one of
:22:52. > :22:57.the first choices. Our company has done this and I believe other
:22:57. > :23:02.companies can do this as well. Greeks see opportunities in China
:23:02. > :23:08.that they lack a year. Eight years ago Chinese was a niche offering at
:23:08. > :23:13.this school, now it is the second most popular. We hear about Chinese
:23:14. > :23:19.investments in Greece all the time, and I think that is why so many
:23:19. > :23:26.young people learn Chinese. We hope we can get a job and use the Chinese
:23:26. > :23:31.we learn. The Greeks will probably find work here in two years but with
:23:31. > :23:36.the Chinese language this is a really important assets because in
:23:37. > :23:41.that way we will have their way out of the country and probably work
:23:41. > :23:51.abroad. Beneath the Acropolis, another growing exchange. Chinese
:23:51. > :23:57.tourists rose last year by 25%. Today these two ancient nations are
:23:57. > :24:01.at opposite ends of the economic spectrum and the sick man of Europe
:24:01. > :24:11.is turning to the Asian tiger in its hour of need.
:24:11. > :24:13.Does the North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un have a baby daughter?
:24:13. > :24:18.According to US basketball star Dennis Rodman he does. The American
:24:18. > :24:24.sportsman met Kim Jong-Un last week on his second visit to the north.
:24:24. > :24:27.Kim's wife Ri Sol had appeared to be pregnant in pictures issued last
:24:27. > :24:40.year by North Korea's state news agency. But there has been no
:24:40. > :24:47.official confirmation of a birth. Dennis Rodman seems to be the only
:24:47. > :24:52.one who says he has held the baby. He says it is a baby daughter and he
:24:52. > :25:02.spent a long time chatting with Kim Jong-un and his wife, Ri Sol, and
:25:03. > :25:09.playing with their infant. He confirmed the rumours. You mentioned
:25:09. > :25:15.the pictures of Ri Sol when she was pregnant and the press went crazy
:25:15. > :25:19.speculating, and now it seems we have the first eyewitness statement.
:25:19. > :25:22.Should we assume that having a baby daughter is a state secret? There
:25:22. > :25:29.has been so much speculation about daughter is a state secret? There
:25:29. > :25:34.the status of Kim Jong-un's family. There is speculation they have a
:25:34. > :25:38.baby already, but whether that is true he has certainly taken a
:25:38. > :25:42.different approach from his father and grandfather in terms of showing
:25:43. > :25:47.his family to the public. It is rare for a North Korean wife to be
:25:47. > :25:55.photographed and videoed on the state news agency as Ri Sol
:25:55. > :26:00.has-been. He has shown himself to be more willing to be a public first
:26:00. > :26:04.family if you like so it may well be that we will see more of this kind
:26:04. > :26:08.of thing. It should also be said that here there is speculation about
:26:08. > :26:12.whether a baby daughter would have any kind of impact on a future
:26:12. > :26:18.succession. There have been three generations of the Kim family now,
:26:18. > :26:49.all of them men, will adore to qualify? Thieves have escaped with
:26:49. > :26:53.more than a million euros worth of jewellery after crashing their car
:26:53. > :26:56.through the front of a shop in central Paris. It's the latest heist
:26:56. > :27:00.in France. It follows a spate of high-profile robberies in the
:27:00. > :27:01.southern resort of Cannes. Police say the men drove a large