:00:10. > :00:17.Hello, this is BBC World News. Our top stories: there is gunfire on the
:00:17. > :00:18.outskirts of Cairo. State media says security forces
:00:19. > :00:24.have taken control of the town, but State media says security forces
:00:24. > :00:29.there are ongoing clashes. President Bashar al-Assad says he will destroy
:00:29. > :00:32.Syria's chemical weapons, but warns that it could take a year and cost
:00:32. > :00:36.$1 billion. Mexico is being warned that further
:00:36. > :00:42.flooding devastation could be on the way. A cyclone is expected to hit
:00:42. > :00:46.the storm ravaged coastline. And remember this little boy from
:00:46. > :00:47.the horror movie The Shining? The bestselling author Stephen King
:00:47. > :01:12.tells us how he grew up. Welcome. There has been gunfire on
:01:12. > :01:18.the outskirts of Cairo as Egyptian security forces clash with militants
:01:18. > :01:21.in the town of Kerdasa, a stronghold of the Muslim Brotherhood. The
:01:21. > :01:26.security forces moved into the area early this morning and arrested
:01:26. > :01:29.dozens of people, searching for Brotherhood leaders. The authorities
:01:29. > :01:33.say they are looking for those responsible for killing 11 policemen
:01:33. > :01:46.in the town last month. With me now is my colleague from BBC
:01:47. > :01:50.Arabic. Since last August and the dispersal, the biggest challenge for
:01:50. > :01:57.Arabic. Since last August and the the police has been to keep Cairo
:01:57. > :02:04.safe, and other areas. After some security incidents, the police
:02:04. > :02:09.believe the Muslim Brotherhood are still able to undermine security, at
:02:09. > :02:16.least in the capital and its outskirts. They also believe that a
:02:16. > :02:23.number of the Muslim Brotherhood's leaders are still hiding in this
:02:23. > :02:30.area. On August 14, there was a big incident where 11 policemen were
:02:30. > :02:34.killed in a police station in this area which, for historic reasons, is
:02:34. > :02:39.very supportive to the Muslim Brotherhood. So they decided to go
:02:39. > :02:41.into day and end the situation. They have arrested a 48 members of the
:02:41. > :02:48.Muslim Brotherhood so far. Does this have arrested a 48 members of the
:02:48. > :02:53.show the strength and determination of the Army, in that case? And does
:02:53. > :02:55.it give us any idea of where the Brotherhood movement is right now?
:02:55. > :03:01.This is very difficult. It is an Brotherhood movement is right now?
:03:01. > :03:04.intelligence operation more than a military operation, because you
:03:04. > :03:10.don't know how they are organised and how they will proceed in the
:03:10. > :03:19.future. But in the past weeks, it was proven that they were able to
:03:19. > :03:23.undermine security in the country. It is OK, maybe, that the Sinai
:03:23. > :03:30.could be unstable and incidents could take place there. It is a very
:03:30. > :03:37.complicated situation. But staging operations in Cairo and its
:03:37. > :03:41.outskirts, we had a bomb alert this morning at the Metro station. So
:03:41. > :03:47.this is very dangerous and it is the biggest challenge for the government
:03:47. > :03:53.so far. Now, in Syria, the civil war, of
:03:53. > :03:56.course, continues. Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad, has
:03:56. > :03:59.warned that it could take around a year to dismantle his stockpile of
:03:59. > :04:05.chemical weapons. In an interview for the American network Fox News,
:04:05. > :04:09.he insisted that he is still dedicated to the deal brokered by
:04:10. > :04:16.Russia last weekend. Last week, we joined the international agreement
:04:16. > :04:26.for preventing chemical WMD. Part of this agreement is not to your these
:04:26. > :04:36.arms, not to store and not to use, and of course not to distribute. And
:04:36. > :04:43.part of it is to get rid of those materials. So of course, one we are
:04:44. > :04:47.part of this agreement, we have to agree on that. But President Assad
:04:47. > :04:52.has again denied any responsibility for the use of chemical weapons in
:04:52. > :04:58.the suburb of Damascus which made headlines around the world. No one
:04:58. > :05:05.has verified the credibility of the videos and the pictures. The only
:05:05. > :05:19.verified things are the samples that the delegation took, samples of
:05:19. > :05:24.lard. -- lard. -- of blood. They are forgeries. President Assad also
:05:24. > :05:29.insisted that Syria was not in the grip of a civil war, but said it has
:05:29. > :05:37.been attacked by thousands of foreign jihadist fighters allied to
:05:37. > :05:42.Al-Qaeda. It is about what facts are presented in front of us. They don't
:05:42. > :05:48.have Syrian grassroots. We have opposition in Syria, but they have
:05:48. > :05:52.grassroot. Why do we have opposition abroad? Why do they leave? Who gives
:05:52. > :06:00.them money? How are they financed? We all know that they belong to
:06:00. > :06:07.Britain, France, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Real opposition only belongs
:06:07. > :06:12.to the Syrian people. If it does not belong to those people, it is made
:06:12. > :06:17.by other countries. President Assad, clearly trying to appeal to American
:06:17. > :06:21.public opinion, which is something the Russian president, Vladimir
:06:21. > :06:25.Putin, also died, apparently with success, a few days ago, when he
:06:25. > :06:30.published an opinion piece in the New York Times criticising the
:06:30. > :06:33.United States. Now US Senator John McCain has responded to Vladimir
:06:33. > :06:39.Putin with his own opinion piece in Russia. He has taken to the Russian
:06:39. > :06:43.website Pravda to accuse Mr Putin of ruining the corruption, oppression
:06:43. > :06:45.and violence. He also criticised the Russian leader for backing President
:06:46. > :06:51.Assad of Syria, saying the support was destroying Russia's
:06:51. > :06:57.international reputation. The piece is entitled, Russians deserve better
:06:57. > :07:02.than Putin. We will have more on the Iranian's bid for public opinion in
:07:02. > :07:06.the US soon. Clearly a diplomatic war being fought on all fronts,
:07:06. > :07:10.including on the international media stage.
:07:10. > :07:13.Now, there is a warning that the hurricane which has been battering
:07:13. > :07:17.Mexico for the last few days is picking up speed and may turn into a
:07:17. > :07:20.tropical cyclone will stop thousands of people have already been cut off
:07:20. > :07:24.by landslides and flooding as storms hit both sides of the country almost
:07:24. > :07:28.simultaneously. At least 80 people are known to have died, and
:07:28. > :07:35.thousands of tourists have been rescued from the resort of Acapulco.
:07:35. > :07:39.The crisis in the west of Mexico shows little sign of easing. After
:07:39. > :07:45.being battered for days by Tropical Storm Manuel, this state has been
:07:45. > :07:48.left on its knees and the authorities are struggling to cope
:07:48. > :07:52.will stop all villages have in cut off by the floodwaters, and at least
:07:52. > :07:59.80 people have been killed since the two storms struck Mexico, most of
:07:59. > :08:05.them in this state. The Mexican president has confirmed that another
:08:05. > :08:09.58 people are missing after homes in one municipality were buried under a
:08:09. > :08:18.mudslide. The government said it was doing everything it could to reach
:08:18. > :08:20.communities in Ramon rural regions. Transmission ah the precise
:08:20. > :08:25.instruction from the president was to strengthen supplies for the
:08:25. > :08:27.instruction from the president was population and to start sending
:08:27. > :08:32.teams to check the condition of housing for effect on people.
:08:32. > :08:37.Meanwhile, thousands of stranded tourists have also been battling
:08:37. > :08:41.with the conditions. Many have spent several nights in emergency shelters
:08:41. > :08:46.as the tourist resort of Acapulco is still cut off from Mexico City by
:08:46. > :08:49.road. The government said more than 5000 tourists were airlifted to
:08:49. > :08:52.safety over the course of the day, with many thousands more due to
:08:52. > :08:57.return to the capital by the end of the week. Nevertheless, tempers have
:08:58. > :09:04.been running high as frustration has grown. In some parts of Acapulco,
:09:04. > :09:07.there was sporadic looting as the spirit residents raided flood
:09:07. > :09:11.supermarkets. However, it was largely brought under control by the
:09:11. > :09:15.authorities. Meanwhile, in the east of the country, the fallout from
:09:15. > :09:19.Hurricane Ingrid is still being felt as well. If the situation was not
:09:19. > :09:23.already enough for the overstretched emergency teams, Tropical Storm
:09:24. > :09:34.Manuel has now been upgraded to a category one hurricane and is moving
:09:34. > :09:36.north towards Baja, California. As we heard, President Assad has
:09:36. > :09:38.taken to US airwaves, and Iran's As we heard, President Assad has
:09:38. > :09:41.newly elected leader has also been As we heard, President Assad has
:09:41. > :09:45.on a charm offensive on American television in his first Western
:09:45. > :09:50.television interview since taking office. Hassan Rouhani said Iran has
:09:50. > :09:55.never sought nuclear weapons. He told NBC that he had full authority
:09:55. > :09:58.to negotiate with the West over his country's uranium enrichment
:09:58. > :10:04.programme. He also said he had received a positive letter earlier
:10:04. > :10:08.this year from President Obama. Our reporter in Istanbul said Iran's
:10:09. > :10:16.recent actions have created a window for diplomacy. It creates an opening
:10:16. > :10:19.which is being orchestrated by Hassan Rouhani himself. He has
:10:19. > :10:23.managed to secure the release of several prominent political
:10:23. > :10:27.prisoners, including a prominent human rights activist. He secured
:10:27. > :10:31.the support from the supreme leader and has now broadcast his own
:10:32. > :10:36.message directly to the American people via that interview with NBC.
:10:36. > :10:40.Of course, NBC want to know, would Iran pursue nuclear weapons 's he
:10:40. > :10:46.repeated Iran's position that it will not. TRANSLATION: We have never
:10:46. > :10:53.sought a nuclear bomb, and we are not going to do so. We are solely
:10:53. > :10:56.seeking peaceful nuclear technology. Can you say that Iran will not build
:10:56. > :11:01.a nuclear weapons under any circumstances whatsoever?
:11:01. > :11:05.TRANSLATION: The answer to this question is quite obvious. We have
:11:05. > :11:09.time and again said that under no circumstances would we seek any
:11:09. > :11:13.weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons. Nor will
:11:13. > :11:19.we ever. He is not the first Iranian leader
:11:19. > :11:24.to say this. The supreme leader himself issued a religious ruling
:11:24. > :11:29.several years ago expressively forbidding the Islamic Republic from
:11:29. > :11:32.using nuclear weapons. You hear this at every round of nuclear talks. The
:11:32. > :11:41.trouble is that at the moment, the West does not take Iran at its word.
:11:41. > :11:43.But now, those negotiations will restart under Hassan Rouhani, and he
:11:43. > :11:45.has designated his own Foreign Minister to start there's nuclear
:11:45. > :11:50.talks. Now, Japan's prime minister, Shinzo
:11:50. > :11:56.Abe, has ordered the scrapping of two nuclear tests which survived an
:11:56. > :12:00.earthquake and tsunami at Fukushima. The prime minister has been visiting
:12:00. > :12:05.the plant at Fukushima. He has called for all leaks of contaminated
:12:05. > :12:08.water to be fixed within six months. At he says he stands by his
:12:08. > :12:15.reassurance that Tokyo is safe to host the 2020 Olympic games.
:12:15. > :12:19.Police in Singapore have arrested 14 people in what appears to be a major
:12:19. > :12:23.breakthrough in the battle against corruption in football. Interpol
:12:23. > :12:26.said the suspected leader of an international match fixing gang was
:12:26. > :12:32.among those detained during raids. The 12 men and two women are also
:12:32. > :12:36.being investigated over possible links to organised crime.
:12:36. > :12:39.Serious criticisms of the police investigation into an attack on a
:12:39. > :12:43.British couple honeymooning in South Africa will be voiced in a BBC
:12:43. > :12:48.documentary later today. Anni Dewani was shot and killed in Cape Town in
:12:48. > :12:52.2010. Her husband is accused of orchestrating that attack. Now the
:12:52. > :12:56.BBC's Panorama programme has uncovered serious misgivings about
:12:56. > :13:03.the forensic tests conducted by South African police.
:13:03. > :13:07.This CCTV, never seen before, shows Anni Dewani's husband, Shrien
:13:07. > :13:16.Dewani, moments after learning his wife of just two weeks had been
:13:16. > :13:21.found dead. When they said Anni had been shot, apparently, I just
:13:22. > :13:25.started screaming hysterically. The same man South African policemen say
:13:25. > :13:28.paid hit men to execute his wife. Now Panorama has obtained secret
:13:28. > :13:34.police files relating to the case, which include statements, CCTV
:13:34. > :13:37.footage, phone records and forensic evidence. We have given the material
:13:37. > :13:42.to leading forensics experts to review. Their findings are damning.
:13:42. > :13:48.The South Africans have not carried out any experiments to support the
:13:48. > :13:51.conclusions they came to. Panorama has discovered that statements from
:13:51. > :13:55.three key witnesses, who have all struck deals with the South African
:13:55. > :13:59.state in return for their testimony against Shrien Dewani, appear to
:13:59. > :14:03.contradict factual records, like lists of phone calls and CCTV in the
:14:04. > :14:07.police files. Their testimony gives accounts of calls that did not
:14:07. > :14:13.happen, and stories which are disproved by video evidence. This is
:14:13. > :14:17.not an investigation that would meet standards in this country. This
:14:17. > :14:23.would not be considered good actors. They also failed to just test the
:14:23. > :14:27.evidence, to corroborate the key fact and to challenge things that
:14:27. > :14:32.were not corroborated that were central to the story. South African
:14:32. > :14:35.police maintain that their forensic and postmortem evidence proves that
:14:35. > :14:38.Anni Dewani was cowering against the back seat when the gunman
:14:38. > :14:41.deliberately shot her from the front passenger seat. But the experts
:14:41. > :14:46.commissioned by Panorama went to flaws in how the South Africans
:14:46. > :14:50.carried out their investigation, and say Anni Dewani may have been
:14:50. > :14:53.accidentally shot. If it was a deliberate shot, I would have
:14:53. > :14:57.expected a shock to the head or the heart, not one that struck the neck.
:14:57. > :15:07.It is an unusual place for an assassination. On that basis alone,
:15:07. > :15:09.I would veer towards an accidental discharge rather than a deliberate
:15:10. > :15:14.shooting. We put our findings discharge rather than a deliberate
:15:14. > :15:17.South African authorities. They say it would be improper to engage with
:15:18. > :15:23.the media on the merits of the case, as trial by media would violate
:15:23. > :15:27.Shrien Dewani's right to a trial. Members of Anni's family have also
:15:27. > :15:31.criticised the BBC for conduct in what they say is a trial by
:15:31. > :15:36.television. Anni's family have called on Shrien Dewani to return to
:15:36. > :15:41.South Africa to answer the charges. He denies all charges of murder and
:15:41. > :15:46.remains sectioned under the mental health act.
:15:46. > :15:57.Still to come, we meet the cyclist who has opened the land speed record
:15:57. > :16:02.for a human powered vehicle. Let's see how he did it.
:16:02. > :16:08.There was a role in the Nigerian house of representatives.
:16:08. > :16:14.Politicians exchanged punches after a splinter group from the ruling
:16:14. > :16:21.party tried to address parliament. The chaos lasted ten months -- ten
:16:21. > :16:26.minutes. Not an ideal starter for Parliament
:16:26. > :16:31.in Nigeria. The lower house had only just reconvened after a seven-week
:16:31. > :16:38.rate. During Tuesday's session, arguments are Rob did. The trouble
:16:38. > :16:45.was sparked by a newly formed splinter group. They don't want good
:16:45. > :16:53.luck Jonathan to seek re-election in 2015. He has not confirmed if he
:16:53. > :16:59.will stand. The group trying to address parliament infuriated MPs
:16:59. > :17:04.loyal to the President. Since the address parliament infuriated MPs
:17:04. > :17:08.end of military rule in 1999, the party has won every national
:17:08. > :17:14.election, but if they cannot stamp out their infighting, it could have
:17:14. > :17:20.huge implications for Africa's largest oil-producing nation.
:17:20. > :17:25.Washington, DC's capital has ordered a review following a BBC report that
:17:25. > :17:31.an armed police team was instructed not to respond to Monday's mass
:17:31. > :17:39.shooting. A tactical response team was told to leave the scene. Sources
:17:39. > :17:44.have told the BBC they could have saved lives had they been allowed to
:17:44. > :17:52.go in. Aaron Alexis killed 12 people.
:17:52. > :17:57.It is the equivalent of a SWAT team that arrived on site about 15
:17:57. > :18:04.minutes of initial reports of shots fired. An officer who requested
:18:04. > :18:10.assistance, they were told they the only officers on the scene who had
:18:10. > :18:16.sold rifles. They are highly trained marksmen. They radioed in to say
:18:16. > :18:20.they would be engaging in the search, but they were told by
:18:20. > :18:33.officers to stand down and leave the area.
:18:33. > :18:38.CCTV footage in Colombia at a hospital showed the moment when
:18:38. > :18:44.gunmen burst in to free a prisoner being held there.
:18:44. > :18:48.The latest headlines: Egyptian security forces are clashing with
:18:48. > :18:52.militants after entering a town on the outskirts of Cairo. There are
:18:52. > :18:59.reports troops with armoured vehicles took up positions in car
:18:59. > :19:03.dash before dawn today. Syria's president says he is ready
:19:03. > :19:07.to destroy his chemical weapons, but denied his troops have used them in
:19:07. > :19:11.the past. The European Union's Mission in
:19:12. > :19:17.Kosovo says one of its police officers has been shot and killed.
:19:17. > :19:22.It said the incident happened in the Serb region of Kosovo when two EU
:19:22. > :19:26.vehicles were fired on. It did not give the nationality of the officer.
:19:26. > :19:31.Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 1998. But a lot of the
:19:31. > :19:37.Serbian population does not accept that.
:19:37. > :19:41.There has been violent protests in Greece just hours before the funeral
:19:41. > :19:54.of a musician. Thousands of protesters took to the streets to
:19:54. > :20:00.protest against the stabbing. The streets of Athens are quiet this
:20:00. > :20:04.morning after ugly scenes near the capital, but in other cities across
:20:04. > :20:10.Greece last night as thousands of demonstrators took to the streets
:20:10. > :20:15.protesting against the murder of 35-year-old pub loss fits us, who
:20:15. > :20:23.was stabbed to death outside a cafe by a man who admitted being a member
:20:23. > :20:29.of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party. They raided the party headquarters,
:20:29. > :20:33.even Golden Dawn said it did not have any links with the crime. This
:20:33. > :20:37.morning the funeral is taking place and there was said to be a speech
:20:37. > :20:41.later on by the leader of Golden Dawn, near the murder site. That
:20:41. > :20:47.could incite more violence. Golden Dawn is a party that has soared in
:20:47. > :20:52.popularity during the financial crisis, getting 18 MPs in last year
:20:52. > :20:56.'s election. It is accused of vigilante attacks on immigrants and
:20:56. > :20:59.political opponents. But there is pressure to clamp down on this
:21:00. > :21:06.party. The government stands accused of being too soft towards it, even
:21:06. > :21:09.siding with it on some issues. But now there is pressure here and in
:21:09. > :21:16.Brussels to try to clamp down on it. An Austrian MEP said Greece's up and
:21:16. > :21:21.coming presidency of the European Union could be threatened and less
:21:21. > :21:25.Greece deals with golden dawn. The minister for public order said there
:21:25. > :21:29.would be a discussion in the coming weeks to a redefinition of unarmed
:21:29. > :21:34.criminal gang here, it implying Golden Dawn could get back
:21:34. > :21:38.classification and suggesting the idea of a ban. The idea of a ban.
:21:38. > :21:41.But that could be difficult. The government feels if you ban Golden
:21:41. > :21:48.Dawn, it could drive it underground. But last night, the tear gas and
:21:48. > :21:52.stun grenades showed the depth of anger towards this neo-Nazi party.
:21:52. > :21:59.Said the government is under pressure to clamp down on one of the
:21:59. > :22:02.more dangerous manifestations of Greece's financial crisis.
:22:02. > :22:12.Stephen King is one of the world 's most famous authors. One of his most
:22:12. > :22:17.famous model 's, -- novels is the shining tells the story of Danny
:22:17. > :22:24.Torrance who has psychic powers. We reveal what happened to Danny when
:22:24. > :22:29.he grew up. People kept asking me, I would go to
:22:29. > :22:32.autograph sessions and they would say, " what ever happened to that
:22:32. > :22:37.kid from the shining? " I have never say, " what ever happened to that
:22:37. > :22:44.been one to revisit the past, particularly revisiting the scary
:22:44. > :22:48.book 's. I feel like a lot of people read those books under the covers
:22:48. > :22:54.with flashlights when they were children themselves, 12, 14 years
:22:54. > :23:00.old. You need people to say, I read that book, the shining and it scared
:23:00. > :23:06.the hell out of me. Doctor sleep starts a year after the hotel
:23:06. > :23:13.overlooking is destroyed at the end of the shining. Dan Torrance is just
:23:13. > :23:14.a little book in the shining. I was curious about what would happen to
:23:14. > :23:36.him. Did you like the film of The
:23:36. > :23:41.Shining? No, it was cold. One of the things people relate to in my books
:23:41. > :23:48.is a warmth and the reaching out saying to the reader, " I want you
:23:48. > :23:54.to be a part of this". I thought it was very cold. Whenever you come in
:23:54. > :24:01.here and interrupt me, you are disrupting Mike Com --
:24:01. > :24:09.concentration. Jack Torrance, in the movie is seen as crazy. Shelley
:24:09. > :24:17.Duvall as Wendy is one of the most misogynistic carrot is put on film.
:24:17. > :24:24.She is basically put on there to scream and be stupid. Do you think
:24:24. > :24:30.people are harder to scare now? It is still possible to scare people in
:24:30. > :24:34.an honourable way if they care about the characters. I want people to
:24:34. > :24:40.fall in love with these characters. It creates the suspense.
:24:40. > :24:48.Stephen King, much too terrifying for me. A Dutch cyclist has broken
:24:48. > :24:53.the land speed record for a human powered vehicle.
:24:53. > :25:00.He was competing in the United States. He reached speeds of 133.78
:25:00. > :25:07.kilometres an hour on a desert road, which is one of the fastest surfaces
:25:07. > :25:12.in the world. Getting ready to peddle his way into the record
:25:12. > :25:20.books. On a desert road in Nevada, this
:25:20. > :25:25.Dutch cyclist set off, with a little help. His goal? To become the
:25:26. > :25:34.fastest cyclist in a human powered vehicle. His high-tech bike was
:25:34. > :25:38.designed by students from two Dutch universities. He is riding on one of
:25:38. > :25:43.the straightest, smoothest surfaces in the world. Hitting the
:25:43. > :25:52.all-important 200 metre stretch of the road, he reaches a maximum and
:25:52. > :26:08.record-breaking velocity of 138 .7 kilometres an hour. No way.
:26:08. > :26:18.TRANSLATION: I started 300 wards at 110 kilometres. I went 20 kilometres
:26:18. > :26:22.faster and went flat out. His speed broke the previous record set in
:26:22. > :26:29.2009 set by the Canadian, Sam Whittington.
:26:29. > :26:34.Former heavyweight boxing champion, Ken Norton, has died. He was best
:26:34. > :26:43.known for beating Muhammad Ali in 1973. He died in hospital in
:26:43. > :26:47.Arizona. The 70-year-old former champion had been in poor health
:26:47. > :26:50.after a series of strokes. Gun battles between Egyptian
:26:50. > :26:56.security forces and unidentified gunmen have been taken part in a
:26:56. > :26:59.town outside Cairo. A key leader has been detained as part of the
:26:59. > :27:01.international negotiations.