25/09/2013 BBC World News

Hello, this is BBC World News. Our top stories: as Kenyan mourns, new

terrifying footage from the Westgate shopping more as it is stormed by

Islamist militants, with thousands inside.

At least 250 people dead after a powerful earthquake struck a remote

area of southwestern Pakistan on Tuesday.

Are they new possibilities for a deal on Iran's nuclear programme?

President Rouhani offers negotiations.

And amazing speeds for these yachts. The contest finely balanced,

the winner takes the race between US and New Zealand.

Kenya has begun three days of national mourning after the Nairobi

shopping mall terror attack. In a television address, President Uhuru

Kenyatta told the nation that Kenya had ashamed and defeated the

attackers. In the last few minutes, we have received this new video from

inside the Westgate shopping Mall on Saturday as the militants took over.

Officially, 67 people have been confirmed dead. But on its Twitter

account, the Al-Shabab Islamist militant group say that 137 hostages

were killed when Kenyan government forces launched an assault on the

building. Five militants were killed in the four-day siege and 11

suspects have been arrested. A reminder, this is what happened on

Saturday. Video which has just emerged. Let's go to the BBC's

Africa security correspondent. That is a reminder of how awful things

were last Saturday. What is emerging now from inside the mall,

particularly the level of damage and more deaths? We have been seeking to

access the building to be able to get in, to get some pictures and do

some filming. We have talked about the photo that has emerged and it

shows the desperate situation. Yesterday, the president talked to

the nation in a late-night address. He talked of some parts of the

building caving in, possibly because of some explosions, and he said

there were possibly several people trapped in there. And that

situation, the fact we have not been able to see inside and the fact

there has been smoke coming out of the building from the time the siege

was under way tells us that the situation inside, we have no idea

how it looks, but it appears there could still be bodies there and

probably hostages and probably some of the hostage-takers, although we

understand five suspected terrorists of the hostage-takers were shot dead

by the police yesterday. At the moment, there is still smoke rising

from the building. What's your understanding of the intelligence

and Security assessment of whether this particular dreadful event is

now over or whether Al-Shabab might have other ideas and still remain a

very salient force inside Kenyan? -- Kenya? Yesterday, when the president

announced this was over, he acknowledged that the operation to

free the building from who was holding it... I mean, the

hostage-takers, he also said the long process of trying to identify

them starts right away. It is a long process of sifting through forensic

elements and materials from the building, and it will be a long time

before the full scope of exactly what went on inside comes through.

Of course, the Al-Shabab revels in Somalia have claimed responsibility

for this attack. The intelligence people are the ones now putting

together what they understand and we'll so understand there may have

been foreign involvement, probably jihadi 's from other parts of the

country. -- we also understand. But what will be important going forward

after the siege is over is trying to figure out who was involved, and

then how to secure the nation from a possible attack because Al-Shabab

have threatened further attacks unless Kenya withdraws its troops

from southern Somalia. Has there been any formal indication of what

will happen in southern Somalia? It is a major military commitment with

4,000 troops there. Is there any likelihood of a weakening of the

commitment in Somalia or quite the opposite from the government? Kenyan

troops now in Somalia are officially part of the African Union UN backed

mission in the country. The president says the troops will not

be pulled out of Somalia. As far as we know, the feeling within

government is that it will be defeatist to pull out the troops

from Somalia but the president also acknowledged that going forward,

there will be consultations about what this country's involvement will

be, but that's a difficult question and there will be further questions

going forward about this country's involvement in the country of

Somalia. Thank you. The number of people killed by an

earthquake in Pakistan on Tuesday afternoon has risen to at least 250.

Many more have been injured when entire villages of mud-brick houses

were flattened. The remote, impoverished region of Awaran in

Balochistan province was the worst hit. Thousands spent the night in

the open. Tents and medical supplies have been sent to the region from

the provincial capital Quetta. The quake was so powerful that it was

felt hundreds of kilometres away in Karachi, Hyderabad, and even in the

Indian capital, Delhi. Let's go to our correspondent. It is still a

very remote area for the rescue teams to get to? That is right. In

an hour's time, it will be a full 24 hours since this powerful earthquake

struck in Balochistan. Rescue efforts are under way. The Pakistani

army has its official pal -- paramilitary force in large parts of

the area and they are leading the rescue operation. They have sent

truckloads of medical supplies and tents from the provincial capital,

Quetta. We have talked to a doctor on the ground in Arawan and he has

told us there is a shortage of tents, portable water and medicines.

He said there is no orthopaedic professional in that hospital.

Remember, many of these people who live in mud hut houses had broken

bones when their houses collapsed, so they desperately need some help.

And pictures on local television from reporters who have managed to

get their show the extent of the devastation. Village after village

completely destroyed. As we have seen in other earthquakes in

Pakistan, there can often be many areas where teams don't even know

what has been going on. Is that likely to be the situation in

Balochistan as well? Yes. We have seen the earthquake in Pakistan, the

biggest in the last decade was in 2005, with over 75,000 people

killed, but Balochistan is obviously 2005, with over 75,000 people

prone to earthquakes, like Iran. In April there was an earthquake and we

managed to travel to the remote area along the Pakistani- Iranians border

and we saw how many people live there. This is an impoverished part

of Pakistan. People don't have telephones or social networks. They

have been living on the lawlessness because of insurgency and alleged

abuses by Pakistani security forces, but today, their miseries have

multiplied and they are calling for help. Thank you.

Iran's new president says he's ready to start talks with the United

States. The aim - to resolve international concerns over his

country's nuclear programme. He told the UN General Assembly in New York

that Western sanctions against Iran are violent. He also said a nuclear

weapon would contradict our fundamental religious and ethical

convictions. US President Barack Obama says he is encouraged by

President Rouhani's signals. The BBC's US State Department

correspondent Kim Ghattas reports. President Hassan Rouhani arrived in

New York and tweeted the news. Presenting himself as pragmatic and

modern. For his world debut, he met a number of leaders, including the

French President, Francois Hollande. At the General Assembly, his speech

was sober. He tried to allay suspicions about his country's

nuclear programme. TRANSLATION: Nuclear weapons and

other weapons of mass destruction have no place in Iran's security and

defence and contradict our fundamental religious and ethical

convictions. Unlike his throat -- predecessor

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the uranium president did not deny the Holocaust

and nobody had to walk out in protest. -- the Iranians president.

But he did criticise the West's interventions and called the

sanctions on Iran unjust and inhuman. Plenty of people, whether

protesters in New York or others, says -- say they will never trust

the Islamic Republic of Iran. And it is hard to see how the interests can

never overlap in the Middle East. Especially in Syria, where it ran

supports President Bashar al-Assad. But President Obama is willing to

give it a try. We are encouraged that President Rouhani is willing to

pursue a more moderate course. Given his stated commitment to reaching

agreement, I will pursue this effort. The roadblocks may prove to

be too great but I firmly believe the diplomatic path must be tested.

World leaders came together for a lunch with the UN Secretary

General. The White House had indicated they were open to the idea

of a handshake and gathering between Mr Obama Andy Raleigh leader. But in

the end, there was no handshake. -- and the leader. He did not show up

for lunch. American officials said they understood it was perhaps too

complicated still for the Iranians. And these posters are a reminder

that 30 years of difficult history will be hard to overcome. So,

despite the high expectations, there is nothing tangible so far when it

comes to American and Iranians rapprochement in New York. But this

is just the beginning of a week-long diplomatic dance between the two

countries at the UN. On Thursday, the American Secretary of State will

come face-to-face with his Iranians counterpart for a meeting with other

countries about Iran's nuclear programme.

With me is Sara Bazoobandi, an associate fellow of the Middle East

Programme at London think-tank Chatham House. Thank you for joining

me. Let me put you that phrase that came from President Rouhani -

nuclear weapons would contradict our fundamental religious and ethical

convictions. Does that suggest they have ready worked out a limited as

it -- the development of their nuclear programme? -- worked out to

a limit to? This is something that they frequently put a strong

emphasis on, saying, this is against our religion. And this has been one

of the channels that they wanted to legitimise their nuclear programme

with the international community by saying that they only have a

civilian purpose to it. But with a broader picture, I think the

translation with this whole statement coming from President

Rouhani in this particular moment in time is an acknowledgement of the

international pressure, and it shows that the Iranians government is

willing to go back to diplomatic levels, even if, initially perhaps,

they didn't have the same intentions for their nuclear programme. Maybe

they have changed it. Do you think you have clear support within his

new Administration, within the civil servants, within the hard liners in

Iran for his new position? I think we need to remember that the

pressure, especially the economic pressure, is on everybody in Iran.

So whether you are a fundamentalist or a reformist, it really is the

same at the moment. But does that mean there could be a scaling back

of nuclear ambitions? It is more of a bargaining situation. The Iranians

are testing the water to see how they approach is received in the

West, and if they receive the signals they want to, ie opening up

and having more co-operation and more recognition regionally, which

is something Iranians are strongly after, then they are going to be

willing to further modify their nuclear programme. Now, President

Rouhani avoided the lunch where he might have bumped into President

Obama so the handshake never happened, but three months into his

tenure as president, a more moderate President, what are the signs of how

he is succeeding in at least ruling the roost on the policies he wants

in Tehran? I think as he confirmed on CNN after his talk at the UN, he

has a strong level of authority, a high level of authority, to make

decisions and negotiations. But in a very realistic term, nobody should

expect a Gorbachev approach from President Rouhani. Iranians have

made it very clear that they want the go she Asians to take place in

an environment where their rights and their counterparts' rights are

considered equally. -- want the negotiations. And a delegation to

New York have made a public speech and coined a new phrase for guiding

the negotiations, and he said, we expect a heroic flexibility from

you. So it means, we are willing to give in when it is needed but not

too much, perhaps. Thank you. Still to come: They should be in

school. Instead they are working in foreign fields in Lebanon. We have a

special report on the fate of Syria's child refugees. And the

ultimate match race on the waves as the America's Cup battle goes to the

very last race at these kind of speeds.

Fans of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo will soon have access to

intimate photos of her private life. Hundreds of photographs are being

restored. They will soon be available for the public to view.

She is a much-loved figure in the 20th century art world, but was also

well known for her tumultuous relationship with Diego Rivera.

Catharina Moh reports. Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, famous

for their talent, infamous for their on/ off stormy marriage in the

20th-century art world. They married, divorced and then married

again. But how much do we really know about what went on

behind-the-scenes? Now more than 300 photos capturing private moments

between the couple are being restored at Frida Kahlo's Blue House

in Mexico City. TRANSLATION: There is paint and oil

on the photos, you can tell which images were being used when they

were painting. There are photos of Diego with lipstick marks from her

kisses, showing the affection between them. Curators say some of

the photos are an insight into key moments in history and the

sociopolitical atmosphere in New York in the 1930s, it also what the

couple deemed important. TRANSLATION: How they assembled

their painting projects, what they based them on, which images were

more important. Some have all types of jottings on them, certain

characters from the political sphere and everything in general are

marked. Frida Kahlo is best known and everything in general are

for her self-portrait, often depicting the searing pain she lived

with from breaking her back as a teenager. She died in 1954, and for

half a century her personal belongings were kept under lock and

key by the museum at the request of her Diego. In all, Frida Kahlo had

6500 pictures. The restoration process for just a fraction of them

will take six months before they are ready for the world to see.

81 elephants have been killed by cyanide poisoning in Zimbabwe's

largest game park. The poison was put in the elephants' grazing areas

in Hwange National Park. Nine suspected poachers have been

arrested after rangers tracked them to a store of ivory hidden in the

park. Elephant tusks are highly sought after for Asia's illegal

ivory trade. You are with BBC World News. The

headlines: Kenya starts three days of mourning for the victims of the

Nairobi shopping mall attack. It is feared the bodies were under

collapsed floors in the building. Authorities in Pakistan say around

250 people have been killed by a powerful earthquake which struck a

room motor area of Beluga Stan province. -- a room motor area of

Balochistan province. UN inspectors back in Syria looking

at evidence of attacks. They have already concluded that sarin gas was

used in an attack near Damascus which killed hundreds. This time

they plan to visit three more which killed hundreds. This time

sites, where chemical attacks are said to have happened. Both sides

accuse each other but the UN will not say who they think carried out

the attacks. Children returned to school across

Lebanon this week after their summer break. But there aren't enough

places for most of the 400,000 children who have fled the fighting

in neighbouring Syria. Now there's another major problem - child

labour. The BBC has secured rare access to the fields of Lebanon's

eastern Bekaa Valley where more and more children are now having to

work. Our chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet reports.

Just after dawn, time to go. But these children aren't boarding a

school bus. The truckers taking them to the fields to work. -- the truck

is taking them. They are not dressed for it, they are too young. It is no

life for a child. But now these young refugees are doing the jobs of

life for a child. But now these adult labourers. They cost much

less. Across the fertile Bekaa Valley, children are harvesting

crops on Lebanese farms - grapes, potatoes, today it is courgettes. A

Syrian middleman keeps them in line and keeps a share of the wages. It

is hard work. 13 year-old Ahmed tells me his hands work, but he has

to do it to support his family. Tarek Mazloum is from a local

charity trying to help Syrian refugees. What have you seen in the

fields? They are between four to 14. They work about four or six hours

each day. The children have no choice? No, their only choice is to

work. Charities like his ensure children also get some education,

even if just informal classes in the middle of their tented settlement.

It keeps them from falling too far behind. Nothing about these

children's lives is as it should be. Working in the fields at such a

young age, going to make shift classes in the open air. But it is

an impossible task to get all of the Syrian children into the Lebanese

school system. Here, at least they are safe, they have escaped from the

war - and that is something. There are six children in this

family's tent, and two cousins arrived from Syria just last night.

It is better here, says this ten year-old. There are no bombs. But it

pains a mother to send her children to the fields. I feel like my heart

is being ripped out, Fatima says, but what can I do? If they don't

work, we can't live. Even those tasked with protecting

children are struggling to find answers to a problem that is getting

much worse. What was invisible is becoming really visible. This is

because the numbers are increasing, families are destitute and they need

the money. But it is up to us to find a solution. There are no easy

solutions to end child labour or the punishing war, but Syria's future is

being destroyed here, too. Now look at this. The two fastest

sailing yachts - Team Emirates from New Zealand, Team Oracle from the US

- battling for the America's Cup trophy. Now Team Oracle has staged

one of the greatest comebacks ever. Team New Zealand were 8-1 up in the

series, needing just one race victory to win, but Oracle Team USA

have won seven races in a row. The series is a tie. The final race will

take place in San Francisco Bay. The teams have 40 minutes to cross the

finish line. The America's Cup is 162 years old, the oldest trophy in

international sport, predating the Ashes and the modern Olympics by

decades. The catamarans reach speeds of up to 80 kilometres an hour as

they race around the course. Since 1851, only four countries have won

the America's Cup - the US, New Zealand, Australia and Switzerland.

With the latest on this year's race, here's the BBC's Tulsen Tollett.

On a sea of great expectations, the New Zealanders were penalised before

the first race on day 15 even get started, when this incident resulted

in a double penalty as the two boats started the crossing line.

Given the fact that the Americans have shown superior tactical

knowledge over the past week, it was a foregone conclusion that they

narrowed the deficit to just one point, with a 27 second victory. In

race 18, the Kiwi boat was much more aggressive and took an early

advantage. Any hopes of winning back the America's Cup was soon dashed as

Team USA hit back. Software billionaire Larry Ellis's boat stood

tall to win by a massive 54 seconds. The comeback is even more impressive

given that, before the regatta, they were docked two points for illegal

modifications. It is the most exciting day of our lives, we would

not want to be anywhere routs. It is an absolute shocker. We are trying

to mix it up our -- a bit, but we have got ourselves in a bad spot.

Wednesday as D-day, with a single race, weather conditions permitting,

to decide who wins and two loses. Regardless, the crowds here have

lined the docks and they will go away with their money's worth.

Now to a well-loved American TV series and the news that Miss Piggy

is finally reuniting with her long-time love, Kermit the Frog. For

the past 19 years, Kermit the Frog has languished alone in a glass case

since being donated to the American History Museum in 1994. Now more

than 20 Jim Henson puppets and props, including Miss Piggy, have

been donated to the museum in Washington DC. Fans of the Muppets

will be able to see some of these latest additions to the collection

in December in a new exhibition on puppetry.

That's it from me. Thanks for joining me on BBC One news. Goodbye.

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