:00:07. > :00:20.Hello and welcome to BBC World News. Our top stories.This is the scene
:00:20. > :00:25.in the Hague where her ruling on the former Liberian President
:00:25. > :00:31.Charles Taylor's appeal is being read. His appeal has been rejected
:00:31. > :00:36.in the last few minutes. The Hague has set his sentence of 50 years
:00:36. > :00:42.for war crimes is there and will stand. In other newest today, At
:00:42. > :00:43.least ten people have died in a militant attack in Indian-
:00:43. > :00:46.least ten people have died in a administered Kashmir. India's prime
:00:46. > :00:52.minister says the violence will not derail peace efforts with Pakistan.
:00:52. > :00:54.The US sails to victory over New Zealand to retain the America's Cup,
:00:54. > :01:08.in one of the greatest ever comebacks in sporting history.
:01:08. > :01:11.Forensic investigators in Kenya have begun the painstaking process
:01:11. > :01:29.of sifting through debris at the Westgate shopping centre, following
:01:29. > :01:34.the attack by Al Shabab militants. Within the last few minutes judges
:01:34. > :01:37.in the Hague have rejected an appeal by the former Liberian
:01:37. > :01:42.President Charles Taylor. He is currently serving 50 years in a
:01:42. > :01:48.prison for war crimes after supporting rebels in neighbouring
:01:48. > :01:57.Sierra Leone during his civil war. Charles Taylor is just standing up
:01:57. > :02:01.there at the back of the court. He has the dubious distinction of
:02:01. > :02:05.being the first former head of state to be convicted by an
:02:05. > :02:08.international war crimes court since the Nuremberg trials which
:02:08. > :02:11.international war crimes court followed the Second World War. His
:02:11. > :02:16.lawyers had argued that he should be acquitted because of legal
:02:16. > :02:24.errors made during the trial. The prosecution wanted his sentence to
:02:24. > :02:31.be increased. What has happened in court in the past two hours? We
:02:31. > :02:35.have been inside the court. It took the judge more than one hour to run
:02:35. > :02:41.through a summary of the appeals. The defence appealed on 42 grounds
:02:41. > :02:48.and on each of those the judge ran through it as summery and found
:02:48. > :02:53.that the original judgments were not in error. So the original
:02:53. > :02:58.judgment and original sentence of 50 years have both been upheld. And
:02:58. > :03:03.Charles Taylor was listening in court. We were sitting in the
:03:03. > :03:09.public gallery just above him. He stood to listen to the verdict and
:03:09. > :03:13.showed no obvious reaction. Britain it is a possible place where he
:03:13. > :03:21.could now he's serving that sentence? That is right. Britain
:03:21. > :03:29.has an agreement with this court, but special court for Sierra Leone.
:03:29. > :03:33.It has an agreement but so does the wine debt and Sweden. Everyone else
:03:33. > :03:38.so far who has been convicted by this court and is now serving a
:03:38. > :03:42.sentence, is serving that in Rwanda. So most people think that is most
:03:42. > :03:48.likely but Britain it is an option. A lot of the people in court today
:03:48. > :03:54.where victims. Many of them displaying that trademark atrocity
:03:55. > :03:59.committed by those rebels, showing as their amputated limbs and saying
:03:59. > :04:05.that for them this is justice. They want to see this man sentenced to
:04:05. > :04:10.life. It will up effectively mean life as he is 66 years old. They
:04:10. > :04:16.want to talk now of what compensation for the suffering he
:04:16. > :04:19.calls them. The brutality of the crimes is staggering. Just take us
:04:19. > :04:26.calls them. The brutality of the through what he is now firmly
:04:26. > :04:31.convicted of. Aiding and abetting the rebels. Charles Taylor during
:04:31. > :04:35.that civil war was a President of Liberia. His name is most
:04:35. > :04:40.associated with those conflict diamonds, but blood diamonds. He
:04:40. > :04:45.was fuelling and funding the rebels responsible for those atrocities.
:04:45. > :04:50.They were engaged in it murder, slavery, or rape. Using child
:04:50. > :04:55.soldiers. The judge said they were the most horrific crimes and awful
:04:55. > :05:00.for mankind to workers. Charles Taylor never actually set foot in
:05:00. > :05:04.Sierra Leone during that period but the judges found he was guilty of
:05:04. > :05:09.aiding and abetting. So basically he had a watching responsibility
:05:09. > :05:14.for the commission of those crimes. That of course is usually sit no
:05:14. > :05:20.evidence to other current conflicts where they might apply Cassaigne
:05:20. > :05:34.roles in the future. For example in Syria. That verdict in just in the
:05:34. > :05:41.last few minutes. How does this play into the situation in the
:05:41. > :05:47.Continent? It is something which people in Sierra Leone have been
:05:47. > :05:56.looking for. Some sense of justice. Some sense of justice for their
:05:57. > :06:04.situation. They had obviously a horrible civil war which was always
:06:04. > :06:09.aided and abetted by the flow of diamonds and guns trafficking which
:06:09. > :06:16.Charles Taylor has been found guilty of. And therefore at the
:06:16. > :06:23.problem for them was that there were horrific injuries. The
:06:23. > :06:28.internal war was orchestrated by somebody who was becoming extremely
:06:28. > :06:34.powerful throughout West Africa. So there is a verdict actually is a
:06:34. > :06:38.rubber-stamping of the fact that international community's not going
:06:38. > :06:44.to accept that people can become despots and try to control entire
:06:44. > :06:50.regions. We have to leave it there, thank you. A court in Beijing has
:06:50. > :06:54.sentenced the 17-year-old son of a well known Chinese army general to
:06:54. > :06:57.ten years in prison for gang rape. The case of Li Tianyi has provoked
:06:57. > :07:01.public anger at the excesses of the children of China's political elite.
:07:01. > :07:10.He'd already been in trouble with the police over a road rage
:07:10. > :07:16.incident in 2011. Bomb blasts in markets around the Iraqi capital of
:07:16. > :07:22.Baghdad has killed at least 20 people. Seven people died in a bomb
:07:22. > :07:27.attack in another neighbourhood of bad debt. The court in Berlin has
:07:27. > :07:35.sentenced a man who became famous as Forest boy, to 160 hours of
:07:35. > :07:38.community service. The 20 year-old walked into brilliant City Hall one
:07:38. > :07:45.day and claimed to have been lost in a forest for several years. He
:07:45. > :07:54.now admits that his story was not true. It was invented. And he is
:07:54. > :07:57.going to be given counselling. The Indian Prime Minister has said
:07:57. > :08:03.talks with Pakistan have will not be derailed by an attack by heavily
:08:03. > :08:07.armed militants in Kashmir. Several police and army officers died when
:08:07. > :08:16.militants dressed in army uniform attacked a police station and then
:08:16. > :08:21.stormed an army camp. A gun fight inside the army barracks is still
:08:21. > :08:25.thought to be going on. The Indian Prime Minister has condemned the
:08:25. > :08:33.attack but stopped short of accusing Pakistan. He called it the
:08:33. > :08:41.latest in a series of provocations. But not naming names, or pointing
:08:41. > :08:46.fingers in any way. But that can safely be left to the Indian media.
:08:46. > :08:50.They believe that this has come from Pakistan and they see it as a
:08:50. > :08:54.deliberate attempt to derail a planned meeting in New York between
:08:54. > :09:03.the Indian and Pakistani prime ministers. This is one of the most
:09:03. > :09:09.the Indian and Pakistani prime serious attacks, the most audacious
:09:09. > :09:14.for some time. Inside Indian controlled Kashmir. Not too far in
:09:14. > :09:17.fact from the border. We understand the militants were dressed in army
:09:17. > :09:22.uniforms when they carried out the attack. First attacking a police
:09:22. > :09:28.station and then an army base where we believe a gun battle is still
:09:28. > :09:33.going on. One of the soldiers who had been killed is believed to be
:09:33. > :09:39.the second in command of that army unit. There has been some confusion
:09:39. > :09:44.about the casualty figures. We now understand it is at least eight
:09:44. > :09:50.people that have been killed including soldiers, police and
:09:50. > :09:54.civilians who were at the gate, as well as two militants. That brings
:09:55. > :10:02.it to 10 so far according to the reports that we're now getting.
:10:02. > :10:06.Forensic investigators in Kenya are sifting through debris at the
:10:06. > :10:09.Westgate shopping centre after the attack by Al-Shabab militants.
:10:09. > :10:12.Images are now emerging which show the scale of the damage inside the
:10:12. > :10:14.complex. At least 60 people are known to have been killed and
:10:14. > :10:16.police are concerned that there may still be booby-traps in the
:10:16. > :10:18.building. Our correspondent in Nairobi, Mike Wooldridge, said the
:10:18. > :10:27.forensic process could take quite some time. The work going on his
:10:27. > :10:34.inside the Westgate shopping centre some time. The work going on his
:10:34. > :10:37.which is directly behind us. For the time being, perhaps because of
:10:37. > :10:43.those security risks that continued, the time being, perhaps because of
:10:43. > :10:52.and the possible threat of booby- traps, we and everyone else are
:10:52. > :10:57.being kept at this police cordon. But the frenzied work is certainly
:10:57. > :11:01.gathering momentum. They probably will not have any results for at
:11:01. > :11:05.least a week. They have to sift through rubble and mangled wreckage.
:11:05. > :11:09.And in particular try to distinguish between the bodies of
:11:09. > :11:15.militants and of others who may still be in there. Whilst that is
:11:15. > :11:19.going on people continue to come to this cordon to pay tribute to all
:11:19. > :11:27.those caught up in this tragedy in different ways. With me I have a
:11:27. > :11:31.group of religious sisters. You're coming here today, what is the
:11:31. > :11:38.particular message he wanted to bring? It is to pray together with
:11:38. > :11:45.the families that have lost their dear ones. That got may bring peace,
:11:46. > :11:50.hope and love in this moment of sorrow. We pray for those who have
:11:50. > :11:57.died, that they may have eternal rest. We prayed for those in
:11:57. > :12:02.hospital. And you also work in hospitals? We work in hospitals and
:12:02. > :12:13.bring good news to the people who are sick. We bring the good news to
:12:13. > :12:15.a small children in schools. Seeing this today for the first time, how
:12:15. > :12:25.do you see the mood of the station this today for the first time, how
:12:25. > :12:30.at the moment? - of this nation. People living here with different
:12:30. > :12:35.cultures, bear all United at this moment. Everyone is ready to give
:12:35. > :12:40.support to their brothers and sisters. It is not the first
:12:40. > :12:45.support to their brothers and tragedy of its kind in Kenya. 200
:12:45. > :12:50.people were killed in the bombing of the US embassy. Do you feel the
:12:50. > :12:57.country learns the lessons it should from each of these events? A
:12:57. > :13:06.I was here at the time and there was unity. But this time it has
:13:06. > :13:12.increased. More than the first time. Kenyans have come up, ready to
:13:12. > :13:20.donate blood. People are praying, organised prayer groups. And so
:13:20. > :13:24.that does I think reflect the way so many people in many ways have
:13:24. > :13:32.been caught up in these. Not only those directly involved at the time.
:13:32. > :13:35.Stay with us on BBC World News, still to come. She's spent her life
:13:35. > :13:48.in the political spotlight. We speak with Chelsea Clinton about
:13:48. > :13:54.her role in the family's foundation. One of the jailed members of the
:13:54. > :13:59.Russian punk band, Pussy Riot, has appealed her sentence. She was
:13:59. > :14:03.jailed after singing a protest song in Moscow's main cathedral last
:14:03. > :14:07.year. If you're thinking of proposing any time soon, there is a
:14:07. > :14:11.diamond ring that will certainly impressed, as it is a flawless pink
:14:11. > :14:14.and weighs almost 60 carats. It has been described as the most valuable
:14:14. > :14:21.diamond ever to go under the Harrow -- Hammer. From Geneva, we report.
:14:21. > :14:24.Geneva's jewellery sales always attract attention, but this diamond
:14:25. > :14:28.is stealing the show. Nothing like it has ever been seen before, and we
:14:28. > :14:35.were given a few precious minutes it has ever been seen before, and we
:14:35. > :14:39.alone with it. Diamonds come in all shapes, sizes and colours. There are
:14:39. > :14:45.yellow diamonds, even blue diamonds. But pink diamonds like this one,
:14:45. > :14:50.especially pink diamonds this size, almost 60 carats, are incredibly
:14:50. > :14:57.rare. So rare that I'm not even allowed to touch it. It is so pink
:14:57. > :15:00.rare. So rare that I'm not even and so big, like a little pink
:15:00. > :15:06.mountain. This is a very special stone. It is a huge pink diamond.
:15:06. > :15:12.The largest vivid pink diamond known in existence, which makes it off the
:15:12. > :15:18.scale and rarity. It is 59.6 carats. So who is going to buy it? It is
:15:18. > :15:21.valued at at least $60 million. And there is speculation that it will be
:15:21. > :15:26.bought not as a piece of jewellery, but as an investment. Which, the
:15:26. > :15:27.sellers say, would be rather a shame, because diamonds, especially
:15:27. > :15:44.pink ones, really ought to be worn. We are agreed on that. How long
:15:44. > :15:47.could you talk for? The Republic Senator Ted Cruise delivered a
:15:47. > :15:51.filibuster speech that he hoped would derail the key bills from
:15:51. > :15:54.President Obama. During the fourth longest speech in Senate history he
:15:54. > :15:58.covered a range of issues from hamburgers, TV shows, and even read
:15:58. > :16:02.bedtime stories to his daughters watching at home. It was eventually
:16:02. > :16:10.seen as a failure because it could not hold up the Senate proceedings.
:16:10. > :16:18.The bill is expected no later than Saturday this weekend.
:16:18. > :16:23.This is BBC world News, and I have the latest headlines. A UN backed
:16:23. > :16:27.special court in The Hague has rejected an appeal by former
:16:27. > :16:31.President of Liberia Charles Taylor against his conviction for war
:16:31. > :16:36.crimes. At least ten people have died in a militant attack in
:16:36. > :16:42.Kashmir. The Indian Prime Minister says the violence will not derail
:16:42. > :16:45.peace efforts with Pakistan. Thousands of people have joined
:16:45. > :16:50.protests in Greece against the far right Golden Dawn party. In Athens,
:16:50. > :16:54.police battled protesters who were trying to march on the party offices
:16:54. > :16:57.and the wave of outrage follows the murder of an antifascist musician
:16:57. > :16:59.earlier this month. The leadership of Golden Dawn says it had nothing
:16:59. > :17:13.to do with the death. So often hear, they end like this.
:17:13. > :17:17.-- so often in this place. In Athens, a protest by antifascist,
:17:17. > :17:24.coming to a head as a small group clashed with the police. Rubbish
:17:24. > :17:30.bins were set ablaze and used as weapons. Stones and petrol bombs
:17:30. > :17:31.were held at the police, who responded with tear gas and stun
:17:32. > :17:36.grenades. The protesters target would be -- was the office of the
:17:36. > :17:40.neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, but they were pushed back as the police stood
:17:41. > :17:45.their ground. It began peacefully with thousands on the streets after
:17:45. > :17:49.last week 's killing of a left-wing musician. His face was on their
:17:49. > :17:55.banners. He was stabbed to death by a Golden Dawn member. The party has
:17:55. > :18:00.long been accused of attacking immigrants, but this seemingly
:18:00. > :18:04.political crime has stunned Greece and shaken into action a government
:18:04. > :18:07.criticised for being a soft touch towards Golden Dawn. It is now
:18:07. > :18:13.attempting to classify the party as a criminal group. I think we have
:18:14. > :18:18.the government on the hook. We are going to insist that there is the
:18:18. > :18:25.the government on the hook. We are dismantling of the death squads of
:18:25. > :18:29.the neo-Nazis. There should not be fascists in our schools and
:18:29. > :18:33.neighbourhoods. We have do isolate them and any system that breeds and
:18:33. > :18:38.feeds them. Most students should not tolerate Golden Dawn in their
:18:38. > :18:42.schools. The suspect is in custody awaiting trial, but investigations
:18:42. > :18:45.into the Greek police has begun with officers linked to Golden Dawn
:18:45. > :18:53.suspended. A purge of neo-Nazi supporters. Austerity, recession and
:18:53. > :18:59.the rapid rise of Golden Dawn. It is a combustible mix here. Perhaps the
:19:00. > :19:03.death has marked a turning point against the neo-Nazis, but another
:19:03. > :19:13.protest go on, and the flames will burn until Golden Dawn is crushed.
:19:13. > :19:15.This week 's annual UN General Assembly meeting is a chance for
:19:15. > :19:20.world leaders and their followers to Assembly meeting is a chance for
:19:20. > :19:24.make contacts beyond the formal session. One thing where this can be
:19:24. > :19:28.done is the Clinton global initiative, and Bill Clinton and his
:19:28. > :19:32.wife and daughter Chelsea are trying to get some attention for their
:19:32. > :19:39.causes. The BBC sat down with Chelsea Clinton to hear more about
:19:39. > :19:43.her aims as the vice chair. You are working on the Clinton foundation
:19:43. > :19:46.health programmes. Why is this issue so important in developing
:19:46. > :19:51.countries? I think health is fundamental. If we look here in the
:19:51. > :19:55.United States, at the beginning of the 20th century, the leading causes
:19:55. > :20:00.of death in children at the age of five were pneumonia, severe
:20:00. > :20:03.dehydration, tuberculosis, malaria, and those are the killers in the
:20:03. > :20:07.developing world. Here we fixed those challenges largely through
:20:08. > :20:11.public health, and clean sanitation systems. But we wait for those
:20:11. > :20:15.interventions to happen in the developing world, so there is an
:20:15. > :20:21.imperative for us to provide vaccines against things that have
:20:21. > :20:24.them to prevent them, or easy treatments for dehydration through
:20:24. > :20:27.diarrhoea. So that mothers don't have to worry about their children
:20:28. > :20:33.dying of diarrhoea and those children can grow up and be
:20:33. > :20:36.productive citizens. You have very high profile parents and you pursued
:20:36. > :20:41.your own career for a while. What made you become more involved with
:20:41. > :20:46.the foundation? I tried very hard to be not like my parents. I think many
:20:46. > :20:49.children, may be including your own, can empathise with that. Nobody
:20:49. > :20:54.wants to grow up and think there has been some sort of pre-destiny, but
:20:54. > :20:59.as much as I loved my experience working in the private sector, or
:20:59. > :21:03.only in academia, ultimately I cared about the things my parents cared
:21:03. > :21:04.about and I wanted to make a maximum difference and contribution that I
:21:05. > :21:10.could make in advancing their work difference and contribution that I
:21:10. > :21:14.and using their work to advance work that I cared about, for example like
:21:14. > :21:19.file -- fighting childhood diarrhoea. You have been to
:21:19. > :21:23.Mozambique, me and Mark, so what single change would make a
:21:23. > :21:27.difference to people in developing countries? Clean water and
:21:27. > :21:33.sanitation. If I had a magic wand and could ensure that there was
:21:33. > :21:40.clean water and sanitation pipes in every country everywhere, that would
:21:41. > :21:44.be my wish, if they were Christmas and Santa Claus were omnipotent.
:21:44. > :21:48.There is a lot of traffic in midtown Manhattan with the UN and the global
:21:48. > :21:52.initiative. As the global initiative Manhattan with the UN and the global
:21:52. > :21:57.draws to a close, what do you hope it has achieved? That it has
:21:57. > :22:01.achieved its aim for the year, which is mobilisation. Getting the right
:22:01. > :22:04.partners together to solve the right challenges to which they are best
:22:04. > :22:11.suited, and what we hope every year is that people, organisations find
:22:11. > :22:14.each other here in the hallways, the conversations that are curated to
:22:14. > :22:18.what we have heard people are interested in, whether it is
:22:18. > :22:23.preventing the oceans from further warming, or ensuring that women and
:22:23. > :22:27.girls are incorporated into every development conversation around the
:22:27. > :22:28.world. That people find each other and make collective commitments to
:22:28. > :22:30.world. That people find each other make an impact so they are
:22:30. > :22:35.world. That people find each other mobilising together, and that there
:22:35. > :22:42.is more at the end that has been pledged that the beginning. You have
:22:42. > :22:47.obviously had a very high-profile life. Your parents were politicians.
:22:47. > :22:52.Would you be at your mother 's side she ran in 2016? I'll be at her side
:22:53. > :22:55.whatever she chooses to do. I am deeply and unapologetically bias
:22:55. > :22:58.towards my parents and proud of both of them. I have no doubt my mother
:22:58. > :23:01.will make the right choice for her. I don't have a crystal ball, but I
:23:01. > :23:12.know that whatever she chooses do will be the highest and best use of
:23:12. > :23:15.herself at that point in time, and will be answered as to what she sees
:23:15. > :23:17.as challenges here and around the world. Chelsea Clinton giving
:23:17. > :23:21.nothing away. Let's bring you some sport. It was a nail biting finish
:23:21. > :23:25.to the cup sailing competition as Oracle Team USA beat New Zealand in
:23:25. > :23:29.the deciding race in San Francisco Bay. Last week New Zealand where
:23:29. > :23:30.leading 8-1 but then the Americans fought back with an unprecedented
:23:30. > :23:40.eight straight victories. You don't have to be a yachting fan
:23:40. > :23:47.to enjoy this, high-speed, high stakes racing. Oracle Team USA
:23:47. > :23:50.looked dead and gone a week ago, seven victories behind, but here
:23:50. > :23:55.they were on the final day, scores tied, and racing to victory over New
:23:55. > :24:00.Zealand. It has been called the most exciting America's Cup ever. And Sir
:24:00. > :24:09.Ben Ainslie has to take some of the credit. Fortunes changed when he was
:24:09. > :24:18.drafted into Oracle Team USA. There was jubilation as they finally
:24:18. > :24:22.crossed the finish line. Oracle Team USA! The cup is amongst one of the
:24:22. > :24:26.oldest sporting trophies in the world and now is staying in America.
:24:26. > :24:31.It's one of the most amazing sporting comebacks in history, an
:24:31. > :24:36.amazing victory for USA having come from so far behind to win it on the
:24:36. > :24:41.final day in such style. We had a mountain to climb and we were still
:24:41. > :24:45.alive, but we knew we really had to sort ourselves out and get the boat
:24:45. > :24:49.going faster. We did that, and the sailors and designers did a great
:24:49. > :24:53.job. We had to start sailing better, and we got momentum going and
:24:53. > :24:58.started believing in ourselves. When you do that, you can become
:24:58. > :25:03.champions. What won it for you? Teamwork? It is all teamwork with
:25:03. > :25:08.these teams. It is the sailing version of Formula one. You go out
:25:08. > :25:10.there, you struggle to speed, so you have to go back and work with the
:25:10. > :25:16.designers and get the boat going faster. You come out, keep racing
:25:16. > :25:20.well, make the right calls will stop physically, these boats are tough,
:25:20. > :25:26.but that was one of the toughest races I've ever had myself. The
:25:26. > :25:30.amazing boats, the shoreline racing and that's -- excitement of the
:25:30. > :25:31.finish to the crowds here and around the world, and that has given the
:25:31. > :25:40.America's In New Zealand, the crowds gathered
:25:40. > :25:46.early in the morning there. Time to watch the race with some emotional
:25:46. > :25:49.reactions to losing a race that money considered unassailable. They
:25:49. > :25:53.needed just one more victory to clinch the trophy that they last
:25:53. > :25:57.held in 2003 and they were convinced it was in their grasp. I am gutted.
:25:57. > :26:02.I think the fact it was so close it was in their grasp. I am gutted.
:26:02. > :26:06.made it worse. It's been a huge emotional roller-coaster. Every kiwi
:26:06. > :26:14.feels it's like a piece of them. You feel up and down. Speaking of sport,
:26:14. > :26:16.an American and two Russians have boarded the International Space
:26:16. > :26:21.Station after a quick journey from Earth on a mission that sees the
:26:21. > :26:29.Olympic torch for the 2014 games in Saatchi being taken to space the
:26:29. > :26:33.first time. Michael Hopkins and two Russians had blasted off without any
:26:33. > :26:38.problems from their space centre in Kazakhstan. They docked successfully
:26:38. > :26:42.with the space station just six hours later in a new short cut route
:26:42. > :26:47.that is being used by the Russians. A reminder of the top story. In the
:26:47. > :26:51.last half an hour, a United Nations backed special court in The Hague
:26:51. > :26:55.has rejected an appeal by the former president of Liberia, Charles
:26:55. > :26:57.Taylor, against his conviction for war crimes. Goodbye for today.