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