:00:10. > :00:20.Hello. Our top stories: A powerful earthquake hits the central
:00:21. > :00:28.Philippines. At least 72 people have been killed. A key ally of the
:00:29. > :00:32.Afghan president has been killed. A court in Russia have been expelled
:00:33. > :00:39.for another member of the Greenpeace crew. And, before and
:00:40. > :00:41.after. We examine airbrushing and the myth of perfection. How
:00:42. > :01:00.damaging is it to our self-esteem? There has been a powerful
:01:01. > :01:02.earthquake in the Philippines. Witnesses describe hearing a sound
:01:03. > :01:06.like a huge truck approaching, as the quake struck at 8am, causing
:01:07. > :01:13.buildings to collapse and people to stampede into the streets. The
:01:14. > :01:16.quake happened deep below the island of Bohol, at the start of a
:01:17. > :01:20.national holiday. Several historic churches collapsed in Bohol. And in
:01:21. > :01:24.the nearby city of Cebu, a market roof fell in. The tremors and
:01:25. > :01:35.aftershocks could be felt up to 100 kilometres away. At least people
:01:36. > :01:37.are confirmed dead so far but it is feared that number could rise
:01:38. > :01:40.sharply. A short while ago, the BBC's Jonathan Head told me about
:01:41. > :01:45.the devastation caused by the quake: People say when they came up
:01:46. > :01:51.out of buildings, they found it difficult to stand up. As a result,
:01:52. > :01:57.buildings have collapsed over quite a wide area. Most of the damage
:01:58. > :02:09.recorded was in the second biggest city in the Philippines. Nearly 100
:02:10. > :02:13.kilometres away from the peppers sector. -- the epicentre. Some
:02:14. > :02:17.other people were killed when a fish market collapsed. On the
:02:18. > :02:25.island to bow hole itself commit no big cities and only small towns. It
:02:26. > :02:32.has taken a long time to get around all the different villages and
:02:33. > :02:35.towns and all the areas affected. They are trying to find out how
:02:36. > :02:39.many buildings have collapsed and whether people are trapped
:02:40. > :02:43.underneath them. It is a difficult job for authorities to get a full
:02:44. > :02:49.sense over how bad the damages and over how wide an area. What about
:02:50. > :02:54.the aftershocks? They have continued - they have been very
:02:55. > :02:58.strong indeed. That has made it difficult to deal with buildings
:02:59. > :03:03.that might already have been damaged. People have to stay away
:03:04. > :03:08.from a lot of public buildings. There is concern about landslide.
:03:09. > :03:13.It is a mountainous area. There have been problems with landslides
:03:14. > :03:21.in the past. They have declared a state of calamity and the Red Cross
:03:22. > :03:26.is involved and that the pins government is involved. They are
:03:27. > :03:33.trying to help the very large numbers of people who have problems
:03:34. > :03:35.with power supplies and damaged buildings. The governor of
:03:36. > :03:38.Afghanistan's Logar province has been killed in a bomb attack on a
:03:39. > :03:40.mosque, during prayers for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.
:03:41. > :03:43.Arsala Jamal, a close ally of President Karzai, was standing at
:03:44. > :03:46.the front of the mosque greeting worshippers when a bomb hidden
:03:47. > :03:49.under a table went off. The attack took place in the Logar province,
:03:50. > :03:52.which is south of the capital, Kabul, and the Taliban have
:03:53. > :04:01.increased their control over this area. Previously he was governor of
:04:02. > :04:04.another eastern province, Khost. A high-profile target, the 47-year-
:04:05. > :04:08.old, was a Canadian citizen who returned to Afghanistan to serve in
:04:09. > :04:10.several key positions. He was President Karzai's campaign manager
:04:11. > :04:15.during the 2009 presidential elections. He studied in Malaysia
:04:16. > :04:20.and got a degree in Economics from the University of Malaya. He worked
:04:21. > :04:24.for foreign NGOs, such as Care International, using his expertise
:04:25. > :04:29.in rural development. Arsala's killing marks one of the most high-
:04:30. > :04:31.profile assassinations this year. He had survived a number of
:04:32. > :04:38.assassination attempts in the past, including suicide bombings. Our
:04:39. > :04:45.correspondent in Kabul has more on the attack. It was right at the end
:04:46. > :04:49.of the morning prayers for the first day of the festival that
:04:50. > :04:55.families really look forward to at this time of year. After prayers
:04:56. > :05:00.had finished, the Governor was at the front. He was greeting people
:05:01. > :05:05.and making a speech when a bomb exploded, we understand, that had
:05:06. > :05:10.been planted under the podium he was speaking from, killing him and
:05:11. > :05:16.injuring a number of people close by. There was of is the chaos
:05:17. > :05:25.afterwards. Reports coming in of how many casualties there were. --
:05:26. > :05:30.there was obviously chaos afterwards. Afghanistan is
:05:31. > :05:32.celebrating this important holiday. Another member of the Greenpeace
:05:33. > :05:36.crew arrested in Russia for staging an Arctic oil drilling protest has
:05:37. > :05:38.had his bail application rejected. Briton Frank Hewetson was the
:05:39. > :05:43.logistics co-ordinator on the Greenpeace ship, Arctic Sunrise.
:05:44. > :05:48.The crew of 30 face piracy charges, which carry a maximum prison
:05:49. > :05:57.sentence of 15 years. Daniel Sandford is following events in
:05:58. > :06:05.Murmansk. What has happened on this latest hearing? We have got through
:06:06. > :06:11.10 of the 30 protesters that are being detained. Winter has come
:06:12. > :06:16.early here. We are north of the Arctic Circle and winter is well
:06:17. > :06:20.under way. This morning we sat through the 10th hearing - a
:06:21. > :06:25.British activist from London. The same arguments were made in his
:06:26. > :06:28.case as the cases we sat through yesterday. The principal argument
:06:29. > :06:34.is that they cannot be pirates because they were not attacking a
:06:35. > :06:39.ship or seeking financial gain. The charges against them are incorrect.
:06:40. > :06:43.They are arguing they were detained illegally in international orders.
:06:44. > :06:47.They were not produced before a court within 48 hours of them being
:06:48. > :06:53.detained because they were being towed on a ship. Just as in all the
:06:54. > :06:59.previous hearings, the judge did not have much truck for any of the
:07:00. > :07:03.arguments of the defence. Frank Kitson was sent back to the prison
:07:04. > :07:09.which is only a few minutes away. The prison is only a few minutes
:07:10. > :07:13.away. They have been claiming they were cold but conditions are
:07:14. > :07:18.reasonably OK. They say they are being kept separately from each
:07:19. > :07:23.other and are having to talk to Russian cell mates. What is the
:07:24. > :07:28.expected length of the whole trial process? We can see the cameraman
:07:29. > :07:35.wiping the screen. How much diplomatic action is going on
:07:36. > :07:40.behind the scenes? There is a lot of diplomatic action - a lot of
:07:41. > :07:45.members of consular staff. We have activists from many different
:07:46. > :07:48.countries. The British consul in St Petersburg was in court this
:07:49. > :07:54.morning was that yesterday we saw a member of the consular staff with
:07:55. > :07:58.the captain of the ship. -- this morning. As yet, they do not seem
:07:59. > :08:03.to be any results from that. It seems the Russian position is, we
:08:04. > :08:09.cannot have activists protesting against our vital gas and oil
:08:10. > :08:13.interests. They regard that as the next most important economic
:08:14. > :08:17.benefit for all the country and they do not want to have protesters
:08:18. > :08:21.out there. They do not want to regard them as pirates and they are
:08:22. > :08:25.not paying much attention to the diplomatic action at the moment.
:08:26. > :08:30.This trial process, going back to the first part of your question, I
:08:31. > :08:33.have seen trials in Russia where this period of investigation has
:08:34. > :08:38.lasted a year and then the trial would be some months after that.
:08:39. > :08:48.These at this could be spending a long time in jail before any trial.
:08:49. > :08:54.-- these activists. Talks over the Iranian nuclear programme are under
:08:55. > :09:00.way at the moment in Geneva. The negotiators are from the US, Russia,
:09:01. > :09:05.China, Britain, France and Germany. It is the first round of talks was
:09:06. > :09:10.that they have the first formal international negotiations since
:09:11. > :09:16.the Iranian President took office. -- they are the first round of
:09:17. > :09:20.talks. Iran says reaction to those proposals have been bid. Here is
:09:21. > :09:27.what the EU spokesman has been saying in an update on the talks in
:09:28. > :09:31.the last hour. We have had two very productive days was that it will be
:09:32. > :09:38.an opportunity to explore the proposals on the table. --
:09:39. > :09:44.productive days. We have come here with a sense of cautious optimism
:09:45. > :09:53.and a great sense of determination. We believe it is time for tangible
:09:54. > :09:58.results. Sorry about the quality on that recording. The talks are
:09:59. > :10:03.incredibly important. They are seen as a huge break through. The US has
:10:04. > :10:06.said there will be no overnight progress. Our security
:10:07. > :10:12.correspondent has been looking at the long road to negotiations. For
:10:13. > :10:17.more than a decade, there has been an ongoing crisis over the Iranian
:10:18. > :10:22.nuclear programme. But now there are some signs of a possible deal -
:10:23. > :10:29.although no one is quite sure how realistic that possibility might be.
:10:30. > :10:33.A central reason for the relative optimism is the new Iranian
:10:34. > :10:37.President, Hassan Rouhani. At the UN General Assembly last month, he
:10:38. > :10:41.and President Obama did not manage a handshake that they did speak on
:10:42. > :10:46.the phone - the first direct contact between the two countries'
:10:47. > :10:52.leaders since 1979. I do not believe this difficult history can
:10:53. > :10:58.be overcome overnight. The suspicions run too deep. I do
:10:59. > :11:04.believe that if we can resolve the issue of the Iranian nuclear
:11:05. > :11:08.programme, that can serve as a major step down the long road
:11:09. > :11:15.towards a different relationship. Getting beyond promising words will
:11:16. > :11:21.involve hard negotiations. The issue is what the real purpose is.
:11:22. > :11:26.The programme is spread between a number of sites to rout the country.
:11:27. > :11:30.There is a heavy water plant that Iraq used as part of the nuclear
:11:31. > :11:39.programme as well as a reactor, currently being built in the south.
:11:40. > :11:44.There is a centrifuge facility. Here, thousands of centrifuges
:11:45. > :11:50.spend enriched uranium. That can be used for nuclear reactor or weapons.
:11:51. > :11:54.Iran was forced to reveal another secret enrichment facility in the
:11:55. > :11:59.mountains, increasing suspicion in some western countries. It says the
:12:00. > :12:04.purpose of the programme is peaceful. Others fear it is all a
:12:05. > :12:08.cover to push on nuclear-weapons. Over the last decade, there have
:12:09. > :12:12.been many attempts to defuse the crisis. There have been brief
:12:13. > :12:17.suspensions in enrichment activity by Iran. There has been talk of
:12:18. > :12:21.limiting how much it enriches uranium and moving some of
:12:22. > :12:30.sensitive material out of the country. These have all broken
:12:31. > :12:35.Durham. Iran -- broken down. Iran insists it is its right to have a
:12:36. > :12:40.nuclear programmes. The new leader has signalled he wants to resolve
:12:41. > :12:44.the crisis in the coming months. Whether a deal can be agreed will
:12:45. > :12:55.depend on exact details put on the table and whether or not both sides
:12:56. > :13:01.can compromise and trust each other. Stay with us on BBC World news.
:13:02. > :13:05.Much more to come but not much time left. US Senate leaders say they
:13:06. > :13:15.have made progress on a did to reopen the Government. -- a deal. A
:13:16. > :13:19.bomb at a mosque in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk has killed at
:13:20. > :13:21.least 11 people and injured many others. Police say the blast
:13:22. > :13:23.happened as worshippers were leaving the Sunni mosque after
:13:24. > :13:27.prayers marking the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. An alleged senior
:13:28. > :13:31.Al-Qaeda figure is expected to appear in a New York court later
:13:32. > :13:33.today. Abu Anas al Liby was captured in Tripoli and has now
:13:34. > :13:39.been transferred to the United States. He is accused of having
:13:40. > :13:41.links with Al-Qaeda as well as a connection to the 1998 bombings of
:13:42. > :13:45.American embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. Accusations are still flying
:13:46. > :13:49.over what caused a stampede on a bridge, in the Indian state of
:13:50. > :13:53.Madhya Pradesh. 115 people are now thought to have died in the
:13:54. > :13:59.disaster, near the Ratangarh temple. Hundreds of thousands had gathered,
:14:00. > :14:08.for the Hindu festival of Navratra. Zubair Ahmed has more from Madhya
:14:09. > :14:14.Pradesh. This bridge was the scene of the deadly stampede in central
:14:15. > :14:19.India. More than 115 people were killed. Some were crushed under the
:14:20. > :14:24.feet of fellow pilgrims. Others threw themselves on to this river.
:14:25. > :14:28.Many did not survive. This was a remote area where access to
:14:29. > :14:33.hospitals is not easy. I met some people who were still looking for
:14:34. > :14:37.loved ones. TRANSLATION: I am trying to find my
:14:38. > :14:43.husband. He has not called me since the incident. I came here to search.
:14:44. > :14:50.I do not know what to do. I have left my three children back home.
:14:51. > :14:53.And cannot find him anywhere. TRANSLATION: I have watched the
:14:54. > :14:57.news and came running to find my son and daughter who are missing.
:14:58. > :15:04.So many people have died and so many people are injured. I do not
:15:05. > :15:08.know what happened to my children. Today, it is business as usual as
:15:09. > :15:13.pilgrims are still coming in - chanting, dancing, singing and
:15:14. > :15:14.beating drums. Today is the last day of one of the holiest festivals
:15:15. > :15:31.in the Hindu calendar. After the devastation of cyclone
:15:32. > :15:35.Phailin in India, rising flood waters have now left tens of
:15:36. > :15:38.thousands of people cut off from the rest of the country. Officials say
:15:39. > :15:41.as many as 100,000 people have been marooned by flooding in Orissa
:15:42. > :15:43.state. Cyclone Phailin, which hit over the weekend, was the strongest
:15:44. > :15:51.experienced in the This is BBC World News.
:15:52. > :15:55.At least 32 people have died after a strong earthquake hit the central
:15:56. > :16:00.Philippines. In fact, that number is now thought to be at least 70, and
:16:01. > :16:05.the quake happened deep underground causing extensive damage on the
:16:06. > :16:07.island. The governor of the Afghan province of Logar has been killed by
:16:08. > :16:15.a bomb at a mosque. In the United States, Senate leaders
:16:16. > :16:19.say they have made tremendous progress towards a deal which would
:16:20. > :16:25.prevent the federal government defaulting on its debt within days.
:16:26. > :16:28.Republican Senate leaders are due to meet later to theday to discuss the
:16:29. > :16:30.plan but any deal would have to pass the House of Representatives, and
:16:31. > :16:35.President Obama has warned there is still a good chance of default, so
:16:36. > :18:07.what would that mean? Let's have a look at the timeline in numbers.
:18:08. > :18:12.Just a look through some of the numbers. Hope you got that. We'll be
:18:13. > :18:16.testing you later! The continuing political deadlock in Washington
:18:17. > :18:22.means, of course, large parts of the federal government's operations have
:18:23. > :18:28.been shut down. The tour on the US economy has so far been negligible
:18:29. > :18:34.but for some, it's a matter of life and death. For two young people in
:18:35. > :18:38.Maryland the consequences are heartbreaking. Jane O'Brien went to
:18:39. > :18:42.meet them. Eight-year-old Chrissy can barely walk and finds it
:18:43. > :18:47.increasingly difficult to breathe. She suffers from an extremely rare
:18:48. > :18:51.genetic disease that's rapidly destroying her body and will
:18:52. > :18:55.eventually kill her. Her only hope is a clinical trial to test a new
:18:56. > :19:00.gene therapy, but the Government shutdown has halted the review of
:19:01. > :19:05.signs terrific studies that must be completed before the trial can
:19:06. > :19:11.start. I'm angry. I'm frustrated and bewildered as to how we can be so
:19:12. > :19:14.close, so close to developing and administering a treatment that could
:19:15. > :19:20.potentially save their lives and just be stopped without any
:19:21. > :19:25.movement. Chrissy also struggles to talk because her vocal chords are
:19:26. > :19:26.partially paralysed, but she's keenly aware of what's happening to
:19:27. > :19:55.her. The disease is doubly devastating
:19:56. > :20:00.because she has a three-year-old sister, Amanda, who has also
:20:01. > :20:05.inherited the condition. Without a medical breakthrough, she
:20:06. > :20:09.faces the same fate as Chrissy. The clinical trial is their best hope,
:20:10. > :20:14.but until Congress passes a bill to fund the Government, the trial
:20:15. > :20:20.cannot proceed. I really don't care who is at fault. I don't care who
:20:21. > :20:24.did what. All I care about is letting the scientists get back to
:20:25. > :20:28.work, letting them work on a life-saving cure for my children and
:20:29. > :20:33.those with a disease like theirs. They're my girls. They are my life.
:20:34. > :20:40.I put them ahead of everything in the whole universe. Across the
:20:41. > :20:45.country, children like Chrissy and Amanda is losing the chance of
:20:46. > :20:50.treatment. 200 people a week would usually enter clinical trials, but
:20:51. > :20:57.almost all have been halted - even so, the family tries to continue
:20:58. > :21:01.life as normal focussing on whatever future Chrissy has. You never do
:21:02. > :21:06.anything perfectly, but we try to do our best, and we try to teach her
:21:07. > :21:12.always do your best. We try to mimic that and give her good examples to
:21:13. > :21:16.do it. Chrissy's decline is accelerating, and the damage is
:21:17. > :21:20.irreversible. Without treatment, her body will shut down, and she'll
:21:21. > :21:25.eventually lose the ability to eat and breathe. If the clinical trial
:21:26. > :21:31.doesn't start soon, she may be too sick to take part.
:21:32. > :21:35.There are very real impacts of that political deadlock in Washington.
:21:36. > :21:38.It used to be the case if you felt strongly about an issue here in
:21:39. > :21:43.Britain, you would write a strongly worded letter, perhaps to a
:21:44. > :21:49.newspaper or to your local MP, but unlike many other things, it's going
:21:50. > :21:55.digital. It's already a year since the online petition site change.org
:21:56. > :22:00.opened here. The site has already drawn in millions of activists and
:22:01. > :22:05.achieve some real change. The website change.org - it's an
:22:06. > :22:08.outlet for those disenfranchised by more traditional politics. It has
:22:09. > :22:13.been going here for just over a year. It's shot in the arm for
:22:14. > :22:17.democracy. Parliament needs to wake up to the digital world and get much
:22:18. > :22:23.more in touch with what's happening online. Online petition sites have
:22:24. > :22:26.had a series of successes, this probably the most high profile, to
:22:27. > :22:32.have a woman on the back of a bank note. I just got angry, and I had
:22:33. > :22:36.the tools at my disposal to be able to do something about it. Caroline
:22:37. > :22:42.Perez, who started the petition, says she didn't even consider, for
:22:43. > :22:47.example, contacting her MP. Why would I take this slow traditional
:22:48. > :22:51.route of asking someone to act on my behalf when I can act for myself? I
:22:52. > :22:55.think that is the beautiful thing - I am no-one. I am an ordinary
:22:56. > :22:59.person. I can change something I really cared about. Are there
:23:00. > :23:05.implications for Parliament, seen by some as ineffective, cumbersome,
:23:06. > :23:11.irrelevant? Nicola Blackwood is a Tory MP. She's started an online
:23:12. > :23:19.petition to prevent the sexual exploitation of children.
:23:20. > :23:23.Are these kinds of way ways of campaigning short circuiting
:23:24. > :23:28.Parliament? Not at all. It has always been a mechanism of bringing
:23:29. > :23:36.the public into parliamentary campaigning. Some of the petitions
:23:37. > :23:40.online, like trying to stop Ben Affleck playing Batman are perhaps
:23:41. > :23:45.frivolous. Others, like stopping Page 3 seem to have been ignored,
:23:46. > :23:48.but as many people use them and more succeed, is power shifting from
:23:49. > :23:56.institutions and corporations to ordinary people?
:23:57. > :24:01.Now, throughout this month, we're running a special series on the
:24:02. > :24:04.challenges facing women in the twenty first century. Later this
:24:05. > :24:08.month 100 inspiring women from around the world will gather for a
:24:09. > :24:11.unique event here at the BBC. In our latest report we're focusing on the
:24:12. > :24:14.pressure to look perfect, whatever your age, shape or size. A British
:24:15. > :24:20.charity says extreme airbrushing is having a dangerous effect on some
:24:21. > :24:23.young people. There have been calls to ban digitally enhanced pictures
:24:24. > :24:31.of models completely. Tulip Mazumder reports. The cam rap doesn't lie, or
:24:32. > :24:37.does it? Great. We decided to find out just how different I could look
:24:38. > :24:41.using some post-production magic. Airbrushing has been used in the
:24:42. > :24:45.fashion and advertising industries for decades, but as the technology
:24:46. > :24:49.has evolved to bring us more powerful cameras, capturing every
:24:50. > :24:55.line and blemish, so has the post production that goes with it. That's
:24:56. > :25:00.a worry for eating disorder charity BEAT. It's hosted a debate about
:25:01. > :25:04.body image at the end of London fashion week looking at what it says
:25:05. > :25:09.is the extreme using of post production. I know that the whole
:25:10. > :25:13.notion of a hyper-perfect reality is damaging some young people's lives.
:25:14. > :25:17.It doesn't cause an eating disorder by itself. They're much more complex
:25:18. > :25:20.than that we know some people get trapped in their eating disorder
:25:21. > :25:24.because of the way those images affect them. Plenty of young people
:25:25. > :25:30.are now taking a similar approach to their own photos.
:25:31. > :25:38.I can't see any of my, like, imperfections on there. You think
:25:39. > :25:47.kind of not Photoshoping yourself is you... Pulled her stomach in there.
:25:48. > :25:53.Advertisers has sent this pack to schools to help them understand how
:25:54. > :25:57.post production works. A certain amount of it is about buying the
:25:58. > :26:00.dream. If you're talking about cosmetics, you don't expect to look
:26:01. > :26:04.like the most beautiful person in the world, but you associate with
:26:05. > :26:14.that dream. Back in the edit suite, the new me... So this is before. And
:26:15. > :26:23.then the after. Wow. That doesn't look like me anymore I don't think.
:26:24. > :26:27.Doesn't look like you at all. Airbrushing cameras - we quite like
:26:28. > :26:33.those I think! I am not supposed to say that, I know. But you can get
:26:34. > :26:42.more on our website. Before we go, some dramatic pictures
:26:43. > :26:46.from Brazil. Showing a motorcyclist being robbed at gunpoint. The
:26:47. > :26:48.terrifying scene was caught on the victim's helmet mounted-camera s he
:26:49. > :26:52.approached an inter-section in the city of Sao Paulo on Saturday. Two
:26:53. > :26:55.gunmen on another motorbike pull up alongside, forcing him to stop. One
:26:56. > :26:58.of them points a gun, threatening him and demanding he hands over his
:26:59. > :27:01.motorbike. Before the man with the gun is able to ride off, another
:27:02. > :27:02.man, reportedly an undercover policeman appears, and fires two
:27:03. > :27:03.shots a