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Hello. This is BBC World News. Our top stories: President Obama signs | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
an agreement lifting the threat of a default and allowing government to | :00:12. | :00:19. | |
get back to business. We will begin reopening our | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
government. We can begin to lift this cloud of Hunter -- uncertainty | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
and our knees from our businesses and the American people. | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
The search for answers after the plane crash in Laos that killed all | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
49 people on board - most of them foreign tourists. | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
We're in Australia where firefighters battle fierce | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
wildfires. Dozens of homes are destroyed on the outskirts of | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
Sydney. And the hunt for the abominable | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
snowman - new research suggests the yeti might actually exist. | :00:46. | :01:06. | |
Hello everyone. Hundreds of thousands of US government staff | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
have been told to report for work today. That is because there is now | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
money to pay them. It will be the first time for almost three weeks. A | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
last-minute deal broke the budget deadlock between Democrats and | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
Republicans in Washington. President Obama has already signed the bill | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
into law. But he said there must now be an end to what he called | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
"governing by crisis". But the deal is only valid until early next year. | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
That raises the prospect that the process could start all over again. | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
Katy Watson has more from Washington. | :01:37. | :01:45. | |
On this vote, there are 81 in favour, 18 against, and the bill is | :01:46. | :01:58. | |
reported as past. Government workers have now been told to return to work | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
and the financial markets can breathe a sigh of relief. America is | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
back from the brink and back in business. No doubt a relieved | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
president, although he said this wasn't the end of the story. There | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
is a lot of work ahead of us, including the need to work to earn | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
back the trust of the American people, and we can begin to do that | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
by addressing the real issues that they care about. The deal will fund | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
the government until 15th January, and extend the debt deadline until | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
Fabbri. They hope to draw up a longer term debt deal. After | :02:40. | :02:48. | |
attempts by the Republicans to include restrictions on the health | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
care law, they have had to climb down. One of the most vocal critics | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
of this debate remains deeply opposed to the new bill. This deal | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
kicks the can down the road. It allows yet more debt, more | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
deficits, more spending, and it does absolutely nothing to provide relief | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
for the millions of Americans who are hurting because of Obama care. | :03:16. | :03:25. | |
This comes as a relief not just to the politicians here in Congress, | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
but all those worried about the political stalemate. But it doesn't | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
resolve the spending issues that have divided politicians here, and | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
we could see the same debate all over again in three months time. | :03:36. | :03:45. | |
Well, the market here in Europe have been open for about four hours. How | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
is the deal being seen in Europe? Steve Evans joins me from Berlin. | :03:50. | :03:58. | |
The Dax is down .85%. And that is because of two things, really. They | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
expected the deal to happen, but in the cold light of day, they think, | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
the traders think, that the awful cliche is, the Cannes has been | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
kicked down the road, and the thing has not been resolved, and we will | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
get the same thing again in January. One of the traders in Frankfurt is | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
being quoted as saying, the circus still goes on. So there is Disney | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
about that. In terms of a political reaction, there is a bit of scorn | :04:28. | :04:35. | |
coming in with the commentators sharpening their quills and | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
comparing it to customers last stand and Rambo and all those kinds of | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
things. So there is clearly relieved that the immediate threat has gone, | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
but also a bit of wonderment at the way in which the thing was dealt | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
with. Steve, thank you very much. The chemical weapons inspectors | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
working in Syria say they've completed nearly half of their work | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
to verify the extent of the arsenal. But despite this progress, they say | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
security remains a concern, with mortar and car bomb attacks | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
continuing around the inspectors' hotel in Damascus. They have until | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
June next year to oversee the destruction of Syria's chemical | :05:14. | :05:14. | |
weapons arsenal. A passenger plane has crashed into | :05:15. | :05:23. | |
the Mekong river in southern Laos. Officials say that all 49 people on | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
board were killed. The Laos Airlines plane was on an internal flight from | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
the capital, Vientiane, when it crashed in bad weather. Most of its | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
passengers were foreign tourists. Jonathan Head reports from Bangkok | :05:36. | :05:43. | |
In other news: along the banks of the River, authorities are running a | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
difficult operation, to retrieve the bodies of the victims and what is | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
left of the aircraft. The aircraft said it struck the bank | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
while approaching the airport in stormy weather and plunged into the | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
river, which is swollen by heavy rain. Divers struggled against the | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
powerful current. Bodies and wreckage have been found far from | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
the crash site. The broken pieces of aircraft testified to the impact of | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
the crash. It was turning back to approach the airport, said this | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
witness. Then it just fell out of the sky. They found suitcases, | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
passports and other personal effects. It will take time to | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
recover all of the bodies. The aircraft, a French Italian made | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
craft, was brand-new, delivered in March this year. The model is widely | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
used in this region, and has a proven safety record. It is Laos | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
Airlines' first fatal crash for 18 years. A nearby temple is serving as | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
a makeshift morgue. The victims came from all over the world, attracted | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
by the unspoiled beauty of a country that was for many years largely | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
closed to outsiders. At least 30 homes have been | :07:02. | :07:11. | |
destroyed by wildfires on the outskirts of Sydney. They have been | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
fanned by high erotic wins an unseasonably warm weather. So what | :07:17. | :07:28. | |
is the extent of the fire threat? Jon Donnison is live for us in | :07:29. | :07:36. | |
Sydney. Barely any rain in New South Wales in the last few will stop we | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
had the hottest September on record, and we are only in the spring. We | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
have had temperatures in the high 30s. They are the very worst | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
conditions for firefighters, hot and windy. And as those conditions over | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
the past few months would suggest, very dry. At various stages today, I | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
think we have still almost 100 fires and earning across the state. 34 of | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
them are out of control. Thankfully the temperatures are dropping this | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
evening, and they are forecast to drop tomorrow, but it has been a | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
difficult day, and it will be a difficult night. If it has been very | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
dry, that means there is less vegetation to burn. That is right. | :08:22. | :08:30. | |
Sometimes when you have wet weather, you get a lot of growth, and there | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
is more stuff to burn. That it has been so dry, they have not been able | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
to do the back burning they sometimes do to try to burn off some | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
of the vegetation in order to make there be less fuel so that even when | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
there are fires they can't spread. But they have been scared of | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
starting fires during that back burning process. I think the real | :08:50. | :08:57. | |
worry is that we are only in spring. We had the first bushfires | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
this year really in winter. Very unusual, people were saying it was | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
the earliest they could remember. Australians are well used to dealing | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
with bushfires. But there is a lot of worry as we approach the summer | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
months. Jon, thank you for joining me. | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
The recent migrants tragedy near Lampedusa has highlighted just how | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
many refugees are risking their lives in non-seaworthy boats in the | :09:28. | :09:35. | |
hope of gaining asylum in Europe. A few days have passed since the | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
disastrous sinkings near Lampedusa, but here you will find survivors | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
from those tragedies. People are held here for the first days and | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
weeks when they land on Lampedusa, the first days and weeks of their | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
new lives, they hope, in what they see as the promised land of Europe. | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
This place could comfortably hold about 250 people, but there are | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
something like 700 in there right now, many of them living out in the | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
open in the most uncomfortable imaginable conditions. And | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
Lampedusa, lying where it does on the front line of the migration from | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
North Africa, everybody here knows that at almost any moment, another | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
boat packed with migrants could be brought into the port, and more | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
migrants seeking that better life could be brought in here, weary and | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
exhausted from the sea at almost any moment. That was Alan Johnston there | :10:39. | :10:48. | |
on Lampedusa. In other news: Norwegian musician Kristian "Varg" | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
Vikernes is due to go on trial in Paris. He is a self-proclaimed | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
neo-Nazi. He was once in touch with his compatriot Anders Breivik, the | :10:56. | :10:57. | |
far-right militant who killed 77 people in attacks in Norway in 2011. | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
Mr Vikernes is being tried for inciting racial hatred and | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
glorifying war crimes in some of his writings on the internet. | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
The number of people known to have died in the Philippines earthquake | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
has risen to 158. The quake caused many buildings to collapse, | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
including historic churches. Rescue crews have started salvage work. | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
The United Nations has appealed for more troops and equipment for its | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
peacekeeping force in Mali. The UN force has less than half of its | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
mandated strength of more than 12,000 military personnel. Mali held | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
presidential elections in July, but militant attacks have resumed in the | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
north where Islamic militants are based. | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
An estimated 30 million people worldwide are living in conditions | :11:47. | :11:54. | |
of slavery. That is according to a new survey released by an Australian | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
campaign group. The latest The Global Slavery Index says the | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
greatest number, 14 million, are in India. The organisation says slavery | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
can also encompass debt bondage or forced labour. It can also include | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
forced marriage. Victims of modern slavery have their freedom denied. | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
Victims from many countries suggest that the African state of Mauritania | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
has the highest proportion. An estimated 4% of the population their | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
lives in slavery. Haiti, where child slavery is widespread, second. The | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
greatest number of slaves, 14 million, is in India, followed by | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
China, at almost 3 million, and Pakistan and Nigeria. Together with | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
five other countries, they account for three quarters of the total | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
estimated number of people in modern slavery. I am joined by the BBC's | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
Africa online editor, Joseph Winter. You know Mauritania well. 4% of the | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
country in slavery. How does not manifest itself? According to the | :12:57. | :13:05. | |
law, slavery has been abolished in Mauritania, several times. The fact | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
that it has been abolished several times tells you that what happens on | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
a piece of paper in the capital doesn't necessarily translate | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
through to the camps in the Sahara desert where people live in many | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
ways much as they traditionally have 400s and hundreds years. But are you | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
saying that there is almost complicity or a blind eye being | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
turned by the political class? Not necessarily. That is what some | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
people stay. It is very difficult to get out into the middle of Sahara | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
desert, where people are uneducated. The slaves would not be able to read | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
about the fact that they have been freed. And even if they are freed, | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
then what would happen to them? They would have no money, no education. | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
It is difficult for them to find, to start a new life. That is the | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
problem, but many of them are living in difficult conditions. Some are | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
chained up at night. They are subjected to sexual abuse, all kinds | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
of problems. But changing it in reality, in these poor, remote | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
areas, is a big challenge. How do you see it changing, particularly in | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
a country and a nation and region, and more broadly on all these | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
countries, where many more people now have mobile phones and are | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
talking to each other. Even if you are a slave, there are people who | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
are becoming connected. Is that likely to make a difference, do you | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
think? There are campaign groups in Mauritania who are campaigning, so | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
people who have come to the relatively big cities in Mauritania, | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
they might have more access to help and education, but it is a poor | :14:49. | :14:56. | |
country, so educated the whole country will not be straightforward. | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
These are pictures of China, and they are a video which has been | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
taken secretly of the scale of slave labour. When you look at the extent | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
of the problem, far more broadly, in Mauritania, what is the potential | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
for these horrific numbers to be reduced at some point? That is a | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
difficult question to answer. Obviously it is a question of | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
getting out into the areas worst affected, having campaigners for the | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
governments on board is going to be a key thing. Having governments | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
going out into all these areas where these problems do still exist. Thank | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
you very much indeed for that update. | :15:41. | :15:50. | |
Still to come: A couple in Paraguay finally married. They have had been | :15:51. | :15:59. | |
together for 80 years. We will tell you what happened. The world's | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
population is getting older. While that is having a profound social | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
effect, it can also be seen as a business opportunity. That is the | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
case in Taiwan where universities are actively targeting senior | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
citizens. Playing ping-pong for the first | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
time in 40 years. This 62 year-old slowly gets used to the feel of the | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
ball game. But this is not for fun. He has to take this class in order | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
to graduate from college. The owner of an IT services company, he has | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
been a boss for 32 years, but he has now retired and was to fulfil a | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
dream he could not afford to when he was young. He enrolled in | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
college to get a degree in enterprise management. TRANSLATION: | :16:51. | :16:59. | |
I started working, and eventually I started a business. But I still | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
want to learn. Lifelong learning is important. The student population | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
dropped by several hundred this year. It is a crisis shared by big | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
institutions of higher learning and some will have to shut down if the | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
trend continues. Taiwan has one of the lowest birth rates in the world. | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
As a result many universities like this one are facing declining | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
student enrolment and they are trying to encourage elderly people | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
to get a college education. There is a new wave of senior citizens | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
going to college for short-term courses or degrees. In 2008, the | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
Government began offering subsidised classes for the elderly | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
as a way of helping them live more active lives. Elderly people had to | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
be persuaded to attend college at first. Now they bring their friends | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
to take the subsidised classes, like this one which teaches them | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
how to make lotions. This year, 100 universities offer courses | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
especially by the elderly. The numbers have increased from a few | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
hundred to several thousand. Enrolment has risen by about 25% | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
each year in the past couple of years. That will have to continue | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
if the empty chairs in the lecture halls across Taiwan are to be | :18:29. | :18:39. | |
filled. You are with BBC World and years. | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
The headlines: President Obama signs a bill extending the US | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
Treasury's borrowing limit. It marks the end of almost three weeks | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
of partial Government shutdown. A passenger plane belonging to Lao | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
Airlines has crashed in a river in Laos. All of the passengers and | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
crew were killed. Throughout October we are running a | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
special series on the challenges faced by women in the 21st century. | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
Next Friday, 100 inspiring women will gather for a unique, global | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
event at the BBC's London headquarters. In our report today | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
we will look at education in China. This year the country welcomed its | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
first female astronaut, but many women in China have to keep their | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
aspirations firmly on the ground. There are many jobs and university | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
courses that are for men only. Child's play with an eye on the | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
future. At this theme-park in Beijing these little visitors can | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
test out possible Koreas. The girls at dressed up as flight attendants | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
and learn to serve meals. Young boys choose to work as security | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
guards. Even in this imaginary world the children and their | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
parents stick to reduce gender stereotypes. In China the idea that | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
girls cannot and should not do the same jobs as men is passed on early | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
and it extends into university and beyond. Students fight to get into | :20:21. | :20:27. | |
this prestigious mining engineering course. They are almost guaranteed | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
well-paid jobs after Darren -- graduation. This programme has one | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
clear entrance Requirement, men- only. TRANSLATION: China's labour | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
law suggests mining work is unsuitable for women, so we ask | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
women to refrain from applying. This school is not alone. Out of | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
respect for women's safety, it says, the Education Ministry has banned | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
girls from studying a variety of subjects across China from | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
engineering to geology. TRANSLATION: Some jobs are really | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
unsuitable for women. If they force their way into these jobs, they | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
will waste energy that can be better used elsewhere. A small but | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
first the network of students and lawyers is biting the restrictions, | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
shaving their heads in a rare public protest last year. | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
TRANSLATION: It was blatant discrimination. No-one has stood up | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
to these universities before and told them their policies were wrong. | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
The activists are also banning unofficial gender quotas at many | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
universities that favour boys. Females usually top college | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
entrance exams, but schools do not want their courses to be dominated | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
by girls, so they lower the admissions standards for boys, | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
leaving girls with higher marks out of luck. Back at the theme park | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
these little girls in theory can move beyond the beauty salon to | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
tried dozens of jobs. If some in China have their way, these girls | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
might soon have the support and the drive to do it. Let me remind you | :22:15. | :22:27. | |
of the address. Scientists may finally have solved the mystery of | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
the yeti, the mythical creature which is believed by some to wonder | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
in the Himalayan mountains. Researchers at Oxford University | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
said they have conducted DNA tests on hair samples. Professor Bryan | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
Sykes is professor of human genetics at Oxford University. He | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
led the tests. I asked him if it confirmed that the yeti exists. Yes. | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
Describe it to me. Why have we not got a picture? You did not ask me | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
to bring one. Have you got one on your telephone? There are a few | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
around. This is of a mummy and from a couple of pairs that have proved | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
to be of interest from the Himalayas. I have been testing | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
hairs from all over the world. In this case, the DNA analysis shows | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
that they match exactly with an ancient polar bear that was found | :23:30. | :23:40. | |
in Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean. It is a 40,000 year-old bone and it | :23:41. | :23:48. | |
matches the DNA that I found in a yeti money, shot by a local hunter, | :23:49. | :24:02. | |
described as a yeti. Their hair was identified by the King of Bhutan's | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
yeti supremo. So now you know, it does exist. | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
A couple in Paraguay have finally tied the knot, or got married, | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
after spending 18 years together. Their relationship has survived | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
more than a dozen US presence, One World War and the Rise and Fall of | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
the Berlin Wall. They say it is the bride's | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
prerogative to be late for her wedding, but this is getting | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
ridiculous. 80 years after first falling in love, they finally said | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
I do in the eyes of God. The groom, 103, the brushing blight Eimear | :24:44. | :24:51. | |
sapling at 99. A ceremony held in their back garden passed off | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
without a hitch, even if they need a little help with the ring. | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
TRANSLATION: It is the first time I am marrying someone of this age and | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
I am happy to be marrying these two. There is no denying this has been a | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
long engagement. They met and fell in love in 1933. It was the same | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
year Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany and Franklin Roosevelt | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
took office as President of the United States. They had a civil | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
wedding half-a-century ago around the time President Kennedy was | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
assassinated, but they never bothered with a religious ceremony | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
and some now. TRANSLATION: My children wanted us to get married, | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
they told me it was what they wanted. All but two of my children | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
are here. And not just the children. There are 50 grand children, 35 | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
great-grandchildren and 20 great- great grandchildren. No doubt the | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
reception was a little crowded. Ne to a violin that was played to help | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
calm passengers as the Titanic sank. The instrument belonged to the | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
leader of the band, Wallace Hartley. He died along with the others when | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
the ship went down in 1912. The Auctioneers says the violin | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
represents everything good about human nature. It is expected to | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
fetch about half a million dollars and has attracted attention from | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
all over the world. In France, pupils have been protesting against | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
the deportation to Kosovo of a 15- year-old girl. She was taken off a | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
school bus before being forced to leave France. Her family had | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
entered France illegally in 2009 and had exhausted all appeals to | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
stave. Pupils blockaded several schools in Paris and they boycotted | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
lessons. This has been BBC World News. | :26:59. | :27:02. |