18/10/2013 BBC World News

Hello. This is BBC World News. Our top stories. Three more bodies are

found at the sight of the Kenyan shopping mall siege, two are likely

to be gunman. One of the suspects is identified by investigators as a

Norwegian citizen. China's economy picks up speed. It

grew by almost 8% in the last quarter, after slowing earlier this

year. Fires continue to sweep through the

Australian state of New South Wales. One man has been killed, and dozens

of homes destroyed. And, unveiling the mysteries of

sleep. Researchers identify the fundamental reason why we really

need that shut-eye. Nearly four weeks after militants

stormed an upmarket shopping complex in the Kenyan capital, details of

the attackers' identities are beginning to emerge. Two bodies

which were pulled from the rubble of the Westgate complex may well be

those of Al-Shabab militants, according to the Kenyan authorities.

And, in a separate development, a Norwegian investigation has

identified one of the men who planned and carried out the attack.

He's 23-year-old Hassan Dhuhulow, a Norwegian national who was born in

Somalia. Our East Africa correspondent Gabriel Gatehouse has

this special report. Until now, he has been known simply

black shirt. The BBC can reveal investigators believe this man shown

here firing this inside the shopping centre is Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow, a

23-year-old Norwegian citizen. New pictures have emerged of the moment

the attackers struck the Westgate shopping mall. Initially it was said

there were 15 attackers but footage has consistently shown only for

gunman of which Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow was believed one. They are seeing

here calmly wandering around the store, later some of them take time

to pray. Earlier this month, authorities released for names for

the men seeing him walking through the store room. In Nairobi,

investigators knew little more than the colour of their clothes. This

sleepy town seems as remote as possible from the ravages of

Somalia. This is Norway 's southern coast where Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow

spent his formative years. It was in this block of flats on the outskirts

of Larvik that we understand Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow lived as a teenager

with his family, until a few years ago. A neighbour told us he

disappeared and moved to Africa. The neighbour took a look at the CCTV

footage on inside Westgate. It might be him. In the black jacket? He

admits he hasn't seen his neighbour for four years but he points without

prompting to black shirt, apparently, breaking other sources

in Norway and can you. He was pretty extreme. In what ways? He was

talking about the Koran all the time. He didn't like the way we

lived here. Here is what we know about Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow. In

1999, he fled Mogadishu with his family. He returned to Somalia ten

years later hoping to build a life for himself. Since then, a family

member said he kept in sporadic contact, calling infrequently and

always from different Somali numbers. His last call was made this

summer. He was in trouble, he said, and wanted to come home. Between 20

and 30 Norwegian citizens almost exclusively of Somali origin are

thought to have travelled to East Africa to join Al-Shabab. Of concern

is one group who were born in Somalia but who came to Norway at a

relatively young age. They need people that are quite ignorant on

Somalia. Which is dangerous, it will give them the chance of propaganda,

and make them more dangerous when they return to their home country.

This week, Somalis in Larvik came together to celebrate but this is a

community under pressure. Police had been keeping tabs on Hassan Abdi

Dhuhulow for some time. We showed the CCTV to his voted who did not

want to appear on camera. I do know what I feel, they said. If it is

him, he must have been brainwashed. That is what has emerged in Norway.

What is the latest information from Nairobi?

The information has come from the MP who chairs the Parliamentary

committee investigating the Westgate shopping mall attack. This

information, he gave to me just over an hour ago, he said that on

Thursday, two bodies, very charred bodies, were pulled from underneath

the rubble. And, in his words, it is highly likely that they are the

bodies of two of the gun men. As you mentioned, to AK-47 assault rifles

were also pulled out. Interestingly, those are not the kinds of rifles

used by the Kenyan military. So, further pointing to a suggestion

that these are the bodies of the gunman. As you said, we do not know

for certain as yet, and there will be forensic tests carried out. The

same MP also told me a third body was pulled out from under the

rubble, and that, he said, was likely to be the body of one of the

Kenyan soldiers who tried to end the four-day siege. It is quite

surprising that about three weeks after the heavy lifting equipment

went to the scene to try to lift up the concrete, the rubble which had

descended after part of the shopping mall collapsed, it is surprising,

three weeks on after that machinery was on the scene, we are still

hearing about bodies being pulled out.

What are the implications for the number of militants involved? It was

ten - 15, it had been suggested only four people.

The only evidence we have got comes from the CCTV footage. Over the last

24 hours, once again it is just for men we are seeing on that CCTV

footage. Obviously, quite shocking for many people that such havoc

could be caused on this shopping mall, for four days, when it was

only we understand for men who did it. The Kenyan authorities at the

time of the siege, they said it was between ten and 15 gun men. I ought

to add a lot of the information we were passed from the Kenyan

authorities has proved to be incorrect as days have gone on.

China has released its official GDP figures, and they showed that the

economy sped up in the third quarter. The Chinese government will

hit its growth target of 7.5% for the year. Now, that would be the

slowest growth rate since 1999, in the aftermath of the Asian financial

crisis. But still, some say it's uncanny how the government never

misses the mark. There's more questions than ever about the

reliability of Chinese figures. Our chief business correspondent Linda

Yueh investigates the mystery of dodgy data.

Numbers are important in China. And Chinese numbers are important to a

world relying on China's growth. But, can we trust the numbers we are

being given? This website has caused a clamour in China. The National

Bureau of Statistics of China has begun to name and shame local

governments who fake economic data. Over the past few months, a county

in Guangzhou exaggerated industrial production by four times its actual

value. And, on this web page, it says a county in one province has

declared double the amount of output its companies are actually

producing. Those companies have come back to say local governments made

them do it. Either way, one thing is clear. Dodgy data in China has now

been officially acknowledged. Unofficially, it has been talked

about for a long time. Accusations that some local governments inflate

the numbers to please a capital hungry for good economic results.

Economist Chris Balding says growth might be half what the government

says. I think most figures in China should

be taken with a large grain of salt. Even in China, the Chinese populace

treats them as art than science, or reliable indicators of reality.

Statistics on construction, for example, might be over-reported. Or

projects could be financed by debt that could cause problems later on.

That's why even the Premier was reported to say he relied on

indicators like the volume of goods being shipped by trains, because you

count it independently. TRANSLATION: I don't think there's

grounds to be suspicious. Generally, China's GDP figures are quite

accurate, and it does reflect the truth of the Chinese economy.

Maths and getting your numbers right is drilled into Chinese students

from an early age. Not necessarily motivated by love of sums.

Why is it important to you to get your sums right?

I am scared of my mum, eight-year-old Hank tells me.

Local authorities may fear they will be scolded for failing Beijing. But

if the GDP figures aren't right, we're probably wrong about the scale

of China's state too, and that would be a huge miscalculation.

They're the worst bush fires for ten years in Australia's state of New

South Wales. Fire fighters have witnessed flames 20 to 30 metres

high. Look at the smoke over Sydney

Harbour. Nearly 100 wildfires have raged in the country's most populous

state. 20 are out of control. Australians live with the

inevitability of bush fires in summer. But not this early.

Temperatures have eased since Thursday. But, as summer builds,

more hot weather is forecast next week. But it's still spring, so

there are fears of a difficult summer fire season to come.

So what do we know so far? Numbers are not yet precise. It's reported

at more than 200 homes have been destroyed. At least three fire

fighters are reported injured. Many worst-affected areas are here in the

Blue Mountains, 70 kilometres west of Sydney, a much sought-after

residential suburban area in glorious locations. 2,000 fire

fighters are there working 24/7 to try to contain the fires. Meanwhile,

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, a volunteer fire fighter

himself, has been to visit some of the worst-affected areas. He

expressed his concerns that the fire could go on for time to come.

Today is a much quieter day than yesterday. But this is a fire

emergency which could go on for quite some time. There are hundreds

of people who are grieving the loss of property, tragically there has

been, it seems, one life lost further north. Someone who was

defending his house. We grieve for everyone impacted by these fires.

Neil Bibby is a retired fire chief now living in New South Wales, he

joins us on Skype. Thank you for joining me. How well

prepared these days is Australia? You went through Victoria where

there were fires in this kind of season. We are far more prepared

than before. One thing people come to realise is

it is their responsibility as well as the Fire Service. It is a joint

effort. Not just the Fire Service helping citizens. It is doing it

together. What do you say as a former senior

fire officer when you know people are moving into homes which will be

this foldable in these locations? It is not just Australia, France,

Spain, America, it is all over the place. People are moving here for

lifestyle purposes. You need to understand what the risk is. There

are four areas, three errors we should be aware of when you move

into those areas. The first one is the construction of your home and

how you can be protected from a fire. The second is understand the

information that will come through, radio, TV, have batteries in your

radio. Be aware of the websites where the local Fire Service put out

messages, and on Twitter feeds. And, generally, prepare for what can

be disasters, using things like current Twitter feeds which give you

an understanding of what you should do in a disaster. It is a community

that has to be prepared. you were fire chief for Victoria and

were there until five years ago. How much did the Victorian mentality

change after nearly 200 people were killed?

The change that has taken place over the last two years, not just with

fires, but with climate change coming in, and we understand the

fires we are getting now are going to be the future for Australia and a

lot of other places. Therefore, be prepared and start to build

appropriately in those areas is one of the changes. Thank you very much

for joining me live. Stay with us here, still to come: We meet the

real $6 million man. Although he probably did not cost that much, and

his name is Frank and he is the world's first bionic man.

Nearly 200 migrants have been rescued from the Mediterranean in

two separate operations. The Italian coastguard and the US Navy both

pulled people from the sea in rough conditions. Italy has increased the

size and scale of monitoring, particularly around the island of

Lampedusa after the deaths of more than 300 people just off the coast

couple of weeks ago. This coastguard cutter is in

Harborough right now, but she spends much of her time out at sea on the

hunt for those boat loaded with migrants that come up from the

Libyan or Tunisian coast, boats that our unseaworthy and overcrowded,

exactly the kind of vessels that were involved in those catastrophic

sinkings in recent weeks of these islands, thinking is that cost

hundreds of lives. Here on the bridge on the chart a desk you get a

sense of the sea area we are talking about. There is Sicily and here is

the post of Tunisia and that is Libya. That is Lampedusa island.

This coastguard cutter is looking to intercept in this area boat loaded

with migrants coming up mostly from Libya. When we intercept these

ships, that are in general little fishing vessels made of wood, or a

little rubber boats, if the situation is dangerous, we take

immediate action in order to keep these boats near to our ship. We

keep all the migrants on board our ship. When this coastguard vessel

finds a boat packed with migrants in need of rescue, it would normally

launch one of its rubber dinghies. Just imagine the scene. It might be

at night, the sea might be rough, there might be hundreds of migrants

desperate to be picked up, moving around in a chaotic way on an

already sinking boat. The moment of rescue is sometimes the most

dangerous. There could be a risk of capsize or migrants spilling into

the sea around the Dinky. This is BBC world News. The

headlines: one of the men suspected of carrying out last month's attack

on a shopping centre in Kenyan has been identified as a Norwegian

citizen. Meanwhile, two bodies found at the site may be those of

Al-Shabab terrorists. One man has died and dozens of homes

have been destroyed or damaged in the Australian state of New South

Wales. The fires are the worst in the state for ten years.

Imlay 's emergency workers have recovered at least 17 bodies on the

record -- wreckage of a plane which crashed into the Mekong River

earlier this week. The Lao Airlines plane went down in severe weather

and nobody is thought to have survived.

Beneath these murky waters lies much of the wreckage and many of the

bodies. Teams of divers and rescue crews scoured the vast waterway, but

the Mekong River is deep and the current is strong. TRANSLATION: I

think the diving will be difficult. It is a very fast flowing river from

the current. There is no hope of finding survivors now. There were 49

people on board and they came from all over the world. It is still not

clear what called the crash, but it is believed the plane ran into

strong winds before it struck the river and plunged into the water. It

was due to land just 70 kilometres away. For those who had relatives on

board the weight is excruciating. Some have gathered in a local hotel

waiting for news. This man was at the airport to meet his brother when

he heard a plane had gone down. TRANSLATION: I could not sleep at

all after I heard what happened. I am still very shocked. I advised him

not to come because of the heavy rain, but he still got the plane. A

makeshift morgue has been set up in the nearby temple, but most of the

bodies are thought to be submerged in the nearby waters, trapped under

the wreckage. Have you met Frank? He might not be

the $6 million man, but he is the closest thing so far to a real

bionic man. He is built entirely from synthetic versions of real body

parts. He has just gone on show in Washington.

Add more than six feet high, this is Frank, the most advanced bionic man

in the world here at Washington's DC Smithsonian Museum. He has

artificial body parts, including a parking at a pumping heart. Tell me

the purpose of Frank. It was to find out how far bionic technology has

come already. What happens if we get all of the spare parts for the human

body that exist today and put them together in one piece. This is what

it would have looked like. We have an artificial heart that is already

used on patients. That Palm is artificial blood that can give of

oxygen like real blood. We have the first prototype of an artificial

lung. The spleen for cleaning the blood, and an artificial kidney. How

close is this to a real human? It is still very far away from a real

human. Despite showing how far bionic technology has come, this

project also shows us how little advancements have been made in other

areas. We were unable to find a replacement for the brain, for

examples. The most advanced piece of software we found was very thick.

Frankie can actually talk as well. I am interviewing the world's first

bionic man. Frank, will there be a bionic woman? I hope so. A companion

would be great, but unfortunately I am missing a fewer important parts.

He has also got a sense of humour. Will there be a day when bionic

people replace humans? Currently all of my parts are supposed to benefit

humans, not replace them, but even robots have dreams. Thank you very

much, Frank. He is looking for a partner, so bionic woman on the

lookout. Does Frank ever have two sleep? Do you ask why do I have two

spent hours sleeping? Researchers in the US say they have identified one

of the fundamental reasons which is all to do with brain recovery.

Scientists at the University of Rochester say experiments on mice

suggest the brain uses sleep to flush out waste toxins which build

up when we are awake. One researcher said, our brains are like the hosts

at a party. They can either entertain the guests or clean up the

mess, but not both at the same time. Let's speak to Professor Russell

Foster from the University of Oxford. Let me put you what the

University of Rochester has said. This cleaning mechanism is like a

dishwasher. What does he mean? What he is talking about is the brain and

the body generally has to do lots of housekeeping functions. In this

recent paper from Rochester is a super study showing there is another

thing going on during sleep, and it is the clearance of toxins. Lots of

other things are going on, like memory and information processing.

If you want to come up with solutions to complex problems, a

night of sleep is shown to be incredibly important for that. This

is yet another import an example of lots of things going on during

sleep. Is it only about the brain? We are off-loading toxins when we

are snoring? Most of the emphasis has been on what has been going on

in the sleeping brain? But this is showing what has gone on in the

brain and the general circulation. It emphasises sleep is not just

something going on in the brain, but an entire body function. We have 30

seconds. Is it the question of the longer you sleep the more toxins you

get rid of through that dishwasher while you are in bed? It will

depend. During the first few hours is when you get rid of most of them

and after that it does not matter very much and something else is

going on. I suspect a lot of the clearance goes on during the first

few hours and after that it is less. But if you had a massive build up of

toxins, you will need a longer time to get rid of them and that might

change with age as well. That is a remarkable breakthrough. There have

been developments in Nairobi with two bodies found at the Westgate

shopping centre. He's the one that's going to present

us with the ten grand WHEN we win it.