:01:16. > :01:20.Welcome. International inspectors say all of Syria's known equipment
:01:21. > :01:29.needed to produce chemical weapons has been destroyed ahead of an
:01:30. > :01:31.international deadline. The Organisation for the Prohibition of
:01:32. > :01:46.Chemical Weapons has had teams of inspectors in Syria since the
:01:47. > :01:49.beginning of this month. They've been implementing the deal, brokered
:01:50. > :01:52.by Russia and the US after a chemical weapons attack on civilians
:01:53. > :01:56.on the outskirts of Damascus earlier this year. The OPCW says Syria can
:01:57. > :02:00.no longer make chemical weapons. We are there to verify that capability.
:02:01. > :02:08.As that as that capability that has been declared, we are assured that
:02:09. > :02:12.that has been destroyed. Syria's Deputy Foreign Minister has been
:02:13. > :02:19.speaking to our chief international correspondent, Lyse Doucet. We are
:02:20. > :02:23.co-operating with the OPCW. We are co-operating with the international
:02:24. > :02:29.community. We are happy that at least this is our contribution to a
:02:30. > :02:33.free Middle East from all weapons of mass destruction. Some say it has
:02:34. > :02:39.transformed you from a pariah to a partner? I hope those who have
:02:40. > :02:44.always thought of us negatively will change their mind and understand
:02:45. > :02:51.that Syria was, is and will be always a constructive partner in
:02:52. > :02:55.international affairs. The BBC's Jim Muir has been telling me what should
:02:56. > :03:00.happen next. The next stage in the process is getting rid of all the
:03:01. > :03:04.raw materials, the more than 1,000 tonnes of chemical precursors. That
:03:05. > :03:08.is a long and dangerous job that will take months and months, at
:03:09. > :03:13.least until the middle of next year is the target date. I think they are
:03:14. > :03:16.talking about targets, not deadlines for that, especially because if
:03:17. > :03:19.there are delays it may be for technical reasons rather than the
:03:20. > :03:34.Syrian government dragging its feet. All the signs seem to be that the
:03:35. > :03:38.OPCW is satisfied. They have had a lot of co-operation on the ground so
:03:39. > :03:41.far. The diplomatic efforts are continuing to try and bring an end
:03:42. > :03:48.to the whole civil war. Where are we now on that? Well, that is a really
:03:49. > :03:57.messy business. They had been touting the date of 23rd November
:03:58. > :04:02.for a meeting in Geneva, the Geneva II meeting. A lot of pressure has
:04:03. > :04:06.gone into that. It looks like the date will have to slide because,
:04:07. > :04:11.basically, the Syrian opposition is not at all in shape and it is very
:04:12. > :04:16.hard to see how they can produce a credible delegation that could
:04:17. > :04:20.deliver. Apart from anything else, all the bulk of the fighting forces
:04:21. > :04:24.on the ground are against negotiating with the regime unless
:04:25. > :04:30.there is a prior assurance that it will bring the end of Bashar
:04:31. > :04:33.al-Assad's regime which Damascus is not willing to give. There are
:04:34. > :04:40.doubts about whether the Russians would support that. So, a lot of
:04:41. > :04:43.preparation still needed. Meetings next week between the Russians and
:04:44. > :04:46.Americans and between the Syrian opposition within the Syrian
:04:47. > :04:52.opposition. But the outcome is far from clear. Jim Muir.
:04:53. > :04:59.All this month we've been looking at the problem of migration. Many
:05:00. > :05:03.coming from Syria across the Europe. Scenes like this one have become all
:05:04. > :05:07.too frequent in recent weeks. This is just the most recent of an almost
:05:08. > :05:10.daily occurrence - a boat of migrants being rescued by the
:05:11. > :05:13.Italian coastguard as they try to reach the island of Lampedusa. This
:05:14. > :05:17.year, tens of thousands of people have tried to illegally cross the
:05:18. > :05:22.Mediterranean to Europe. But not all of them are heading for Italy. Many
:05:23. > :05:26.of the refugees who are trying to escape the Syrian civil war head
:05:27. > :05:30.north to Turkey. Many stay in camps just across the border, but some
:05:31. > :05:33.move on. Those who have enough money, and are healthy enough,
:05:34. > :05:38.continue their journey through the country to Istanbul. And from there
:05:39. > :05:44.they try to reach Europe, making the often dangerous journey by boat to
:05:45. > :05:48.the Greek island of Lesvos. Mark Lowen is on that island now. It
:05:49. > :05:53.looks stunning where you are. But the people of that island and those
:05:54. > :06:02.coming across have both faced huge difficulties? Massive challenges
:06:03. > :06:09.here for the people in Lesvos, for the Greek coastguard and for the
:06:10. > :06:13.migrants who make that perilous crossing across the Turkish
:06:14. > :06:18.mainland. This is the harbour here. It is a beautiful sight to wake up
:06:19. > :06:22.to. You can see that cargo ferry across the harbour. That is
:06:23. > :06:27.preparing to leave for Athens. It is a nine-hour trip. As we move across,
:06:28. > :06:37.you can see some of the other gorgeous waterfront properties here.
:06:38. > :06:41.It looks like a Greek riviera. There are cafes, hotels, that
:06:42. > :06:45.opulent-looking pleasure boat, a speedboat over there. This is an
:06:46. > :06:49.island which is known for plenty of things. It is known for being the
:06:50. > :06:53.home of that favoured Greek tipple. It is known for its stunning natural
:06:54. > :06:58.beauty. It's also becoming known for another reason, for being one of the
:06:59. > :07:08.key frontiers for the European Union's migration challenge.
:07:09. > :07:12.The vast Agean. We are on patrol with the Greek coastguard off Lesvos
:07:13. > :07:16.island, combing the south-east border for illegal immigrants. It is
:07:17. > :07:21.a key gateway and a perilous journey, but numbers are rising. I
:07:22. > :07:28.hope and I will ask for more support from the EU member states but that
:07:29. > :07:31.doesn't mean that we are going to stop if this assistance doesn't
:07:32. > :07:36.come. We have to protect our country. We have to protect it from
:07:37. > :07:39.the criminal networks. It is a familiar scene - overcrowded boats
:07:40. > :07:45.docking here. They are the lucky ones who made it. Plenty don't. And
:07:46. > :07:50.Greece says Europe must do more. This year alone, almost 4,500
:07:51. > :07:54.migrants have tried to cross these waters into Lesvos. Since police
:07:55. > :08:04.increased controls on the land border with Turkey, it's now the
:08:05. > :08:08.island bearing the brunt. And Greece is struggling to cope with the
:08:09. > :08:14.influx. We weren't allowed inside the centre where the arrested are
:08:15. > :08:16.taken. Syrians are held briefly and then given six months stay in
:08:17. > :08:23.Greece. Others are detained for longer and must leave the country
:08:24. > :08:27.within a month. I feel desperate. I feel the same when they talk to us
:08:28. > :08:33.about the problems they have and they face in my country. I feel very
:08:34. > :08:37.angry because I believe we can change something and we don't. Most
:08:38. > :08:42.of them are like us. They are going away from a difficult situation and
:08:43. > :08:47.they just need to be supported. At an NGO camp, we met this Afghan
:08:48. > :08:53.mother and her children in their cramped room. She talks of hopes
:08:54. > :08:56.dashed, her husband arrested, a treacherous crossing as her youngest
:08:57. > :09:02.fell overboard. It wasn't worth it, she says. Europe wasn't worth it.
:09:03. > :09:07.Many drown on the way ending up here, only a few are identified.
:09:08. > :09:11.Before leaving for Europe, they had names and lives. Now, they are
:09:12. > :09:18.reduced to this. At the ferry to Athens, we met some young Syrians.
:09:19. > :09:25.They paid 1,300 euros each to get to Europe. My family doesn't want his
:09:26. > :09:37.son to die. So my family say go out, go out, go out from Syria. All they
:09:38. > :09:41.have is one bag and their dreams. How many more will follow in their
:09:42. > :09:46.wake before the tide of immigration is stemmed?
:09:47. > :09:49.Mark, very harrowing there to see that one woman who has lost her
:09:50. > :09:55.youngest child saying, of course, this journey wasn't worth it. What
:09:56. > :09:59.did she say about what she would have done differently and whether
:10:00. > :10:03.that message is ever going to get back to those who try to make the
:10:04. > :10:07.crossing? It is not in the interests of European governments to make this
:10:08. > :10:10.more humane, this process, is it? It is very interesting. I asked her
:10:11. > :10:14.that specific question. I said if you could go back to Afghanistan now
:10:15. > :10:18.and say to your friends and family who want to make the crossing over
:10:19. > :10:21.to the European Union, if you had a message, what would it be? She said
:10:22. > :10:26.it is not worth it. It is not worth the risk. There is a perception
:10:27. > :10:29.among people in these troubled hotspots of the world, in
:10:30. > :10:33.Afghanistan, in Syria, in other parts of the Middle East, that the
:10:34. > :10:37.European Union is a place of safety, it is a place where they will find
:10:38. > :10:41.opportunity and jobs. So often it is not. Of course, so often on the
:10:42. > :10:47.journey here that ends in tragedy. The Greek government is asking for
:10:48. > :10:51.more help for the national patrols, the national patrols here around the
:10:52. > :10:57.coast, but also for the EU's Border Agency which plays such a vital role
:10:58. > :11:00.in controlling and patrolling the European Union's external borders.
:11:01. > :11:05.As one official put it to me, when you are in a rich Northern European
:11:06. > :11:10.country like Germany, Finland or Austria, it is difficult to know
:11:11. > :11:13.what it is like when bodies are washing up on the shores of the
:11:14. > :11:20.European south. Thank you. Within the last few
:11:21. > :11:24.moments, the Governor of Niger has confirmed the bodies of 92 people
:11:25. > :11:28.have been recovered from the desert. Most of the victims were women and
:11:29. > :11:31.children. They are thought to have died from thirst after the trucks
:11:32. > :11:41.they were travelling in broke down. It is believed they were on their
:11:42. > :11:45.way to an Islamic school. With me is Elhadji Coulibaly from
:11:46. > :11:54.BBC Afrique. What's happened? These people were part of a group of 113
:11:55. > :11:59.people who set off from the northern town on 26th September and they were
:12:00. > :12:13.heading towards Algeria. One of the vehicles broke down, you know, about
:12:14. > :12:19.160 kilometres from the town they left. The migrants got off the
:12:20. > :12:25.vehicle and tried to go back for spares. On the way, the second
:12:26. > :12:28.vehicle as well broke down. So these people - basically, they were
:12:29. > :12:33.trapped in the desert. In the heat of the desert? Yes. They started
:12:34. > :12:44.looking - they ran out of water and they started looking for a well, you
:12:45. > :12:48.know. They split into groups and tried to go different directions to
:12:49. > :12:54.get a well. But, unfortunately, they couldn't manage to get a well and
:12:55. > :12:57.they died of thirst. It's been very difficult because people have found
:12:58. > :13:03.the decomposed bodies of children, many, many children. It is thought
:13:04. > :13:07.now that they were on their way to a school up to Algeria to join their
:13:08. > :13:17.families, possibly? I have spoken to one of the local Cowen counsellors
:13:18. > :13:22.who was part of the rescue -- local counsellors who was part of the
:13:23. > :13:29.rescue team. On the bodies they found copies of the Koran and some
:13:30. > :13:37.tablets where the children write on... Writing? Yes, so it looks like
:13:38. > :13:40.they are not economic migrants. They were heading towards Algeria to
:13:41. > :13:45.learn the Koran. Very, very sad. We will have to leave it there. Thank
:13:46. > :13:49.you very much for joining us. Stay with us.
:13:50. > :13:54.Much more to come. The US National Security Agency denies hacking
:13:55. > :13:58.internet giants Google and Yahoo. Plus after the monsoon, it is the
:13:59. > :14:08.wedding season in India as couples want that special day to also be
:14:09. > :14:13.auspicious. Wine lovers are facing the threat of
:14:14. > :14:16.global shortages. New research suggests that production last year
:14:17. > :14:21.dropped to its lowest level since the 1970s with demand outstripping
:14:22. > :14:26.supply by about three billion bottles.
:14:27. > :14:31.Could it be time for wine lovers to rethink their drink of choice? The
:14:32. > :14:35.US financial services firm Morgan Stanley has warned of a global wine
:14:36. > :14:40.shortage. They say it's the greatest shortfall since records began 40
:14:41. > :14:45.years ago. The problem is that production is falling and demand is
:14:46. > :14:51.rising. Global production reached its peak in 2004, supply outweighed
:14:52. > :14:54.demand by 600 million cases. Production has been steadily
:14:55. > :15:00.declining since then and last year, it dropped to its lowest levels in
:15:01. > :15:03.four decades. Demand exceeded supply by 300 million cases. That is
:15:04. > :15:05.roughly the same amount of wine as the whole of the UK drinks in two
:15:06. > :15:15.years. The fall can be loaned on poor
:15:16. > :15:27.weather in Europe, which produces 60% of the world's one. -- be
:15:28. > :15:33.blamed. Output from Newark producers had already peaked. But global
:15:34. > :15:38.demand is rising. The US and drive -- China are the large drivers of
:15:39. > :15:42.growth. Consumption in China has doubled in the past five years,
:15:43. > :15:47.twice. It is likely to become the world's biggest consumer by 2016.
:15:48. > :15:55.For now, France and the West consume the most. Italy and China followed.
:15:56. > :16:00.Then Germany, Russia and the UK. More people are drinking wine and
:16:01. > :16:04.asking the question, will prices rise? My guess is they will only go
:16:05. > :16:11.up marginally. The industry will respond. The weather is a factor. In
:16:12. > :16:19.the succeeding season, it is possible to prune, to irrigate, to
:16:20. > :16:23.fertilise and boost production. The report's authors predict that in the
:16:24. > :16:27.short term, consumption will be mostly supplied by previous
:16:28. > :16:32.vintages. But as consumption turns to the 2012 vintage, the shortfall
:16:33. > :16:37.could lead to higher prices. Reassurance of a sword for wine
:16:38. > :16:40.lovers, then. Prices will go up. But the industry is likely to do all it
:16:41. > :16:53.can to revenge shelves from going there. -- prevent shelves.
:16:54. > :16:57.This is BBC World News. The latest headlines: International inspectors
:16:58. > :16:59.say all of Syria's declared equipment to make chemical weapons
:17:00. > :17:02.has been destroyed. Another African migrant tragedy,
:17:03. > :17:11.this time in the Sahara Desert where 87 people died after their vehicles
:17:12. > :17:14.broke down. The US' National Security Agency has
:17:15. > :17:18.denied claims that it secretly broke into the links which connect Google
:17:19. > :17:20.and Yahoo data centres around the world. The claims, based on data
:17:21. > :17:24.from the fugitive intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, come in a
:17:25. > :17:27.report in the Washington Post. The agency says it is not authorised to
:17:28. > :17:31.go into a US company's servers and take data. It also told the United
:17:32. > :17:38.Nations that it doesn't spy on its communications and won't do so in
:17:39. > :17:41.the future. Tim Allman has more. Who America spies on and how
:17:42. > :17:46.continues to be a source of controversy. The latest accusations,
:17:47. > :17:50.published in the Washington Post, come from documents released by the
:17:51. > :17:57.NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden. This time, the alleged targets were
:17:58. > :18:03.internet giants Google and Yahoo. It is claimed the NSA secretly hacked
:18:04. > :18:06.into communication links, the fibre-optic cables connecting data
:18:07. > :18:10.centres, picking up millions of records, including text, audio and
:18:11. > :18:19.video. This information was then sifted in a programme called
:18:20. > :18:24.Muscular, run in conjunction with GCHQ. Crucially, the paper claims,
:18:25. > :18:31.the data was picked up outside the US, when restrictions on oversight
:18:32. > :18:36.are weaker. I can tell you factually we don't have access to Google
:18:37. > :18:43.servers, Yahoo servers we go to a court order. We issue the court
:18:44. > :18:47.order through the FBI. It is not millions, it is thousands of those
:18:48. > :18:50.that are done. It is almost all against terrorism and things like
:18:51. > :18:57.that. It has nothing to do with US persons. This follows claims the NSA
:18:58. > :19:03.intercepted phone calls by Angela Merkel and at least 35 otherworldly
:19:04. > :19:08.does. But at least one international body seems happy to accept that it
:19:09. > :19:13.is not being spied on. I can tell you that we were in touch with the
:19:14. > :19:18.US authorities. I understand that the US authorities had given
:19:19. > :19:27.assurances that the Ewing medications are not and will not be
:19:28. > :19:31.monitored. -- the UN communications. But the US insists it has to protect
:19:32. > :19:35.itself, striking the balance between privacy and liberty.
:19:36. > :19:53.Google has now released a statement. It said:
:19:54. > :19:57.Pakistan says far fewer civilians have been killed in US drone strikes
:19:58. > :20:00.than previously thought. Its Ministry of Defence has told an
:20:01. > :20:04.inquiry that civilians account for just 3% of those killed over the
:20:05. > :20:08.past five years. It said that since 2008, 67 civilians had died in US
:20:09. > :20:13.drone strikes. That's far less than other estimates suggest. And in the
:20:14. > :20:18.same period 2,160 militants were killed. They also said no civilian
:20:19. > :20:22.had died in a drone strike since the beginning of last year.
:20:23. > :20:31.With me in the studio is Shafi Naqi Jamie, who is from the BBC Urdu
:20:32. > :20:36.Service. This comes after the Washington Post revealed documents
:20:37. > :20:41.showing Pakistani government complicit in US drone strikes. Even
:20:42. > :20:50.Nawaz Sharif has gone to the US to say, please, stop. The secrecy
:20:51. > :20:55.behind it is creating more questions than satisfying people giving the
:20:56. > :21:00.answer. It does not make sense that those drone attacks can take place
:21:01. > :21:07.without some kind of tacit agreement some of understanding from the
:21:08. > :21:11.hierarchy of officials. Could be an intelligence agency, could be
:21:12. > :21:17.somewhere. The clarity is not there. Hence it is creating more confusion.
:21:18. > :21:22.What has been the reaction to these numbers coming out? The government
:21:23. > :21:28.is saying, look, the nub of civilians killed is less than
:21:29. > :21:34.previously said. -- the number. There are two numbers being crushed.
:21:35. > :21:39.There are deaths from drone attacks and the bomb blasts, suicide
:21:40. > :21:43.attacks. One must not confuse those numbers, actually. People are asking
:21:44. > :21:47.more and more questions. The figures you are telling now, are these ones
:21:48. > :21:55.correct or the ones you told us before? Things are getting heated in
:21:56. > :22:00.Parliament. And the opposition is not satisfied. The party in power is
:22:01. > :22:09.asking questions. Nobody seems to be getting a clear answer. Clearly,
:22:10. > :22:19.Pakistan is trying to, some people say, justify that involvement. That
:22:20. > :22:26.is one way to look at it. Again, it acts the question, why not... The
:22:27. > :22:32.generals are not telling the truth, they say. There is something which
:22:33. > :22:38.is not coming out. Unless they sit down and talk, the matter will still
:22:39. > :22:42.be there. The Foreign Office is making a statement protesting.
:22:43. > :22:49.Government is making a statement protesting. Apart from the protests,
:22:50. > :23:00.is there anyone who can suggest a suggestion -- solution?
:23:01. > :23:03.As the conduct of some of his leading newspaper executives comes
:23:04. > :23:06.under the spotlight here in the UK, the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has
:23:07. > :23:09.been giving a speech in Australia. He studiously avoided any mention of
:23:10. > :23:13.the criminal trial which has just begun here in London, which has seen
:23:14. > :23:16.two of his most senior editors accused of phone hacking. Instead,
:23:17. > :23:19.he used the annual Lowy Lecture in Sydney to sound a warning about a
:23:20. > :23:23.new, globally competitive middle class.
:23:24. > :23:27.The world around Australian business today is completely changed. Today
:23:28. > :23:36.it is the non-democracies who are the outliers. Australians no longer
:23:37. > :23:42.have to worry about people producing cheaper moccasins because of cheaper
:23:43. > :23:53.wages. They have to worry about people in Beijing and Bangalore
:23:54. > :23:56.beating us with breakthrough drugs. The end of the monsoon season has
:23:57. > :24:00.marked the beginning of the most anticipated part of the year in
:24:01. > :24:02.India - the great wedding season. On some days, which are considered
:24:03. > :24:05.particularly auspicious in the Hindu calendar, there could be more than
:24:06. > :24:09.20,000 wedding ceremonies taking place in one day in Delhi alone. So
:24:10. > :24:13.couples need all the help that they can get, and many of them are
:24:14. > :24:15.turning to the internet. From Delhi, Shilpa Kannan reports.
:24:16. > :24:17.No one does weddings like Indians. Rich or poor, families usually save
:24:18. > :24:22.all their lives for their children's wedding day. If there's
:24:23. > :24:27.one industry that is recession proof, it is this, the Indian
:24:28. > :24:33.wedding industry. It is estimated to be worth nearly and is growing at
:24:34. > :24:38.25% annually. With over 10 million weddings or more happening in India,
:24:39. > :24:42.it is a sector that has not really seen a slowdown. Getting ready for
:24:43. > :24:49.her big day, this lady has travelled all the way from Florida to Delhi to
:24:50. > :24:52.get married. Without access to the vast array of aunts and other
:24:53. > :24:57.relatives who helped with shopping and planning an event of this Dell,
:24:58. > :25:04.more and more young Indians are having to rely on the internet, she
:25:05. > :25:10.says. The key part of my wedding, might -- like my make up and
:25:11. > :25:20.photographer, I got it online. I spend a lot of time looking up the
:25:21. > :25:28.latest trends. Getting bridal-wear online takes -- this man is marrying
:25:29. > :25:36.the old and the new. His company is an online wedding planner. They can
:25:37. > :25:40.suggest where to shop and what to buy for the big day. Indians have
:25:41. > :25:50.always had big fat weddings. What has changed now? These days, a lot
:25:51. > :25:58.of couples are getting involved in wedding planning. I need to make the
:25:59. > :26:03.right decisions. -- they need. They look for the information online. We
:26:04. > :26:17.talk to them about the trends that are in season, helped them to assess
:26:18. > :26:19.their planning. So, while the celebrations had not change,
:26:20. > :26:33.technology and weddings seem to breed ringing -- to be training some
:26:34. > :26:36.sophistication to the industry. Hollywood stars may vow never to
:26:37. > :26:40.work with children or animals. But it seems the same misgivings do not
:26:41. > :26:43.trouble the Pope. A small boy made an unexpected appearance on stage
:26:44. > :26:47.with Pope Francis over the weekend, during a celebration of family day
:26:48. > :26:50.at the Vatican in St Peter's Square. He even tried out the papal chair.
:26:51. > :26:53.But Pope Francis didn't seem remotely ruffled by the small boy
:26:54. > :26:56.who threatened to steal the show. He carried on delivering his homily
:26:57. > :26:57.about the importance of grandparents. Thanks for being with
:26:58. > :26:58.us.