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Hello. This is BBC World News. The top stories. Blast off from the Bay | :00:07. | :00:15. | |
of Bengal. India has successfully launched its first mission to Mars. | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
Could the conflict rage, the world health organisation | :00:19. | :00:42. | |
warns that polio is spreading. It used to be polio free, and now in | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
the North East, an area torn by fighting, there is at least ten | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
confirmed cases. Welcome. India's first mission to | :00:50. | :01:14. | |
Mars is on its way, the orbiter mission successfully blasted off | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
just under an hour ago, from a launch pad near the city of Chennai | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
on the south-east coast. The tiny craft will orbit the earth first | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
which means it won't reach Mars for craft will orbit the earth first | :01:29. | :01:47. | |
would propel India ahead of China and Japan in the field of | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
interplanetary exploration, India has been criticised for spending on | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
a space programme when there are still millions of poor living on | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
less than a dollar a day. This particular mission has cost India | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
round $73 million, a small amount, the US spends ten times as much on | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
similar missions, India spends $1 billion a year and has 20 satellites | :02:18. | :02:25. | |
in orbit. It is very small percentage of its Government spend. | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
Our correspondent was at temperature launch pad. I asked whether there | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
was a sense of pride, given the success so far of this first Indian | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
Mars mission. That is right I think that | :02:40. | :02:57. | |
Mars mission. That is right I think programme, valuable in terms of what | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
it can be contribute towards India's space programme and towards India's | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
standing in the world. We were on air when the mission took off a | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
couple of ours ago. Within the first 44 minutes it began orbiting the | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
earth. Since then we have some of the senior Space Agency officials | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
coming from Mission Control, the head of the space organisation | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
coming to speak to the media. It is a moment of pride for him and his | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
scientists, he has been talking about whab a great moment what a | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
great moment it is for them. It's the start of a critical mission, the | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
probe, the or bitter will circle theeth ral times, before it begins | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
that lengthy journey towards Mars. theeth ral times, before it begins | :03:45. | :04:09. | |
try to resolve its grievances through diplomatic means. | :04:10. | :04:18. | |
With me is a representative from the BBC Great Lakes Service. You have | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
spoken to some of these rebels just yesterday, was this expected this | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
strament today? You could tell he was expect, although they were | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
saying they want an political end to the situation, and also a saying | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
they don't want to carry on fighting, so you could sense that | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
something, you know, like this would come up. Can you just explain for | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
those who are not familiar with this, what this dispute has been | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
about and whether this is seen as an end to the tart of -- part of the | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
conflict. The M23, it is a group that came | :04:59. | :05:17. | |
They say they defend the two minorities of eastern Congressional, | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
and they said they have been persecuted and they wanted the right | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
to be respected are. They want also to take part in the Government, take | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
part in the army, so they have, that is what they have been claiming. | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
When you speak to them, can you describe how this group has | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
operated? Do they have the discipline now to carry out a | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
cessation? This was quite well-organised. To, if they can | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
carry out it, it is hard to tell, from now we don't know where they | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
are, some say they have crossed over to Rwanda and Uganda or disappeared | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
The forest. But -- disappearing in the forest. It is difficult to see | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
how they would the forest. It is difficult to see | :06:09. | :06:32. | |
in the DRC affects so many countries thought Africa. Why is that? Why | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
does it matter so much? Well this is a very rich area of the Congress, of | :06:40. | :06:48. | |
the region. Rich in minerals? And diamonds. Experts say everyone wants | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
to have a piece of evidence. That is one reason. The other reason there | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
are some of the ethnic groups you find them in Rwanda. They share some | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
languages. There is this feeling of belonging to, you know, each | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
community, so it is not treant to see these having to be involved. | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
Thank you very much. Now, the UN has warned of | :07:19. | :07:38. | |
Thank you very much. of the few journalists reporting | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
inside Syria. You are in dam cut, what is the latest you are finding. | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
This is a humanitarian crisis that affects all of Syria, even here in | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
the capital. Particularly in the suburbs there have brch | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
malnutrition, even, that is because all of the areas are caught up in | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
this worsening war, the war is a deepening humanitarian crisis, that | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
is why aid agencies have been calling on the Government, calling | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
on the opposition, to allow food medical aid, to reach people where | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
ever they are and this concerns the very urgent issue of immunisation, | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
we have been looking at the cases of polio, Syria was polio free since | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
1999. It prided itself on its relatively good health care system, | :08:30. | :08:30. | |
now it relatively good health care system, | :08:31. | :08:49. | |
every day fleeing the war there is a risk it will spread to neighbouring | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
countries. Two drops and many tears. Protecting against polio, one of the | :08:56. | :09:04. | |
most devastating childhood diseases. This clinic is packed with parents. | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
This woman has brought her daughters. I feel sad for the | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
children who got polio she tells me, thank good we have the vaccines | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
here. This This centre has some of the best healthcare in Syria. The | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
families now it is safe to bring their children. It is not the same | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
across the rest of the country. Syria used to be polio free since | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
the late 90s f, in the North East, there is at least ten confirmed | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
cases and fears there could be more. Some of those cases were brought | :09:39. | :09:40. | |
here to the Children's Hospital in progress. | :09:41. | :10:05. | |
TRANSLATION: It's a sudden Des with flu-like symptom, children become | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
paralysed in one or two leg, I think is a huge challenge, I will fight | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
until there is no more polio in Syria. It is hard to fight this | :10:13. | :10:19. | |
disease in the middle of war. Aid agencies say 500,000 children need | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
to be vaccinated urgently. Sometimes it is difficult to implement the | :10:26. | :10:33. | |
door-to-door Sam nation. The campaign should be very short and | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
very wide, and this is the reason problem that we are facing, we don't | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
have access to all the high risk areas. Under growing pressure | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
Syria's deputy Foreign Minister called in the press to highlight the | :10:49. | :10:49. | |
crisis. Syria is called in the press to highlight the | :10:50. | :11:11. | |
with armed group, terrorist groups, we believe they have to accept that | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
this medicine should reach each child. Usually we are ask the United | :11:19. | :11:26. | |
Nations organisations in Syria to make the necessary contacts. We | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
shall help in this direction. To protect the children aid agencies | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
are calling on sides to ceasefire. The expedition has accused the | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
Government of blocking air to areas under their control. This disease | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
spreads fast and with thousands of Sirrials crossing borders to escape | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
the war, polio threatens not just Syria. | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
That is why imnation campaigns are being stepped up | :12:00. | :12:18. | |
That is why imnation campaigns are he said one single case of polio | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
should be of concern to the entire world, the goal is to eradicate the | :12:22. | :12:29. | |
world by 18 hundred. There are fears there will be many more. | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
Thank you. Now, talks which it is hopes will | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
open the way for full piece negotiations between the warring | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
factions in Syria have begun gun today in Jieh o Geneva, the meeting | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
has been delayed several times because of who should attend. Some | :12:54. | :13:04. | |
groups will insist they won't take part in. We immediate the bright | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
sparks trying to meet people's resources last longer. | :13:10. | :13:11. | |
sparks trying to meet people's points have been concerns over | :13:12. | :13:31. | |
Turkey's record on human rights and a ter for yacht dispute over Cyprus. | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
But reports have praised Turkey for carrying out judicial reforms. At a | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
meeting in Lithuania EU Foreign Ministers search for place, but | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
there is no name card for Turkey. The country is still waiting on the | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
outside. In 1987 Turkey applied to join what | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
was then the European economic community, formal access talks only | :14:01. | :14:08. | |
began in 2005. They have not made much progress. Tur dice Prime | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
Minister says he expects his country to get in by the time it celebrate | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
in 1922. If not they may give up the to get in by the time it celebrate | :14:19. | :14:40. | |
economically but for the develop. Of democracy they are an obvious choice | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
to pick. I don't believe we need to join the | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
European, they are afraid the turkey youths will go to Europe and | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
increase Nair unemployment figures but we have raised an edge cased | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
young generation. In June this year if country faced danger a at home. | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
The Government confronted demonstrators in a series of mass | :15:04. | :15:11. | |
protects. A recent report criticised the Turkish authorities for uses | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
excessive force. Turkey defended its actions. | :15:17. | :15:27. | |
On Sunday, its forces faced Kurdish protesters on the border with Syria. | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
Some in Europe don't like the idea of sharing | :15:32. | :15:52. | |
This is BBC World News. The headlines: India has launched its | :15:53. | :16:01. | |
first-ever mission to Mars. A rocket carrying a scientific probe blasted | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
off from a space port in the Bay of Bengal and is now orbiting the | :16:06. | :16:06. | |
earth. Rebels in the Democratic Republic of | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
Congo announce an end to their insurgency. They say they'll disarm | :16:11. | :16:12. | |
and demobilise after being driven out of their strongholds by | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
government troops More than 150 soldiers have been sentenced to | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
death in Bangladesh following a mutiny four years ago. | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
In all, more than 800 people faced charges in connection with the | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
mutiny. During a two-day uprising in 2009, 70 people were killed | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
including senior officers. Their bodies were dumped in shallow graves | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
and sewers. With me now is BBC Bengali editor | :16:39. | :16:40. | |
Sabir Mustafa. With me now is BBC Bengali editor | :16:41. | :17:05. | |
A soldiers have sentenced to death. -- 152 soldiers have been sentenced | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
to death. 57 were army officers, including a major general. There | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
will be tremendous pressure on the government to ensure that the | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
sentences are carried out, and the military will not be resting easy | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
until they see the sentences carried out, because they would fear that, | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
unless the sentences are carried out, it won't send the kind of | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
message they want to send to any future mutiny people. These life | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
sentences, and quite a few people released without charge. 277 have | :17:37. | :17:45. | |
been acquitted. What was the reason behind the mission? Four years ago, | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
February 25, when the mutiny broke, there was quite | :17:51. | :18:10. | |
February 25, when the mutiny broke, They always complained that the army | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
officers treated them badly, some were corrupt and engaged in corrupt | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
practices, so they wanted changes in the force. That triggered the | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
mutiny, but what caused the killing spree? That remains a mystery. Some | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
people think it just got out of hand, because they ended up killing | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
the chief of the force, and it's spiralled out of control after that. | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
It was not like you to need any more, it was like a killing spree, | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
the public just see it as a killing spree -- it was not like mutiny any | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
more. The causes of the mutiny just went into the background. There is | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
hardly any discussion. What is the politics of this? The mutiny | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
happened within one month of a new government taking over, and it | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
almost derailed the government. There | :19:03. | :19:19. | |
almost derailed the government. within the camp. Many complained | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
that some leaders of the ruling party might have been in the know, | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
so there is a political angle. Although the military would express | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
satisfaction at the sentencing, particularly the large number of | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
death sentences, there is a fear that some people in the military... | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
People who conspired, if there are is a conspiracy, people have not | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
been exposed through the trials. The bodies of two French journalists | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
shot dead on Saturday in northern Mali have arrived back in France. | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
The French president joined family members at the airport in Paris to | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
meet the reply treated bodies. The journalists were kidnapped after an | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
interview with a group leader. Their bodies were later found on a road. | :20:10. | :20:30. | |
interview with a group leader. Their energy-saving message with them. | :20:31. | :20:38. | |
Singapore is a nation of neon lights and air conditioning, it is a | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
similar story in the more developed cities across the region. Making | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
sure energy is used wisely is a priority, but how do you convince | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
the locals to conserve resources? One US -based software company says | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
it has found the answer, by comparing people pits energy | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
consumption to that of their neighbours. It is a method it is | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
about to try in Asia. When you first login, you come to the dashboard. | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
These are some of the key pieces, we show your energy use compared to | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
your neighbours. They can see their neighbours are. These homes are | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
nearby, similar sized. So you see what everyone in your | :21:23. | :21:40. | |
nearby, similar sized. So you see is it shaming? I don't mind the word | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
shaming, but it really isn't. Behavioural psychologists call it | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
peer proof. High-density living creates challenges, but in Singapore | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
pits housing estates, Dan sees huge opportunities. You see some people | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
with air-conditioners and the windows open, you can see the air | :22:01. | :22:02. | |
conditioner running. That is not good. This business is employed by | :22:03. | :22:11. | |
the energy provider, which hands over their customer lists. It is a | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
massive trend across the globe, utilities in partnership with | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
regulators getting paid to save energy. It is unusual, it is | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
counterintuitive for a utility company to try to reduce the bills | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
of company to try to reduce the bills | :22:34. | :22:50. | |
meet demand. In essence, OPOWER uses behavioural science, telling you how | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
much you are paying compared to the neighbours. Something to ponder next | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
time you leave the lights on when nobody is home. | :23:00. | :23:07. | |
Some of the images coming out of Egypt recently haven't made for | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
pretty viewing - especially for photographer Amr Mounib. After 35 | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
years, he returned to the place he once called home and found a | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
paradise lost. Now the Egyptian-American is using his | :23:17. | :23:18. | |
happier childhood memories as a source of inspiration. This is his | :23:19. | :23:20. | |
story. I have experienced Egypt in its | :23:21. | :23:38. | |
golden days, as a child. I remember flowers were ample everywhere, fruit | :23:39. | :23:39. | |
trees. This is the land of milk flowers were ample everywhere, fruit | :23:40. | :24:01. | |
artist. I work in the United States and Egypt, Robert Lee in Cyprus as | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
well, too. What drove me to get involved in the visual media and | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
photography was really being exposed by my grandmother, and my father 's | :24:13. | :24:25. | |
influence in Egyptian television. My grandfather was the first producer, | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
actor and director in silent movies. When you grow up in a beautiful | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
country like the United States, where you have rule of law, | :24:33. | :24:40. | |
technology, education, freedom to do things, in 2007, when I went back to | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
my roots, things were not as I expected. When it comes to Egypt, I | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
was saddened, to see the degradation happening over a long period of | :24:52. | :24:52. | |
time. happening over a long period of | :24:53. | :25:12. | |
could see the frustration of the local Egyptians. It was limiting, I | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
was approach many times, why are you taking pictures? Who are you using | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
it for? You need to get permission to photograph, things like that, it | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
is a struggle just to get an image out. The first victim of the first | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
revolution was an Egyptian artist. He would have been a rising star as | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
a contemporary artist, but a bullet took him away. I have motivation to | :25:37. | :25:44. | |
go and join my brothers and sisters - and not a flag, not a country, | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
humanity was crying for justice. I went to Tahrir Square three times, I | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
did not go in deep, because once you go there you do not collide for | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
three or four days. You can hear the chanting the cry of humanity, asking | :25:59. | :26:01. | |
for dignity, asking chanting the cry of humanity, asking | :26:02. | :26:21. | |
but not Vernon Maynard. He marked his centenary birthday on Monday by | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
doing something he'd never done before - skydiving. The retired car | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
dealer needed a doctor's note before he was given the go ahead, but after | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
the all-clear Mr Maynard made the jump over California with his two | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
great nephews and trained instructors from a height of 13,000 | :26:37. | :26:45. | |
feet. Maynard's daughter Linda Hironimus says her father's friends | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
made arrangements for him to skydive after he said he always wanted to | :26:49. | :26:56. | |
try it. Well done to him! That's its | :26:57. | :26:58. | |
promise. See you soon. | :26:59. | :27:02. |