:00:00. > :00:00.Hello. This is BBC world News. Our top stories: Rescue workers in the
:00:00. > :00:00.Philippines struggle to reach towns and villages destroyed by the
:00:00. > :00:13.typhoon that has killed at least 10,000 people. 2.5 million are said
:00:14. > :00:23.to be in desperate need of food. We are so very hungry and thirsty. Even
:00:24. > :00:32.if is so, if you have water of food there, maybe you can give us.
:00:33. > :00:36.Struggle to treat the injured - how aid agencies are warning of the
:00:37. > :00:40.threat of disease among the hundreds of thousands left homeless.
:00:41. > :00:59.A new warning from Iran's Foreign Minister
:01:00. > :01:03.A new warning from Iran's Foreign of a soldier who receives extra
:01:04. > :01:21.attention today, even though he didn't die in battle.
:01:22. > :01:28.Absolute Butland - that is how the head of the Red Cross has described
:01:29. > :01:31.the situation in the Philippines. -- absolute bedlam. 4 million people
:01:32. > :01:37.have been affected by Typhoon Haiyan. People are struggling to
:01:38. > :01:40.survive now without food, shelter or clean drinking water. A huge
:01:41. > :01:45.international relief effort is under way, but there are real challenges,
:01:46. > :01:49.including bad weather, destroyed infrastructure and roads covered
:01:50. > :01:52.with wreckage. One of the worst hit areas is the city of Tacloban, where
:01:53. > :02:12.10,000 of bodies rotting by the roadside.
:02:13. > :02:17.Three days after the typhoon struck, there is nobody to bury them. Among
:02:18. > :02:22.the debris at the city's airport, a makeshift hospital. Many of the
:02:23. > :02:32.patients are being treated without anaesthetic. This woman has just
:02:33. > :02:41.given birth. A baby girl. Born into a world upturned. Next to them,
:02:42. > :02:46.another young woman, also in Labour. People waiting here are desperate to
:02:47. > :02:52.get out, on any plane they can find. This is my dad's only chance for
:02:53. > :02:58.life. I said, either we have to leave tomorrow morning, today, or we
:02:59. > :03:00.will have to go somewhere else. He needs dialysis, and he has been off
:03:01. > :03:20.now for two days, needs dialysis, and he has been off
:03:21. > :03:27.thirsty. That is why we are here. Because even it is so - if you have
:03:28. > :03:33.water or food there, maybe you can give us. But they are not being
:03:34. > :03:38.given enough. This used to be a supermarket. People who have nothing
:03:39. > :03:48.are looking for anything they can find. Without more aid, what little
:03:49. > :03:54.there is will run out soon. Well, another of our correspondence
:03:55. > :03:59.in the Philippines is on the line now from Cebu Island. Just explain
:04:00. > :04:06.where you are, and what is happening where you are.
:04:07. > :04:08.Cebu Island is an island to the west of where that report was from. It
:04:09. > :04:28.was in the path of the storm that of where that report was from. It
:04:29. > :04:35.that even on the fringes, many miles away from where the storm hit, the
:04:36. > :04:40.impact has been quite dramatic. Everywhere along the main road, as
:04:41. > :04:45.you come north, we have seen houses that have been crushed, trees that
:04:46. > :04:51.have come down. People are making fires for light, because all the
:04:52. > :04:56.power is down in this whole area. There are a few slivers of light
:04:57. > :05:00.around, which come from a few generators that people are running.
:05:01. > :05:05.People are sitting outside their houses. They have had a couple of
:05:06. > :05:10.days since the storm passed. They have piled up rubbish and rubble,
:05:11. > :05:14.and they are trying to repair their wooden houses, trying to get some
:05:15. > :05:16.kind of cover over their heads. At the moment, you can see the glow of
:05:17. > :05:40.fires. I am in an area of concrete fires. I am in an area of concrete
:05:41. > :05:44.in the morning, and we keep going on that road north, the picture is
:05:45. > :05:50.going to get worse and worse, I fear. Further north, by the coast,
:05:51. > :05:55.we are more likely to see the effects of the swell, the tide, the
:05:56. > :06:01.water that came in, that was forced in by the storm as well as the wind.
:06:02. > :06:04.I fear that the problems there are going to be far worse than the
:06:05. > :06:09.situation we are at the moment. In terms of the people, they are lucky
:06:10. > :06:13.here in the sense that the road is pretty clear. We had a clear run as
:06:14. > :06:18.far as we could come, and we have seen, throughout the afternoon, us
:06:19. > :06:24.after bus after bus packed with people, many of them standing, going
:06:25. > :06:30.down south. They have a way out. They can go down to Cebu city, where
:06:31. > :06:47.we flew into. It is the normal functioning
:06:48. > :06:50.we flew into. It is the normal long it is going to take to come
:06:51. > :06:57.back to the area. How long it will be before this part of the
:06:58. > :07:02.Philippines is liveable. We can now speak to Kevin Vaccva, north of
:07:03. > :07:07.where our correspondent was. He is an American missionary who has been
:07:08. > :07:11.the beaming the area for some 14 years. After the storm struck, he
:07:12. > :07:15.and his wife loaded up their car with supplies and drove to the worst
:07:16. > :07:19.affected part of the island, its northern tip. Thank you for joining
:07:20. > :07:28.us. Tell us about what you have seen. We were the first ones to
:07:29. > :07:34.arrive on the very northern tip of the island. We cleared the road as
:07:35. > :07:36.we went, literally. It took us nine hours to make the two-hour drive. We
:07:37. > :08:01.were the first no roofs. Every house has no roof.
:08:02. > :08:05.In many places, there's only a foundation, and mattresses and trees
:08:06. > :08:11.and couches in fields where there were 20 houses. Now there is nothing
:08:12. > :08:16.but clothes and furniture. What about the people there? How many
:08:17. > :08:23.people were living there? I would say, in Maya79 there's about 3000
:08:24. > :08:35.people that live there. But in northern Cebu, there's about 75,000
:08:36. > :08:39.people, so in the area I would guess about 75,000 have lost their homes.
:08:40. > :08:46.The government said my guess was probably quite accurate. Can you
:08:47. > :08:48.give us an idea about your deliveries to the area? I gather you
:08:49. > :09:08.have been trying to give people deliveries to the area? I gather you
:09:09. > :09:12.again to Maya. Thousands of people along the highway are squeezing the
:09:13. > :09:17.highway, and begging. I think it is a very dangerous situation that
:09:18. > :09:22.could erupt. The poor people don't have... You can get water if you
:09:23. > :09:27.have money, but of course, they have lost everything, so they can't go to
:09:28. > :09:39.the water company or the water store and buy water. So it is a situation
:09:40. > :09:43.here. I know we are having a big problem with looting, and it could
:09:44. > :09:47.happen here too. The looting is just being done by ordinary people, just
:09:48. > :09:54.to literally get food and water? Yes. I just heard from our press
:09:55. > :09:57.betray, who lives in Tacloban. They were going to take a ship over
:09:58. > :10:22.tonight with were going to take a ship over
:10:23. > :10:26.relief food. Kevin Vaccva, thank you very much indeed for talking to us.
:10:27. > :10:33.If you want to find out more, you can on our website.
:10:34. > :10:40.Let's get some of the rest of the day's news. The degrees -- the
:10:41. > :10:44.disgraced American fighters, Lance Armstrong, has warned that delving
:10:45. > :10:50.into the history of doping is not good. He was speaking to the BBC in
:10:51. > :10:53.his first broadcast interview since admitting using performance
:10:54. > :10:58.enhancing drugs during all seven of his Tour De France wins. He vowed to
:10:59. > :11:03.testify with transparency and honesty at any future" read into
:11:04. > :11:06.doping. Let's speak to our correspondent who got that interview
:11:07. > :11:29.with Lance Armstrong. after all those years of denials
:11:30. > :11:33.that he had used performance enhancing drugs. When I say he was
:11:34. > :11:38.trying to get back onto the front foot, anybody who remembers Lance
:11:39. > :11:44.Armstrong and his time when he did win those seven record back-to-back
:11:45. > :11:48.Tour De France that trees, he was the alpha male. He was the
:11:49. > :11:56.pugilistic one. This was him saying, look, when it was a sordid time in
:11:57. > :12:00.cycling, an awful lot of people were doping. He says for him to be
:12:01. > :12:06.singled out more than anybody else was unfair. He said that this year
:12:07. > :12:13.has been hugely torrid. It has been tough. It has been real tough. I
:12:14. > :12:19.have paid a heavy price, both in terms of my standing in the sport,
:12:20. > :12:19.my reputation, I have certainly played
:12:20. > :12:38.my reputation, I have certainly capitalised on this story. Does it
:12:39. > :12:44.seem that he has accepted the penalty he has been given? He says
:12:45. > :12:51.that it is for others to decide how far he should suffer. But what he
:12:52. > :12:57.believes is that everybody should get it in the neck the same.
:12:58. > :13:01.Interestingly, in a way, he has had some sort of indirect sport from the
:13:02. > :13:05.new boss of world cycling, who has taken over the world governing
:13:06. > :13:12.body. He says that perhaps Armstrong has suffered more than others, and
:13:13. > :13:17.perhaps that is his way, Brian Cookson's way, of getting Lance
:13:18. > :13:22.Armstrong to come and testify before a future commission of enquiry.
:13:23. > :13:27.Lance Armstrong's message is clear - I will take my punishment if
:13:28. > :13:29.everybody else does. If everybody gets the death penalty, we all
:13:30. > :13:55.everybody else does. If everybody level. What does the future hold for
:13:56. > :14:00.him now? My guess is, when all is this commission of enquiry is set up
:14:01. > :14:07.by the world governing body into that bark period for cycling, back
:14:08. > :14:12.in the 90s and the start of this millennium, gets going, Lance
:14:13. > :14:16.Armstrong will testify. I am guessing, but I think that at some
:14:17. > :14:23.point in the future perhaps he will be able to compete again in what he
:14:24. > :14:27.was hoping to move into, and that is the triathlon. Lance Armstrong is
:14:28. > :14:35.hoping that he does, in some way, have a future in sport. Thank you.
:14:36. > :14:37.Still to come, why do the Chinese flock to Cambridge? It isn't just
:14:38. > :14:56.for a flock to Cambridge? It isn't just
:14:57. > :14:59.euros from its EU partners and the IMF. The country, known as the
:15:00. > :15:02.Celtic Tiger, saw unemployment soar and productivity collapse. Now
:15:03. > :15:08.Ireland is on the verge of exiting the bailout and things are looking
:15:09. > :15:12.up. Joe Lynam broke the story of the bailout in 2010. Now he's returned
:15:13. > :15:16.to see how the Irish have been coping. Counting down to the opening
:15:17. > :15:22.of the NASDAQ stock exchange remotely from Dublin. They are also
:15:23. > :15:27.counting down here to Ireland's formal exit from the bailout
:15:28. > :15:37.programme they are willingly joined three years ago. Welcome to Dublin,
:15:38. > :15:47.welcome to Ireland, the new capital... When the Celtic Tiger
:15:48. > :16:05.collapse, capital... When the Celtic Tiger
:16:06. > :16:11.also talent. The challenge is keeping that talent in this country
:16:12. > :16:17.and not emigrating. With emigration running at a jaw-dropping 1000 young
:16:18. > :16:29.and educated people every week, the damage could be huge. How do you
:16:30. > :16:34.respond to hard times? You respond by going, by getting out and trying
:16:35. > :16:47.to survive on an individual basis. Though she would like to, Mandy
:16:48. > :16:54.would like to emigrate, but cannot while her children are young. We
:16:55. > :17:22.shop in discount supermarkets, we don't go to the cinema any more,
:17:23. > :17:30.This is BBC World News. The top story this hour: Millions of people
:17:31. > :17:33.have been affected by the typhoon in the Philippines. Hundreds of
:17:34. > :17:47.thousands are homeless, more than 10,000 have died. Tensions between
:17:48. > :18:23.Shia and Sunni Muslims are probably the most serious in the Muslim
:18:24. > :18:28.Shia and Sunni Muslims are probably important problem we face, and I
:18:29. > :18:32.believe we can work with everybody individually, with Saudi Arabia,
:18:33. > :18:40.with countries in the Persian Gulf, with Egypt and others in order to
:18:41. > :18:49.contain this because some people have fanned the animosity for short
:18:50. > :18:59.sighted political interests. The Saudis? I am talking about
:19:00. > :19:03.countries... This business of fear mongering has been prevalent
:19:04. > :19:08.business. We need to understand that sectarian divide in the Islamic
:19:09. > :19:12.world is a threat and nobody can benefit from it. Nobody should try
:19:13. > :19:15.to fan the flames of sectarian violence. I
:19:16. > :19:36.to fan the flames of sectarian talks on Iran 's nuclear programme
:19:37. > :19:41.ended without agreement. The American Secretary of State said
:19:42. > :19:46.Iran backed out of a deal during talks in Geneva. There was unity but
:19:47. > :19:50.Iran could not take it, they were not able to accept that particular
:19:51. > :20:02.deal, so hard work was done, progress was made, there is a gap
:20:03. > :20:06.still between what language may be appropriate that they are prepared
:20:07. > :20:12.to accept, but the concept we are all working on, we have absolute
:20:13. > :20:20.unity on. Just to let you know, there are separate talks going on
:20:21. > :20:23.with the IAEA and Iran and there is some new agreement unblocking months
:20:24. > :20:25.of stalemate, where Iran has agreed to provide information
:20:26. > :20:46.member of the hat carny network, the militant group linked to the
:20:47. > :21:20.Taliban, has been shot dead in Islamabad. Reports say Nasiruddin
:21:21. > :21:24.Haqqani was attacked by gunmen. He was on America's list of "global
:21:25. > :21:35.terrorists" and was said to be the Haqqani network's chief financier.
:21:36. > :21:53.It is very active in Afghanistan, and it
:21:54. > :21:56.It is very active in Afghanistan, that Haqqani are supported by parts
:21:57. > :22:02.of the Pakistani government so this is interesting. Who was it that has
:22:03. > :22:10.been taken out today? Some American officials have said this frequently,
:22:11. > :22:23.that the Haqqani network has supporters inside Pakistan, but some
:22:24. > :22:26.sources have said that Nasiruddin Haqqani was not an active fighter
:22:27. > :22:31.himself. They say that he was looking after the family so
:22:32. > :22:43.apparently the family was living near Islamabad. Isn't it interesting
:22:44. > :23:01.the Haqqanis are living again in the heart of the
:23:02. > :23:05.the Haqqanis are living again in the It is said that he was travelling to
:23:06. > :23:12.Arab countries to get some money from donors, private donors, because
:23:13. > :23:20.his father Harold two wives and one of the wives is an Arab so they have
:23:21. > :23:27.links with Arabs in the Gulf region. His father lost three sons over the
:23:28. > :23:31.past decade, two of his brothers were killed in drone attacks in the
:23:32. > :23:37.last ten years, but he was an important figure in the overall
:23:38. > :23:42.Haqqani network and this is a blow to their network. They are very much
:23:43. > :23:52.on a wanted list by the United States. Thank you for explaining
:23:53. > :23:53.that. When Chinese tourists flood into the English city of
:23:54. > :24:13."Saying Goodbye To Cambridge Again" is taught in every single primary
:24:14. > :24:19.school in China - as Mike Cartwright has been finding out. This student
:24:20. > :24:25.showed me what is at the top of their list on their visit here. On
:24:26. > :24:42.the top of this bridge, a piece of Chinese cultural history. This
:24:43. > :24:52.means, I am living like a gentleman come. Written by China's poet, he
:24:53. > :25:24.went on to become an icon. When I am come. Written by China's poet, he
:25:25. > :25:34.swelled. Mandarin now common for them, they know the importance of
:25:35. > :25:40.this poet here. I always try to save properly, it doesn't always go down
:25:41. > :25:47.perfectly, but the excitement that comes from seeing the bridge is
:25:48. > :25:55.beautiful. On a rainy day in November, people from China have
:25:56. > :26:00.filled every boat. Because we know the history and the story of Xu
:26:01. > :26:08.Zhimo, people come here to experience that. The Chinese market
:26:09. > :26:11.is growing, currently about 350,000 Chinese visitors come to Britain,
:26:12. > :26:33.and that is predicted to Chinese visitors come to Britain,
:26:34. > :26:38.is to leave here. Just to remind you of our top story: In the
:26:39. > :26:42.Philippines, thousands of survivors of a powerful typhoon have been
:26:43. > :26:46.clambering through the remains of their homes pleading for food and
:26:47. > :26:48.medicine. Thank you for watching. I