11/11/2013 BBC World News

Hello. This is BBC world News. Our top stories: Rescue workers in the

Philippines struggle to reach towns and villages destroyed by the

typhoon that has killed at least 10,000 people. 2.5 million are said

to be in desperate need of food. We are so very hungry and thirsty. Even

if is so, if you have water of food there, maybe you can give us.

Struggle to treat the injured - how aid agencies are warning of the

threat of disease among the hundreds of thousands left homeless.

A new warning from Iran's Foreign Minister

A new warning from Iran's Foreign of a soldier who receives extra

attention today, even though he didn't die in battle.

Absolute Butland - that is how the head of the Red Cross has described

the situation in the Philippines. -- absolute bedlam. 4 million people

have been affected by Typhoon Haiyan. People are struggling to

survive now without food, shelter or clean drinking water. A huge

international relief effort is under way, but there are real challenges,

including bad weather, destroyed infrastructure and roads covered

with wreckage. One of the worst hit areas is the city of Tacloban, where

10,000 of bodies rotting by the roadside.

Three days after the typhoon struck, there is nobody to bury them. Among

the debris at the city's airport, a makeshift hospital. Many of the

patients are being treated without anaesthetic. This woman has just

given birth. A baby girl. Born into a world upturned. Next to them,

another young woman, also in Labour. People waiting here are desperate to

get out, on any plane they can find. This is my dad's only chance for

life. I said, either we have to leave tomorrow morning, today, or we

will have to go somewhere else. He needs dialysis, and he has been off

now for two days, needs dialysis, and he has been off

thirsty. That is why we are here. Because even it is so - if you have

water or food there, maybe you can give us. But they are not being

given enough. This used to be a supermarket. People who have nothing

are looking for anything they can find. Without more aid, what little

there is will run out soon. Well, another of our correspondence

in the Philippines is on the line now from Cebu Island. Just explain

where you are, and what is happening where you are.

Cebu Island is an island to the west of where that report was from. It

was in the path of the storm that of where that report was from. It

that even on the fringes, many miles away from where the storm hit, the

impact has been quite dramatic. Everywhere along the main road, as

you come north, we have seen houses that have been crushed, trees that

have come down. People are making fires for light, because all the

power is down in this whole area. There are a few slivers of light

around, which come from a few generators that people are running.

People are sitting outside their houses. They have had a couple of

days since the storm passed. They have piled up rubbish and rubble,

and they are trying to repair their wooden houses, trying to get some

kind of cover over their heads. At the moment, you can see the glow of

fires. I am in an area of concrete fires. I am in an area of concrete

in the morning, and we keep going on that road north, the picture is

going to get worse and worse, I fear. Further north, by the coast,

we are more likely to see the effects of the swell, the tide, the

water that came in, that was forced in by the storm as well as the wind.

I fear that the problems there are going to be far worse than the

situation we are at the moment. In terms of the people, they are lucky

here in the sense that the road is pretty clear. We had a clear run as

far as we could come, and we have seen, throughout the afternoon, us

after bus after bus packed with people, many of them standing, going

down south. They have a way out. They can go down to Cebu city, where

we flew into. It is the normal functioning

we flew into. It is the normal long it is going to take to come

back to the area. How long it will be before this part of the

Philippines is liveable. We can now speak to Kevin Vaccva, north of

where our correspondent was. He is an American missionary who has been

the beaming the area for some 14 years. After the storm struck, he

and his wife loaded up their car with supplies and drove to the worst

affected part of the island, its northern tip. Thank you for joining

us. Tell us about what you have seen. We were the first ones to

arrive on the very northern tip of the island. We cleared the road as

we went, literally. It took us nine hours to make the two-hour drive. We

were the first no roofs. Every house has no roof.

In many places, there's only a foundation, and mattresses and trees

and couches in fields where there were 20 houses. Now there is nothing

but clothes and furniture. What about the people there? How many

people were living there? I would say, in Maya79 there's about 3000

people that live there. But in northern Cebu, there's about 75,000

people, so in the area I would guess about 75,000 have lost their homes.

The government said my guess was probably quite accurate. Can you

give us an idea about your deliveries to the area? I gather you

have been trying to give people deliveries to the area? I gather you

again to Maya. Thousands of people along the highway are squeezing the

highway, and begging. I think it is a very dangerous situation that

could erupt. The poor people don't have... You can get water if you

have money, but of course, they have lost everything, so they can't go to

the water company or the water store and buy water. So it is a situation

here. I know we are having a big problem with looting, and it could

happen here too. The looting is just being done by ordinary people, just

to literally get food and water? Yes. I just heard from our press

betray, who lives in Tacloban. They were going to take a ship over

tonight with were going to take a ship over

relief food. Kevin Vaccva, thank you very much indeed for talking to us.

If you want to find out more, you can on our website.

Let's get some of the rest of the day's news. The degrees -- the

disgraced American fighters, Lance Armstrong, has warned that delving

into the history of doping is not good. He was speaking to the BBC in

his first broadcast interview since admitting using performance

enhancing drugs during all seven of his Tour De France wins. He vowed to

testify with transparency and honesty at any future" read into

doping. Let's speak to our correspondent who got that interview

with Lance Armstrong. after all those years of denials

that he had used performance enhancing drugs. When I say he was

trying to get back onto the front foot, anybody who remembers Lance

Armstrong and his time when he did win those seven record back-to-back

Tour De France that trees, he was the alpha male. He was the

pugilistic one. This was him saying, look, when it was a sordid time in

cycling, an awful lot of people were doping. He says for him to be

singled out more than anybody else was unfair. He said that this year

has been hugely torrid. It has been tough. It has been real tough. I

have paid a heavy price, both in terms of my standing in the sport,

my reputation, I have certainly played

my reputation, I have certainly capitalised on this story. Does it

seem that he has accepted the penalty he has been given? He says

that it is for others to decide how far he should suffer. But what he

believes is that everybody should get it in the neck the same.

Interestingly, in a way, he has had some sort of indirect sport from the

new boss of world cycling, who has taken over the world governing

body. He says that perhaps Armstrong has suffered more than others, and

perhaps that is his way, Brian Cookson's way, of getting Lance

Armstrong to come and testify before a future commission of enquiry.

Lance Armstrong's message is clear - I will take my punishment if

everybody else does. If everybody gets the death penalty, we all

everybody else does. If everybody level. What does the future hold for

him now? My guess is, when all is this commission of enquiry is set up

by the world governing body into that bark period for cycling, back

in the 90s and the start of this millennium, gets going, Lance

Armstrong will testify. I am guessing, but I think that at some

point in the future perhaps he will be able to compete again in what he

was hoping to move into, and that is the triathlon. Lance Armstrong is

hoping that he does, in some way, have a future in sport. Thank you.

Still to come, why do the Chinese flock to Cambridge? It isn't just

for a flock to Cambridge? It isn't just

euros from its EU partners and the IMF. The country, known as the

Celtic Tiger, saw unemployment soar and productivity collapse. Now

Ireland is on the verge of exiting the bailout and things are looking

up. Joe Lynam broke the story of the bailout in 2010. Now he's returned

to see how the Irish have been coping. Counting down to the opening

of the NASDAQ stock exchange remotely from Dublin. They are also

counting down here to Ireland's formal exit from the bailout

programme they are willingly joined three years ago. Welcome to Dublin,

welcome to Ireland, the new capital... When the Celtic Tiger

collapse, capital... When the Celtic Tiger

also talent. The challenge is keeping that talent in this country

and not emigrating. With emigration running at a jaw-dropping 1000 young

and educated people every week, the damage could be huge. How do you

respond to hard times? You respond by going, by getting out and trying

to survive on an individual basis. Though she would like to, Mandy

would like to emigrate, but cannot while her children are young. We

shop in discount supermarkets, we don't go to the cinema any more,

This is BBC World News. The top story this hour: Millions of people

have been affected by the typhoon in the Philippines. Hundreds of

thousands are homeless, more than 10,000 have died. Tensions between

Shia and Sunni Muslims are probably the most serious in the Muslim

Shia and Sunni Muslims are probably important problem we face, and I

believe we can work with everybody individually, with Saudi Arabia,

with countries in the Persian Gulf, with Egypt and others in order to

contain this because some people have fanned the animosity for short

sighted political interests. The Saudis? I am talking about

countries... This business of fear mongering has been prevalent

business. We need to understand that sectarian divide in the Islamic

world is a threat and nobody can benefit from it. Nobody should try

to fan the flames of sectarian violence. I

to fan the flames of sectarian talks on Iran 's nuclear programme

ended without agreement. The American Secretary of State said

Iran backed out of a deal during talks in Geneva. There was unity but

Iran could not take it, they were not able to accept that particular

deal, so hard work was done, progress was made, there is a gap

still between what language may be appropriate that they are prepared

to accept, but the concept we are all working on, we have absolute

unity on. Just to let you know, there are separate talks going on

with the IAEA and Iran and there is some new agreement unblocking months

of stalemate, where Iran has agreed to provide information

member of the hat carny network, the militant group linked to the

Taliban, has been shot dead in Islamabad. Reports say Nasiruddin

Haqqani was attacked by gunmen. He was on America's list of "global

terrorists" and was said to be the Haqqani network's chief financier.

It is very active in Afghanistan, and it

It is very active in Afghanistan, that Haqqani are supported by parts

of the Pakistani government so this is interesting. Who was it that has

been taken out today? Some American officials have said this frequently,

that the Haqqani network has supporters inside Pakistan, but some

sources have said that Nasiruddin Haqqani was not an active fighter

himself. They say that he was looking after the family so

apparently the family was living near Islamabad. Isn't it interesting

the Haqqanis are living again in the heart of the

the Haqqanis are living again in the It is said that he was travelling to

Arab countries to get some money from donors, private donors, because

his father Harold two wives and one of the wives is an Arab so they have

links with Arabs in the Gulf region. His father lost three sons over the

past decade, two of his brothers were killed in drone attacks in the

last ten years, but he was an important figure in the overall

Haqqani network and this is a blow to their network. They are very much

on a wanted list by the United States. Thank you for explaining

that. When Chinese tourists flood into the English city of

"Saying Goodbye To Cambridge Again" is taught in every single primary

school in China - as Mike Cartwright has been finding out. This student

showed me what is at the top of their list on their visit here. On

the top of this bridge, a piece of Chinese cultural history. This

means, I am living like a gentleman come. Written by China's poet, he

went on to become an icon. When I am come. Written by China's poet, he

swelled. Mandarin now common for them, they know the importance of

this poet here. I always try to save properly, it doesn't always go down

perfectly, but the excitement that comes from seeing the bridge is

beautiful. On a rainy day in November, people from China have

filled every boat. Because we know the history and the story of Xu

Zhimo, people come here to experience that. The Chinese market

is growing, currently about 350,000 Chinese visitors come to Britain,

and that is predicted to Chinese visitors come to Britain,

is to leave here. Just to remind you of our top story: In the

Philippines, thousands of survivors of a powerful typhoon have been

clambering through the remains of their homes pleading for food and

medicine. Thank you for watching. I