:00:00. > :00:08.Hello. I'm Nik Gowing with BBC World News. Our top stories: The
:00:09. > :00:12.increasing desperation of typhoon survivors.
:00:13. > :00:13.A huge crowd storm a rice warehouse. Eight are killed by a collapsing
:00:14. > :00:27.wall. Please, come to my city. We need
:00:28. > :00:29.you. We need help. We need help, very badly.
:00:30. > :00:33.Concerns grow over likely outbreaks of typhoid and hepatitis from
:00:34. > :00:36.contaminated water. Deadly attacks closer to the heart
:00:37. > :00:40.of the Syrian capital Damascus. Four children die in a mortar attack on a
:00:41. > :00:46.school bus. A special report on the conflict's youngest victims. And
:00:47. > :00:49.Hawaii legalises same-sex marriage. Could the move bring millions of
:00:50. > :01:10.dollars in revenue from gay couples seeking a Pacific island wedding?
:01:11. > :01:15.Hello everyone. In the Philippines, tens of thousands of survivors of
:01:16. > :01:18.Typhoon Haiyan are showing signs of increasing desperation for food and
:01:19. > :01:22.water. Eight people were crushed to death when a huge crowd stormed a
:01:23. > :01:24.rice warehouse in Alangalang on Leyte island, taking everything. A
:01:25. > :01:29.local congressman has told the BBC the city of Tacloban is like ground
:01:30. > :01:32.zero after a nuclear bomb explosion. Across the country, over a half a
:01:33. > :01:40.million people have been displaced by the disaster. The island of Cebu
:01:41. > :01:42.is 45 minutes flying from Tacloban. Christine Atillo-Villero has
:01:43. > :01:48.returned there from Tacloban where her parents live. They survived
:01:49. > :01:59.Typhoon Haiyan. I asked her what she found around her parents' home.
:02:00. > :02:10.It is really terrible. People are going hungry. You are there trying
:02:11. > :02:21.to survive each day with no food and no water. There are bodies on the
:02:22. > :02:29.street. It is a health hazard. There are reports of rebels coming and
:02:30. > :02:37.going into houses. I want my family out. Christine, could you tell us
:02:38. > :02:48.how your parents survived the typhoon, and what conditions they
:02:49. > :02:56.are in? They were lucky that our house is mainly concrete. The House
:02:57. > :03:04.is intact. They managed to go up to the second floor, and ten of our
:03:05. > :03:18.neighbours swam into the House. They were there for four hours luckily
:03:19. > :03:22.they managed to survive. But many of their possessions were washed away.
:03:23. > :03:27.And how will they get on now? They have stocks of food? There was a
:03:28. > :03:44.warning over several days of what was likely to happen. They have a
:03:45. > :03:54.water supply, but they weren't aware that they were going to need so
:03:55. > :04:08.much. It was not expected for this typhoon to be so bad. The water had
:04:09. > :04:14.a height of 16 feet or so, and it ran into the city. They didn't
:04:15. > :04:22.expect that it would be that terrible. Christine, finally, you
:04:23. > :04:28.have chosen to return home to Cebu from Tacloban. What is the community
:04:29. > :04:38.spirit in the neighbourhood where your parents are living? People are
:04:39. > :04:44.surviving, they are walking around. Hopefully help will come. I know
:04:45. > :04:54.help is coming, but I think the government should act really fast.
:04:55. > :05:05.The roads are impassable. Why not do a aerial drops of food? The people
:05:06. > :05:13.really need help. I don't know how long it has been. My father has a
:05:14. > :05:20.medical condition. I don't know how he will get his medicine. Christine
:05:21. > :05:23.there, having seen her parents in Tacloban.
:05:24. > :05:26.As victims of the typhoon become angry at the lack of food, shelter
:05:27. > :05:29.and medicine, the Philippines government has pledged to leave "not
:05:30. > :05:32.one living person behind", no matter where they are. The UN confirms
:05:33. > :05:39.there is desperate need for food, water, medical supplies and shelter.
:05:40. > :05:44.The BBC's Jon Donnison in Tacloban has met some of the many who have
:05:45. > :05:48.lost everything. This place is called the Astrodome,
:05:49. > :05:53.a sports centre and convention centre. It is right next to the
:05:54. > :05:57.ocean and took the full brunt of the typhoon. Thousands of people flocked
:05:58. > :06:08.here to seek shelter, and it has now become a refugee camp for hundreds
:06:09. > :06:14.of desperate families. With me is Jose, who lived just down the road.
:06:15. > :06:17.Your house is washed out? Like most people here, we are looking for
:06:18. > :06:24.shelter, looking for food, for water, maybe for medicines. Have you
:06:25. > :06:29.had any help at all? Not very much. It has been five days since the
:06:30. > :06:39.storm, and the aid has come only in trickles. 80% have no homes right
:06:40. > :06:42.now. Inside the convention hall you have got people packed in at night,
:06:43. > :06:47.many out during the day looking for food. They are scavenging for food
:06:48. > :06:53.outside during the day, and sleep here during the night, or wherever
:06:54. > :07:01.they can find refuge. And what about sanitation, toilets? Please don't
:07:02. > :07:07.ask me about it. It is worse. They don't find it anywhere. And a risk
:07:08. > :07:12.of disease? Yes, and hundreds of dead wadis still floating around
:07:13. > :07:17.under the debris. This morning we saw many people heading out of town.
:07:18. > :07:21.They are still here, but they are just going to places where they
:07:22. > :07:23.think they can find food. And we have seen very little of the
:07:24. > :07:29.Philippines government here doing anything. What do you think of
:07:30. > :07:35.various bonds? I think the government is paralysed, the
:07:36. > :07:42.provincial government is paralysed. The army came over here yesterday
:07:43. > :07:47.just to maintain peace and order. We need massive international relief
:07:48. > :07:53.aid here, now. The situation is so desperate, we need aid now, because
:07:54. > :08:00.if nothing else, nothing else done in the next few days, hundreds of
:08:01. > :08:06.people more will die. More people will be violent, they will run riot
:08:07. > :08:10.around the city. I don't know. I was born here, I love the city, but it
:08:11. > :08:17.is a total wreck right now. People of the world, come to my city. We
:08:18. > :08:25.need you. Please, come to my city. We need you. We need help. We need
:08:26. > :08:29.help, very badly. Tacloban needs help very badly, and
:08:30. > :08:33.much of it could come in through a small regional airport. At the
:08:34. > :08:38.moment it is pretty clogged, with the small number of planes that can
:08:39. > :08:42.arrive, and US command have said they are going to take over the
:08:43. > :08:53.airport and run it 20 47, including night flying as well. -- they are
:08:54. > :08:56.going to run it 24/7. We are going to transition from
:08:57. > :09:03.medium aircraft to larger aircraft. We just did a proof of the runway.
:09:04. > :09:11.Now we can bring in Australians and Canadians with big aeroplanes with
:09:12. > :09:16.heavy equipment. That will help us build up our ability to supply. And
:09:17. > :09:28.what about the use of your heavy-lift choppers, your Ospreys?
:09:29. > :09:37.There are three areas that we are mostly concerned about. Obviously,
:09:38. > :09:46.Tacloban. The island of some are -- Samar. They are just as devastated
:09:47. > :09:56.in oral areas, and we can't get the aeroplanes in. So those two Ospreys
:09:57. > :10:00.that you just saw land, they will go out to other airstrips, certify
:10:01. > :10:06.them, and allow us to get aeroplanes in. They're not everything will have
:10:07. > :10:13.to come through here. So that will increase our throughput. And then
:10:14. > :10:19.they will be able to go on from there to smaller villages where
:10:20. > :10:24.there are soccer fields that they can land on.
:10:25. > :10:37.Brigadier General Paul Kennedy there at the S trip in Tacloban. You with
:10:38. > :10:40.world News. Still to come: The islands of Hawaii hope they will
:10:41. > :10:42.become a popular destination for gay weddings following their decision to
:10:43. > :10:53.allow same-sex marriage is. The new World Trade Center tower in
:10:54. > :10:56.New York has been declared the tallest building in the United
:10:57. > :10:59.States by a panel of architects. The World Trade Center, which is
:11:00. > :11:02.scheduled to open next year, had faced some stiff competition from
:11:03. > :11:04.the Willis Tower in Chicago. The BBC's Katy Watson is in Chicago to
:11:05. > :11:17.explain how it lost out by a needle. Chicago citizens are proud of their
:11:18. > :11:24.architecture. The city invented architecture, and its pride and joy
:11:25. > :11:30.is Willis Tower. It has held the title of America's tallest building.
:11:31. > :11:38.America's tallest building when it completes next year will be one
:11:39. > :11:40.World Trade Center. After a design change earlier this
:11:41. > :11:47.year, the debate grew whether the tall structure on the top was a
:11:48. > :11:54.spire or an antenna. The experts said it was a spire. The keyword
:11:55. > :11:59.here is permanence. Never to be added to, never to be taken away. It
:12:00. > :12:09.is a sensitive subject. One World Trade Center was ill to mark the
:12:10. > :12:14.9/11 attacks. Chicago, looking for the positive, says it is not about
:12:15. > :12:19.competition. This was never about pitting one building against
:12:20. > :12:24.another. We understand the importance of rebuilding One World
:12:25. > :12:28.Trade Center. The question of which building is the tallest was settled
:12:29. > :12:32.years ago in terms of buildings in China and the Middle East. We know
:12:33. > :12:37.that we will remain one of the most iconic structures in the world, and
:12:38. > :12:40.in fact, the highest spot you can stand in North America in a
:12:41. > :12:46.building. And tourists here didn't seem to
:12:47. > :12:50.care. It doesn't matter to me. It is just semantics. It is just an
:12:51. > :12:58.important piece of our country, and that is what matters. It is really
:12:59. > :13:04.awesome. It is so high. I have never been in such a high building before.
:13:05. > :13:12.Chicago may be losing the title of having America's tallest building,
:13:13. > :13:21.but this still isn't bad. The view down below isn't too bad either.
:13:22. > :13:28.This is BBC World News. I'm Nik Gowing. The latest headlines: Eight
:13:29. > :13:31.people have been killed in the Philippines as a crowd of typhoon
:13:32. > :13:34.survivors storm a rice warehouse to get food. Aid agencies warn that
:13:35. > :13:42.contaminated water could cause outbreaks of typhoid and hepatitis.
:13:43. > :13:56.As the agencies struggle to get aid to those affected by the typhoon in
:13:57. > :13:59.the Philippines, their -- there is a conference in London on how to
:14:00. > :14:16.protect women and girls in such emergencies. This meeting is how to
:14:17. > :14:21.look at keeping women save from violence and rape. The situation in
:14:22. > :14:26.the Philippines is uppermost in everyone's minds here. Let us talk
:14:27. > :14:32.to the UK's International Development Secretary. Give us a
:14:33. > :14:36.sense, do you think aid is now getting through to the remote
:14:37. > :14:40.communities that need it? There is a real remaining challenge with access
:14:41. > :14:47.that will be there for some time, until we managed to clear the roads.
:14:48. > :14:56.UK's supplies are arriving, the first supply arrived overnight. This
:14:57. > :14:59.is a huge typhoon, 300 miles wide, so we all recognise the challenges
:15:00. > :15:07.of reaching everybody are absolutely immense. That is why we sent out
:15:08. > :15:12.forklift trucks, earth moving vehicles, cutting equipment, also we
:15:13. > :15:16.can make sure our teams on the ground start to be part of shifting
:15:17. > :15:24.the debris, clearing the roads, so that we can get through to people.
:15:25. > :15:29.We are also deploying a ship which will be able to move supplies
:15:30. > :15:33.around, so we can reach people by water as well as road. A huge amount
:15:34. > :15:37.of work going on, but a massive challenge which is being led by the
:15:38. > :15:43.Philippine government and international aid agencies. There
:15:44. > :15:47.has already been criticism that the government of the Philippines wasn't
:15:48. > :15:51.nimble enough at responding to the disaster. Do you think that is
:15:52. > :15:55.unfair? I think they've had a huge challenge. This was on an
:15:56. > :15:59.unprecedented scale. The UK Government had worked with the
:16:00. > :16:02.Philippine government in advance of this crisis, looking at how they
:16:03. > :16:08.could improve their resilience and preparation. But, really, this storm
:16:09. > :16:13.was so big it has proved a challenge for all the agencies involved. But
:16:14. > :16:17.everybody is working together and eight is starting to get through.
:16:18. > :16:22.But the scale of what we still need to do is immense. You will see more
:16:23. > :16:28.support from the reddish government and the British people going out in
:16:29. > :16:37.the coming hours, weeks and months. -- British government. The meeting
:16:38. > :16:43.is still going on. People include the head of the world food
:16:44. > :16:49.programme. An idea about the scale, the
:16:50. > :16:54.enormity, of what the Philippines faces. It is day six and there is
:16:55. > :16:59.that real desperation for water and food in the Philippines. Just look
:17:00. > :17:02.at this appeal, scrawled on a shutter in the hope someone will see
:17:03. > :17:10.it and respond before it is too late. "We need food and water". So
:17:11. > :17:14.what does a pressing need to survive in such an extreme and desperate
:17:15. > :17:17.environment? The UN says the number of people affected by the typhoon
:17:18. > :17:23.has jumped to 11.3 million, including four million children. Any
:17:24. > :17:30.person needs approximately 2.5 litres of water a day to survive in
:17:31. > :17:37.emergency situations like this. 44 tonnes of high energy biscuits R.N.
:17:38. > :17:42.Manila airport. This amount can be just 130,000 people in one day. That
:17:43. > :17:47.is the equivalent to a third of a kilo of rice per day, that is the
:17:48. > :17:52.basic needed for nutrition. Scale all that up to several million
:17:53. > :17:57.people and the volume and weight of water and food needed is enormous.
:17:58. > :18:02.With so much contaminated water, the other concern is to prevent the
:18:03. > :18:10.outbreak of typhoid and hepatitis. What is the medication -- medical
:18:11. > :18:14.situation in Tacloban? Well, this is the main government
:18:15. > :18:18.hospital in the middle of Tacloban. It is near the sea front, it was
:18:19. > :18:24.completely flooded during the storm surge. But they are getting it back
:18:25. > :18:28.and running again. This is where the casualties come in when they are
:18:29. > :18:32.first admitted. You can see this young girl was brought in half an
:18:33. > :18:38.hour ago. She has a very serious cut on her head. It is typical of the
:18:39. > :18:43.sort of laceration that has been left for a few days and is starting
:18:44. > :18:50.to get septic. Behind me is where they bring the babies in. See this
:18:51. > :18:54.little girl on this bed? She has a fever, diarrhoea -- again, typical
:18:55. > :19:03.of the symptoms of what happens when babies are drinking dirty water. She
:19:04. > :19:07.has a high fever and is on a drip, but they literally don't have enough
:19:08. > :19:11.water to give her water to drink. There is medicine here, but it is
:19:12. > :19:16.very basic. The doctors we've been talking to say they need more of
:19:17. > :19:21.everything. Now, another crisis which cannot go
:19:22. > :19:25.away. Syria. Four children and their bus driver
:19:26. > :19:28.have been buried in Syria after two mortars struck the old city of
:19:29. > :19:32.Damascus. The shells hit a school and a school bus in a mainly
:19:33. > :19:34.Christian area on Monday. It confirms the growing frequency of
:19:35. > :19:37.attacks in what had been the relatively safe centre of Damascus.
:19:38. > :19:39.Our chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet reports
:19:40. > :19:51.from the Syrian capital. You may find some of the images disturbing.
:19:52. > :20:00.A mother's reef fills this ward in Damascus. -- grief. Her son drove
:20:01. > :20:09.the school bus and died on the spot when the more Thailand. -- the
:20:10. > :20:15.mortar landed. She said, I don't recognise him. He has no eyes, his
:20:16. > :20:20.face is gone. In this more, for children, including eight-year-old
:20:21. > :20:30.Vanessa. Our uncle has come for the body. She was a pure angel, he says,
:20:31. > :20:37.she loved school and cried when she couldn't go. Grief is no longer
:20:38. > :20:44.private here, not when both sides accuse the other of taking the lives
:20:45. > :20:51.of the innocent. Another uncle says his last goodbye. Stand up, stand
:20:52. > :21:02.up, my nephew. This is for you, Syria. They bring out the white
:21:03. > :21:13.coffins one by one. Vanessa makes her last trip to her Armenian
:21:14. > :21:24.church. This is one of Syria's many Christian faiths. They gather in the
:21:25. > :21:32.old city to celebrate her life. This boy mourns his friend, supported by
:21:33. > :21:43.his mother, who is devastated. What did they do to die like this? Please
:21:44. > :21:50.tell America, please tell Britain, Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, they
:21:51. > :21:56.are bad people. A community comes together again to mourn. But, as
:21:57. > :22:02.grief grows, so does anger, on both sides of this conflict. Both sides
:22:03. > :22:07.blamed the other. As this war drags on, it becomes ever more difficult
:22:08. > :22:20.to bring Syrians together again. The NASA's Coffin lies next to that of a
:22:21. > :22:29.six-year-old child. -- Vanessa's coffin. In this city, nowhere feels
:22:30. > :22:34.safe. Now, remember in 2010 how an ash
:22:35. > :22:41.cloud hominis land volcano created airline chaos and grounded flights
:22:42. > :22:44.across Europe for days? Well, easyJet has tested a system it hopes
:22:45. > :22:50.could prevent chaos in the future. It has helped to develop a volcanic
:22:51. > :22:54.ash detector for its aircraft. It flew a plane with the new technology
:22:55. > :22:58.through an artificial ash cloud in the sky. The sensors alert pilots to
:22:59. > :23:06.ash in the air which is otherwise difficult to detect.
:23:07. > :23:09.Now to the US, where the State of Hawaii has passed a bill legalising
:23:10. > :23:13.same-sex marriage. It is the 15th state in the US to legalise same-sex
:23:14. > :23:16.unions. Analysts at the University of Hawaii say the move could make
:23:17. > :23:19.the Pacific islands a popular destination for gay weddings,
:23:20. > :23:22.bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue over the next few
:23:23. > :23:27.years. With me now is Richard Lane from the gay and lesbian campaign
:23:28. > :23:32.group Stonewall. Thank you for joining me. When the governor says
:23:33. > :23:35.he looks forward to signing a significant piece of legislation to
:23:36. > :23:40.provide marriage equity that early recognises and protects religious
:23:41. > :23:46.freedom, is that how you see it? Absolutely. This is a huge step
:23:47. > :23:50.forward. It was two decades ago the Supreme Court case in Hawaii brought
:23:51. > :23:52.by a lesbian couple seeking marriage rights actually kicked off the
:23:53. > :23:58.debate about gay marriage and ushered in an era where pet --
:23:59. > :24:06.President Clinton signed the first step. Psychologically, what does
:24:07. > :24:11.that mean that those who are gay, and the potential for what they can
:24:12. > :24:14.do in Hawaii? It means they get to have their relationships recognised
:24:15. > :24:19.in exactly the same way as their heterosexual friends and families.
:24:20. > :24:22.That is hugely significant. Following the Supreme Court ruling
:24:23. > :24:25.earlier, they will have access to hundreds and hundreds of federal
:24:26. > :24:30.benefits to protect them and their families. What about the emotion and
:24:31. > :24:37.pack to call side of flying to Hawaii? -- practical side. Is it
:24:38. > :24:43.somewhere people will actively go to? I think many people have always
:24:44. > :24:49.had their weddings in Hawaii. It is a beautiful paradise. This
:24:50. > :24:56.legislation will certainly have had one eye on tapping into the
:24:57. > :25:03.lucrative pink pound. $217 million worth of extra tourism revenue - are
:25:04. > :25:09.they being overoptimistic, or practical? No, I think that is
:25:10. > :25:13.completely realistic. Mayor Bloomberg said that after 12 months
:25:14. > :25:22.of gay marriage in New York, that had brought in over $200 million to
:25:23. > :25:26.the state. 15 states now, what is the message you are beginning to see
:25:27. > :25:31.in the US and beyond? I think the message is that equality is starting
:25:32. > :25:35.to be there for gay people in America. We've had more than a
:25:36. > :25:40.doubling of the number of states allowing it in the last few years.
:25:41. > :25:47.Credit should go to President Obama for his vocal support that has given
:25:48. > :25:50.this the momentum. A painting by the British artist,
:25:51. > :25:53.Francis Bacon, has sold at auction at Christie's in New York for $142
:25:54. > :25:56.million. The price is the highest ever achieved at auction. The
:25:57. > :25:59.painting is a triptych entitled "Three Studies of Lucian Freud", who
:26:00. > :26:02.was Bacon's friend and fellow artist. It was painted in 1969, and
:26:03. > :26:17.is considered one of Bacon's greatest masterpieces. Bidding went
:26:18. > :26:23.far in excess of the estimate, which was $85 million. It eclipses the
:26:24. > :26:30.$120-million price of Edvard Munch's The Scream, which sold at Sotheby's
:26:31. > :26:38.last year. Christie's did not disclose the identity of the
:26:39. > :26:42.successful buyer. It is said that it will probably end up in a gallery or
:26:43. > :26:47.museum, because those are the any people who can board the insurance
:26:48. > :26:51.policy. The main news: Survivors of the typhoon the Philippines are
:26:52. > :26:56.becoming increasingly desperate at the lack of food, shelter and
:26:57. > :27:09.medical supplies. Thank you for joining me. Goodbye.
:27:10. > :27:11.I need five minutes of your time. When I say five minutes, I'm lying.
:27:12. > :27:15.I've got to go and give a lecture. I've seen it. It's great.