:00:08. > :00:15.Hello and welcome to BBC World News. The first shipment of aid finally
:00:16. > :00:23.arrived in the area worst hit by Typhoon Haiyan. There is enough for
:00:24. > :00:31.apparently five families to last three days. We also have boxes of
:00:32. > :00:35.noodles and a lot of water. A lot of people in Townsend what is the one
:00:36. > :00:39.thing they really need. In many areas there is still nothing to eat
:00:40. > :00:44.and thousands wait for food and water.
:00:45. > :00:51.Sri Lanka says it has nothing to hide over war crimes allegations.
:00:52. > :00:55.And we will be live in Mumbai where India's biggest sporting hero is
:00:56. > :01:19.batting in his last test match. Hello and welcome.
:01:20. > :01:24.Six days after the devastating typhoon that ripped through the
:01:25. > :01:29.Philippines, the international aid effort is coming together. A US
:01:30. > :01:33.aircraft carrier has arrived in the Gulf of Leyte which found itself in
:01:34. > :01:39.the centre of last week's super storm. The helicopters will work
:01:40. > :01:43.alongside existing aid operations which have been struggling to get
:01:44. > :01:51.aid to people in the most desperate need. Our correspondent told me more
:01:52. > :01:59.about the situation in Tacloban, a city devastated by the storm. We
:02:00. > :02:05.watched these two boatloads of aid being unloaded at the port today.
:02:06. > :02:11.They are taking large numbers of evacuees out as well. People are
:02:12. > :02:16.desperate to get away from here. The US aircraft carrier George
:02:17. > :02:20.Washington is approaching the coast of Tacloban. The commander in charge
:02:21. > :02:24.there says it will make a very big difference because of their ability
:02:25. > :02:30.to bring in heavy-lift helicopters. They will be able to start moving
:02:31. > :02:34.large amounts of aid. The infrastructure is still very fragile
:02:35. > :02:40.here, there is not enough trucks, not enough fuel or enough places
:02:41. > :02:43.where aid can be stored safely and safely distributed. Given how
:02:44. > :02:50.desperate people are, that is a very big issue. It is getting into gear,
:02:51. > :02:54.I do not think we will see the full 's dream of aid getting up to people
:02:55. > :03:03.who need it. Probably for about two days yet. -- school stream. It is
:03:04. > :03:09.heart rendering talking to people who have been through the trauma of
:03:10. > :03:15.losing families. Then having days and days where they have got
:03:16. > :03:20.nothing. They have no sense that their government really cares. The
:03:21. > :03:24.government does care, it has simply been overwhelmed. With no
:03:25. > :03:30.communication here, people do not know what is being done. Was there
:03:31. > :03:40.no possibility of something like airdrops? Even if the roads were
:03:41. > :03:44.still blocked? You cannot have a drops without the aircraft to do it.
:03:45. > :03:50.The Philippines do not really have that capacity. Aid officials are
:03:51. > :03:55.rather against those as they can cause mass panic with everyone
:03:56. > :04:00.clambering for the food that is there. With a catastrophe this big,
:04:01. > :04:06.it takes time for an effective aid operation to get into place. An
:04:07. > :04:11.ineffective one is a waste of time. Where there could be criticism is
:04:12. > :04:16.the failure of the Philippines government who took over control of
:04:17. > :04:21.the city very quickly, to put significant numbers of soldiers and
:04:22. > :04:25.police on the ground and to start preparing the roads and what
:04:26. > :04:31.buildings are left for the influx of aid. Law and order has deteriorated
:04:32. > :04:36.because they were late doing that. Reports of looting and chaos have
:04:37. > :04:42.put NGOs off coming. They do not want to bring truckloads of aid in
:04:43. > :04:46.and then get injured. It is properly justified criticism of the
:04:47. > :04:51.centralised government. It is still not clear how many people have died
:04:52. > :04:59.in the typhoon. The government says it is around 2200. Mass burials have
:05:00. > :05:04.been taking place in Tacloban, and eyewitnesses have been reporting a
:05:05. > :05:08.growing threat to public health. It is not clear if the victims have all
:05:09. > :05:13.been identified or if they have been included in the official number of
:05:14. > :05:18.people known to have lost their lives. The UN humanitarian chief
:05:19. > :05:23.Valerie Amos has admitted that the UN has failed survivors of Typhoon
:05:24. > :05:27.Haiyan by responding to slowly. She says there are still some parts of
:05:28. > :05:33.the Philippines where people are in desperate need and the UN has been
:05:34. > :05:36.unable to reach. We are all extremely distressed that this is
:05:37. > :05:41.day six and we have not reached everyone. I feel we have let people
:05:42. > :05:47.down because we have not been able to get in more quickly. At the same
:05:48. > :05:55.time, I can see and I was able to see yesterday, that our operations
:05:56. > :06:01.are scaling up significantly. Valerie Amos there, the UN
:06:02. > :06:06.humanitarian chief. The first evacuees have started arriving in
:06:07. > :06:12.Manila. This was the scene earlier today. Most of those taken out on
:06:13. > :06:18.the military flight were able to take family with them. The
:06:19. > :06:23.Philippines government say they are doing all they can to help its
:06:24. > :06:29.people. They are distributing 50,000 food packs a day. The Philippines's
:06:30. > :06:37.Cabinet Secretary has been speaking to the BBC. This is the largest
:06:38. > :06:42.logistics operation we have ever done in the history of the
:06:43. > :06:48.Philippines. Nothing like this has ever been done before. The volume of
:06:49. > :06:53.food packs, the volume of rice and candles that are being handled and
:06:54. > :06:59.transported has never been done in this magnitude. You add the
:07:00. > :07:12.situation of a destroyed logistics system, a destroyed airport, so many
:07:13. > :07:17.things were thrown into the water. You have a total destruction of some
:07:18. > :07:21.communities, plus the fact the local government which is key to any
:07:22. > :07:28.disaster response, was completely in shambles. We have our problems, we
:07:29. > :07:32.are a poor country. But considering what we have been through in the
:07:33. > :07:39.past four months, we are doing quite well. We were hit with a major
:07:40. > :07:47.earthquake and a storm like this. The Philippines's resiliency will be
:07:48. > :07:52.proven by this. There is a sense of law and order may be breaking down.
:07:53. > :07:57.Since the National police moved in last Sunday and the Armed Forces,
:07:58. > :08:03.residents are already saying there is no more looting in Tacloban. The
:08:04. > :08:15.military and police already in control. I gather you have been
:08:16. > :08:22.around the area and little bit, what have you been able to see? I have
:08:23. > :08:27.been in Cebu city, I have been arranging relief for an island I
:08:28. > :08:34.have lived on for ten years in the north of Cebu province. It is very
:08:35. > :08:39.isolated. To be honest, since this thing started we have not been
:08:40. > :08:45.expecting any government help. We have not assume there will be any
:08:46. > :08:49.government help. We are expecting to have to do it ourselves. I own a
:08:50. > :08:54.business there, and along with other business owners on the island we
:08:55. > :08:59.have been arranging for donations. We have been buying supplies and
:09:00. > :09:04.making sure all the islanders are fed and clothed and housed. We have
:09:05. > :09:11.not seen any sign of any government involvement at all. How little did
:09:12. > :09:19.people have? In practical terms, what are you able to give them? The
:09:20. > :09:25.island was basically flattened. Most of the locals are very poor and have
:09:26. > :09:30.no savings. If you belonging, but what they had was lost. They lived
:09:31. > :09:36.in wooden homes which are now gone and they have nothing left. Our
:09:37. > :09:44.priorities were to start with feeding them and housing them. Where
:09:45. > :09:49.did you get the food, for example? I have around 60 staff, between them
:09:50. > :09:54.they have large families. Their salaries probably feed around 500
:09:55. > :09:59.people on the island. We had to make sure they were looked after first.
:10:00. > :10:04.We did make some preparations in advance just in case the typhoon was
:10:05. > :10:08.going to be very bad. And then we have been sending up food and
:10:09. > :10:14.medication, anything they need really. It sounds like you're doing
:10:15. > :10:18.a remarkable job. In terms of what sort of food you are getting to
:10:19. > :10:30.people and how you are organising that, however you managing to do
:10:31. > :10:35.that? Rice, noodles, canned sardines, canned meats, those are
:10:36. > :10:40.the things we have been sending up. Not the most exciting diet, but they
:10:41. > :10:44.are getting food. We are getting water to them as well. There is a
:10:45. > :10:50.big problem on the island, getting fresh water. In terms of what you
:10:51. > :10:58.are most worried about looking ahead, what are the challenges still
:10:59. > :11:03.awaiting all of these families? We are trying to help the whole island,
:11:04. > :11:08.not just my own staff. It has expanded to the whole island and I
:11:09. > :11:14.am fund-raising as much as possible. I have managed to raise ?30,000
:11:15. > :11:19.already. Other people are doing the same. It will cost a lot of money to
:11:20. > :11:24.rebuild everybody's houses. That will be the main challenge moving
:11:25. > :11:28.into the future. Getting the funding to get the island back on its feet.
:11:29. > :11:32.Hopefully someone on our website will find a way to link up the
:11:33. > :11:39.fund-raising efforts with what you are doing. Good luck.
:11:40. > :11:43.Amongst all the concerns, there are some rare moments of joy in the
:11:44. > :11:48.Philippines. These pictures show a mother giving birth in a church
:11:49. > :11:53.which is sheltering survivors in Tacloban. She is surrounded by
:11:54. > :12:00.relatives and medical volunteers. A baby girl was born. When asked what
:12:01. > :12:08.name to give the daughter of the father had an answer.
:12:09. > :12:14.Let's catch up with the business news. There is a financial aspect to
:12:15. > :12:23.all of this. This is a country which on a normal year spends about $5
:12:24. > :12:29.billion on storm damage alone. The true extent of the human to today is
:12:30. > :12:35.unfolding and the Philippine government is taking stock of the
:12:36. > :12:39.economic cost of this disaster. The country's Finance Secretary has been
:12:40. > :12:45.speaking to the BBC. He has told us it will take many years to rebuild
:12:46. > :12:50.infrastructure destroyed in the disaster. He warned there will be an
:12:51. > :12:54.impact on the country's economy, it will probably knock up a one
:12:55. > :13:00.percentage point off GDP for growth next year. The Philippines is seen
:13:01. > :13:04.as an economy at most risk from natural disaster. He told us about
:13:05. > :13:11.some of the things they are doing to mitigate the risk of climate change.
:13:12. > :13:17.It is a big task. Let's talk about the hot news in the Eurozone. It is
:13:18. > :13:24.not good news. Growth faltered in the third quarter. It took some of
:13:25. > :13:32.the shine off a rebound earlier in the year which saw the bloc emerge
:13:33. > :13:39.from an 18 month recession. It grew by just 0.1% in the three months to
:13:40. > :13:45.September. That was following growth of 0.3% in the previous quarter.
:13:46. > :13:52.France, a bit of a worry. Certainly one of the pro performer is. Its
:13:53. > :14:03.economy unexpectedly contracted. -- Parreira performer. A major
:14:04. > :14:13.deterioration. Germany, the mainly Eurozone engine, the powerhouse.
:14:14. > :14:22.They saw growth slip a bit to 0.3%. Figures from Italy, the Italian
:14:23. > :14:30.economy shrank by 0.1%. This was an improvement on the last quarter
:14:31. > :14:34.where it had contracted by 0.3%. The figures from France are particularly
:14:35. > :14:41.bad news for Francois Hollande's government. The US rating agency
:14:42. > :14:49.said they doubted the French government's ability to raise median
:14:50. > :15:04.prospects. If we go over to Japan, the question is is Japan's economic
:15:05. > :15:10.growth running out of steam? There are GDP grew an annual rate of 1.9%
:15:11. > :15:16.in those three months up to September. Just half of the 3.8% the
:15:17. > :15:21.economy achieved in the second quarter. This will raise questions
:15:22. > :15:25.about the sustainability of Japan's economic recovery which have been
:15:26. > :15:30.motoring ahead thanks to massive stimulus policies the government. If
:15:31. > :15:33.you have any questions you can follow me on Twitter.
:15:34. > :15:54.Plenty more coming out throughout the rest of the day. Deep fears for
:15:55. > :15:59.these arrival of ocean species. A painting by pop artist Andy Warhol
:16:00. > :16:04.has sold at auction in New York from $105 million. It is called Silver
:16:05. > :16:10.Car Crash (Double Disaster) and was painted in 1963. The price is a new
:16:11. > :16:15.record for a painting by Andy Warhol. The anonymous buyer gets the
:16:16. > :16:32.picture which shows the aftermath of a car crash. One of the panels is
:16:33. > :16:38.plain silver. Another big sale. One of the world's rarest diamonds has
:16:39. > :16:48.fetched a record breaking price at auction in Geneva. The the Pink Star
:16:49. > :16:51.talk two years to polish. 60 carats of pink perfection. This is one of
:16:52. > :16:57.the rarest diamonds in the world. Most pink diamonds are less than a
:16:58. > :17:04.10th of the size of the the Pink Star. One of the most remarkable
:17:05. > :17:09.gemstones ever to appear at auction. The Pink Star... It was always
:17:10. > :17:13.expected to fetch a record price. When it finally came under the
:17:14. > :17:19.hammer, it did not just break the world record, it smashed it. 68
:17:20. > :17:23.million francs is the world record bid ever for a diamond or precious
:17:24. > :17:29.stone. And it is right here. Congratulations. After just five
:17:30. > :17:38.minutes of tense bidding, 68 million Swiss francs, $74 million, war on
:17:39. > :17:42.offer. At commission, the final price tag was 83 million, almost
:17:43. > :17:47.price the previous amount for a diamond sold at auction. The
:17:48. > :17:51.record-breaking sale marks the end of an unusually glamorous jewellery
:17:52. > :17:58.season in Geneva. Earlier this week a bare orange diamond also fetched a
:17:59. > :18:02.higher than expected price -- array. It seems that currency and even gold
:18:03. > :18:09.may be risky investments. Diamonds truly are forever.
:18:10. > :18:13.We lost the end of that. We agree with that sentiment. A lorry caused
:18:14. > :18:17.a major roadblock in Sydney in Australia when one of the containers
:18:18. > :18:22.it was carrying crashed into the roof of a tunnel. The CCTV footage
:18:23. > :18:25.of the incident shows that the driver tipped the container when he
:18:26. > :18:42.bent down to pick up his glasses. This is BBC world News. The first
:18:43. > :18:45.shipment of aid has finally reached the area worst hit by Typhoon
:18:46. > :18:49.Haiyan. And the Sri Lankan President hits out at critics as the spotlight
:18:50. > :18:55.falls on his country's human rights record.
:18:56. > :18:59.He is a cricketing legend not just in India but around the world.
:19:00. > :19:04.Sachin Tendulkar is bringing down the curtain on a glittering career.
:19:05. > :19:10.He was giving -- he was given a hero's welcome when he walked out
:19:11. > :19:22.for the test against West Indies in Mumbai. He will bat on tomorrow.
:19:23. > :19:31.India is in the grip of a last bout of Sachin Tendulkar fever. Fans
:19:32. > :19:40.queueing for a block after block for the start of his last test match. We
:19:41. > :19:43.are very lucky to watch this match. Crowds were trying to get a last
:19:44. > :19:47.glimpse of the man practising beforehand. He has been hitting
:19:48. > :19:52.cricketing milestones for almost a quarter of a century. This was when
:19:53. > :19:57.he overtook the record for the most number of test centuries. As he
:19:58. > :20:02.prepares to retire, no batsman is even close to that. Everybody wanted
:20:03. > :20:07.to be there. Including Bollywood stars. Fans have come from all over
:20:08. > :20:14.the world, among them this woman from London. For the dreams he has
:20:15. > :20:19.made come true, not just for me, for the country, the team, the fans,
:20:20. > :20:25.this is history in the making. I am feeling very emotional. He is God.
:20:26. > :20:32.We all know that. If you score 100 centuries, you are not going to be
:20:33. > :20:37.big, you're going to be God. For Indians, this is going to be one
:20:38. > :20:42.these moments where people ask, where were you? Tickets for the game
:20:43. > :20:49.have reportedly been changing hands of 240 times their face value on the
:20:50. > :20:56.black market. -- up to 40 times. It is almost goodbye for good. Fans say
:20:57. > :20:59.the Tendulkar effect will last forever. For a country not always
:21:00. > :21:05.sure about itself, he has given India a belief they can be the best
:21:06. > :21:09.in the world. My children are going to wake up in
:21:10. > :21:15.the middle of the night to watch is batting tomorrow. Lots of eyes on
:21:16. > :21:19.that match in Mumbai. To Sri Lanka, and the president says his country
:21:20. > :21:25.has nothing to hide over war crimes allegations as leaders gather for
:21:26. > :21:27.the Commonwealth summit. Three prime ministers are boycotting the summit
:21:28. > :21:33.because of concerns over human rights. President Mahinda Rajapaksa
:21:34. > :21:43.defended his country's human rights record.
:21:44. > :21:47.People are getting killed for 30 years. Since 2009, we have stopped
:21:48. > :21:59.it. We have stopped it. There is no killing. There is no killing. If
:22:00. > :22:04.anyone who wants to complain about human rights violation in Sri Lanka,
:22:05. > :22:13.whether it is torture, whether it is raped, we have a system. You must
:22:14. > :22:18.respect the system and the culture of our country. The Sri Lankan
:22:19. > :22:22.president. Charles Haviland is in Colombo. He has been following the
:22:23. > :22:28.row over Sri Lanka's human rights record. The human rights issues have
:22:29. > :22:35.come to the fore in the run-up to the Commonwealth summit, which
:22:36. > :22:38.begins tomorrow, with an agenda based on business and social and
:22:39. > :22:42.civil issues. Because of the controversy over the host venue,
:22:43. > :22:47.those accusations of possible war crimes, allegations of human rights
:22:48. > :22:55.continue to be suppressed, continued to dog the host nation. -- continue.
:22:56. > :22:58.The authorities have been heavy-handed in recent days. I have
:22:59. > :23:03.just come back from a human rights festival held on the edge of Colombo
:23:04. > :23:06.by civil society groups wanting to highlight issues like enforced
:23:07. > :23:11.disappearances and the rule of law which they say has been badly
:23:12. > :23:15.eroded. That has been shot down by police after a gang of nationalistic
:23:16. > :23:20.pro-government supporters led by Buddhist monks attacked the venue
:23:21. > :23:23.this morning, the second day in succession this has happened. It
:23:24. > :23:26.appears the Government is not wanting to give very much space at
:23:27. > :23:32.all to alternative views of Sri Lanka. The world's oceans are
:23:33. > :23:36.becoming more acidic at an unprecedented rate, according to a
:23:37. > :23:40.group of leading experts on oceanography. They say they have
:23:41. > :23:46.very high confidence that human emissions of carbon dioxide are to
:23:47. > :23:50.blame. The programme predicts the waters will be so acidic by the end
:23:51. > :23:55.of this century, that 30% of ocean species will not be able to survive.
:23:56. > :24:04.They say acidification could increase by 170% in 2000 -- in 2100.
:24:05. > :24:13.They say it is happening more rapidly than any time of the past
:24:14. > :24:17.300 years. Doctor David Gibson is managing director of the UK's
:24:18. > :24:23.Maritime aquarium. I asked him why this is seen such threat. You have
:24:24. > :24:29.to bear in mind that the oceans are a complex mix of chemicals, and they
:24:30. > :24:34.exist in a very difficult to understand range of equilibrium is.
:24:35. > :24:37.The impact of this is going to be absolutely catastrophic. As the
:24:38. > :24:43.oceans become more acidic, animals like plankton and crustaceans will
:24:44. > :24:48.find it harder to create their own shells. Without shells they cannot
:24:49. > :24:56.exist. We could see the collapse of global ocean fish. This is
:24:57. > :25:05.definitely caused by CO2 emissions, is it? It is. It is very difficult.
:25:06. > :25:08.But we have scientists working on this across the globe for many years
:25:09. > :25:15.and they are confident that the changes we are seeing are caused by
:25:16. > :25:30.human activity. Is it right that the pH has changed from 8.128.0. -- 8.1,
:25:31. > :25:40.28.0? That is right. Can it be reversed? Well, we can slow it,
:25:41. > :25:45.definitely, if the nations of the world gets to grips with climate
:25:46. > :25:49.change and reduce CO2 emissions. We have a chance of slowing down this
:25:50. > :25:54.change. The worry is that the change has now become pretty much
:25:55. > :25:59.irreversible. Doctor David Gibson. Some breaking news before we enter.
:26:00. > :26:05.The UK has announced that she is sending her helicopter carrier, HMS
:26:06. > :26:12.illustrious, to the Philippines. It is expected to arrive on the 24th
:26:13. > :26:17.25th of November, and is likely to relieve another ship when she gets
:26:18. > :26:21.there. Apparently because she has got more capacity as a flight deck,
:26:22. > :26:30.she can carry more helicopters, and she is one of the UK's two aircraft
:26:31. > :26:38.carriers. Other countries helping the Philippines as well. We do know
:26:39. > :26:46.that the US ship is just in the area there and hopefully will dock soon.
:26:47. > :26:50.It is carrying thousands of US military personnel of the island of
:26:51. > :26:55.Leyte. This is BBC world News. We will keep you across what is
:26:56. > :26:59.happening. Do check the website. Thank 's for watching. Goodbye. --
:27:00. > :27:01.thank you.