14/11/2013 BBC World News

Hello and welcome to BBC World News. The first shipment of aid finally

arrived in the area worst hit by Typhoon Haiyan. There is enough for

apparently five families to last three days. We also have boxes of

noodles and a lot of water. A lot of people in Townsend what is the one

thing they really need. In many areas there is still nothing to eat

and thousands wait for food and water.

Sri Lanka says it has nothing to hide over war crimes allegations.

And we will be live in Mumbai where India's biggest sporting hero is

batting in his last test match. Hello and welcome.

Six days after the devastating typhoon that ripped through the

Philippines, the international aid effort is coming together. A US

aircraft carrier has arrived in the Gulf of Leyte which found itself in

the centre of last week's super storm. The helicopters will work

alongside existing aid operations which have been struggling to get

aid to people in the most desperate need. Our correspondent told me more

about the situation in Tacloban, a city devastated by the storm. We

watched these two boatloads of aid being unloaded at the port today.

They are taking large numbers of evacuees out as well. People are

desperate to get away from here. The US aircraft carrier George

Washington is approaching the coast of Tacloban. The commander in charge

there says it will make a very big difference because of their ability

to bring in heavy-lift helicopters. They will be able to start moving

large amounts of aid. The infrastructure is still very fragile

here, there is not enough trucks, not enough fuel or enough places

where aid can be stored safely and safely distributed. Given how

desperate people are, that is a very big issue. It is getting into gear,

I do not think we will see the full 's dream of aid getting up to people

who need it. Probably for about two days yet. -- school stream. It is

heart rendering talking to people who have been through the trauma of

losing families. Then having days and days where they have got

nothing. They have no sense that their government really cares. The

government does care, it has simply been overwhelmed. With no

communication here, people do not know what is being done. Was there

no possibility of something like airdrops? Even if the roads were

still blocked? You cannot have a drops without the aircraft to do it.

The Philippines do not really have that capacity. Aid officials are

rather against those as they can cause mass panic with everyone

clambering for the food that is there. With a catastrophe this big,

it takes time for an effective aid operation to get into place. An

ineffective one is a waste of time. Where there could be criticism is

the failure of the Philippines government who took over control of

the city very quickly, to put significant numbers of soldiers and

police on the ground and to start preparing the roads and what

buildings are left for the influx of aid. Law and order has deteriorated

because they were late doing that. Reports of looting and chaos have

put NGOs off coming. They do not want to bring truckloads of aid in

and then get injured. It is properly justified criticism of the

centralised government. It is still not clear how many people have died

in the typhoon. The government says it is around 2200. Mass burials have

been taking place in Tacloban, and eyewitnesses have been reporting a

growing threat to public health. It is not clear if the victims have all

been identified or if they have been included in the official number of

people known to have lost their lives. The UN humanitarian chief

Valerie Amos has admitted that the UN has failed survivors of Typhoon

Haiyan by responding to slowly. She says there are still some parts of

the Philippines where people are in desperate need and the UN has been

unable to reach. We are all extremely distressed that this is

day six and we have not reached everyone. I feel we have let people

down because we have not been able to get in more quickly. At the same

time, I can see and I was able to see yesterday, that our operations

are scaling up significantly. Valerie Amos there, the UN

humanitarian chief. The first evacuees have started arriving in

Manila. This was the scene earlier today. Most of those taken out on

the military flight were able to take family with them. The

Philippines government say they are doing all they can to help its

people. They are distributing 50,000 food packs a day. The Philippines's

Cabinet Secretary has been speaking to the BBC. This is the largest

logistics operation we have ever done in the history of the

Philippines. Nothing like this has ever been done before. The volume of

food packs, the volume of rice and candles that are being handled and

transported has never been done in this magnitude. You add the

situation of a destroyed logistics system, a destroyed airport, so many

things were thrown into the water. You have a total destruction of some

communities, plus the fact the local government which is key to any

disaster response, was completely in shambles. We have our problems, we

are a poor country. But considering what we have been through in the

past four months, we are doing quite well. We were hit with a major

earthquake and a storm like this. The Philippines's resiliency will be

proven by this. There is a sense of law and order may be breaking down.

Since the National police moved in last Sunday and the Armed Forces,

residents are already saying there is no more looting in Tacloban. The

military and police already in control. I gather you have been

around the area and little bit, what have you been able to see? I have

been in Cebu city, I have been arranging relief for an island I

have lived on for ten years in the north of Cebu province. It is very

isolated. To be honest, since this thing started we have not been

expecting any government help. We have not assume there will be any

government help. We are expecting to have to do it ourselves. I own a

business there, and along with other business owners on the island we

have been arranging for donations. We have been buying supplies and

making sure all the islanders are fed and clothed and housed. We have

not seen any sign of any government involvement at all. How little did

people have? In practical terms, what are you able to give them? The

island was basically flattened. Most of the locals are very poor and have

no savings. If you belonging, but what they had was lost. They lived

in wooden homes which are now gone and they have nothing left. Our

priorities were to start with feeding them and housing them. Where

did you get the food, for example? I have around 60 staff, between them

they have large families. Their salaries probably feed around 500

people on the island. We had to make sure they were looked after first.

We did make some preparations in advance just in case the typhoon was

going to be very bad. And then we have been sending up food and

medication, anything they need really. It sounds like you're doing

a remarkable job. In terms of what sort of food you are getting to

people and how you are organising that, however you managing to do

that? Rice, noodles, canned sardines, canned meats, those are

the things we have been sending up. Not the most exciting diet, but they

are getting food. We are getting water to them as well. There is a

big problem on the island, getting fresh water. In terms of what you

are most worried about looking ahead, what are the challenges still

awaiting all of these families? We are trying to help the whole island,

not just my own staff. It has expanded to the whole island and I

am fund-raising as much as possible. I have managed to raise ?30,000

already. Other people are doing the same. It will cost a lot of money to

rebuild everybody's houses. That will be the main challenge moving

into the future. Getting the funding to get the island back on its feet.

Hopefully someone on our website will find a way to link up the

fund-raising efforts with what you are doing. Good luck.

Amongst all the concerns, there are some rare moments of joy in the

Philippines. These pictures show a mother giving birth in a church

which is sheltering survivors in Tacloban. She is surrounded by

relatives and medical volunteers. A baby girl was born. When asked what

name to give the daughter of the father had an answer.

Let's catch up with the business news. There is a financial aspect to

all of this. This is a country which on a normal year spends about $5

billion on storm damage alone. The true extent of the human to today is

unfolding and the Philippine government is taking stock of the

economic cost of this disaster. The country's Finance Secretary has been

speaking to the BBC. He has told us it will take many years to rebuild

infrastructure destroyed in the disaster. He warned there will be an

impact on the country's economy, it will probably knock up a one

percentage point off GDP for growth next year. The Philippines is seen

as an economy at most risk from natural disaster. He told us about

some of the things they are doing to mitigate the risk of climate change.

It is a big task. Let's talk about the hot news in the Eurozone. It is

not good news. Growth faltered in the third quarter. It took some of

the shine off a rebound earlier in the year which saw the bloc emerge

from an 18 month recession. It grew by just 0.1% in the three months to

September. That was following growth of 0.3% in the previous quarter.

France, a bit of a worry. Certainly one of the pro performer is. Its

economy unexpectedly contracted. -- Parreira performer. A major

deterioration. Germany, the mainly Eurozone engine, the powerhouse.

They saw growth slip a bit to 0.3%. Figures from Italy, the Italian

economy shrank by 0.1%. This was an improvement on the last quarter

where it had contracted by 0.3%. The figures from France are particularly

bad news for Francois Hollande's government. The US rating agency

said they doubted the French government's ability to raise median

prospects. If we go over to Japan, the question is is Japan's economic

growth running out of steam? There are GDP grew an annual rate of 1.9%

in those three months up to September. Just half of the 3.8% the

economy achieved in the second quarter. This will raise questions

about the sustainability of Japan's economic recovery which have been

motoring ahead thanks to massive stimulus policies the government. If

you have any questions you can follow me on Twitter.

Plenty more coming out throughout the rest of the day. Deep fears for

these arrival of ocean species. A painting by pop artist Andy Warhol

has sold at auction in New York from $105 million. It is called Silver

Car Crash (Double Disaster) and was painted in 1963. The price is a new

record for a painting by Andy Warhol. The anonymous buyer gets the

picture which shows the aftermath of a car crash. One of the panels is

plain silver. Another big sale. One of the world's rarest diamonds has

fetched a record breaking price at auction in Geneva. The the Pink Star

talk two years to polish. 60 carats of pink perfection. This is one of

the rarest diamonds in the world. Most pink diamonds are less than a

10th of the size of the the Pink Star. One of the most remarkable

gemstones ever to appear at auction. The Pink Star... It was always

expected to fetch a record price. When it finally came under the

hammer, it did not just break the world record, it smashed it. 68

million francs is the world record bid ever for a diamond or precious

stone. And it is right here. Congratulations. After just five

minutes of tense bidding, 68 million Swiss francs, $74 million, war on

offer. At commission, the final price tag was 83 million, almost

price the previous amount for a diamond sold at auction. The

record-breaking sale marks the end of an unusually glamorous jewellery

season in Geneva. Earlier this week a bare orange diamond also fetched a

higher than expected price -- array. It seems that currency and even gold

may be risky investments. Diamonds truly are forever.

We lost the end of that. We agree with that sentiment. A lorry caused

a major roadblock in Sydney in Australia when one of the containers

it was carrying crashed into the roof of a tunnel. The CCTV footage

of the incident shows that the driver tipped the container when he

bent down to pick up his glasses. This is BBC world News. The first

shipment of aid has finally reached the area worst hit by Typhoon

Haiyan. And the Sri Lankan President hits out at critics as the spotlight

falls on his country's human rights record.

He is a cricketing legend not just in India but around the world.

Sachin Tendulkar is bringing down the curtain on a glittering career.

He was giving -- he was given a hero's welcome when he walked out

for the test against West Indies in Mumbai. He will bat on tomorrow.

India is in the grip of a last bout of Sachin Tendulkar fever. Fans

queueing for a block after block for the start of his last test match. We

are very lucky to watch this match. Crowds were trying to get a last

glimpse of the man practising beforehand. He has been hitting

cricketing milestones for almost a quarter of a century. This was when

he overtook the record for the most number of test centuries. As he

prepares to retire, no batsman is even close to that. Everybody wanted

to be there. Including Bollywood stars. Fans have come from all over

the world, among them this woman from London. For the dreams he has

made come true, not just for me, for the country, the team, the fans,

this is history in the making. I am feeling very emotional. He is God.

We all know that. If you score 100 centuries, you are not going to be

big, you're going to be God. For Indians, this is going to be one

these moments where people ask, where were you? Tickets for the game

have reportedly been changing hands of 240 times their face value on the

black market. -- up to 40 times. It is almost goodbye for good. Fans say

the Tendulkar effect will last forever. For a country not always

sure about itself, he has given India a belief they can be the best

in the world. My children are going to wake up in

the middle of the night to watch is batting tomorrow. Lots of eyes on

that match in Mumbai. To Sri Lanka, and the president says his country

has nothing to hide over war crimes allegations as leaders gather for

the Commonwealth summit. Three prime ministers are boycotting the summit

because of concerns over human rights. President Mahinda Rajapaksa

defended his country's human rights record.

People are getting killed for 30 years. Since 2009, we have stopped

it. We have stopped it. There is no killing. There is no killing. If

anyone who wants to complain about human rights violation in Sri Lanka,

whether it is torture, whether it is raped, we have a system. You must

respect the system and the culture of our country. The Sri Lankan

president. Charles Haviland is in Colombo. He has been following the

row over Sri Lanka's human rights record. The human rights issues have

come to the fore in the run-up to the Commonwealth summit, which

begins tomorrow, with an agenda based on business and social and

civil issues. Because of the controversy over the host venue,

those accusations of possible war crimes, allegations of human rights

continue to be suppressed, continued to dog the host nation. -- continue.

The authorities have been heavy-handed in recent days. I have

just come back from a human rights festival held on the edge of Colombo

by civil society groups wanting to highlight issues like enforced

disappearances and the rule of law which they say has been badly

eroded. That has been shot down by police after a gang of nationalistic

pro-government supporters led by Buddhist monks attacked the venue

this morning, the second day in succession this has happened. It

appears the Government is not wanting to give very much space at

all to alternative views of Sri Lanka. The world's oceans are

becoming more acidic at an unprecedented rate, according to a

group of leading experts on oceanography. They say they have

very high confidence that human emissions of carbon dioxide are to

blame. The programme predicts the waters will be so acidic by the end

of this century, that 30% of ocean species will not be able to survive.

They say acidification could increase by 170% in 2000 -- in 2100.

They say it is happening more rapidly than any time of the past

300 years. Doctor David Gibson is managing director of the UK's

Maritime aquarium. I asked him why this is seen such threat. You have

to bear in mind that the oceans are a complex mix of chemicals, and they

exist in a very difficult to understand range of equilibrium is.

The impact of this is going to be absolutely catastrophic. As the

oceans become more acidic, animals like plankton and crustaceans will

find it harder to create their own shells. Without shells they cannot

exist. We could see the collapse of global ocean fish. This is

definitely caused by CO2 emissions, is it? It is. It is very difficult.

But we have scientists working on this across the globe for many years

and they are confident that the changes we are seeing are caused by

human activity. Is it right that the pH has changed from 8.128.0. -- 8.1,

28.0? That is right. Can it be reversed? Well, we can slow it,

definitely, if the nations of the world gets to grips with climate

change and reduce CO2 emissions. We have a chance of slowing down this

change. The worry is that the change has now become pretty much

irreversible. Doctor David Gibson. Some breaking news before we enter.

The UK has announced that she is sending her helicopter carrier, HMS

illustrious, to the Philippines. It is expected to arrive on the 24th

25th of November, and is likely to relieve another ship when she gets

there. Apparently because she has got more capacity as a flight deck,

she can carry more helicopters, and she is one of the UK's two aircraft

carriers. Other countries helping the Philippines as well. We do know

that the US ship is just in the area there and hopefully will dock soon.

It is carrying thousands of US military personnel of the island of

Leyte. This is BBC world News. We will keep you across what is

happening. Do check the website. Thank 's for watching. Goodbye. --

thank you.