:00:08. > :00:16.Hello and welcome to BBC World News. Our top stories: The death toll
:00:17. > :00:22.following Typhoon Haiyan rises to just over 3500, although the number
:00:23. > :00:25.could be much higher. Aid workers described the situation
:00:26. > :00:32.as bleak with tens of thousands of survivors desperate for help.
:00:33. > :00:38.Protest in Sri Lanka as the Commonwealth meeting starts.
:00:39. > :00:43.China announces plans to relax its one child policy.
:00:44. > :00:45.And the legend Sachin Tendulkar misses a century in his final test
:00:46. > :01:08.in his home city of Mumbai. One week after a devastating typhoon
:01:09. > :01:13.ripped through the centre of the Philippines, aid agencies say the
:01:14. > :01:19.situation remains bleak. The official death toll has risen to
:01:20. > :01:24.over 3500. The UN says it could be much higher, and the number of
:01:25. > :01:32.people affected have gone up to 11.8 million. 673 people have been
:01:33. > :01:38.displaced, and the typhoon has caused widespread damage to
:01:39. > :01:44.agriculture and infrastructure. Aid is beginning to arrive in some of
:01:45. > :01:48.those cities, but with roads still blocked and fuel running short, it
:01:49. > :01:56.is not reaching all the remote areas. The government is facing an
:01:57. > :02:01.uphill task to get aid. Relief efforts had been delayed because of
:02:02. > :02:05.the scale of the devastation. The basic infrastructure of any
:02:06. > :02:11.community that is normally found in any part of the world have been
:02:12. > :02:15.swept away. Everything you see here have been brought in from the
:02:16. > :02:21.outside. Imagine a situation from ground zero, were from day one you
:02:22. > :02:28.have to set up the mechanisms to feed, clothe and shelter 275,000
:02:29. > :02:36.families. Everything has been swept away. Is that why the relief effort
:02:37. > :02:40.has appeared to be slow? Yes, in a situation like this is nothing is
:02:41. > :02:46.fast enough. But the first responders were literally swept
:02:47. > :02:51.away. They themselves were victims, they died, their loved ones died,
:02:52. > :02:56.they cannot be found. They may be suffering from traumatic stress. It
:02:57. > :03:06.is only now that people are showing up to work in City Hall. From the
:03:07. > :03:13.police in Tacloban, out of a man power of 293, when I went to the
:03:14. > :03:23.police station to organise people only 20 showed up. There was only 50
:03:24. > :03:27.or so, two days ago. That is why we have to augment everything from the
:03:28. > :03:31.outside. I only have eight trucks from the Armed Forces that are
:03:32. > :03:39.delivering goods and food stuff to the communities. For the whole city?
:03:40. > :03:49.For the whole province. The total trucks under this system is 16
:03:50. > :03:55.yesterday. Extreme. That shows you there is some thought going into
:03:56. > :04:03.this. Out of those 16 trucks, we dedicated one half to delivering
:04:04. > :04:09.food, and one to clearing the roads. There is not much more we can do.
:04:10. > :04:14.That was the secretary for the interior for the Philippine
:04:15. > :04:20.government. We are in Tacloban, we have been around the city to see how
:04:21. > :04:27.people are coping. It does not look much like it, but this is a high
:04:28. > :04:32.school, one of the few buildings left standing after the storm swept
:04:33. > :04:37.through here a short time ago. As you can see, what it is now is a
:04:38. > :04:43.refugee camp. These people have come in from the region, most of them
:04:44. > :04:48.telling a story of destroyed homes, of neighbours and family members who
:04:49. > :04:53.have been killed. They are simply trying to find somewhere dry and
:04:54. > :04:58.safe to get their lives back into some sort of order. Most of the
:04:59. > :05:07.people we have spoken to here say they are not hungry. They say they
:05:08. > :05:10.have water, but what they are desperate for is shelter. They have
:05:11. > :05:14.no homes to go to, they are crammed into this area and they need help
:05:15. > :05:18.from the international community. The teachers from the school are
:05:19. > :05:23.taking details of the families who are registered here. There are
:05:24. > :05:29.something like 250 families already. They are giving each family
:05:30. > :05:34.a number so that as and when international aid arrives here, they
:05:35. > :05:39.will be allocated aid in an orderly fashion. Everybody is trying to did
:05:40. > :05:46.positive, this is positivity in the face of real human tragedy. A
:05:47. > :05:52.glimpse of one part of Tacloban. We are going to move onto one of our
:05:53. > :05:58.top stories today and leaders of the Commonwealth are attending a summit
:05:59. > :06:03.in Columbo, a overshadowed about a row over whether the company is a
:06:04. > :06:08.suitable venue. The British Prime Minister is on an historic visit to
:06:09. > :06:17.the Jaffna region to meet Tamil leaders and some of the victims of a
:06:18. > :06:20.country's prolonged civil war. They are always colourful affairs,
:06:21. > :06:27.but this Commonwealth summit has turned into one of the most of
:06:28. > :06:31.modern times. Campaigners continue to call for an investigation into
:06:32. > :06:36.alleged war crimes as it is estimated tens of thousands of
:06:37. > :06:41.civilians died in the government's final victory over the Tamil Tigers
:06:42. > :06:47.separatists. A grand red carpet entrance for David Cameron who has
:06:48. > :06:51.defended his decision to take part. Not long after this handshake with
:06:52. > :06:58.the controversial Sri Lanka and president, he broke away from the
:06:59. > :07:05.summit to head to Jaffna north, the first western leader to do so. It is
:07:06. > :07:09.important to shine a spotlight on what has happened in this country
:07:10. > :07:14.and speak up against abuses that have taken place, and make sure
:07:15. > :07:20.people in the north of the country have a voice. There has been
:07:21. > :07:24.progress, but they're still has not been enough truth telling about what
:07:25. > :07:32.has happened. It is important to go there and make these points. As he
:07:33. > :07:35.met Tamil leaders, protesters made clear their grievances. Families,
:07:36. > :07:41.including many women, attempted to block the road and call attention to
:07:42. > :07:45.many people they believe are missing. Before that the Prime
:07:46. > :07:50.Minister was very much a part of the lavish opening ceremony. The leaders
:07:51. > :07:54.of Canada, India and Mauritius have stayed away. The Sri Lanka and
:07:55. > :08:12.leader has a defiant message for his critics. Opportunities have been
:08:13. > :08:17.long denied to my people due to terrorism which existed for nearly
:08:18. > :08:30.three decades. In ending terrorism in 2009, we asserted the greatest
:08:31. > :08:35.human rights, the right to life. It is all quite a debut for Prince
:08:36. > :08:39.Charles, representing the Queen for the first time at a Commonwealth
:08:40. > :08:46.summit. We hope to speak to the Canadian
:08:47. > :08:50.High Commissioner on this story, Canada have not sent their Prime
:08:51. > :08:57.Minister to the summit. First we will go back to the Philippines. My
:08:58. > :09:04.colleague is in Tacloban. What is the picture overall about the aid
:09:05. > :09:07.delivery system? We have seen America coming in with huge
:09:08. > :09:16.resources, potentially. Is that reaching people on the ground? It is
:09:17. > :09:21.beginning to. A week after this super typhoon things appear to
:09:22. > :09:26.finally be changing. We drove around the city today and spoke to lots of
:09:27. > :09:32.people. A lot of the roads are clear, there are teams of the Red
:09:33. > :09:39.Cross out the military. They are trying to get this city back to some
:09:40. > :09:43.semblance of normality. Yet there are hundreds of side streets clogged
:09:44. > :09:50.with concrete lamp posts, debris from the houses which have been
:09:51. > :09:55.blown away by this wind. There are dozens, properly hundreds, even
:09:56. > :10:01.thousands more bodies buried under that rubble. That will take some
:10:02. > :10:08.time to clear. As far as the aid is concerned, people seem to be getting
:10:09. > :10:14.rice and water. The -- the market was opened today. The real problem
:10:15. > :10:19.here is going to be shelter. Thousands of people are without any
:10:20. > :10:23.roof over their heads. They are still in evacuation centres, the
:10:24. > :10:28.conditions there are squalid and miserable. The mayor, who we were
:10:29. > :10:34.speaking to a few moments ago, said according to a few NGOs and hope to
:10:35. > :10:40.set up temporary shelter for these people with something to protect
:10:41. > :10:44.them from the rain. It is raining here constantly over the typhoon
:10:45. > :10:50.season. He hopes once everything is set in place, they will be able to
:10:51. > :10:54.create towns and cities for the survivors of this terrible storm so
:10:55. > :10:59.that they can survive with food and medicine as best they can until
:11:00. > :11:07.housing is rebuilt. That will take a long time. More now on the Sri Lanka
:11:08. > :11:11.summit for the heads of the Commonwealth leaders. Let's speaks
:11:12. > :11:22.to the High Commissioner for Canada here in the UK. Thank you for
:11:23. > :11:25.joining us. Why has Canada's Prime Minister not gone? David Cameron
:11:26. > :11:30.says the best way to deal with this situation, the alleged deaths of
:11:31. > :11:37.40,000 civilians in the Civil War, is to shine a spotlight on it.
:11:38. > :11:42.Canada has been trying to shine a spotlight for some time. In 2011 at
:11:43. > :11:46.their head the Commonwealth meeting, our Prime Minister was
:11:47. > :11:50.clear that we needed to see human rights improvements taking place in
:11:51. > :11:55.Sri Lanka. In fact, we have seen Sri Lanka going the opposite direction.
:11:56. > :12:02.The UN human rights director will say they are moving towards an
:12:03. > :12:07.authoritarian of government. One family is in control of many of the
:12:08. > :12:13.arms of government. We are watching as the Supreme Court justice is
:12:14. > :12:17.impeached with impunity. In 2007 when Pakistan impeached their
:12:18. > :12:21.Supreme Court Justice the Commonwealth acted and they
:12:22. > :12:28.suspended Pakistan. We see human rights abuses, even weeks ago the
:12:29. > :12:36.Sri Lankan representative said everyone would get their visas and
:12:37. > :12:41.then they withdrew that. We believe we have to be consistent, that our
:12:42. > :12:46.actions have to follow the commitment we made to the
:12:47. > :12:49.Commonwealth Charter. This was an appropriate steps for our Prime
:12:50. > :12:54.Minister to take. Every leader will take their own steps. Why do you
:12:55. > :12:58.think most of the Commonwealth leaders have turned up to this
:12:59. > :13:03.lavish ceremony today? They are the ones who appointed Sri Lanka to host
:13:04. > :13:07.the summit in the first place. Is it the influence of China in the
:13:08. > :13:16.regions? Perhaps you lose influence you walk away. There are 27 leaders
:13:17. > :13:22.out of 53 countries there, that is quite a narrow most. Having said
:13:23. > :13:27.that, we continued to try and move to a process of reconciliation. We
:13:28. > :13:32.have been providing support into Sri Lanka, we have been encouraging aid
:13:33. > :13:37.agencies and human rights agencies there. We will continue to do that.
:13:38. > :13:41.Canadians believe human rights are things we believe in and act on. The
:13:42. > :13:49.Commonwealth in the past has acted on those. The Commonwealth acted on
:13:50. > :13:54.issues like apartheid. We think the Commonwealth has to pick this up,
:13:55. > :13:58.and the way to do it is not to reward a government like Sri
:13:59. > :14:06.Lanka's government. Thank you very much indeed for joining us.
:14:07. > :14:10.China's new leadership has announced two major changes in policy. Labour
:14:11. > :14:17.camps are to be abolished and the one child policy is to be relaxed.
:14:18. > :14:23.Couples will be allowed to have two children, if one of the parents is
:14:24. > :14:31.an only child. Let's go live to Beijing. This seems an extraordinary
:14:32. > :14:34.move. Certainly, the so-called one child policy relaxation is a
:14:35. > :14:42.surprise. As you were pointing out there, couples, if one of them is an
:14:43. > :14:48.only child, will be able to have more than one child. Previously,
:14:49. > :14:57.both parents needed to be an only child. Italy that is a significant
:14:58. > :15:01.move. I think the reason it has happened is growing concern.
:15:02. > :15:06.China's population is rapidly ageing because they do not have lots of
:15:07. > :15:13.children being born. Secondly, there is growing concern over the fact
:15:14. > :15:18.that the country's working age population is shrinking. The number
:15:19. > :15:22.of workers in China has peaked and that has consequences down the road
:15:23. > :15:27.in terms of economic growth. In terms of the Labour camp, there had
:15:28. > :15:32.been a drumbeat over the last few months that authorities were talking
:15:33. > :15:37.about reforming this system. Now we have this statement saying they will
:15:38. > :15:42.abolish labour camps. Labour camps were used for petty criminals,
:15:43. > :15:48.people accused of minor crimes could be sent to these camps for up to
:15:49. > :15:53.three years without a trial. It is clear china's leaders seem to be
:15:54. > :15:58.sending a signal they want to see greater legal framework when it
:15:59. > :16:01.comes to these types of cases. The one child policy change is
:16:02. > :16:09.eye-catching, but other reforms were announced. What does this tell us
:16:10. > :16:16.about the thinking in Beijing? In terms of the economy we get the
:16:17. > :16:22.sense they are trying to liberalise. In terms of social
:16:23. > :16:29.policy, we have seen with the so-called one child policy, they are
:16:30. > :16:35.moving on that front. Some people believe that the relaxing on social
:16:36. > :16:39.issues in terms of the economy, they are liberalising, but when it comes
:16:40. > :16:45.to political control, when it comes to tracking down dissent, China's
:16:46. > :16:56.leaders have now been in power for a year and are still taking a tough
:16:57. > :17:00.line. Thank you. Still to come, the legend's last stand. He missed out
:17:01. > :17:08.on 100, could Sachin Tendulkar have played his last ever test match
:17:09. > :17:14.innings? Malaysia has posted another big growth in its GDP, by 5% in the
:17:15. > :17:18.latest quarter. Analysts are warning that part of that decreases down to
:17:19. > :17:25.high levels of borrowing, something which could storing up problems. At
:17:26. > :17:32.the Kuala Lumpur International motor show, a car starts at the touch of a
:17:33. > :17:37.tablet. This kind of innovation has kept Malaysia spending. The country
:17:38. > :17:44.is one of the largest markets for private cars in south-east Asia.
:17:45. > :17:50.Malaysia's top-selling car-maker has increased sales by 15%. This is the
:17:51. > :17:54.most popular model but it does not come cheap. The average Malaysian
:17:55. > :18:02.could spend more than a year of their salary just to buy this car.
:18:03. > :18:14.Imported cars could be taxed more than 200%. How can Malaysians are
:18:15. > :18:18.afforded? We do not have as effective public transport as in the
:18:19. > :18:25.United States. Whether we like it or not, some of us have two or three
:18:26. > :18:34.jobs. That is 16 hours of working in a day. For a meagre salary. And you
:18:35. > :18:39.spend it all on cars. This willingness to borrow money for
:18:40. > :18:44.expensive cars and houses pushes 60 people to declare bankruptcy day.
:18:45. > :18:47.That is a 40% increase since the financial crisis. It worries the
:18:48. > :18:57.Malaysian central bank so it now restrict credit growth and offers
:18:58. > :19:02.free counselling. People used to save money. When they had enough,
:19:03. > :19:08.they would spend it. Now the system has changed. The younger generation
:19:09. > :19:16.have greater access to the banking facilities. For them to get in the
:19:17. > :19:23.debt trap is really easy. Around the city, shoppers are tempted by sale
:19:24. > :19:27.signs. The readiness to sell is pushing the economy through hard
:19:28. > :19:32.times. Now the Government says Malaysians should only buy within
:19:33. > :19:45.their means. It is not clear if they are getting the message yet.
:19:46. > :19:48.This is BBC World News. The Philippines Gottman says the death
:19:49. > :19:53.toll from Typhoon Haiyan has risen to just over 3500. -- the
:19:54. > :19:58.Philippines government. The higher number is likely to be higher.
:19:59. > :20:04.Supplies are beginning to arrive but the situation on the ground is
:20:05. > :20:07.bleak, according to aid agencies. Brazil says the rate of
:20:08. > :20:13.deforestation in the Amazon has risen sharply after years of
:20:14. > :20:21.decline. It is up nearly 30% a year. Me now is Beatrix Richards, an
:20:22. > :20:28.expert from the world wildlife fund. What exactly is happening here? It
:20:29. > :20:32.is quite a complex picture. The main reasons are around the fact that the
:20:33. > :20:38.Brazilian government has been working on the forest cold. We
:20:39. > :20:42.predicted uncertainty at the time would result to an increase in
:20:43. > :20:46.deforestation. The second one is around the fact that you have land
:20:47. > :20:52.title issues in Brazil. And then you also have the issue around commodity
:20:53. > :20:56.prices, the fact that key commodities like beef production,
:20:57. > :21:00.the price has not gone up significantly. Historically, in
:21:01. > :21:11.recent years, those commodity prices have been quite depressed. What are
:21:12. > :21:19.your key concerns? Forest loss is a huge issue globally. The greenhouse
:21:20. > :21:24.gas emissions that result from that, forest loss contributes anything up
:21:25. > :21:29.to 20% of greenhouse gas emissions. That has a high significant impact.
:21:30. > :21:33.Nobody can link what is going on in the Philippines to climate change
:21:34. > :21:39.directly, but some people have raised those questions? They are
:21:40. > :21:43.valid concerns. The Amazon has a huge impact on global climate
:21:44. > :21:47.circles. It has been demonstrated that you can see impact of
:21:48. > :21:55.deforestation affecting global climate -- global climate cycles.
:21:56. > :21:59.Can anything be done to stop this? There are several things. The
:22:00. > :22:03.Brazilian government have good forest laws. It is about
:22:04. > :22:07.enforcement, giving the powers necessary to their environmental
:22:08. > :22:12.police force. Also knuckling down at state government level. One state in
:22:13. > :22:17.Brazil, the deforestation rate has gone down by about 30%. That is
:22:18. > :22:21.fantastic news. That is as a result of a concerted effort between the
:22:22. > :22:30.state government, local communities and industry. There are good
:22:31. > :22:36.examples of good projects. Thank you very much indeed.
:22:37. > :22:44.One of America's most notorious gangsters, has been given two life
:22:45. > :22:47.sentences for crimes going back decades. He was convicted of
:22:48. > :22:55.extortionate drug dealing and 11 murders.
:22:56. > :23:00.James Bolger led a criminal career that spanned decades. He was sent to
:23:01. > :23:05.Alcatraz in the 1950s for hijacking and bank robbery. In the 1970s and
:23:06. > :23:13.1980s, he led a murderous reign in Boston. He inspired the
:23:14. > :23:16.Oscar-winning film the departed, in which he was played by Jack
:23:17. > :23:22.Nicholson. In this film from the 1980s, he is seen meeting with
:23:23. > :23:27.another crime boss. It later emerged he was a top-level informant for
:23:28. > :23:34.corrupt FBI agents, who ignored his crimes in exchange information on
:23:35. > :23:37.arrival New England Mafia. He fled Boston in 1994 after a tip-off that
:23:38. > :23:42.officials were closing in. He went on the run for more than 15 years.
:23:43. > :23:48.Authorities put it $2 million bounty on his head. Until his capture, he
:23:49. > :23:54.has been on the wanted list. Police arrested him just days after
:23:55. > :24:00.releasing an appeal looking for his long-term girlfriend. Find her and
:24:01. > :24:06.you will find him. It worked. Extradited back to Massachusetts, he
:24:07. > :24:10.finally faced his crimes. On Thursday, a judge sentenced him to
:24:11. > :24:16.life in prison, for crimes including murder, extortion, money-laundering
:24:17. > :24:20.and drug trafficking. He deserves nothing less than to spend the rest
:24:21. > :24:28.of his life in jail for the harm, the pain and the suffering that he
:24:29. > :24:34.has caused to so many in this town. For a 31 years, six months, two
:24:35. > :24:39.days, to finally get a conviction for somebody from my father, today
:24:40. > :24:45.is the first day we can get on the road to closure. It is a good
:24:46. > :24:50.feeling. It is bittersweet. The 84-year-old remained defiant until
:24:51. > :24:55.the end, calling his trial a sham. He remained stonefaced as he learned
:24:56. > :24:58.his fate. 50 countries are meeting in Geneva today to find out whether
:24:59. > :25:09.to open discussions on banning lethal weapons -- lethal autonomous
:25:10. > :25:12.weapons. Supporters of killer robots say they could save lives by cutting
:25:13. > :25:19.the number of soldiers on the battlefield. A little bit of a sad
:25:20. > :25:24.moment across India today, I'm afraid, as cricket legend Sachin
:25:25. > :25:29.Tendulkar narrowly missed a century in what is probably his last
:25:30. > :25:32.international match. He scored 74. The Little Master is calling it
:25:33. > :25:45.quits after nearly 25 years in the game. The BBC reporter summed up the
:25:46. > :25:49.mood. Sachin Tendulkar made possibly his last international appearance,
:25:50. > :25:54.making 74 runs, agonisingly short of a century, which would have been a
:25:55. > :25:57.fairy tale ending, I guess. He first started his career 24 years ago
:25:58. > :26:02.tomorrow. If the matchless and tomorrow, it will be quite an
:26:03. > :26:06.ending. It was a full house today. Everybody was quite shell-shocked
:26:07. > :26:11.when he did get out. Then they stood up to give him a massive ovation. A
:26:12. > :26:15.bittersweet moment for Indian fans. They were delightfully played the
:26:16. > :26:19.way he did right at the end but sad that they will not be able to see
:26:20. > :26:24.him for much longer. Very sad that he will not make it. Just before we
:26:25. > :26:28.go, let me remind you of the top story today. It is one week since
:26:29. > :26:32.that devastating typhoon ripped through the centre of the
:26:33. > :26:37.Philippines. Aid is now beginning to arrive in some of the worst affected
:26:38. > :26:43.areas. US heavy lifting helicopters have been flying supplies into
:26:44. > :26:50.Tacloban airport, devastated by the storm. Ships have been unloading
:26:51. > :26:55.consignments of food aid. Distribution is difficult in the
:26:56. > :26:59.remote areas. The death toll is now estimated at 3500, but likely,
:27:00. > :27:01.sadly, to increase. Thank you for watching. Goodbye.