:00:00. > :00:10.Hello. This is BBC World News. The top stories: A group in Lebanon
:00:11. > :00:14.linked to Al-Qaeda has just said it carried out the double suicide bomb
:00:15. > :00:19.attack on the Iranian Embassy in Beirut that left 20 dead.
:00:20. > :00:23.A manhunt in Paris - police still search for a gunman who shot a
:00:24. > :00:28.journalist. At least 17 people killed by
:00:29. > :00:35.flooding after a cyclone hit the Italian island of Sardinia.
:00:36. > :00:36.We visit a makeshift hospital in the Philippines city of Tacloban left
:00:37. > :01:02.devastated by Typhoon Haiyan. Iran's ambassador has accused Israel
:01:03. > :01:06.of being behind the attacks on its embassy in Beirut, in which at least
:01:07. > :01:11.20 people died. In the last few minutes, a group linked to Al-Qaeda
:01:12. > :01:17.has said it was responsible for both attacks. Explosions blew the main
:01:18. > :01:26.gate off the embassy at the beginning of the morning. They
:01:27. > :01:31.caused extensive damage within the embassy compound. A huge column of
:01:32. > :01:53.smoke rose from the scene which is in a preDom -- Shi'ite area.
:01:54. > :01:58.Carine Torbey, who is in Beirut, gave us the latest details. We have
:01:59. > :02:02.seen attacks on several parts of Lebanon earlier this year, but this
:02:03. > :02:08.seems to be taking everything one notch up. As you can see, the place,
:02:09. > :02:15.the scene of the explosion is still sealed off. There are security teams
:02:16. > :02:19.trying to assess the damage, to clear any injured persons still on
:02:20. > :02:28.the ground. Emotions are running really high here. It is a very dense
:02:29. > :02:35.area of south Beirut which we can see behind you, yet this is also a
:02:36. > :02:41.very highly-secure area with masses of CCTV monitoring devices, yet this
:02:42. > :02:52.could still happen? Exactly. There is nothing they can apparently do to
:02:53. > :02:58.stop suicide bombers getting in here. This is a heavily-secure area.
:02:59. > :03:05.There are Hezbollah members on the ground searching every single person
:03:06. > :03:10.trying to enter this area. Despite all security that must be stepped
:03:11. > :03:16.up, it still happened, which shows how dangerous the situation has
:03:17. > :03:19.become in Lebanon. This is really a diplomatic and political hub for
:03:20. > :03:23.Iranian foreign interests, particularly in Lebanon,
:03:24. > :03:27.particularly in south Beirut, particularly in south Lebanon with
:03:28. > :03:32.Hezbollah, but also because of the weapons shipments and supplies and
:03:33. > :03:39.support for Syria. What therefore might the strategic implications of
:03:40. > :03:44.this be? Well, I just asked this question, I put it to one of the MPs
:03:45. > :03:56.of Hezbollah, who visited the site. He said - this is definitely a
:03:57. > :04:00.message. He said this is a message. He also said that what Hezbollah
:04:01. > :04:13.says that the only solution for the conflict in Syria is a political
:04:14. > :04:20.one. I also asked him what he said and he said no comment. To Paris
:04:21. > :04:30.where police are stationed outside all main media offices in the city.
:04:31. > :04:33.One person was seriously injured on Monday when the man opened fire at
:04:34. > :04:36.the headquarters of Liberation newspaper. He also opened fire at a
:04:37. > :04:40.bank in Paris main business district, before disappearing
:04:41. > :04:44.somewhere on the Champs Elysees. Here is the BBC's Christian Fraser
:04:45. > :04:50.with the latest from Paris. Of course, it is a very busy time in
:04:51. > :04:53.Paris, lots of tourists and a Christmas Market on the Champs
:04:54. > :04:57.Elysees. That was the last position the gunman was seen at yesterday. We
:04:58. > :05:01.have armed guards outside all the major news agencies in Paris. A
:05:02. > :05:07.certain apprehension outside those offices today and perhaps at the
:05:08. > :05:10.banks as well, because we know he headed from Liberation to La
:05:11. > :05:15.Defense. What is striking about all the reports in the morning
:05:16. > :05:19.newspapers is the way he carries himself, the witnesses talk about
:05:20. > :05:22.this sort of intent on his face, the calm and deliberate way he goes
:05:23. > :05:26.about his business. Obviously, there was a certain ruthlessness to the
:05:27. > :05:31.way he shot this 23-year-old photographer yesterday in the back
:05:32. > :05:35.twice with buckshot without saying a word. I think that is what alarms
:05:36. > :05:40.police. It is not an isolated incident. It is a series of events.
:05:41. > :05:45.It is someone with a grudge and perhaps a hatred of the media and
:05:46. > :05:49.the financial institutions. He also believes - and we have been seeing
:05:50. > :05:53.the closed-circuit television picture - he believes it doesn't
:05:54. > :05:58.matter that with a hat on, he is being filmed in many parts and
:05:59. > :06:05.locations where he is going? Yeah, that again will be cause for
:06:06. > :06:10.concern, because now that he's shot and he shot to kill, presumably,
:06:11. > :06:16.there will be a fear that he might be trigger-happy, that the net is
:06:17. > :06:19.closing in on him. There may be another incident. There will also be
:06:20. > :06:23.a sense of desperation on his part as well as that net draws in. So, it
:06:24. > :06:27.is the most dangerous time. Minds here in France will turn very
:06:28. > :06:37.quickly to the events in Toulouse a couple of years ago when one man
:06:38. > :06:43.went on the rampage there. We had one shooting, then four days later
:06:44. > :06:53.two paratroopers were killed. That is what they are seeking to prevent.
:06:54. > :06:56.Christian Fraser. Now to Canada. The increasingly beleaguered Mayor
:06:57. > :07:00.of Toronto, Rob Ford, has been stripped of most of his powers. This
:07:01. > :07:04.follows his admission that he took illegal drugs and drank heavily. In
:07:05. > :07:08.a stormy session, the city council voted in favour of cutting his
:07:09. > :07:11.budget and taking away his main law-making powers. David Willis is
:07:12. > :07:17.in Toronto with the latest twists in this political drama.
:07:18. > :07:25.Only hours after losing much of his power, Toronto's Mayor and his
:07:26. > :07:34.brother debuted on their own current affairs show on Canadian TV. If
:07:35. > :07:38.counsel wants to strip all my powers, they have their rights and I
:07:39. > :07:45.think it is wrong, I think it is illegal... The channel's owner
:07:46. > :07:48.believes the beleaguered but larger-than-life Mayor could be what
:07:49. > :07:56.they need to boost ratings despite all his setbacks. I admitted I had
:07:57. > :08:02.done drugs. He never had intention of going quietly. Counsel
:08:03. > :08:09.proceedings became heated after the Mayor traded barbs with observers
:08:10. > :08:14.and then charged towards the public gallery. Mayor Ford may have
:08:15. > :08:18.marginalised by his inappropriate behaviour, but there are still those
:08:19. > :08:23.who believe the people and not the politicians should decide his fate.
:08:24. > :08:29.I want to thank the thousands and thousands of e-mails and phone calls
:08:30. > :08:39.that I'm getting to continue on and to stay the course. The Mayor's main
:08:40. > :08:43.cheerleader, his brother, Doug. It's an overthrow. This would never
:08:44. > :08:46.happen in the UK. It would never happen in the United States. It
:08:47. > :08:52.shouldn't happen in Canada. He's brought it on himself? You have to
:08:53. > :08:56.separate the personal issues from the statue, the provincial statue.
:08:57. > :09:01.An opinion poll revealed that more than three-quarters of Toronto's
:09:02. > :09:06.voters now believe the time has come for him to step down. Mr Ford's
:09:07. > :09:16.response? He said he hopes to one day be Canada's Prime Minister.
:09:17. > :09:24.Now to the recovery effort in the Philippines. It is picking up
:09:25. > :09:28.momentum. It is ten days since that super-typhoon hit the centre of the
:09:29. > :09:35.country. There is criticism of the government's slow response. The
:09:36. > :09:40.BBC's correspondent has been to a makeshift hospital in the city of
:09:41. > :09:43.Tacloban. He found dozens of people waiting in line for treatment.
:09:44. > :09:47.Some of these people have been waiting in line for more than three
:09:48. > :09:52.hours now. It's warm weather as well. They are not waiting for food
:09:53. > :09:56.or water. They are in line for medical help. This is a field
:09:57. > :09:59.hospital set up jointly by the Germans and the Belgians and it is
:10:00. > :10:05.the only medical facility in this area after the local hospital was
:10:06. > :10:08.destroyed by the typhoon. Every day they see 250 people in this
:10:09. > :10:13.facility. When they get in, the first stop is this tent. They get
:10:14. > :10:17.their symptoms checked out. There is something wrong with his leg so they
:10:18. > :10:22.are going to stretcher him off and take him down into the facility. In
:10:23. > :10:30.this centre, they check for infectious diseases. We are ten days
:10:31. > :10:35.in and people have been living in unsanitary conditions, their immune
:10:36. > :10:39.systems have been compromised so epidemics could spread. In this
:10:40. > :10:43.treatment room, this man has had a wound to his finger. They are
:10:44. > :10:48.telling me he's already been in and this is a check-up three days later.
:10:49. > :10:54.Can I ask what is wrong with this guy? He has a big wound on his
:10:55. > :11:03.finger. We see much bigger wounds also. This is manageable. This has
:11:04. > :11:08.to be a fully self-contained facility. This is the pharmacy. It
:11:09. > :11:12.gets regularly re-stocked. There are eight doctors working here. There
:11:13. > :11:17.are 24 nurses. There is an operating theatre and they see all sorts of
:11:18. > :11:24.things. In fact, the other day, they had their first baby born, the
:11:25. > :11:31.mother called him Gregory. You are with BBC World News. Still
:11:32. > :11:41.to come: The world's largest refugee camp in northern Kenya - why so many
:11:42. > :11:45.refugees don't want to go home. The UN's chief climate negotiator
:11:46. > :12:00.has called on countries to stop burning coal because of the scale of
:12:01. > :12:06.damage to the environment. Well, environmentalists from Greenpeace
:12:07. > :12:12.stormed the meeting. This is the blanket of smog that
:12:13. > :12:16.coats this city. 35,000 residents keep their home fires burning with
:12:17. > :12:21.coal. This is the result. Campaigners say it is the equivalent
:12:22. > :12:26.of smoking 2,500 cigarettes every year. You can see the tremendous
:12:27. > :12:32.smog here. Medical doctors say several hundred people die each year
:12:33. > :12:39.because of this smog that you can see. Policymakers, they haven't done
:12:40. > :12:42.anything about this. Poland's coolness on banning the burning of
:12:43. > :12:49.coal is part of a bigger fight with the EU who want to cut its use
:12:50. > :12:55.because of the large amounts of Co2 emitted. They have just opened a
:12:56. > :13:00.hi-tech facility to test new ways of removing carbon. This hard, black
:13:01. > :13:05.Polish coal is a miracle of nature. It was formed over millions of years
:13:06. > :13:09.by geological pressure acting on organic matter. Scientists are now
:13:10. > :13:13.trying to reverse engineer that process. They have built this
:13:14. > :13:17.machine that will cook coal like this under high pressure and high
:13:18. > :13:23.temperatures to produce gas. They believe this type of technology will
:13:24. > :13:28.make coal useable across the world. With shale gas in Poland seen as a
:13:29. > :13:35.busted flush, there is more pressure on researchers to clean up coal. We
:13:36. > :13:42.can produce greener coal. We can call it green, but owing to smaller
:13:43. > :13:50.emission, lower emission from coal using new technology, we can say so
:13:51. > :13:54.that it is greener. Researchers know the extraordinary power and dangers
:13:55. > :13:59.posed by just a few kilograms of coal. Scientists say the dangers it
:14:00. > :14:04.poses to the climate are greater and coal use must be curbed. With
:14:05. > :14:07.economic concerns more pressing than ecological worries, governments are
:14:08. > :14:17.unlikely to give up easily the world's most carbon-dense fossil
:14:18. > :14:24.fuel. You are with BBC World News.
:14:25. > :14:29.A group in Lebanon linked to Al-Qaeda has said it carried out the
:14:30. > :14:43.double suicide bomb attack on Iran's embassy in uth Beirut, which has
:14:44. > :14:47.left at least 20 dead. So, who might have done this and why? I'm joined
:14:48. > :14:53.by the BBC's World Affairs Correspondent.
:14:54. > :14:57.There is a long list here. We have had a Lebanon-based Al-Qaeda
:14:58. > :15:03.affiliate. Who might gain from this? Well, the brigade, as you say, have
:15:04. > :15:14.claimed responsibility for this attack. Others have pointed the
:15:15. > :15:18.finger else where. The Iranians have pointed the finger towards Israel. I
:15:19. > :15:22.think this sort of group is a strong possibility. This is one more
:15:23. > :15:26.example of the spillover of the crisis in Syria into Lebanon. Eye
:15:27. > :15:34.rain an its Hezbollah allies being very strong supporters of the Syrian
:15:35. > :15:37.government -- eye rain. And thus shun any groups, who are alive
:15:38. > :15:41.fighting against the Syrian Government clearly might well have
:15:42. > :15:47.been one of the likely perpetrators of this attack. This is not just
:15:48. > :15:52.Iran in a capital city. This is a main conduit from the power reaching
:15:53. > :15:56.out from Tehran both to Hezbollah in south Beirut and southern Lebanon
:15:57. > :16:00.and weapons supplies into Syria. Absolutely. The very close
:16:01. > :16:05.relationship between Iran and Hezbollah is of crucial strategic
:16:06. > :16:09.importance to Hezbollah. This is its main weapons conduit, its main
:16:10. > :16:17.political backer. It really highlights the extraordinary high
:16:18. > :16:22.stakes gamble Hezbollah has made by throwing in its lot zrectly with the
:16:23. > :16:26.Syrian regime. It has done this for its own interests and Iran's
:16:27. > :16:31.interests as well. But the risks, it is taking inside Lebanon are
:16:32. > :16:36.significant. Theoriesks which are both political but also practical,
:16:37. > :16:40.and, in security terms, as this attack today shows. Are there any
:16:41. > :16:44.signals, yet, of how Tehran is going to react to this or is reacting.
:16:45. > :16:48.After all, there is - and it is difficult to put this in a very
:16:49. > :16:53.calibrated form, but there is at least a different view from the
:16:54. > :16:56.precedency now. Well, there is a different view, and that has
:16:57. > :17:00.manifest itself most significantly in the continuing nuclear talks
:17:01. > :17:08.between Iran and the West, which will be getting under way again in
:17:09. > :17:12.Geneva tomorrow. I think tack when you are talking about events which
:17:13. > :17:16.are direct attacks on Iranian facilities and personnel, I think
:17:17. > :17:20.there is inevitably going to be a rather different attitude. It is
:17:21. > :17:25.clear, as I said earlier that Iran's almost natural riposte is to say
:17:26. > :17:30.that it was the Israelis, the Zionist agents who were behind this.
:17:31. > :17:34.But I think Iran will clearly be aware of the risks it is taking in
:17:35. > :17:38.backing the Syrian regime and clearly, this is one of the
:17:39. > :17:47.difficulties that it might face. Quickly, this highly defended,
:17:48. > :17:51.protect protected area, with a mass of close circuit television and so
:17:52. > :17:56.be o, with cameras watching what is happening around that compound --
:17:57. > :18:01.and so on. Well, it is a well-secured area. Hezbollah itself
:18:02. > :18:05.is well-organised, well-armed and has many people on the ground. The
:18:06. > :18:08.fact that an attack like this has got through, doesn't really tell us
:18:09. > :18:12.anything we don't know already. We have seen attacks of this kind
:18:13. > :18:16.throughout the region in Iraq and elsewhere. Even the very best
:18:17. > :18:20.security forces can't really stop this attack getting through. Thank
:18:21. > :18:24.you for joining me. 17 people are now thought to have
:18:25. > :18:30.been killed in a powerful storm on the Italian island of soar dippia.
:18:31. > :18:36.Cyclone Cleopatra was the worst storm to hit the island for years.
:18:37. > :18:46.-- soar dippia. Hundreds have been left hopeless.
:18:47. > :18:51.-- homeless. This was a deluge no-one here had ever seen before.
:18:52. > :18:58.Overnight months of rainfall in just an hour-and-a-half. The streets
:18:59. > :19:03.became muddy rivers. Houses and cars were completely submerged. Most fled
:19:04. > :19:12.but tragically, some people became trapped. One family of four drowned
:19:13. > :19:15.in their ground floor flat. By morning the rivers and roads were
:19:16. > :19:18.still dangerous. The Government declared a state of emergency to
:19:19. > :19:24.help the rescue effort but bridges had been swept away, making access
:19:25. > :19:28.even more precarious. This man said he was having lunch
:19:29. > :19:35.when suddenly his feet were covered in water. This woman said she was
:19:36. > :19:42.trapped in a bus for three hours and has still not been able it reach her
:19:43. > :19:45.house. Many have been rescued but residents here say the toll of dead
:19:46. > :19:49.and injured could have been lower if there had been better warnings.
:19:50. > :19:52.Although even the meteorologists have been surprised at the strength
:19:53. > :19:57.of the cyclone. The warm water of the Mediterranean
:19:58. > :20:01.sending up big thunderstorms through the atmosphere and this is causing
:20:02. > :20:05.absolutely torrential rain. We have a biblical amount of rain in
:20:06. > :20:10.Sardinia in the last 24 hours. Something like 400 millimetres which
:20:11. > :20:16.fell in just a few hours. Out in isolated villages, the scenes
:20:17. > :20:19.are certainly dramatic. Animals and people are having to fend for
:20:20. > :20:23.themselves. Hundreds of residents have been evacuated, but no-one
:20:24. > :20:30.knows how many others are still trapped in their flooded homes.
:20:31. > :20:34.The scenes there in Sardinia. Now let me take you to the world's
:20:35. > :20:39.biggest refugee camp. This is only a small part of the sprawling complex
:20:40. > :20:44.at Daddab in northern enKenia. This was originally set up to house
:20:45. > :20:50.thousands fleeing across the boarder from somal why's civil war in 1991.
:20:51. > :20:54.But deepening inability right across this region meant the population at
:20:55. > :20:58.Daddab has kept swelling. Look at the size of the camp now. It covers
:20:59. > :21:02.a total area of 50 square kilometres. Now the UN wants to know
:21:03. > :21:07.from residents there, if with greater be stability in Somalia,
:21:08. > :21:10.they'd go home. Originally 90,000 people - that was the planned
:21:11. > :21:16.capacity when the UN set up the complex of three camps back in 1991.
:21:17. > :21:21.The reality - 20 years on - is currently around ?400,000. Although
:21:22. > :21:26.the UN says it has no idea of the precise number in Daddab. That
:21:27. > :21:31.400,000 includes around 10,000 third generation refugees. They were born
:21:32. > :21:36.in Daddab, to refugee parents who were also born there, themselves.
:21:37. > :21:40.Well, the BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse is in Daddab and reports on the
:21:41. > :21:50.challenges surrounding this enormous camp today. An official in the camp
:21:51. > :21:56.has told me that fewer than 100 people out of a total of 350,000
:21:57. > :22:01.have asked to go back. One of the reasons why they are reluctant is
:22:02. > :22:06.the primary school. More than 2,500 kids get an education in English,
:22:07. > :22:11.French, maths, in swa Healey and other subjects. Lots of parents
:22:12. > :22:15.believe their children wouldn't get the opportunity to get an education
:22:16. > :22:20.like that if they went back to Somalia.
:22:21. > :22:26.This man has 21 children. Yes, that's right, three wives and 21
:22:27. > :22:30.children, almost all of whom were born here at Dodd be a. For them,
:22:31. > :22:35.this isn't a refugee camp. -- Daddab. For better, or for worse. It
:22:36. > :22:39.is home. TRANSLATION: When I talk to my children about going back to
:22:40. > :22:42.Somalia, they get scared. They think it is a mad idea. They can't get
:22:43. > :22:48.work here in Kenya, but they can't go back to Somalia. The only hope
:22:49. > :22:53.they have is education. Daddab is the largest refugee camp
:22:54. > :22:59.anywhere in the world. Since 1991, when Somalia began to collapse into
:23:00. > :23:04.anarchy, hundreds of thousands of them fled and ended up here. Along
:23:05. > :23:08.with refugees have come some troublemakers and extremists. One
:23:09. > :23:11.evening last month a group of local men had gathered here to watch a
:23:12. > :23:16.football match on the television. Suddenly at about 9.00pm, gunmen
:23:17. > :23:21.burst in, masked and sprayed fire and bullets indiscriminately into
:23:22. > :23:24.the crowd. Fortunately on this occasion, nobody was killed but six
:23:25. > :23:34.people were injured and one is still in hospital. TRANSLATION: They are
:23:35. > :23:42.worried. Night-time nobody is coming. We are very afraid of... Why
:23:43. > :23:47.do you think they attacked? Maybe like just what has happened at
:23:48. > :23:51.Westgate. Without asking anything, they started shooting. Some Kenyan
:23:52. > :23:55.politicians have said that Daddab has become a nursery for extremists
:23:56. > :24:00.and it's time that the people here went home. Well, on the ground
:24:01. > :24:11.things seem to be carrying on very much as usual. This timber merchant
:24:12. > :24:16.here continuing to pass out wood which will be continued to be used
:24:17. > :24:19.in construction. Daddab seems to be becoming more permanent by the day.
:24:20. > :24:23.Something different. I have done T as you can see here, this is a
:24:24. > :24:31.self--y. It is the taking a picture of yourself like this on a camera
:24:32. > :24:35.like that. -- selfie. To have the Pope and Michelle Obama and
:24:36. > :24:44.countless popstars and many of you. It is so widely used in the basic
:24:45. > :24:48.language it is being called "word of the year by those who compile the
:24:49. > :24:52.objection for the English Dictionary.
:24:53. > :24:54.-- Oxford. The word of the year doesn't
:24:55. > :25:00.necessarily have to have been around all that long, as long it has shown
:25:01. > :25:04.longevity all that year. Even if it has been around, it doesn't mean
:25:05. > :25:08.it'll get added. Even if it is popular, it might die off. But
:25:09. > :25:13.selfie has been around a long time. We found evidence of it going back
:25:14. > :25:17.to 2002 in an Australian forum post where somebody posted a picture of
:25:18. > :25:20.the injuries they sustained while drunk and apologised for the quality
:25:21. > :25:26.of the picture because it was a selfie. It is only in the last year
:25:27. > :25:30.that it has taken up in the mainstream. How do you work out how
:25:31. > :25:35.many know what a word means, when you use oar word like selfie. It
:25:36. > :25:38.takes a certain person with a smartphone. We don't look at how
:25:39. > :25:42.many people know what it means but we look at how many people are using
:25:43. > :25:48.it. We track uses of language from all over the English language all
:25:49. > :25:54.over the web, and see the frequency of how people are using it. Selfie
:25:55. > :25:59.has been used hugely in the last year. That's why it has been made
:26:00. > :26:05.Word of the Year. What were the other rivals. There was twerk, the
:26:06. > :26:12.dance move. And binge-watch and smeat, like
:26:13. > :26:18.synthetic meat. And for those who don't underline what twerking is. We
:26:19. > :26:24.have images. Why did this not qualify? It did make a shot. But I
:26:25. > :26:31.suppose selfie is so ubiquitous, because people can take the images.
:26:32. > :26:36.Not many people do twerking themselves. Finally, what kind of
:26:37. > :26:41.qualification is there for a word to become a Word of the Year which then
:26:42. > :26:45.enters the dictionary? We would want to see it stick around a little
:26:46. > :26:50.longer to make sure people are using it in a wide variety of sources. And
:26:51. > :26:53.that it has just stuck around for a little while. I have to tell you,
:26:54. > :27:01.though, there is no twerking here. I leave you with images of the eye
:27:02. > :27:05.Iranian Embassy in Beirut, hit by two suicide
:27:06. > :27:08.'We wanna do a science fiction series.'
:27:09. > :27:14.CS Lewis meets HG Wells meets Father Christmas, that's the Doctor.