:00:00. > :00:15.Hello. This is BBC World News. Our top stories: The United Nations
:00:16. > :00:21.launches its biggest ever appeal for global ales -- global aids to help
:00:22. > :00:26.victims of the conflict in Syria. We live in Iraq, where more people
:00:27. > :00:29.have been killed by deadly bomb blasts.
:00:30. > :00:33.The jewels are being held across to India to mark a year since victims
:00:34. > :00:58.-- since the victim was gang raped on a bus in red -- in Delhi.
:00:59. > :01:02.Welcome. After nearly three years of civil war in Syria, the United
:01:03. > :01:06.Nations is launching its biggest ever appeal for aid. It is asking
:01:07. > :01:08.for a staggering $13 billion in total, around half of that earmarked
:01:09. > :01:16.for the crisis in Syria. A new study suggests four out of
:01:17. > :01:19.five people there are worried food supplies are running out. The price
:01:20. > :01:23.of bread is five times what it used to be. In the last half an hour, the
:01:24. > :01:29.UN's High Commissioner for refugees has been speaking at a news covered
:01:30. > :01:35.in Geneva. He insists the situation is a tragedy and the international
:01:36. > :01:40.community must help. It is essential that Syrian refugees
:01:41. > :01:44.are not to perish, drowning in the Mediterranean to get to Europe. It
:01:45. > :01:49.is essential that policies are established. It is essential that
:01:50. > :01:57.borders are open for Syrian refugees and mechanisms are in place, and
:01:58. > :02:00.that resettlement and humanitarian programmes are increased in relation
:02:01. > :02:11.to the present 15,000 vacancies that were offered. Our appeal to
:02:12. > :02:16.international solidarity is also an appeal to what I consider the most
:02:17. > :02:22.dangerous crisis for global security for the Second World War. For more
:02:23. > :02:27.on what conditions are like inside the country, achieve international
:02:28. > :02:31.correspondent has been to a food distribution centre in Damascus. --
:02:32. > :02:35.our chief international correspondent. Syrians are queueing
:02:36. > :02:38.patiently in the bitter cold here in the centre of Damascus.
:02:39. > :02:42.All of these Syrians have had to flee their homes because of the
:02:43. > :02:46.fighting. Some of them tell us they have been displaced for more than a
:02:47. > :02:50.year. The men do not have jobs and the women are worried about their
:02:51. > :02:56.children, who do not have warm clothing as a harsh winter sets in.
:02:57. > :03:00.They are having to rely on the United Nations World Food Programme
:03:01. > :03:03.for items like rice, cooking oil and lentils to feed their families in
:03:04. > :03:08.the coming months. I have come here to speak to the country director for
:03:09. > :03:11.the World Food Programme, Matthew Hollingworth. These are families
:03:12. > :03:18.that a year or two years ago would have been living a pretty good
:03:19. > :03:21.life, employed and doing well. Today, they have been made homeless
:03:22. > :03:26.once, twice or three times, which is why they are now looking for support
:03:27. > :03:30.from organisations at the World Food Programme, to give them the basic
:03:31. > :03:36.food needs for their family. Is this is the human cost of the war? We
:03:37. > :03:41.believe there are 3.6 million people desperately in need of assistance
:03:42. > :03:45.from agencies such as ours. We are working with 27 local charities
:03:46. > :03:48.across the Syrian Red Cross and a number of international
:03:49. > :03:54.organisations to reach these people each month. We know it is frequently
:03:55. > :03:58.not enough. People do not have enough food, they do not eat
:03:59. > :04:05.frequently enough and when they do it, they are eating food which is
:04:06. > :04:11.not of a good quality. Let's get some more of the day's
:04:12. > :04:16.news. The President of South Sudan has blamed soldiers loyal to his
:04:17. > :04:20.former deputy for an outbreak of fighting on Sunday night.
:04:21. > :04:23.The gunfire is reported to have died down with a substantial troop
:04:24. > :04:31.presence on the streets. Two Lebanese soldiers have been shot
:04:32. > :04:33.by the Israeli army, which said it detected suspicious movement on the
:04:34. > :04:44.border are as earlier. An Israeli soldier has been killed in a sniper
:04:45. > :04:48.attack. Protest and vigils are being held in Delhi today to mark the
:04:49. > :04:54.moment when a 23-year-old Indian student was gang raped on a bus. The
:04:55. > :04:58.attack and the student's death sent shock waves through India and around
:04:59. > :05:01.the world. Thousands of people took to the streets to protest against
:05:02. > :05:07.the casual attitude towards violence towards women. An author was
:05:08. > :05:11.speaking at the Indian high commission earlier, and is with me
:05:12. > :05:18.now. Thank you for coming in. Tell us what your sense is of where India
:05:19. > :05:23.is on this? This case absolutely shocked the country. It did, partly
:05:24. > :05:27.because not enough people in India talked about violence against women
:05:28. > :05:32.there. The case has certainly meant that the media talks about the issue
:05:33. > :05:36.much more, but I don't think people across the country are talking about
:05:37. > :05:40.what is going on in their country and don't recognise the scale of the
:05:41. > :05:47.problem, and how things are getting worse. Why is it getting worse? What
:05:48. > :05:55.evidence do we have? The number of rapes have gone up a lot. It is
:05:56. > :05:58.partly reporting. Yes, as women feel more confident, and there is more
:05:59. > :06:03.pressure on police to record them. That's true, and because of the
:06:04. > :06:06.coverage, more women have come forward and talked about it. There
:06:07. > :06:12.are other reasons it is getting worse, because, for example, one of
:06:13. > :06:17.the reasons men don't want to have daughters is the fear of the cost of
:06:18. > :06:24.dowry is and raising the girl. There are charities that say that sex
:06:25. > :06:27.selection services and abortion services are getting cheaper, even
:06:28. > :06:33.in rural areas, so the level of young girls against boys dropped and
:06:34. > :06:40.keeps on dropping. There is a problem not just of violence... You
:06:41. > :06:43.are talking about the whole of society's attitude towards women.
:06:44. > :06:50.Let's talk about what happened a year ago, which was incredibly
:06:51. > :06:54.scarring. Now, Indian women are visible, they are going out to work,
:06:55. > :06:59.in a way that previous generations didn't. They were at home, and
:07:00. > :07:05.therefore more protected. Certainly in urban areas, there is more
:07:06. > :07:09.employment for women and they are more visible. There was a strong
:07:10. > :07:14.feminist movement who have protested against this. The culture is
:07:15. > :07:19.liberalising, but it means that there is a backlash against this as
:07:20. > :07:23.well, for example people who are saying that the woman was raped
:07:24. > :07:28.because she was out late at night and was wearing western clothes, and
:07:29. > :07:33.was hanging out with a guy. There is a conservative backlash. You have
:07:34. > :07:37.several different countries existing at the same time in several
:07:38. > :07:41.different time warps, and you can't expect the country to change
:07:42. > :07:46.overnight. Obviously, that does not justify what has happened. The other
:07:47. > :07:52.big problem is whether the police and the judicial system will see a
:07:53. > :07:59.crackdown on this sort of attack. The government has changed its law
:08:00. > :08:03.since last year, for example on acid attacks and casual sexual
:08:04. > :08:05.harassment. But the problem is, the police is not strong enough in
:08:06. > :08:14.dealing with violence against women. There is a broader cultural
:08:15. > :08:19.problem too. It isn't just that. For me, violence against women goes
:08:20. > :08:25.across the border. Girls being aborted before they are born, girls
:08:26. > :08:29.being killed at birth, girls not being raised properly in India. The
:08:30. > :08:35.level of mentality for young girls is much, much higher than for boys,
:08:36. > :08:40.because families are simply don't take girls to hospitals when they
:08:41. > :08:44.are ill. -- the level of mortality. These problems are endemic when they
:08:45. > :08:48.are growing up, so it is not just the problems of gang rapes and
:08:49. > :08:53.murders. It is a broader cultural shift that is necessary. Thank you
:08:54. > :08:56.for coming in. Iraqi security forces say they've
:08:57. > :09:00.retaken control of the City Council headquarters in Tikrit after it was
:09:01. > :09:07.stormed by gunmen. They say they've released about forty hostages.
:09:08. > :09:11.Elsewhere in Iraq, at least 24 people have been killed in a wave of
:09:12. > :09:14.attacks. In Mosul, militants are reported to have gunned down 12
:09:15. > :09:18.people on a bus. A series of bombs in and around Baghdad have killed at
:09:19. > :09:21.least nine. Meanwhile, four men armed with explosive belts are
:09:22. > :09:24.reported to have been killed by security forces after breaking into
:09:25. > :09:35.a police station in the town of Baiji. Our Arabic correspondent in
:09:36. > :09:42.Baghdad joins me now. Thank you for joining us. Tell us why you think we
:09:43. > :09:51.are seeing this wave of attacks, and tell us a bit about the detail we
:09:52. > :09:59.have on what has happened. Can you hear us? As you said in the
:10:00. > :10:03.introduction, those attacks have been in various areas of the capital
:10:04. > :10:11.Baghdad, mainly in the centre and the south of the city. And there
:10:12. > :10:20.were two separate attacks that have taken place in another district.
:10:21. > :10:26.More specifically, north of the city of Tikrit, the former president of
:10:27. > :10:31.Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. In the morning, after the attack of the
:10:32. > :10:38.suicide bombers against the police station, there has been, less than
:10:39. > :10:50.an hour ago, another similar attack to the council of the city, where
:10:51. > :10:55.four armed men, after detonating a car against the fortification, the
:10:56. > :11:00.outer walls of the building, have stormed the building. They have
:11:01. > :11:05.detonated themselves, their belts, their explosives, killing two of the
:11:06. > :11:12.guards. One of the members of the City Council was also killed. That
:11:13. > :11:17.is the reason for what seemed to be two co-ordinated attacks in the same
:11:18. > :11:22.region this morning. As to why these are happening in such a manner and
:11:23. > :11:29.at various times, they go up and down, is anybody's guess. Sometimes,
:11:30. > :11:35.the attackers wanted to address a political message of some sort to
:11:36. > :11:40.the authorities, that they can strike at the heart of the symbols
:11:41. > :11:45.of authority, of central government, when ever and wherever
:11:46. > :11:49.they like. Some people, even officials, who until yesterday were
:11:50. > :11:56.close allies to the Prime Minister, are starting now to talk about
:11:57. > :12:00.failures in gathering intelligence and processing the information the
:12:01. > :12:06.authorities have amongst the various security arms of the state. Combined
:12:07. > :12:11.with the fact that the police and the Armed Forces are not the best,
:12:12. > :12:17.despite the millions of dollars that have been spent on equipping and
:12:18. > :12:21.training them. There's also been waves of what is called the
:12:22. > :12:27.amalgamation of forces, which means that some of the militia men who
:12:28. > :12:31.were on the payroll of political parties, up until yesterday, have
:12:32. > :12:36.been brought into the central command of the army or the police. I
:12:37. > :12:40.don't know whether you can hear me, but we are out of time on that.
:12:41. > :12:48.There is a slight communication problem with Baghdad there.
:12:49. > :12:52.It has been a year since the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo
:12:53. > :12:57.Abe, was elected, and launched an ambitious plan to revitalise the
:12:58. > :13:00.world's 's third-largest economy. There are three arrows to his
:13:01. > :13:08.policy, which includes cash injections and structural reforms.
:13:09. > :13:15.How has it said, on its first anniversary? We have been finding
:13:16. > :13:21.out. I have come here to a suburb of
:13:22. > :13:26.Tokyo, to a restaurant that I read about on the Internet. There is just
:13:27. > :13:35.something a little bit unusual about this place. This is the star waiter
:13:36. > :13:52.at this restaurant just outside Tokyo. He brings towels, beers, and
:13:53. > :14:01.even food. A monkey just served me! Only in Japan! Still, monkeys are
:14:02. > :14:04.not the solution to a shrinking workforce, especially when wages
:14:05. > :14:11.need to go up to get the economy going. This restaurant -- this
:14:12. > :14:19.manager has brought his staff here, and Shinzo Abe wants managers to
:14:20. > :14:24.reward their staff with pay rises. Our industry deals with raw
:14:25. > :14:30.materials, he tells me. We have not felt a positive impact yet, so I
:14:31. > :14:35.cannot raise wages at this stage. The owner is grateful for this
:14:36. > :14:44.monkey's help. They even answer his phone. But a pay rise? Well, they
:14:45. > :14:50.will not understand if they receive money, he says, so instead, I give
:14:51. > :14:56.them delicious food. I give them the best bananas and the best apples.
:14:57. > :15:02.Better quality bananas and apples. I think that the monkeys, that is a
:15:03. > :15:07.wage rise! The owner still needs to dash the monkey still needs to clear
:15:08. > :15:14.up. To earn that pay rise, more still needs to be squeezed out of
:15:15. > :15:19.Japanese workers. That becomes harder and harder to do for the
:15:20. > :15:28.Japanese. It is a hard days work when you are a Japanese monkey
:15:29. > :15:35.waiter! stay with us, much more to come.
:15:36. > :15:43.This is lovely, I promise - the adventures of a sleeping baby. We
:15:44. > :15:46.visit the fantasy world of Wengenn. The world stage and screen has been
:15:47. > :15:51.remembering the Irish born actor, Peter O'Toole, who has died at 81.
:15:52. > :15:57.He made his name in the classic David Lean, Lawrence Of Arabia. He
:15:58. > :16:03.became known as much for his private life as his personal career.
:16:04. > :16:13.David Lean's epic, Lawrence Of Arabia. We need what no man can
:16:14. > :16:17.provide, we need America. It turned a jobbing actor with piercing blue
:16:18. > :16:26.eyes into a global film star - the ultimate dashing hero. He played
:16:27. > :16:31.Hamlet on stage, post for arty photographers and starred in a
:16:32. > :16:36.succession of Hollywood movies. I want a son. We could populate a
:16:37. > :16:46.country town with concrete girls and all your sons. All my sons are
:16:47. > :16:50.bustards. He was also a renowned hell-raiser. In time, the drink
:16:51. > :16:59.threatened to destroy his career and the man himself. A return to the
:17:00. > :17:02.London stage as Macbeth in 1980 was a fiasco. But by the time he played
:17:03. > :17:09.the alcoholic journalist Jeffrey Bernard, he had given up the booze.
:17:10. > :17:23.I remember opening my eyes to find myself in bed with Barry Brogan. A
:17:24. > :17:29.great jockey. He ended his career playing versions of himself. Frail,
:17:30. > :17:41.but still full of life, as he played an ageing actor. Everything all
:17:42. > :17:46.right? Peter O'Toole, who has died aged 81
:17:47. > :17:50.in hospital in London. A giant statue of Nelson Mandela has
:17:51. > :17:59.been unveiled today in Pretoria, South Africa's first post-apartheid
:18:00. > :18:03.president was led to rest yesterday in his home village of Qunu.
:18:04. > :18:12.Yesterday, President Jacob Zuma unveiled this statue. Today is a
:18:13. > :18:23.public holiday dedicated to reconciliation in South Africa.
:18:24. > :18:29.This is BBC world News. The United Nations launches its biggest ever
:18:30. > :18:36.appeal for global aid to help the victims of the conflict in Syria.
:18:37. > :18:41.South Sudan's president says his supporters have stopped a coup
:18:42. > :18:45.attempt by disgruntled soldiers. Prosecutors in Indonesia are asking
:18:46. > :18:52.for a 16 year jail sentence for a British woman who has admitted drugs
:18:53. > :18:56.trafficking. Andrea Waldeck, who is 43, was arrested in a hotel room in
:18:57. > :19:01.East Java after smuggling more than a kilo of crystal meth into
:19:02. > :19:06.Indonesia. She used to work as a police community support officer in
:19:07. > :19:14.the UK. Our correspondent joins me live from Jakarta. What are the
:19:15. > :19:18.details? As you say, the prosecution has asked for a 16 year sentence for
:19:19. > :19:25.Andrea Waldeck. The maximum sentence for a crime that she has allegedly
:19:26. > :19:29.committed, versus the death penalty. The lawyer has told us that they
:19:30. > :19:35.objected to the sentence, they are calling it too harsh because she was
:19:36. > :19:40.merely a victim in this crime. She was not the mastermind. She was
:19:41. > :19:44.coerced to bring the drugs into Indonesia. But the prosecution said
:19:45. > :19:48.that even though there are factors that worked in her favour, such as
:19:49. > :19:53.her cooperation with the police and throughout the court proceedings,
:19:54. > :19:56.the prosecution said what she did was harmful to society and went
:19:57. > :20:01.against the Indonesian government programme to fight illegal drugs.
:20:02. > :20:04.One thing to point out is that what the prosecution demanded today is a
:20:05. > :20:09.good indicator of what the judges will deliver in the next few weeks.
:20:10. > :20:16.There have been rare cases where the judges actually ended up delivering
:20:17. > :20:19.a much later or harsher sentence than what the prosecution demanded.
:20:20. > :20:26.And when will the verdict be delivered? It will be in the next
:20:27. > :20:31.few weeks. Court is now adjourned and the next hearing will be after
:20:32. > :20:37.New Year, when the defence team will get a chance to argue their
:20:38. > :20:40.objections against this 16 year sentence to mad about the
:20:41. > :20:43.prosecution. After that, the prosecution will have another chance
:20:44. > :20:48.to argue why they think the sentence that they demanded was right and
:20:49. > :20:53.then there is a panel of three judges who will get to decide, and
:20:54. > :20:57.they will take the prosecution's demand into consideration but will
:20:58. > :21:02.also take into account how Andrea has been perceived in court. The
:21:03. > :21:07.fact that she has shown some more as, that she has been seen as being
:21:08. > :21:12.honest and willing to take responsibility for what she has done
:21:13. > :21:19.will probably help her case. Thank you very much.
:21:20. > :21:22.South Korea's president has warned that the situation in the North is
:21:23. > :21:27.grave and unpredictable, following the execution of the man widely seen
:21:28. > :21:32.as the power behind the throne in Pyongyang. Jang Song-taek was the
:21:33. > :21:38.uncle of the leader, King John Manning -- Kim Jong-un in, until he
:21:39. > :21:43.was dragged out of a meeting in handcuffs last week. I spoke to our
:21:44. > :21:47.correspondent and asked how worried the south is. It depends who you
:21:48. > :21:51.talk to. The South Korean government has made it clear they are on high
:21:52. > :21:55.alert. The trips have been told to be extra vigilant. The South Korean
:21:56. > :22:07.president has, more than once and said that relations between the
:22:08. > :22:11.Koreas are likely to be unstable. If you look at what image the North is
:22:12. > :22:14.trying to project, it is one of great stability. The North Korean
:22:15. > :22:18.leader, just a day or two after the execution, and the announcement, was
:22:19. > :22:23.seen making his ordinary public appearances. He was visiting
:22:24. > :22:27.military and commercial sites. The North Korean state media is also
:22:28. > :22:32.reporting on those visits and trying to emphasise and trumpet the
:22:33. > :22:36.achievements of the country over the past year, about all of the
:22:37. > :22:39.construction that has gone on and trying to highlight the positive
:22:40. > :22:44.aspects of the country has achieved. In much a message of stability and
:22:45. > :22:49.continuity from the North. -- very much a message. In the south, there
:22:50. > :22:58.is fear and instability. What more has been spoken of in terms of why
:22:59. > :23:04.the execution was carried out? Lots of speculation, but no clear signals
:23:05. > :23:08.yet about what might be going on in the corridors of power. The worry
:23:09. > :23:11.here in South Korea is that it might point to greater upheaval, greater
:23:12. > :23:15.instability at the heart of the regime, that this was not just one
:23:16. > :23:20.man who had done something wrong but that this points to splits or a lack
:23:21. > :23:27.of unity at the heart of North Korea. Of course for a nuclear armed
:23:28. > :23:33.state that is secret and predictive unpredictable, that is a great worry
:23:34. > :23:37.in the region. Watching your baby sleep is a magic
:23:38. > :23:41.experience when you marvel at the innocence of new life. But not
:23:42. > :23:47.everyone would use those hours to capture their sleeping Chad posing
:23:48. > :23:51.in fantasy word worlds. This is what Queenie Liao has done with her baby
:23:52. > :23:59.son, Wengenn. The creations have been published in Thailand under the
:24:00. > :24:04.title, Sleeping Baby. It is fairy tales and children's
:24:05. > :24:09.stories from my tattered which have give me ideas to try out. I try to
:24:10. > :24:19.use as much colour as I can. I want to make it look like a children's
:24:20. > :24:29.book with a real-life person. What is your name? Wengenn. I took all of
:24:30. > :24:32.these pictures two years ago when he was slipping. Now that he is a
:24:33. > :24:40.toddler, I have taken pictures of him being awake. I am going to use a
:24:41. > :24:44.blue bed sheet as a background. I start with a very simple background,
:24:45. > :24:49.like a piece of cloud and the sun, and then gradually I make my own
:24:50. > :24:59.twist and make it more sophisticated. The materials are
:25:00. > :25:06.mostly clothes, books and toys. I use skirts as a moon, for a snake,
:25:07. > :25:15.socks for fish, and even toilet paper and dollar bills. Everything
:25:16. > :25:25.has to be done before he takes his nap. After he falls asleep, I put
:25:26. > :25:31.him into the background and paint. He did wake up from time to time.
:25:32. > :25:38.When this happened, I simply put down my camera and played with him.
:25:39. > :25:43.I did not see any reason to rush because the last ones were when he
:25:44. > :25:49.stepped -- the best ones were when he was sleeping peacefully. My
:25:50. > :25:57.favourite photo of the whole series is this one, on the cover of my
:25:58. > :26:01.book. This picture reflects my dreams and my hope for my baby,
:26:02. > :26:14.Wengenn. I want to see him reaching his dream. I think this is the best
:26:15. > :26:18.way to show my love. This is also a wonderful way to keep track of his
:26:19. > :26:28.gross. I take a lot of pictures because they grow fast. This is a
:26:29. > :26:34.work of love. I think parents and children will treasure it for ever
:26:35. > :26:40.in their life. Queenie Liao. We are all smitten
:26:41. > :26:45.with those pictures. In the last few minutes, the draw
:26:46. > :26:59.has been made for the last 16 of this season's Champions League.
:27:00. > :27:01.Bayern Munich take on Arsenal. I will be back tomorrow. Goodbye.