:00:33. > :00:34.children to watch executions, amongst the latest atrocities
:00:35. > :00:40.outlined to the UN human rights report. That Putin says it is up to
:00:41. > :00:44.Ukraine to settle its differences with pro-Russian separatists. And if
:00:45. > :00:49.Manchester United thought it could not get any worse, they thrashed in
:00:50. > :01:09.the League Cup by 18 two divisions below. -- a team.
:01:10. > :01:13.Thank you forward to. Afghanistan's disputed presidential elections on a
:01:14. > :01:20.knife edge today. One of the candidates withdrew to double check
:01:21. > :01:28.all the votes. Abdu Lavandula's senior campaign officials called the
:01:29. > :01:35.process a joke. The audit is part of a UN brokered deal to find a winner
:01:36. > :01:42.and bring some stability to the country. Earlier I spoke to our
:01:43. > :01:44.correspondent who told me that the recount appears to have been
:01:45. > :01:46.abandoned and is currently at a standstill.
:01:47. > :01:58.The UN said they would continue and put in more servers to ensure
:01:59. > :02:06.fairness. Abdullah Abdullah's campaign workers did not show up.
:02:07. > :02:13.Tables were not manned. There is now complete paralysis, no account going
:02:14. > :02:16.on. This is just at the final stage, Wendy in validation process,
:02:17. > :02:28.deciding which votes were clean and dirty, is supposed to have been
:02:29. > :02:31.going on. It is that which has got his campaign complaining. This feels
:02:32. > :02:36.like a very dangerous campaign for Afghanistan.
:02:37. > :02:40.The process has been going on Afghanistan.
:02:41. > :02:50.time, and there is no stability in the country.
:02:51. > :02:51.time, and there is no stability in pronouncements but thousands say
:02:52. > :02:55.they pronouncements but thousands say
:02:56. > :02:58.possibly occupied government pronouncements but thousands say
:02:59. > :03:01.buildings. Those are specific threats of some of his senior
:03:02. > :03:07.supporters if they vote turns out to be fraudulent. Now that some are
:03:08. > :03:14.saying that it has turned out to be fraudulent, we may potentially see
:03:15. > :03:17.the movement to street protests. This is terrible news for a country
:03:18. > :03:21.where the economy is in freefall, the Taliban have an threatening
:03:22. > :03:28.major assaults in recent weeks and months, and although the president
:03:29. > :03:34.says he is pulling out extra week and will stand down whatever, it is
:03:35. > :03:45.hard to see how they can, from this process, move reasonably towards a
:03:46. > :03:55.hard to see how they can, from this A short while ago I spoke to the
:03:56. > :04:03.candidate, Abdullah Abdullah, who told me he did not think the recount
:04:04. > :04:07.had been fair. The
:04:08. > :04:15.had been fair. type of role that has taken place,
:04:16. > :04:23.the whole invalidation criteria anticipated, it is not sufficient to
:04:24. > :04:30.deal with the fraudulent votes which were casted, fraudulent ballot
:04:31. > :04:43.papers. The announcement of the result came in a way that was quite
:04:44. > :04:45.contrary to the procedure promised. It was to be done
:04:46. > :04:55.contrary to the procedure promised. agents and the media. In only a
:04:56. > :05:01.matter of ten minutes they announced the results of 3000 ballot boxers,
:05:02. > :05:07.that is not acceptable. Throughout the process, there were differences
:05:08. > :05:14.in the types of fraud which happened. In an ingenious way. The
:05:15. > :05:25.invalidation criteria was not sufficient to deal with that. Lots
:05:26. > :05:29.of invalid papers were validated. This process was overseen by the
:05:30. > :05:34.United Nations, surely that should give you trust. Yet you still say
:05:35. > :05:40.there is no validity. On the one side there is the United
:05:41. > :05:45.Nations, the other side, the commission, and still part of the
:05:46. > :05:49.job needs to be done through the commission.
:05:50. > :06:00.To many it will just look as if you have pulled out because the audit
:06:01. > :06:10.was not going in your favour. We did not ask for the audit to get
:06:11. > :06:14.a guaranteed be in our favour. Just a guarantee that no invalid paper
:06:15. > :06:23.would go three, now invalid ballot box would go through. That is what
:06:24. > :06:28.we have said in our campaigns. We have negotiated with the United
:06:29. > :06:40.Nations on some of those concerns. They were not difficult, two come up
:06:41. > :06:46.with convincing answers. Four hours and hours we came up discussions for
:06:47. > :06:54.them. That was Abdullah Abdullah. In the
:06:55. > :06:57.Ukraine and the president says a road map will be drawn up for
:06:58. > :07:05.agreeing a cease-fire after he had talks with his Russian counterpart.
:07:06. > :07:13.The private meeting with Vladimir Putin was in Minsk in Tuesday. There
:07:14. > :07:17.appears to be no end to the fighting after ten Russian soldiers were
:07:18. > :07:23.captured on Monday. The involvement of the Kremlin is being questioned
:07:24. > :07:26.but that you Putin says they must have accidentally crossed into
:07:27. > :07:38.Ukrainian territory during a mortar patrol. -- border.
:07:39. > :07:49.As you point out, the fighting goes on. There is another front in the
:07:50. > :07:54.eastern region of Donetsk and the humanitarian crisis is rising. The
:07:55. > :07:57.sides are far apart and one of the problems of the Ukrainians identify
:07:58. > :08:04.is that the Russians are saying they are an uninvolved party. For the
:08:05. > :08:09.Ukrainians, given the evidence of Russian fighters, if not soldiers,
:08:10. > :08:16.regularly crossing the border, weapons, armoured vehicles, this
:08:17. > :08:36.makes it very ethical to negotiate. -- typical. It -- difficult. We will
:08:37. > :08:42.see what the road map actually proposes and how the Russian
:08:43. > :08:47.reaction is. United Nations human rights
:08:48. > :08:50.investigators have blushed graphic details of what they describe as
:08:51. > :08:57.atrocities being carried out in Syria. The report includes details
:08:58. > :09:04.of violence by Islamic state including executions which the
:09:05. > :09:06.public are forced to watch. The United Nations say that they
:09:07. > :09:14.continue to torture and kill citizens. This report reveals a
:09:15. > :09:18.country in which war crimes and crimes against humanity are routine.
:09:19. > :09:25.Normal life has been utterly destroyed. In northern Syria, where
:09:26. > :09:32.Islamic state control large areas, public executions are common. The
:09:33. > :09:38.population are forced to watch. Dead bodies are displayed, of the
:09:39. > :09:45.non-crucifixes, for days afterwards. Women are lashed for failing to
:09:46. > :09:50.cover their faces, minor crimes punished with amputation.
:09:51. > :09:58.Meanwhile, Syrian government forces continue to inflict violence. Bombs
:09:59. > :10:03.and gas dropped from helicopters, hospitals shelled, civilians
:10:04. > :10:07.arrested, tortured, killed. UN investigators say that no side
:10:08. > :10:12.appears capable of the tree and there is no military solution to the
:10:13. > :10:19.suffering of the Syrian people. Yet neither side is ready to stop
:10:20. > :10:22.fighting. Instead, the United Nations fear that the conflict is
:10:23. > :10:34.about to spread across the region with devastating conduct.
:10:35. > :10:40.Earlier I spoke to our world affairs correspondent, Richard Galpin. He
:10:41. > :10:45.said the report was critical of all sides involved.
:10:46. > :10:52.Government forces, original rebel groups, the free Syrian army, and
:10:53. > :10:58.the new actors on the battlefield, including Islamic state. It accuses
:10:59. > :11:02.all war crimes and crimes against humanity. This commission is
:11:03. > :11:07.appointed by the UN human rights Council. They have been bringing out
:11:08. > :11:13.reports for three years since the conflict began. This is the elitist
:11:14. > :11:22.so far. -- bleakest.
:11:23. > :11:27.Where does it leave the deliberations for Western
:11:28. > :11:31.governments about what to do? It is very strong on the
:11:32. > :11:39.international community, castigating it, saying it has failed in what it
:11:40. > :11:44.calls an elemental duty to protect civilians and stop atrocities. They
:11:45. > :11:50.also say, which they have said for, that there should be an arms embargo
:11:51. > :11:54.at the very least. That is part of the problem, different groups in
:11:55. > :11:56.different countries fuelling the conflict by sending in significant
:11:57. > :12:04.arms and supplies for the fighting groups. It is very critical of the
:12:05. > :12:11.international community as well. Other stories making headlines: The
:12:12. > :12:14.first of the Brazilian televised presidential debates has taken place
:12:15. > :12:25.just a fortnight after the death of Eduardo can -- Campos. An American
:12:26. > :12:29.journalist who was freed on Sunday after being held captive in a Syrian
:12:30. > :12:33.militants for nearly two years has arrived back in the USA. Peter
:12:34. > :12:38.Curtis said he was moved by arrived back in the USA. Peter
:12:39. > :12:42.those who welcomed him home. He had been held by a group fighting the
:12:43. > :12:48.Syrian government, and a rival of Islamic state. The Nigerian
:12:49. > :12:52.government say they have so far contained the Ebola outbreak which
:12:53. > :12:58.spread to the country last month. One person has been treated, two
:12:59. > :13:06.have been released from hospital, five people have died, far fewer
:13:07. > :13:10.than other West African countries. Another dismal performance by
:13:11. > :13:18.English old giants, Manchester United. They were knocked out of the
:13:19. > :13:28.League Cup at the hands of a club two divisions below them. Louis Van
:13:29. > :13:33.Gaal has yet to win this season having played three games. Where has
:13:34. > :13:41.it all gone wrong? Let's speak to our sports correspondent. A terrible
:13:42. > :13:48.start for him, isn't it? Absolutely. Still looking for that
:13:49. > :13:54.first victory and now an unbelievable defeat which knocks
:13:55. > :13:58.them out of the League Cup. Not far short of a disaster for Manchester
:13:59. > :14:08.United. The manager has healed for calm. Made the point that they have
:14:09. > :14:10.made lots of changes. -- appealed for calm.
:14:11. > :14:16.made lots of changes. -- appealed new team in a month.
:14:17. > :14:17.made lots of changes. -- appealed him a bit of time, they're spending
:14:18. > :14:29.has been him a bit of time, they're spending
:14:30. > :14:35.this season, but people want results from that. Yes, you will have a bit
:14:36. > :14:42.of time, because players need to gel together, results must come soon.
:14:43. > :15:03.At the same time they have just woken the British transfer record to
:15:04. > :15:09.sign the player Di Maria. -- broken.
:15:10. > :15:15.She brings creativity. Somebody who is a provider. They have got Wayne
:15:16. > :15:20.Rooney up front. They have got a lot of class in their strikers, but they
:15:21. > :15:27.need somebody to come in and add creativity and flair. But it is a
:15:28. > :15:43.huge price tag and brings huge pressure. They need the team, they
:15:44. > :15:47.Stay with us on BBC World Thank you very much.
:15:48. > :15:51.Controversy in Colombia as the former hit man for
:15:52. > :15:52.Pablo Escobar's drug cartel is released from jail.
:15:53. > :15:55.In less than a month the people of Scotland will vote on
:15:56. > :15:59.Yes Scotland want a vote for independence,
:16:00. > :16:01.and Better Together want Scotland to remain in the union.
:16:02. > :16:04.But there's a grass roots movement taking to social media to get
:16:05. > :16:30.Not exactly Scotland's answer to Lady Gaga, but this woman has become
:16:31. > :16:40.an Internet hit with this boost -- spoof about voters. I want a country
:16:41. > :16:45.run by Tory MPs, I'm voting no. I wanted to get involved with the
:16:46. > :16:50.campaign and I thought a fun way to do it would be to do a cover version
:16:51. > :16:53.of a song. A lot of people say the Scottish relationship with the union
:16:54. > :16:56.is like a bad Romance. She is recording another video here. I can
:16:57. > :17:06.hear the music so I will find out what is going on inside. These guys
:17:07. > :17:12.are in a pro-independence choir and they are singing on the next track.
:17:13. > :17:20.The lyrics to the song by the Rolling Stones has been tweaked. It
:17:21. > :17:24.is a Scottish take on the song. Ironic that she chose this song
:17:25. > :17:29.because Mick Jagger was a celebrity that signed an open letter asking
:17:30. > :17:33.people to lead Scotland in the UK. Within minutes of it being online
:17:34. > :17:45.each one of those celebrities twitter accounts got massive abuse.
:17:46. > :17:48.The official Yes Scotland campaign has strict guidelines about online
:17:49. > :17:51.behaviour. We need to persuade people to vote to us but you do not
:17:52. > :17:56.do that by being an abusive idiot. This is BBC World News. The latest
:17:57. > :17:58.headlines: The double checking of votes in
:17:59. > :18:01.Afghanistan's disputed presidential election has stopped after one of
:18:02. > :18:04.the sides withdrew from the process. Atrocities committed
:18:05. > :18:10.by the extremist Islamic State group, including forcing children to
:18:11. > :18:14.watch executions, are highlighted in the latest UN
:18:15. > :18:22.human rights report on Syria. One of Colombia's most notorious
:18:23. > :18:24.killers has been released He's called John Jairo Velasquez,
:18:25. > :18:30.also known as Popeye. He's said to have killed hundreds
:18:31. > :18:33.of people himself He was a top hit man for Colombian
:18:34. > :18:38.drug lord Pablo Escobar He was convicted for his part
:18:39. > :18:44.in the murder of a former presidential candidate,
:18:45. > :18:49.Luis Carlos Galan in 1989. But he turned state's witness
:18:50. > :18:53.against former Justice Minister Alberto Santofimio,
:18:54. > :18:55.who ordered Mr Galan's killing. With me is William Marquez from
:18:56. > :19:00.BBC Mundo, who has lived through some of the
:19:01. > :19:12.worst of the violence in Colombia. I am very glad you are here in one
:19:13. > :19:19.piece to talk to us. Why has he been released early? In Colombia there
:19:20. > :19:22.are no life sentences, even for such high profile murderers. At the time
:19:23. > :19:27.he handed himself in there was a deal that if you did so you would
:19:28. > :19:36.get a reduced sentence so his sentence was 35 years and he paid 22
:19:37. > :19:39.so legally he was able to walk free. Just some brief details of what he
:19:40. > :19:46.is supposed to have done but there is a long list of camp --
:19:47. > :19:49.accusations. A bombing campaign against the government and he
:19:50. > :19:53.co-ordinated the blowing up of the intelligence service building. He
:19:54. > :20:01.blew up or co-ordinated the blowing up of an aeroplane where some people
:20:02. > :20:08.I knew were in it. Also tortures and murders that he has confessed to.
:20:09. > :20:13.There is a story about his ex-girlfriend and the governor Pablo
:20:14. > :20:17.Escobar? Yes, he was the lover of the former girlfriend of Pablo
:20:18. > :20:21.Escobar. His boss is a crime lord but he was going out with his
:20:22. > :20:28.girlfriend? Yes, with his girlfriend and his girlfriend was also an
:20:29. > :20:36.informant for the authorities. And Popeye was ordered to kill her. What
:20:37. > :20:40.is the reaction to his release? Some people are appalled. They say he has
:20:41. > :20:45.to pay a longer sentence, even life in prison but, as I told him,
:20:46. > :20:49.Ashbrook as I told you there is no life in prison in Colombia. Others
:20:50. > :20:55.say that he has paid the time that he was due and one has to remember
:20:56. > :21:02.that he is about the only one, the only surviving member of the cartel
:21:03. > :21:08.ever to have been convicted and had a sentence in jail for such a long
:21:09. > :21:11.time in Colombia. Strangely despite the huge catalogue of crimes some
:21:12. > :21:19.people have a warmth of feeling towards the cartels? Yes, there were
:21:20. > :21:23.some good things done for some people. Stadiums were built and
:21:24. > :21:28.homes were given to poor people. If there is any relief to the victims
:21:29. > :21:32.it is what is Popeye going to do now that he is free? He is certainly
:21:33. > :21:35.going to have to look over his shoulder everywhere he goes because
:21:36. > :21:41.there is probably a price on his head. Thank you. Very interesting.
:21:42. > :21:44.A nine-year-old girl in the US has accidentally killed her shooting
:21:45. > :21:49.instructor while being shown how to use a high-powered automatic weapon.
:21:50. > :21:52.Charles Vacca was giving the girl a lesson at the Last Stop firing
:21:53. > :21:55.range in Arizona when she pulled the trigger on an Uzi submachine gun
:21:56. > :22:01.The accident happened after the gun was switched
:22:02. > :22:06.Footage has been released by the Mojave County Sheriff's
:22:07. > :22:09.Department that shows the instructor teaching the nine-year-old shortly
:22:10. > :22:34.Otherwise the gun will not fire, OK? Right there. OK, turn this
:22:35. > :22:37.forward. Just like that. All right. Go ahead and give me one shot. All
:22:38. > :22:49.right! We have frozen the video there. You
:22:50. > :22:51.can imagine how gruesome it is after it carries on. The instructor died
:22:52. > :22:54.after being airlifted to hospital. Questions have been asked
:22:55. > :22:56.about why a nine-year-old was allowed to fire a machine gun,
:22:57. > :23:00.but in the state of Arizona children are legally allowed to shoot
:23:01. > :23:02.firearms from the age of eight. A magnitude 5.7 earthquake
:23:03. > :23:04.hit Iceland's Bardarbunga It's the biggest
:23:05. > :23:08.since tremors began 10 days ago. Intense seismic activity
:23:09. > :23:11.at Iceland's largest volcano has raised worries that an eruption
:23:12. > :23:15.could cause another ash cloud like the one that shut down much
:23:16. > :23:18.of Europe's airspace back in 2010. But so far there's no evidence
:23:19. > :23:22.of an eruption and the Icelandic met office has said the aviation
:23:23. > :23:31.code remains at orange. May of this year marked the end
:23:32. > :23:35.of the line of one of India's most Production of the car that was once
:23:36. > :23:39.omnipresent on Indian streets has The move has led to an outpouring
:23:40. > :23:44.of nostalgia among lovers The BBC's Sanjoy Majumder reports
:23:45. > :24:10.on the passing of one of India's For more than 50 years she was the
:24:11. > :24:16.pride of India. The ultimate style and status symbol, and even as India
:24:17. > :24:20.changed the Ambassador survived. Everyone who could own a
:24:21. > :24:28.Ambassador. It was a car you simply fell in love with. Growing up in
:24:29. > :24:32.India the Ambassador was the only car I ever knew. It was a prized
:24:33. > :24:37.possession and my family, it took people to work, took us to school,
:24:38. > :24:43.took us a long family holidays and I learned how to drive on one. If you
:24:44. > :24:48.look inside it it is not exactly state of the art. A very basic
:24:49. > :24:53.dashboard, no air conditioning, no stereo system. The clutch pedal, the
:24:54. > :25:00.gear levers, are all a bit clunky. It takes a real effort to use one.
:25:01. > :25:06.But, as they say, if you can drive an ambassador, you can drive
:25:07. > :25:10.anything. -- if you can drive a Ambassador. On the streets the
:25:11. > :25:12.Ambassador spells power and privilege. White once ferried
:25:13. > :25:18.cabinet privilege. White once ferried
:25:19. > :25:24.reserved for army generals. This man has been driving one since 1969.
:25:25. > :25:28.Like so many taxi drivers in Delhi he loves the Ambassador. Many
:25:29. > :25:39.cabbies have switched to newer cars but he is hanging onto his.
:25:40. > :25:44.It is a very good car. It is so spacious that you
:25:45. > :25:49.It is a very good car. It is so people inside. It does break down at
:25:50. > :25:54.times but you can easily fix it. This car has given me so much, my
:25:55. > :25:58.livelihood, I have even managed to send two of my children abroad.
:25:59. > :26:07.Foreign visitors also fell under its spell. This man is the German
:26:08. > :26:11.ambassador to India and he can barely contain his enthusiasm as he
:26:12. > :26:16.shows off his favourite wheels. We have BMWs and they are very good
:26:17. > :26:24.cars but they are not unique cars. This is a car that is unique. It
:26:25. > :26:28.expresses also our affection for India and the uniqueness of India
:26:29. > :26:35.because that is India. But India has changed. The Ambassador is out of
:26:36. > :26:43.sync with its dynamic and fast paced outlook and it is now merely a
:26:44. > :26:47.fading memory. I remember travelling in a Ambassador when I was a child
:26:48. > :26:50.and they had a particular smell to the man's a particular field to them
:26:51. > :26:52.and they are wonderful cars, what a shame they are going to be off the
:26:53. > :26:53.roads. Don't forget you can get
:26:54. > :26:56.in touch with me and some Plenty more coming up on BBC News,
:26:57. > :27:02.thank you for watching. MUSIC: "It Don't Mean A Thing"
:27:03. > :27:10.by Duke Ellington celebrating the music of Count Basie
:27:11. > :27:15.and Duke Ellington.