:00:00. > :00:10.This is BBC World News today, with me Zeinab Badawi.
:00:11. > :00:14.After the budget deal in the US to prevent a massive debt default, we
:00:15. > :00:17.ask what has been the cost to Washington's standing on the world
:00:18. > :00:20.stage? Hundreds of thousands return to work
:00:21. > :00:24.after a temporary agreement in Congress ends the partial government
:00:25. > :00:32.shutdown. We look at the losers after President Obama says there
:00:33. > :00:38.were no winners. These last few weeks have inflicted completely
:00:39. > :00:42.unnecessary damage on our economy. Pupil power in France. Hundreds of
:00:43. > :00:45.school students take to the streets, amid growing anger at the
:00:46. > :00:50.deportation of a Roma teenager, snatched by the authorities in front
:00:51. > :00:53.of her classmates. Three months after Egypt's army
:00:54. > :00:56.ousted President Morsi, we speak to the deputy head of the committee
:00:57. > :01:02.charged with helping rewrite the country's constitution.
:01:03. > :01:06.And dream jobs or the only jobs for these girls in the future? We
:01:07. > :01:07.examine why females in China are prevented from some university
:01:08. > :01:29.courses and careers. Hello and welcome. The US budget
:01:30. > :01:32.battle may be over for now and, although President Obama did not
:01:33. > :01:36.have to conceder very much to his Republican opponents, he said today
:01:37. > :01:39.that there were no winners from the tussle between Democrats and
:01:40. > :01:42.Republicans. Hundreds of thousands of government employees have headed
:01:43. > :01:45.back to work today after the cross-party deal last night ended
:01:46. > :01:52.the partial government shutdown and raised the US debt ceiling. Mr Obama
:01:53. > :01:55.speaking at the White House earlier today, warned that the US economic
:01:56. > :02:04.recovery had been undermined and that the American people are fed up
:02:05. > :02:09.with the politicians in Washington. Understand that how business is done
:02:10. > :02:15.in this town has to change. Because, we have all got a lot of work to do
:02:16. > :02:22.on behalf of the American people, including the hard work of retaining
:02:23. > :02:27.the trust. Our system of self government does not function without
:02:28. > :02:33.it. Without it, the gunmen cannot operate. All others need to stop
:02:34. > :02:40.focusing on the lobbyists and the bloggers and talking heads on radio,
:02:41. > :02:46.the professional activist who profit from conflict, but listen to the
:02:47. > :02:50.majority of the American people In Washington now is the economist
:02:51. > :02:58.and blogger Edward Harrison, the founder of the economic news
:02:59. > :03:04.website, Credit Writedowns. So, the President says there was not any
:03:05. > :03:08.winners ballot a lot of losers. Economic, I'm talking about
:03:09. > :03:20.companies having a lot of trouble in the States economy. Yes, LX like we
:03:21. > :03:23.will see a loss of about 0.5 or 0.6% gross domestic product in this
:03:24. > :03:29.quarter because of the partial shutdown. We are looking at a huge
:03:30. > :03:34.amount of lost income to the private sector. In this scheme of things,
:03:35. > :03:40.that is manageable, because we are looking at plus .2% growth in the
:03:41. > :03:46.United States. So it could come down to .2%. But if this had gone on any
:03:47. > :03:55.longer, the damage would have been a lot greater. There is still a risk,
:03:56. > :04:00.because investors may not see the US dollar is the safe haven it once
:04:01. > :04:09.was? I do not think the dead enemy, but in terms of absolute note
:04:10. > :04:14.political risk, there are no other pretenders to the throne as aware,
:04:15. > :04:19.of save assets or collateral. You can look at places like China or in
:04:20. > :04:24.Europe as being equivalent size in terms of the economy, but all of
:04:25. > :04:31.those areas have the own difficulties and their own problems.
:04:32. > :04:36.The United States dollar remains a strong currency. The will probably
:04:37. > :04:48.not be ramifications in that respect. How much damage has this
:04:49. > :04:50.done? It was that potential default on United States security which
:04:51. > :04:58.would of had worldwide implications. I think it has done a
:04:59. > :05:08.lot of damage to the United States in terms of its been able to promote
:05:09. > :05:15.its agenda abroad. In British terms, it would be the equivalent of the
:05:16. > :05:21.Labour Party forcing through legislation which would force the
:05:22. > :05:24.Government to partly shutdown. People round the world do not
:05:25. > :05:30.understand that the United States has gone through this. It is
:05:31. > :05:36.self-inflicted and as a result, we are looking at the likes of the NASA
:05:37. > :05:45.spying scandal and the situation in Syria, there were a lot of places
:05:46. > :05:49.via the United States where the actor on the world stage and the
:05:50. > :05:54.combination of this will diminish the United States as a power and
:05:55. > :06:05.people will probably look for a more multi-polar world view in future.
:06:06. > :06:08.Thousands of high school students have taken to the streets in Paris
:06:09. > :06:11.protesting against the deportation of a 15-year-old Roma girl. Leonarda
:06:12. > :06:15.Dibrani was detained by police in front of her classmates and sent
:06:16. > :06:18.back to her native Kosovo, along with her parents and five siblings.
:06:19. > :06:20.Her case has triggered an angry backlash among her supporters. The
:06:21. > :06:32.French Interior Minister Manuel Valls has drawn the fiercest
:06:33. > :06:41.criticism. At home, but not that Leonarda Dibrani would consider this
:06:42. > :06:45.her home. The family entered France illegally in 2009 and since then had
:06:46. > :06:51.been living in Paris, with French becoming her first language. This
:06:52. > :07:00.summer, the final asylum appeal was denied. Last week, on a school
:07:01. > :07:06.outing, she was dragged off by the authorities and sent back on a plane
:07:07. > :07:14.to Kosovo. It was terrible. My friends thought I had committed the
:07:15. > :07:23.big claim. I started crying. In Kosovo, there is no school for her.
:07:24. > :07:27.The story has starred bitter recriminations in France. Today
:07:28. > :07:35.thousands of students blockaded the schools as they took to the streets.
:07:36. > :07:40.I was born in Russia and I am living in France and that is a situation
:07:41. > :07:48.which worries me a lot. It could be one of us. The interior Minister is
:07:49. > :07:58.seen as one of the more popular figures in the socialist government,
:07:59. > :08:07.but many and party will approve of the action. Many people in the party
:08:08. > :08:16.are angered because it prides itself on human rights. He is currently on
:08:17. > :08:22.a visit to a French island, but said the majority of those illegal
:08:23. > :08:30.immigrants should go back to the likes of Romania and Kosovo. He
:08:31. > :08:36.said, when there is no longer any reason for a person to be on our
:08:37. > :08:43.soil, the law applies. There have been calls for the President to
:08:44. > :08:49.intervene. There has been worries that this has been a high-handed
:08:50. > :08:53.action by police and officials. The family will be able to return within
:08:54. > :09:00.48 hours if there's any problems with the expulsion order.
:09:01. > :09:03.It is three months since Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi was removed
:09:04. > :09:07.from power and a caretaker President put in charge until new elections
:09:08. > :09:10.can be held next year. The upheaval has left the Islamists, who were
:09:11. > :09:13.swept away from power by the head of the army, General Abdul Fatah Al
:09:14. > :09:16.Sissi, feeling very disgruntled There are regular protests held by
:09:17. > :09:19.supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood around Egypt, who are still calling
:09:20. > :09:22.for the reinstatement of the President. Meanwhile, the new
:09:23. > :09:25.authorities have begun a new process they claim will restore Egypt back
:09:26. > :09:28.to the path of a more inclusive democracy.
:09:29. > :09:30.With me here in the studio are two influential voices inside Egypt
:09:31. > :09:34.today. Lawyer Mona Zulficar is vice-president of the 50-member body
:09:35. > :09:37.known as the G50, which is drawing up a new constitution for Egypt and
:09:38. > :09:43.we also have Mohammed Shaker, the chairman of the Egyptian Council for
:09:44. > :09:47.Foreign Affairs. He is a former diplomat, who previously served as
:09:48. > :09:51.Egypt's ambassador in London. Thank you both for joining me this
:09:52. > :09:54.evening. Mohammed Shaker, how can Egpyt say
:09:55. > :09:56.it is committed to a democratic path when a democratically-elected
:09:57. > :10:10.President and his party have been writtren out of the picture? Now,
:10:11. > :10:17.everyone wants to be involved in the making of this Constitution. The
:10:18. > :10:24.making of this, where she is vice chairman, every Egyptian wants to be
:10:25. > :10:34.on this committee to draft the constitution, but certainly, it will
:10:35. > :10:39.be debated by the public later on. It will be put to the people, who
:10:40. > :10:51.will have the chance to comment on it. It is the will of the Egyptian
:10:52. > :10:54.people. Mona Zulficar, you are part of the
:10:55. > :10:58.body drawing up a new constitution for Egypt, to be voted for in
:10:59. > :11:00.December, but a referendum was held at the end of last year and 64%
:11:01. > :11:17.approved that constitution. But they attack the judiciary, the
:11:18. > :11:23.attack the media. President Morsi Made decisions with no other
:11:24. > :11:33.thought, the was no democracy about it. ?
:11:34. > :11:36.Mona, only one member of your 5 is an Islamist and the Islamic
:11:37. > :11:43.Brotherhood is not represented. How can the organisation have
:11:44. > :11:50.legitimacy? There are people who support them who are willing
:11:51. > :11:59.different hats. They well invited but declined. We have five or six or
:12:00. > :12:09.seven, more than 10% of the people, who are sympathetic. I think it is
:12:10. > :12:16.representative. The one is completely controlling it. It has
:12:17. > :12:22.all walks of life in it. You will surely have to find an accommodation
:12:23. > :12:26.with the Muslim Brotherhood. They were the clear winners in these
:12:27. > :12:32.democratic elections. Definitely, they will have a role to play in the
:12:33. > :12:41.future. I do not believe that we have democracy in Egypt presented
:12:42. > :12:46.otherwise. But it is too soon for people to digest what is going on
:12:47. > :12:52.and I think, at one point, they will have to be accommodated. Otherwise,
:12:53. > :13:02.what is the worry of fear being a insurgency. Clearly, it is not
:13:03. > :13:09.something Egypt can afford. No, they have been suspended, they put any
:13:10. > :13:14.ban for the former regime. They stopped them exercising their
:13:15. > :13:20.political rights. We are not doing that. We are writing a constitution
:13:21. > :13:26.which will respect the rule of law and equal rights for all people in
:13:27. > :13:32.Egypt. If the Muslim Brotherhood stood in an election in any guise,
:13:33. > :13:39.the would-be elected fairly and squarely as the winner? Yes, but I
:13:40. > :13:45.do not think the would do that. I think they lost the majority of the
:13:46. > :13:52.people because of the failure to stick with the constitution. Now,
:13:53. > :13:58.64% did vote for them, admittedly in a low turnout and they have been
:13:59. > :14:03.thrown out. This Constitution did not respect the equal rights of all
:14:04. > :14:07.citizens. It was a major cornerstone of the polarisation and division of
:14:08. > :14:15.the Egyptian people. It provided the source of perpetual conflict and
:14:16. > :14:24.because it was not based on the modern rules of respecting basic
:14:25. > :14:29.human rights and freedoms for all. This Constitution itself was
:14:30. > :14:36.surrounded by sympathisers President Morsi of. You have seen the military
:14:37. > :14:44.back controlling the streets in Egypt. You threw out the former
:14:45. > :14:48.regime because it was essentially an army supported government. Now, we
:14:49. > :14:56.no longer have the Government President Morsi of. Surely, the army
:14:57. > :15:03.are right back in the picture now? Yes, because people wanted that
:15:04. > :15:11.Egypt is comfortable with going back to military rule? They may accept it
:15:12. > :15:17.for the meantime. It saved Egypt from catastrophe. I think people
:15:18. > :15:25.behaved the instructions of the people who went down and signed 22
:15:26. > :15:33.million petitions authenticated signatures saying we want Emily
:15:34. > :15:37.elections, we do not accept this to continue. Number two, we went down
:15:38. > :15:49.under streets and we asked the army to intervene in the bed. It is not
:15:50. > :15:52.now them and the driver seat. We have an entered common and we will
:15:53. > :15:54.write a constitution and the role have elections and have a new
:15:55. > :16:03.government. Thank you both for joining me.
:16:04. > :16:06.Britain has agreed to let Chinese companies buy up some of its nuclear
:16:07. > :16:12.power plants. They will be able to finance, build and operate the
:16:13. > :16:15.facilities and even own a majority stake. George Osborne says it means
:16:16. > :16:24.that the UK Government will not need to finance expensive projects
:16:25. > :16:29.directly. It's the biggest nuclear power plant of its kind in the
:16:30. > :16:34.world. Under construction at Taishan in southern China. Now, an almost
:16:35. > :16:40.identical one is likely to be built in the UK. George Osborne's host
:16:41. > :16:47.today was stressing the reactor s safety features. Against air crash.
:16:48. > :16:52.The so there are... S safety procedures. Like Britain, China
:16:53. > :16:59.needs to build more power stations. The safety is built into everything,
:17:00. > :17:04.an earthquake or tsunami. You are prepared for that. Unlike Britain,
:17:05. > :17:08.China is already racing ahead almost 30 nuclear plants in the pipeline.
:17:09. > :17:13.Today the Chancellor said he would welcome Chinese involvement in
:17:14. > :17:17.Britain's nuclear reactors. What is in this for George Osborne is money,
:17:18. > :17:22.cash Britain urgently needs to fund the building of a new generation of
:17:23. > :17:25.power stations. There are concerns that what bringing Chinese state
:17:26. > :17:33.companies may mean for future safety and security in Britain's critical
:17:34. > :17:38.national infrastructure. The new reactors at Taishan are European
:17:39. > :17:43.designs, a French firm working with a Chinese partner. The same team
:17:44. > :17:49.should get the first UK contract. We will make sure the British rules on
:17:50. > :17:52.safety are applied. Chinese investment in British nuclear power
:17:53. > :17:55.means British taxpayers' money can be used, instead of building these
:17:56. > :18:01.things, for building schools and hospitals. In the long-term, British
:18:02. > :18:04.families get lower and more stable energy bills. This is where the new
:18:05. > :18:08.reactors will be built, replacing old ones at Hinkley Point in
:18:09. > :18:13.Somerset. The bills may not be lower. The Government will guarantee
:18:14. > :18:17.the operators a set price for their power, perhaps double today's cost
:18:18. > :18:23.of electricity. It's extremely unlikely this is is a good deal for
:18:24. > :18:27.consumers. The Government is guaranteeing EDF the operator a
:18:28. > :18:33.price over the next three or four decades of ?100 a megawatt hour If
:18:34. > :18:36.the price of Lek thrills itty is below that the consumer will make up
:18:37. > :18:40.the difference. Currently it's significantly below that. No other
:18:41. > :18:47.western nation has turned to China to satisfy its need for energy.
:18:48. > :18:52.Communist-led, but with deep pockets, China could in future be
:18:53. > :18:57.running UK nuclear plants. Some will find that deeply uncomfortable.
:18:58. > :19:04.Others, like the Chancellor, see opportunity. The day's other news in
:19:05. > :19:08.brief. In Australia, strong winds and unseasonably warm weather are
:19:09. > :19:12.fanning dozens of wildfires across the state of New South Wales. So far
:19:13. > :19:16.at least 30 homes have been destroyed on the outskirts of
:19:17. > :19:20.Sydney. Scientists from the world health organisation have for the
:19:21. > :19:23.first time identified air pollution as a leading environmental cause of
:19:24. > :19:27.cancer. Their research suggests it was responsible for more than
:19:28. > :19:31.200,000 deaths from lung cancer around the world in 2010. That means
:19:32. > :19:36.air pollution is more likely than passive smoking to give you cancer.
:19:37. > :19:42.It is being blamed for an increased risk of bladder cancer. Earlier this
:19:43. > :19:45.week, we brought you the story on the street artist Banksy who
:19:46. > :19:53.secretly sold his original art, worth thousands of pounds, for just
:19:54. > :19:56.$60 at a stall in New York. Now a Lebanese charity, the Association to
:19:57. > :20:01.Save Tyre, is offering people the chance to pick up an original
:20:02. > :20:07.Picasso for 100 euros. You heard directly. The drawing is worth 1
:20:08. > :20:09.million and it's called Man with Opera Hat. The charity is hoping
:20:10. > :20:13.that plenty of people will want to buy a raffle ticket in the hope that
:20:14. > :20:19.they will strike lucky. Let us talk more about this, here in the studio
:20:20. > :20:22.with me is Maha Chalabi from the International Association to Save
:20:23. > :20:25.Tyre and she is one of the organisers of this Picasso raffle.
:20:26. > :20:30.Have you had a big response to this raffle so far? Yes, we have. We are
:20:31. > :20:39.have very happy about it, especially here in London. The we are selling
:20:40. > :20:47.very, very well. We hope that it will continue. You know Tyre is
:20:48. > :20:51.giving so much to humanity and the historical period. Tyre is expecting
:20:52. > :20:58.that people come to help her now. You are trying to raise money for
:20:59. > :21:07.Tyre which is of course is in southern Lebanon it's an ancient
:21:08. > :21:12.metropolis. You are trying to raise money to do what with the money We
:21:13. > :21:19.have projects for employment for women and disables. In Tyre this
:21:20. > :21:24.will be a village for handy craft. Tyre was known by its handy craft.
:21:25. > :21:35.We want to revive all the old handy craft. We have another project also
:21:36. > :21:43.with a consortium of universities in Beirut itself. These two projects
:21:44. > :21:46.are done for employment, helping especiallilet new generation and
:21:47. > :21:51.women. These are the projects you wish to finance. As you have been
:21:52. > :21:55.speaking we have been looking at beautiful pictures of Tyre. You
:21:56. > :22:00.bought the Picasso work in New York from a gallery? Yes. It has been
:22:01. > :22:04.totally confirmed by Picasso's family as being an original. Yes.
:22:05. > :22:12.Are you nervous you won't get your money back, maybe? No, we have
:22:13. > :22:17.already the price of the Picasso, we have it already back. We want to
:22:18. > :22:21.make the money to make the project. This is the most important thing.
:22:22. > :22:26.Whose idea was this to raise money for your charity in this way? It's
:22:27. > :22:34.my daughter and myself. We put together this idea because people
:22:35. > :22:42.are feddup with dinners and gala dinners and difficult now period not
:22:43. > :22:49.allowing fundraising easily. It s the era of the internet we thought
:22:50. > :22:52.by internet we can reach the most bigger number. It's open to
:22:53. > :23:09.everybody in the world? To everybody in the world. They have to go to a
:23:10. > :23:18.site. Can I make my cheque out for you now? Please. Did you... I
:23:19. > :23:22.didn't, I don't want to gain it If I gain it, it's much problem. I keep
:23:23. > :23:29.it for others. It's a good opportunity for anybody. To get peal
:23:30. > :23:35.for 100 euros. Thank you very much for talking to us about that
:23:36. > :23:39.campaign there. Throughout October we are running a special series on
:23:40. > :23:43.the challenges faced by women in the 21st century. Next Friday, 100
:23:44. > :23:47.inspiring women will gather for a unique global event here at the
:23:48. > :23:51.BBC's London headquarters. In our report today we look at education in
:23:52. > :23:59.China. This year, the country welcomed its first female astronaut.
:24:00. > :24:03.Many women in China have to keep their aspirations firmly on the
:24:04. > :24:11.ground. There are still jobs and university courses which are for
:24:12. > :24:22.many only. Child's play with an eye on the future. At the I Have A Dream
:24:23. > :24:28.theme park in Beijing these visitors can try out careers. Girls dress up
:24:29. > :24:34.as flight attendants and learn to serve meals. Many boys choose to
:24:35. > :24:40.work as security guards. In these imagery world, the children and
:24:41. > :24:45.their parents stick to ridgied gender types. In China the idea that
:24:46. > :24:51.girls can't or shouldn't do the same jobs as men is put op on them early.
:24:52. > :24:57.Students fight to get into this mining engineering course in China's
:24:58. > :25:03.eastern Jiangsu province. They are almost guaranteed well-paid jobs
:25:04. > :25:10.after graduation. This programme has one clear entrance requirement, men
:25:11. > :25:14.only. China's labour law suggests mining work is unsuitable for women.
:25:15. > :25:20.We ask women to refrain from applying to our major. This school
:25:21. > :25:24.is not alone. Out of respect for women's safety, it says. China's
:25:25. > :25:32.education ministry has banned girls from studying a variety of subjects
:25:33. > :25:36.from across China. Some jobs are really unsuitable for women. If they
:25:37. > :25:42.force their way into these jobs they will waste energy that can be
:25:43. > :25:46.better used elsewhere. A small but fiesty network of students and
:25:47. > :25:53.lawyers is fighting the restrictions. Shaving their heads in
:25:54. > :25:58.a rare public protest in Guandong province last year. It was blatant
:25:59. > :26:03.discrimination. No-one has stood up to these universities before and
:26:04. > :26:13.told them these policies were wrong. The activists are also battling
:26:14. > :26:18.unofficial gernd quotas at many Chinese universities that favour
:26:19. > :26:22.boys. Schools don't want their courses to be dominated by girls.
:26:23. > :26:30.They regularly lower admission standards for boys and leaving girls
:26:31. > :26:39.with higher marks out of luck. Girls can move beyond the beauty saloon to
:26:40. > :26:44.try dozens of jobs. These girls might soon have the support and the
:26:45. > :26:48.drive to do it. Some of the challenges faced there by women in
:26:49. > :26:54.China. That is it from World News Today, next the weather. Goodbye.