:00:00. > :00:08.This is BBC World News Today with me, Philippa Thomas. A deadly double
:00:09. > :00:12.bombing in Beirut targets the Iranian embassy there. Is Syria's
:00:13. > :00:16.war spilling over the border into Lebanon?
:00:17. > :00:20.The 23 killed in the massive bomb attack include an Iranian diplomat,
:00:21. > :00:29.as a group linked to Al-Qaeda claims responsibility.
:00:30. > :00:34.TRANSLATION: They weren't fighters face to face, so they use suicide
:00:35. > :00:37.bombers. -- they won't fight us face to face. Let them face us, we are
:00:38. > :00:40.ready. Six months' worth of rain floods
:00:41. > :00:44.through the Mediterranean island of Sardinia - Italy's Prime Minister
:00:45. > :00:48.declares a state of emergency. There is another bridge over there,
:00:49. > :00:50.we are told that the water swept over the top. People say it must
:00:51. > :00:54.have been eight or nine metres high. Also coming up: The latest on the
:00:55. > :00:56.dozens still trapped as a South African shopping mall collapses on
:00:57. > :00:59.construction workers. The world's largest refugee camp in
:01:00. > :01:05.Northern Kenya - why so many refugees from Somalia do not want to
:01:06. > :01:08.go home. We report from there. And why taking a photo like these
:01:09. > :01:27.fine examples has become the Oxford English Dictionary's word of the
:01:28. > :01:31.year. Hello and welcome. A deadly double
:01:32. > :01:34.bombing at the Iranian embassy in the Lebanese capital Beirut has
:01:35. > :01:37.killed at least 23 people. Lebanese officials say the first attacker was
:01:38. > :01:41.a suicide bomber on a motorcycle. The second was in a four-wheel drive
:01:42. > :01:44.vehicle. This is one of the worst attacks in southern Beirut since the
:01:45. > :01:49.war across the border in Syria began. And significantly, it is the
:01:50. > :01:52.first attack on an Iranian target, with the embassy's cultural attache
:01:53. > :01:55.among the dead. Iran is a major backer of Syria's
:01:56. > :01:59.President Assad and of Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia militant group
:02:00. > :02:08.which has sent fighters to Syria to back Assad's government.
:02:09. > :02:11.In fact, one of the most bitterly fought skirmishes of the Syrian
:02:12. > :02:14.civil war came in June, when Hezbollah and Syrian government
:02:15. > :02:17.forces recaptured the town of Qusair, very close to the Lebanese
:02:18. > :02:22.border, after weeks of intense clashes.
:02:23. > :02:25.To many, the Syrian conflict - and the increasing sectarian attacks in
:02:26. > :02:29.both Lebanon and Iraq - represents a proxy war being fought by two of the
:02:30. > :02:31.region's biggest powers, Iran and Saudi Arabia.
:02:32. > :02:41.The BBC's Middle East correspondent Paul Wood reports now on the day's
:02:42. > :02:45.events, and the potential fallout. First, a man wearing a suicide belts
:02:46. > :02:51.rushed to the outer wall of the embassy and detonated. Next came a
:02:52. > :02:56.car bomb. That may have been a suicide attack, too. I would this is
:02:57. > :03:02.said Rainey and guards rushed out after the first blast and were
:03:03. > :03:13.killed in the second -- Iranians guards rushed out. It appears that
:03:14. > :03:18.many bystanders died as well. Saudis and Jews, says this woman, the
:03:19. > :03:25.standard demon graffiti in Shi'ite south Beirut. But it is more likely
:03:26. > :03:33.that this was linked to Iran's support for the Syrian regime. Maybe
:03:34. > :03:39.it is a message. We are trying to say that everybody is convinced that
:03:40. > :03:45.the solution in Syria is political. Who did this now, I think, has not
:03:46. > :03:52.come up with a solution. The attack could be linked to this. Syrian
:03:53. > :03:58.rebels are under pressure from a regime offensive. Their last supply
:03:59. > :04:07.routes into Lebanon are close to being cut off.
:04:08. > :04:14.Refugees are fleeing over the border. They are coming from areas
:04:15. > :04:17.that have been held by the rebels for two years. To accomplish this,
:04:18. > :04:23.the regime is getting help from Iran. The Syrian rebels have vowed
:04:24. > :04:30.revenge. Both sides have their proxies in Lebanon. More violence
:04:31. > :04:32.seems inevitable. TRANSLATION: These people weren't
:04:33. > :04:39.TRANSLATION: These people weren t fighters face-to-face. So they use
:04:40. > :04:49.suicide bombers. Let them face us, we are ready. This isn't the first
:04:50. > :04:53.time that the Civil War in Syria has reached over the border to cause
:04:54. > :04:57.mayhem in Lebanon. It is not the first time there has been an attack
:04:58. > :05:02.in Shi'ite south Beirut, but everybody knows that an attack on
:05:03. > :05:06.Iranian target is different and everybody will be waiting and
:05:07. > :05:07.watching anxiously to see what the consequences of such an attack will
:05:08. > :05:11.be. With me is Edgard Jallad. He's the
:05:12. > :05:17.BBC's Arabic TV editor and was born in Beirut.
:05:18. > :05:24.One of the first things you said upon seeing this is it is a message
:05:25. > :05:28.being sent, but what is the message? There are different layers in this
:05:29. > :05:34.message. Such bombings are not staged for just a simple message.
:05:35. > :05:37.There will be more than one message. The first one could be
:05:38. > :05:44.related to the role of are named Syria. This is a major role which is
:05:45. > :05:48.affecting the whole region. -- the first one could be related to the
:05:49. > :05:54.role of Iran in Syria. The second layer could be that Iran is getting
:05:55. > :05:58.closer to an agreement about its nuclear programme with the United
:05:59. > :06:03.States. We have heard condemnation by secretary Ceri moments ago. - by
:06:04. > :06:11.by secretary Ceri moments ago. -- by secretary John Kerry. He described
:06:12. > :06:15.it as a terrorist attack. This will push some countries to be
:06:16. > :06:19.uncomfortable and unhappy about what has happened. These countries are
:06:20. > :06:27.very well-known. Israel is not happy. The Iranians openly accused
:06:28. > :06:31.Israel about this. The other part, and we have heard it a lot do the
:06:32. > :06:36.experts, they are accusing Saudi Arabia, for example, because it is
:06:37. > :06:41.not happy about this deal between Iran and the United States. I don't
:06:42. > :06:48.want to simplify massively, but if you talk about relative bands of
:06:49. > :06:57.power on Shia/ Sunni tensions, we are driving down to that? It all
:06:58. > :07:00.relates to the big conflict tween them and the balance of power. An
:07:01. > :07:07.agreement between Iran and the United States is a big punch to this
:07:08. > :07:13.balance of power. The Saudis are really worried about the future. By
:07:14. > :07:20.seeing around sealing a deal with the United States. What about us? --
:07:21. > :07:25.by seeing Iran sealing a deal. Lebanon is already reeling from the
:07:26. > :07:31.refugees fleeing from Syria, now this violence in Beirut again, there
:07:32. > :07:35.must be a fear of more? Cause, Lebanon has always been a regional
:07:36. > :07:39.mailbox will big messages between superpowers. It is not new, it has
:07:40. > :07:43.been there since the 70s, including the Cold War between the Soviet
:07:44. > :07:49.Union and the United States. It went through the war, this is not new. It
:07:50. > :07:57.is unfortunate for this tiny country the size of Wales here in the United
:07:58. > :08:02.Kingdom. But at least what we have heard as reactions throughout the
:08:03. > :08:08.day, politicians from all parties, they are trying to absorb what
:08:09. > :08:12.happens and to avoid seeing a, seeing it leading to a bigger
:08:13. > :08:17.internal conflict. Kos at the motions are unleashed between the
:08:18. > :08:22.Sunnis and the sheer, there will be another terrible war. -- the Sunnis
:08:23. > :08:27.and the Shia. It has been contained so far. This element has always been
:08:28. > :08:32.there since the spill-over of the Syrian crisis into Lebanon. You
:08:33. > :08:39.mention the refugees and the interference, but so far it is not
:08:40. > :08:45.in the interest of any Lebanese party to get involved all to live
:08:46. > :08:49.the repercussions of the Syrian crisis. Thank you for coming in
:08:50. > :08:52.A cyclone has struck the Mediterranean island of Sardinia,
:08:53. > :08:56.killing at least 18 people. Among the dead was a family of four and a
:08:57. > :09:00.police officer who drowned when his car was swept away as he was
:09:01. > :09:03.escorting an ambulance. Around six months' worth of rain fell in about
:09:04. > :09:10.an hour and a half. The BBC's Matthew Price is in Sardinia and
:09:11. > :09:16.sent this report. They have seen nothing like it in
:09:17. > :09:21.decades in this normally Sunkist holiday-makers' paradise. It was,
:09:22. > :09:26.said one official, apocalyptic. Cyclone Cleopatra poured almost half
:09:27. > :09:37.a metre of water down on this island in one day. It is what they expect
:09:38. > :09:45.here in six months. It is the second time. First we had the fire, now it
:09:46. > :09:51.is water. Look at this mess. We followed some officials down one
:09:52. > :09:54.Blocked Rd as the rain started to fall again - not what they need
:09:55. > :10:02.Around the corner, this is what the cyclone had done. There was, we are
:10:03. > :10:13.told, a war of Tongaat a wall of water. -- there was, we are told, a
:10:14. > :10:17.wall of water. We are told that water swept right the way over the
:10:18. > :10:21.top. People here say it must have been eight or nine metres high.
:10:22. > :10:25.Thousands have been evacuated from their homes, with search and rescue
:10:26. > :10:31.teams still trying to reach all the affected areas. A family of four
:10:32. > :10:36.drowned as the water flooded their home. Ridges collapsed, three died
:10:37. > :10:41.when their car was crushed under one. -- bridges collapsed. A mother
:10:42. > :10:45.and daughter were killed as their vehicle was swept away in a raging
:10:46. > :10:48.torrent. There are roadblocks across the northern half of the island,
:10:49. > :10:52.the northern half of the island making the emergency response even
:10:53. > :10:56.more difficult. TRANSLATION: There is a crater down
:10:57. > :11:02.the road. We are still expecting more bad weather. The road could
:11:03. > :11:06.collapse at any time. The government held an emergency
:11:07. > :11:11.meeting this morning, setting aside 20 million new rose to help pay for
:11:12. > :11:15.the temporary housing and rebuilding that is urgently needed -- setting
:11:16. > :11:19.aside 20 million euros. In South Africa, at least two people
:11:20. > :11:22.are reported to have died after the roof of a shopping mall that was
:11:23. > :11:25.under construction collapsed nea rthe east coast city of Durban.
:11:26. > :11:28.About forty others, believed to be building workers, are still said to
:11:29. > :11:34.be trapped under the rubble. The BBC's Milton Nkosi is following
:11:35. > :11:39.the story from Johannesburg. What we know is that in Tongaat, 40
:11:40. > :11:48.What we know is that in Tongaat 40 kilometres north of Durban, a
:11:49. > :11:51.construction area which was a building construction which was
:11:52. > :11:56.going to be a more has collapsed. Some emergency officials are
:11:57. > :12:01.describing it as the size of a rugby field that has collapsed. We know
:12:02. > :12:06.that at least 29 people have been injured, some of them critically,
:12:07. > :12:10.and they have been airlifted to local hospitals. We know that
:12:11. > :12:16.emergency services, over 100 of them with rescue teams, are on the scene
:12:17. > :12:20.as we speak with sniffer dogs and using the jaws of life to try to
:12:21. > :12:28.reach to those who are trapped underneath the rubble. We hear that
:12:29. > :12:31.at least 50 of those trapped maybe construction workers who were
:12:32. > :12:37.working on this construction site, which was believed to be a more of
:12:38. > :12:44.about 15,000 square metres. -- believed to the a mall of.
:12:45. > :12:45.Now a look at some of the day's other news.
:12:46. > :12:48.Police in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, have fired tear gas at
:12:49. > :12:51.anti-military demonstrators in clashes between supporters and
:12:52. > :12:53.opponents of the army. It's the second anniversary of a major
:12:54. > :12:54.confrontation between the security forces and demonstrators in which
:12:55. > :12:58.more than 40 people were killed. more than 40 people were killed
:12:59. > :13:01.The Spanish Ambassador in London has been summoned by the UK Government
:13:02. > :13:04.to explain reports a Spanish ship illegally entered the British port
:13:05. > :13:07.of Gibraltar. The crew of the ship claimed it was carrying out survey
:13:08. > :13:10.work with permission from the Spanish authorities. The British
:13:11. > :13:21.Foreign Office called it a provocative incursion.
:13:22. > :13:24.Parliamentarians in Strasbourg have approved the first spending cut in
:13:25. > :13:27.the history of the European Union. After two years of haggling,
:13:28. > :13:31.approval was given for the long-term approval was given for the long term
:13:32. > :13:41.budget up to the year 2020, with a real terms cut of 3.5%, 35 billion
:13:42. > :13:43.new row. This will particularly affect spending on poorer areas.
:13:44. > :13:46.affect spending on poorer areas Hundreds of police in Paris are
:13:47. > :13:50.still hunting a gunman who attacked the head offices of a newspaper and
:13:51. > :13:52.a bank, leaving one man critically wounded. The gunman disappeared
:13:53. > :13:55.after forcing a motorist to help him escape. New CCTV images have been
:13:56. > :14:04.issued today, as Christian Fraser reports from Paris.
:14:05. > :14:09.A new photographs, and is now a much clearer picture of the man police
:14:10. > :14:13.are hunting. Here is another, the gunman sitting at a Metro station.
:14:14. > :14:18.Police have had 400 calls from the public already, 120, said the
:14:19. > :14:26.prosecutor, they are taking seriously. This is the film on
:14:27. > :14:30.Friday from the headquarters of the 24-hour News Channel. He threatened
:14:31. > :14:39.staff with a gun but without firing. It was the warning. At the offices
:14:40. > :15:22.of the newspaper Liberation, yesterday he shot a
:15:23. > :15:30.the police are on stand-by at Metro stations and at the annual Christmas
:15:31. > :15:33.market. Those who came into contact with the Government described the
:15:34. > :15:43.anger and intensity on his face and it is fair to say they said he
:15:44. > :15:49.wanted to kill. There is a discernible sense of urgency on the
:15:50. > :15:54.part of the authorities. Memories are fresh in France of a similar
:15:55. > :16:00.manhunt last year. The gunman killed seven people in ten days.
:16:01. > :16:03.The recovery effort in the Philippines is picking up momentum.
:16:04. > :16:09.It is ten days since the devastating super typhoon hit the country and
:16:10. > :16:14.aid is finally starting to reach even the most remote areas. But
:16:15. > :16:21.there is increasing criticism of the Government's slow response. Rajesh
:16:22. > :16:30.Mirchandani has been to a makeshift hospital near Tacloban, one of the
:16:31. > :16:35.worst hit areas. Some of these people have been waiting in line for
:16:36. > :16:41.more than three hours. They are not waiting for food or water, they are
:16:42. > :16:44.waiting for medical help. This is a field hospital run jointly by the
:16:45. > :16:52.Belgians and the Journal that Germans. It is the only hospital in
:16:53. > :16:58.this area. Every day they see 2 0 people in this facility. When they
:16:59. > :17:03.get in this is the first ten. People get their symptoms checked. Then
:17:04. > :17:09.they are taken further down into the facility. They also check for
:17:10. > :17:16.infectious diseases. People have been living in not sanitary
:17:17. > :17:20.conditions. This is a classic time when epidemics could spread. In this
:17:21. > :17:26.treatment room there is a man who has had a wound on his finger and it
:17:27. > :17:31.looks pretty nasty. They are telling me he has been in once before, but
:17:32. > :17:38.this is a checkup three days later. What is wrong with this guy? He has
:17:39. > :17:47.a big wound on his finger, but this is manageable. That is without
:17:48. > :17:53.stitching and surgery. This has to be a fully, self-contained facility.
:17:54. > :17:58.This is the pharmacy that gets regularly restock. There are eight
:17:59. > :18:03.doctors and 24 nurses. There is an operating theatre and they have seen
:18:04. > :18:07.all sorts of things. Just the other day they had their first baby born
:18:08. > :18:12.at the mother called him Gregory. Nearly half a million Somalis live
:18:13. > :18:19.in Dadaab, a refugee camp in northern Kenyan. 10,000 of them are
:18:20. > :18:24.third-generation refugees and for most of them Dadaab is home. But how
:18:25. > :18:31.many of them would return to build their lives in Somalia? Gabriel
:18:32. > :18:38.Gatehouse sent us this report. An official in the camp has told me
:18:39. > :18:42.that fewer than 100 people out of a total of 350,000 have asked to go
:18:43. > :19:02.back. One of the reasons people are so reluctant is this, this primary
:19:03. > :19:05.school. More than 2500 A lot of parents believe their children would
:19:06. > :19:08.not get an opportunity if they went back to Somalia. This man has 21
:19:09. > :19:15.back to Somalia. This man has 2 Jordan. Three wives and 21 children,
:19:16. > :19:21.almost all of whom were born at Dadaab. For them this is not a
:19:22. > :19:28.refugee camp. For better or worse it is home. TRANSLATION: When I talk to
:19:29. > :19:34.my children about going back to Somalia they get scared. They think
:19:35. > :19:40.it is a mad idea. They cannot go back to Somalia, so the only hope
:19:41. > :19:42.they have is education. Dadaab is the largest refugee camp
:19:43. > :19:47.anywhere in the world. Since 1991, anywhere in the world. Since 19 1,
:19:48. > :19:54.when Somalia collapsed into anarchy, hundreds of them lead and ended up
:19:55. > :20:00.here. But also some troublemakers and extremists have come. One day
:20:01. > :20:06.last month a group of local men gathered to watch a football match
:20:07. > :20:10.on television. At about nine o'clock gunman came in and sprayed fire and
:20:11. > :20:15.bullets indiscriminately into the crowd. Nobody was killed, but six
:20:16. > :20:25.were injured and one is still in hospital. They are worried. At night
:20:26. > :20:34.time nobody comes. We close and we are very afraid. Why do you think
:20:35. > :20:41.they attack? Without asking as they started shooting as with bullets.
:20:42. > :20:45.Some Kenyan politicians have said Dadaab has become a nursery for
:20:46. > :20:50.extremists and it is time the people here went home. On the ground things
:20:51. > :20:55.seem to be carrying on very much as usual. This timber merchant is
:20:56. > :21:02.continuing to parcel out bits of wood that will be used in yet more
:21:03. > :21:09.constructions. Dadaab seems to be becoming more permanent by the day.
:21:10. > :21:14.Have you ever taken a selfie? You will be in good company if you have,
:21:15. > :21:19.like this Japanese astronaut at the International Space Station, or
:21:20. > :21:27.Hillary Clinton or even the Pope and the US president. Oxford dictionary
:21:28. > :21:32.defines a selfie as a photograph taken by oneself, taken by a
:21:33. > :21:38.smartphone or a webcam and uploaded to a social media website. Today
:21:39. > :21:41.they have confirmed it is the Word of the Year. With me is Richard
:21:42. > :21:49.Holden, the online editor for Oxford dictionaries. Why did that one
:21:50. > :21:55.appeal? Every year there is a big discussion and argument, but this
:21:56. > :22:02.year it was obvious. When we looked at monitoring new words we saw it
:22:03. > :22:07.had a year on year increase about 10,000%, so it was an obvious
:22:08. > :22:14.candidate. It was staring you in the face? It has two say something about
:22:15. > :22:20.the year and it defines the year. And looking at some of the ones that
:22:21. > :22:25.did not make it. What about showrooming? It is where you go into
:22:26. > :22:32.a shop and look at the products and go home and buy them cheaper online.
:22:33. > :22:36.We are going to find out whether people recognised the words you were
:22:37. > :22:44.considering. Our reporter went out to find out whether people
:22:45. > :22:52.recognised these words. To watch a whole season of a television show.
:22:53. > :23:05.American, they get it. To binge watch? Meat from the street? If I
:23:06. > :23:15.said you could do this on the street, what do you think that would
:23:16. > :23:22.mean? I could go home and I might. Ladies and gentlemen, she has got
:23:23. > :23:26.it. Yes, we know what it is. But I am not going to do it. Put your hand
:23:27. > :23:32.up if you know what twerking is. am not going to do it. Put your hand
:23:33. > :23:36.up if you know what twerking is But will we be talking about them in a
:23:37. > :23:48.few years time. Some words last like carbon footprint. Some of them are
:23:49. > :23:54.rather transient. Becoming Word of the Year does not mean that it will
:23:55. > :24:00.ever be in the dictionary. We look at a bit more longevity than that.
:24:01. > :24:07.It could disappear without trace. But when you look at carbon
:24:08. > :24:13.footprint they have become something to do with academic discourse. Some
:24:14. > :24:19.of them are trivial. There is a real mix between the technical and the
:24:20. > :24:26.mock local. What does the word selfie say about society? Does it
:24:27. > :24:30.mean we are all rather vain? It could be, but people have
:24:31. > :24:35.commissioned self portraits for years. It is easier now than ever,
:24:36. > :24:44.thanks to technology. Is it something you do as well? Yes, all
:24:45. > :24:52.the time. I never have. If you are on social media, it is what you do.
:24:53. > :24:55.You put yourself on the scene. Did the argument get heated. I imagine
:24:56. > :25:01.all of you are terribly well mannered. In our well mannered way
:25:02. > :25:07.we usually have arguments, but this year selfie was the obvious choice
:25:08. > :25:14.and it was a lot less fraught than in previous years. There was also
:25:15. > :25:21.twerking, bitcoin. Some of them are not going to make it. I am told
:25:22. > :25:26.there is a new mammal living in the cloud forest. The first mammal found
:25:27. > :25:29.in the Western Hemisphere, which is why it was thought to be
:25:30. > :25:38.significant, but it was always going to lose out to selfie. Some
:25:39. > :25:44.important news. British comedy veterans Monty Python are set to
:25:45. > :25:48.reunite for a new show. This is their first major collaboration in
:25:49. > :25:55.30 years. It will come in the form of a theatre show and it will be on
:25:56. > :26:00.stage. They want a cult following with their madcap television series
:26:01. > :26:06.between 1969 and 1974, including this dead parrot sketch. All five
:26:07. > :26:11.surviving members, who are now in their 70s, will be returning for the
:26:12. > :26:15.show. A double Banning near the Iranian
:26:16. > :26:21.embassy in the Lebanese capital of Beirut has killed more than 20
:26:22. > :26:26.people, wounding 150. A news agency in Iran has confirmed a cultural
:26:27. > :26:31.attache was among the dead. A Lebanese Sunni group linked to
:26:32. > :26:35.Al-Qaeda said it was behind the attacks. The Foreign Minister said
:26:36. > :26:40.it was a warning that the region's worsening security needs to be dealt
:26:41. > :26:56.with. From me and the rest of the team, thanks for staying with us.
:26:57. > :27:03.There will be an early frost tonight ahead of some wet and windy weather
:27:04. > :27:09.that is sweeping us overnight and into tomorrow. The strong wind will
:27:10. > :27:14.exacerbate the cold. The rain could be quite happy for a while. There
:27:15. > :27:19.will be snow over the Scottish mountains. That rain sweeps
:27:20. > :27:25.southwards and there is some intense rain over a short period of time.
:27:26. > :27:28.Though showers may be a touch wintry over the Pennines.