:00:31. > :00:33.This is BBC World News Today with me Tim Willcox.
:00:34. > :00:36.Syrian rebels and civilians trapped for years by a brutal government
:00:37. > :00:38.siege in a Damascus suburb negotiate their departure.
:00:39. > :00:42.The deal means they have to leave Darayya, a symbol
:00:43. > :00:45.of the uprising against Assad, as the President's army moves in.
:00:46. > :00:48.A new line in the sand, as a French court rules
:00:49. > :00:50.against the ban on full-body swimsuits, or burkinis, stating it
:00:51. > :00:53.Preparations for the first funerals for the victims
:00:54. > :00:55.of Italy's earthquake, as the chances of finding any
:00:56. > :01:02.Archive files released today show thousands of British people
:01:03. > :01:13.persecuted by the Nazis were refused compensation - by the UK Government
:01:14. > :01:15.After four years under siege by Syrian government forces,
:01:16. > :01:18.civilians and rebel fighters have begun to leave a suburb
:01:19. > :01:31.Government soldiers in Darayya celebrated as the buses left.
:01:32. > :01:34.A senior UN official has stressed that the evacuation must be
:01:35. > :01:35.voluntary and described the situation there
:01:36. > :01:38.BBC Arabic's Assaf Abboud is in Darayya.
:01:39. > :02:02.BBC Arabic's Assaf Abboud is in Darayya.
:02:03. > :02:05.The buses which will move Darayya residents have arrived.
:02:06. > :02:07.It will take all the residents including women and children out
:02:08. > :02:10.of the rebel controlled areas to shelters in and around Damascus.
:02:11. > :02:13.It is all going under the supervision of the Syrian Red
:02:14. > :02:20.There are also representatives for the UN Special Envoy for Syria,
:02:21. > :02:26.Staffan de Mistura, the UN and the International Red Cross.
:02:27. > :02:28.Some 4,000 people will be evacuated and taken to shelter centres
:02:29. > :02:38.As for the fighters, they are divided into two groups.
:02:39. > :02:40.The first group, who refuse reconciliation, will be moved
:02:41. > :02:44.to the city of Idlib, and the second, who have reached
:02:45. > :02:48.a deal with the government, will be moved to Damascus.
:02:49. > :02:50.According to military sources, at least 300 civilians
:02:51. > :02:55.Tomorrow, it will be fighters going out of the city.
:02:56. > :02:57.This is all according to the agreement between rebel
:02:58. > :03:03.Until now, the operation is going as planned
:03:04. > :03:10.It might take longer than planned to get everyone out but so far
:03:11. > :03:20.If all went to plan, Darayya will no longer be a hotspot
:03:21. > :03:22.and the process for rebuilding this city's infrastructure and getting
:03:23. > :03:38.That report from BBC Arabic's Assaf Abboud is in Darayya.
:03:39. > :03:42.Kholoud Waleed is originally from Darayya.
:03:43. > :03:45.She now edits a Syrian opposition newspaper in Gaziantep
:03:46. > :03:52.I asked her whether she was worried about the safety of
:03:53. > :04:04.The 8,000 civilians who are locked in the city for four years and now
:04:05. > :04:09.the regime has insisted to send them to regime-controlled areas so,
:04:10. > :04:14.for me, personally, I'm worried that they might be detained
:04:15. > :04:21.or tortured and killed or they might disappear because we have no
:04:22. > :04:28.And how many people do you think will remain or is everyone
:04:29. > :04:31.going to be leaving this area now that the government
:04:32. > :04:39.The regime has insisted on evacuating the whole town
:04:40. > :04:44.so every single person will leave the town,
:04:45. > :04:56.They have sent the civilians to a regime-controlled area
:04:57. > :04:59.and they sent 50 fighters with their families towards Idlib
:05:00. > :05:07.and tomorrow they're going to continue the process.
:05:08. > :05:09.One campaigner described it as a drawing of another
:05:10. > :05:13.France's highest administrative court has suspended a ban
:05:14. > :05:16.on full-body burkini swimsuits, that was imposed in a town
:05:17. > :05:22.The ruling could set a precedent for up to 30 other towns that
:05:23. > :05:24.imposed bans on their beaches, chiefly on the Riviera.
:05:25. > :05:30.Friday's court ruling stated the ban in Villeneuve-Loubet "seriously
:05:31. > :05:47.and clearly illegally breached fundamental freedoms".
:05:48. > :05:50.But local news agencies in France are reporting that many of those
:05:51. > :05:53.mayors say they WILL continue with the ban in defiance
:05:54. > :05:59.This is Sara and her family at the moment when we told them
:06:00. > :06:00.that the burkini ban had been lifted.
:06:01. > :06:03.Sara's Muslim, originally from Tunisia, and she told me that,
:06:04. > :06:05.had it not been for the ban, she'd have been wearing
:06:06. > :06:08.a burkini or something like it on the beach today.
:06:09. > :06:11.Now that the news has come from Paris, she'll be back covering
:06:12. > :06:14.TRANSLATION: It has been really hard because we all felt
:06:15. > :06:18.Even though I've been covered for 30 years,
:06:19. > :06:21.But in the last two weeks, I felt awkward.
:06:22. > :06:23.It's the way people were looking at me.
:06:24. > :06:26.Before, people didn't show how they felt towards us.
:06:27. > :06:31.Now they say they don't like it and that really hurts.
:06:32. > :06:34.One woman in Nice knows what it feels like.
:06:35. > :06:37.She was photographed apparently being told by police to remove
:06:38. > :06:45.That made the burkini ban not just a French but an international story.
:06:46. > :06:49.But now the State Council in Paris has reversed the local banning
:06:50. > :06:52.orders, which were issued over the last two weeks by some 30 towns,
:06:53. > :06:57.The towns had said that after the Nice lorry attack
:06:58. > :07:00.there was a risk to public order from outward signs of Muslim
:07:01. > :07:10.It's based on the principle of freedom of religion,
:07:11. > :07:14.the freedom to express religion, and to be able to wear whatever
:07:15. > :07:20.Of course, not everyone in France is going to agree
:07:21. > :07:25.Former president Nicolas Sarkozy says he wants a burkini ban
:07:26. > :07:28.across all of the country and polls suggest that a majority
:07:29. > :07:34.They want to stop what they see as the gradual encroachment
:07:35. > :07:40.of Islamic lifestyle and symbols into the public sphere.
:07:41. > :07:46.Outside France, such arguments seem to cut little ice.
:07:47. > :07:49.The burkini ban sparked protests outside French embassies in London
:07:50. > :07:52.and Berlin and campaigns on the internet urged the French
:07:53. > :08:01.Things that might seem obvious in other places don't
:08:02. > :08:34.Like letting women wear religiously inspired clothing on a beach.
:08:35. > :08:36.A little earlier I spoke to Rim-Sarah Allouane
:08:37. > :08:38.A little earlier I spoke a researcher in Public Law
:08:39. > :08:43.I began by asking her what she made of the fact that much of the French
:08:44. > :08:56.We should not judge by public opinion but by the law. Public
:08:57. > :09:09.authorities have played with fears. We celebrate today as the
:09:10. > :09:12.anniversary of French human rights. Does it fit with the principle of
:09:13. > :09:27.secularism on which the French state is founded? Absolutely. This ban was
:09:28. > :09:37.contrary to secularism. The burkini does not stop people... The judge
:09:38. > :09:45.just told the law, that is how it is, and stated that this ban
:09:46. > :09:51.entrenched fundamental liberties of freedom of conscience, freedom to
:09:52. > :09:56.come and go and personal liberties. It is a small victory but still a
:09:57. > :10:02.victory. The actual ban didn't use the word burkini at all. It said
:10:03. > :10:07.dress should be in keeping and respectful of good public manners.
:10:08. > :10:14.For many French people, good public manners is not wearing something
:10:15. > :10:19.like that are keenly. -- burkini. How do you legally defined that?
:10:20. > :10:27.That is the problem when it comes to public opinion. Absolutely but again
:10:28. > :10:34.I am talking about the law. Public authorities shall not tell people
:10:35. > :10:38.how they should dress. It was even more than good manners as well. It
:10:39. > :10:45.was good morals, which is even worse, if you ask me. The council
:10:46. > :10:52.clearly stated that there were no public order disturbances and the
:10:53. > :10:56.Merit cannot restrict access to public beaches if a statement was
:10:57. > :10:58.not proven, and that was the case. Hopes are fading in Italy of finding
:10:59. > :11:01.any more survivors under the thousands of tonnes of rubble
:11:02. > :11:03.following Wednesday's earthquake. The official number of people
:11:04. > :11:09.killed stands at 267. The 6.2-magnitude quake hit
:11:10. > :11:12.in the early hours of Wednesday, 100km north-east of Rome
:11:13. > :11:18.in mountainous central Italy. The rescue and recovery
:11:19. > :11:20.effort remains centred on three small towns,
:11:21. > :11:22.Pescara del Tronto, This is Pescara del Tronto,
:11:23. > :11:28.taken from a satellite You can see the red-tiled roofs
:11:29. > :11:36.of the houses. Piles of rubble where most
:11:37. > :11:44.of the buildings stood, As hopes fade that more survivors
:11:45. > :11:50.will be found, we're beginning to find out more
:11:51. > :11:55.about those confirmed dead. Many were enjoying summer
:11:56. > :11:57.breaks in the mountains. Amongst them were three foreign
:11:58. > :11:59.tourists from Britain, This is the road to
:12:00. > :12:08.the village of Sommati. Two British families,
:12:09. > :12:11.the Henniker-Gotleys and This is the house in which both
:12:12. > :12:23.British families were staying. And you can see that the damage
:12:24. > :12:27.is dramatic. Both families have paid tribute
:12:28. > :12:30.to the work of those relief workers Their neighbour, Nando Bonnanni,
:12:31. > :12:42.was the first to reach them. TRANSLATION: I shouted and called
:12:43. > :12:44.out for Maria and Will, There was nothing we could do
:12:45. > :12:52.with our bare hands. They were sleeping in a room
:12:53. > :12:55.on the ground floor and it The Burnett family from London
:12:56. > :12:58.lost their 14-year-old son, His school called him a much
:12:59. > :13:02.loved and admired boy. 50-year-old Maria Henniker-Gotley
:13:03. > :13:04.and her 55-year-old They were from Stockwell in south
:13:05. > :13:10.London. They were always fun, you could
:13:11. > :13:13.always have a laugh with them. It's just shocking that you go off
:13:14. > :13:20.on a lovely summer holiday and, you know, we won't ever see
:13:21. > :13:27.them again, really. Many survivors are left
:13:28. > :13:31.with a simple, powerful question. Why did so many buildings fall
:13:32. > :13:37.and so many people die? 11-month-old Elena Sofia
:13:38. > :13:40.has no idea that she, She and her mother, Sonia,
:13:41. > :13:45.are recovering in hospital. I freed myself and started asking
:13:46. > :13:57.for help, but everyone So I went back and with my hands
:13:58. > :14:03.I freed my daughter from the rubble. I could only see her little foot
:14:04. > :14:06.and I just pulled her out. The worst hit town, Amatrice,
:14:07. > :14:11.will soon begin to hold This town, and others,
:14:12. > :14:19.will have to find new ground And you can keep up to date
:14:20. > :14:32.with the latest with regard to the Italian earthquake
:14:33. > :14:35.by visiting our website. We have reports, analysis,
:14:36. > :14:37.and the latest casualty figures. Simply go to bbc.com/news
:14:38. > :14:44.or download the BBC News app. A suicide bomber driving a truck
:14:45. > :14:47.laden with explosives has hit a police headquarters in south-east
:14:48. > :15:04.Turkey, cooling 11 The huge explosion targeted
:15:05. > :15:09.a checkpoint in Cizre, and left the nearby riot
:15:10. > :15:12.police HQ in ruins. Turkey's Prime Minister Binali
:15:13. > :15:13.Yildirim blamed the banned Kurdish PKK militant group,
:15:14. > :15:15.and vowed to retaliate. Cizre is a predominantly Kurdish
:15:16. > :15:18.town near Turkey's borders It was the scene of clashes
:15:19. > :15:21.between Turkish security forces Zimbabwe's riot police fired tear
:15:22. > :15:25.gas and beat up opposition The protestors were demanding
:15:26. > :15:28.urgent electoral reforms The High Court had issued an order
:15:29. > :15:32.sanctioning the march to go ahead. This is part of a growing wave
:15:33. > :15:35.of streets protests in the past months against President
:15:36. > :15:36.Robert Mugabe's rule. The riot police had
:15:37. > :15:45.cordoned off an open space christened the Freedom Square
:15:46. > :15:50.in the capital, early morning. They beat up protesters,
:15:51. > :15:54.fired tear gas and used water cannon to displace growing crowds marching
:15:55. > :15:58.to the square. In central Harare there were running
:15:59. > :16:00.battles and a number The police continued
:16:01. > :16:10.to maintain a heavy presence, patrolling the streets
:16:11. > :16:14.and with water cannon. Organisers of the march say
:16:15. > :16:17.the people's anger is growing and this could be the beginning
:16:18. > :16:20.of worse things to come. And I think, in my view,
:16:21. > :16:36.it must not relent. It must continue to express itself,
:16:37. > :16:38.the level of desperation So that we are able
:16:39. > :16:43.to solve this problem. It appears that when people succumb
:16:44. > :16:46.to fear and intimidation, But I'm very glad that
:16:47. > :16:52.Zimbabweans are beginning We have learned that scores
:16:53. > :16:58.of people were injured in the skirmishes and many
:16:59. > :17:00.are receiving treatment It is not clear why the police
:17:01. > :17:07.defied a High Court order. Organisers say they will not be
:17:08. > :17:12.discouraged and continue with protests until fundamental
:17:13. > :17:14.electoral reforms are effected ahead Now a look at some of
:17:15. > :17:25.the day's other news. At least nine people have been
:17:26. > :17:29.killed in an attack on a seaside restaurant in Somalia's capital,
:17:30. > :17:30.Mogadishu. A car bomb exploded outside a beach
:17:31. > :17:33.club in the Lido area. Police say two of the attackers
:17:34. > :17:35.were killed and another The Islamist group Al Shabaab stages
:17:36. > :17:41.regular attacks in Mogadishu. Police in Brazil have charged
:17:42. > :17:44.the American swimmer Ryan Lochte The 12-time Olympic medallist had
:17:45. > :17:48.claimed he and three team-mates were robbed at gunpoint
:17:49. > :17:50.during the Rio Games, The maximum penalty is 18 months
:17:51. > :17:56.in jail, and the 32-year-old could be tried in his absence,
:17:57. > :18:02.if he fails to return to Brazil. Turkey has opened one of the world's
:18:03. > :18:04.largest suspension bridges It's 1.4 kilometres long
:18:05. > :18:10.and is the third to connect the European and Asian sides
:18:11. > :18:14.of the country. It's part of President Erdogan's
:18:15. > :18:16.drive to modernise Turkey's largest Some critics argue the project,
:18:17. > :18:21.along with plans for a new airport and a tunnel under the Bosphorus,
:18:22. > :18:29.are harmful to the environment. A Czech hiker has spoken about how
:18:30. > :18:32.she survived for a month Pavlina Pizova and Ondrej Petr
:18:33. > :18:39.were hiking the famous Routeburn One night her partner slipped down
:18:40. > :18:46.a steep ice slope and died. They had been hiking
:18:47. > :18:49.in the South Island of the country Following her partner's death
:18:50. > :18:55.the Czech tourist hiked some two kilometres from where he fell,
:18:56. > :18:58.to a warden's hut in the mountains Rescuers were finally alerted
:18:59. > :19:03.after the Czech Consul spotted a Facebook post by concerned
:19:04. > :19:05.relatives at home in Here's Pavlina describing
:19:06. > :19:13.what happened to her. As you can imagine, the last month
:19:14. > :19:20.was very harrowing for me, The tragic accident happened when my
:19:21. > :19:29.partner fell and died. After his death, it took me two
:19:30. > :19:33.nights in the open before I reached During this time, I got
:19:34. > :19:53.extremely cold, exhausted I made a few attempts to walk
:19:54. > :20:12.from the hut but my feet and the weather conditions
:20:13. > :20:15.and the deep snow Ms Pizova was found by a search team
:20:16. > :20:35.on Wednesday and as you can see from that interview
:20:36. > :20:37.she is in remarkably good health. Her partner's body has now been
:20:38. > :20:44.recovered by police. New files released at The National
:20:45. > :20:47.Archives here in London, show that thousands of British
:20:48. > :20:49.people who were persecuted by the Nazis were refused
:20:50. > :20:51.compensation by the government. Most were from the Channel Islands
:20:52. > :20:54.who were arrested and deported Final scenes of the long drama
:20:55. > :21:04.in the Channel Islands. May 1945 and Guernsey has been
:21:05. > :21:06.liberated after almost five Far away in Germany,
:21:07. > :21:09.Channel Islanders too were being freed from often
:21:10. > :21:11.brutal imprisonment. Paul and Phil's father Gerald
:21:12. > :21:14.was one, caught with two sacks of stolen German coffee
:21:15. > :21:18.and sentenced to hard labour. At the war's end he had
:21:19. > :21:24.been at risk of death. They were actually on their way
:21:25. > :21:26.to Dhaka, they didn't know it at the time,
:21:27. > :21:29.the Allies were advancing and the German army
:21:30. > :21:38.was in a bit of disarray. Didn't understand they were shooting
:21:39. > :21:42.prisoners who were physically Gerald's health was ruined
:21:43. > :21:45.by his imprisonment. Letters, one from
:21:46. > :21:46.the Foreign Office... In the mid-1960s he was one of 4000
:21:47. > :21:49.people applying for compensation as victims of Nazi persecution,
:21:50. > :21:52.only a quarter of them successful. Gerald got ?2100,
:21:53. > :21:56.around ?28,000 today. The files are now being released
:21:57. > :21:58.at the National Archives, those of other Channel Islanders
:21:59. > :22:03.are harrowing reading. Frank Tuck describes being beaten
:22:04. > :22:05.with a pick handle and flogged "The fear that ruled us
:22:06. > :22:13.was indescribable," he wrote. He saw a fellow Guernsey man die
:22:14. > :22:15.of his treatment. Jack Harper was sometimes chained
:22:16. > :22:18.in a standing position without food all night, by a sadistic
:22:19. > :22:24.German guard. And Thomas describes working
:22:25. > :22:29.in clothes soaked through that dried on one's back,
:22:30. > :22:38.sometimes frozen stiff. Thomas, one of 17 Guernsey policemen
:22:39. > :22:41.sentenced for sabotage, was so He got two and a half thousand
:22:42. > :22:45.pounds, Margaret Godfrey Do you think he felt the money
:22:46. > :22:49.was sufficient or do you think I think they thought
:22:50. > :22:56.it was meagre, yes. Today Guernsey is a peaceful
:22:57. > :22:58.place, these files are some people suffered
:22:59. > :23:03.terribly under Nazi tyranny. Now to an intercontinental love
:23:04. > :23:10.story spanning China to Edinburgh. A man has been reunited
:23:11. > :23:13.with the loyal soul that helped him cross the finish line in one
:23:14. > :23:16.of the world's most gruelling races. Extreme marathon runner
:23:17. > :23:18.Dion Leonard was taking part in the Four Desert Race when he met
:23:19. > :23:21.Gobi the stray dog in Now, thanks to a crowdfunding appeal
:23:22. > :23:24.they are back together. It is a story of, well,
:23:25. > :23:34.dogged determination. As Dion Leonard took part
:23:35. > :23:38.in a gruelling ultramarathon, a 150-mile run across China's
:23:39. > :23:43.forbidding Gobi Desert, he was We spent the whole week together,
:23:44. > :23:55.literally either by my side running or in the evening
:23:56. > :23:58.she was in my arms during the night, So I knew before I left the race
:23:59. > :24:03.that I was going to bring her back. But while he flew back to Scotland,
:24:04. > :24:06.just before the dog was due to go into Chinese
:24:07. > :24:09.quarantine, she escaped. So Dion flew back to China and began
:24:10. > :24:16.what seemed like a hopeless task, looking for Gobi in the place
:24:17. > :24:22.she was last seen, Urumqi, a city of 3 million where very few
:24:23. > :24:27.people speak English. So, today is day two
:24:28. > :24:31.of trying to find Gobi. I've been handing these out
:24:32. > :24:36.since 6am, looking around the parks and local areas for dogs,
:24:37. > :24:39.and speaking to a lot of locals who actually think
:24:40. > :24:41.they've seen Gobi, But China's internet
:24:42. > :24:50.came to the rescue. The dog hunt spread like wildfire
:24:51. > :24:53.on social media, with messages of support and cash to fund
:24:54. > :24:59.the quest pouring in. Before long, Dion had a few leads,
:25:00. > :25:04.and Gobi was found. I got some images through on my
:25:05. > :25:07.phone and a phone call saying that a father and son had
:25:08. > :25:10.found her and we went out there to see her and she ran
:25:11. > :25:14.across the room and straight And I'd just walked in the door,
:25:15. > :25:22.I hadn't said a word to either. So, Gobi is once again preparing
:25:23. > :25:28.for a few months in quarantine and then Dion expects
:25:29. > :25:31.to have her home before Christmas. Presumably the first command he'll
:25:32. > :25:45.want to teach her - stay. But for now, from me and the rest
:25:46. > :26:11.of the team, goodbye. Up and down weekend coming up. Some
:26:12. > :26:14.sunshine for many of us but some rain as well. Tomorrow, many others
:26:15. > :26:15.will stay fine. But it