:00:36. > :00:38.This is BBC World News Today, broadcasting in the UK
:00:39. > :00:53.The headlines: A new line in the sand
:00:54. > :00:56.as a French court rules against the ban on full-body
:00:57. > :01:01.But at least three mayors in the south of France say
:01:02. > :01:05.After four years living under siege civilians and rebels are evacuated
:01:06. > :01:08.from Darraya, a symbol of the uprising against Assad -
:01:09. > :01:20.Protestors demand electoral reform in Zimbabwe, the police
:01:21. > :01:25.And Brazilian police ask for former President Lula
:01:26. > :01:38.to be charged with corruption over an apartment deal.
:01:39. > :01:40.One campaigner described it as a drawing
:01:41. > :01:43.of another line in the sand - France's highest administrative
:01:44. > :01:47.court has suspended a ban on full-body "burkini" swimsuits -
:01:48. > :01:50.that was imposed in a town on the Mediterranean coast.
:01:51. > :01:53.The ruling is expected to set a precedent for up to 30 other towns
:01:54. > :02:01.But local news agencies in France are reporting that many of those
:02:02. > :02:03.mayors say they will continue with the ban in defiance
:02:04. > :02:08.Friday's court ruling stated the ban in Villeneuve-Loubet "seriously
:02:09. > :02:11.and clearly illegally breached fundamental freedoms".
:02:12. > :02:30.This is Saira and her family, and the moment we told them
:02:31. > :02:32.that the burkini ban had been lifted.
:02:33. > :02:34.She is Muslim, originally from Tunisia, and she told me that
:02:35. > :02:37.if it were not for the ban, she would have been wearing
:02:38. > :02:40.a burkini or something like it on the beach today.
:02:41. > :02:42.Now that the news has come from Paris, she will be
:02:43. > :02:45.back, covering herself more fully tomorrow.
:02:46. > :02:47.TRANSLATION: It has been really hard because we all felt
:02:48. > :02:51.Even though I have been covered for 30 years,
:02:52. > :02:54.In the last two weeks, I felt awkward.
:02:55. > :02:56.It is the way people were looking at me.
:02:57. > :02:59.Before, people did not show how they felt towards us,
:03:00. > :03:04.now they say they don't like it and that really hurts.
:03:05. > :03:07.One woman in Nice knows what it feels like.
:03:08. > :03:11.She was photographed apparently being told by police to remove
:03:12. > :03:18.That made the burkini ban not just a French but an international story.
:03:19. > :03:21.But now the State Council in Paris has reversed
:03:22. > :03:24.the local banning orders, which were issued over the last two
:03:25. > :03:27.weeks by some 30 towns, mainly along the Riviera.
:03:28. > :03:30.The towns had said that after the Nice lorry attack,
:03:31. > :03:34.there was a risk to public order from outward signs of Muslim
:03:35. > :03:43.It is based on the principle of the freedom of religion,
:03:44. > :03:48.the freedom to express religion and to be able to wear whatever
:03:49. > :03:53.Of course, not everyone in France will agree with
:03:54. > :03:58.Former president Nicolas Sarkozy says he wants a burkini ban
:03:59. > :04:02.And the polls suggest that a majority of the French
:04:03. > :04:07.They want to stop what they see as the gradual encroachment
:04:08. > :04:14.of Islamic lifestyle and symbols into the public sphere.
:04:15. > :04:18.Outside France, such arguments seem to cut little ice.
:04:19. > :04:21.The burkini ban sparked protests outside French embassies
:04:22. > :04:24.in London and Berlin, and campaigns on the internet urged
:04:25. > :04:29.the French to let women wear what they want.
:04:30. > :04:34.Things that might seem obvious in other places
:04:35. > :04:40.Like letting women wear religiously-inspired
:04:41. > :04:50.After four years of brutal siege by Syrian government forces,
:04:51. > :04:53.civilians and rebel fighters have begun to leave a suburb
:04:54. > :05:03.Government soldiers in Darayya celebrated as the buses left.
:05:04. > :05:07.The deal, which wasn't brokered by the United Nations, has raised
:05:08. > :05:10.serious concerns about the fate of the civilians
:05:11. > :05:13.from one of the first areas to come out against President Assad
:05:14. > :05:17.A senior UN official has stressed that the evacuation must be
:05:18. > :05:19.voluntary and described the situation there
:05:20. > :05:25.After a four-year siege, the first busloads of civilians
:05:26. > :05:30.finally left Darayya today with a Syrian army escort.
:05:31. > :05:32.As well as families, this bus also contains some
:05:33. > :05:35.of the rebels who have been promised safe passage in return
:05:36. > :05:40.Today marks a major victory for the government's forces.
:05:41. > :05:48.A bitter defeat for those who sought to overthrow them.
:05:49. > :05:50.Around 8,000 people are thought to remain in this suburb.
:05:51. > :05:52.Many are being taken to shelters in Damascus.
:05:53. > :05:55.In four years only one food aid convoy has reached them.
:05:56. > :05:59.The UN said some were forced to eat grass.
:06:00. > :06:02.In much of Darayya there is an eerie quiet.
:06:03. > :06:05.Though just a 15 minute drive from the centre of Damascus, it's
:06:06. > :06:11.been a rebel stronghold since 2012 - a thorn in President Assad's side,
:06:12. > :06:14.that he has now removed with unrelenting bombardments.
:06:15. > :06:18.The last hospital here was destroyed a week ago.
:06:19. > :06:23.The outgoing UN Humanitarian Envoy to Syria told the BBC for too long
:06:24. > :06:26.the world's major powers have lacked the one prerequisite
:06:27. > :06:31.Political guts and courage on the part of the international
:06:32. > :06:34.community, including the Security Council,
:06:35. > :06:37.before you come down to the local players.
:06:38. > :06:41.This was allowed to happen for far too long and now it is really
:06:42. > :06:48.a struggle to get it turned in the right direction again.
:06:49. > :06:50.In Geneva today, the sound of diplomacy in action
:06:51. > :06:54.as the American Secretary of State and his Russian counterpart met
:06:55. > :06:58.to finalise a cooperation agreement on Syria.
:06:59. > :07:01.The aim is to clear the ground for a ceasefire, begin a process
:07:02. > :07:03.of political transition, and tackle Islamic
:07:04. > :07:10.It's good that these two powers are coming together,
:07:11. > :07:13.there are points of convergence, they want to concentrate
:07:14. > :07:19.They also want to work against the Al-Qaeda franchise
:07:20. > :07:25.in Syria, which is the biggest of the rebel groups.
:07:26. > :07:28.As they talk, though, this brutal war continues.
:07:29. > :07:32.This is the aftermath of a barrel bombing in Aleppo yesterday.
:07:33. > :07:35.With limited diplomatic progress so far, President Assad
:07:36. > :07:41.There is no guarantee he will accept any international deal
:07:42. > :07:52.At least nine people have been killed in an attack on a seaside
:07:53. > :07:54.restaurant in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.
:07:55. > :07:56.A car bomb exploded outside a beach club in the Lido area.
:07:57. > :07:59.Police say two of the attackers were killed and another
:08:00. > :08:05.The Islamist group Al Shabaab stages regular attacks in Mogadishu.
:08:06. > :08:08.A suicide bomber driving a truck laden with explosives has hit
:08:09. > :08:11.a police headquarters in south-east Turkey, killing 11 policemen
:08:12. > :08:17.The huge explosion targeted a checkpoint in Cizre
:08:18. > :08:20.and left the nearby riot police HQ in ruins.
:08:21. > :08:24.Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim blamed the banned Kurdish
:08:25. > :08:28.PKK militant group and vowed to retaliate.
:08:29. > :08:30.US President Barack Obama has announced plans to dramatically
:08:31. > :08:34.expand a marine reserve off the coast of Hawaii.
:08:35. > :08:37.The World Heritage-listed site - which encompasses the northwestern
:08:38. > :08:41.Hawain Islands - is home to many rare and endangered sea creatures.
:08:42. > :08:46.The expansion will effectively quadruple the size of the reserve -
:08:47. > :08:48.But some Hawaiians had argued against the move -
:08:49. > :08:50.arguing it would hit the local fishing community.
:08:51. > :08:52.Brazilian Federal Police have indicted former president
:08:53. > :08:55.Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as part of a massive corruption
:08:56. > :08:58.investigation nicknamed "Operation Car Wash".
:08:59. > :09:01.The investigation into the popular predecessor and mentor
:09:02. > :09:05.of President Dilma Rousseff - who faces an impeachment trial -
:09:06. > :09:08.forms part of a sweeping anti-corruption probe
:09:09. > :09:17.The BBC's Aleem Maqbool joins us now from Rio de Janeiro.
:09:18. > :09:29.He is a towering political figure in a recent history, what is he charge
:09:30. > :09:35.with? You said in your introduction he was very popular but that
:09:36. > :09:39.popularity has taken a big hit in the last two years as his name has
:09:40. > :09:44.been sullied with these implications he was involved in corruption or
:09:45. > :09:48.knew things were going on. The latest accusation comes from police
:09:49. > :09:53.who recommended prosecutors charged him, he has not been charged yet,
:09:54. > :09:58.but it is to do with that apartment he was buying at a resort and the
:09:59. > :10:03.police are saying he accepted work done by a construction company on
:10:04. > :10:09.this apartment to the tune of $800,000, in return for giving that
:10:10. > :10:17.construction company government contracts. For his part, lawyers for
:10:18. > :10:25.Lula Da Silva says he had not completed a purchase of that
:10:26. > :10:30.apartment, but there are other cases against him including one in which
:10:31. > :10:34.he was charged for obstruct thing that investigation into corruption
:10:35. > :10:42.that is going on, but this is the latest damaging hit to him and all
:10:43. > :10:48.this while his protege, Dilma Rousseff, is going through her own
:10:49. > :10:55.tough times. And on Dilma Rousseff, where are we on those impeachment
:10:56. > :11:01.proceedings? It looks to be the final chapter for her. She could be
:11:02. > :11:04.being told she has to leave the presidential palace within a week
:11:05. > :11:10.because her impeachment trial started just 24 is ago, it had to
:11:11. > :11:15.break up for a couple of hours to date because senators got into a row
:11:16. > :11:22.over it, but it looks like they are set to vote, it will be interesting
:11:23. > :11:28.on Monday when she gets to answer questions from senators and it looks
:11:29. > :11:33.like that will be her last time. She insisted all along this is not about
:11:34. > :11:40.corruption wrong doing, this is a political, what she is calling a
:11:41. > :11:46.coup, but there are those who say she may not have been implicated
:11:47. > :11:52.directly into corruption but she did over a seek a terrible time in terms
:11:53. > :11:57.of the economy and was a bad politician in many people's use, not
:11:58. > :12:03.to be able to create allies within the government who stood beside her
:12:04. > :12:05.and we are now seeing a lot of rats jumping from a sinking ship. Thank
:12:06. > :12:07.you. In Italy, hopes of finding any more
:12:08. > :12:09.survivors following Wednesday's The official number of people
:12:10. > :12:17.killed stands at 267. The 6.2-magnitude quake hit
:12:18. > :12:19.in the early hours of Wednesday, 100km north-east of Rome,
:12:20. > :12:22.as you can see here, it had the most impact
:12:23. > :12:26.in mountainous central Italy. Rescue and recovery efforts
:12:27. > :12:28.at the epicentre of the disaster remain centred on three small towns
:12:29. > :12:32.- Pescara del Tronto, As a state funeral is being
:12:33. > :12:38.organised for Saturday, we're beginning to find out more
:12:39. > :12:46.about those confirmed dead. Many were enjoying summer breaks in
:12:47. > :12:47.the mountains. Amongst
:12:48. > :12:49.them were three foreign tourists from Britain,
:12:50. > :12:50.including a 14-year-old boy. This is the road to
:12:51. > :12:57.the village of Sommati. Two British families,
:12:58. > :12:59.the Henniker-Gotleys and This is the house in which both
:13:00. > :13:10.British families were staying. You can see that the damage
:13:11. > :13:15.is dramatic. Both families have paid tribute
:13:16. > :13:19.to the work of those relief workers Their neighbour, Nando Bonnani,
:13:20. > :13:25.was the first to reach them. TRANSLATION: I shouted and called
:13:26. > :13:31.out for Maria and Will, There was nothing we could do
:13:32. > :13:36.with our bare hands. They were sleeping in a room
:13:37. > :13:39.on the ground floor, The Burnett family from London
:13:40. > :13:46.lost their 14-year-old son Marcos. His school called him a much
:13:47. > :13:50.loved and admired boy. 50-year-old Maria Henniker-Gotley
:13:51. > :13:53.and her 55-year-old They were from Stockwell
:13:54. > :13:58.in south London. They were always fun,
:13:59. > :14:01.you could always have a laugh It's just shocking that you go off
:14:02. > :14:09.on a lovely summer holiday and, you know, we won't ever see
:14:10. > :14:15.them again, really. Many survivors are left
:14:16. > :14:19.with a simple, powerful question - why did so many buildings fall,
:14:20. > :14:25.and so many people die? 11-month-old Elena-Sophia has no
:14:26. > :14:30.idea that she too was nearly killed. She and her mother, Sonia,
:14:31. > :14:34.are recovering in hospital. TRANSLATION: I was buried in rubble,
:14:35. > :14:39.only my face wasn't covered. I could hear my baby
:14:40. > :14:42.crying, I was terrified. I freed myself and started asking
:14:43. > :14:46.for help, but everyone So I went back and with my hands
:14:47. > :14:52.I freed my daughter from the rubble. I could only see her little foot
:14:53. > :14:55.and I just pulled her out. The worst hit town, Amatrice,
:14:56. > :15:00.will soon begin to hold funerals for its victims,
:15:01. > :15:05.but its cemetery has been damaged. This town, and others,
:15:06. > :15:08.will have to find new grounds And you can keep up to date
:15:09. > :15:24.with the latest with regard to the Italian earthquake
:15:25. > :15:26.by visiting our website. We have reports, analysis,
:15:27. > :15:29.and the latest casualty figures. US Secretary of State John Kerry
:15:30. > :15:47.and his Russian counterpart Still to come, reunited, the story
:15:48. > :15:51.of a man and man's best friend, a friend who helped him crossed the
:15:52. > :16:01.finishing line in one of the world's most gruelling races.
:16:02. > :16:09.He is the first African-American to win the nomination of eight major
:16:10. > :16:16.party, as 45 years ago Martin Luther King declared, I have a dream. An
:16:17. > :16:21.orange glowing disc appears in the south-eastern sky, are in
:16:22. > :16:28.neighbouring planet, Mars. The selection is an important milestone
:16:29. > :16:35.in the birth of East Timor as the world's newest nation. It will take
:16:36. > :16:41.months and billions of dollars to repair what hurricane Katrina
:16:42. > :16:48.achieved in just ours. Three weeks is the longest the great clock has
:16:49. > :16:51.been of duty in 117 years, so it was with great satisfaction that
:16:52. > :17:09.clockmaker John Vernon swung the pendulum to get the clock going
:17:10. > :17:14.again. Our latest headlines... France's highest admitted of court
:17:15. > :17:19.suspends a ban on full body swimsuits or Bertini 's.
:17:20. > :17:25.And so -- Syrian civilians trapped for years by a government siege
:17:26. > :17:30.negotiate their departure. Let's get more on our top story, the
:17:31. > :17:42.suspension of that ban on her kidneys.
:17:43. > :17:44.Earlier I spoke to Rim-Sarah Alouane -
:17:45. > :18:22.a researcher in religious freedom at the University of Toulouse.
:18:23. > :18:31.Today we celebrate this declaration of human rights. Does it fit with
:18:32. > :18:46.the principles on which the French state were founded? Yes, this ban,
:18:47. > :18:50.it protects freedom of religion and respect individuality and the judge
:18:51. > :19:00.just told the law, that is how it is, and said this ban infringed
:19:01. > :19:05.fundamental liberties of freedom of conscience, freedom to come and go
:19:06. > :19:16.and personal liberties. It is a small victory but still a victory.
:19:17. > :19:18.Zimbabwe's riot police fired tear gas and beat up opposition
:19:19. > :19:21.The protestors were demanding urgent electoral reforms ahead
:19:22. > :19:25.The High Court had issued an order sanctioning the march to go ahead.
:19:26. > :19:29.This is part of a growing wave of streets protests in the past
:19:30. > :19:30.months against President Robert Mugabe's rule.
:19:31. > :19:48.The riot police cordoned off a space in the capital early morning. They
:19:49. > :19:56.fired at protesters and used tear gas. There were running battles and
:19:57. > :20:00.a number of shops were looted. The police continued to maintain a heavy
:20:01. > :20:10.presence, patrolling the streets and with water cannons. Organisers of
:20:11. > :20:15.the march say anger is growing and this could be the beginning of worse
:20:16. > :20:22.things to come. Anger and desperation are very deep and I
:20:23. > :20:30.think in my view, it must not relent. It must continue to express
:20:31. > :20:38.itself, and the level of desperation. It appears that when
:20:39. > :20:43.people succumb to fear and intimidation, people think that is
:20:44. > :20:49.the end but I am very glad that Zimbabweans are beginning to enough.
:20:50. > :20:53.We have learnt that scores of people were injured in skirmishes and many
:20:54. > :20:59.are receiving treatment at a local clinic. It is not clear why do
:21:00. > :21:04.police defied a High Court order. Organisers say they will not be
:21:05. > :21:06.discouraged and will continue with protests until fundamental reforms
:21:07. > :21:14.are affected ahead of elections. New files released at
:21:15. > :21:16.The National Archives here in London, show that
:21:17. > :21:18.thousands of British people who were persecuted by the Nazis
:21:19. > :21:20.were refused compensation Most were from the Channel Islands
:21:21. > :21:24.who were arrested and deported Nick Higham reports
:21:25. > :21:27.from St Peter Port on Guernsey. Final scenes of the long drama
:21:28. > :21:30.of the Channel Islands... May 1945 and Guernsey has been
:21:31. > :21:32.liberated after almost five Far away in Germany,
:21:33. > :21:36.Channel Islanders too were being freed from often
:21:37. > :21:39.brutal imprisonment. Paul and Phil's father
:21:40. > :21:40.Gerald was one. He had been caught with two sacks
:21:41. > :21:43.of stolen German coffee At the war's end, he had been
:21:44. > :21:51.at risk of death. They were actually on their way
:21:52. > :21:54.to Dachau, they didn't know it at the time, the Allies
:21:55. > :21:57.were advancing and the German army I understand they were
:21:58. > :22:02.shooting at prisoners Gerald's health was ruined
:22:03. > :22:07.by his imprisonment. A couple of letters,
:22:08. > :22:10.one from the Foreign Office... In the mid-1960s he was one of 4000
:22:11. > :22:14.people who applied for compensation Gerald got ?2100, around ?28,000
:22:15. > :22:23.today. The files are now being released
:22:24. > :22:27.at the National Archives, those of other Channel Islanders
:22:28. > :22:30.make harrowing reading. Frank Tuck describes being beaten
:22:31. > :22:33.with a pick handle and flogged "The fear that ruled us
:22:34. > :22:38.was indescribable", he wrote. He saw a fellow Guernsey man
:22:39. > :22:42.die of his treatment. Jack Harper was sometimes chained
:22:43. > :22:45.in a standing position without food all night,
:22:46. > :22:51.by a sadistic German guard. And Thomas Gordian describes working
:22:52. > :22:59.in clothes soaked through that dried on one's back,
:23:00. > :23:01.sometimes frozen stiff. Thomas, one of 17 Guernsey policemen
:23:02. > :23:03.sentenced for sabotage, was so weak by the end
:23:04. > :23:06.he couldn't stand. Do you think he felt that the money
:23:07. > :23:13.was sufficient or do you think I think they thought
:23:14. > :23:18.it was meagre, yes. Today Guernsey is a peaceful place,
:23:19. > :23:22.these files a reminder that even here, some people suffered terribly
:23:23. > :23:50.under Nazi Germany. It is a man has been reunited with
:23:51. > :23:55.one of man's best friends, that helped them complete a gruelling
:23:56. > :24:04.marathon race. He was taking part in the race in the Gobi Desert.
:24:05. > :24:05.It's a story of, well, dogged determination.
:24:06. > :24:08.As Dion Leonard took part in the gruelling ultramarathon -
:24:09. > :24:11.a 150 mile run across China's forbidding Gobi Desert -
:24:12. > :24:14.he was joined by a surprise companion, and it was love
:24:15. > :24:23.She ran half the race with me, we spent the whole week together.
:24:24. > :24:26.And literally by my side running, or in the evening she was
:24:27. > :24:28.in my arms overnight, sleeping and eating with me.
:24:29. > :24:32.So I knew before I had left the race that I would bring her back.
:24:33. > :24:34.While he flew back to Scotland, just before the dog
:24:35. > :24:38.was due to go into Chinese quarantine, she escaped.
:24:39. > :24:43.So, Dion flew back to China and began what seemed
:24:44. > :24:50.Looking for Gobi in the place she was last seen, Urumqi -
:24:51. > :24:55.a city of 3 million, where very few people speak English.
:24:56. > :24:59.So, today is day two of trying to find Gobi.
:25:00. > :25:03.I've been handing these out since 6am this morning.
:25:04. > :25:06.Looking around the parks and local areas, looking out for dogs
:25:07. > :25:09.and speaking to a lot of locals who actually think that they have
:25:10. > :25:12.seen Gobi, but unfortunately it isn't Gobi.
:25:13. > :25:18.But China's Internet came to the rescue.
:25:19. > :25:22.The dog hunt spread like wildfire on social media, with messages
:25:23. > :25:26.of support and cash to fund the quest pouring in.
:25:27. > :25:32.Before long, Dion had a few 'leads', and Gobi was found.
:25:33. > :25:35.I got some imagery through of her on my phone and a phone call
:25:36. > :25:38.saying these people, this lovely father and son
:25:39. > :25:42.I went to see her, and she ran across the lounge room
:25:43. > :25:48.I just walked through the door, I hadn't said a word to her,
:25:49. > :25:53.and she knew it was me straight away.
:25:54. > :25:57.So, Gobi is once again preparing for a few months in quarantine,
:25:58. > :26:00.and then Dion expects to have her home before Christmas.
:26:01. > :26:17.Presumably, the first command he will want to teach her is "stay".
:26:18. > :26:26.A reminder of our main news, that France's highest admitted of court
:26:27. > :26:30.has suspended a ban on full body Bertini swimsuits that was imposed
:26:31. > :26:36.in a town on the French Mediterranean. You can stay in touch
:26:37. > :26:38.with all the news on our website, or on Twitter. From me and the team,
:26:39. > :26:42.goodbye on Twitter. From me and the team,
:26:43. > :26:43.goodbye for now. As