:00:00. > :00:00.This is BBC World News Today, broadcasting in the UK
:00:00. > :00:16.The headlines - Russia accuses the US of protecting Syrian rebels
:00:17. > :00:20.Russia's Foreign Minister tells the BBC that America is failing
:00:21. > :00:32.to separate their moderate rebel allies from Islamist fighters.
:00:33. > :00:39.They are either driven by al-Nusra, or some other terrorist
:00:40. > :00:40.organisation. Mission accomplished -
:00:41. > :00:44.the space probe Rosetta ends its twelve-year voyage
:00:45. > :00:46.in a planned crash-landing Donald Trump renews his attack
:00:47. > :00:51.on a former beauty pageant winner who criticised him
:00:52. > :00:53.for what she called sexist And what happened to two priceless
:00:54. > :01:00.Van Gogh masterpieces stolen A year to the day since Russia's
:01:01. > :01:23.bombing in Syria began, the Russian foreign minister has
:01:24. > :01:26.defended his country's actions Sergei Lavrov accused America
:01:27. > :01:33.of trying to protect the Islamist group formerly known
:01:34. > :01:35.as the Al-Nusra front - in the battle against
:01:36. > :01:39.President Assad. Monitoring groups say more
:01:40. > :01:43.than 9,000 civilians have been killed in Syria since Russia started
:01:44. > :01:46.bombing - but Mr Lavrov said Violence in Syria claimed more lives
:01:47. > :01:56.in Friday with 12 people killed Here's what Sergei Lavrov said
:01:57. > :02:09.to the BBC's Stephen Sackur. We take all necessary precautions
:02:10. > :02:15.not to hit civilians. The term collateral damage was not invented
:02:16. > :02:23.by others. You know by whom. -- was not invented by us. We are taking
:02:24. > :02:27.precautions to make sure we do not hit civilians by any chance. If this
:02:28. > :02:33.happens then we are very sorry but we need to investigate each and
:02:34. > :02:36.every accusation. So far we have not been given any meaningful proof of
:02:37. > :02:42.what has been said about the convoy which was formed, or attacked, on
:02:43. > :02:44.September 19, and we have good reasons to believe it was a
:02:45. > :02:45.provocation. Earlier this week US Secretary
:02:46. > :02:47.of State John Kerry threatened to break off cooperation with Russia
:02:48. > :02:50.over Syria because of the recent But Mr Lavrov says recent problems
:02:51. > :03:08.were mainly caused by American The entire problem derives from the
:03:09. > :03:14.fact that the USA and the coalition in
:03:15. > :03:22.fact that the USA and the coalition -- coalition it leads, cannot
:03:23. > :03:26.separate al-Nusra, and instead of separation we see more and more
:03:27. > :03:34.groups coming into alliance with al-Nusra, and deliver we hit
:03:35. > :03:37.al-Nusra we are told we can do it because there are people in there,
:03:38. > :03:42.but unless we all agree those who want to be part of the solution, the
:03:43. > :03:52.cessation of festivities, out of the positions occupied by them but ...
:03:53. > :03:57.Can Russia American relations be repealed or are they likely to get
:03:58. > :04:01.worse. Does the Russian Foreign Minister have a point that America
:04:02. > :04:06.has not done enough, cannot do enough, to separate out the good
:04:07. > :04:14.rebels from the bad rebels? He has a point. Our interests diverged inside
:04:15. > :04:19.Syria. I am not optimistic about USA- Russian cooperation and we find
:04:20. > :04:23.some way to reconcile strategic views. As long as you are trying in
:04:24. > :04:29.the Syrian context to find out who is aligned with the former al-Nusra
:04:30. > :04:33.by working closely with them on the battlefield, and debating those kind
:04:34. > :04:41.of fine point, then you will have fundamental disagreements. But they
:04:42. > :04:45.all arise from the fact Russia is fighting to keep President Assad in
:04:46. > :04:49.power, we are fighting, at least in part, to encourage him to leave
:04:50. > :04:52.power, his overthrow is not a specific background objective but we
:04:53. > :04:57.are trying to persuade him to step down in favour of a power-sharing
:04:58. > :05:01.government including Sunni Muslims. That is the basic American goal,
:05:02. > :05:05.which is in conflict with the Russian goal. So even if we can
:05:06. > :05:09.cooperate over humanitarian matters, and we're not even doing that right
:05:10. > :05:12.now, the fundamental strategic visions are in direct conflict and
:05:13. > :05:18.that must change if we are going to avoid these things in the future.
:05:19. > :05:24.And there are so many different rebel militias changing side on a
:05:25. > :05:27.daily basis. That's right. We cannot inspect otherwise in a situation
:05:28. > :05:31.where our friends have gotten very limited support from the USA or
:05:32. > :05:35.other outside players, because we have been so reluctant, partly for
:05:36. > :05:41.the reasons we are discussing, reluctant to give arms because they
:05:42. > :05:45.may have an affiliation or a previous battlefield tactical
:05:46. > :05:48.association with an extremist group. So we don't give them arms, so they
:05:49. > :05:55.get defeated on the battlefield, which means they need to work with
:05:56. > :05:59.al-Nusra even more than they did previously, so it becomes a self
:06:00. > :06:03.reinforcing problem. The only way to do it is to become willing, despite
:06:04. > :06:10.the objections of Russia, to help some moderate groups, who have
:06:11. > :06:14.occasionally cooperated with extremists, and then also go for a
:06:15. > :06:18.federal solution in Syria, a long-term vision of the state that
:06:19. > :06:21.allows President Assad to stay in power in Christian parts of the
:06:22. > :06:24.country but his autonomous zones in other parts of the country run by
:06:25. > :06:31.other indigenous leaders, sort of like a osmium model. If you don't do
:06:32. > :06:34.that I don't see how you the conflict the American and Russian
:06:35. > :06:38.objectives. But that runs the risk of turning a proxy war into
:06:39. > :06:42.something even more serious. I don't think so. I don't think you get the
:06:43. > :06:47.war much worse than it is now. I think it would reduce the conflict
:06:48. > :06:51.between the Russian and American approach, not because I'm suggesting
:06:52. > :06:55.we use American air power to one Russian bases or even shoot Russian
:06:56. > :06:59.aeroplanes out of the sky, but I think we have to be a little less
:07:00. > :07:03.reluctant to provide arms to certain groups, with our special forces on
:07:04. > :07:06.the ground. That is not going to produce, in my judgment, a Russian
:07:07. > :07:11.counter response any greater than Russia is already carrying out, it
:07:12. > :07:15.was right now Russia is going after any and all opposition groups, it
:07:16. > :07:20.considers them all the enemy of present facade. It defines them all
:07:21. > :07:24.as Russian enemies, even today. Therefore I think we will do better
:07:25. > :07:29.if we make our military and battlefield efforts a little more
:07:30. > :07:32.serious. Also, so President Assad can stay in the light and Christian
:07:33. > :07:38.parts of the country, in a autonomous zone, you just cannot be
:07:39. > :07:42.president of all Syria anymore. If we can come up with a changing
:07:43. > :07:46.political strategy to marry with a change in military strategy then I
:07:47. > :07:51.think US - Russian objectives are no longer in direct conflict. Thank you
:07:52. > :07:54.for joining us on the programme. For more than 12 years the Rosetta
:07:55. > :07:57.probe has travelled deep into space. But this afternoon it's mission came
:07:58. > :08:00.to an end, crash landing - deliberately - on the comet
:08:01. > :08:02.it's been circling, more The project's been seen as a major
:08:03. > :08:06.success for the European Space Our Science Editor David Shukman
:08:07. > :08:10.reports from Darmstadt in Germany. In one of the greatest ventures
:08:11. > :08:13.in space exploration, the strange landscapes of a comet are revealed
:08:14. > :08:16.in more detail than ever before. Cliffs and rocks, nearly 500 million
:08:17. > :08:18.miles away, photographed this morning and beamed back
:08:19. > :08:25.to us during the day, as the Rosetta spacecraft inched
:08:26. > :08:30.towards the surface. An animation shows how
:08:31. > :08:33.the touchdown was planned. Rosetta drifting down
:08:34. > :08:37.at walking pace. The end of a 12-year journey,
:08:38. > :08:40.a last chance to Rosetta has achieved more
:08:41. > :08:50.than anyone expected. We will be listening
:08:51. > :08:53.for the signal... Many here have devoted decades
:08:54. > :08:55.to this project, so all eyes were on a signal from a spacecraft
:08:56. > :09:00.which suddenly switched off. This is the end of
:09:01. > :09:03.the Rosetta mission. You know that when you do these
:09:04. > :09:21.things it comes to an end. But, you know, it is the end
:09:22. > :09:27.of a long, long mission. Emotions were so different
:09:28. > :09:31.two years ago. Monica Grady was leaping
:09:32. > :09:35.for joy back then. The tiny lander launched by Rosetta
:09:36. > :09:40.had made it down onto the comet. It did not anchor itself
:09:41. > :09:43.but it did deliver What's remarkable is that
:09:44. > :09:48.all of these manoeuvres in deep space were run from this control
:09:49. > :09:52.centre, and the mission has proved so successful that the volume
:09:53. > :09:55.of data flooding back will keep In fact, what they have seen already
:09:56. > :10:01.has left them amazed. They found that dust
:10:02. > :10:03.blasting off the comet contains many of the chemical
:10:04. > :10:06.ingredients needed for life. And this really matters,
:10:07. > :10:11.because one theory is that comets crashing into the early Earth helped
:10:12. > :10:15.to kick-start life here. It seems a bit crazy to fly
:10:16. > :10:18.hundreds of millions of kilometres through
:10:19. > :10:19.space to what looks like a cold, dead body,
:10:20. > :10:21.but it's actually full of complex
:10:22. > :10:27.molecules that we know if you were to bring them to the planet Earth
:10:28. > :10:30.when it was young, add water and sunlight, you could
:10:31. > :10:32.make life out of. sunlight, you could
:10:33. > :10:34.make life out of that. That's a huge discovery
:10:35. > :10:37.for us from Rosetta. We have all of the
:10:38. > :10:38.ingredients in place. So for understanding our own
:10:39. > :10:40.origins, this mission is turning out
:10:41. > :10:42.some key evidence. It's caught the
:10:43. > :10:44.imagination of people Donald Trump has used Twitter
:10:45. > :11:00.to attack a former beauty queen who accused him of making sexist
:11:01. > :11:03.remarks, and who is supporting his In a series of early morning tweets,
:11:04. > :11:08.Mr Trump urged his followers to check out an alleged sex
:11:09. > :11:12.tape of Alicia Machado - Ms Machado's case was raised
:11:13. > :11:18.by Mrs Clinton in the first presidential debate earlier this
:11:19. > :11:34.week as an example of Mr Trump's One of the worst things that he said
:11:35. > :11:39.was about a woman in a beauty contest, he loves beauty contests,
:11:40. > :11:47.supporting them, and hanging around them, and he called this woman
:11:48. > :11:54.missed birdie. Then he called her miss housekeeper. Because she is a
:11:55. > :12:01.Latina. She has a name. Her name is Alicia Machado and she is a US
:12:02. > :12:08.citizen. And you can bet she is going to vote this November. Our US
:12:09. > :12:13.correspondent joins me. Just bring us up to speed. Within the last hour
:12:14. > :12:17.he has treated saying, to those people mocking me for tweeting at
:12:18. > :12:23.3am in the morning, at least I am awake to answer the call. The
:12:24. > :12:29.message is, look, I am ready for the White House. But with the case of
:12:30. > :12:33.Alicia Machado it seems to have got under his skin and he acknowledged
:12:34. > :12:37.that in a Fox News interview just after the debate, when he said that
:12:38. > :12:45.she was a terrible contestant and she put on a tonne of weight, his
:12:46. > :12:50.words. He said then that, he admitted, that the whole case had
:12:51. > :12:55.gotten under his skin. A few days later in the early hours of the
:12:56. > :13:00.morning he unleashes a series of tweets, starting with, any time you
:13:01. > :13:04.see a story about me or my campaign, do not believe it, there are most
:13:05. > :13:11.sources, just made up lies. He then went on to Alicia Machado, saying,
:13:12. > :13:17.Crooked Hillary was duped by the worst Miss universe, he quoted her
:13:18. > :13:22.as an angel without checking out her past. He is trying to insinuate she
:13:23. > :13:28.has a past sex tape and is asking Americans to go and check it out. So
:13:29. > :13:34.that is the insinuation. Hillary Clinton, for her part, tweeted that
:13:35. > :13:38.Donald Trump was unhinged. The 3am tweet actually picks up on what
:13:39. > :13:43.Hillary Clinton used against Barack Obama in her campaign when she was
:13:44. > :13:47.standing for President of them. In terms of the polling, I know we
:13:48. > :13:52.cannot read too much into this, but Clinton has pulled away a bit since
:13:53. > :13:56.the debate. Is it the trend that will perhaps be worrying Donald
:13:57. > :14:01.Trump and his campaign, that this is perhaps the beginning of a momentum,
:14:02. > :14:05.as they might see it? They are trying to stave this off at the
:14:06. > :14:11.moment. His campaign had been urging him to stick to the point, try to
:14:12. > :14:18.just criticise elegant, emphasise her e-mail scandal, emphasise her
:14:19. > :14:21.political establishment credentials, try to appear as the
:14:22. > :14:25.antiestablishment candidate who can stand for change, not more of simply
:14:26. > :14:33.President Obama's regime, there are words. So what they are trying to do
:14:34. > :14:37.is show that side of Mr Trump, and stop the kind of continued personal
:14:38. > :14:41.attacks that he has unleashed on his Twitter account. They have been
:14:42. > :14:46.doing a lot of damage control when it comes to that. And we are seeing
:14:47. > :14:50.Hillary Clinton beginning to pull away again. The polling and narrowed
:14:51. > :14:55.prior to the debate, it looked very close, now she seems to be rolling
:14:56. > :14:57.ahead again. It is very early days, still 39 days to go before the
:14:58. > :15:06.election. Still to come... Bidding farewell to
:15:07. > :15:16.the former Israeli president. Leaders from all over the world
:15:17. > :15:20.gather to pay respects. In all of Russia's tomorrow it has never come
:15:21. > :15:24.to this. The president said it would decide the destiny of the nation.
:15:25. > :15:29.The night and many feared for so long is playing out its final act,
:15:30. > :15:33.Russians killing Russians in front of a grandstand audience. It was
:15:34. > :15:36.humility which produced affection from Catholics throughout the world
:15:37. > :15:42.but his departure is a tragedy for the Catholic Church. The Israeli
:15:43. > :15:47.right visited the religious compound and that started the trouble. He
:15:48. > :15:50.wants Israel alone to have sovereignty over the holy sites, an
:15:51. > :15:59.idea that is unthinkable to Palestinians.
:16:00. > :16:07.After 45 years of division Germany isn't one. In Berlin the 1 million
:16:08. > :16:22.Germans celebrate the rebirth of Europe's big a richest nation.
:16:23. > :16:32.The United States says the Russian foreign minister's assertion that
:16:33. > :16:35.Washington is trying to protect jihadist rebels in Syria is absurd.
:16:36. > :16:40.The space probe Rosetta has ended its 12 year voyage by crash landing
:16:41. > :16:42.deliberately on the comic it had been studying.
:16:43. > :16:44.The funeral has taken place in Jerusalem,
:16:45. > :16:46.of the former Israeli President, and Nobel Peace Prize
:16:47. > :16:49.Dozens of current and former world leaders attended
:16:50. > :16:52.They included Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian
:16:53. > :16:54.National Authority, who exchanged a rare handshake
:16:55. > :16:56.with the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
:16:57. > :17:13.Our correspondent Orla Guerin, watched the ceremony.
:17:14. > :17:17.A poignant final prayer for Shimon Peres.
:17:18. > :17:20.Mourned today by his family and by world leaders who viewed him
:17:21. > :17:27.We gather here in the knowledge that Shimon never saw his dream
:17:28. > :17:35.The region is going through a chaotic time.
:17:36. > :17:49.And yet he did not stop dreaming and he did not stop working.
:17:50. > :17:51.In death he brought Palestinian and Israeli leaders
:17:52. > :17:59.Mahmoud Abbas was warmly welcomed to the funeral, though the peace
:18:00. > :18:07.Israel's hawkish Prime Minister said Shimon Peres spent every minute
:18:08. > :18:36.But we find hope in his legacy, as does the world.
:18:37. > :18:39.As the tributes are being paid here now there is a real sense
:18:40. > :18:44.Shimon Peres was part of the fabric of Israel right from its birth.
:18:45. > :18:48.He is the last of the generation that helped to build the state,
:18:49. > :18:53.he occupied virtually every major post.
:18:54. > :18:55.Israelis are saying goodbye today, not just to an elder
:18:56. > :19:01.statesman but to a key part of their own history.
:19:02. > :19:04.Decades ago it was Peres who helped buy weapons for the Israeli
:19:05. > :19:08.army and who founded the countries's nuclear programme.
:19:09. > :19:11.In the 1970s he supported the building of Jewish settlements
:19:12. > :19:22.Many Palestinians will remember him as a man of war, not peace.
:19:23. > :19:30.Shimon Peres was taken for burial in the soil
:19:31. > :19:42.Orla Guerin, BBC News, Mount Herzl Cemetery, Jerusalem.
:19:43. > :19:53.Time to catch up with the sport. It has been the USA's day at the
:19:54. > :19:58.Ryder Cup so far, they lead Europe 4-0 after winning a whitewash in the
:19:59. > :20:09.opening foursomes, there is to start in 41 years. They are midway through
:20:10. > :20:18.the four balls now. That looks like things are picking up for you this
:20:19. > :20:25.afternoon. -- for Europe. It sure is. A blue sky has come out after a
:20:26. > :20:30.foggy start. There was a sea of red but there are 24 more points to be
:20:31. > :20:36.won and there is now some blue on the board. Let's bring you up to
:20:37. > :20:40.date. In the first match, Jordan Spieth and Patrick Reid versus
:20:41. > :20:49.Justin Rose and Henrik Stenson. The Europeans our two up in that one.
:20:50. > :21:00.You're also having a great bit of progress in the match with Garcia
:21:01. > :21:06.and Cabrera-Bello, they are three up. It is going the American way in
:21:07. > :21:13.the next clash, four up after eight holes. Rory McIlroy and Thomas
:21:14. > :21:22.Peters, they are turning around and morning loss and are four up after
:21:23. > :21:27.Dustin Johnson and Matt Kuchar really struggled in the afternoon
:21:28. > :21:31.sessions. Where did it go wrong this morning? How much it was the USA
:21:32. > :21:40.being brilliant and how much of it was being poor? -- was Europe being
:21:41. > :21:45.poor? You could also put it down to the American crowd. As I walked out
:21:46. > :21:50.for the first nine holes with most of the players and I really got a
:21:51. > :22:05.sense of the red, white, and blue, just losing through Hazeltine. --
:22:06. > :22:09.the really fired up to win it. When you look at the foursomes you
:22:10. > :22:15.realise that they are onto it. Let's get you quickly up to date if you
:22:16. > :22:25.missed the results, here they are, a sea of red for America. Jordan
:22:26. > :22:33.Spieth and Patrick Reid, brilliant in Gleneagles, they finished two up.
:22:34. > :22:45.And it was... Three and two, I should say, for that one. Dustin
:22:46. > :22:50.Johnson and Matt Kuchar, five and four over Lee Westwood and the
:22:51. > :22:55.debutant, Thomas Peters. Thank you very much. The Friday
:22:56. > :23:00.night Premier League match between Everton and Crystal Palace is tied
:23:01. > :23:08.1-1 at the moment at Goodison Park. 65 minutes on the clock. There is
:23:09. > :23:12.also a match going on in Scotland, Heart of Midlothian will move up to
:23:13. > :23:20.second place if the score stays like this, they lead Motherwell 2-0.
:23:21. > :23:24.England arrived in Bangladesh for the tour with a heavy security
:23:25. > :23:28.presence and armed guards lining virtually from the airport. They
:23:29. > :23:33.play their only warm up game on Monday ahead of the one-day
:23:34. > :23:35.internationals and two test hatches. More updates and the Ryder Cup and
:23:36. > :23:38.BBC News later on. Back to you. The Italian police have recovered
:23:39. > :23:41.two Van Gogh paintings which were stolen nearly
:23:42. > :23:43.fourteen years ago. The works were recovered
:23:44. > :23:45.from a criminal group in Naples. Thieves took the two works,
:23:46. > :23:47."Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen"
:23:48. > :23:50.and "View of the Sea at Scheveningen" by smashing
:23:51. > :23:52.a window in the roof Our Italy Correspondent James
:23:53. > :24:09.Reynolds reports from Rome. The police in Naples showed off
:24:10. > :24:15.their recovery of the paintings by Vincent van Gogh of. One is an early
:24:16. > :24:22.seascape. The other is a depiction of his father's church. Each has
:24:23. > :24:27.lost its frame. But they are both in fairly good condition. It is a great
:24:28. > :24:32.day for us to see these works and know that they are safe. Of course
:24:33. > :24:38.we hope that they will be able to return to our museum as soon as
:24:39. > :24:42.possible. That is our great hope. The works were stolen in December
:24:43. > :24:47.2002 from the Vincent van Gogh of Museum in Amsterdam. Two men broke
:24:48. > :24:51.in through the building's roof and got away with the paintings. The
:24:52. > :24:56.suspected thieves were tracked down and convicted two years later but
:24:57. > :25:01.the works themselves remained missing. In January this year the
:25:02. > :25:05.Italian police arrested suspected members of a criminal network near
:25:06. > :25:10.Naples. Officers had been looking into allegations of drug
:25:11. > :25:12.trafficking. But reports say that one detainee confessed that the
:25:13. > :25:24.network was hiding the stolen works by Van Gough. Organised crime units
:25:25. > :25:29.like this, the will probably using the art, saving it, possibly for
:25:30. > :25:35.negotiation if somebody was arrested, need to plea bargain down
:25:36. > :25:38.a case. The Italian police will continue their investigations. The
:25:39. > :25:44.museum now looks forward to the return of its lost works.
:25:45. > :25:49.That is all from the programme. From me and the rest of the team in
:25:50. > :26:10.London, good night. Good evening. There will be plenty
:26:11. > :26:11.more of the