hello. you're watching "gmt" on bbc world news. i'm lucy hockings. our top stories, the united nations warns of a potential genocide in northern iraq. time is running out for thousands of yazidis. as the humanitarian needs escalate, so too does the country's political crisis. the prime minister says he will not quit. another ebola death in nigeria. questions now being asked about why the man who brought it to country was allowed to leave

liberia. boats packed with migrants arrive in southern spain in just 24 hours. immigration officials say they can't cope. we'll take you live to madrid for the latest. aaron joins us and a crackdown on european car rentals. >> lucy, the european commission says drivers are being charged different prices for exactly the same rental, depending on where they live in the eu. they say that's discrimination and against the policy. but the car companies say, hang on, we're not doing anything wrong. it is simply supply and demand. it is midday in london. 7:00 a.m. in washington. and 2:00 p.m. in northern iraq, where the u.n. has warned of a humanitarian disaster. one official saying that everything must be done now to avoid a potential genocide within days or even hours.

international support efforts to contain the i.s. militants is growing. in the past hour, france announced it too will send a shipment of arms to kurds in northern iraq within hours. with more, here is the bbc's nick charles. >> reporter: with every image and every passing day, the potential scale of the humanitarian disaster unfolding in northern iraq is becoming more apparent. at this camp in the kurdish area of neighboring syria they're doing what they can to help. >> we expect to have further flow of refugees in the coming days. we are talking about 1200 to 15,000 people might be crossing. so trying to mobilize the sources as best we can to respond. >> reporter: the u.s. aid effort continues to grow as well as air drops the americans dispatched 130 more u.s. personnel to the city of erbil to assess in depth what more needs to be done. but -- >> as the president made very clear, we're not going back into

iraq in any of the same combat mission dimensions that we once were in, in iraq. very specifically this is not a combat boots on the ground operation. we're not going to have that kind of operation. >> reporter: and the third wave of british air drops of vital supplies, clean water and crucially shelter kits for those still trapped and exposed to the searing heat on mount sinjar. british tornado jets have arrived in cyprus. their task reconnaissance for the humanitarian operation. but pressure is growing for the government to consider a military intervention. in iraqi capital baghdad, new unseiu unease following a bomb attack near the home of the new prime minister designate and the support of the man he's meant to replace has been demonstrating

their defiance as has the man himself. >> translator: my concern is that this government will continue and will not be replacement for it without a decision from the federal court. we hope that everybody can make this legal and constitutional process and spare the country further instability. >> reporter: all this will only fuel doubts as to whether iraq's leaders and people can unite to take on the militants. nick charles, bbc news. >> with me is the editor of bbc arabic. thank you for being with us. nuri al maliki there, eight years in power, he's clinging on to his position, says he won't quit, he won't stand down. hasn't he just lost too much support now remain in charge? >> he said he's only going to quit with the decision from the cords. so he's keeping -- really he doesn't have much option. he's lost the support of the iranians, very importantly yesterday. the americans, the french and other regional countries have

support for the new prime minister and even internally he lost the support of his own shia community and people of his own party are calling for him to go. so he may be appearing defiant and saying he'll go to the courts, but there is not much he can do. >> political drama really taking place in baghdad. meanwhile in the north, we have i.s. militants taking more and more territory. let's bring up a map and see just how much of iraq they now control, but not just iraq, mohamed, we have reports coming in that the islamist state militants have taken control of two towns in syria near aleppo. is that -- if that is true and this is confirmed, that seems to me a very significant westward expansion for them. >> yes. isis is on the rise on both sides of the syria/iraq border. in syria, they have taken these single villages near aleppo, and it looks like they're eyeing

more advances towards the turkish border, the town of adele, which gives them a border crossing which is a very strategic gain if they do manage to do this. and in iraq, they are launching attack attacks closer to -- getting closer and closer to the capital of baghdad, they reach jalala about 100 kilometers northeast of baghdad. and we have this situation where up in the north you have up to 30,000 yazidis still stranded on this mountain. >> desperate situation for the yazidis now. u.n. warning of a possible genocide there. thank you for joining us. let's talk now about the islamic state. as mohamed was saying, they're launching this wave of attacks right across northern iraq and as we just have been saying into neighboring syria as well. there is the map of what we showed you. we have it for you in more

detail now. i.s. set to control this large portion of the region seen here in yellow, from aleppo in syria, all the way as mohamed was saying to the region near erbil in iraqi kurdistan. this just to give you a sense of the size of an area that is bigger than the uk. there are around 6 million people who live here. i.s. clearly has money. there has been some suggestion that some of its funds are coming from qatar and saudi arabia. let's take you live to beirut. we can speak now to the director of the middle east center in beirut. thank you very much for joining us. where does i.s. get its funds from? >> several forces are in the very beginning, the islamic state was reliant on donor money, mainly from the gulf region. but saying that we have to make a distinction between money coming from states in the gulf and money coming from nonstate forces. in the case of the islamic

state, the funding coming from the gulf is not from the qatari states or saudi states but nonstates, private actors, within those countries, who have been supporting the islamic state. >> but is pressure being put on the qataris and saudis to stop the flow of money from the private individuals? >> yes, absolutely. there is pressure by international actors such as the united states as well as regional pressure. the funding coming from the forces to the islamic states is obviously making the islamic state stronger and with it the potential for instability within the gulf grows stronger because there are a number of fighters within the islamic state who come from, for example, saudi arabia. so now saudi arabia and qatar are trying their best to stop the flow of finance to islamic state. >> i.s. being quite well run at

the moment. where do they keep the money? how do they manage it? >> there are different ways in which money is kept, but one thing we have to bear in mind is that this money being transferred from outside is only one portion of the money that he's la islamic state relies on and does not constitute the main source of funding for the islamic state today. this is mostly a situation that occurred in the beginning of the rise of this organization. but today the money is getting -- is from local sources, mainly from the sale of oil, from extortion, and also from, you know, the various raids that we have seen islamic states conduct in places like mosul. and this means that the islamic state has managed to have

several ways of handling finances in the areas under its control. >> briefly, these private individuals who are funding i.s., do we know who they are and the reasons that they're choosing to funnel their money to the organization? >> a lot of the those funding i.s. are those with their own political am big ambitions ands as a bargaining tool to put pressure on their governments back home in the gulf. >> lena, fascinating, thank you very much for joining us. let's bring you up to date with other news now. ukraine's interior minister is insisting that a russian aid convoy will not be allowed to enter ukraine. they call it provocation by the cynical aggressor. nearly 200 trucks carrying food and medicine set off for moscow on tuesday. the west is worried that russia is using humanitarian assistance as a way to put troops into

eastern ukraine. the last hour, the former egyptian president hosni mubarak has been speaking for first time in court. he's appearing at his retrial on charges of conspiracy to kill hundreds of protesters in 2011. he has been defending his record both as a soldier and as a political leader saying he never sought power or political authority. a new report by the australian government says the outlook for the great barrier reef is poor despite conservation efforts. it said it expects further deterioration in the coming years. the report cited climate change as the biggest threat to the fight, but coastal development and fishing also posed challenges. nigerian authorities have confirmed a third person has died from ebola. he is the second person to die after being in contact with the liberian american man who is thought to have brought ebola to nigeria last month. take you to lagos now.

are questions being asked about how this man, the carrier of ebola, managed to even get into nigeria? >> yes, certainly. especially as the reports are coming from liberia that this man was already aware of his situation, you know, also getting reports that he was not approved to come for this trip. so, you know, the question is now over -- between the time he knew he was infected and his coming here, who allowed him to come here and why wasn't he in isolation at the time? we heard the president quoted as calling him a mad man for coming here when he knew his situation. now, of course, those are the questions being raised as much as people asking how he was able to, you know, come through all the way into town. >> where you are, a vast city, overcrowded, quite polluted.

it is very difficult to trace carriers of ebola, a huge challenge for health officials there. what are they trying to do now to prevent the spread of ebola? >> well, so far the officials say that all the people, all the confirmed cases of ebola are people who had direct contact with the liberian man. so they are hoping that way it will be easier to contain it. they have been able to trace dozens of people who they say have had a primary or secondary contact with the man and those people are being observed. others are in isolation, in total, ten cases, who saying 13 of confirmed cases of the virus so far. the authorities still, you know, watching these people, but also putting out messages in the media to get the public aware of the risks of this virus. >> okay. tommy, thanks very much for updating u.s. from lagos there. stay with us.

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we have some breaking news to bring you now from gaza. we are hearing that six people have been killed there when an israeli missile exploded. there are attempts going on at the time to try to dismantle the missile. the dead include two journalists. one of them was palestinian, but we're just hearing from associated press that they have just lost one of their journalists in this explosion as well. en an italian journalist working in gaza. no other details. but as soon as we have more, we'll bring it straight to you. this is happening as there is a cease-fire still operational on the third day now. palestinian delegates described

the indirect peace talks being held in cairo as very difficult. israeli officials are saying that no progress has been made. our middle east correspondent has been talking to the former israeli prime minister shimon peres. >> hamas, they are against negotiations. they are against talking. they are against peace. they are for terror. we have nothing against the people. but none of us, neither the palestinians nor us, can live with terror. look, we left gaza willingly, unilaterally. we took out the 22 settlements we had there. the 8,000 settlers. by force. we handed over to the palestinians a free, open gaza. we don't understand, frankly, why all the fighting?

what are they shooting? for other reasons? we left. they want to be free. they are free. >> there are people, critics of the present government, who say that the voices are being drowned out and they're not being heard. and israel is in danger of losing its democratic tradition. is that a fair comment? >> i was for the unilateral withdrawal from gaza. actually supported that was the least expected to do so. made a very tough decision. and i did it, i thought, my god, we're going to relieve -- we have the best without any conditions. didn't ask anything in turn. and people say, what if they -- i said, look, why should they? now i have my ability to explain, why did you agree to

it. and say if we shall do it, the west bank, it may happen the same. look, we have to give some answers, not only to the terrorists, but to mothers and children around gaza that every night they have a rain of missiles over their heads. why? what for? >> if these talks in egypt fail, these talks that have been moderated by the egyptians between he's rell a israel and the factions, would you support the government and those who want it to go back into gaza militarily and to defeat -- finish the job against hamas? >> no, i don't think it will be necessary and i think we should look for a better solution than that. we don't want to raise the flames, we don't want to include the number of victims who want it. >> shimon peres speaking to bbc

as the cease-fire continues to hold in gaza. let's take you to spain now. immigration centers in the south of spain are overflowing after 80 small boats and rafts carrying migrants made it to the spanish mainland over the course of just two days. let's take you to madrid and talk to tom burridge. how many people were on board? >> well, got the latest figures in now and we're talking about 126 boats in total since monday. total of 1229 people on board including 26 children, more like 14 in total, actually. 26 was just on tuesday alone. so on tuesday alone there were more than 900 people who made that short crossing from morocco to spain and were intercepted by the spanish coast guard. an unprecedented number. a lot of pressure on europe's southern borders. i think this is unprecedented. >> normally, tom, we hear the stories coming from -- how have

they managed to make it to the main land or make it to the mainland this time? >> the whole issue is interlinked. so the phenomenon of people getting on small boats and making this often perilous crossing is a long term issue. it happened for many years. but not in this number, i don't think, in such a short space of time. it is linked, as you say, to the two spanish territories in north africa, surrounded by morocco, very small areas of land. i've been to malea. the reason we went is to first of all see the border fence itself, spain has increased its defenses on that border fence because for the last few months, hundreds -- groups of hundreds of migrants have been going down to that border fence and sub-saharan africans generally speaking who live in the mountains of morocco, not far from malea and they go down in huge numbers or have been over the last few months and try and scale that very, very high border fence. now, spain's interior ministry

told me this morning that part of the reason it believes that we have seen this unprecedented number of boats or people trying to make the crossing in boats and being intercepted by the spanish coast guard, those people are in spain on the mainland in immigration centers. the reason we have seen that, according to spain's interior ministry is because it put increased defenses on those borders, on the territories in north africa. >> tom, thank you very much for the update from madrid. she fights terrorists, traffickers and gangsters in karachi, often with a cigarette hanging loosely out of her mouth. her name is nasrine and she's a superhero. having worked on the cartoon, his new creation has drawn praise and criticism, also a lot of online buzz. he's hoping to launch his graphic novel and life action movie based on the same character later this year. this is his story.

>> translator: i see her as a strong woman because there is a dearth of such characters in pakistan. and then to show a woman rather than a big beefy superhero fighting against gangsters and corrupt people. it has created a visual impact. people criticize the way she looks. when you see a girl walking down the street in pakistan, she's very conscious of how she dresses. but my superhero is beyond social scrutiny. she doesn't care. she has to fight. my main focus was terrorism and

gangster violence in karachi. karachi is not just a city. it is a character all on its own. and karachi burns, it heals itself and then springs back to life. the reason i look at it is that so many people died due to terrorism or targeted killings. but nobody asks about what happens to the families of the victims afterwards. she is from one of those families. and takes revenge. and she takes it cold. >> more to bring you now on the breaki ining news we are hearin from gaza. i was telling you about the death of six people in gaza. this is as they were trying to dismantle an israeli missile. one of those was a journalist for the associated press. we're now getting details

through -- from that news agency saying that their journalist name was simone camilli. she was 35 and she died when gaza police engineers were neutralizing an unexploded ordinance in the town. so that name noun coming to us now, simone camilli, an italian working for the associated press. finally for you, not often that you get photo bombed by a spider. but that's what happened to one of our colleagues on bbc scotland this morning. during a news bulletin, you can see the spider appearing amazingly huge, of course, on the camera lens. could be seen silently devouring a small insect that was caught in its web. as you can imagine, that photo is being shared online. those pictures as we speak right across the uk. coming up on the next half hour on "gmt," stay with us because president obama has called for calm in the u.s.

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welcome to "gmt" on "bbc world news." i'm lucy hockings. in this half hour, challenging the perceptions of young african-american men. we look at how media stereotypes are being confronted following the shooting of a young unarmed black man in missouri over the weekend. remembering t ining smolder hypnotic lauren bacall. the actress has died at the age of 89. we're going to look back at her life and career. aaron is back and twitter is capturing the video bug.

>> it wants to capture the life of the mobile ad market, worth some $32 billion. to do it, twitter is testing new video advertising in hopes it will attract big brands. we'll find out just how will the quarter of a billion twitterers react to that. welcome back to "gmt." president obama has called for calm in the u.s. state of missouri after two nights of rioting. it follows the death of an unarmed black teenager over the weekend. protesters gathered for a third day and while tense, the demonstrations have remained peaceful. with more, here's yvette mccullough. >> reporter: marching with hands up, a sign of surrender, a sign for michael brown. demonstrators gathered at police

headquarters demanding justice. police say the 18-year-old was shot several times after a struggle in a police car. however, witnesses say he was shot when he had his arms raised. after two nights of rioting, calls for nonviolence appear to have been heated. demonstrations near the site of brown's death were tense but ultimately peaceful. more than 30 people have been arrested since the weekend. crowds through rocks, burned and looted stores. police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse crowds. president obama described michael brown's death as heart breaking but urged everyone in ferguson, missouri, and across the country to remember this young man through reflection and understanding. a plea shared by his family. >> i need everybody to be on one accord. i need you all -- i understand

everybody, how they are different pain and they deal with the situation because they have losses too, but i need all of us to come together and do this right, the right way, the right way, so we can get something done about this. no violence. >> civil rights activist reverend al sharpton is also appealing for peace. >> no one has the right to take their child's name and drag it through the mud because you're angry. to become violent in michael brown's name is to portray the ge -- betray the gentle giant that he was. >> reporter: police are expected to release the name of the officer on tuesday, but changed their plans due to retaliation. the department of justice is investigating events along with local authorities and the fbi. twitter feed connected to

the shooting has gone viral. we have been looking into this. let's look at a couple of the photos we have seen of the victim, michael brown. what are we looking at here? >> the pictures of michael brown are the hot issue here. the first image to be used in these reports were him from his high school graduation. we can see that on the left. however, subsequently it appears that news media and blogs, conservative blogs in particular, picked up a second image of him, him in a sport shirt making a gesture with his hand. >> could be a gang -- >> could be a gang -- that's the suggestion, the implication. and that caused anger and frustration among a certain section of people on social media, protesting that -- you're suggesting things about him by the choice of picture. >> let's have another look at a picture that was retweeted many times, the first picture with

that hash tag, if they gun me down. where did this come from? >> this is one of the first images tweeted. it is posted by a lawyer, criminal defense lawyer. so he has used that sort of contrast of images to make a big statement with this hash tag and posted a picture of him dressed in his university graduation class, so you can see -- >> with bill clinton. >> yes, high profile. >> and the second image is him on the way to a halloween party. but what he's really trying to say here, he's done this as a deliberate statement. he told us that the question, if they gun me down, how are they seeing me, how are they portraying me is a question that is asked every day. he started this and it accelerated into something much bigger. >> it has massive in a short space of time. what about the other people who have been tweeting using that hash tag? >> we have 175,000 uses of the

hash tag. majority of them in the united states. smaller number of people showing their pictures. lots of discussion around that. so, for example, another image is from a student from maryland, his picture, he was an army reservist, the second image is him with a toy gun. he's making an overt statement, a statement from a major social statement from black twitter to american journalism outlets. that's the scene we're seeing, the contrasting images, people in uniform, serving the country, people at school graduations, you know, high school, university ceremonies showing how they feel they really are and how they worry they might be portrayed. somebody else tweeted this whole incident should be taught in american journalism schools. i think what we see here, we see this a lot on bbc trending, a

group of people having the conversation, but with the intention of the rest of the world seeing it and saying, hang on, let's question ourselves here and what are the stereotypes and what are we saying about people when we use pictures of them in news stories. >> thank you very much for joining us. >> let's catch up with business now. aaron is here. no suggestion from me you would be a good used car salesman. but if i was to rent a car, aaron, would i be getting a good deal here in the uk? >> i could sell ice to eskimos. let mex pla explain the story. we're talking about the ec, it said that drivers are being charged different prices online for exactly the same car rental based on where they live in europe. the eu commission says this price discrimination is against the eu's single market rules. companies such as hertz, euro car and avis have been told to

review pricing structure by the end of the month. but they have come back and said we're not doing anything wrong, we're compliant with eu regulations. earlier i sat down with alan bowen, a lawyer and travel expert, and i asked him why do these prices vary. >> it is all based on competiti competition. and depending how competitive the market is at your place of residence, you'll get a better deal. we're lucky in the uk, we have a lot of competition and get the best rates it can find in europe. >> the car rental coming back and saying we're complying, not doing anything wrong. do they have a point? >> i have to say i will be very suspicious of that, and i think the eu will find it very difficult to continue to monitor pricing. pricing is fluid. isn't fixed. the price of a car there is depending when you want it. clearly where they can see there is competitive markets afoot, they have to reduce the prices in order to sell the car rental. >> you've done a good job with mobile operators and charges

across the single market. so, i mean, i'm just wonderer g i ing if it will be like a dog with a bone with this. >> i think that's going to be very difficult. there is six large operators in europe. then hundreds of local operators and we're a large company is up against a local operator, they will have to reduce prices to compete, otherwise the garage will be full of cars. >> we'll keep a cross that story and any actions coming out of the european commission on those car rental companies. let's switch gears, talk about the little blue birdie. twitter announced it is testing a new video advertising feature. the aim is to attract big names to the site. this is not the only website trying to tap into this lucrative video advertising.

look at this. the mobile ad market worldwide this year expected to reach that, $32 billion in 2014, nearly doubling from last year. with twitter's market share estimated to be about 2.8% of that this year. and that's compared to a 17% share, yes, by these guys, facebook. it is new frontier of advertising sites, these sites such as vine. it has seen success with six second user generated videos incorporating big brands like coca-cola. all interesting stuff. let's talk to ian moore, he joins us, somewhere, i think you can hear me. great to have you on the program. just briefly, can i ask you how is this going to work? how is twitter going to post these videos? >> advertisers will pay to post their video ads into twitter users' twitter stream, into their news stream. so you'll open twitter as you normally do and instead of

having a static ad with a picture or some text, in future you may have a video ad which plays very much like a video ad on youtube or facebook or even tv. >> and i guess there is no surprises. this is twitter wanting to get a slice of that mobile ad market. that mobile ad market is -- it is still very small compared to traditional advertising but growing very fast, isn't it? >> that's right. it is doubling near both globally and also in the u.s. and uk. and increasingly advertisers want to reach huge numbers of people who are spending more and more time using our mobile phones and tablets. so that's a huge audience. advertisers increasingly want to follow the -- it is inevitable that they'll spend more mobile advertising and video is going to be a very big piece of that. >> it is. some quarter of a billion plus active users, right, i believe with twitter, i don't know, the question is, even though twitter may do this gently, how do you

think they'll react? >> well, they're doing it very -- as you -- they're doing it slightly differently to most of the other services. with youtube and facebook, basically the ad starts to play as soon as you sign into the service. you don't have a choice. twitter is playing more softly, softly, so the user has to click on the ad before it starts playing. so they're taking it very slowly and really are doing their utmost to ensure it doesn't alienate users. i think we'll see it roll out gradually. >> are we seeing the start, the wheels rolling to this whole new frontier of advertising. you look at vine, right? this online video sort of social media app. this is where users can actually interact with the brand. >> we're talking about this earlier. user generated ads and user generated content. i think there is a story on the website about this. it is quite interesting. quite daring of a lot of brands to really entrust their

marketing messages to these vine users who, you know, there are big advantages, a great way to connect particularly with younger people. the risk is that, you know, something goes wrong, there is not much you can do about it. >> not at all. battle stations. ian, great stuff, we appreciate your input. we'll talk to you soon. ian moore joining us there. let me leave you with this, not great news, big back step for japan. its economy has seen its biggest contraction backwards since 2011 when it was devastated by that earthquake and tsunami. the shock of a new sales tax, we have been talking about this a lot, it took effect on the first of april, meant the japanese economy shrank by 1.7% when compared to the previous three month period. the economists think the impact of the sales tax will fade, but i've got to tell you this, japan's sales tax is going up again to 10% in 2015. there you go. follow me on twitter, you can

tweet me @bbcaaron. what do you think about ads on twitter? i don't know. but these are free services. can't expect companies have to make money somewhere are. >> interesting. thank you very much. >> see you, lucy. stay with us on "bbc world news." still to come, it the heart of ind wi india's language. nineteen years ago, we thought, "wow, how is there no way to tell the good from the bad?" so we gave people the power of the review. and now angie's list is revolutionizing local service again. you can easily buy and schedule services from top-rated providers. conveniently stay up to date on progress. and effortlessly turn your photos into finished projects with our snapfix app. visit angieslist.com today. ♪ revolutionary by every standard.

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i'm lucy hockings. the top story at this hour. the united nations is warning that a humanitarian crisis of huge proportions is unfolding in northern iraq. west africa's ebola outbreak claims a third death from the disease now confirmed in

nigeria. she was one of the last survivors of hollywood's studio 8. lauren bacall died at 89 in new york. she was known for her smoldering looks, husky voice and partnership on and off screen with humphrey bogart. she emerged in the 1940s in the film "to have and to have not" where she played bogart's leading lady. we look back at her life and career. >> anybody got a match. >> reporter: rarely has an actress made such an impact with her first appearance. she was 19, unknown, and playing opposite a screen legend, humphrey bogart. this sultry blond became an instant star, tough, wise beyond her years but with an air of vulnerability, albeit masked, by a voice that one critic said sounded as if it had been smoked in vodka. >> thanks. >> thanks. >> reporter: the couple fell in love off screen too. and bacall married bogart 25

years her senior in 1945. >> wait a minute, you better talk to my mother. >> reporter: to make three more films together, including this classic. >> hello. who is this? the police. this isn't a police station. well, if you know, why did you -- look, this is not a police station. what was that you said? my father should hear this. >> reporter: they had 11 happy years together, before bogart's death from cancer. and she felt in private she was very different from her screen image. >> i am looked upon as a woman who is in total control and command of every situation, i don't need anyone and i have all the answers. well, as we all know, no one is that sure of themselves, i don't think. if they are, i don't want to meet them. >> reporter: in the years after, she was briefly engaged to frank sinatra and married for eight years to jason robards. but professionally she said she

struggled to escape the shadow of bogey. that is until a stage musical applause revived her career and brought more films such as "murder on the orient express". >> what's the matter with him? >> reporter: and she won an oscar nomination for her role in "the mirror has two faces". >> if you don't behave yourself, i'll have your birth certificate blown up as a christmas card. >> i should have never encouraged you to speak. >> reporter: but she knew she would be best remembered for her first film in one of cinema's most famous lines. >> you know how to whistle don't you? you just put your lips together and blow. >> one of the best lines ever in cinema. lauren bacall who died at the age of 89. so many of the old films are so loved by so many people today who watched them for the first time. don't you think everything looks a little bit better in black and white? it makes you wonder why we bother with color sometimes.

with me is a reporter from the guardian newspaper. she has the most incredible voice. it was husky and sexy and amazing. but she was so much more than that. >> so much more. she was almost in bacall dying we're seeing the last of the sex symbols and even after that first black and white era, almost still the benchmark for the hollywood sector. she was an actor whose appeal was as much about being smart and tough as it was about her voice and her looks. >> and she resonates in a way with women too in the 1950s because she was about being independent and about being an intelligent woman in charge of her own sexuality. wasn't just the sex symbol for men. >> not at all. the irony is she started out as a studio product. plucked from obscurity by the director, cast against bogart. she was owned and bought and sold by the studio. and yet she was never anything other than her own person.

even when she was married to humphrey bogart, she said she struggled to get out of his shadow. i didn't see that and i don't think other people did too. it seemed to be a relationship as equals, he was as tough as hell and as smart as you like and she was too, and the perfect match for him. >> she said, i suspect my obits will be about my relationship with humphrey bogart. here she is now with humphrey bogart. is this up with one of her grea roles? >> one of best of all time. >> what do you like about her performance? >> she's the absolute foil to him. he's supposedly the hero of this film and yet she's kind of running rings around him. and he's a generous enough actor to kind of almost enjoy the sport, almost enjoy being the kind of fool as she ties him in knots. >> the other film that critics seem to like, audiences too, is her wonderful turn in "how to marry a millionaire."

>> even there you've got her cast against marilyn monroe. also that two different versions of the hollywood sex siren. you got marilyn monroe, dixie and childish, and bogart, bacall, who seemed old before her time. she was 19 when she first started. she already seems as old as bogart and she's somebody who is absolutely in control of herself. >> okay. thank you very much for joining us. we certainly enjoyed remembering the life of lauren bacall who has died at the age of 89 after an incredible life and incredible career. students are paying particular attention in their s sanskrit classes this week. it is spoken by a small fashion of the population and it is one of more than 20 official languages. it has caused some controversy

as we report from delhi. trying to revive an ancient dying language. it is sanskrit week to popularize the classical language used in hindu text, but spoken by less than 1% of india. ♪ this is a sanskrit being taught to grade eight students and all have this textbook in front of them. i studied as well as a student, but this textbook is fairly incomprehensible to me, difficult to follow. these students are much more proficient. the question is, how much of this will they retain when they leave from here. more importantly, how much of this will they actually use? for many, it is about taking pride in india's heritage.

or to communicate more effectively in a country with several hundred languages. >> we can speak fluently if we know sanskrit and we can understand bengali or more roc y y better if we understand sanskrit. >> reporter: promoting it has been mandated by the new government. even if there are questions over its actual relevance in a modern aspirational india. >> it is a language which should be given due importance, and whether there is any advantages that we cannot see now. >> reporter: the move led to a political row. some see it as an attempt to import hindu traditions and cultures.

>> we want it to belong to everybody. why do you want to bury one language, only used by one particular group, why do you want to -- >> reporter: sanskrit is mostly used by hindu priests. the government says it wants to preserve india's rich heritage. but some are wondering if their motive is to educate or indoctrine. breaking news from switzerland on the afp news agency. we're hearing a swiss train has derailed in a mountainous area of switzerland in the east of the country. this is the area of switzerland we understand the accident happened in. police are told that this is a serious accident, they have provided no more other details at the moment. but what we understand is the train is from a regional rail

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