this is bbc america, and now live from london, "bbc world news." >> hello, i'm geeta guru-murthy with "bbc world news." our top stories. turkey says it is now helping iraqi kurdish fighters to reinforce kobane, the syrian border town under siege by i.s. militants. this is the scene live on the boarer following u.s. air drops of weapons, which the kurds say will greatly help their fight against the jihadists. nigeria is declared free of the deadly ebola virus after eight deaths, including that of the doctor who identified the first case. we hear from her son.

>> by identifying that patient, really helped nigeria to prepare and get ready to trace everybody. a first for indonesia, as joe co widodo becomes president. and as china's communist party leaders hold their an jewel gathering, an exclusive report of the impact. >> bribery is just the way government business is done here. so every official is now afraid that they'll be arrested next. hello, and welcome. turkey has said it's allowing

iraqi kurdish fighters to cross the syrian border to fight islamic state militants in kobane. the foreign minister said that talks on the subject were continuing, but gave no further details. it comes as u.s. military aircraft have air dropped weapons, ammunition, and medical supplies to syrian kurdish forces fighting in the town. turkey says its air space was not used. mark lowen is in istanbul. this looks like a u-turn from turkey, if it says it is now helping the kurds, who it has previously labeled as terrorists. what is going on here? >> it's pretty complex, geeta. it is an unexpected shift. yesterday, the turkish president warned that he would not allow kurdish fighters in syria to be armed from turkish territory, for arms to go over into syria, and he warned washington against arming kurdish fighters. just a few hours later, the u.s. went ahead with air drops of

weapons and ammunition for those kurdish fighters, so it appeared that turkey was at odds with its nato ally. but then today, the foreign minister made a statement in ankara that turkey is assisting peshmerga forces as kurdish forces in iraq to cross into koba kobane. turkey could be bowing to pressure from the u.s. to get involved in the fight in kobane in some way. but it's also possible that what the turkish president said yesterday was sort of for public consumption, that he would not want to attract the wrath of turkish nationalists here at the idea of helping the kurds, but then he bowed to politics and on the ground he is going to help kurdish fighters to go in and that's as far as turkey will go. but certainly it is a significant and a surprise change in policy. >> obviously people will be looking at what further happens now over the border with the turkey-syria border itself.

just to ask you as well, reuters is saying that the syrian kurdish armed groups has said that the arms that have been dropped are not enough. they want more. >> yeah, and they've been saying that for some time. they have been wanting to be properly armed on the ground. they have been very heavily outgunned by islamic state fighters around kobane, which is why despite about 135 air strikes now by the u.s.-led coalition around kobane, still islamic state are shelling parts of the town. they've not been completely pushed back yet. so the kurds are saying look, arm us properly and we can do the bidding of the coalition on the ground. we can push islamic state back. if these air drops are going to continue and are going to increase, it could provide the best that the kurdish fighters need on the ground. if these peshmerga forces from iraq actually do come through turkey and into syria, that also might provide the final help. but i think certainly some changes are in play here on the ground and if turkey is realizing that it wants islamic

state to be pushed away from its borders, it's going to have to bow to the inevitable in a sense and help the kurdish fighters there on the ground. >> mark lowen in istanbul. many thanks indeed. now, nigeria has been declared free of ebola by the world health organization. just 20 cases have occurred there with eight people dying and no new infections reported in the last six weeks. another west african nation, senegal, was given the all-clear on friday after the recovery of the one infected person there. some other developments to bring you today. the spanish nurse, teresa romero, who was the first person infected outside west africa, has now tested negative for the disease. she'll need a second test. the 21-day incubation period for the family of a u.s. ebola victim is ending. and the british nurse who was infected with the virus has returned to sierra leone to continue working with ebola patients after successfully being treated. but the crisis continues where

over 4,500 people have died. with me is michelle roberts. just to put this in context. the number of cases that hit nigeria and senegal much fewer, but the fact is nigeria has succeeded. we know it's a more wealthy country. it's a much better organized capital. but still, it is a landmark day that we should celebrate. >> it is a landmark. it's a hopeful situation. it shows that with the right measures in place, this infection, this virus can be contained and controlled. but unfortunately, that's not the picture everywhere else. and also, it's not a reason to be complacent. nigeria could still see more cases in the future, so it's important to keep on doing what is working at the moment. >> i saw over the weekend, in general all the countries that have been affected, it's been a real worry about infrastructure pullout, investment pullout. nigeria obviously one of the wealth generators in africa. how much are they doing and how much are they worried on the health front and economic front? >> i think certainly on the economic front, obviously it is

a concern. you know, economies can slow down because of all of this stuff that's happening. on the health front, obviously that's a different issue. i mean, it's very much about containing this virus. it's about all the preventative measures. we're still waiting for an effective drug that can be widely used. we're still waiting for a vaccine that could protect people, but the hope is that those sort of things will come into play later. at the moment, the real focus is on infection control. so good hand hygiene, good infection control measures. full protective suits. and identification of cases. >> we're seeing this still today, this call for this $1 billion u.n. fund, you know, to be actually taken up. the challenge to countries to put the money in and the staffing in. they're not getting it, are they, they're just not getting enough aid? >> more aid is still needed. we do know that different countries are offering more and more help, and, you know, troops

are going out there to help, so the uk is sending people to sierra leone to build a clinic there. help is coming. but as we know, it's been delayed. >> what is the delay, though? can you explain why we see this huge lag, and first of all, promises, then actual delivery of the money, and then actually, okay, the time now to get people in. is it because people have got to be trained? obviously it's complicated. >> it's a very complicated picture. obviously identifying it as a problem in the first place, we were quite slow in noticing that this was really starting to spread. it's only been in the last few months that the real action has happened from the west to actually provide infrastructure there, to tackle this. part of it's funding. part of it's scientific knowledge. we do know the virus. we've known about this virus for a long time. but again, we're still waiting for effective treatments to stop this virus. >> okay. we have to leave it there.

michelle, thanks very much indeed. in japan, two members of the cabinet, both women, have resigned because of complaints that they've misused funds. they stepped down within hours of each other. the resignations are a major setback for the prime minister shinzo abe, who had sought to bring more women into the top levels of government. >> reporter: they were high-profile appointments by prime minister shinzo abe, just six weeks ago when he named five women to his cabinet to much fanfare. this was part of his campaign to get more women into the top echelons of japanese politics and japanese society. here we are six weeks later, two out of the five now resigning. and, you know, this may not be the end of it. >> and just tell us why they've had to step down. >> so the allegations against them are both financial. with obuchi, her campaign staff were accused of using large

amounts of money, tens of thousands of dollars of campaign funds for buying gifts and paying for constituents to go to the theatre here in tokyo. now, these are pretty serious allegations against her. they could lead to criminal charges against her. this is very much an ongoing investigation. so pretty serious against her. against matsuchima, she's accused of handing out fans at campaign rallies with her picture and campaign slow gans on it. now, this is a much more minor offense, but apparently, it's well-known that you're not allowed to do this sort of thing. she used the justice minister, so when this allegation arose, she had to step down. but it's a much much more minor offense. >> rupert winfield-hayes there. now we're going to return to our top story and news that turkey looks like it is going to be assisting the kurds on the turkish-syrian border. our reporter is there, and just first of all, tell us, news that turkey is now going to help.

have you had any reaction there or any explanation as to why we're seeing this shift? >> reporter: i haven't got a reaction to that as of yet, but as you can see probably behind me, this is kobane about a kilometer away from where i'm standing inside the turkish territory. kobane is very quiet for the second day. very quiet. and that means that probably there is not much presence of i.s. in this city itself anymore. maybe one or two pockets of resistance here and there, and they may be outside the city that they need to attend to the kurdish fighters. what the turkish government has done is a change of heart. a major change of heart. because for weeks, the kurds here and kurds across the region have been asking -- and the international community have been asking the turkish government to allow kurdish fighters from the region to cross into kobane to help the

fighters here. and that hadn't been forthcoming until today. when the foreign minister has just confirmed that they're going to help these fighters cross into kobane. this comes after the air drops last night. apparently 27 consignments, 27 bundles of arms, ammunition, and medicine were dropped in the middle of the night here, and turkish -- a kurdish commander in the city has confirmed receiving a large consignment. this is a god send for the kurdish fighters here, and may even turn the tide. >> many thanks there on the turkish-syrian border, kobane, there behind you. thank you. should the uk leave the european union? it's a political question that keeps coming up here. today the outgoing president has

urged pro-european politicians in the uk to make a more positive case for britain to stay. in a speech here in london, jose manuel barroso warned david cameron he could make a mistake. a short while ago, i spoke to our correspondent in brussels, duncan crawford, about the impact of that barroso speech in british politics. >> right at the top of the political agenda in the uk, and jose manuel barroso, the european commission president, who's outgoing, due to leave his job at the end of the month. he has addressed this in his speech at chatham house in london, where he's staunchly defended the eu, really, and he's talked about britain's relationship with the eu as well, saying that claims that the eu would someday become a single superstate, and he emphasized that in his view, the eu is changing and changing for the good, talking about cuts to the budget, cuts in regulations,

cuts even to bureaucrats as well, and he called for those in the uk who do support the eu to speak up, to speak up more loudly, to put across the positive case, as he put it, to british membership to the eu, saying that it was time to dispel the illusions. >> the people of europe acting as sovereign nations to clearly pool their power, where they can deliver results in that are in their own self-interests. my experience is that those countries, which use european leverage, matter more. just look at the evolution of power the last ten years. so the point is not as some people suggest an issue of a superstate. the point is in terms of power of each country, how can a

country better maximize its power and influence in the world, is it in or outside of the european union? i think that those who are reluctant to use the european leverage to project their interests globally are indeed missing an opportunity to maximize their influence. >> mr. barroso there. the deputy prime minister has said that the tourists are going to head towards the exit door, pushed by blind panic, as he puts it. and have already put out something about potential plans before christmas. >> we don't have many details about this at the moment, but it looks as if the british prime minister david cameron will make some sort of speech outlining his plans to try to limit the number of eu migrants coming to the uk, as you say, before christmas. this has increasingly gone up the political agenda in the uk, the impact that eu migrants have on british society.

those who say they're in favor of the freedom of movement within the eu, eu migrants coming to the uk, they say that it's beneficial. that they pay more in tax than they claim in benefits. but those who are opposed to high levels of immigration, they say that it can have an impact on local jobs taking them away from local workers and also on social services, hospitals and schools, for example. so we don't know what's going to be outlined by david cameron, but the issue of eu migrants coming to the uk is obviously a huge one. >> duncan crawford there. much more to come. stay with us if you can. you need a permit... to be this awesome. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle... and go. and only national is ranked highest in car rental customer satisfaction by j.d. power. (aaron) purrrfect. (vo) meee-ow, business pro. meee-ow.

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organization has declared nigeria officially free of ebola after six weeks without a case. strikes in the airline business, aaron? >> yeah. the german airline has cancelled more than 1,000 flights today after its pilots -- actually, they called for a two-day strike. the dispute is over those retirement rights. more than 200,000 passengers and 2/3 of its scheduled flights are set to be affected by the strike. however, the union has also extended this strike action to cover long haul flights, and that kicks in tuesday, tomorrow. but this strike right now, it's lu lutthansa's eighth this year. >> some of the buzz surrounding the launch of the new apple pay system that rolls out in the united states today.

some stumbling blocks include the fact that the service will only work on a new one. got to get a new iphone 6, and only a fraction of the six million stores in the u.s. have signed up to it so far. corporate star cards and loyalty cards, they're not accepted at the moment. we're going to be talking more about this on "gmt," and coming up in just over an hour's time with one of our famous tech gurus. also, traders are bracing themselves for another week of crazy gyrations on the global markets. today we've seen shares in asia rise dramatically. in fact, the nikkei closed up almost 4%. the european markets haven't been following suit so far. it's like the stock market needs to see a therapist. why? because it's temperamental, it's flighty, prone to violent mood swings. you'll know last week it was a heck of a ride for investors. plunging oil prices, signs of a european slowdown, signs of a

china slowdown. you've got ebola. on the upside, investors are seeing company earnings, results very strong. also seeing reassuring jobs market figures and this is what they're trying to digest. the european market certainly not following what we saw on wall street on the close of friday as well as the asian market today. lots going on. follow me on twitter. tweet me, i'll tweet you back. you can get me @bbcaaron. more "gmt" coming up in just over an hours time. >> i love the phone. it will be cooking supper soon, i think. thanks very much. leaders of china's ruling communist party have opened a highly anticipated meeting here today, clearing out corruption and the rule of law, both on the agenda. tens of thousands of party officials now under investigation, or in prison. and a growing number are killing themselves. we have this special report from the front line of the anti-corruption campaign.

>> reporter: on the 14th of september, a communist party official jumped to his death from his ninth floor apartment. a neighbor shows me where his body landed. the night before, he had been questioned by corruption investigators about whether he paid a bribe for a promotion. 12 hours later, he joined the fast-growing list of officials who prefer a quick death to a life of shame behind bars. it's all because of this man. china's president presents himself as a man of the people. his message, "back to basics." a personal mission to rebuild a communist party that serves the people. he's jailed many thousands of officials, and the rest are scared. the journalist who broke the

story of the suicide jump. >> reporter: he panicked. you'd think death would be a frightening prospect, but they're more terrified of losing their fortune and reputation. >> reporter: this province is rich on mining and real estate and so have its communist officials. but bribery is just the way government business is done here, and so every official is now afraid that they will be arrested next. a tour of the new china with a real estate developer who doesn't want to be identified. he tells me every single project here has involved bribery. but now the anti-corruption campaign has paralyzed the system. when everyone's been on the take, how do you know who's poacher and who's game keeper? >> translator: some are more corrupt, some are less, but they are all corrupt. and so are the business people who have to deal with them.

if you don't give gifts, your projects won't go through. >> reporter: so how will the system work without corruption to oil the wheels? >> translator: no one should doubt xi. he's gained enormous public support as a result. >> reporter: a folk hero battling a savage foe. xi calls his own corruption battle a life and death tiger fight. but for every tiger he slays, there's another in the wings and a ruling party which hasn't yet worked out how to function without its bribery fix.

carrie gracie, bbc news. now we just want to show you some pictures very quickly of the turkey-syria border, because although the camera is just moving around, but it was focusing on some pictures of smoke. it looked as though there was a possible vehicle on fire. that looks like some sort of convoy or group of vehicles. when we can get those smoke pictures, the fire pictures potentially, we will return to those pictures. that is the danger of going to a live shot. we have no control over it at all. we're just going to let you know one piece of good news out of london today, because the second child of britain's prince william and his wife kate, we now know, is going to be due to be born in april. the duke and duchess have announced last month that the couple were expecting a baby, but they didn't give a date. kate hasn't been seen in public now for more than two months because she was suffering from acute morning sickness. the palace have today said that

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i'm geeta guru-murthy with "bbc world news." our top stories. turkey says it's helping iraqi kurdish fighters to reinforce kobane, the syrian border town under siege by i.s. militants. this is the scene live on the border following u.s. air drops of weapons, which the kurds say will greatly help their fight against the jihadists. nigeria is declared free of the deadly ebola virus after eight deaths, including that of the doctor who identified the first case. we hear from her son. >> by identifying the index

patient, you know, really helped m nigeria to prepare and get ready and trace everybody. >> a first for indonesia as joko widodo becomes president, a former furniture exporter from outside the country's military and political elite. and is something fishy going on off the swedish coast? russia denies reports of an incident involving one of its submarines. hello, and welcome. turkey says it is allowing iraqi kurdish fighters to cross the syrian border to join syrian kurds fighting islamic state militants in kobane. the foreign minister said that talks on the subject were

continuing, but he gave no further details. it all comes as u.s. military aircraft have air dropped weapons, ammunition, and medical supplies to syrian kurdish forces fighting in the town. turkey says its air space was not used. let's get more now from our correspondent mark lowen who is in istanbul. is this a u-turn by turkey, mark? >> this is probably what you would call a delicate dance. yesterday what happened is the turkish president gave an interview saying that turkey would not allow weapons to be transferred to the kurdish militia in syria. he calls them a terrorist organization, an extension of the outlawed pkk kurdish party here in turkey, which waged a decades-long insurgency. the u.s.-led coalition dropped those weapons to kurdish fights and made ankara appear isolated. today, the foreign minister has finally said that turkey is

assisting peshmerga forces to cross into syria. what's happening here, well possibly this is the turkish government saying one thing at home, for domestic consumption, to ward off criticism that it is helping the kurds, and then saying another thing to international partners like the white house, to show that it is going to get involved in a way that is as acceptable here in turkey as possible. >> part of the problem presumably is that all the players in this region cannot necessarily control what happens to funds, to arms, to ammunition. we've had these air drops. kurds still saying it's not enough. they need more help. how big a difference would it make, though, if turkey does now shift its position as it seems to be? >> well, it would i think make a difference on two fronts. first of all, it could actually help the kurdish fighters on the ground considerably if they have got hundreds, perhaps thousands of peshmerga forces who would be allowed to go in and reinforce. secondly, it's going to help the perception of the turkish

government by kurds back here in turkey. remember, a couple of weeks ago, there were pretty deadly riots in turkey, around about 30 cities, by kurds furious that turkey was stopping them from going back across the border to help their kurdish brothers in syria. there was a feeling that turkey's inaction, that turkey's hostility was showing that turkey is more interested in helping islamic state than helping the kurds. if turkey can say look, we are now helping, we are allowing peshmerga to go and help the kurdish fighters in syria, it will placate the kurds somewhat here possibly, and it would show that the cur key is helping in the way that it can without really getting the anger of turkish nationalists who would say well, why are you helping a terrorist organization? so turkey's treading a very delicate line here, and it is finally getting involved, it appears, in the syria fight, but in a way which would be domestically acceptable. >> mark lowen there in istanbul.

many thanks indeed. >> reporter: as you can see probably behind me, this is kobane about a kilometer away from where i'm standing inside the turkish territory. kobane is very quiet for the second day. very quiet. and that means that probably there is not much presence of i.s. in this city itself anymore. maybe one or two pockets of resistance here and there. and they may be outside the city that they need to attend to the kurdish fighters. what the turkish government has done is a change of heart. a major change of heart, because for weeks, the kurds here -- and kurds across the region have been asking and the international community have been asking the turkish government to allow kurdish fighters from the region to

cross into kobane to help the fighters here. and that hadn't been forthcoming until today, when the foreign minister has just confirmed that they're going to help these fighters cross into kobane. this comes after the air drops last night. apparently 27 consignments, 27 bundles of arms, ammunition, and medicine were dropped in the middle of the night here, and a kurdish commander in the city has confirmed receiving a large consignment. this is a god send for the kurdish fighters here and may even turn the side. nigeria has been declared free of ebola by the world health organization today after no new infections occurred in the last six weeks. another west african nation senegal was given the all-clear

on friday. they only had one case there. some other developments to bring you. the spanish nurse, teresa romero, the first person infected with ebola outside west africa, has now tested negative for the disease. she will need a second test to confirm she no longer carries the virus. a 21-day incubation period for the family of a u.s. ebola victim is ending. and the british nurse william pooley who was infected with the virus has returned to sierra leone to continue working with ebola patients after being successfully treated. but the crisis continues in sierra leone, liberia, and guinea where 4,500 people have died. will ross reports. >> reporter: the hospital that was thrust on to the front line of the fight against ebola when the liberian patrick sawyer flew into nigeria in july. doctors here say the highly infectious mr. sawyer wanted to leave and became aggressive. even pulling out an intravenous drip and splashing blood on the staff.

but the hospital staff stood firm. >> the only way we could be sure and live up to our responsibility to our people, the state, and nation, this is all about it by the end of it, to keep him here. >> reporter: mr. sawyer died in the hospital. had he been let out into the vast, crowded city, the consequences could have been catastrophic. four of the hospital staff died trying to treat mr. sawyer, including the heroic doctor who made the initial diagnosis. it was nigeria's first case of ebola. her only child is mourning, but full of pride. >> by identifying the index patient really helped nigeria to prepare and get ready to, you know, to trace everybody, and i think that's probably the difference between us and our west african neighbors guinea, liberia, and sierra leone. >> reporter: nigeria had to act fast. health workers and volunteers went knocking on the doors of

almost 900 people who may have come into contact with the virus. their temperatures had to be taken for three weeks. it was difficult work, and at times, they had to convince scared medical staff to comply. >> you're a health worker. i'm a health worker. we understand this thing. let's just do our job. she said all right. how many days will you come and check up me? i said 21 days. when we are done, she said you need to take me to a party. now that i'm free from ebola, we need to go and celebrate this. >> reporter: nigeria was unprepared, but with international support got its act together and the number of ebola deaths was limited to eight. the ward behind me is where the confirmed patients were treated. it's completely empty now. this whole area is pretty much silent. the medical staff and this whole facility are on standby. everybody's hoping and praying that ebola doesn't come back to nigeria. according to this expert who's helped fight several ebola outbreaks, nigerians must not be complacent. >> the sheer size of this country makes it likely that

they're going to get more cases. and the second thing is, a much more average hospital environment will be slower to diagnose this disease, and they will have worse infection control facilities at their disposal. >> reporter: nigeria has a window of opportunity now to get better prepared right across this vast country. another ebola battle might be much harder to win. >> well, i spoke to will ross little earlier. he explained a little more about how the authorities in nigeria have managed to contain ebola. >> the key was the fact that this index patient, the first man to come into nigeria with ebola, came through the airport. so much easier to trace, and he was then into a pretty well-run hospital. so that was the key, isolating him. venn an awful lot of work had to be done. i think that's the part where people are saying, you know, lessons can be learned from nigeria. all those hundreds of people who were traced, and then convinced

by a very dedicated team of health workers, convinced that they're better off complying, they're better off letting these people come and take their temperatures every day so that not only they're safe, but they can also help together prevent the spread of the virus. so it was a coming together of international organizations, and very importantly, different parts of the nigerian security apparatus as well as the state and federal governments. often they're at laggerheads, but on this particular issue, they came together to fight it together. >> what is the country now doing to prepare for any future cases? obviously the more numbers there are in west africa, the more likely is that many countries will see future cases, unfortunately. >> reporter: i've seen teams of health workers go out to try and improve the capability of some of the clinics and the different health centers around the country, so there's that going on. whether it's being done on the

right kind of scale isn't clear. there's also a lot of preparedness going on with social media. but as you say, the issue is if another case comes back, the worry is if it didn't come into a very well-run clinic here in lagos and it was maybe in a more rural part of the country, if the diagnosis wasn't done fast, it could be a very, very different outcome. as we heard in that piece, the experts are saying it's highly likely another case will come, so there is still a lot of work to be done, and people are wondering, for example, in states far away from lagos if there was an ebola case, how would those states respond, because lagos is certainly done very well, but the whole country, is it ready? many question marks still remain. >> will ross there in lagos. now, sweden's search for a foreign vessel seems to be getting all the more mysterious, because russia has denied that it was one of their submarines,

and said the vessel probably belonged to the netherlands, a claim the dutch deny. the swedish navy has been searching an area near stockholm in the baltic sea since friday, because the military said there was some sort of foreign underwater activity. with me is our correspondent richard galpin. it's all very james bond, isn't it, richard? we've got this one photograph of a submarine, which we can't identify ourselves, and there's been already a lot of speculation about who it belongs to. >> absolutely. the one photograph, it's very difficult to tell what kind of vessel it is. but certainly, you know, what the swedish navy has said over the weekend, is it has now three credible sightings of what it says is foreign undersea, underwater activity. and then, as you say, we've now had the russians trying to pin the blame on the dutch, saying oh no, no, no, this is not ours. the dutch government very

quickly came back and said no, it's definitely not one of our submarines. also, there are reports, geeta, coming from a norwegian newspaper which is creating a website, which is generally quite reliable, which tracks a lot of shipping going through the baltic sea. it says a russian ship has set sail now towards this area, and this is a ship which specializes in underwater monitoring and mapping. so that kind of adds to this whole web of intrigue, which is building up about what's been happening. >> if it was russian, why would they be there? >> very difficult to tell. obviously, we had all these denials from the russian government. it's possible it made a mistake. just went off course. otherwise, if they are going there, what we do know is that sweden traditionally has been a nation which has tracked shipping throughout the years of the cold war and up until today, all the shipping coming through

baltic sea. that's very sensitive for russia because they have ports from around the st. petersburg area. their navy moving in and out. so they may want to see, you know, just what the level of monitoring is going on. perhaps it is some kind of espionage operation. we really do not know. it's very much in the realm of speculation. >> if it isn't russian and it isn't dutch, do we have any other idea what the explanation could be? we saw the navy saying this is some sort of unwanted activity. >> they clearly believe that something is going on. there's some kind of vessel activity underwater, which they're not happy about, and certainly at the moment, the speculation is very much that it's russian. >> subs can disappear without being tracked on radar? >> if they have the capability, yes, of course. >> thanks very much indeed. do stay with us here on bbc news. still to come, why residents of the wealthy mainly white suburbs of america's baton rouge are campaigning to cut ties with

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this is "bbc world news." turkey has announced it's helping iraqi kurdish fighters to reinforce kobane, the syrian border town under siege by i.s. militants. and the world health organization has declared nigeria officially free of ebola. a reported 20 cases, including eight deaths. now, the goalkeeper of a premier league football team here in england that suffered a humiliating 8-0 defeat at the weekend says the squad should reimburse fans who traveled to watch the match.

2,500 sunderland fans made the long journey from northeast england to the south coast to see their side thrashed by southampton. let's get more from chris mitchell, in the bbc "sportscenter." this is a rather radical suggestion. it would cost the players a lot, wouldn't it? >> it would cost the players about $40,000 each. it's an 11-hour round trip from sunderland right down to southampton, so vito mannone, the goalkeeper, i hope he's got deep pockets. although these premier league stars, they do get paid very well. so $40,000 perhaps. not a great deal. you can see what he's saying, i will talk to see if it would be possible. so he's not promising anything as yet. so we will see whether he comes good on his promise or not. i think the more surprising thing about this is the fact that southampton are playing so well. third in the premier league now.

they sold half their team during the summer break. sunderland toiling at the bottom, but it was a very embarrassing defeat indeed for them and for their manager gus poyet. >> most embarrassing game. i don't like it. sorry for the fans. we were talking about that relationship. they've had a terrific coming here. the second half, i'm sorry. it's unexplainable. there's no words to explain what i see today. >> gus poyet there clearly embarrassed. he says he can't watch the video of the match again, but he wants his players to watch it before they play arsenal next saturday. they really will have to tighten up. one of the kbrgreat things abou the game was an 18-yard volley

scored by one of sunderland's own players. wigan in 2009, promised to pay back the price of tickets to their 500 fans who watched them lose 9-1 to tottenham. the nba have done this before. the san antonio spurs turned up with a pretty terrible team for a preseason game against the phoenix suns. the phoenix suns owner came on during the match and said i'm going to pay you back. this game is obviously. so we remain to see whether sunderland's goalkeeper vito mannone will be good on his promise to refund the price of the tickets. >> we will see. it's an intriguing idea. i wonder what's going to happen. thanks very much indeed. now, indonesia's joko widodo has been sworn in as president of the world's third largest democracy. he's the first president not to belong to the established military and political elite. the general was fated by a massive street party organized by young volunteers who helped catapult him into power.

>> reporter: thousands of people have come out on to the main boulevard of central jakarta today to see their next president. joko widodo was inaugurated as indonesia's seventh president this monday, and he's actually coming through this crowd right now. you can see how everybody is so eager and keen to get a shot of him. everyone's got their camera phones out. and the crowd is going quite wild, actually. the atmosphere here is pretty amazing. it's not like anything i've ever seen before. people here are really fond of joko widodo. he's seen as a man of the people and that's why the volunteers who organized this event said that they wanted a people's party to greet their new president. but mr. widodo will have some very tough challenges to face when he gets into office. he's inheriting a slowing economy. he's also got to deal with an antagonistic parliament. his party only controls around a

third of the seats in power. but for today, the celebrations are ongoing, and people are experiencing what it feels like to have the man that they chose get into power. officials in nepal say they've recovered the bodies of another ten trekkers who died in last week's blizzards and avalanches. 40 people are now known to have died in the disaster, which struck one of nepal's most popular trekking routes. now, a campaign is under way to create a new city in a place called baton rouge in louisiana in the u.s. it's exposed some of the huge inequalities in america's deep south. a group of mainly white, wealthy suburbs aims to break away from the poor black majority community. the bbc pop-up team spoke to both sides. >> the goal is to create a city here, which would be a sister

city to baton rouge, so we would have our own mayor and have our own city council, and the tax dollars would stay here. >> we put a lot of hours into this. we're in the home stretch now. whenever we reach 25% of the registered voters, we can then bring the issue to vote for people in this area. what they'd like to see is our tax dollars kept local, but more important than that, they want the opportunity to change the public schools in this area. >> after getting married and you start talking about having a family and having kids, these are the kinds of things you start to think about. and living where we do, there's only a few options. you can either send your kids to private school and pay tuition, or you can move. >> i'm not ready to sign yet. we just moved here. >> surrounding the area we live in are great school systems, but unfortunately this isn't one of those.

>> yeah, there's a list of all the schools and the number of kids that would be displaced from each of those kids. i don't know if you know anyone. >> the st. george breakaway would have some very serious racial consequences for the city of baton rouge. issues like resegregating the schools. we just don't think it would be right for the wealthy predominantly white part of the city to break away from the less privileged majority black part. ♪ trying to apologize >> i'm a single father. i've been in this house for 15 years. most of the people who initiated the st. george movement were your upper class, maybe six figure income parents who were putting their kids in private schools. people who would rather walk past you on the street, cross

the street than look at you. you become a part of a city that was structured and organized based on that premise, then what you're going to see is that old moving, that old representation where white water fountain, color water fountain. >> you know, it's unfortunate that the opponents try to pull the race card with this. race unequivocally has nothing to do with this. >> what's the first one? >> we want to stay with baton rouge. do you want to stay with baton rouge? >> we're volunteers in the st. george effort. >> i've already signed a petition for it. >> oh, you did? >> very interesting report. let me know what you think about that. we are all, of course, on twitter. just before we go, just to confirm, we now have a date for the birth of the second child of

britain's prince william and his wife kate. the baby is due to be born in april next year. the duke and duchess announced last month that the couple were expecting their second child. good luck to them. we'll be back very soon.

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