hello, i'm david eades with "bbc world news." our top stories, as the battle for the syrian city of kobane drags on, turkey's prime minister in a defiant bbc interview rejects criticism that his country is not doing enough to fight islamic state militants. >> how can they expect turkey to send turkish ground troops with the same risk on our border? the british hostage john cantlie appears in another video from i.s. which claims to show him in kobane within the last

fortnight. as washington looks to end the controversy over quarantine for health workers from ebola-infected countries, an update for you from the u.n. ebola hub in ghana. also mexico's missing students. police are now following a new lead after the arrest of four members of a drugs gang accused of abducting them. thanks for joining us. the turkish prime minister says he is shocked at western criticism of his country's approach towards the so-called islamic state militants in syria. ahmet davutoglu says it's wrong to expect turkey to send ground troops to fight i.s. in the border city of kobane if western governments aren't prepared to do the same thing.

he's been speaking exclusively to the bbc's chief international correspondent lyse doucet in istanbul. >> retaking kobane, in some area around kobane from isis. then there is military operation. who will be doing this military operation? this is the question, i am really surprised and shocked, expecting turkey to do something should define what turkey should do. if turkish military intervenes kobane, i am sure many of these media or international parties will criticize turkey. the only way to help kobane since other countries don't want to use ground troops is send in some peace-oriented or moderate forces to kobane. what are they?

peshmerga. peshmerga is part of the iraqi army. constitutionally, they are part of the iraqi army. but if other countries, americans, europeans want to send their troops, turkey never said no. >> but they've said repeatedly that they will not send ground troops. >> if they don't want to send grund tro ground troops, how can they expect turkey to send turkish ground troops with the same risk on our border? the question is here, it's easy to say something against another country, but they have to make empathy and they should ask what can we do, and what can we expect from turkey to do? >> could you do more, sir, to stop the flow of jihadis going across your border? because they are going across. >> we never allow any foreign parties to go inside syria. >> which means they escaped. >> you mentioned some

intelligence services. they cannot claim this. there is no evidence that turkey has any link, any support to these type of groups. it is a threat to turkey on our border and turkey declared isis as a terrorist organization last year in october 2013. >> you're obviously angry, mr. prime minister, at washington's new approach, or its continuing approach to syria. what are you asking of washington now? >> if isis leaves, regime should not come. if isis leaves, pkk terrorists should not come. if isis is being eliminated, the massacres should not continue. >> so in other words, to take an example, you not allow american and other air forces to use your

air base unless they're also going to bomb president assad's forces as well as the forces of islamic state? >> let me use a positive perspective. we will help any forces, any coalition through air base or any means, if we have a common understanding to have a new democratic syria and to fight against all crimes against humanity, committed by isis as a terrorist organization, or committed by the regime as a brutal regime. >> mr. prime minister, thank you very much for your time and speaking to bbc. >> lyse doucet talking to ahmet davutoglu. i should say kobane, the subject of much of that discussion, currently it's the focus of a major offensive in the fight against islamic state militants. in just the last few hours, in fact, we've seen a series of large explosions in the city. there's been new footage also

emerging of the british hostage john cantlie, which appears to show him in kobane. in what seems like a scripted speech, which is thought may have been filmed some weeks ago now, he claims i.s. militants are on the verge of capturing the city from kurdish forces. our diplomatic correspondent bridget kendall has more. >> hello. i'm john cantlie. and today we're in the city of kobane, on the syrian-turkish border. >> reporter: he may look like a war reporter, but in fact, he's a hostage, being held by the militants who call themselves islamic state. >> for a month now, the soldiers of islamic state have been besieging this key kurdish city, and defeat continual american air strikes, which so far have cost nearly half a billion dollars in total, they have pushed deep into the heart of the city. >> reporter: the propaganda

message seems clear. the defiant denial that american bombardments of kobane have succeeded in pushing the militants back. but it's what this video seems to tell us about john cantlie himself that's most significant. compare how he looked in previous videos. very much a prisoner, pale-faced, dressed in orange prison garb with little to suggest when and where the filming was done. it's not clear if he knows that his father, who made an appeal to his son's captors from his hospital bed, has recently died. four other western captives, as well as numerous other prisoners, have been brutally beheaded. but this time, not only is john cantlie apparently in kobane, he also mentions two news reports from the 16th and 17th of october, suggesting that this video was filmed within the last ten days.

bridget kendall, bbc news. >> it's certainly intriguing. our world affairs correspondent nick charles is with me. you've been having a sort of study at the video. can we say for certain he's in kobane? >> it's very difficult, david. one of the things one shouldn't be surprised about with i.s. videos is that even the most grim and gruesome of them, we've all said one of the hallmarks of them has been the very high production values and capabilities that are being put into them and this is another one of those, albeit that it is in many other ways even more extraordinary what we actually see. from looking at it very closely, from having been focused on kobane for a long time now, one can say that a lot of the footage does look like kobane. there are some telltale landmarks there. some of the footage does look like it is him in kobane. some of it's far from clear where that is him in kobane. and as i say, given possibly some of the video techniques that are out there, one has to

raise questions. one has to raise questions about some of the things that he talks about, for example saying that there are many, many i.s. fighters basically in control of the town now. well, we don't actually see any large numbers of i.s. fighters in the video. >> he delivers it in the style of almost every other foreign correspondent, war correspondent and doing that sort of a job. >> well, that's one of the extraordinary things. is that in many ways, he in the video and the video itself mimics the style of the western media, and yet one of the messages in the video mocks western media coverage and is saying basically what has been reported is untrue, that somehow i.s. is on the back foot because of u.s. air strikes and because of the defenders of kobane, the kurdish defenders. and he is saying that essentially what the i.s. fighters are doing is mopping up and they will soon be in

control. one has to say that even people like the pentagon are saying it is very much still in the balance. it's tenuous, the situation in kobane. but i think the fact that we've been focused so much on kobane, the fact that this video has come out now underlines symbolically for both sides the battle for kobane is a very significant one in terms of the propaganda battle apart from anything else. >> absolutely. we've seen more pictures of that, to that very effect today, with further air strikes. the americans putting a huge amount of effort into kobane. one small part of a much bigger conflict, of course. >> quite. and in some ways, there are arguments saying in some ways kobane isn't a real strategic target in the way that some other places are. for example, in iraq, in anbar province, where there is clearly a dramatic and very important fight going on there, the focus in some ways absolutely is on kobane because of the symbolism,

because of the fact that there is the access of the world media, at least across the border to it. the pentagon says that a lot of their activity has clearly been because islamic fighters are presenting more targets because they're pouring more resources into it. at the same time, i don't think there's any doubt that for washington, who say that we can't do it by air strikes alone, we need people, other boots on the ground, north american boots on the ground, that they have a determined defense force in kobane of kurdish fighters and that they need to be shown at least to be providing them as much support as possible. whatever the actual give and take on the battlefield really is. >> yeah. and there won't be any turkish in the near future, we know that from today. nick, thank you very much indeed. nick charles there. let's move on to another scourge at the moment, ebola. the united states has issued updated guidelines in the face of growing confusion over ebola

risks for those health workers coming back from west africa. the u.s. centers for disease control is recommending that workers returning from there are monitored for 21 days instead of being put into quarantine. only those at high risk, so anyone who's actually had direct contact with an ebola patient's body fluids, only those people are advised to enter voluntary isolation at home. this comes on the back of the case of this nurse, kaci hickox. she threatened legal action after she was quarantined in new jersey when she got back from sierra leone. she's now being allowed to continue her isolation at home. the outbreak of ebola has claimed the lives -- that's the toll so far. 4,922 deaths. all but 27 cases across -- something like 10,000 cases have occurred in gunninea, sierra leone, and liberia. anne soy told me more about the

latest infection rate figures. >> reporter: well, the 10,000 figure that we are receiving is really as good as the data can be collected on the ground by the ministries of health, and as we all know, the situation on the ground is dire in the three worst affected countries, liberia, sierra leone, and guinea. and they need all the health care workers they have now to tackle the deceased. but they also need those people. those who have actually been counted and recorded, but their fear is they could be even more than two times more than reported. >> and is that built around the numbers of people who are perhaps still being kept hidden away in their homes, and there's no real opportunity to get everyone out? >> yes, of course there are people who are being kept away at home. we have seen cases of patients being turned away from treatment facilities, and patients then die at home.

they have no way of knowing exactly who has died. and we have also had reports of people being thrown into the river so that they're not taken away by burial teams, for safe burial, families feel that's not the way their people should be buried. the figures may well be higher than reported. >> anne soy there in ghana. let's get to aaron with the business news. the jobs are tumbling. >> further cuts with this british bank. the uk's lloyd's banking group has announced it's cutting over 9,000 jobs and closing over 100 branches. all of this taking place over the next three years. the group has also said it's setting aside another 900 million pounds. what's that in dollars? it's just under $1.5 billion and that's set aside for the payment protection insurance payout. earlier this year, lloyd's spunoff has a separate business, that was done to appease the

european union competition authorities. the group also said it would invest just over $1.5 billion in digital technology. why? i'll tell you why. because more and more customers are switching to banking on the go. those mobile devices. okay, it's also a very busy week for some of the social media giants in particular. this one, facebook. also twitter. facebook is going to tell us its latest numbers. today, tuesday. the stock for this has jumped, what, 30% in the past six months, and investors are certainly hoping that that momentum continues. twitter's earnings, you may have seen them. they came out, the numbers came out on yesterday, on monday after the close of that bell. they increased the number of monthly users and doubled its revenue for the quarter. while the results beat expectations, it wasn't enough to please investors. they are focused on the future and that's where twitter basically disappointed. it's already warning of slower sales in business growth for the next three months of the year.

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you're watching "bbc world news" with me, david eades. the latest headlines, turkey's prime minister tells the bbc his country should not be expected to send troops to syria if other countries don't do the same. the latest hostage video from so-called islamic state features john cantlie claiming he's in the contested city of kobane. mexican authorities searching for a group of missing

college students have found human remains in a new area of southern guerrero state. they're being tested to see if they do belong to the young men who were last seen in police custody a month ago. investigators found the mass grave based on statements provided by four people who were arrested on monday. with me is the bbc's mundo reporter. let's start with those four arrested on monday. what do we know about them and why were they picked up? >> they were gang members. authorities say they took part of the abduction of these students disappeared on the 26th of september, and they were the ones who told them about these new mass graves. as we remember, there was another mass grave near iguala where the students were abducted, and the remains there were not from the students, were from another violent crime. and these ones, we don't know if they're going to really have the students there or not. the families are, of course,

waiting for any news. the mass media has not been able to get there. it's a lot of anxiety from the parents. >> you can't imagine, can you? i suppose one of the problems, they can point to a mass grave, but this is a country with these appalling breakouts of violence, and presumably riven with mass graves. >> this has been known for a long time. but with this case of the 43 students disappeared, it's been really pushing the government to do something. and to finding and to do something about this these mass graves. so the families say that they're still believing that they are alive. but there is loads of stories going around. and there is lots of demonstrations going around because people are fed up with the investigations. they don't believe the government. they don't believe the things

that they've been told. so we just have to wait and see what happens. but it's clear that this case is pushing the government to actually do something. >> it's a real touch stone one. do you get a sense the government is taking that onboard now? >> oh, yes. they've been taking lots of measures. even the governor of the state had to step down, and there's a new governor there. the president took actually quite a long time to talk about this disappearance, and then the pressure came and he had to say well, you know, we have to do something. we're really concerned. and the indignation of what happened to these students. so we don't know where they are. we don't know if they're dead. it might be another mass grave. there's so much gang violence. we have to remember guerrero is one of the most violent states in mexico. >> a long way from completion and resolution of this particular problem. thanks a lot.

let's catch up on some other news as well. authorities in china say whistleblowers who exposed corruption are going to be protected now from legal reprisals. for the first time, it's laid out rights for those exposing malpractice. president xi jinping has made fighting corruption one of the central themes of his administration. the malaysian opposition leader has appeared in court to appeal against the sodomy conviction. mr. anwar says the charge is trumped up by his political enemies. the sentence carries a five-year jail term. a final decision from the court is expected on thursday. ethiopia's government has been accused of torturing and killing thousands of people from the country's largest ethnic group. a report by amnesty international says as many as 5,000 have been imprisoned without charge, while others have disappeared or been killed.

it's something affecting all girls and women, but it's often a source of shame in the developing world. it's menstruation. millions of women in africa and asia don't have access to clean and safe sanitary products. as part of our 100 women season, we've been investigating this problem in india, where one in five girls drops out of school once they reach puberty. >> reporter: a remote mountain village, they're going to school through a long, difficult trek through forests. but this 15-year-old has never missed school, except last year, when she got her period for the first time. an experience so traumatic that she almost gave up her studies. >> translator: i face a lot of problems in managing it. i'm always tense. ashamed. i feel dirty. i cannot go to school. i cannot concentrate.

i'm always worried others will notice. that there will be a leakage. >> reporter: but she was able to buy some of the cheap sanitary towels that women in this fakry a -- factory are making from recycled cloth. she can stay at school, but 300 million women in india drop out. the lack of access to cheap and safe sanitary products also has a detrimental effect on women's hygiene, health, and well-being. >> it is certainly not a women issue, it's a human issue. but we've isolated it. we just have to talk about it. some of us need to come out of this shame. we need to break it. >> reporter: it's not easy to talk about menstruation. it's a sensitive issue. no matter what part of the world you live in. but here, in india, a few groups

are running campaigns to educate women. this woman has a 9-year-old girl and wants to end the stigma for her. >> translator: i never liked how my mother was treated during her period. i feel the same, like many other women. i'm treated almost like an untouchable. i can't enter the kitchen. can't enter the temple. can't sit with others. i have decided i will not let this happen to my daughter. and that's why people have started calling me shameless. >> reporter: it's not going to change very soon, but here in a part of india, women seem to be taking charge of their own lives. many of them are no longer stuck at home during their periods. they can choose to go out, continue their work, their studies, and most importantly, they don't seem to be embarrassed to talk about it

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♪ oh, happy birthday. applebee's. where fans know best. hello. i'm david eades with "bbc world news." our top stories. as the battle for kobane drags on, turkey's prime minister in a defiant bbc interview rejects counterterrorism that his country is not doing enough to fight islamic state militants. >> if they don't want to send ground troops, how can they expect turkey to send turkish ground troops with the same risks on our border? >> the british hostage john cantlie appears in another video from so-called islamic state,

which claims to show him in the city of kobane. washington looks to end the controversy over quarantine for health workers from ebola infected countries. we have a special report for you onon the impact of the disease in liberia. thanks for joining us. the turkish prime minister says he is shocked at western criticism of his country's approach towards islamic state militants in syria. ahmet davutoglu says it's wrong to expect turkey to send ground troops to fight i.s. in the border city of kobane. if western governments aren't prepared to do the same. he's been speaking exclusively to the bbc's chief international correspondent lyse doucet in istanbul.

>> to be frank, it is not enough, but saving kobane has been the main slogan, the main message for the last two months. we have to define what means saving kobane. if saving kobane means saving civilians, the overwhelming majority already came to turkey and they are in safe conditions. if saving kobane is resaving kobane, who will be doing this military operation? this is the question. i am really surprised and shocked when some international media are accusing, or expecting turkey to do something. should define what turkey should do. if turkish military intervenes kobane, i am sure many of these

media or international parties will criticize turkey. the only way to help kobane, since other countries don't want to use ground troops, is sending some peace-oriented or moderate forces to kobane. what are they? peshmerga. peshmerga is part of the iraqi army, constitutionally they are part of the iraqi army, and preceding army. they are ready to go, we said yes. if americans and europeans want to send their troops, they said no. >> but they have said repeatedly that they will not send troops. >> okay, if they don't want to send ground troops, how can they expect turkey to send turkish ground troops with the same risks on our border? so the question is here. it is easy to accuse, or it's easy to say something against another country. but they have to make empathy

and they should ask what can we do? and what can we expect from turkey to do? nobody can accuse turkey or blame turkey because of the situation in kobane. >> but as you know, they are accusing turkey. they're accusing you of having too close ties to the so-called islamic state fighters. even jordanian and egyptian intelligence officials have been quoted as saying turkey is providing intelligence, logistics support to the islamic state, training here in turkey. >> first of all, let us -- >> you deny all. >> of course, 100%. >> did you train islamic state when they were part of other groups? >> no, no, no. >> could you do more, sir, to stop the flow of jihadi where is you cross your border? because they are going across. >> we never allow any foreign fighters to go inside syria. >> reporter: which means they escaped across your security forces. >> you mentioned some intelligence services. they cannot claim this.

there is no evidence that turkey has any link, any cooperation, any support to this type of cross. on border and turkey declared isis as a terrorist organization last year in october 2013. when these countries didn't do so for many months and they are not fighting against them. turkey is fighting. only turkey has bombarded isis troops in december 2013 and several hundreds of them are accused when they approached the turkish border. >> the evidence is, sir, that the jihadis, the foreign fighters, even turkish fighters have crossed your border to go and fight on the side of the so-called islamic state state. >> turkish fighters on the ground, which went there illegally, is much less than british fighters. much less. >> britain is saying that turkey should do more to stop the flow. can you do more?

>> i spoke with my colleagues two years ago on how to prevent these foreign fighters to go in. and i asked them to stop these people to leave their countries like britain, not to come to turkey. they said we are a democratic country. i told them then, please, you ask the names so that we can prevent them to come in to turkey. they said, we cannot give names without commit a crime. i said, how can you expect turkey to stop them when turkey receives 35 million tourists every year. we cannot make such a check. so fighting against this is a combined effort of all the concerned parties. nobody can expect from us to stop tourism or coming inside turkey and check them, whether their names are muslim names, so we have to check. >> you also talked about the refugee situation.

lebanon has said it will not accept any more refugees except the most urgent cases. is turkey thinking of doing the same? >> thank you very much for this question. nobody is looking at refugee crisis. it's a humanitarian crisis. we now have around 1.6 million. and yesterday, i was in a town which is not border town, there are 56,000 syrians living there. not only in camps, but in the cities. so now, it is in some cities, the syrians are outnumbered than those who are living there as turkish citizens. we have been taking a huge responsibility and a huge risk receiving syrian refugees, and we spent 4.5 billion until now and it is increasing every day. and nobody is helping us. i have to be very clear.

altogether, around 200 million. very minimal. and i understand the lebanese situation because it is affecting lebanese social, political demography. >> would you shut your border? >> no. turkish relations has always said, when kurds were massacred, we opened our border. when bosnians were massacred, we opened our border. when turks were massacred, we opened our border. so our border -- this has been opened for all people, victims, and this is against our tradition to close our door. >> that was ahmet davutoglu talking to lyse doucet. as he defends his country's strategy towards islamic state militants, the group itself carries on releasing propaganda

video. the latest one showing the british hostage john cantlie walking through what appears to be the syrian city of kobane, and in what feels very much like a scripted speech, he says i.s. militants are about to capture the town from kurdish forces. it's thought this may have been filmed possibly several weeks ago. bridget kendall has more. >> hello, i'm john cantlie, and today we're in the city of kobane on the syrian-turkish border. >> reporter: he may look like a war reporter, but in fact, he's a hostage, being held by the militants who call themselves islamic state. >> for a month now, the soldiers of islamic state have been besieging this key kurdish city. and despite continual american air strikes, which so far have cost nearly half a billion dollars in total, they have pushed deep into the heart of the city. >> reporter: the propaganda

message seems clear. the defiant denial that american bombardments of kobane have succeeded in pushing the militants back. but it's what this video seems to tell us about john cantlie himself that's most significant. compare how he looked in previous videos. very much a prisoner. pale-faced, dressed in orange prison garb, with little to suggest when and where the filming was done. it's not clear if he knows that his father, who made an appeal to his son's captors from his hospital bed, has recently died. four other western captives, as well as numerous others held by these ruthless militants, have been brutally beheaded. but this time, not only is john cantlie apparently in kobane, he also mentions two news reports from the 16th and 17th of october, suggesting that this video was filmed within the last

ten days. >> the cantlie video. let's get over to kobane itself, because our reporter is right on the turkey-syrian border on a hillside overlooking a town. it's right over there. just tell us a little bit about what's been going on in the last two to three hours because it's been pretty explosive, hasn't it? >> reporter: yes, it has been. the fight has been continuing since morning, escalating. we arrived here almost 45 minutes ago. there was a massive explosion, air strikes, most likely by american fighter jets. we can hear also the gunfire from different sides of the city. but it seems to me the fight intensifies in the western part of the city, which is right behind me. >> is there any way of telling who is -- i say winning or losing. i mean, which way -- the sort of tug of war over kobane is going

at the moment? >> reporter: well, today is the 44 days of the siege of kobane. i talked to one of the commanders inside kobane just a few minutes ago. he told me -- he acknowledged that 40% of the city is in control of the i.s. militants and he said the fight is continued. also he talked about the video of john cantlie. he said that video was shot in the outskirts of the city, not in the center of the city. it's a former french prison left after the first world war, and it was a police station. so it wasn't in the center of the city. so what we are hearing, the fighting continues and we are also hearing peshmerga, the kurdish security forces from iraqi kurdistan most likely today will arrive in turkey on the border. >> just behind you now, a tractor winding its way back and forth across the fields.

almost as if nothing is happening around it. of course, there's this extraordinary identifying for kobane itself. it is a bizarre setting that you can be so close and effectively spectators on this. >> reporter: yes, it is. as a matter of fact, there are many villages just very close to the border. a railway divides turkish border with syrian border. that's why most of the people in this area are kurdish, as you see the tractor behind me. the villagers are working on their fields. i think this has been going on for 44 days, and many people, they just simply can't put everything off. they go back to their villages. at the beginning, they were scared. many people left their houses. those villages were very close to the border. but seems to me most of them have returned and continued their daily lives. >> well, thanks very much indeed. no obvious sign that that fight is over, one way or the other in

kobane. but that's the latest for you. do stay with us if you can here on "bbc world news." coming up in just a moment, the art lover who claims he was short-changed by some degree, i should say, when he sold a painting. he had been told it was just a copy.

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you're watching "bbc world news," with me, david eades. the latest headlines. turkey's prime minister tells the bbc his country should not be expected to send troops to syria if other western countries don't do the same. the latest hostage video from the so-called islamic state shows the british captive john cantlie claiming he is in the contested city of kobane. the united states has issued updated guidelines in the face of growing confusion over ebola

risks for health workers coming back from west africa. the u.s. centers for disease control recommends that workers returning from west africa are monitored for 21 days rather than being put into quarantine and only those at high risk, so anyone effectively who's had direct contact with an ebola patient, only they are advised to enter voluntary isolation at home. this comes after the case of the nurse kaci hickox, who's threatened legal action after she was quarantined on her return from "csn game day." she's now continuing her isolation at home. the ebola outbreak itself has claimed the lives of 4,922 people, that's the number actually known at least. of course, the vast majority in the west african nations of guinea, sierra leone, and liberia. over the next few days and weeks, we'll be hearing from a nurse who works in freetown.

she's based at the country's main referral hospital, a holding center for a lot of suspected ebola cases. it's where people go if they think they might have the virus. in her first video diary for the bbc, she explains her role. >> i am a medical doctor from the uk working in sierra leone. aye been in the country for three weeks now. i've previously worked in sierra leone before and i'm watching this outbreak unfold from the uk, which is why i wanted to return to see what i would do to help the situation. i'm working as a physician at the isolation unit. and i'm also working here as a technical adviser for the western area command center, which coordinates between all the available treatment units in the western area. the last three weeks have been

intense. they've been challenging. and they've been exhausting. conditions on the ground have been quite shocking. we are overwhelmed with cases. the level of human suffering -- but we're all doing our best. extreme and challenging circumstances. this outbreak has now escalated to a complex humanitarian crisis. there are challenges ahead and i look forward to keeping you updated as i take you on my journey. >> much more from her over the course of the weeks ahead. now, malaysia's top court has begun hearing a final appeal by the opposition leader anwar ibrahim against a conviction for sodomy. mr. anwar was sentenced to five years in prison on charges of having sex with a male aide.

he says the case stopped him taking part in politics. jennifer pack sent us this report. >> mr. anwar's supporters are taking refuge from this heat under the trees and they're also selling t-shirts. can i just see what this is? thank you. they're selling this one that says rakya hakim negara, which means the people will be the judge in this country. there's certainly a sense in this country that mr. anwar is not getting a fair trial and feels a lot more like a political crime than a sex crime. sodomy is illegal here in this muslim majority country, but very few people are actually ever prosecuted. his lawyers will be arguing that the evidence linking mr. anwar to his accuser has been tampered

with. and more importantly, it's part of a smear campaign brought on by his political opponents. of course, the government has come out to deny this, saying that mr. anwar has a free and fair trial, and it's a case between him and his former employee. a lot have come out from other states to support him and they've been blocked by the police from going to the front of the courthouse to rally. also taking precaution by bringing riot gear. here's what's at stake. if mr. anwar is not successful in his appeal, it will mean he will go back to jail. more importantly, he will not be able to stand for election in the next general vote, which is due in 2018. mr. anwar is widely believed to be the only person who can challenge the dominance of the

governing coalition. that's why supporters here are very concerned and need to show their support for their leader. a painting sold here in l london for $83,000, now has claims that it could be the work of caravaggio with an actual worth of $20 million. it's this painting. the original seller was told it was just a copy. sold it at the knockdown price. he's not too happy about that and he's taking the auction house to court, as tim ullmann reports. >> reporter: is this a lost work by the italian master of the baroque caravaggio, or is it just a copy? that's a question being asked in the high court. it's called the card shot and was bought in 1962 for a little more than $200. eight years ago, its own er

brought it to sotheby's. they said it was just a copy. now its latest owner says it's worth millions. he isn't happy and is taking sotheby's to court. >> the question whether or whether or not it is a caravaggio is not the only question. the main one is whether they should have done more homework on the picture. >> reporter: they said they did exactly that. their qc says the painting is not an autographed work by caravaggio. it is an anonymous copy and was accurately cataloged as such. he added, sotheby's cannot be legally responsible for not obtaining a price which a buyer would have been duped into paying. some of the world's leading experts on caravaggio will have their say as to whether this is the real thing or not. tim ullmann, bbc news. kenya's schoolgirls are

fighting back against sexual violence. they're doing it by learning how to box. as part of the bbc's "100 women" series, we meet 14-year-old emily, who describes the challenges facing young women in the capital nairobi. that includes the threat of rape, and also how self-defense classes could help her and 200 others. >> i am a 14-year-old girl. i live in nairobi. it's our home. i wake up at 6:00. from 7:00, i prepare myself and come here and we start our exercise. we go to warm-up. about two minutes. after we walked around, we start

our exercise. my fellow girls, my community, this is my area. in our area, there's many challenges that face girls, like girls are being raped, especially girls are being abused. used the way they don't like. while others are killed, others are kidnapped and others are being attacked. i don't get tired. it's something that i like. it's something that i feel good when i'm doing. there are many skills, like there is jab.

uppercut. when someone wants to do a jab, you can do it without someone hitting you. my competitor is michelle. i love michelle because she helps me. we used to go for many competitions. it's enabled me to be the champion in any game. she's my competitor and also my good friend. to me, boxing is fun for me, but my other fellow girls will be able to take action so it can help them, at least to get the skills. so that they can be able to defend themselves. >> that's emily packing quite a punch there, part of our "100 women series: half the world

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