hello. i'm geeta guru-murthy with bbc world news. our top stories. inside the devastated city of aleppo where syrian troops are encircling the last rebel held areas. >> this is one of the most dangerous areas top. go down this pathway, we have to run. >> the space probe has successfully detached from the mother ship and descending on a comet half a billion kilometers from earth. five banks are fined.

$1.75 a billion by britain for failing the foreign exchange market as investigations continue. a public argument in america about who killed osama bin laden years after his death. hello. welcome. for the last few months, news from syria has been dominated by the fight against the group calling itself islamic state. four years it's left large parts of the country in ruins. more than 200,000 are estimate d to have been killed by the syrian army or groups.

6 million have been displaced inside syria. another 3.2 million refugees are registered. the real number could be higher. the chief has call add syria the great tragedy of this century. next two days we're bringing special reports from syria. we begin with this. >> a are heleppaleppo, one of t wars. large areas of this city are thousand firmly in government hands. the east is held by the rebels. it's ancient escape quarter, a world heritage site, is a battleground. the syrian army took us through narrow allies. snipers from both sides lay in wait. >> we were told this is one of the most dangerous areas.

to go down this pathway, we have to run. the army is gaining ground against rebels fighting as much amongst themselves as against the regime. in the northeast, the industrial zone, what's left of it, was taken back in recent months. aleppo is serious industrial heart land. they want their city back. >> we asked the government to really finish their existence as quickly as possible. >> by any mean others possible? there's great concern in syria and abroad about the use of barrel bombs. >> the barrel bombs -- true unfortunately some civilian casualties, but they target militia presence, isis, target

al qaeda, all these terrorists on presence. >> reporter: many are now predicting those areas held by the rebels could soon fall to president a assad's forces. his troops are besieging those areas using the same tactic, surrender or starve. it's been used time and again in this war. for 300,000 civilians trapped inside, that means more suffering. that's the story of syria's war. every major battle is also a grave humanitarian crisis. hundreds of thousands have already fled to safer areas of aleppo. at university, student halls are in the neighborhood for dispossessed. she does her best to lift children's spirits. she's been living here past two years. a young teacher trapped in the darkest of times and smallest of

homes. >> i have everything here to make my family live. i can't. i am tired. i miss my home back again. i want to work in the street like other day before. i can't now. everything is bad. >> reporter: so many here have lost so much. now rebel fighters backed by the west are on the brink of losing the battle for aleppo. if this iconic city falls, it will change the end game. turkey hosts some syrian political opposition groups like the syrian council, main

political position in exile. ours stan bull correspondent went to visit control of the air ways. >> they might tune in to this opposition supporting radio station broadcasting fromss --s stan bull. they don't want us to show their faces. this station broadcast syria and also online. there and for syrian refugees in turkey. they're preparing their 1:00 news program about to go on air.

>> they tell those in opposition areas about area air strikes from the regime. it's a valuable tool in the war says the manager. >> we have some people that provide pus with information like helicopter going maybe to that neighborhood. we are now working on an air system to alert the people that this area maybe targeted from regime. by supporting people on the ground, they have shelters. tell the people go to those shelters. we have to provide people of syria the accurate information, accurate premiums. the regime is telling all the time lies and lies. the regime media telling people a different story of why there is war in syria. we have to fight the regime in

our way. people on the ground fighting for regime with weapons. now we are if in media fighting the regime. >> do you think you can win the information war against the regime? >> now we have hard and difficult situation outside syria especially funding. if we have more funding, yes we can win. the thing that we have is truth. that will win. >> that report there from part of our special coverage. much more of course on the website and throughout the day on syria. in other news today, two more women have died in india following botched sterilization surgery bringing the number of death to 13. the women started complaining of pain and fever. the authorities in the city have

ordered some sort of investigation there. we're just hearing about another possible botched sterilization set of operations in another part of the country. we'll bring you more on that as soon as we can. palestinian officials say settlers set fire to a mosque in the village. the reports say the first floor of the mosque was set to light. it caused extensive damage to the building. it's confirmed a man has died from ebola after coming from guinea. a 2-year-old girl also came from guinea. president obama has hailed what he's called a historic accord to china to cut green house gas emissions by both countries. mr. obama set a goal of reducing

green house emissions by 25% by 2025. bbc reports from beijing. >> this is where the set pieces of chinese happen like the congress. it's five years since president obama was last here. the leader of the world's existing super power meeting the head of the rising power. the u.s. china relationship has never been close. it's hardly surprising they have such different histories and different world views. president obama said again today that the u.s. wants china to do well. climate change is something they can agree on. >> we have a special responsibility to lead the global efforts against climate change. that's why today i am proud we

can announce a historic agreement. i commend president xi, his team and chinese government commitment they're making to slow, reverse the course of china's carbon emissions. >> reporter: on issues like trade, regional security or democracy for hong kong, it's harder to see eye to eye. in president xi, chie hah thna president setting up rival executions where he feels the existing ones are though the working in china's favor. >> the visitor is the em battled leader of a democracy. the host has eight years ahead, no elections to fight. yes presidency has problems at home, but one way of rallying support is look strong in the

world. that's what we've seen this week. a car bomb has exploded on a busy road. there are conflicting reports over casualties. some eyens with e e es -- some eyewitnesses say several are killed. we'll bring you that as soon as it comes in. we're getting a number of reports. difficult situation there of course ongoing. we're going to move on now to one piece of good news we think so far. the european space agency has confirmed the rosetta spacecra landed on the probe. the decent is described as one of the most ambitious detected in the exploration.

we are at the headquarters in germany. rebecca, explain how incredibly difficult this landing is that it's been released. we're waiting a few hours to see if it hits the comet in the right place. >> everything about this is difficult. even the fact it was released and confirmation it managed to get off the mother ship rosetta was good news. this has been strapped onto the side of that for ten years on the 6.5 billion kilometer journey through the solar system. we has news the rosetta spacecraft are back in contact again. that's really important. it means the scientists can now monitor exactly what's going on during this seven hour decent.

it's not going to be an easy ride. it's going to be blasted with ice, dust. touching down will be more difficult. i'm joined by a professor from the open university. you've got one of your instruments on board. it must be good news to know the land is back in touch with the spacecraft. >> it's fantastic. this morning when we were like go, it was an air punching moment. we got back in contact. absolutely wonderful. now we've only got a few more hazards to overcome before we get more data. it will land and we hope it comes out and grips onto this. seven minutes after its landed our instrument starts to get some datdata. >> tell me what will it be finding out? we've never done this before,

looked at, tasted, sniffed the dust on the comet. >> no space industry has done this before. what it's going to do is sniff the comet. it's going to start by seeing what gases are coming from the gases. it will test the water, test the dust to see carbon there. all this is to see how the water and organics in the comet relate to the earth. have we all come from comets? have we all got comet water flowing through our veins. >> the landing will be incredibly difficult. the decent and touching down onto the surface. how tricky is it going to be? >> the whole thing is tricky.

the center is two and a half miles wide. it's got legs with hooks to grapple onto it. we don't know. it's really worrying. we've got a bit longer to wait and we'll see. >> what are the chances of this actually working. you're a gambling woman? >> i'm not apart of the lottery ticket i buy every week of course. i would say this is going to be successful. of course it is. we've got the best scientists and engineers who calculated everything trajectories all known. they work with gravity and all that sort of stuff.

so yeah the mission has already been a success. we know more about comets than we ever have in the past. the icing on the cake will give us really, really exciting stuff. of course it's going to be successful. of course it will. it's european. it couldn't be otherwise. >> wonderful. thank you very much professor. few more hours to go to find out whether this actually worked or not. everyone is keeping their fingers crossed for a successful and safe landing. we'll follow it live from rosetta hq. >> thank you very much indeed. we'll be watching. if you want to get closer to the ambitious mission, how about trying this game on the bbc website. it challenges you to put the lander in the right spot on a spinning comet. it's an interactive game. are they going to land? no. that's how badly i did.

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it's the latest in the series of scandals. the five banks affected are are hsbc, royal bank of scotland, swiss bank ubs, plus jp morgan and citibank all paying fines. $3.8 billion paid by uk regulators for failing to control business practices in that a 4x market. what does it mean? aaron? >> they've been naughty again haven't they? another scandal. i have to stress that this foreign exchange is absolutely massive, very important.

$5.3 trillion everyday goes through. this dwarves the stock markets, bond markets. it's very important. the rate set on exchanges is very important because it's used for thousands of financial pruks that -- financial products you and i use, consumers use. very important. >> unusual to see five banks named in one? >> yes absolutely unusual. that's an interesting point. not unusual to see the uk and u.s. regulate. we've seen it before. typically they've done one institution at a time. the banks have done well i think. all five being announced are all sort of puting it together in this pot. here's an example. remember the libor scandal. barclays was the first to be fined in 2012. its share price took a hit that day.

senior manager ousted. six months later, ubs was fine, $1.2 billion. its share price didn't budge. it's like we've heard it out there. none of these bank wanted to be the first. they've done well in that. there are question about the investigation. >> okay. quickly, in terms of the criminal investigation ongoing -- >> early stages ongoing. the sfo could look at charges from conspiracy, bribery, corruption. we'll wait and see if anybody goes to jail on this. don't hold your breath. >> thanks very much indeed. thank you. now a former member of an elite u.s. special operations force has come forward to say he fired the shot that killed the osama bin laden. he's condemned by military leaders saying his interview with the tv network could put

soldiers on the ground at risk. >> tonight i can report to the american people and to the world a that the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden, the leader of al qaeda. >> the announcement brought with it a sense of closure. in the years that followed the daring raid on osama bin laden's pakistani compound has been clouded by conflicted accounts of who pulled the trigger. now a former member of navy seals team six o neil has broken cover unheard of in america's elite special forces ditching the conventional code of silence in an interview on the fox news channel to declare he fired the shot that killed the world's most wanted man. >> standing on two feet in front of me with his hands on his wife was the face i had seen thousands of times. my first thought was we got him.

we just ended the the war. >> now a motivational speaker, robert's account of how he shot osama bin laden twice differs of that from another member who published a book about the raid under a pen name. >> the more we trained on it, the more we realized this is going to be a one way mission. we're going to go and not come back. we're going to die when the house blows up, or be there too long and get arrested by pakistanis and spend the rest of our short lives in the prison. >> what did the cia analyst tell you? >> if you want to kill him, he's on the third floor. >> were you 100%? >> i believed here. >> the decision to go public irritated colleagues and infuriated former bosses.

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our top stories. on the front lines in syria's war, we meet one of the medical volunteers risking their lives to help the victims of the conflict. banks accept more than $3 billion of fines after being investigated for rigging the foreign exchange markets. we'll talk live to the world

bank senior director of health about global effect of west africa's ebola outbreak. hello and welcome. for the last few months, news from syria has been dominated by the fight against the group calling itself islamic state. sometimes forgotten is the other part of syria's war. four years on it's left large part of the country in ruins. 200,000 are said to be killed by the army or opposition groups. staggering 7.6 million have been displaced inside syria according to the u.n. and another 2.3 million refugees are -- 3.2 million refugees are registered.

it could be higher. it's called a great t tragedy of the century. bbc is bringing together reports. we start in damascus where our jeremy burns has been talking to emergency responders risking their lives to help the wounded. here's a story. >> i'm a japanese teacher. i work as a teacher in my college in japanese department. that's where i do in my free time. i'm here as a volunteer. >> how long have you been doing this? >> two years. >> what got you into it? >> everyone here feel that they have to do something in this conflict. so each one choose a way. i chose this way. >> let's talk a bit about the experiences. sometimes you go to dangerous places, right? >> yeah. when explosion happens and we are there, you can't predict how

much danger it is. you just go there. of course me and all of us many times just put our lives in jeopardy. >> when you're doing that, do you feel scared? >> we are not like robots. when really dangerous, you are scared. you have the choice either to do it or step back and run away. >> you always do it? >> yes. that's why we are here. you put the other lives before yours. >> tell me what goes through your mind and heart when you get the alert there's been an explosion or morter attack? >> if it's really dangerous where i'm going, the first thing i think about is my family. would they be okay if i get hurt or something. will i really get hurt or not?

this is when i think about my personal life. the first thing you think about is can you really help now if people are really injured and needs you. can you do something for them, be useful to them? >> tell me what you do when you arrive at a scene where there's two or three or more badly wounded people. how do you decide who to help? >> first of all, people there get really crazy. you have to calm them down. everyone is shouting even people on the ground. you have to be the strongest one there. you have to look at the image from the outside. if you have to be an outsider, you have to decide what's more dangerous, more serious injury.

you go to the most that needs you. >> when you first went to a place where there had been an attack and saw people terribly injured with blood, awful sights, what was it like? >> most horrible thing i've ever been through. you see this on tv but never really face it on daily life even if you are here. you don't have to face it always. when you face it for the first time, you just know how strong you are inside. >> extraordinary story there. the crisis in syria has created millions of refugees, many of whom had to seek shelter in neighboring countries. yolande is in the refugee camp. huge pressure for refugees and host countries here. >> reporter: that's right.

this camp is right out in the eastern area of jordan, in the desert, 15 kilometers from the nearest town. we were told it could how has as a many as 130,000 syrian refugees living in white cabins you can see behind me. there's also facilities provided as well. schools, hospitals, a mosque, even a super market. at the moment, there are 12,000 syrian refugees living here. in jordan, most are living in towns and cities. i've been meeting some in the jordan capital. this is where syrians officially become refugees. everyday the u.n. registration center processes about 3,000 people. it's absolutely packed.

>> here you get a sense of the scale of the refugee crisis that's facing jordan. in three and a half years, more than 600,000 syrians have arrived. most of them waiting today have been here for a while. now they've run out of money or have other problems. they're desperate and have come here seeking help. >> with in end in sight in syria's civil war, refugees look for a way to protect their papers. they may need these and international support for years. jordan has tried to house syrian refugees in vast can desert camps. this opened in april. we met members of the family on their first day. the fighting had driven them from their comfortable homes in damascus. they felt overwhelmed.

>> we're lost, added his wife. six months on and they have moved. they have neighboring apartments. the men get shifts at a factory. they struggle to pay the monthly rent. it's difficult, the women tell me. even my son who's 14 is working because we need the money. he doesn't go to school, she says. each afternoon it's just the youngest children who head to classes. there's little space. the syrians can only line up for their lessons when jordanians have finished theirs. they sing the national anthem. as refugees learn to adapt, there are huge challenges for jordan. it's overcrowded and public services are under strain. now authorities make it harder

for more syrians to come. for those stuck here, there's nowhere else to go. >> reporter: in the past few hour, i've been speaking to refugees here at the camp. they come from all across syria from some of the city's worst affected by the war. aleppo, also some who have fled more recently from raqqa fleeing advance of islamic state militants. everyone you speak to is desperately worried about the future. one of the big concerns at the moment is winter is coming on. it's very hot in the daytime. at night, temperatures go below freezing. already there's heavy rainfall. what we're seeing in some of the cabins, aid agencies starting to put cement down on the floor giving out handouts of blankets and warm winter clothes the for people. >> can you just describe what people do in the ordinary day. you can't imagine having to

spend so much time in small cabins. people must be fearful to have so little. >> reporter: well, first of all extended families have been put into neighboring cabins which helps kind of recreate the same sort of social circles that people might have had at home. what we've seen from the start of the day, everyone flooding to get their free handouts of bread coming back and making breakfast. at the moment, there's a shortage of gas. people are saving gas for cooking and using more bread instead of cooking rice. things like that. the super market where people can spend food vouchers and use special credit cards are given by the world food program. this has been the heart of the camp. people spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to eat and preparing the food. the children here are able to go to school. there are two shifts that are run with boys and girls in the mornings and a afternoons. different aid organizations put

on for them as well. it's a be big challenge to try to engage young syrians, the next generation. some children here have missed two or three years of their crucial schooling years. >> stirring huge trouble for the future if they're not educate add of course. for now, many thanks. well, we have got much more material on our website. it's part of our special syrian coverage. we've got features, interactive reports, will yincluding one th as the conflict. go to bbc.com/news/syria. another big story today. more huge fines for some of the world's biggest banks curtesy of the regulators in the uk and u.s. it resolves around shady regulations and increase in profits. banks are hsbc, rbs, citibank,

ubs. it dates back to 2008 and involves traders sharing information to insure they always made money. the precise amounts are not known. the five banks have agreed to pay a collective fine of $3.4 billion. another bank is still being investigated, barclays. are we at the end of the scandals? not according to the group analyst chris. >> there are suggestions the total global cost of the banks could be as much as $40 billion if the department of justice gets involved. that's obviously the financial course. they could start revoking licenses if it does get big enough. banks need to take action. they really clamp down far more. they need to show they are taking efforts. central banks don't come out particularly well. regulators look as if they

weren't keeping as close an eye as they should have been. these now need to be far more clearly enforce sod you have a clear lead from the authorities in these countries around the world. uk, switzerland and u.s. to give the banks a steer on how markets should be policed. >> they're investigating the foreign exchange rate. it follows police investigations into manipulation of the raid in which banks lead to each other. libol resulted in huge fines also. can the markets be trusted? >> today we take tough action to clean up the corruption in the city by a few so that financial markets work for everyone. it's part of our long term plan to fix what went wrong in our economy and our system. the fraud office is conducting criminal investigations and have our full support in doing so.

fines that banks will pay will be used for greater public good. that was something that didn't use to be the case in the past. the action we've taken to create this powerful regulator, the action to insure higher standards show we can have confidence in the britain financial markets. the fraud office is conducting criminal investigation. they'll have the full support of the government in doing that. if they need extra resources to do it, they'll be forth coming. i'm absolutely determined we clean up the corruption the this the city so that a financial markets work for everyone and we have a banki inin ining system supports our economy. it's all part of what went wrong. to the ebola outbreak now. despite the efforts of the international community, the number of cases continues to rise. nearly 5,000 have been killed by the disease, mostly guinea,

liberia and sierra leone. it's having an effect on the in west africa and further. with me t senior director for health and population. how bad is the effect in west africa? >> i think it's hard to get a precise calculation on just how severely these economies and societies have been infected in part because the magnitude of this is such that at the speed in which it's arrived are such that we haven't been able to get real data. our best estimates that the directly affected countries have taken a $3.3 billion hit in their economic growth which is a massive proportion of their over all -- >> what proportion is it? 50% of growth in gdp.

>> just explain for us exactly what is happening on the ground to make that happen. >> i spoke to one person helping the government that said in the summer they were caught by the government because they were using ebola as an excuse of pulling out of commitments to invest. >> it's more complicated than that. there's a big fear factor. it relates to people working on the ground. if they need contractors to develop infrastructure, it's difficult to recruit contractors in or keep them in if they don't teal secure themselves or their families don't feel secure and things like that a. a allot of major infrastructure projects like dt water ports and bridges and roads have declared forced measure meaning the the whole projects have stopped cold

turkey. it won't start again until we get to a situation in zero cases of ebola in these countries. >> what about the wider impact across the continent? >> the world bank group estimated that in the region of west africa beyond these economies, we could see as much as a 30 to $40 impaimpact in si months. we've seen tourism in kenya decline associated with fear. we've seen airlines cancelling flights from other parts of the world to non affected parts of africa. again in part due to this fear and concern. the continent as a whole has taken pay significant hit. >> even the football is discussed. there's problems with leagues understandably not wanting to host. what do you want to see?

obviously focussing on the epidemic itself is key isn't it? >> absolutely. this is why the bank is committed close to billion dollars to the immediate response. >> is that enough? >> together with partnersin i think it's moving in the right direction. the issue is not magnitude of money. it's the speed of discipline and response. we're gaining speed but have been too slow as a global community arriving there. the important thing to recognize is we not only need to get the epidemic down to a much lower level, we have to drive it to the zero cases. this requires an enormous discipline and amplification of the response at this point in type. >> many thanks indeed for joining us. thank you. >> thank you. stay with us here on bbc world news. much more to cop. as the rosetta mission control waits to find out if it's been able to land a probe on a comment, we extend the science

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. the national watchdog on both sides of the atlantic fined five banks more than $3 billion for rigging the exchange market. officials in india say another two of women taken seriously ill after voluntary sterilization have died taking the number of dead to 15. many have been treated in hospitals around the eastern state. some are in critical condition. we report from one of the hops where they're being treated. >> more than 50 of the women

operated on during the mass sterilization camp were brought to this hospital. about 20 of them are still here. those in this room are in stable condition. doctors have told us it keeps fluctuating. this is a critical situation. what they're being treated for here is essentially their blood pressure is monitored very closely because when they were brought in here, there's been a dramatic fall in blood pressure. they were also vomiting. two of the women who came to this hospital have survived. some others are in different hopshop -- different hospitals. they were given medicine after surgery. they went home, started vomiting. state agents have launched an investigation and set up a panel to look into what exactly went wrong. they've suspended four health

officials. the european space agency has confirmed communication links between the probe and mother ship are working two hours after the probe was detached. the probe is five hours from making an unprecedented attempt to place a man made object on a comet. here's the background to rosetta's amazing journey.

we're struggling to contact our correspondent but we have live pictures for you from mission control. this has been an eventful couple of hours because the probe was detached eventually. theying managed to get communications between -- you can see celebrations when the probe detached. communications have been restored between themselves and the probe. it's extraordinarily difficult for that probe to successfully land on the comet.

it could actually just bounce off. it could land in the wrong place, land in the right place but not camp onto the ground there if the surface is too powdery. there's more on our website including a fantastic game including trying to land it yourself. now 20 years since dave formed the fru fighters after the death of his band mate curt cobane. they decided to do things differently. >> welcome. this is a slightly unusual concept. the idea was that we go to each one of these cities and tell the story of music from that city. the first question i always ask everybody is where are you from? >> chicago, new york, la, new orleans. >> that was my first dream. >> the finale of each of us to

perform the song we've been writing. you see the lyrics. lyrics are taken from all these stories. each song is about each episode. >> one of the people you managed to get an interview with is the president of the united states. >> we've played a couple gigs for him. we've met him before. he's genuinely a really nice person. i thought that it would be interesting to talk to him about america. >> american music is about people rejecting what is already there. >> did you get nervous? >> i was a little, yeah. >> he's living the ultimate dream. >> he's running the show, man. >> he's a great example. we want to be rock-n-rollers. he was like maybe one day i'll be the president.

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