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my family live. i can't. i am tired. >> i'm yolande knell at the camp in jordan. it's one of the mass camps set up to help people exiting syria. i'm here with the rest of today's news. edging towards one of the great space moment moments, the roset spaceship sends a probe to land on the comet. another fine for another big banking scandal. >> here we go. five global banks are fined $3 billion for their role in rigging rates in the foreign exchange market. let me tell you, it's a massive market with $5.3 trillion of currency traded every single day. yes, a massive fine by regulators.

here's the question. will it change banker's behavior? it's midday here in london, 7:00 a.m. washington, 2:00 p.m. across syria. in the last few months, news is dominated by the battle of the islamic state. today we focus on syria the conflict. >> reporter: today you join us in the old city of damascus. part of the prized heritage of this country. even here inside the old city, it's become a shelter for millions who have been displaced by the long running war. it was here march 2011 that the first small but significant protest began. peaceful protests that turned into an armed uprising. now a full scale war entered the fourth year. a across the country, large

sways of territory lie in ruin. i've been to the northern syrian city of aleppo, an iconic city there's been fierce battles the past few years. now troops are encircling the areas held by the rebels. there's growing concern about a another humanitarian disaster. >> aleppo, one of the word's oldest inhabited cities. one of its newest wars. large sways of this historic city are firmly in government hands. the east is held by the rebels. it's ancient quarter, a world heritage site, is a battleground. >> the syrian army took us through narrow allies. snipers lay in wait. >> authorities have told us 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 against themselves as 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. the magnets want their city back. >> we asked the government to really finish their existence as quickly as possible. >> by any means possible. there's great concern in syria and abroad about the use of the indiscriminate barrel bombs. >> true unfortunately some civilian casualties. they target militia presence, isis. they target al qaeda, all these

terrorists presence. >> many are now predicting those areas still held by the rebels could soon fall to assad's forces. his troops are besieging those areas using the same tactic surrender or starve as used time and time again in this war. for the 300 thousand civilians trapped inside, that means even 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 into safer areas of aleppo. at the university, student halls are in the neighborhood for dispossessed. she does her best to lift the children's spirits. she's been living here for the past two years. a young teacher trapped in the darkest of times and smallest of

homes. >> i pay everything here to make my family live. i can't. i have tired. i miss my home. i want to work in the street like other day before. i can't now. everything is bad. >> so many here have lost so much. 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. four years into a brutal war a, no one here expected to last so long or cost so much. the tears of the teacher speak

for millions of syrians displaced inside syria that a had to plea to neighboring country including hundreds of thousands that had to flee. to today yolande is in the refugee camp in jordan and joining us from there. >> the refugee camp is in the east of jordan out in the desert, newest refugee camp in the country. we've come inside one of the cabins here to get a look at what a life is like for syrian refugees that live here. these cabins are designed to deal with extremes of temperatures you get here. hot in the daytime and very cold in the night. these are core grated walls made out of panels. it's quite cool here even though it's hot outside at the moment. these workers are making preparations basically putting down rods on the floor so

concrete can be laid. we can hear the sound outside of the concrete truck that's come around the corner. so the family that lives here normally has moved out temporarily so that a preparations can be made. all around the camp we've seen other preparations going on. there are handouts of blankets, warm area winter clothes. at the moment in the nighttime it can fall below freezing here. there's been damp weather as well. it's very wet in the last few days. this is a major concern of syrian refugees. many have told us they arrived here in the camp with the clothes on their back. when i've spoke ton people in the last few hours, these young men syrian refugees also live in the car. they told us they come from stipulates all across syria from places like aleppo, also some from raqqa up in the north where they fled advances of islamic state militants.

understandably there's a huge amount of concern about what the future holds. people simply don't know when they're going to be able to go back. more widely in jordan, that worries ordinary people very much as well. you've seen now something like 600,000 syrians officially registered as refugees in jordan. it's been very overwhelming for local people. jordanians complain about rising rent in towns and cities. they would like to see more in the camps. 85% of syrians that live in jordans are in ordinary towns. it's pushing up rent. there's more competition for work as well. often that leads to resentment. that's why the jordanian government is one of those around the region sounding the alarm. it's saying it needs more help to deal with the sheer numbers of people coming. we introduce a lot more border

restrictions making it hard aer for syrians. back to you. >> yolande speaking from the ref jew camp. syrians have fled all borders facing uncertain futures being described as the biggest humanitarian crisis of our time. syrians are taking the lead, helped by the international community including the agencies of united nations. here in damascus, we're joined by this man from the united nations children's fund unicef. syria's war used to be the top of the world agenda. does it feel that way now? >> i have to say for a crisis of this magnitude, probably the biggest since world war ii. we have seem to have fallen off the map. a very sensitive indicator of that is short fall in funding.

if you see, we are short about $100 million. that's money spent on everything else in the world in terms of defense and other things. yes, i mean, it's staggering. at least we're looking at a harsh winter in front of us. the needs are real. we're trying to focus on 400,000. to give you one example, 400,000 of the most vulnerable children living in camps in the four provinces in homes. we are not able to get the 7 million we need. there you are. it's falling off the map. >> so many people have seen the refugee camps and displaced shelters. underneath that, there's profound impact. that's whether or not the children can get to school. how worried are you about the long term cost of this war? >> unicef and partners have characterized their strategy as the no lost generation strategy which basically puts spotlight on the fact if we are not able

to protect schooling. i think we are look at a very dark future for future generations. mind you 2 million children are out of school. 500,000 are at risk of dropping out any time. unicef is mounting a response. we are involved together with the european union in getting school books and other supplies to about a million children. we already supplied 600,000 of those. more is coming. we're grateful to donors. a lot more needs to be done for education in this country. >> we see neighboring states have impact on them. in lebanon, there's more syrian school children than lebanese. there's not enough spaces for them. >> that's very true. >> you know, you see the staggering fact of this crisis on children a million ways. they're not only pays with their lives but many interruptions in

what would be a normal childhood. >> thank you very much for joining us here in damascus. no lost generation. this is a war in which so much has been lost. many syrians say it's not just syria's war anymore. neighboring countries have been drawn in not just the refugee crisis but supporting competing sides in this car. in all after peels for peace, for this war to end, it still falls on deaf ears. no one knows how to bring this crisis to an end. >> well, i just wanted to ask you. looking over the balcony behind you in which a looks like gorgeous sunshine. people went in around their business popping into the market, whatever they're doing. i appreciate there are worst places to be in syria obviously. have people come around to finding a way of putting conflict into their daily life,

finding its place if you'd like. >> yes indeed. look at this beautiful scene. it could be a scene anywhere in the ancient capital anywhere in the world. i can see beneath me, people are shopping, buying chocolate candy, balloons. this is the nature of conflict in syria. all the cities across the country, damascus, aleppo in the north, you're in one place and could forget there was a war. you turn the corner and you're suddenly in a war zone where large sways lie in absolute ruins. this is a country torn by war. even looking here, thinking that this is not an area touched by war, there's not a single family in this country. not a single home isn't bearing the brunt, the impact of this punishing war in one way or another. >> we're getting a sense of that extreme hopelessness that must hover the whole country. you were talking earlier in the week about the u.n. special

envoy to syria. he was sounding notes of optimism. do you think -- frankly you've got more experience at that place than he has probably. is there many optimism? >> well, david, in all the countries i've covered which have been plunged into war, people tell you if you lose hope, essentially you've lost everything. a very experienced diplomat is the third u.n. envoy if in four years who's all tasks were described as mission impossible. he's struggling to find a formula to bring this violence to an end. he's come up with an idea of a freeze. not the same thing as a ceasefire. it's deescalating the violence. it allows a pause if you like to allow humanitarian aid to be distributed. he talks about also this would bring not just food but hope to a country where people have suffered far longer than they expected. will all sides accept it?

assad gave an unusually positive statement saying it was worth issue d studying. neither side seems ready to compromise. compromise is needed if this war is brought to an end. >> in damascus for us in part of the two days of special coverage, she's holding also a facebook question and answer session from damascus. that's this afternoon. 1600 "gmt." if you've got questions, post them on our bbc news facebook page. that's facebook.com/news. include the hashtag syria war in your post. it's our special qa session 1600 "gmt" today. in other news for you. authorities in mali have confirmed second case of ebola. a nurse died after treating a man at a clinic. it's thought the patient was a

muslim healer that attended a sick family. last month a 2-year-old girl was declared did dead from ebola after her grandmother brought her to mali from guinea. five leading banks have paid record fines of over $3 billion to regulators for attempting to manipulate the foreign exchange or 4x market. hsbc, royal bank of scotland, swiss bank ubs, jp morgan and citibank. they're the five given penalties. aarons has more on that in 20 minutes time. palestinians say jewish settlers are to blame for the attack on the mosque in the west banks. a fire was started earlier. then a fire bomb was thrown in the arab town. attacks come amid tensions between israelis and palestinians caused by competing

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it has taken ten years and cost a billion plus. now the audacious bid to put a robot on the surface of a comet is finally underway. the rosetta a satellite had detached a probe which is now traveling the final few kilometers to attempt this historic landing on a comet half a billion kilometers from earth. a long way. our science reporter is at the european space headquarters.

rebecca? >> pretty tense here. a lot of nervous scientists walking around. we're half way through the landing. it's a seven hour landing. it will be about half way there by now. it's not going to be a nice gentle decent down to the surface. it will be blasted with gas, dust, ice streaming off the surface of the comet. going to be a tricky ride. there's some way to go yet. scientists describe this one of the most audacious, most difficult space missions. rosetta set off ten years ago and traveled through the solar system. some of the scientists involved have retired including this professor who was the rosetta scientist. you've since retired.

what's it like to see this going on? >> that's great. you see all work was worth to do it. things look pretty good so far. it's also great reunion with colleagues. it's a great day for us. it's really promising and great. we are just so excited to see that also the another three and a half hours go well and that little later we hear the sign a that it has landed. >> hopefully. >> i say hopefully. it's tricky. it's complex because it's seven hoursen its own. the release was successful. we picked up the signal which is good. we can follow it on the way down. it will get science data. we have to wait and keep our fingers crossed.

we think they have selected a wonderful landing site. if you look closer, there are some nice things there. we have to be really lucky at the end. the landing area is big, 500 meters across. it's not a point landing because of arrows that are there. we need good luck in the end. >> and you have a model of the comet here. >> i suppose when you first dreamt up this mission in the 1980s you didn't expect the comet to look like this. this is a weird looking object. it's surprising. >> it's surprising weird looking. with comets you have to expect everything. you have to see when we first got the idea in '85, we didn't test any close up image of the comet. we only got in '86. all the comets weste s we have k

different. this one looks really strange. looked really peculiar. there are a lot of features we didn't expect. we have to find out why it has taken this shape and why we have so many. you don't see this model on the early images, why we don't have big cut out here. there are a lot of questions just looking at it. >> just quickly, the technology on board the spacecraft is more than ten years old. briefly, do you think it's up to the job? >> the technology is up to the job. we know from the orbiter we get wonderful data. from space missions you don't need the latest technology. it has to be robust, work in

space. it doesn't have to be too fast because we can't download all the data. after ten years it has to work. if you put modern parts from a car and put it in this harsh environment for example. >> several hours still to go. we'll find out later on whether this has been a success or not. >> oh dear. rebecca, thanks very much indeed. it's been a huge appetite on social media for the mission and robotic companion, the lander. they've got their own twitter sites. they're closely followed by people across the world. they're having their own digital conversations. we can introduce you to it earlier in the day. the rosetta mission tweeted okay philae 2014, i'm getting lined up. are you ready to jump?

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in this half hour, syria's long war and why it's so hard to stop. we have an exclusive report from the front line as ggovernment fs take on resistance in damascus. putin stole the show in beijing. what's going on in the international world of protocol. also aaron looks and winners

and losers. >> four years ago, the government went hand in hand for the rescue. they're out of their bailout after years of tax rises and austerity cuts. we look at the island's mixed picture. some benefit, others still struggling. >> we are going back now to our special coverage of syria's war. almost four years after what began as peaceful protests, half the population is still displaced. large areas of the country lie in utter ruin. president assad is still firmly in power. it's called the biggest humanitarian test of the 21st century. jeremy reports from damascus on why syria's war is so hard to stop. you may find some of the images in his tower distressing.

>> at times, syrian army shell fire that used to shake damascus bearly cut l barely cuts through the autumn mist. the war in the fourth year has changed everything. damascus functions, and president assad is stronger than any enemies expected. his forces are still stretched. in front lines and fox hole across syria, enough soldiers believe the president shares their reasons to fight and perhaps die. for their homes, families and country. >> i've got to keep my voice down because the rebel decisions are only about ten meters away. i don't want to provoke anything. >> early on in the war, there were plenty of predictions that the syrian army would collapse.

that hasn't happened. these soldiers morale seems pretty strong. they're still fighting. >> the front lines splits into. through the gun sights, you can see what's left. the attack hit the rebel held side. army commanders said they knew nothing about it. 15 schoolboys were killed when their playground was shelled. parents had helped start the school. the only chance their children had for education. this boy was calling for his

mother and father. in the summer, we managed to cross the lines into rebel held areas. we went to the school. it seemed to be a small miracle. nothing is immune from the cruelty of the war. this teacher witnessed the attack. she didn't want to be identified in case of troubles in the regime. >> it's the president's responsibility to keep children out of this war. it's okay for him to fight terrorists. what have children done to deserve this? they don't have weapons. he needs to stop shelling schools. both sides need to stop attacking the children. they have nothing to do with this war. adults started the fighting and can carry on, but they can't use our children to further their

aims. >> the question of responsibility for the people suffering divides syrians. a few are coming home to an industrial town outside damascus. it was recaptured in september by the army from the front. syria's al qaeda affiliate. mohamed, a supporter of the president believes syria's choice is simple. assad or the jihadists. he showed me the basement where he said he was held 22 days with his wife and children and 60 neighbors a year ago. he says each day they were terrified of murder and rape. when problems broke out, the consequence, the so called arab spring was used to fool people.

during 22 days even though i'm 40 years old, i feel i've aged 400 years. during last three or four years we were taken back to dinosaur era. i think dinosaurs were more civilized than rebels are. >> here in damascus and elsewhere, the president's points say he's created a stark choice between the regime and the jihadists. by targeting moderates and leaving the jihadists alone. the war is changing. the end is nowhere in sight. bbc damascus. i should say try not to forget. part of our syria day, we have far more on the website on issues surrounding the region. for the latest features, analysis is, videos, interactive reports as well.

we've got the mapping of conflict tools also. it's all there on the a address on the screen. bbc.com/news/syria. okay. time to catch up on the business. aaron is here with news of big fines for big banks. this is a massive world. >> the foreign exchange market if you will. $5.3 trillion every sing pl day. more than $140 million every month passes through this market. the rate is important because it supplies thousands of products we all use. you and i, businesses around the world. let me break it down. thanks david. hello there. five leading global glabanks ha been fined to claims they a attempted to rig the foreign exchange market. trading in foreign currency is bigger than the stock and bond

markets. 40% of it happens right here in london. today the uk syria fraud office told bbc criminal investigations are ongoing and could include fraud, conspiracy and corruption. the banks are fined a total of almost $3.2 billion. banks are hsbc, rbs, ubs, jp morgan, citibank. this puts integrity at risk according to the financial authority that issued a one in three quarter fine for britain's finance. i should say the finance minister george osborne says the uk is cleaning up the city of london. take a listen. >> 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 banking system. the syria fraud office is conducting criminal investigations. they 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 used to be the case in the past. the action we've take ton create this powerful regulator, the action to insure highest standards in banking is justified by these events. it shows we can now have confidence in the integrity of britain's financial markets. >> no, he's not getting fined. the managing partner of the law firm taking legal action against the banks for manipulation of foreign exchange market. joins us. great to have you on the program. no doubt one can imagine the traders were doing this for their benefit. bigger profits. there are losers to this.

i want you to explain to viewers around the world, your clients. how do they lose out here? >> aaron, as you say, the market is a $5 trillion a day market. almost anyone who uses foreign exchange around the world trades through the london market. banks, hedge funds and importantly corporates all use the foreign exchange market to fix their rates in advance. they manage their risks in terms of foreign exchange. so the behavior of the banks as you rightly say benefit the traders, corporations, bank entering these transactions. the effect of the activity targeting its own trade had a ripple effect. when you fix the rate in respect for a certain trade, you affect the rate up or down. that affects the markets across the world where the foreign exchange rate is based on the

fix in the london market. there are very many companies here who have potentially lost out because of activity of the banks. >> when you say trickled down to banks and institutions, can it trickle down to us t consumer on the streets around the world? >> yeah, it will to some extent aaron. the direct hit is taken by banks and corporate. that has an overhead effect cost to them. you can see it trickle down and affect consumers. >> what do you make of this, $3.2 billion. >> the fines are significance. these are the biggest ever used in the london market against institutions. having said that, the losses that the companies and bank would have suffered as a result of this activity is greater than

fines. we know regulatory activity fines although large never result to a suffering of the market. >> you obviously can't tell us your clients. you imagine they are smart operators and understand the complexities. should anyone feel sorry for them? >> yeah, what was going on here was a deliberate attempt to manipulate the market. traders were going to chat rooms to keep activities secret. they were talking between themselves in order to manipulate the rates, ex changing information in a way they shouldn't have done. this behavior is deeply depressing against the background of what's happened in banks in six or seven years. it was happening after the libol had shown up. depressing behavior on the part of the banks and companies.

>> they don't learn their lessons. thank you very much. >> let's talk about this. four years ago, the irish government agreed to a rescue package with imf. they had to impose severe measures at home. after big spending cuts, ireland exited in january and predicted to be the fastest growing economy in the eurozone. we have our week of reports on europe's fragile road to recovery. some are enjoying the upturns. >> the speed of ireland's economic recovery may have been staggering, but on the streets of dublin, increasing numbers of people experience the long term effects of the crash.

restrictive lending has led to . many can't keep up with the payments. others were given mortgages. one charity said the number left homeless has doubled in recent months. the homeless are often the people in the least amount of debt. this property developer lost more than $12 million in the crash and has no prospect of paying it back. >> this was to be my pension plan. >> six years after ireland's banks were bailed out by the government guarantee, they are back to making profit. properties which the banks are trying to repossession are crumbling and virtually worthless while demand for homes rockets. >> those remain crippled by ireland's property crash of the past. those are a part of the high-tech companies can which

exploit arguably ireland's greatest asset. well educated young people. over 100,000 are employed in the tech sector that has 40% of the exports, part of the reason it's tipped to grow faster than any other economy in the eurozone. the strong multinational sector and tech boom means unemployment continues to fall. some have already lost their livelihood savings and dignity. >> there you go. lots going on. tweet me. i'll tweet you back. that's it with business. back to you. >> thanks for that. thanks for being with us here on bbc world news. still to come on "gmt." a real event to warm relations. president putin wraps around his wife. it seems to be enough. we'll find out why. chocolaty,. with a little something extra.

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more than $3 billion for rigging the foreign exchange markets. >> leaders of the world's two biggest economies have wrapped up their summit. u.s. and chinese presidents announce new changes on climate change. president obama calls it a milestone agreement. there's plenty the two don't see eye to eye on. our editor explains. >> the great hold of the people is where set pieces of political theater happen like where the

president came to pass. it's five years since president obama was hoar. 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 government for commitment they are making to slow and then reverse the course of china's carbon emissions. >> on issues like trade, regional security or democracy for hong kong, it's much harder

to see eye to eye. in presidency, china has a leader that's no longer prepared to play second fiddle. he's setting up rival economic and security institutions where he feels the existing ones are not working in china's favor. the em battled leader of the democracy, the host has eight years still ahead. no elections to fight. yes presidency has problems at home, immense ones. one way of rallying support is to look strong in the world. that's exactly what we've seen this week. >> reporting from beijing. that rare meeting between the two presidents of america and china took place after the apex summit. the host put on quite a show. there was one moment that certainly wasn't planned and captured the attention of chinese public. we can show you that now as

world leaders were gathering to watch a fireworks display. you can see on the screen the russian president vladimir putin slipped a shaw over the shoulders of the wife of the chinese president xi jinping. she smiling, accept had the offer. a few seconds later, the shaw came off again. she handed it off to a waiting aid. seemed innocent at the time. it was soon shared heavily on china's answer to twitter. not for long. there's little sign of the incident at all today. it seems it's censored by chinese authorities. it seemed in good spirits there. from manchester we speak to william, international etiquette consulter. an act of generosity is something you always applaud. has he got something wrong here

in vladimir putin. >> president putin wasn't thinking cross culturally what i'm training clients to do all over the world. in china, they place a great emphasis on face. to offer this shaw because this person was cold, the president's wife, can be seen as loss of faces in china. that's why there's slight drama with the footage and it disappeared. in it, the people that symbolize china, the leaders are looking weak or perceived to be looking weak. we know it's nothing to do with weakness. it was just an act. that's how it was perceived in china. he's prone to these acts. he did something similar for angela merkel at one point.

maybe he's playing the game. >> do you fit with your host cultural norms or should your hosts fit in with you? >> you as a guest should fit in with that culture. the host should know you're coming from a different culture and may not be familiar with every nuance. as long as you don't deliberately go to offend that's fine. what's unforgivable is ignorance about the situation. if you're going to holiday or business to another country, you must research the protocols and basic rules of that country. >> i wonder how much research was done by president obama? we have pictures of him with the very american attitude chewing gum. we're going to see that in a second. this is at the apex summit marching up the red carpet

chewing gum. we see him later rather more obviously having a good chew. i think i know what your response to this is going to be. >> yes, that's not good. we've seen a few of obama all over the place. we had him coming off a helicopter in america. he had a take away coffee. he did did the salute holding a cup of coffee. that's not good. however casual he wants to appear, there are certain things like chewing gum saluting with a latte. these are just bad form and always will be. >> he's told now. thank you very much indeed. >> thank you. now it's the full 20 years since dave formed the fu fighters after the death of his band mate curt. for the eighth album, they're doing things differently.

welcome. this is a slightly unusual concept. the idea was we go to each of the cities and tell the story of music from that city. the first question i is where you're from. >> you see the lyrics. they're taken from all these stories. each song is about each episode. that's album eight. as part of our two day coverage, our correspondent is holding a facebook question and answer session from damascus. that's this afternoon at 1600

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