hello, you're watching "gmt" on "bbc world news." i'm david eades. our top stories. the cricketing world expresses shock and grief at the death of the australian batsman phillip hughes. he was struck on the back of the head by a ball, and never regained consciousness after a massive brain hemorrhage. >> the thought that a player in his prime should be killed playing our national game is shocking and sobering. >> we revisit the remote part of guinea where the ebola outbreak

began. aid workers tell us the number of new cases there is still rising. also, the moments before a 12-year-old boy is shot dead by police in the u.s. this video released by the authorities. also coming up on the program, aaron is here having a look at those tumbling oil prices. >> david, how low can they go? leaders of opec, the cartel made up of 12 nations have been meeting in vienna. and here's their problem. fierce competition in the united states. and weaker demand in europe and china. so the question is, has opec lost its power to control the price of oil? it's midday here in london, 7:00 a.m. in washington, 11:00 p.m. in sydney. as australians mourn the death

of phillip batsman was 25, died hospital from a head injury. he was struck by the ball on the back of the head as he faced the fast bowler shawn abbott. hughes was wearing a helmet, but doctors say the ball hit an unprotected area at the back of his neck. hew faris has this report. >> reporter: phillip hughes known for his unorthodox batting style. he often said he loved nothing more than being at the wick and scoring runs. he died doing just that. >> the thought that a player in his prime should be killed playing our national game is shocking and sobering. we should be conscious of the risks that our sports people run. >> reporter: hughes scored 1,135 runs in test cricket and seven

50s. he was a natural opener, but patchy form saw he play up and down the order for australia, filling gaps where needed. he worked on his game in england, playing county cricket. dominic cork played alongside hughes at hampshire. >> freak accident. having obviously played cricket for such a long time. and having people around different sports who have been through this. i know a very good friend of mine who suffered head injuries after a fall and was in an induced coma for three to four weeks and got through it. so you think he can get through this. he can come around and resume a career that everybody thought would go on and he'll become a very, very big player for australia. >> reporter: cricket grounds across australia have been showing their respect by having flags at half-mast, including at the adalaide oval, where hughes played for the strikers. current and former australia players left the sydney hospital where they'd been supporting hughes and his family. >> he loved batting. he just loved batting.

and playing cricket. that's what he loved to do. having a few drinks with his mates. he lived a pretty simple life. he loved farming and playing cricket and that was it. >> reporter: australian coach darren lehman summed up feelings with a post on social media. "r.i.p., little champ. we're going to miss you." >> phillip hughes. of course his colleagues have been posting their tributes as well. they're coming from all around the world. shocked to hear about phil. sad day for cricket. deepest condolences to family, friends, and well-wishers. and the former england great said a very sad day for the world of cricket. so sorry for phillip hughes and his family. spare a thought for sean abbott. he, of course, was the bowler. and the former international cricketer shane warn wrote just an absolute tragedy that hughesy is no longer with us. he was such an awesome young

man. relationship, buddy. shattered. some of the expressions coming from around the world on the death of phillip hughes. let's go to the west of england, to bristol, so we can speak to david sid lawrence. thanks very much indeed for coming to the studio. i guess the reactions speak for themselves. it's deeply upsetting as well as it is shocking. >> yeah, very shocking. up completely numb, the i think this morning we all woke cricketing world felt that he would make a full recovery. such a shock today to listen that he's passed away. and our thoughts are with his family. >> i heard dominic cork saying this is a freak accident. is that how you would see it, do you think? >> well, i was involved in a similar incident in 1988 in the west indies. slightly different. he didn't have a helmet on. i hit him on the side of the temple. he collapsed. they rushed him to hospital and

they were able to save his life and take a blood clot off his brain. he went on to play again. what gave me comfort was i was able to see phil simmons 48 hours after and he was able to tell me, it wasn't my fault. the bowler in this instance wouldn't have been able to do that. hughes didn't make a recovery, wasn't able to talk to him. so my thoughts go out to him as welling because whether he will come back from this, abbott, or not -- prnlly, i don't think he'll play cricket again. >> that's desperately difficult. it's very interesting the way you had a chance to make amends almost, but to see that the batsman was okay. let's be honest, you were a very quick bowler. and you knew that a bouncer would soften up a batsman possibly. that's part of your armory. a purpose of the game. so how does it work, that you're prepared to take that, to do that, but of course there are

these sorts of risks involved. >> of course there are. i don't think any fast bowler that walks out of there are looking to inflict danger on someone for them to actually end up in hospital and lose their life. it's a part of the game. as you say, you use it to rough up a batsman, to make them feel unsetted, and then you look possibly to pitch the ball up. i would like to see that taken away from the game. because it is just a part of the game. i suppose in the future, we will all have to look at the situation when we talk about the bouncer, how we actually describe it. we don't want to describe it possibly now as a weapon. because that's not what it is. >> okay. david sid lawrence, thanks very much for your views and of course your own experiences. thanks for joining us. the bbc cricket correspondent jonathan agnew is also on the line for us.

interesting, sid lawrence there talking about the bouncer as a weapon and whether or not there has to be a discussion about its role in the game. do you think there does? >> well, that's a very interesting point. the more this tragedy is talked about and discussed, the more we do think about the implications for the game. he touched on that, the way that we do talk about a bouncer. commentators relish that physical battle between the bowler and the batsman. so, incidentally, does the batsman. a top class batsman, phillip hughes was a top class batsman. he loved cricket. he loved the camaraderie of the game. he loved the great thrill of winning. he also savored and relished beating a top bowler. that's part of a top batsman's skill. and something that gives him as much pleasure as anything else. it is an integral part of the game. but can it continue to be talked about in such a way? how will a crowd react to a fast

bowler going about his business now? will they get angry with him for doing so? i think it's pretty clear that cricket, and certainly test cricket, which is that sort of harder version of the game with more short pitch bowling and more aggressive field placings and so on. i'm not sure it will be played the same way certainly for a while. >> it's interesting -- we talk about the national game in australia. i mean, there's been a massive outpouring of emotion from around the world, but for australians perhaps more than any others, this really hurts. seems to hurt right from the grass roots to the very top. >> it hurts everybody who loves the game. millions of people around the world love cricket. they watch it. they play it. they talk about it. and they do so with a passion. you don't expect someone to die while playing it. and particularly, a very highly skilled and apparently well-protected batsman. that's the shock. this is not supposed to happen

in cricket. the fact that it has clearly does need to be looked at. and i remember the first helmets coming out, enormous great round things, almost something you'd see in a space suit. whether that would have saved phil hughes, i don't know. but over the years, they have been made smaller. they've been made lighter. they probably take a direct blow better than those early helmets. they're much more scientifically tested. but clearly there's an area on the back of the neck that has no protection whatsoever. and that is something that the manufacturers are going to have to look at and look at very quickly, because it's unthinkable that they won't now produce something that tries to prevent this sort of awful tragedy from having again. >> thanks very much indeed for that. that brings us neatly on to the next part of this story, as phillip hughes has immediately brought so much discussion about levels of safety in cricket, and in particular, about those helmets. can they be improved further? well, let's have a look at the

designs. this is the england captain way back in the '70s. that was a typical design in the early days. in the 1990s, 1992, grills had been added to the helmets. we can have a look at the type of helmet that phillip hughes was wearing at the time of the accident. this was a masuri designed helmet in 2013. they've actually updated the helmet to that, so you can see one or two changes to the grill in particular. but the ball hit phillip hughes in his neck. that's an area simply not protected even with these new designs. so can the helmets and the game be made any safer? joining us now is kirk russell, an expert on cricket related injuries. and a former team physiotherapist with england between 2002 and 2011. thanks for joining us. i think we've heard several times freak accident being used to describe what's happened to

phillip hughes. can you legislate against freak accidents even with a helmet? >> i think firstly, just want to pass on my thoughts and wishes to phillip hughes' family and friends. just a tragic event. and yes, it is a very freak event. basically, i think it's only happened once in cricket before. it's very difficult i think to completely protect batsmen from injuries like this, because it's so freak. i think you've also got to remember that, you know, the batters may be batting for six hours a day, and they also need to have, you know, movement to be able to play properly. so there's a sort of a balance between having enough protection, which is obviously massively important, but also an ability to perform. >> can you see the next stage in development, a way in which this sort of issue could be brought into the design of a helmet? we've been having a look at the

gradual progression in design and improvement. but this is a desperately awkward position to put any fortification, if you want to keep your movement and be able to look left, look right, to move as you'd want to as a batsman. >> absolutely. i know the ecb has been working very hard in terms of creating a new helmet, which i think is available next season, which is, you know, reaching british safety standards. so i know there's a work in progress, and obviously there's going to be a big review process about how we can protect the batters a lot better. and looking maybe at the neck as well. but it is, as i said, a very freak incident. and it happens very rarely. although i've been out when people have been hit on the net and have been hit on the helmet. so it does happen. i think there does need to be a process of looking into it further. >> one other point, kirk, which is that batsmen who are used to

wearing helmets have changed the way they played. they're bolder. they're prepared to take on that quick ball. has that become an issue? >> i think they have changed. you've also got to remember, i think the bowlers have got a lot stronger as well, and be able to sustain that speed for a lot longer. there's obviously -- i think there's a fear factor when you're playing against fast bowling, and i think that the techniques to not being hit -- you know, the guys work incredibly hard on. when i was working we think land, i know they did. i don't know whether it's changed. you know, as i said, i think the game's got faster. and more powerful. and it will continue to do so and health and safety needs to sort of carry on with that, keep up with that. >> move with it. thank you very much for sharing your views with us on "gmt." you can get more on the story on our website, including the growing number of tributes to phillip hughes pouring in.

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city. the taliban claimed responsibility for it. officials say five people were killed, more than 30 injured. in just the last couple of minutes, the british government has confirmed that among those killed was one british national. another was injured in the attack. wahid massoud is in kabul for us. can you tell us what we know about that attack? >> reporter: the attack happened today before noon, kabul time, in the eastern part of kabul on a very busy road that comes into the city. a suicide bomber detonated his explosives, explosive-laden toyota sedan close to the british embassy vehicle. badly damaged the british embassy vehicle. five people were killed, 34 wounded. >> so a significant blast, aimed clearly it would seem on this

occasion at the british embassy staff. >> reporter: the taliban have claimed responsibility for the attack and have said that foreigners were killed. they have not named british. other foreign diplomats, united nations, afghan vehicles have been targets in the past. so it seems that the british embassy vehicle was particularly targeted, but the taliban have not explicitly said that so far. >> what is the level of british presence in afghanistan now, waheed? >> reporter: well, as we all know, the british presence in afghanistan are in three different forms. the british military are still in afghanistan in some capacity, training, and providing afghan forces the training that they

need. it's a very small amount now after the withdrawal. then we have the diplomatic mission, and an aid presence in afghanistan through other organizations that they're supporting the afghan government and sundaying other aid proks in the country. >> okay, waheed, thanks very much indeed. i want to remind you of the breaking news in literally the last few minutes. the british government has confirmed that one british national was killed. another was injured in that suicide bombing attack in which at least five people were killed. it was a vehicle belonging to the uk embassy in kabul that was hit. when the ebola virus broke out in guinea last year, no one predicted how far it was going to spread. and before long, it was out of control in three west african countries. it's also now in mali. aid workers in the remote part of guinea where it all started say the number of cases there is

still on the rise. our global health correspondent is there. >> we're here at the msf treatment clinic, this was the very first ebola treatment center set up when the outbreak first started back in march. i was here back in july, and i've come back to meet some of the medics i spoke to back then. one of them is the field coordinator of this treatment center. pascal, just tell me how things have changed since we last met back in july. >> it's changed quite a lot, since our treatment center increased its size by much. we now have 99 beds. then we had 38. >> reporter: and this is where it all started, of course, eight months ago now. what is the situation here

today? >> the situation is not that bad, because we have been occupying the field for a long time. for eight months. but now we have prefectures that are under stress because they have cases and they are all referring to cases here. >> so the different areas, you've managed to deal with the problem. but in other areas you're having problems? >> yeah, pretty much so. we had like 16 or 17 cases in the last six weeks in gekadu. we mad 145 admissions, which is very big for us. >> reporter: how long do you think the msf is going to be here? >> until the very end. >> reporter: when do you they might be? >> i have no clue. i have no clue. >> that's the situation still in guinea. a little bit later in the program, we're going to be hearing from the chief executive of the pharmaceutical giant

glaxosmithkline. they say it could be ready by the second half of next year. police in the american city of cleveland have released video footage which shows the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old boy on saturday. it shows tamir rice being shot within two seconds of the police vehicle pulling up and stopping next to him. they were called because the boy was waving a gun. it turned out it was a pellet gun. laura westbrook reports. . >> reporter: is this a bored child or a threat to public safety? someone who saw him pacing around a cleveland park was worried enough to call the police. >> the guy keeps pulling it out, it's probably fake, but you know what? it's scaring the [ bleep ] out of me. >> reporter: a patrol car arrives at the scene, and seconds later -- >> shots fired. male down. black male. maybe 20. black revolver. black handgun. >> reporter: tamir rice, who was

12 years old, died later in hospital. his family wanted these recordings released, and the police obliged. >> this is not an effort to exonerate. it's not an effort to show the public that anybody did anything wrong. >> reporter: police say tamir was told three times to raise his hands, but his family questions the speed of the incident. it is our belief that the situation could have been avoided and that tamir should still be here with us. the video shows one thing distinctly: the police officers reacted quickly. this comes at a time when the country is at boiling point over the treatment of young african-americans by white police. people are furious at the grand jury decision not to prosecute a white police officer who killed michael brown. since his death in august, more than a dozen teenagers have been

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welcome to "gmt" with me, david eades. in this half-hour, what can opec do about the plunging oil prices, and who's hit the worst? we focus on russia's plummeting oil price, how hard is that hitting an already beleaguered economy? also in the program, aaron's back. a possible breakthrough for an ebola vaccine. >> absolutely. glaxosmithkline says an ebola vaccine could be available by next year, after recent trials showed some positive results. what could have taken five years to develop has so far just taken

months. stay tuned, we're speaking exclusively to the company's chief executive. welcome back. how to stop the plunge in the price of oil. it's the question challenging all major oil producers as they've seen the price of crude drop 30% since june. opec ministers are meeting in vienna to at least consider a cut in oil production. russia is one of the countries which is not a member of opec, but it's certainly feeling the pain of those plummeting prices. russia produces around 10.5 million barrels of oil a day. it needs a price of about $100 a barrel to balance its budget. at the moment, the price is hovering there, around $76 a barrel. earlier in the week, the russian finance minister said the lower oil price means russia is losing

that much, $100 billion a year. if you throw into the mix the western sanctions against moscow because of the conflict in ukraine, and the impact of falling oil revenues is all the more painful. here is a report from western siberia. >> reporter: engineers are drilling a new well in siberia. the surrounding pressure increases. so does the pressure on russia's oil industry. the cost of extraction is growing as resources are becoming exhausted. >> we have opportunities to ramp up with respect to pruk using the unconventional ore. it was not reported as profitable for one thing. >> reporter: russia used to import most of the equipment needed to reach hard to mine

reserves. now sanctions mean this is no longer possible. with oil prices at their lowest in four years, companies need work harder to keep their business profitable. for example, earlier they used to have flares to burn off excess gas. now they try to use it. they have built this station, it operates using excess gas and covers almost all needs of the oil field. oil and gas revenues make up over half of russia's budget. the country is heavily dependent on the export. the decline in oil prices will be balanced by the weakening ruble. they acknowledge that ordinary people may suffer. >> the oil price going down influenced the exchange rate. it means all the incomes of the

household could be probably in real terms going down. >> reporter: currently, russia is one of the biggest oil exporters in the world. but it needs to develop oil fields in order to support the current production rate. most of the projects are frozen due to sanctions. and this vicious cycle seems to be difficult to break. >> let's get now to russ energy consulting in moscow. thanks very much indeed for joining us. can i just ask you first of all, is there anything russia can do in isolation to improve the price? >> i'm afraid russia can do nothing exactly. it cannot stop oil production. it cannot stop oil exports. because it has no spare capacity of storage to put that extra oil in. and russia has just a limited

circle of users of its oil. they depend on that oil in the south of europe, in the north of europe, and in some countries, in aush. but it is not a very important globally scheme to change for russia. i believe russia can do nothing in this situation. >> how important is oil then for the russian economy? i mean, can it -- is oil so important that as long as that price is down, the economy is going to suffer heavily? >> it is already a very heavy blow to the russian economy. basically when mr. putin was appointed president in the year 2000, the russian federal budget dependent on oil and gas revenues only in the range of less than 9%. this year, the dependence is

52%. i believe it is too late to switch to other industries, to other sectors of the economy to develop them to replace oil as the source of income. and i have heard some russian analysts believe that if the price is in the vicinity of $70 per barrel, remains for a couple of years. the russian financial system is going to collapse in the middle of 2017. >> right. well, i hate to put it this way, but there might be someone in the west who would think actually that's sort of what we're trying to achieve at the moment, and there are suggestions that the saudis and the americans in particular are very keen to keep this oil price down. for precisely that reason, would you lay any credence to that? >> no. i don't believe any conspiracy theories. we discussed that possibility in new york on sunday with some oil and gas and energy experts in

the united states, and they all laughed when i suggested that some -- well, the ceos of large energy corporations could strike a deal with russia. that was absolutely nonsense. >> thank you very much indeed for joining us here on "gmt." >> can i just add something. to russia oil, for every $1 fall in the price of a barrel of oil, russia loses 2 billion in revenue for just every one buck. let's focus on opec. all eyes are on the us a treeal capital vienna today, where the members of opec are arriving. we are talking about the organization of petroleum exporting countries. 12 nations including saudi

arabia and its gulf maybe neighs well as iran and venezuela. and they are locked in a debate. do they slash oil production in an attempt to sore up those crude prices? crude is currently trading at this, $76 a barrel. that is down by around a third. in fact, it's down about 31% since the summer. what's behind the plunge? in a word, oversupply. there is simply too much oil around. demand for oil, we know it's weak in europe and china because of economic growth slowing down. and then the boom in the shale oil production, or fracking, as we kl it. especially in the united states, has meant a big rise in global supplies. that has undermined the position of opec, which used to control the market but now produces just a third of the world's oil. so is the price now out of their hands? let's go straight over to vienna. andrew walker is there. andrew, great to have you on the program. i know you've been speaking to some of the oil ministers from

the different member states there. and we've known for some time there's been a bit of a division, hasn't there, between these states, where they want to see prices. >> that's certainly true, particularly a division about how best to respond to this decline in prices. i was talking to the venezuelan minister who said that they want to see opec cuts production collectively by 2 million barrels a day. that would be about 7% for group's total production. the saudis, on the other hand, are resolutely refusing to answer any questions at all. i think that's indicative of a view that they are wary of agreeing to production cuts and finding themselves doing it on their own. often in the past, saudi has acted as what's called a swing producer, cutting when prices are falling, boosting production when prices are going up to stabilize the market. all the signs are that they really don't want to be in the position of doing it on their

own. >> and that leaves countries like venezuela in a bit of a bind, because we know venezuela, to fund its economy, needs about a $120 barrel of oil. we were hearing the repercussions for the russian economy, but it's hitting some of these member states. >> absolutely. venezuela is one of the key ones. iran's also got serious problems with a low oil price. bear in mind, iran's already lost about a million barrels a day of its oil production as a result of sanctions. so to have a price plummeting on top of that is a very serious problem. others that have got problems with these lower oil prices include nigeria, ecuador. so there really is pressure within the group for production cuts, or at least at a collective level for production cuts. but inevitably, those countries with such serious budget problems have incentives not to make the cuts themselves. they'd really like to see others

doing it. >> is there much talk about the u.s. and what the u.s. has done, shaken up the global oil supply if you will, and whether or not you get a sense has opec lost control? >> i think you could say opec has lost control. if they can't do something in this kind of situation we're in now, a lot of people are asking what on earth would opec be for? yes, of course. they are acutely aware of the shale oil boom there. but it's simply a fact of life. that boom in shale oil is a response to the high prices we had in the last decade, which were very nice for opec at the time. now, it is in a sense coming home to roost. >> indeed. we're going to leave it there. i'll talk to you again in a couple hours on the world business report. we'll get more from you. glaxosmithkline says it could have a viable vaccine for the belle virus for the second half, or by the second half of

next year. first results from trials in the united states have shown a promising response in all 20 volunteers who received the vaccine. and in an exclusive interview with the bbc, our business editor asked the gsk chief executive whether this is the breakthrough in the battle against ebola that the world has been waiting for. >> i think it's a very encouraging first signal. whether it's a breakthrough depends on making sure that all of the rest o'testif the data oe next few weeks and months is in line. but this gives us very significant cause for optimism. >> after the clinical scale trials next year, and if there is still positive signs, could we have a vaccine by 2015? >> if overall that trial is successful, then that should all else equal move us towards a rapid licensure for this vaccine, and we are busy looking at how we can scale up manufacturing capacity, so that as we move into the second half of next year, we'd be in a position to manufacture very large quantities, millions of doses of vaccine, which would then be available in the event

that governments and health authorities felt it necessary to go further than vaccinating health care workers specifically. >> we'll keep across that. this is interesting. we've all experienced it. in-flight seat rage. moments after you've taken off, the seat in front of you lurches back into a full reclining position and out goes your personal space. as airlines try to squeeze ever more seats into the same amount of plane, a guide to in-flight etiquette is hoping to make all journeys better all around as william henson explained. >> the top three things that really annoy people is the person in front of you reclining the seat whilst meal service is still going on, an overchatty neighbor, or a child kicking the back of your seat were pretty grim things. what we can do to stop that is never put your seat back whilst meal service is going on. you are perfectly within your rights to do so, but sort of look behind, make eye contact

with the person, and sort of smile at them in that apologetic way to say i am going to put my seat back, checking that they haven't got a laptop out as well. if a child is kicki ining your , very reasonably talk to the parents and say i'm really sorry, but i don't know if you're aware that your child is kicking my seat, would you mind asking them not to. and anyone in their right mind is not going to get cross with that and they'll think that's acceptable. >> hmm. yeah, they might do. or unless you threaten the kismd i'm only joking. i'm going to leave with you this. the european parliament has voted overwhelmingly in favor of the breakup of search engine right here google. eu lawmakers have been concerned about the power -- they've been talking butt the power that u.s. search engines with google. for example, dominating 90% of the internet search market. lawmakers in strasburg voted in favor of a resolution calling for the eu to look into splitting research businesses from other commercial services.

so we'll continue to keep across this story indeed. lots going on. follow me on twitter. i'll tweet you. you can tweet me back. that's it with the business. the one best top tip i heard when the kid is kicking the seat behind you. put them outside. >> a bit more australian etiquette. >> yes, australian etiquette. that's it. >> aaron, thanks very much indeed. stay with us here on "bbc world news." still to come in "gmt," malians get the final word on their a ancient text. they're launching a plan to return hundreds of texts to timbuktu. for over a decade,

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the top stories this thundershower on "gmt." australia is in mourning following the death of phillip hughes two days after he was struck on the head by a ball during a domestic game. a british security worker is among five people killed in an attack on a uk embassy vehicle in the afghan capital kabul. staying in afghanistan for a moment, hundreds of interpreters who worked for u.s. forces there say they've been added to a u.s. blacklist which leaves them unable to find work or to leave the country, or indeed to take advantage of the special immigration valley is a program. they also say they can't stay in afghanistan because the taliban are trying to find them and execute them. the bbc's tom martinson has been speaking to some of them in kabul. >> reporter: for many, kabul is the safest place they have. all these men claim the taliban are hunting them. >> what's going to happen to us next?

>> reporter: said lost his job after failing a routine polygraph test. his name was added to a list meant to weed out the taliban. >> anywhere where we go, they take our eye scans and do the biometric and say you have worked with the collection forces and now you're blacklisted, we can't give you a job. >> reporter: almost all of the interpreters i've spoken to over the last few days talk about the blacklist, and what this is, is a mark against their biometrics. so the u.s., british military have a system, a database where they put fingerprints, iris scans and personal details of troublemakers, of terrorists, people in the taliban, people who have committed crimes and these interpreters have been put on the list. which means when they try to get a job in government, to get a flight out of afghanistan, when they go to the u.s. embassy to get a u.s. visa, they're marked men. they can't do those things. leaving them trapped in kabul. nadir used to work with u.s.

special forces. >> this is my home. >> reporter: during a raid, he had an argument with his commander. less than a week later, he was sacked and added to the list. he's taking us to his family's village. a year ago, the taliban came here, dragged him from his home to the aggressive yard. more men were waiting for him there. >> they took my hand and brought me here. and their vehicle was parked here. once i saw the other two guys were inside their vehicle, they were armed with a rifle. one of them told me, if you're not going to go without me, i'm going to shoot you in the face. >> they shot me here. the only place which i was feeling myself, it was my own home. but that home became a comfort place for me. >> reporter: the u.s. state department told us, we have the highest respect for the men and women who take enormous risks in supporting our military and

civilian personnel. the secretary of state has asked u.s. congress to provide additional visas for afghan siv applicants so we can continue the program in 2015. but those dismissed will have a very hard time getting a visa, leaving these men without hope, safety, or a future in their own country, where they're being pursued by the taliban. thomas martinson, bbc news, afghanistan. in northern mali, the city of timbuktu is renowned for its thousands of ancient manuscripts covering topics like history, astronomy, islamic law, medicine as well. but the survival of these documents was threatened when the city was occupied in 2012 by islamist militants. and local residents stepped in to protect them. this immense source of knowledge is now going to be at the center of a unesco conference in early december. here is a report from timbuktu. >> reporter: sitting on the edge of the desert, timbuktu, the

city of mystery. a cultural cross road and a historic center of knowledge. it is said to survive with two lungs, its mausoleums and its ancient manuscripts. centuries old writings handed down from generation to generation of the prized possession of families here. so precious, abdul remembers he wasn't even allowed to touch them as a child. >> translator: it is the only thing we inherited. we did not inherit money or houses or a fortune. they mean everything to us. >> reporter: when the city was taken over by islamist militants in 2012, abdul waheed fled his home, but not before carefully stowing away his family legacy. others felt the threat on their heritage was just too great. this man is worried the militants might return, so most of his manuscripts are still

hidden away somewhere in the desert. >> we got organized, and one night we went to put them in an isolated place. they were threatened because they contradicted radical islamic teachings. that's why the militants were trying to destroy them and they did. >> reporter: thousands of documents from timbuktu's public library were turned to ashes when the militants were pushed out of the city and sought their revenge. thankfully, by the time the jihadists left this building, the majority of the manuscripts had already been smuggled out of the city. a huge secret rescue operation involving at least 100 people was set up to take most of timbuktu's treasures 1,000 kilometers away to the capital. this man was at the heart of it, but now he knows they have to find their way back home.

>> translator: our wish is that they return to timbuktu as soon as possible, but under certain conditions. we need security, to renovate libraries and new once, and to digitize the manuscripts as well as improve their conservation. that has already started. so i think we are on the right path. >> reporter: people in timbuktu are desperate to be reunited with their heirlooms. many believe it's the only way the city can be whole again. bbc news, timbuktu. before we go, i want to take you back to our top story. the news of the death of 25-year-old australian cricketer phil hughes. as we know, he was hit on the back of the neck, in fact, by a cricket ball. it caused a massive brain hemorrhage. and despite the best efforts of doctors, he died in hospital as a result of those injuries. it's caused huge distress across the world. he's got his fans far and wide.

this is what a few local fans and players have had to say. >> i did not believe it at first. then i checked google to make sure that it happened. and it was very shocking. i kept on checking the page a number of times just because i did not believe. >> so this is a game of a brave man. if you're playing for your team, if you're playing for your nation. you have to keep the feeling in your heart that whatever may happen, you should not stop playing. >> he was wearing the protective gear of the helmets, shin guard, but still it happened. so it happens. but nobody can predict it, actually. >> the protective gear should be changed. because you see this part is the most critical part of every human being. this is always exposed to the ball when you're facing. the ball can hit anything over here. >> they are protected sometimes, but it generally depends on the player, the way he uses the helmets, the way he uses the gears.

>> he was a great asset for cricket. hopefully in the future there will be more people like him, but he was like a star. he will be a star forever and ever. >> comments on the death of phillip hughes, who would have been 26 this sunday. that's it. thanks for watching "gmt." you owned your car for four years. you named it brad. you loved brad. and then you totaled him. you two had been through everything together. two boyfriends. three jobs. you're like "nothing can replace brad!"

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