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>> hello, and welcome. it may be an apparent breakthrough as intelligence agencies try to stop an alleged terror threat to europe and officials in pakistan say the least eight militants of been killed in missile strike by u.s. drone on a house in the northwest of the country. reports say at least three of the more german nationals of middle eastern origin. officials said that the man or suspected to be members of al qaeda. it is the latest in a series of drone attacks in the area in recent weeks. the interior minister of germans -- of germany has played down the threat of german targets piled high debt or other groups. joining us is our correspondent from berlin. does this amount up to being an imminent threat? >> the word eminence is a difficult word, clearly. but washington was using that word, imminent, and the german interior minister was not. what happened in between the

two, we do not quite know. but what may have happened is this drawn attack. let's go back a bit of the german authorities have been briefing pretty heavily that back in the 2009, about a dozen islamist militants from hamburg vanished from their homes and were believed to account afghanistan or northern pakistan. and we know as well that in july of this year, one of those people was arrested in afghanistan and has been questioned by the americans ever since. suppling as bits of information together, you can surmise that this man who was arrested had -- was giving information about the likelihood of an attack. how that translated into the word imminent, we do not know. but what we did know was that on monday afternoon, we had the strong attack on it the house in northern pakistan in which some german citizens were killed. that is according to pakistani sources. so again, piecing together the

pieces, you could surmise that the people that vanished in homburg, of whom this man who was picked up in afghanistan was one, were the people killed in the drone attack. then made and explain the softer tone, if you like, coming out of the interior ministry in germany about five hours ago. >> put together the paper trail of what we think amounts to being evidence with the drone attacks, and we're talking about berlin, paris, and or london. so if you're in those three cities, does that mean you're safer following on from the drone attacks and you were before the ground attack? >> well, certainly if these people are islamist militants or in that area to train themselves and be trained and have to blow up people in european cities, you are safer because they are dead. there's no doubt of that. but if you listen to the german

interior minister this afternoon, he was emphasizing that he did not think there was a threat of an imminent attack. he said there is a vague threat but there had been that vague threat since way back in 2009. then new ask yourself why 2009 -- well, that was the time when these people disappeared from hamburg. so the way he was putting that statement, he seemed to be implying that we knew there was a difficult, if you like, we knew those b-girl were out there when it vanished from hamburg, and there's no reason to believe there is anything a man and from then. if the immediate threat is diminished by the drone attacks in pakistan, you have to ask yourself what kind of an imminent threat could it have been from people that remote from europe, so clearly, these people, if they are the people we think they are, well, then, there were dangerous people, and they are now out of the game.

whether there are other people still in the game remains to be seen. >> thank you very much. the vital supply line of nato through pakistan is facing the threat of more attacks. the taliban says that will strike again after today's rate of fuel tankers close to the capital city islamabad. least three people were killed in the assault on the tanker depot, which is possibly fuel resupply operation for western forces, in neighboring afghanistan. from islamabad -- >> more nato tankers going up in flames. police say about 10 gunmen struck undercover of darkness, spraying the fuel tankers and their drivers with automatic weapons. after doing all this, the gunman calmly walked away, according to witnesses. and this was the scene in daylight. the taliban say they carried out

this attack. survivors say it was merciless. >> i was asleep on top of my truck and saw a gunman. he shouted, god is great, and started firing. as i ran away, i was shot dead. >> this obvious target had no protection. there was no one to stop the taliban who came to torch the depot. hasome you can see what th been done here, and there's still some smoke rising. drivers said there was a warning from police two days ago. there were told not to stay with their vehicles overnight. but there were not offered any production. these trucks are checked regularly by the militants. but now they are a particularly easy target. that have been stranded since last week when pakistan closed the past to nato convoys. >> that followed a negative air strike near the afghan border, which killed three pakistani

troops. a local tv channel claims this is footage of the attack, which provoked widespread anger here. nato has been paying the price with a loss of access to the tiber pass, vitally needed supplies are trapped at the border. the secretary-general of nato has expressed regret for the deaths and appeal to pakistan to let the convoys through, and as soon as possible. bbc news, is, bob. >> brazil has to wait a little bit longer to find out who will be the country's next head of state. the president had chosen the former marxist guerrilla to succeed him, but he narrowly failed to get elected in the first round. there will be a runoff in four weeks' time. >> of the president's popularity was not enough to elect his anointed successor. workers party will have to face

a surprise second round to try and become the first woman president of brazil. very well positioned to do a good job in the second round. we're certain of the will be an important process of verification and dialogue about the social movement and representatives for the civilian society. >> only one week ago, it seemed almost certain that there would be and out right first-round win. but she has lost a lot of ground over the last few days of campaigning have to corruption charges emerged after a former aide of hers in the government. her opinion is in favor of the right for a version may have heard her image with evangelical voters. opposition candidates came in second, but he will have a whole new battle ahead to avert the headstart. >> think it will be a political

war. opposition against it against the president and his support, popularity, story, and the way he has led and everything he can put on the table right now. >> with brazil's economic growth, it will not be easy to win the elections by criticizing the president's government. he will have to convince voters that he is the best person on the current government's social and economic achievements that have already brought millions of brazilians out of poverty. >> it was a disappointment for the workers' party that a candidate cannot secure a first- round win despite the enormous popularity of president lula's government. there is a clear favorite to win the elections.

but there is four weeks to go before the second round in the complaint. that is a rather long time. abc news, brazil. >> -- known for his views on islam has gone on trial, charged with inciting hatred against muslims. the party is said to be in the governing coalition faces a two year in jail if found guilty. the charges relate to a film he made in which there parallels between the koran and nazi died theology. >> he is on trial on five charges of inciting hatred on discrimination against muslims. including hate speech, causing islam's fascist and likening the koran to hitler's camps. but he says to the court said he is a nothing offensive. he is defending his right to freedom of speech and says his trial is a political process.

he campaigns for a stop to muslim integration, and on the construction of new mosques, and a tax. he says his mission is to stop the is opposition of the netherlands. >> what to fight for the preservation of our own identity. i believe the netherlands in many parts of europe are not our identity as a culture based on christianity. judy is an, humanism, and not on islam. >> prosecutors accuse him of inciting hatred in his 17-minute film which sparked protest around the world. while freedom of speech was at the heart of the dutch constitution, judges said that in a democratic system, it is in a general interest to draw a clear line on the limits of hate speech. wilders is set to become a shadow partner in the next coalition government. but it is not clear whether a

conviction would affect his seat in parliament or the government's willingness to deal with him. bbc news, the hague. >> in europe, a vatican official criticized the award of this year's nobel prize for medicine to the scientist who's worked on human infertility led to the creation of test tube babies. he said the decision disregarded the destruction of human embryos. the medical breakthrough by the 85-your doctor has helped millions of couples become parents. our science correspondent has more. >> at first, it caused a sensation. it was the world's first test- tube baby. what seemed a miracle than is now commonplace. but in an interview given two years ago, he said that at the time, some regarded it as an unnatural. >> it was all over bristol and england. secretly.

he hit the mother and around 2 linkedin. >> is idea was simple. to fertilize an egg with sperm in a dish and then implanted back into the womb. >> outstanding work. he has created hope for millions of infertile couples around the world who would not have had a baby if this technique can not been invented. >> in the early days, there were problems. pregnancies were hard to achieve, and when they were, there were often multiple births. over the years there, it has become a safe and reliable technique. but it is not widely available. and private clinics, each attempt to cost thousands. the technology has also led to the use of embryos for cloning and stem cell research. louise, with her mother, was conceived naturally and held dr. edwards celebrate the 30th

anniversary of ivf two years ago. it is a technology that has now become widely used and transformed the lives of millions across the world. bbc news. >> you're watching "bbc world news." still to come, life in the deep. the results of the decade-long study of the world's oceans. ♪ >> africa might be growing richer, but africans are enjoying was political freedom. that seems to be the conclusion of the just published index of the performance of ever government. the ranking is sponsored by it is sudanese billionaire. emily reports. >> the two faces of africa. a booming shopping mall in south africa and fighting in somalia's capital, mogadishu. a continent where most economies are doing better. but where political stability and human rights are also on the retreat.

the index measures of economic and human development factors, and this year, as in previous years, the top three performers are the richest. the countries with the lowest scores are somalia, chad, and the democratic republic of congo. the author of the report says nigeria never fails. and the sizeable oil wells in this year's celebrations for 50 years of independence and now ranks below sierra leone and liberia for overall governments. madagascar has plummeted in the rankings i just one year. after a coup which scared off tourists and foreign investors bid up and lift the economy in tatters with high unemployment and malnutrition for the poor children. >> we are aware of the number of military coups in africa. a big number. we see some presidents who like playing around with the situation, trying to extend terms.

so there's some issues. politics can bring a country down. you have to be very careful about that. >> more encouraging is kenya. its ranking will have improved since the index was compiled good of the country is a leading player in the east covered in community, which has recently launched a common market for goods, labor, and capital, to stimulate the region's economy. bbc news. ♪ "bbc world news" is presented by kcet, los angeles. >> you're watching "bbc world news" from london. eight islamist militants reported to have been killed in a missile strike by an american ground. at least three are understood to being german nationals. the dutch politician who has gone on trial, accused of inciting hatred against muslims. the charges relate to a film he made which drew parallels between the koran and nazi ideology. it is being described as the most conference of study ever

conducted on the wildlife of our oceans. the census of marine life to 10 years to compile and brings together data from hundreds of research expeditions around the world. here is daniel. >> the oceans cover more than 70% of the world's surface area. scientific knowledge of large parts of the marine environment is limited. this census has been the firm's current attempt to catalog species to compile the information that already exists and to make new discoveries. got is association for marine science is one of hundreds of organizations that took part in the project that spanned the globe and took a decade to complete. >> this technique is one used during the census for shallow waters. this device has been a the bottom of the seabed to pick up a sample of mud to find out what lives inside that. >> and more sophisticated methods at greater depths of sound completely new species.

they discover this tiny warm four kilometers down in the antarctic. >> we have been looking for tiny microbes. we have been looking at all the animals were confined in all these different environment. it has been a huge, quite complicated undertaking. >> founders believe there are around a quarter of a million and marine species. research suggests there could be three times that many, but they have yet to discover. even then the picture is incomplete, the census has provided much-needed information on some of the most complex and mysterious ecosystems. >> not only do we understand more about individual species, but we understand how they relate to one another. that is important as far as conservation is concerned, because we need to understand how these creatures interact and also the effect they have on other parts of the ocean. >> that understanding will not be used to measure the impact of threats like pollution overfishing in changing ocean

temperatures. bbc news. >> we're getting used to making friends on social networking sites such as facebook and winter. but now there's a new friend. companies want to be your friend. they're rushing to use the side to talk to customers. but as it is being reported, the marketing strategy is not risk- free. >> good morning. >> made a man with more than 14 million maids. actually, they are friends of his company, starbucks, which has decided facebook is the best way to have a conversation with customers. the coffee chain uses the social network and discusses services, debates what flavors of shebaa offer, and generally hang out on the web. >> over the last 10 years, there has been an erosion of trust with large institutions. and i think that what companies have to do is engage in a conversation with its customers, and the conversation has to be two-way. >> so companies like starbucks

are convinced that the likes of facebook, a slender, and youtube provide a new way of engaging with customers -- and what the winter. but when things go wrong, they're finding that their customers are also rather good using these new methods. this summer, a comedy videos about the deep water horizons built reach across the web after the will spread across the gulf of mexico. the oil committee did eventually is everything from twitter to youtube to get the message is out, but the parody's of far more attention. >> what they created is a disaster. it was a social disaster. why? because they appeared tone-deaf. >> companies with huge social networks can seem almost as that as people are obsess about how many facebook friends they have. >> letter they really learning about their business that they cannot learn better? and actually get the business itself rather than looking at

the second order of what people actually think about it. >> starbucks believes that knowing whether it's facebook friends love or hate a pumpkin spice lot say is a big step forward and affects many other businesses to make friends with you whether you like it or not. bbc news. >> baghdad used to be full of cinemas, but conflict has almost killed offered was a once thriving industry. but a new sort of cinema has opened up in baghdad. one the owners hope will bring people back to the movie theaters. >> it calls itself the 4d cinema. for the people of baghdad, it is a totally new experience. it is pretty exciting, too. objects laid out from the screen. instead of the arab sheik -- steve shaikh with the action. there is even wind and bubbles

to help put you into the fourth dimension. but what is really unusual about this scene is not the 3 day class is for the hi-tech gadgets. what is unusual is saying families at the cinema. >> the cinemas have become so awful that families never seemed to go anymore. we of the families will come to the cinema. it is a safe and clean place. >> it is not the people here do not like the movies. at the market, they're doing a brisk trade in selma. >> $1. >> right, this is one of the things that has helped to kill off some in iraq. dvd.rise of the pirate since the invasion, the industry is booming. after the fall of saddam hussein, bad debts brought it a

proliferation of satellite dishes. as the country collapsed into violence, people prefer to take their entertainment into relative safety of their own homes. the future houses that are still running, now almost exclusively show pornography. >> this is a filmmaker. used to visit this cinema back in the 1970's and 1980's. now the place is falling apart. and he says the government does not care because it is interested in religion, culture. >> it is a microscopic image for what has happened to the whole country. everything into the wrong hands. so it is a normal results for the administration. >> this cinema has been open for more than 70 years. the men who run it today said it breaks their heart to see it in such a state. the projectionist still clings

to the old days. they have a beautiful hall here. and some great old films. but they do not have an audience. bbc news. baghdad. >> the peace ryder cup is back in european hands of dramatic day caltech manner in wells. colin montgomerie's men be the u.s. side. it was one of the closest finishes ever in a ryder cup and the first monday finish. it all came down to the final singles match. >> it always promised to be a nail biting day cal tech manner. lee leading off europe gave an advantage tuesday. the u.s. or off and running. europe needed big names to come to the fore. ian porter showed again that he is the man for the good ryder cup location. a decisive one over mattt.

tiger was brought his a-game to this year's event, as the americans five that gained on them as momentum. and ricky came from four downturn and unlike the 1/2. but everything came down to the last match. u.s. open champion against hunter. the northern irishman needed inspiration and found in some with an excellent putt on the 16th. keeping the pressure of four days. the american cannot respond, and the ryder cup he was back in your opinions after one of the most dramatic matches an 83-year industry of the event. bbc news. >> just before we go, a quick reminder of our top story. security officials in pakistan say eight islamist militants have been killed in a missile strike by a drunk, piloted by u.s. aircraft. at least three reported to be german nationals.

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