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>> help finally reaches the parts of indonesia out worst hit by the tsunami periods trying to avoid another greek that crisis. iwelcome to "bbc world news," broadcast to our viewers on pbs in america, also around the globe. my name is mike embley. coming up later for you -- three months after the floods in pakistan, millions are waiting for help. >> we have been waiting for hours under a blazing sun, wondering if their turn will come before the food runs out. >> and the ever-changing the pronunciation of english.

hello to year. emergency aid has reached some of the most remote islands ravaged by monday's tsunami. it is confirmed 340 died, but hundreds more are missing. indonesian authorities are struggling with another repeating disaster. of volcano eruption killed 33 earlier this week, and now it is erupting again. rachel harvey is there for us. >> one at mass grave, one shared emotion. grief. each coffin gently positioned as the victims of the volcano are laid to rest. at another cemetery. the crowd has gathered to pay their respects to a man known as

"the gatekeeper." he died trying to calm the volcano spirits. this upgrade is just a few kilometers away. people here are taking the opportunity to lay the victims to rest and mourn. the image of the destructive power is etched in people's minds. once a fertile farmland covered in a ghostly gray shroud of ash. as one community berries their dead, another searches for bodies. the tsunami did the damage. there is supposed to be a warning system in place these days, but it did not work. the government admitted ocean censors had been vandalized. no mention of that when the

indonesian president witnessed the destruction firsthand. >> we need to relocate residential areas prone to natural disasters of like earthquakes and landslides. >> indonesia has suffered more than its fair share of tragedy. now a dozen disasters or leave it reeling once again. rachel harvey, bbc news. >> in haiti, also struggling with the aftermath of a major disaster, the death toll from cholera outbreak has topped 300. the health minister sees signs the death rate is leveling off. there are still 4000 are in hospital. recovering from those disasters, haiti and indonesia will face the challenges currently being tackled by pakistan. three months after floods, 7 million are still homeless. with eight running out and

winter approaching, a warning from the united nations that russians will have to be cut by half. orla guerin is in one of the worst affected areas. you may find some of the image is distressing. >> still under water, and still in need of help. we flew over the southern province of sindh where many communities are islands of despair. .e landed in one of them the world food program was doing its first round of distributions here. word had spread, bringing long lines. troops deployed to keep the country under control. many here told us they have had no help from their own government.

the town is struggling to go. in the line, we've met a person who could not feed his children. >> when i see my kids, i feel like killing myself. they are crying for food, and we are powerless. we just keep quiet and ask god for death. >> many have been here since 6:00 a.m., and some of these men say they walked for hours to get here. they have been going from place to place, getting turned away everywhere. now they are hoping to get some help. they have been waiting for hours under a blazing sun wondering if their turn will come before the food runs out his turn did not come that day. soon there could be less to go around. the world food program says it will have to cut rations by

half in november to lack of donations. some are already in the grip of starvation, like ali. he is battling severe malnutrition and pneumonia. his grandmother never leaves his side. >> if we were not so poor, we could have a profit -- proper treatment. we have to sleep under the open sky. how can we save him from this misery? >> malnutrition is always a problem here, but aid agencies say it has risen dangerously since the flood, stoking the very young. deep in the flood zone, we found victims of the crisis. we traveled with the pakistan army.

people came up wading through the waters to meet us, hoping we were aid workers. they told us they had no help in the past month. further on, we found communities more round on embankments as winter approaches. they have been here for two months, and they do not even have tents. billed by their leaders and the international community. -- failed by their leaders and the international community. orla guerin, bbc news. >> a fresh round of strikes have been causing problems for travelers on in france, even though parliament gave approval to controversial pension reforms. some union say they will not give up the fight. when days -- wednesday's destruction has been on a smaller scale than before. the strikes were spurred by

austerity measures to deal with the debt crisis. it is the european union budget that has come under pressure today. 11 countries, including germany and france, have signed a letter saying they will not accept any increase and the european union budget. michael rich reports. >> they are focusing on how to get themselves in the best shape to handle financial crises in the future. but the british prime minister came to brussels with a more specific financial goal in mind. to oppose the european parliament wished to increase the eu budget by almost 6%. >> adding that is completely unacceptable at a time when european countries including the united kingdom are taking a tough decisions on their budgets.

we do not believe they should be spending more money on themselves. 6% is not acceptable. i have built an alliance with my colleagues to put a stop to that and see if we can do something better. >> but it is scenes like those seen on the streets of athens earlier this year that are likely to preoccupy the. the eu only reluctantly agreed to bail greece out. it seems that the eu is trying to come up with a way to make sure a crisis of this kind never happens again. germany and france have their own plan. countries with excessive debt would have their e you voting rights taken away. most controversial, the idea that changes would have to be made to the treaty that bind the eu together. the german chancellor standing by her believe today that some modification might be required to ensure that any future rescues pose less of a threat to

the u.s. and its currency. the last changes took so long to negotiate -- it will be a challenging summit all around. bbc news. >> the current argentinian president has launched tributes to her husband's nestor kitschner. we have more on an nation in mourning. >> people began gathering almost as soon as his death was announced. and they kept coming and coming. most stayed overnight to ensure they did not lose their chance to pay last respects to the man who govern them until 2007. >> we spent the night here and we are going to stay here until

is overs mourning because he was our political leader. >> i think he was an accident for the democratic government. he did a lot for the people. >> his widow christina at shared her grief with the argentine people. [unintelligible] >> accompanied by the couple's children, family members and several political friends and allies. [applause] >> the loss of our comrades nestor is painful for the latin american people. >> he was the secretary general of the new south american group, and an increasingly influential

figure in the region. >> it may be the best tribute we can make to nestor is to honor our commitment to construct a unified continent. >> when last respects are paid, the body will be flown sell to his home town where it will be buried in a local cemetery. when the grieving is done, argentina will assess his contributions. he was expected to replace his wife in next year's presidential election. his widow will now have to ask yourself how she will continue to govern argentina without his huge knowledge and experience? bbc news. >> and do stay with us, if you can, and "bbc world news." still to come -- what is the secret of tanzania. first though, it would once have

been unthinkable. the head of the secret service firstcome britain's chiefs to give a live televised speech. he says that the organization has had nothing to do with torture. he says they are often confronted with difficult choices. we have this report from our security correspondent. >> the british secret intelligence service, mi6, normally operates in the shadows. today, the head of mi6 stepped in front of television cameras. the man known as c, sir john sawers, insisted. >> secrecy is not a dirty word. secrecy plays a part in keeping britain safe and secure. >> it may seem the -- it may

seem strange for the head of the secret service to talk publicly about the need for secrecy. but the aim was to talk about what's mi6 does and does not do. and to talk about some of the controversy that's around its work. a third of their operations are aimed against terrorism, stopping another 7/7. today, sir john sawers maintained there were limits beyond weremi6 would not go. in the cold war, mi6 was not even acknowledged to exist by the government. but now the public expects a level of transparency. today was about moving in that direction. bbc news.

>> the latest headlines for you this hour on "bbc world news." ships carrying emergency aid have reached the indonesian island battered by monday tsunami. european union leaders meet to decide how to protect their economies from another debt crisis. many african countries are seeing their elections marred by bloodshed and intimidation, often caused by tribalism. tanzanian seems different, with a general election this sunday. how does a country with more than 100 tried succeeded -- how has a country with more than 100 tribes succeeded when many of its neighbors have not? we have this report. >> campaigning is at its height. people from all walks of life have gathered to listen to the candidates.

and like its neighboring countries such as kenya and somalia, tanzania has had ethnic violence during its political campaign. >> we vote as tanzanian its. -- tanzanians. >> [unintelligible] >> what matters is the person i vote for is a strong leader. it will lead tanzanian the right direction. >> our founding fathers married the creation of a nation come up with the gathering of 120 tribes together. but also there was the abolition of chiefs and keep them as --

chiefdoms. >> these two live in different tribes. intermarriage has become important and identifying tanzania as one country. >> i think if you were to seek -- they all had interaction. >> tanzania is a multi-cultural hub that has always been connected to the outside. this has made it a model of stability in a region where most of its neighbors have fallen as the victims into tribal tension. bbc news, tanzania. >> the first audit of american aid for the rebuilding of afghanistan says that the spending is a poorly coordinated and hard to track. it speaks of a confusing

labyrinth with accounting very unclear. they were unable to attract nearly $18 billion donated to afghanistan between 2007 and 2009. some money to contractors with little communication in between them. in total, the u.s. has run up billions of dollars since invading in 2001. >> the audit is there to see all the money donated by the united states is being spent properly. united states and $17.7 billion here in afghanistan. that money going to 7000 different contractors. what the auditor has found is that money was not trapped very well in most of the department's.

they were not readily able to see how much was being spent at anyone time or where that money was going to. there was no coordination. even internally, some of the departments were not aware of how money was being spent. what was going to different contractors. a confusing labyrinth without the inspector general describes that statement, but he has been able to shed some light into that darkness. he says the biggest contract, $1.8 billion went to police training here in afghanistan. it did not all go to american companies. $700 million worth of expenditure went to one kabul construction company building barracks and housing for various u.s. departments. overall, congress has authorized something like $55 billion worth of expenditure here in afghanistan. but the special inspector

general says he has not been able to track that previous expenditure because the data had not been properly recorded in the figures are not clear enough to be able to see where that money went and how it was spent. >> from the afghan capital for us. unprecedented and threats from the human population. many indigenous species is facing a threat, but there are success stories. rebekah morale has been in spain with a conservation project trying to save the world's rarest cat. >> we are on the trail of the risk that in the world. the iberian links risks extinction. -- lynx risks extinction. [inaudible]

[unintelligible] the previous day, i visited a high-tech center. with the numbers of the cats plummeting, scientists had to do the unthinkable -- catch a cat in the wild and take them into captivity to breed. they are monitored 24 hours a day by cctv. it costs millions of tehran. but they say it has all been worth that. >> we are going to achieve the of the threat by means of the introduction. >> the challenge is that these cats cannot survive and in their old habitats. they need a new place to live. but where? which brings us back to the hunts. the scientists say there are few

cats left and in the wild. if they can track the cats, they will see how they interact with the environment. this will tell them the best place to release the cats. today, the signals will tell us that there is a lynx nearby. we had there and wait. and white. and just as we are about to call it a day, there it is. at last, a close encounter in the wild with the world's rarest cats. as quickly as it appeared, it is gone. the worry is, if these radical conservation firms in network, these cats could disappear for good. bbc news, spain. >> talking of rare animals, the first gorilla born at london zoo

in 20 years has made his first appearance before the cameras. the male youngster, not yet named, was born on tuesday. his father died at the zoo earlier this year. eventually he should grow up to be a 25-stone silverback gorilla. as any english speaker knows, there are a range of ways to pronounced the language. do you say says or says? our correspondent injured people linguistic minefield. >> says. >> not says. >> says. >> so, who is right? meet a says seo-a linguist at the british library. >> however? >> however, younger speakers are saying "says," perhaps

influenced by the spelling. >> ate? >> not ate? >> definitely not. >> it is ate, isn't it? >> certainly, older dictionaries recommend ate. increasingly over time, we see more dictionaries with ate. >> missed pbs. >> what did you say? >> there is no "i" in there. >> how would you say it? >> mischievous. >> the news. another casualty of the comeback. it spreads sign -- pristine

condition. >> pristine was pristine. but how about today? >> he was fast asleep. >> the british library wants as many people as possible to read the book. but they do not all agree on certain matters. >> h? >> it does not have an "h" at the beginning. >> bbc news. >> i shall say this only once and very, very carefully. you can find much more on that and all of today's stories online at bbc.com. you can get in touch with me and most of the team on twitter. you can catch up with me and most of the team on twitter. i'm @bbcmikeembley.

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