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of english. >> hello to ships carrying emergency aid have now reached some of indonesia's islands ravaged by sunday's tsunami. it is now confirmed around 340 people have died but hundreds more are missing. an indonesian authorities are struggling with another repeating disaster. the volcano in central java killed 33 people earlier this week and now erupted again. rachel harvey is there for us. >> one mass grave, one shared emotion. grief. each coffin gently positioned as the victims of the volcano are laid to rest. another cemetery, another burial.

the crowd here gathered to pay their respects to a man known as the gatekeeper. in a land steeped in mysticism, his job is to appease the volcano's angry spirits. he died trying. it is just a few kilometers away from the cemetery but the volcano has been relatively quiet today so people are taking the hunt to lay the victims to rest and to mourn. the images of the volcano's destructive power are now etched on people's minds. once fertile farmland, covered in a ghostly gray shroud of ash. as one community buries their dead, another is still searching for bodies. on the mentawai islands, it was water that did the damage, a tsunami. there's supposed to be warning system in place thee days but it didn't work. the government admitting that ocean sensors which monitor water levels had been

vandalized. no mention of that as indonesia's president witnessed the destruction firsthand, but better planning is on his mind. "we need to relocate residential areas that are prone no national disasters like tsunamis, earthquakes and landslides," he says. communities here on the edge of the sea were completely exposed. entire villages washed away. indonesia has suffered more than its fair share of tragedy. now a double disaster has left it reeling once again. rachel harvey, bbc news, indonesia. in haiti also struggling with the aftermath of a major disaster, the death toll from a clara outbreak has topped 300. with the health ministry sees the figure for new fatalities, 13, as a further sign the death rate is leveling off. however, there's still more than 4,000 infected people in hospital. and recovering from those disasters, haiti and indonesia

will be facing the challenges currently being tackled by pakistan. three months after heavy floods swamped vast areas of the country, 7 million people are still homeless. now with aid running out and winter approaching comes a warning from the united nations the rations will have to be cut by half. the bbc returned to the worst affected area, the southern province of sind. you may find some images in her report distressing. >> still under water, and still in need of help, we flew over the southern province of sind for large areas lie buried beneath floodwaters and many communities are islands of despair. we landed in one of them, a town called doa. the world food program was doing its first round of distributings here. word had spread bringing long

queues. troops deployed to keep the hungry under control. many here told us they had no help from their own government. they are still struggling to cope. in the queue we met this man, who can't feed his six children. translator: when i see my kids, i feel like killing myself. they're crying for food and we are powerless. we just keep quiet and ask god for death. >> it's half a day now and many have been here since 6:00 in the morning. some of these men say they walked for hours to get here. a few have told us they've been going from place to pliss getting turned away everywhere. now they're hoping to get some help here. they're waiting for hours under a blazing sun, wondering if their turn will come before the food runs out.

but his turn didn't come that day and soon there could be even less to go around. the world food program says it will have to cut rations by half in november due to lack of donations. some are already in the grip of starvation, like alina waz. he's battling severe malnutrition and pneumonia. his grandmother never leaves his side. translator: if we weren't so poor, we could have gotten proper treatment. we had 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's rising dangerously since the flood, stalking the

very young. deep in the flood zone we found hidden victims of this crisis. we traveled with the pakistan army to the dawood district. people came waiting through the waters to meet us, hoping we were aid workers. they told us they've had no help in the past month. further on we found communities marooned on embankments as winter approaches. they've been here for two months, and they don't even have tents. failed by their leaders and the international community. bbc news, sind. >> a fresh round of strikes have been causing problems for travelers in france, even though parliament has given final approval. the controversial pension reforms, some unions are saying

they won't give up the fight. air travel has been worst affected by the latest stoppages but overall wednesday's disruption has been on a smaller scale. those strikes, of course, a result of austerity measures brought in by european leaders to deal with the debt crisis and the meeting in brussels at the moment discussing how to prevent a repeat. but it's the e.u.'s own budget that's come under pressure today. 11 countries, including the european powerhouses germany and france signed a letter saying they won't accept any increase in the e.u.'s budget of more than 2.9%. matthew price reports. >> there was a sense of urgency today. the budget deal was being negotiated as leaders gathered to tackle the biggest crisis the euro zone has had to face. this was the catalyst, the greek debt crisis pushed europe to the edge. the common currency teetered. so into the -- enter the most powerful woman in europe. germany's merkel is leading the

charge to make sure it doesn't happen again. translator: in germany we believe that we need to change the e.u. treaty so we're able to react to any future crisis that puts the euro in danger. >> this is the plan so far. countries will have to follow the same rules as now. keep their deficits below 3% of g.d.p., their debts below 60% of national output. to stop the rules being flouted as they have been for years, there would be punishments, a warning and then financial sanctions and then f. necessary, offending countries would be stripped of their e.u. voting rights. the problem for many countries working at this summit is the plan as it stands necessitates a change in the treat dwhray governs the way the european union work. most countries find that simply unpalatable, but yet at the same time they also know since germany is the economic powerhouse of europe, they have

no choice but to listen to it. so countries like ireland could have a problem on their hands. remember how long it took them to agree to the current treaty? no wonder they were looking glum. even he knows europe must have some plan in place. >> we would like to see obviously a situation where the matter is doubtless in a specific and narrow a context as possible. >> in other words, please don't change the treaty. many months of negotiation will be needed to come to any deal and some fear that none of this will tackle the deep, underlying structural problems that lie at the heart of the euro zone. the economic future of many millions of europeans depends on what happens next. matthew price, bbc, brussels. >> the oil services company halliburton have seen its shares drop 15% on revelations on its work on the exploded bp oil rig. an inquiry has found it should have known cement used to seal

the well was unstable but carried on regardless. previously halliburton claimed the design of the rig was the problem. 11 workers were killed, of course, in america's biggest offshore oil spill in the gulf of mexico. the current argentinean president, christina fernandez kitsch ner, has led tributes to her husband. he was her predecessor as leader and widely expected to run for president again. hundreds gathered to pay their respects. from buenos aires, we report now on a nation in mourning. >> mourners began gathering outside the main palace in buenos aires almost as soon as the president's death was announced and they kept coming and coming. many sleeping their overnight to be sure they have not missed the chance to pay their last respects to the man who governed them from 2003 to 2007. translator: we spent the night here and we're going to stay

here until the morning is over because he was our political leader. translator: i think he was an activist in the democratic government. he did a lot for the people. >> his widow christina, who took over for him as president in 2007, shared her grief with the argentine people. accompanied by the couple's two children are the family members and several political friends and allies. translator: the loss of our comrade is painful for me personally, painful for the people and people for the latin-american people. >> he was the secretary-general of the new south american group and saw increasingly influential figure in the region. translator: maybe the best tribute we can make to nestor is strengthen our commitment to construct a unified continent.

>> when the last respects have been paid, the body will be flown south to his hometown, where it will be buried in a local cemetery. when the grieving is done, argentina will start to assess the contribution that nestor made to the country's political life. mr. and mrs. kitchner worked as a team. he was expected to replace her in next year's presidential elections. his widow will now be asking herself how she will continue governing argentina without his huge knowledge and experience. bbc news, buenos aires. >> many -- plenty more still to come for you. stay with us if you can. first, stability in an often troubled region. what is tanzania's secret? first, though, what once had been unthinkable. the head of the secret service mi-6 has become secret service's first intelligence chief to give a limbing televised chief.

he declared his organization would have nothing whatsoever to do with torture but acknowledged british agents had to work in the world as it is. he said they were on confronted with difficult choices. this report from bbc security correspondent gordon kariera. >> the british secret intelligence service mi-6 normally operates in the shadows, keeping away from the light. but today for the first time, a head of mi-6 stepped in front of a tv camera. the man known as c, sir john soros, offered a glimpse not just of himself but his work and insisted it was just a glimpse. >> secrecy is not a andrettiy word. secrecy is not there as a cover-up. secrecy plays a crucial part in keeping britain safe and secure. >> it may seem strange for the head of a secret service to talk publicly about the need for secrecy but the aim of today was to explain what mi-6 really does and doesn't do and deal with some of the controversies that

surround its work. more than a third of mi-6's effort is directed against terrorism, stopping another 77. but this has taken it on to difficult places and on to difficult moral terrain, not least with allegations that british intelligence may have worked with countries that torture. today soros maintained there were limits beyond which mi-6 would not go. in the cold war, mi-6 was not even acknowledged to exist by the government. but in the modern world, the public expects a degree of accountability and transparency. today was all about moving in that direction, while cautioning of the risks of moving too far out of the shadows. >> this is bbc world news. the latest headlines for you this hour. ships carrying emergency aid have reached the indonesian

islands battered by monday's tsunami. 11 european leaders, including britain, france and germany, say a planned 6% increase in the e.u. budget is unacceptable. now many african countries have seen their elections marred by bloodshed and intimidation often caused by tribalism. tanzania where the general election this sunday seems different. how has a country of more than 100 tribes succeeded while many of its neighbors, including rwanda and kenya, suffered such violent ethnic tensions? ♪ >> campaigning is at its highest peak towards the general elections here in tanzania. people from all walks of life have gathered to listen to the candidates from different parties. and like advertise neighboring countries such as rwanda, burendy, kenya has imagined to avoid ethnic violence during its

political campaign. >> we don't look like a tribe. we call ourselves tanzanians and we stand to vote as tanzanians. >> no one can say i'm better than other regions or my tribe is better than other tribes. >> what's what matters is the person i work for is a strong leader who would lead tanzania in the right direction. >> transneons have accepted to bond amongst their tribes, a delivery plan from the inception of this nation. >> our founding fathers merged creation of a nation out of our combination of 120 tribes to be the main agenda for the last 20 years, the adoption of the language used in parliament government and instruction in primary schools but also the chiefs to remove political power over tribal identification. >> these men are both from two different tribes, like both

tanzanians, going outside their tribe has never been an issue. in fact intermarriage has become a strong tie in one country. >> i think if you see our neighbors and where they stay, they all have interaction. >> tanzania has always been a melting pot for culture and ethnicity and no better place to experience this than here. but it's also engraved in their constitution, which does not allow anyone to stimulate against one side. still, some argue tanzanians still have to be alert. >> there are some sentiments not aired in public of some people wanting to use tribes and tribal targets for political campaign. this means actually as much as we've been able to achieve what we achieved in the last 50 years, we need to be vigilant and continue making sure we still conquer the sense of

nation among our people. >> tanzania is a multiculture hub. it's always been connected to the outside world through its geographical location. this has made it a model of civility in a region where most of its neighbors have fallen victims to tribal tension. bbc news, tanzania. >> the united states has accused syria, iran and the islammist group hezbollah of endanchinge egg the stability of lebanon. the american ambassador to the united nations, susan rice, sigeled out syria, accusing it of arming hezbollah and other groups. hezbollah's leader called for all lebanese to boycott the tribunal investigating the murder of the former prime minister. now, life on earth in general is facing unprecedented threats from the growing human population. many species face a dismal future but there are success stories. in the latest of her reports for the bbc series fragile earth, rebecca morrow has been in spain

trying to save the world's rarest cat. >> we're on the trail of the rarest cat in the world. the iberian link is widespread across spain and portugal. now it's almost extinct. we have such tight windows to see before sunrise to access it. there are only 30 left in the area so our chance of seeing one are probably going to be pretty slim. but the previous day i visited a high-tech center where a glimpse is guaranteed. with the lynx's numbers plummeting, scientists were forced to do the unthinkable, capture cats in the wild and place them in captivity to breed. the inhabitants are monitored 24 hours a day by cc tv t costs millions to run. but they say it's all been worth it. this year has seen several new arrivals. >> we are right now very optimistic that we are going to

achieve the increase of the threat of the species by range of action of the new ones. >> the challenge is these cats cannot survive in their old habitats. they need a new place to live, but where? which brings us back to the hunt. the scientists have put radio collars on some of the few cats left in the world. this means they can track the cuts and see how they interact with their environments. this will help them select the best place to release the captive feline. and today the signals will tell us if there's a lynx nearby. we head to a hide and then we wait and wait and just as we're about to call it a day, there it is. at last, a close encounter in the world with the world's rarest cats.

it's apart from rabbits and then as quickly as it appeared, it's gone. the worry is the if these radical conservation plans don't work, these cats can disappear from here for good. bbc news, spain. >> and talking of rare animals, the first gorilla born at london's 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 become a 25 stone silverback gorilla. now, as any english speaker knows, there are a whole range of ways to pronounce the language. do you say seyz or says, mischievous? well, researchers are recording people to find out how english pronunciation evolved. we entered the linguistic

minefield. >> says? >> not sez. >> says. >> sez. >> says. >> sez. >> sez. >> so, who's right? meet johnny robinson, a social linguist from the british library. >> personally i would pronounce that says. however is, i think younger speakers are beginning to say seys, possibly influenced by the spelling. >> ate? >> not et? >> no, that's awful. >> ate, et. >> ate? >> et. >> ate. >> et. >> ate. it's et, isn't it? it's not ate, it's wrong. >> whether you say right and wrong, there's no right and wrong in terms of pronunciation but certainly dictionaries, all of the dictionaries recommend et as the approved form of that world but increasingly over times we accept modern

dictionaries accepting ate as an alternative. >> mischievous, what would you say? >> there's no other way there. >> mischievous. >> i expect your right but i would say mischievous. >> miss cheevous. >> mischievous. >> mischievous. >> i say mischievous but, again, there are other pronunciations you hear and even mischievous. again, they're younger. generally the last ones with the long e vowling are younger, a bit like the handkerchief. >> pronunciations change. have a listen to this -- >> the news, another casualty have the combat allow a luxury, inherent beauty and priss tine condition financed. there's been some respite temporarily for the markets. >> it sounds odd but these were all official bbc pronunciations

in 1998. press teen was presstine. how about today? >> half past eight sunday morning. >> in a small house on the other side of the water. >> the british library is using mr. tickle. across the u.k. they're asking people to read out the same passage for a book to see how accents and pronunciations are shifting. >> mr. tickle felt hungry. so do you know what he did? >> it's not right or wrong, just fashion. scallop, harass, harass. but, of course, it doesn't mean there won't be some fights along the way. >> h. >> not hh? >> no, h. >> it's h. it's h. it doesn't have an h at the beginning. >> i still say aitch, h. >> i still say hh. >> bbc news. >> i should say this briefly and very carefully, thanks very much indeed for watching "bbc world

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