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♪ >> could it become the wot flu pandemic ever? how countries ound the world are dealing worldswine flu. >> it surrounds t. --ou. > ben bernanke says that the

policies have helpedo prop up the economy. how the conflict in the congo coul be supplying pts for the phone in yr pocket. welcome to bbc news. guerrill made a good, former fighters bringing order kurdistan. a woman desperately hunts for hevaluable shoe. the world health oanization is now callin swine flu the faest moving pandemic ever. the death toll stands at mre than 700 worldwide. that is a jump of 60% from a few

weeks ag britain is a months the state's best prepared for the -- is amongs te country's best preparedor the pandemic. >> here in china, the authories have ken tough measures to stop the spreadf swine flu. they are not taking any chances healthfficials -- theyre not taking chances. how ficials screen people before they get f of the flight. if y around wit vz swine flu, you are pced in quarantine. these people have been spending eks cfinement. shoots around you. >> in the past, china was

critized for spreading its sars virus to the restf the world. it is worried tt they will not able to cope witthewine flu. in ily, they are doing things differently. >> in ital the reaction has been much more subtle. therere no restrictions tourism for medil exinations. italiansre being advised to cck before traveling to plac ike the.k. there have been only50 cases of swine flu herend no deaths. they are foowing the advice of the world health organizaon. >> we are ver fast in respondg. >> italy expects the case is to rise in september when children go back to school. there's talkf delaying the start oferm.

the u.s. has a diffent reaction to the swine flu. >> the concern here in the u.s. is that th swine flu is coinuingto spread even during the hot summer months. it has evenit here, swine flu vaded about 50 u.s. summer camp this volunteer tested positive. >> i did not feel to bad. i s kind of tired. >> ameri havaccinates millions of pele every fall. they are worried at the swine fl could comne with another regular food and become deadly. >> president obama has been telling people to wash their has. he says to be preped. >> you would like more

contt, check out the blo of our medical corresponnt who brings together l of the informion on swine flu and puts it into perspective. about 60 people e in thuk alone every year from ordary flu. itas a case of good news, bad news on capitol hill in washingt. the chairmen the u.s. central bank, ben bernanke, said that the econy should start piing up as the yr progresses. he added the dnside, unemplment is running at 9.5% of the rk force and it would incrse. >> ofthe federal reserveas cut shorterm interest tes to record lowsand palms hundreds millions of dollars into the banking system -- and pumps

hundre of millions of dollars into the banking system. giving his evidence to congress, ben bernanke says that the actions have helped to vert the collse of the financl system. >> the u.s. econo contracted sharply in the fourth quarter of this year and the last quarter of thisear. the pac of decne appears to have slowed significany and there are signs of stabilizion. the labor market is continuing to wken. consumer price inflation remains subdued in the rst six months of009. >> as economic recovery takes hold, there is a danr that the sheer amount of money i the banking system wilcause inflation t ke off. mr. bernanke reassured congress that the fed hashe nessary tools to impleme the banki rategy. the feral reserve isnder attack fm some politicians washington who believe that has

become too powerful. th want toxpand e power of the gornment toudit the d's decisions. ben bernankearned thathese ves woulde seen as an attack on the indepeence of the federaleserve and could lead tohigher interest rates and inflation inhe future. >> report from iran say that there are fresh classesetween police and opposition demonstrators. this vid shows the latest confrontation between the two sides we have not been ablto verify this amateur video. eyewitnesses say that dozensf people have been arrest in one of the main squares. simtaneous attas by the taliban in two afghan ties haveeft five members of the seurity forces and fiv militants dead. they com amid a spike in violence ahead of elecons on the 20thf august.

spain's foreigminister has ma the first visit t gibraltar since the area was captured by britain's three centuries ago. heet the british foreign minister. he said that longstanng claims at gibraltar was not onhe agenda. there will be published tails of convertionshat are between the pme minister of italy and a prostitute. he has recently been dealing with a series of allegation he says that he has never paid for sex. x that a standa feature of aids treatmentn africa has than having ttle benef. scientists inou gotta have concded tat expenveests ha only a marginal effect on

survival rate -- scntists in uganda have conclud that expensive tests have only a marginal effect. >> doctors sa that this resech suld help villers. a week aer thisoman gave birth, she walks0 kilometers t get medicine to prevent her and her babyrom getting sic with aids. >> it takes me o days to get here. i dohis because i want to be healthy. iant to be able to look afr myhildren. >> with no treatme avaible near her village,his would be a regular journey to avoidhe fate of her husband who died rom aids. the is still no ce but drug can stop aids fm developing. the fficulty in rural afra is that normal aids treatnt

also requiresatience to do regular laboratory blood test to test foride effectsnd make se that the medicines are working. inoing these tests in africa is challenging. it requires sophiicated laboratories usual only found in big cities and a lg way from the villages whe most peopllive. now te results of africa' larges ever hiv/aids clinic trial shows that the three teen chess have very little benefit for patience - ese routine tes have very little benefit for patients. they fnd some tes hadonly a small befit but others had none at all. doctors say that they will make it more cheap d simple to get teatments in villagclinics acss aica rather tn king peopleravel

to laboraties. >> we are providing good suort. we are able to provide treatment for many more people cse to where they lived. >> in which case, christine m soon no longer have t make this long walk ho. she called he baby "cld born after hifather's death th only hope for som people is to get t medicine toheir village ich would now be much easier. helping the people of africa to help themselves washe theme of president oma as recent visit. -- president obama's recent vit. the misuse african assets is now the focus of a report by an campaign group which says that violence in the democratic

republic of congo is fuled by companies buy minerals there without checkingheir origins. >> hen president obama visited africa, he went to ghana, a example of relative success. he said tatt was tim that african leaderstopped blaming the outside world. president obama's faer was from kenya andenya had high hopes they woulde honored wit a visit. the governmenthere is riddled with couption and the port sink further intoisery. nigea has been blessewith a large oil well. this has become an areaf corrupti and conflict. the limbs fom sierra leone civil war are just the most visle scars of the conflict

fueled by competition io the country's diamond profit. of the mineral that is not mi it is sold on toake -- e mineral that is if mined is sold to companies to make mobile phone parts. global witness saysthat there and they leave many civilians devastated in their wake. western companies through intermediaries. >> these companies are not doing enou to see where these minerals are coming from. we are not saying they ar doing anything illal. they are n doing the nessary due diligee to make sure tha they are not purasing merals that havcome fro warring

parties. >> e of the companies feared in the report is the world's fifth largest producer of tin. they e ownedy a british metals giant. they have recently enhanced their due ligence program to makehe supply chain more transparent the resource cur is mamade which means that it can be cured. ther ar also the challenges of nature and disease. whatever the cause of poverty, e net result is that 22 million childrenn africa. chdren every day. -- in africa go hung every day. >> as special repts on cctvn britai. w to japan where the ime

minister has beenpologizing to his party's pporters for a series of local electio disputes. >> he is3j puttin on a brave face but even some in taro aso's party believe that he is leading them to a storic deat. the ime minister has called an election. he apologized r past mistakes and called for more me. >> i the inappropriat comments madepeople less able to trust the government, i am deeply sorry. >> the cabinet minists have objected to the election which could have been delayed until ocber. critics in the primminister's party have called for him to be ousted. the rebellion failed to get off f the ground before mr. aso

could pass. >> i havreceived a document from the prime minister. it says "i hereby dissolve parliament underhe japanese constituti. >> it is th man who hopesto be theext prime minister. he democratic party of japanis well ahe in the opinion polls. a politic fund raising scandal has already claime one oppositioneader this year, this man. he was stting at his successor'side. taro aso will be hing that the democratic party of japan stbles' again. that balance of wer changes, thiwill be a huge change for japan. but there has only been one other government in more than alf a century.

>> this is bc world news. swine flu has claimed at least 700 lives. the world hlth organization says that it is spreing so st tt there's no point counting cases. ben bernanke says that the economy is improvg bu unemploymentill rise further. a former guerrilla force in kurdistan fought against saddam hussein but now th are taking care of security inkurdistan ahead of elections later this mont our report is from northe iraq for we ve witnessed the changing role of the guerrilla force. >> they used to be rebels but today, they are one of the st organized forc in iraq. the me of thei organization

means "those whface death." they learnedo fig against saddam hussein'army in the mountains. >> t soldiers used to be guerlla fighters. they came down from the mountains and now they wear the iri army uniform. >> since e no-fly zone was tred byhe u.s. and britain in 91, this force has ben protectinghe kurdish region and they are an imptant part of theraqi security forces. in kurdish ci, you have to pass through cckpoints. this colonel used to be a rel and he spent most of his youth fighting in the motains. today, he is one of the ttical commanders. he clms tat he is part of the federa arm an.

>> considermyself a soldier of the iraqi federaarmy but we have a dream to becomen independen nati. >> in the recent mons, the iraqi army deployed in the alian to cook deployed forc to kirkuk, >> this was a political move to put pressu on us. >> 100,0troops are loyal t the kurdisn region government. thissa force to protect iraqi federalism. this is seen as an obstacle to the iraqi federal government agenda. >> thekraine ha receid bking for membehip o nato by joe biden.

he id that they have a right to decide their own foreign policy and theyhould be free to choose thei own alies. russiahas strongly opposed the ukrainn membership. its a key country fork- tranort europe. hillary clinton says that shiton is conceed about e ooperation beten north korea d burma. this could pse a direct threat to the neighrs of bur and destabile the regi. spanh newspaper says that the image of a fallen soler was taken 50 kilometer away fromhe front line. it is a famous imagehat is now being called aake. in britain, we are thearget of

more surveillance caras than anywhere ee in t world even the test official figuris a million less than eviously thout. has it held? >> britain is said to be the most watched naon on earth. new cames are added everywhere. in one of the most remot communies, people are being watched. shetland, the have instald 14 new ceras turning it into one of the most watched towns i britain. another of the malls and stor in britn bought more cameras andhe san francisco police department. 8 brish cities have more t v'sthan the authorities in

paris. ma have more than bost, sydney, johannesburg comned. the numbers we have indicate that they have not let up over the years. and one thing was interesting several years ao, researchers counted al of t cameras on these two streets. they concded th there was 4.2 million caras in operation ross the couny. this cpany tracks the actual sales and he has shown us what his research has shown. >> we look at how this has been grong and this goes right ba to whe the first sentees were put in. we then ftored in some replacement rates.

woking through the numbers, we arrived the number which is about 3.2 milln. >> tre might be 1 million fer cameras in the country than previously thought. all of these cameras watching l of these people but are they actually effecteive? >> unless the is a systematic way of governing this, a systematic identification progress, this wilnotbe very effeive. they should use the money for the train if people to make se thathatever we capture is effectively ud. >> cctv'sve helped to solv some of britain' biggest crimes in recent years. they are not the answeto every

crime. >> here is a modern cierella story for you aboua british woman who nt to extradinary lengths torack down her shoe. sh spent a nigut and found that one of her design iues had fallen out of her handbag. she has been rtracing her eps fresh on the hee of the missing fowear. >> forlo, sad and lonely, this issue is missing its make. -- thi shoe is missing i mate. >> it is a re fhionable shoe. >> t costver 350 pounds. she ha onlyar them once. >> i was very happy to get them.

she retraces her fateful journey. she h cnged her beloved shoes for a cheap comfortable pair while leaving aomedy club. >> when i got home, i discovered that i only had th one. >> i can undersnd where she is coming from. women love shoes. am a she pson. >>cctv pictures help them make so progress. >> there i . >> it narrows downhe search. >> shes hot on the trail of

the identity of the taxdriver. she ys she will look for as long as takes. >> finally,onkeybusiness at a safari park in the nthwest of gland has led to the tourist attraction bringingn its own crd control they are tryi to preve the baboo's tearingpart a rooftop luggage. peopleould only watch as the crowd of monkeys to apart the luggage and took off with the contents. >> funding for this esentation was ma possible by the freeman foundation of neyork, stowe, vermt, and honolulu, the newman's own foundati, and the john dand catherine t. carthur foundation. and the union bank.

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