>> "bbc worldews" is presented by kcet, los angeles. funding me possible by the freeman foundaon of new york, owe, vermont, and honolulu, the newman's n foundation, the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, and union bank w . bank w . >> union bank has put its

nancial strength to worfor a wide range of compaes, from mall businesses tomajor corporations. what can they d for you? >> now, bbc world news. >> violent riots and rikes. the crisis facing south rica's new esident, zuma. the deposed president of honras fes a symbolic retrt.

swine flu is the fastest spreading pandemic ever. lcome to bbcorld new broadcast for america and around the gloves. corrupon at the heart of an iraqi success story. e issue dominangurdistan's ections. nd even watching canake you feel diz. hello, and welme. what is sou africa's new president to do, facwith a olent riots and the tnship and strikeby thousands of blic serve workers due moay. zuma has always portyed himself a champion of the poor. he campaigned proming to hp millions of black south afcans living in shacks in shantytowns.

now,he governmentays it will crack down. police already firedebel bullets antear gas -- rubr bullets and te gas. >> the sound of soh africa's cession. rubber bullets in thetreet. he police fighting to ctrol every crowds. the poorest communities em to run out of hope and paties. we have come to one of the worst hit townships. he has been out protestg against the vernment that he says hafailed to deliver anything. >> you see? have to use this toilet. there is no ror -- water. no elecicity. >> how long have you been waitg for water and

electricity? >> about nine years now. bout 2000. >>nd the government keeps promising it will delir these? >> i these promises have lost their power. >> this is house. >> heeems to have lost faith in south africa's future. >> do not have money to buy clotheso i can cook. no jbs >> across the country, an uption of protest. containable, b worrying. 200,000 new jobless hit the reets. the anger her is not just gainst the authorities. shops and businessesare also

bein targeted,aising fears that the could be a repeat of yterday's -- las year's violencehatclaimed more tn 60 lives. one ominous sign these ethiopians were seeking sanctuary at the local poce station. >> they're going tkill us. so, this is a big test for a country that has aceved so much but left so manyehind. >> deposed honduran presint miguel zuma - zelaya try to go home. he backed away from a nfrontation with honduran troops trying to arrt him. on the other side of theorder, teargas. he was removedby a military

who ur weeks ago. the amican secretary of state, hilly cnton, said to avoid provocative action. >> to reach the border is reckless. so we urge president zelaya and allther parties to reairm their commitment to a negotiated a peaceful solion to the integrity of honduran democry. >> the world health organization w sayswine flu has spread to the vast majity of countries and is present in 160 of 193 memb nations,nd so far there have been around 800 deaths. while this case is mild, they say th 2 billion people could

be affectedefore it ends. w have the repor >> the bad news i that swine flu has now spread to every corner of the globe good news is that e behavi is nothanging so f. mo opleust have mild symptoms. but urgent maers are being taketo fight the disease. it has killed around 800eople and infected too many oers to count. and it is early for is global pandem. >> we expect eventually that every coury will be affected. that is what a pandemics. >> fir trial began this week in australia, e of thworst affected countries. drug make are tryi to speed uproduction of vccine before the flu season starts in the utumn in the northern hemisphere, but it takes time. >> we want toet out asuch

vaccine ispossible, as quickly as psible. on the othand, there are certain things which cannot be compromised, and onehing that cannote compmised is the safety of the vaccines. >> drug companies will do well as the past a -- pandemic spread brisk business as les thermomete a rt -- soar. in britain, diaosis and prescription ugs over the phone. the big concern for the world heth organization is the ability of poor countri to respd to the virus. 150 millionoses to devoping countries, and that negotiatin with mafacturers for more. who says the virus is unsppable, nd its the fastest moving pandemic there s ever been. it uld sti mutate into more dangerous forms.

>> an irani airliner crashed as it landed in the noheast of e country. at least 17 we kille 20 injured. the state newsgency said that tires ught fire, causingt to skidff the runway into a wall. it wa report to have been on a flight from tehran with more than a hundred 50 psengers. iran'president h bowed to pressure from religious authoritieand dismissed his newly appointed vice president. last jne, he upset conservatives saying that britain's governg labor party has lost a key election. the norwichorth and he had to resi over a scandal thatas damagethe government. it was accompanied by news that the u.k. econo shrankwice as

fast as expected in the las quarter, theorst since a 1951. fanned by stron winds, wild fire are sweeping across parts of southernurope. several firemen have beea long the casualties in spain. >> after four days ttling flames, emeency services a struggling t contain numerous fis across the country. they dominatehe skies neathe resort town. >> all the mounds are on fir completely ofire. everywhere yolook. you cannot see four black smoke and flames. >> theywere amo a thousand

people evacuat from housing developments d seaside hotels. teams of firefights supported byborder planes and helicopters say that the worst is not or. spain is on fire alert, and you can see hot, dry conditis have converd the cotryside into a tierbox. now, wi this behi me, the emgency services e monitoring t countryside to make surthere are no new tbreaks of fire. in the north of t couny, in the regional aidown, fires are stabilizing but have yeto be extinguished. another large place in a national park. six firefitersied battling the fires. there's still danger of more outbrea, spanning temperatures with much of the country at a fire alt.

>> obama is ying to step back om a controversy about race. he has been criticized for saying police acte stupidly resting a prominentlack harvard professor. he was ying to enter his own home. here isr. obama's mo qualified statement today. >> becae ts has been ratcheng upand i helped to contribute, i want to make ear at i my choice of words, i think, i unfortunately gave an impssionhat i was malignin sergeant craw specifically. i could have caliber of those words differently. calibrated those word differently. >> presidenobama. china is taking more steps to

rela itsone-child policy. some couples and shanghai a being urged to he two children y? chinese socty is ang and it will nd more youn workers in the future. the controversial one-ild policy was first implemente30 years a to contain population growth. our corresponden in china have more. >> family plaing officials and lunteers are meeting with families who meet certai criteriarom shanghai to remind them that under the existing rule,they cannot have a second child. but you live in a city and both pents are only children themselves, they are allow to have two children. the reason the're doing this, shanghai was o of the first ties in china to become richer under him, and pele are

living a lot longer in some places in china. this means that shanghai will have onethird of its people over age 60. the oblem is o will p for their care. th is why shanghai is encouraging people to meet the criteria toave a second child. there the first city to do so openly, but i am suther cities will llow. >>he fbi arrested at least 40 in n jersey after a long investigation into public couption, money laundering, and trficking. >> these arrts are under a massive scale. the authoriti needed bus to co with e sheer scale.

>>orruption was a way of le. theyxisted in an ethics free ne, exploiting giant lpholes in the state camign contributionules. >> it is alhought that religious chariti were used love and cash, rests partf the operation that uncovered multiple knee laring on an internional scale, up and the sale of human organs in t u.s.,switzerland, and israel. prosecutors say one rabb was dealing in human kidneyso transplant f a decade. buying them from vulnerable people is a huge profit. the scale of corruption across newersey has be described by one ofcial as outgeous. >> eve time we make eight st forward, we ke two steps back. >> the number ofrrests was

remaable for new jersey,or more than50 offials have been padinguilty or been convicted of corrtion in the last0 years. bbc news, washington. hi-tech swimsuits have given athlet to leading edge. ionesia's's presiden was elected to a second term just a week after deadly attacks on the capital of jarta. o wks after their presidential elections, and finally resultswere released. officials have to count up th ballots manual, which is why it is taking so long. formal results will be aounced saturd. cording to the yudhono numbers, the -- accorng to

numbers, yudhoyono d a sounding victory, wit over 60% the vote. the opposing candidate snared 26.79% of e vote. the ce president got only 12.41% of the vo. th results ce exactly one ek aer twin mbs exploded in two luxuryotels in jakarta' plush business district, kilng at least ne people. indonesian police believe a third bomb was set to go f here, at e j.w. marrtt hotel. they say that it was found on the 18th floor of the bilding. and they packed, forcing guestso rusheddownstairs to thlobby.

>> no clue o carry them out anyelay in investigations could be a oblem for the president, who was voted in because people believee is a leader who can keep indones's safe. he will now be under pressure to show sporters that they chose e right man. bbc news, jakarta. >> this is bbc world new our top story, south ma south rns for a stop for violent protes. it is a part of iraq usually held by the.s. and alies as a great success story. kuistan gained autonomy after rising up against saddamussein in the we of the third gulf war.

ate faces serious opposition om reformers. we got this fm northern iraq. >> changes in the air ong the iraqi-kurds. that ithe name they ve given the reforms, who exploded on the scene in the pa few weeks. a buzz haseen generated that hasot happened here before. thiss the man at the center of this. his campaign for transparcy and real democracy has s a stron tone among kurds, fed up with the two ruling partie they have had election since e early 190's, when theyan the economy they now enj. sincthen, litical lfe has been dinated by two parties. now they face their biggest challenge ever. thiis the mostexciting election they havever held.

he wa for years the deputy leader o jalal talabini's puk. heold me whye watched the campaign. >> everythi, the parliament, the cabinet, the judicial powers. we have corruption. if you are not a relative or a member or one of the polical partiesto be minister, to be general director -- you cannot. the kurdistan president, balzan fought a bitterar with the puk in the mid-1990's. now they are allies, actively reforcing one another.

>> considered norl and healthy. >> although he is esident of iraq, talani has been mpaigning for weeks for his own party and forbarzani's presidency. he knows that criticism is serious. >> they he their mtakes. th are not angels cong from the sky. they are people, ordinary pele making mstakes, of course. >> many of radio station s up by reforsts to spread the message.

s brother-in-law is one of the severachallengeso the old and thpresidencies. -- hd on the presiden. >> new policy. the economy corrtion,ack of transparency, the worngs of the parliament. there have been a lt of pressus from the man of the st. for chge. >> they bieve they could win enough seats. even if it does not, itill form strong local opposition in parliament. many belve things here will never be the same. bbc news, iraqi kurdistan. >> new, hightech swimsuits are enncing the performance of some of e world's t swimmers, but they are going be banned.

what doest mean for competors taking to the pool? jes monroe sent us this report, at the vue in rome. >this is the suit which has imming in such a tangle a costume so tight it takes 20 minutes to put on, d even then, you ne help. it i fragile, it must be thro away after a few ras, even tugh it costs hdreds of poun. today, enoug was enoug and the high-th suits were banned. can hear a -- [inaudible] >> the ban only comes in next year, whi means swimmers like the olympic champion, rebecca rdling 10, who have chosenot to wear e latest outfits,

could lose in rome. since then, a rival manufaurers have gone into a tactical arms race, plunng the sport intorisis. >> before, suits were made for and will, t sign fomodesty rather than speed. then tey gave way to soak d nylon, and the modern costume was going. today's aren't made from polyureane, which repels water, keeping the swimmer dry. t trapped air, wch helps buyancy, lifting the athletes in the wer, and they're designed to compress t muscs, allowing them to work harder, longer. sults of an extraordinary. 85 world cords in the past year, 25 in beijing alone. it was exting, but technology was becoming everything.

>>s today th sws returned to the summe > i worked to get where i am now, cause put allheime in looking at the black lin u and down ery day, so i like it. i thk it will be good. >> for now, the rules state the same, which means for many, theseill behe world championships that matter, the world records that do n count, eperformances which begged the question, was that e swimmer, wherehe sui-- or the suit? >> it was a ritual to protect the spanish village and bring a good harvest. eight bo bouncing down a slope at breakneck speeds on slts. they say it rais them on a traffic state. they have been doing it for hundreds of years an now it is a tourist attracti.

>> stpnwouldn't slips, pick up an icon of mary magdalen and put your face together to get to the bottom in o piece. now they are going down the steep slopes of this village in rioja. hisis how the people here celeate the day of mary maalene. >> we te the stilts tightly, because it is easier if th are secure. >> overall, u haveo state charms, and it is iossible. u look at a fixed point and try to go down slowl >> its anyone's guess. inegotiate the slopes, but there are no floods here, just cobbles and his. the advicforny would-be dancer, hope that the bystanders

do not fall and doot get dizzy. >> an exaordinary spectacle. zuma has ward support township residents to stop violent protests. major strikes are also planned for next week. law enforcemt agencies s they wilact swiftly against those brking the law. you are watching bbcorld news. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundaon of new york, owe, vermont, and honolulu, the newma's own fountion, the john d. and catherine t. macarur foundation, anunion ban foundation, anunion ban >> union bank s put its

fincial strength behind small businees and major corporations. what can wdo for you? >> i am henrlouis gates, jr., and public broadcaing is my source for news about thworld. >> for conversation. >> for election coverage you can cot on. >> for conversaon got a sound bite. >> for journalism. >> fordeciding who to vote for. >> i am kerry washingto and public broadsting is myource fo interaction withy community. >>