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can reduce h.i. infections. >> a unanimous u.n. secity council adopts a resoluti aimed at a wld without nucleaweapons. can they lead theay to a glob economic recovery? e 20 summit convenes in pittsburgh. welcome to bbc worldews, on pbs america also aroundhe globe. coming up later for you, it's not made of cheese but it does contain wate spacecraft discover on moture. and the best treasure hunt ever. a fortun in ancient gold and silver is unearthed in an english field. >> after 25 years of seahing, e best hope y has emerged of a vaccine for i.v., the viruthat causes aids.

researchers say eir vaccine cuts the risk of one particular strain of h.i.v. infection by nearly 1/3. nothg before has been shown to ge this limited protection. the trial on 16,000 volunteers in thailand the biggest in the wod. here's the bbc's mical correspoent. >> for quarter of a simple, hiv-aids has brought hav. doze of vaccines have failed but now a glimmer of hope. it comes from the trial in this regionf thailand which appears to show that a vaccine can protecagainst h.i.v.. >> this is a major findg. firsof all, it's th first time we find an.i.v. vaccine can ruce h.i.v. infection d the other thing that'sery itical here is th we kn that a safe vaccine is possible. >> 8,000olunteerseceived

the h.i.v. vaccine. thsame numr got a dummy jab. 51 of ose immunized went on get h.i.v compared t 74 i the controlled group, suggesting the vaccine cuts th risk of infectiony 31%. but the numbers are so small, it coulde due to other things. this hospital is part of a global partnership to fnd an h.i.v. vaine. research which had suffered repeatedetbacks. when aids first appeared in the early 19's,some scientists predictethat there woulde a ccine within a couple of years, but.i.v. was prod to be such a chameleon virus that until today, all attempts have ended in utter failure. >> bause theirus is so variable it can also hide itself within your cells and destroys theery immune syem youeed to work against it and

coupled together it's a formidable challenge. >> there no doubt about the desperate need of the vaccine. worldwe around 33 million people are infected with h.i.v. there haveeen 25 million aids-related deaths. hardest hi is sub-saharan africa wher the h.i.v. epidemic affects2 million people. the stra of h.i.v. mst prevalent in aica is differt to that circating in tiland, so it's unclear how well the vaccinemight work ere. aruly effective vaccine against this virus remains one of the great medical challeng, but this latest research wl reinvigorate tha quest. >> the u.n.'s world food program is estimating morthan 20 million people the horn africa noweed ergency food aid, this because of two

years of pr rainfall. the orgization warns its cuts in its funding have madet more difficult to feed the hung across kenya, somali, and ethiopia. iraqi secury ofcials say 16 members of al qaedan iraq have escaped from a pson. the group included fiv men sentenced death in their role in attacks. it's believed they removed windows fr a bathroom, crawled through d use a laddero clb the jail walls. one has been recaptur. th palestinian president has acsed israel of making a return to peac talks impossle. mahmoud abbasays there's no common ground foregotiation if the israeli government keeps building settlements on occupied land and will n discuss the future of jerusalem or paltinian refugees. well, as a sign o symbolis it beuse powerful and ratcheted up the power of iran ove its nuclear program. esident obama in the chair for the firstime, the u.n.

curity council has animously approved a resolution aimed at stemming the spread of nucle wpons, reducing the risk of nuclear terrorism. jeremy bowen reports from the u.n. >> this is about fixing a goal, they were voting for a hope, a distant aspiraon but the symbolism was strong. the world's most pwerful states in agreemen and an american president ithe chair athe security council for the first time. >> the historic resolution we just adopted enshrines our shared commitment to the goal of a worl without nlear weons. and it brings security council agreemt on a broad framework forction to reduce nuclear dangers as we work toward that goal. >> critics of nuclear armssay ey could start living up to their ligations to reduce their n arsenals. but the security uncil they were worrying aboutran getting the bomb. >> today i beeve we have to draw a linein the sand.

iran must n allow its actions to prevent the internatiol community from moving forwa to a more peaceful era. and as evidenced of its breach iernational reements grs, we must now consider far tougher sancons togetr. >> i the general assembl israel's prime minister attackedran's president fo saying the holocaust didn't haen. >> ithis propert cole ale? >> the document -- is this propertyo cole -- is ts protocol alive? he believes nuclear aed an would bes dangerous as nazi gmany. >> the most urnt chance facinghis body today is to prevent the tyrants of in from acquiring clear weapons. iranians protestedutside the u.n. last night against what they believe was a fraudulent election victory by

iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad. >> he' against the whole world, he's ainst everything. >>nside, many delegationdid not sta to har president ahmadinejad speak. he defended his acollection, -- ection, condemned rael and didn'tmention the nuclear plans butsed the same mephor for negotiation as presidenbarack obama. >> i said iran would shake all those honest that were honesy extended iran denies developing nuclear weapons and it might face tougher sanctis now mosco and shington are a little closer. if plomacy can't sve this growg crisis by the endf the ar there will b more talk of israel or the americans attacking iran's nuclear installations. some intelligee ageies and mr. netanyahu was warning in the 1990's iran was close to gettg the bomb. some in watcherstill

beeve thedangers are bein exaggerate world leaders ha to decide who is right. mistakes woulde very costly. jere bowen, bbc news, w york. >> many of t world's most powerful peoe hot footed it from the u.n. in new york to the city of pittsburgwhere the g-20 summit is getting unrway. it's the trd time the lears of t world's 2 biggest economies have met sinceglobal financ went into a tailspin with the collapse of lehman brothers a year ago. our speciacorrespondent is at the summit. there's been a lot rtoric out bankers bonuses. how much real appete do you detect to really changehe rules of the game? >> a great deal o appetiteut only the part ofome of the players,ike. largelthe euroans. i was really struck, for exple, by what the presint of theuropean commission was saying earlier todaynd he said that the eopeans are rrified that nks, many of whom were depending on the taxpayer we continuing to hand out what he called

exorbitant bonuses. it is rich language coming from a diomat but if you lk, for example, at the u.s. point of view, the attide here is look, we don't set salaries as ki of a socialist thing to do to say we're going to atta salaries of a ceain level. yes, the cture needs to change but i think the americans feelt can't be a top-down change inerhaps the way me of their ropean partners would lik the shor answer is there is likely to be a amatic agreent here on banking bonuses, mike. >> you've en pointing out thatn contrast to t g-8, the point ofthis meeting is to hear the vois of the developing economies that are so crucialo stoking growth. is there some kind of powership going on? >> potenally. we're slightly disacted by voices because the protesters are across the river where w are now. i'm obviously whin the secuty shuttle but tre's a little bit of actionromhe protesters gng on. far as theoices of the economieare concerned, i think yes, there is a move or

an imminenmove, especially when you look , for examp, the international monery fund and the seats ofhe board there, tradionally they've en heavily weighted towards the u.s. and european countries and there are a lot of voes here from t emerging economiesaying look, china, india, brazil,ndonesia, all these kind of economies deserve more o the weight,ore of the plements, and frankly some of the smaller europeantates wi have to give this up. >> american consumers of course sotimes cast as the villains of the peaceand where the subprimerisis began and we' going hear a l about curbing american greed and death. >> i don't know whether that ki of language will be used by leaders he but yes, here we are in america, in the united state this where the subprime has sarted up that series of ripples that

brought us into economi recession and the's a lotn thfact the u.s. has such a stagri amount of debt. so perha a wayf rebalancg the obal economic engine, as it were i that countries like ina should spend more exrt and countrs like ameri, consumers should consume less and save more. harder to achve in practice and the issuef americans do curb their consution, if they dotart saving me, there is a nger of cuttingff recovery before 's really underw, the danger of what they call a double dip recession. >> man thanks to that. now moving on to today's other ma international business stories, i have to tell you, demonstrators how much t g-20 leaders haven their plate before any full-scale recovery fromhis downturn. russia's bigges carmaker i to cut nearly0,000 jobs to ckle huge loes caud by a arp drop in sales. it amounts to more th a 1/4

of the work force that makes russia's best known car. and japan airlines is asking for a government bilout to help it stayn buness. the carrier isn deep financiatrouble and lost $1 llion from april to june and cut nearly 7,000 bs earlier this month. the ousted honduran present manuel senya, the organization of erican states announced 's sding a delegation to seek a solution to the crisis where he was expelled from military coup. fr the street of the capital, wenow have this. >> there is somethinof a nse of normalcy returning to the streets here, the curfew has been lifted anthe tional air board has reopened as business as usual. the interim government is telling people here to get back to worand saying theirsafety n be granteed by theolice an army her their prence is still heavy

on the streets and of course there is still a standoff the a the brazilian embassy. manuel zaleya is still trapped inside the building claimi 10 of his supporters have been lled since mondaynd police say since mony'siots one person hasied but seems a diplomatic solutn is no closer in priiple, he has agreedo meet the interim leader here. aso when that happens, nobody knows. meanwhile, the onlpeople to really suffer through ts are the people ofonduras. for every day there's been a curfew imposed here ad cost th country $50million. d for those tha really lead a poor life, a hand-to-mouth existence, tt's been a rl rdship. >> we're hearing the u.n. securityouncil is to discuss the honduranrisis on friday, thatoming in from the reuter news organizatio aan offghan origin has be charged with conspacy.

he w indicted in new york where couerintelligence agents believe he may have been planning to detonate bomb in trns. he works atn airport in denver, colorado. and his father and another man have been charged to ing to iestigators. althree maintain eir innocence. the commander of america and nato led forces in afghanistan has denied any rift with t whe house on whetherto send more troops. general mhrystal recently submitted a blea assessment of the war and warned of a high risk of failure without a chge in strategy and more forc. still to come on bbcorld news, research sgests there are grounds for concern that toxins in cmercial airlins can cause long-term neurologicalamage in pilots. first, though, it's called the left party and it seems to feel it's foundthe right party to sha up germany's political landscape. steve rosenbg has been out o the campgn trail with the

party that claims t be the voice of german worke and it does look set to take vos from the center left social democrats at this weekend's parliamentary election. >> the market square is a small stage but they're using it to call for b change. >> our message tohe voter it's not citalism germany needs but a new kind of socialism. her party is the left, the robin hood of german politics that's growing increasingly popular. its memrs include disillusioned social demoats from western germany, people li sarah who want to belong to eas grmany's commist party. while the bigger parties have pt their election slans vague ke confidence and our country can do more. the left is more specific. it's the only parliamentary party calling for german troops to pull out mediately from

afghanistan. it wants to raise taxes on the rich, re money for education less f the banks. simple msages which could he the left win more than % the vote. the rise of the left pay has ansfmed germany's polital landscapand made i more fragmented and more uncertain, and e party which is suffering most as a result is the s.p.d., theocial decrats. >> the left party won't wi this election, buit already claims to have become what the social democrats have traditionall been ingermany, the ice of the worke. steve rosenberg, bbc news, western rmany. >> this is b world news, the latest headlinesor you this ho, theiggest ever trial of a new vacce against h.i.

has shown encourang results. scientists say it can reduce the ri of one pticular strain of up fecksy neeredly a -- strn of infecon by nearly a 1. and they arealling for nuclear disarmament and nuclea proliferation. st yesterday we brought you e news in at least 22 people have beenilled when a 0-meter chimney coapsed at a power plt in t central indian state. today the death toll in kaba rose6 and there are fears that number could doubl bbc south asia correspondent ris mohr us rorts fr delh >> a big rescue operation but fears of the number of de will continue to rise and could do so dramically. one seems tknow exactly how many people are in the vicinity when e huge chimney collapsed. there was hey rain and lightng when the acciden

took pla and some eyewitnesses who weren working were sheltering close to the shelter site >> could see the chimney crashing and felt like a stick. it wasifficult t reach th spot, arod 150 to 200 laborers came runng and you could see maned bods of sx to seven men whoriedo reve the rubble. anes and heavy earth moving equipmt are now being used to shift the remains of the collapsedhimney whi reached the height of about 100 meters when it cam crashing down. some survivors s they beeve substandd material was beg usedn the construction. the statgovernment where the power plant is situated he ordered a judici inquiry. chris mris, bbc news, delhi. >> new rearch links toxins found in the a systems of commercial airliners and neurological dage suffered by

pilots. an international collaboration betwee scientists suggest a direct nk to the toxic syndrome and chemicals present in cockpit and cabin air supplies. >> are dangerous chemicals in the aircft making us ill? it's estimated fme contamination cabin and cockpit air occurs in at least one in 2,000 flights. this cmercial pilot believes he was poisoned by the aircraft he flew. >> iave neurologal proble like muse ttching, tremors, and having trouble keeng up with the aircraft and thinking and doing the job. >> half of theair webreathe onboard is cycled but the other half is drawn throu the heart of the jet engines. it's kwn as bleed air and when faults occur potentially poisonous gases a pumped in

the aircra. scientists in the united states found toxins in the blood d fat tissue of 26 pilots now new tests here in the u.k. show tse chemica have caused neurological dama. aircraft manufacturers b.a. systems and boei sayhe air suppes in their ples meet health and safety stdards but the jurys still out. observers awt briti government commission research due o in theext six months. campaigners andictims alike say thiss an industry-wide problem. >> we'll flow that up for you, of course. scientists have found evidce there's much more water on the moon than previously thought. the water is n in liquid form but bound in the rocks of the moonutnasa says there may be engh to sustain human life on the lunar surface. our sign correspondent has more . >> astronomers have gazed atit

r thousands of years. astronautshave set foot on it but we still know relatively little aboutur narest neighbor in the solar syst. >> three, two, one, zo. >> last october, the indian space agency launched a probe to cay out a detled survey of the lunar rface. the results have astonished scientists. previous missionsad already found evidencef water the a the moon's poles but the new spacecraft has now discovered that the moon has muc more ter thane thout and it spread right across the lunar surface. theraren't any lakes or oceans here, the ter is all locked away bcientists ink one day factories could be built the moon to extract water from the roc. >> waters ather resource to drink d it's the raw terial of rock fuel that alls yu

to send rockets fantospace. >> when astronautsrought back rock40 years ago scientists founevidence ithe rocks back then but didn't believe their readings thinking the sales had become conhim tom nated. the results showed the apollo scientists werright all along. >> wer that might ed some day by human lunar explorers who return to the moon to do science on theoon an perhapss a stepngstone out inhe rest of the solar system. >> some at nasa imagine a lunar colony will be baseor us from which to leav the earth and perhaps in the far future moveon to other worlds and ke a ne homen r solar syem. >> now to another pretty unbeliable find, thisne unparalleled in sizend lue. anmateur treasureunter earthed the largest hoard of gold and silver ever found in britain. the 1,500 pieces dateack to well over 1,000 years.

archeologists are unned by the discovery andould change perceptions of early english history. we n get a report. >>or briti archeology it rely doesn't get mor exciting tn this. gold anglo-saxon gold. >> absolutely astonishing. i never ever in career thought i' be hding this kind otreasure. >> something you dream of. >> and this reallys just a handful of the hundreds of pieces thatave just within found. >> it's just incredible. like all these years wveeen picking up crumbsand now we find out we're in the middle of cake shop. >> crosses pieces of helmets some o it with biblical inscriptns. and this is where it all came from. one piece of gld would have be a significant find, but watch.

piece after piece after piece was dug out from the ground. and how did they know itwas l here? wellit was a man tha metal detector. >> this is more fun tha winninthe lottery. >> it w only whenerry herbert cled in the cnty archeolost he truly alized the signicance ofthe crime. >> the amount of objects was unbelievable. roughly abt 240 objts in boxes. when we firstame and saw the one box, h just couldn't stop saying "wow." >> while the amount of gold is absolutely extordinary, what it actually means,ell, te academics haven't even begu to work out what this will really mean to brish history. the field is nearitchfield and being kept sect but tha far re than treasure in the countryside

it's aindow onn ancient kingdom, mercia, that now has a new place in the history books. theold is from bazantiam and th gemstones from sri lanka , the barbarianasegawa suddenly become more soisticatednd the rk ages of britain a little bghter. >> just briefly, a reminder of our p story, scientists are ying they developed a vacci that cs therisk of h.i.v. infectn, one particular strain of infection by at last morehan 30%. first time a vaccine has been shown to give even this limited otection. thanksor being with us on the bbc world news. muchore any time you want it on bbc.com. funding for this psentation was ma possible by the freeman foundation of new yo, stowe, vermontand honolulu, thnewman's own foundation, and the john d. and therine t. macarur foundation, unio bank, and "bright star" a new fi by jane campi.

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