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vietnam towards os. acsed of indisipple minute national killing. securi forces shot dead more than 150 protesters. very warmelcome to "bbc world news." broaast to our vwers on pbs in america a around the globe. coming up later for you, britain's beleaguered pre minister declares the party can n the next generallection and even change t world. and prison, poppy patrol, how man's best friends i transformi the lives high-security inmates. >> idon't want t be the bad guy no more, and the puppy showed me th i don't have to . it's all righto be a person, it's all right to want t help someone. >> hello to yu.

a tsuna has stck the pacific islands of samoand amican samoa, triggered by a powerful eartuake out at sea, magnitud 8. but a pacific-wide tnami warning issued r the whole region has now been canceed. greater new zealand has quoted local residents in arican samoa as saying five wav came ashore,inundating some llages and sweeping away homes an cars. david dolphin is the high commissioner to the capitaof samoa anis repoing at least five people killed. pacific tsuna warning sent waves ameter and a half high which were recorde the earthquake hit 190 kimeters southwest of samoa at a depth, is thought, of 33 kilometers. she expeenced thearthquake hersel her radio station is bng used to gui people on what do and where to go. she told "bbc world news" what listeners have told her about the tsunam

>> wgot reports fr the southeastern side of our island, the main island, whe houses have been coletely flattened, vehicles being swept out toea. there have ben three vehies reportedo have bn swept out. boders that have fallen off th mountains ong the cstal areas, butainly a lot of the houses in the villages in the coastal are have been reatened by the waves. so it's a pretty sca thing at the moment. we've t thousands of cas comingn to the rao, so wee keeping everyone dated and they're reportg to us fromround the country. >>hat was radio pl indonesia. a senior manager at a hpital western moa told the bbc about the repor of casuales where is. >> in the main island ere have been report three casuties so far from one of

our district hospitals. but there areanyother people inred in the coastal villages. so basically we are sending all r transport and implements to the coastal village to bring l these casualties as well as the injured peopleohe main hospit. >> that wathe manager of t city hospital in westernamoa. we'll ing you more as soon as we can establish more. scue woers in the ilippines are pling yet more bodies from mud and swollen rivers, as ey struggle wh the flooding and landslides that came with typhn. at lea 24 people are known to have died. arly half a million have been driven from their homes. around 380,00are now living in makeshift shelte. from mana, our crespondent repos. >> a coved basket, oof

hundreds of makeshift refugee places across manila. he the survors she precious shelter wh th dead. re than 50 people died in this community. theysay 100 or more are still miing. with their hes gon there's little they can do, except wait for help to come. but at last for n this child isafe. many of those kill were children, swept away by the floods. per santino wast worg when the storm hit. his wife was doing the laundry when t water level startedo rise. she rushed the childn upstrs. for four hours his fami clung on to the roof of his house, he said but then the building collaed and his wife and childrenere pulled under. 5-year-old mary n drowned her body was found w downstream the folwing day. things are starting to get

desperate across manila, as even bic supplies o food and water, medine and clothg, are struggling to make it to those most ineed. in those hos nearest to the river, there's ltle left to salvage. the government andid agencies say they're overwhelmed by the amount of help th's needed. internationalssistance is on its y. but forow small community groups a doing wha they can to give out the basi. there arqueues of people like in all or manila,as church groups try a provide at aid they can to tse who most nee it. re they'll get aew tins of food and a f both els of water. theye trying to get helto everyone who needs it. >> i think there's sll s much to be done. we still need a lot of hlp, actuly. >> hundreds of ousands of pele are preparing for another nighliving rough, as more rain is predted and the

number opeople dead or missing coinues to rise. bbc news, manila. >> f now the extreme weather is moving across etnam towards laos. the typhoon has kille 31 in vietnam andorced 170,000 to flee their homes r neighboring cambodia, or correspoent has mo. vietnamhad beenracing itse for this -- the full force of the phoon, as a pposedly weaker tropical storm it had beenevastating. by t time the typon reached th foth largest city, it had been upgraded to the ev more potentially destructive typho status. danang was the first major population center in its path. auorities cancelled flights and closed the airport. schos were also shut and tens of thousandsf people we evacted from coastal areas. for is city, the world herige status was little

protection against theath of a typhoon. trav inside the city was hard enough -- leaving it was a but impossible. more than 1,000 people were trapped at the main railway station d roads linking north and south vietnam were cutff by floods. >> thi morning waterhas been risinguickly. we need help from th authories, asy house has llapsed and we have lo everything. >> at least there had been some time to prepare. the aid agency world vion said it believed the people h beengiven sufficient warnings about the typhoon and that local auorities were well placedo copeith the impact of t typhoon. bbc new pa nom pen. fromne of the most unstable parts of west rica, reports ofunfire and more civilian deaths. this i the capital ofguinea. a day after curity forces opened fire on 50,000 demonstrats. the opposition says 157 were killed.

the african union has condemned the guian army for shootg indiscriminately. the u.s. has cticized the brazen and inappropriatese of force. thmilitary took part in a coup last ye. here's cat per layton. >> the full scale of the violence meted out on the people oconakry. it seems that the security foes read the order that monday's demonsttion wa illegal was carte blanche to kill andnjure as well. soldiers took some bodies to army cps, so the true number of victims may never known. the denstration gan with a sense of pposeful optimis and ended wh peoe running for their lives. addressing therowd before the shooting began one opposition leader said th argument was no longer about whether or nothe

milita leader stand in next year's election. >> people of guinea wa him to lee. it is the departure of dadis. he must go, and the people will ask for it until he's finitely leaving. >> but captain camar has given his awer. th international communit has condned the killings. france hasustain penned military cooperation the african uionis talking of sanctions. now thquestion is whether the opposition will rise again. casp layton, bbc news. >> an afghan-bornan has plead not guiy to allegaon that is he planned a bomb aack in the united states. zazi is accused of plottg an attack on new york city using common chemils. a federal judge has ordered that he be he without bail. prosutors believe heeceived explosives training from al qaa in kistan.

at leas 30 people,including 10 chiren, have been kille in afghanistan. a bus hit a land mine in kandahar province. a local oicial has accused the liban of planting e device. comment fromhe militant grp so far. pakiani officials say a least2uspected taliban milints have been killed in two americ drone attacks. fiveied when ssiles hit the home of a taliban commander in south waziristan. in his first meeting with president obama, theew nato cretary general has prosed the north atlantic alliance wi remain in afanistans long as itakes to finish its task. the war in ahanistan was not americs responsibility ane, they said. our washington corresponden paul ams, has beenmonitoring developments and gave me this assessment. >> well, i think mr. rasmussen came he very much anxious to y to the americans, look,

while you debate, and this is a very serious and big debate here in america- whether or not to send more troops t afghanistan, d't forget that this is a coalition operation. othersre fighting and dyi ere, too, and yo the ericans, need toecognize that. certainly president obama, en they met, thisas a message that he clearly understood an he repeated. and i think it waslso worth noting tt mr. rsmussen very much steered clear of getting involved in th heate debate in america abouthether or not to send more troops. we know that general mcchstal, the american general on the ground, who, of course is a nato general, too, has put in his ruest for more trps, anhing up to 30,000 to 40,000 more troops. but the u.s administration, the obama administration, has only begunow to hold a whole series of high-level meetings, which are going t play out over the nexcouple of weeks to decid what their revid strategy is and thenhat st ofresources theyneed tothrow at it.

>> two days before crucial multi-part tks in geva, th head of iran's atomic ener association has insist tehran will not discuss its nuclear rights nor uranium enrichment. otheofficials suggest they won't low discussion of the new plantither. the government has said it will soon announce a timetable for u.n. ipections. the laer for roman polanski got the iss authorits to release him on ba. s's wanted for sentenci in the unitedtates anddmitted having sex with a 13-year-old girl more an 30 years ago. south africa's president has publiclyupport add law which would alw police officers to open fire on arm criminals without waiting for them to shoot first. south africa is e of the world's most violent countries. around 50 people areilled every day. the uned nations human rhts cocil has been dating a report tat acses palestinian

litants and israeliroops of war crimes. during the gazaconflict. the judg who wrotet wants to hold both side accountable for violatio of human rights. the bbc's correspondenteports from geneva. >> it's one ofhe most critical reports ever presented tohe human rights council. today its chief ahor defende the investigation io the za conflict. but isra has always dismisse thiseport. >>heuthors of this finng repo have little concern with finding facts. e report was instigated as part of a political campaign. it represes a political assault directed aainstsrael and agait every state forced to conont terrorist threats. >> bu aecent into politics is, the report's ahors say, exactly whathey wan to oid, because the civian victims of w deserve better

>> i would li to see a transparenopen investigation into the findings made in e report, both in israel and in gaza. there are many,any people in scrawl and -- israel, and many, many people in gaza who deplore the violence to ich both side have been put and for which they are responsible >> richard gdstone said there were war crim committed by both sides. among them --indiscriminate targeting and cilians in ga byhe israeli defense forces and rocket attacks o souern rael byamas. andhile this report has been welced by many human rights oups aserious and balanced the man rights council itself is widely regarded as spending fatoo much time criticizing isra. meanwhile, the unitestates d the european union say they

can't support allf the rert's findin. on again, human rights investigatio maye destined to dron politics and u.n. bureaucracy. bbc news, gena. good to have you with us on "bbc wor news." stay witus, if you can. still to come,why not use your noodle? y japan may be the ansr to economic woes. >> first, though, indonesian police have been ging details of their evince that last july's deadly attas on two luxury hotels in jark ta were carefully plned andxecuted. officials also belve that despite the deathf soutast asia's most wanted man two wes ago in a shootout many militantwho worked th him are still at large. om jakarta, our bbc correspoent has anpdate on wh the police have been saying. indonesian police say this

deo footage wasound on a laptop which they seizedwhen they ided a house in central java two weeks ago. it showstwo suspected suicide bombers pretending to exercise inront of the rhythms and marriott hotels in jakarta, weeks before the luxury hotels were hit by two ddly blasts. the attack killed nine people, inuding the two specte mbers. >> is video w made when the two suicide bombers surveyed the areaefore the bombings. >> the police sy that e july attacks on the two hote weren't the on ones that re anned. >> after the last marriott attack, they plannedew attacks. according to theevidence, we und there would be serl atcks. >> indonesia's anti-terro unit has been under essure to produce some results in t investation into the july jakarta bombings. earlier this month, during a raid on a hous in the central

javan town, they killed one of southeast asia's most wanted men and three other suspected militants. it was here that the laptop containing the veo footage was found. police bieve that he maermindsed the suicide attacks on the two luxury hotels and was believed to be behind a numbeof attacks on the country over the last several years bbc news, jakarta. >> latest hdlines for you on "bbc wld news." a tsuni generated by a powerful earthquake benea the pacific ocean s struck t islands of samoa and american samoa. t a pacific-wide tnami warning has now be cancelled. the u.s. and rican union have condemned the killings in guinea. a human rights grou says security forces shotead more than 150 protesters at rally monday. well, he's been lauded for

saving the global banking stem andhonored as worl statesman of the year. but here at home it's nothing short than disastrous. he's been addressinghe rowling labour pty for the last time bore the general ection and as we report, it is f his and his party's fure. >> the labour party was in real need of a confidencboost, after mohs of depreing opinion lls and divisions abt gordon brown's leadership so, beforeaking to the stage mself, mr. brown deploy one of his best assets -- his wife, rah, for a quk character testimony. >> i know he's t a saint. he's messy, he' nsy, he gets up at a terriblehour, but i know that he wak up every morning and goes to bed every evening thinking about e ings that matter. i know he loves our count and

i -- [applause] >> then iwas the prime minist's turn to pitch his case. he argues his party was on t right side of th argument when theconomic crisis h last year. he sd he acted quickly and decively to helpvert another greatepression. mr. brown did acknowledge difficul choes had to b made to get t public's nances back in sape. >> when martsalter and banks fail, it's the jobs and the homes and the security of the squeezed mt l that are hit the hardest. it's thehard-pressed, ha-working majority, te person with the trade, the small businesswner, the self mployed, the cssroom assistan, theorker on the shop, e builder on this site. >> finally, he ended wita rallying cry to his party not to submit to defeatm in the next f months before a geral election. >> now i not the time to give in, t to reach inside oursves for the strength of

our convictions, because we are the labour party and our guiding dutys to stand, to fight, to win and to serve [applause] >> the acvists gothat they me for. they needed to hear him say they can still win the nex neral election. but theost important audnce remains the british blic and it's har toee this speech alone turninghings arounor rdon brown. bbc new brighton. >> and japan struggles with unemployme. many people ha been chging reers entirely, hoping to beat the recession, and man are heading for the food dustry. hence, the surge and people learning how to make th specialty udon noodles. >> in japan it's polite toat noods with an appreciative slurp, and few varieties are saved ord as much as the

found here. at a chnical traingchool, they teacthe skills to me the dish, kneeding th dough and cutting the odles into shape. d this year with unemployment at record highs, tey've had mo applications than er before. >> we believe e biggest reasons the lack of employment oortunity. >> 15 uld be -- would-be noodle chefs began the course, among th this 44-year-old, who used to b a car salesman. wh the recession hit,he numbersof customers fell. his employers ben to struggle, and he decided to make a career chge. >> ring a recessionompanies are in an unsble position. is is my life d i nt to take charge of my own fute. >> learng toake the noodles is difficult, particularly gettg the dough at presely e right consistency for the

prized chewy texture. but the studentsan take inspiratn from those who hav done theourse before d now run their own restaurants d get tips on the best recis. >> i know my goal is to see the best-sing udon. >> boming a chef isn attractive option a country whe old style jobs for life are ineasingly hard to come by. >> i hope everyone's dreams of oping an udon rtaurant come true. >> japan's economys still stumbling after its worst po-war recession buthere ll always be demand for noodles. rola burke, bbc news, tokyo. >> npuppies behind bars does deed sound like a classic ends of tv news bulletin fluffy story. t shame on you for being so cynical. this ia success story. in thstate of neyork, high-security proners are being recruitedto raise puppies r law enforcemen in the wake of 9/11, ty've

trned dozens of ds for bomb-sniffing d to help soldiers wounded in afghanistan and iraq. our special corresndent reports. >> there yougo, good girl! >> dogs being trained to sff out explosives. most of their trainers are inside for murder. now they're serving th fors of the law which put them here. >> what do we do to begin tehing a puppy to use his nose? >> ff is currentlyne of 77 anims in six prisons, includinghis -- the mid orange correconal facility. the program,alledimply "puppies behind bar" has proved nearly 400 dogs,ome for bomb dection, some for guide dogs, and some as service animals for wounded vetans from afghanistan and iraq. it's also transformed daily life here. once the men are accepted this program, it's a 24/7 commitment. some of these me have been behindars for decades.

the puppies give them reonsibility, they give them love. peaps most importany, the gs aren'tjudging these me for the cres that they've committed. >> they take on puppies that just a -- are just aew weeks old and live with them for as much as two years bere the dogs move on. th facility'sewest recrui buff, has been asigned to a veteran. christopher stewart has spt 32 yeanside. >> theuppy is hectic. you have to change your whol schele, your whole life. everythinghanges with the puppy. ifou have a high-energy ppy and you're more of a laidack indidual, you got problems. >> butis the program essentially a soft oion? i asked the wan who unded it 1 yes ago. >> they're locked up at my expense. pay taxes. my tax, in essence, a ying their room and board and they can either spend their entire bid pumping iron and watching tv and they can ge out with no skil, probably

angrier th they were when ey were locked up, or, while they'r incarcerated, they ca do sething to contribute to society and they can fel better abo themselves. >> i just don' want to be the bad guy no more. i don't want to b e bad guy no more, and theuppy showe me that i don'tave to be. 's all right to be a person. it's all right to express myself. it all rig to wantto help someone. >> in many ways 's a program that get results. bbcnews, orange coun, new york. >> justriefly, the mn story for you -- sunami generated by a powerful quake beneath the pacific ocean struckamoa and american samoa. a pacific-wide tsunami warning has now en cancell. >> funding w made possible by the freeman fundation of new york, stowe, vermo, and nolulu, the newman's own foundation, thjohn d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation and uon bank.

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