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leads to a health hazard. it's 6:00 a.m. in the haitian capital of port-au-prince, where aid workers are in a frantic struggle to ensure that the cholera outbreak does not engulf the city's tent camps. conditions for the tens of thousands of people who survived january's devastating earthquake are often squalid, a classic breeding ground for cholera. so far, health officials believe they can hold the deadly disease at bay, having isolated five known victims. here's laura trelvian with the latest. >> as patients continue to queue for treatment, haiti's health officials say the cholera epidemic may have stabilized. doctors and aid agencies aren't yet ready to make that assessment though. they're still in a state of of high alert, and the number of cholera cases continues to rise. haiti's river seems to have been the source of the cholera

outbreak. it became contaminated. now the search has begun to find out how that happened. >> we're starting to see some patients who are just from this area. before they weren't. so now we don't know how it's spreading from one geographic area to another. we just know who comes to the hospital. the centers for disease control will be here, and today they're going to start to study to find out how the disease got into the water system. >> in the camps outside port-au-prince, where so many still live, made homeless by january's,, the precautions are being taken in case of outbreak takes hold here. >> joining me from brussels is rosa, she's on a web. thank you for being with us. how confident are you that this disease, that cholera, can be kept out of these camps in the capital?

>> ok, we really hope that this cholera can be kept out of the camps, but for the moment, we cannot confirm this. the situation is not clear enough, and the movement of population, they are still quite harried. >> what do you need to do? what do you need to do in order to prevent it from taking over in the camps? you need to stop people moving into the capital? >> no, this is not -- it's not very real solution. we really need to inform how to prevent the cholera and the transmission. we need to ensure to stop this, how to explain to the people how to prevent this. this is the only thing we really need to do as fast as possible. >> what's really worrying about this, rosa cristani, is, eight, nine months since the earthquake, you're still talking about giving hope to

the people t. shows how little progress has happened. >> it's a long time staying in this situation. the living cannot is not yet good. we are quite concerned about the condition there in the camp. it's really important for us to react. but again, they have attention again in the hygiene condition in the camp. >> what i'm saying is, look, this time it's cholera, but if nothing improves in the camp, these people are vulnerable to all kinds of diseases. >> yes, you're right. it's people who never have all kind of disease, and we have to keep it in the attention of everybody. >> rosa, we'll leave it there, thank you for your time. thank you. let's take a look at some of

the other stories making headlines around the world today. the afghan president hamid karzai ads mid his office did receive cash from iran in what he's called a trance partner process. the "new york times" have alleged his chief of staff was paid millions of dollars and that the money was used in a secret fund to pay afghan lawmakers, tribal elders, and even taliban commanders to secure their loyalty. joining us from kabul is the bbc's quentinsomerville. how credible is this statement that this was completely transparent, it was no more than a form of aid from a friendly country, similar to the kind of money that might be received from america? >> well, he dent produce any receipt at news conference, and we don't know a penny of that big sack full of cash made its way into the treasury. the finance ministry here in hearing. but here's where president karzai had to say.

>> the cash payments are done by various friendly countries to help the office, and to help dispense assistance to various ways to the employees around here, to people outside, and this is transparent, ands this is something that i have -- i have also discussed with even when we were at camp david with president bush, this is nothing hidden. we are desperateful for the ronian health industry guard. >> apologies there for how long it took to bring that clip up from president karzai. so he says, you know, this has

been discussed with the americans and so on. has there been reaction from america or nato? >> we haven't had any reaction yet, george, but he even says, this is how the americans do business with afghanistan. they handle the large sacks of cash. that's the way that he gives it to government ministries. but this will be worrying for a number of afghan supporters for a number of reasons. one, the endemic corruption which they believe exists here in president karzai's government. this certainly doesn't help with huge bags of cash floating around. also, there's worries among some of afghanistan's international partners the growing influence of tehran here in afghanistan. and finally, of course, despite receiving billions in aid over many, many years, afghanistan remains one of the purest countries in the world, so there is that money trickling down, is it getting to the afghan people? >> thanks very much, thank you. a bomb has exploded at the gate of a shrine in eastern

pakistan, killing at least six people and wounding several more. the bomb exploded at the entrance to the shrine in the city of pakpatun in the east of the country after morning prayers. officials sight bomb was attached to a motorcycle. strikes over pension reforms continue to paralyze the french economy. the government is warning that mass protests could be costing the country up to half a billion dollars a day. president nicolas sarkozy plans to change the retirement age from 60 to 62 in an attempt to tackle public debt. the 33 men rescued from the san jose mine in chili will be welcomed -- in chile will be welcomed to the presidential palace later today. they will play a game of football against their rescuers. there have been more violent clashes between police and protesters over rubbish. mayor from the naples region have rejkt a move to delay the opening of a new landfill site after weeks of demonstrations

by local residents. they say they want the idea abandoned altogether. the dispute has left piles of rubbish lying in the streets of naples, as our italy correspondent, duncan ken tee, reports. -- duncan kennedy, reports. >> more trouble over trash. the month-long skirmishes between local people and police continue during the weekend over how to deal with rubbish. these people say they want an existing dumpster closed because it's too full,&a new one not to open because it will attract more garbage. it's the chronic record on waste disposal exposed this time in violent confrontation. this woman says, we are stricken with cancer tumors, then there's always that sordid smell 24 hours a day. the prime minister, silvio berlusconi, has offered $20

million in government compensation, and there have been promises to delay the opening of the new dump. mr. berlusconi en hired a crisis in waste management after years of underinvestment and incinerators and because of mafia controls on the industry. two years ago, he went to naples as the savior of its rubbish crisis. this time he sent a senior aide. we have naturally set a precondition that all the protests must immediately end before we sign any agreements. while these protests are partly fed from people coming from outside, there clearly are citizens in these municipalities who are worried and have expressed in a totally civilized, democratic, and a correct way their dissent and their concern. >> silvio berlusconi came to power partly on the process of solving italy's rubbish problem. now he says he can end this latest standoff.

but the european union says it may investigate italy to see if its broken laws -- to see if it's broken laws. this can become toxic for the prime minister. duncan kennedy, bbc news, in rome. >> still to come -- too scared to go to school. why violence education can be costly the global economy $60 billion. the hunt continues in sweden for a gunman who appears to be targeting immigrants. police in the southern city think he may be responsible for a series of shootings. in the latest incident, an apartment was fired at over the weekend. the >> the latest shooting happened here around midnight on saturday. this apartment block, apparently the 19th target in what police believe could be a series of racially motivated

attacks. a family with an immigrant background is said to live on this floor. >> then they went to bed, and in this morning, they could see that their windows was wounded, and then they found the police. no, we had 19 shooting that is we can say that those are together. we think there is some connection between them. >> last week, two women were wounded after being fired at through a window of this house. one of them is believed to have been hit by the bullet. and on this bus stop, a 28-year-old man was shot in the back. it's a city with a large immigrant population, and they're on edge. >> it's very unsettling. we've never experienced anything like this here before, so it feels very unpleasant. >> right now, there's growing tension in sweden over immigration policy. in elections last month, 20

members of a far-right anti-immigration party won seats in parliament. police fear a lone gunman could be at work here. they're urging people with an immigrant background to take extra care. >> now we want to hear what you think, so do get in touch with us at g.m.t. you can do that via our website, bbc.com/gmt. there you can watch our interview and a lot more besides. just go to the website. this is "g.m.t." from "bbc world news." the headlines -- a slowdown in the cholera outbreak in haiti, but aid agencies are concerned as it reaches the earthquake-devastated capital. afghanistan's president karzai admits his office has received millions of dollars in cash from iran.

and miriam is here now with the latest bess news. hello. >> george, thank you very much indeed. in what would be the first ever merger on the asian market, they've unveiled an $8 billion bid for the country that owns the australian stock exchange. the deal would create the fifth biggest stock exchange in the world. shares in australia's all ordinary index rose 20% on the news, as analysts say the deal would give many of the investors much easier access to the booming equities market in asia. >> one of the big focuses is cost savings, and there will be cost savings here. they're around $30 million a year. but the bigger issue as we've seen happen over here with some of the european exchanges is that there are now plenty of alternative ways of institutio off exchange, and so far, we haven't seen those make inroads into asia, but it is coming, so

i think from the australian and singapore accident change's point of view, it's a fantastic way of positioning themselves to the changes that are going to come in their industry and making them a much tougher competitor for the other exchanges out there. >> the british prime minister, david cameron, has told the employers organization in the u.k. he wants to unleash a new economic dynamism to create the jobs it needs to recover from recession. mr. cameron chose the employers' one-day conference in london to shift the spotlight from spending cuts and public sector job losses. new jeel cassidy reports. >> david cameron was aware of the national doubts, even among some business leaders, about the pace of his campaign to get the deficit down, so here was the sweetener, a blueprint to invest more than 400 million pounds, bringing together public and private sectors, spurring innovation, and job creation. >> i'm announcing today the u.k.'s first-ever national

infrastructure plan. it's a plan to completely update and modernize our infrastructure, so british business is free to compete with the rest of the world. in the budget, you saw the first part as we did not reduce capital spending compared to the last government's figures. last week, in the spending review, we went further and announced an additional 8.6 billion pounds over the next four years for capital spending. >> mr. cameron else coalition partner has a different concern he's raising in a speech today, securing future jobs at risk in the event of more foreign takeovers of u.k. companies. he wants to change in the rules governing how british companies are bought and sold. some cadbury shareholders, for instance, didn't want to sell out to kraft, as he's already told his own party. >> i'm shining a harsh light on to the murky will of corporate behavior. why should good companies be destroyed by short-term

investors looking for a speculative killing? >> but the c.b.i. is worried that more regulation might simply make doing business in britain more difficult. >> what we now need to see is that lots of talk about reducing the burden of regulation, particularly on smaller companies, that that action is real, that people can see that the regulatory experience is less burdensome. >> it's such severe spending cuts coming, so no changes should come at a cost of growth. nigel cassidy, "bbc world news." >> let's take a look at some of the day's other top business stories. in september, the slowest rate of growth for japanese exports so far this year. they were up 14% compared to the previous year. that's better than expected, but still down on august. it's the seventh straight month of progress. analysts point the blame at weaker overseas demand and the

strength of the yen, which is making it tough for japanese manufacturers. the cost of the pension dispute in france has been put out between 200 and 400 million euros a day. the economy minister gave the figures in a radio interview, where she zribled the ongoing industrial action as creating a moral habit of france's image abroad. a case is continuing at the high court in london against the rail operator, eurostar. the french firm is suing to stop eurostar buying new trains from germany's siemens in an $800 million contract. they say the high-speed trains made by siemens don't meet safety regulations. as far as the european markets are concerned, a good start to the day. the market subpoena over half a percent after this weekend's g-20 meeting of finance ministers, an agreement to at least try to avoid currency woes until future, lifting

spirits. because, of course, if you don't have the strong currency, it might help lift the global recovery. the nikkei closing down, but the rest of the markets looking pretty good at the close of trade. the hang seng up half a percent. george, that's it from me. back over to you. >> thanks very much. thank you. school is meant to be a safe place to learn, grow, and flourish, about the a new study suggests the reality for many children in both rich and poor countries is quite different. two years ago, it launched a campaign to look at violence in schools. and today they've released a report on the financial cost of bullying, sexual violence, and corporal punishment. while admitting it's difficult to quantify, especially given that many children don't want to talk, they've estimated that the cost in 13 countries is $60 billion. children too scared to go to school miss out on education,

and that has a dramatic effect on how much they earn and cost the economy. joining me anyway is the chief executive of planned international, michael chapman. thank you for being with us. i mentioned $60 billion. i'm want really sure how you come to t. it's a staggering amount of money for 13 countries. >> yeah, 13 countries. you're looking at the level of dropout in schools. that's the critical thing. we're saying only about 5% of the children actually drop out of school, do say it's because of bullying or sexual violence. you then look at the loss of earning power, which is the critical thing. we know that for every year a child stays at school, their earning power goes by about 10%. so if you drop out early, you never really recapture earning power, you don't pay your taxes, and you become a bigger bird upon the state, in this case, it's because the provision of social services inadequate in the first place, and it puts great strain -- you put all that together -- >> i'm still -- are you sure

that you've been able to isolate those things that are caused by being bullying or sexual violence, and those things that are really policy? you mentioned children neating more healthcare when they grow up. we do know that if a child doesn't complete the cycle of school, their chances of breaking out of poverty are much reduced, so the economic calculations is about loss of earning power, loss of taxation, you know, needing more services from the state. if you put that together, it's a very high price. and actually, the ironic thing here is prevention is relatively cheap. they're preventing children dropping out of school through fear of violence, through better training for teachers, through a more curriculum, through actually just making school a more engaging place. all the studies show if you invest up front, you save millions, even billions of pounds further down the line. >> i'm interested if you've

chosen to use this economic argument, if you like. you know, might have been possible to construct an equally powerful case of saying, look, this is the wrong thing to do, we should not be talking about this. but you've gone down this economic route. why? >> well, because we use all these routes, don't we? and, you know, despite the fact it was established over 20 years ago, something like half of people who find it don't have any legislation in place, any positive place to prevent the sort of things we're talking about, so you go through many tracks of persuasion, if you want the moral argument, we just don't want to see children abused at school. you have the argument that says legislation is part of the answer, but not the whole answer, because the rest of the answer has to be about training and development in schools, their wreck lum, the teachers and their skills. as you say, we have some pretty attractive issues here much it's not easy, and the culture of bullying and intimidation in schools is well established in

many, many societies. and to break it down requires a really determined effort, but the economics tell you it's worth making the effort. >> all right, nigel, we have to leave it there, thank you very much. thank you. now, thousands of new zealanders have taken to the country's streets to demand that the filming of two big-screen adaptations of "the hobbit" are not moved overseas. a dispute over pay could force warner brothers to relocate. peter jackson's trill gee "lord of the rings" was a major boost to new zealand's film industry, and economists say losing "middle earth" could cost the country $1.5 billion. dominick cane reports. >> the fight for the future of "middleth," but this is no digital battle in the "lord of the rings" trill gee. it is, in fact, a struggle by ordinary ndsers to keep the filming of "the hobbit" in their country. the long-awade prequel would generate vast revenue for the kiwi economy. and this is a first flimps

inside the home of bilbo on the set of "the hobbit," but it's all now under threat. industrial disruption by the actors' union has made senior filming executives wary of committing any more resources and left the film's director wondering what more can be done. >> little a question of confidence in -- it's a question of confidence in our industrial relations, and the damage was done within a week of it going on. what happens in a year's time when warner brothers has spent $250 million, they're halfway through the film and the actors decide to have some fun again? >> for their part, the unions say that they have removed the threat of strikes. >> i will not have responsibility, if it movie means, it's for financial reasons, it's because warner is trying to make some more profit. >> and now the acting profession itself is stepping in to try to prevent that happening. >> there will be no industrial action taken against the "the hobbit" in new zealand. we actually made that resolution at the end of last

week, and we've sent information out to america. >> but it could be too little, too late, with reports that warner brothers are already considering moving filming to england, meaning new zealand's "middle earth" may already have fought and lost its last battle. dominick cane, bbc news. >> that's almost it for this edition of "g.m.t.." let's give you a reminder of our top story. aid officials in haiti battling cholera spread ago cross the country. they say there are hopeful signs that they're making some progress. here's a taste of what's coming up later on "bbc world news," and that's, of course, with matt frei. as the final week of campaigning begins ahead of the crucial mid-term elections, matt will be in vermont meeting families to see how they're faring through the recession. that's on "world news america," for "bbc world news." but stay with "bbc world news." there's plenty more to come.

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