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sex offender. western australia has allowed parents to access its list of convicted pedophiles. it's midday in london, 7:00 in the evening in manila, 4:00 in the afternoon in islamabad. the pakistani teenager malala yousafzai is being flown to the uk for specialist treatment after being shot in the head last week by the taliban because the 14-year-old was campaigning for the right of girls to go to school for. she need prolonged care including intensive be rehabilitation. with the taliban still threatening to kill her if she survives, the case has horrified many people in pakistan and around the world. now the latest. >> she began her journey in the early hours. doctors say they have done everything they can and now will rely on the u.k. to help oust. -- out. the teenager had been well known

for writing a diary describing life under the pakistani in the swat valley. last week as she traveled home from school in a minibus packed with her classmates, a gunman shot her in the hip. she was in serious condition ever since. -- shot in the head. she needs long-term care. there will be scull reconstruction and more. doctors from the pakistan will pay the cost of treatment. many countries offered help, having been shocked by the attack. >> there's been a wave of public revulsion in pakistan and around the world for this attempt to obstruct the education of a young generation. the united kingdom stands shoulder to shoulder with the people of pakistan, fighting

terrorism and trying to ensure that young people have a proper education and in supporting the muslim holiday of eid al-ad -- and in supporting malala yousafzai. joins bbc's aleem maqbool us from pakistan. much concern about her condition. to undergo an 11-hour flight does take something. >> yes and there's been talk over recent days over whether she was stable enough to undertake a flight like that. it was seen that the need was great enough for that to happen. we have not been given specifics about her condition, only that she is becoming stable and is still unconscious, remaining on a ventilator.

her circumstances are critical and the coming days are critical according to doctors. they feel they have done what they can over here and are handing it her care over to the u.k. >> i presume we should expect a long-term treatment, that she will be here for quite some time. >> yes, short term they have to ensure that she gets through this period. after that, neuro rehabilitation and skull reconstruction, and then the psychological impact of an attack like this where she was faced with a taliban gunman. other girls were in the bus and have been offered help. there were 20 other schoolgirls in the minibus when the gunmen climbed on the back and told

them all to be quiet while pointing a gun in their faces and ask for malala and shot her specifically. another girl got a bullet to the arm as well. other girls at nearby schools have stopped going to school because they have been traumatized by this event. many pakistanis are very shocked by what happened. >> the security is paramount. getting her out of the country is a good indication of that. will she ever return to pakistan? >> i think it is too early to say about what their condition will be and all that kind of thing. i think it will be difficult. the pakistani taliban have not only issued more threats against her, should she survived, but also against father, to whom she

was very close, and two other members of her family. they may not feel able to remain in pakistan. unless things change dramatically if in the next couple years, it will be difficult for she and her family to return. she has always insisted, being a strong young woman, that she has no intention of leaving swat valley. she wants to stay here and get an education. a lot of people here are praying that she will fulfill that goal monday. >> we've got some news. the winner of the nobel prize for economics has been announced. it has gone to alvin roth and lloyd shaffley, two americans. that is just coming to us. winning the nobel economics

prize. now, the philippine government and the country's largest moslem rebel group that signed a pulmonary peace pact, ending one of the longest-running insurgencies in asia. it grants the minority muslims in the southern fell planphilips autonomy. >> this is a sight that many filipinos thought they would never see. the philippine president in the same earl boykins -- in the same room as the leader of the moslem insurgent group. now the moro people will be given more rights, living on the island of mindanao. >> we have signed the most important document in this chapter of our history and, a landmark document that resource

to our people their moro identity and their homeland. >> to reach this agreement, the rebels have had to make compromises. they have abandoned their demand for separate state and agreed to give up all their weapons. in return, the people they represent will have more autonomy and their land will be renamed the land of the moros. peace cannot come soon enough for the civilians. 120,000 people died in the fighting. the area is underdeveloped. it is the poorest region in the philippines. much of the credit for the agreement must go to president aquino, who showed more sympathy and to them than the other leaders. >> that's what needs to be done to reach an agreement. we have commitments to fulfill and dreams to achieve. the details provide us with a

solid opportunity to expand the principles we have already articulated the agreement. >> both sides know this is the beginning of a long process. it's just a framework. a lot more detail need to be added. but it is a start and it's the biggest hope for peace and that meant now -- that the island of mindanao has seen in years. >> and other top stories, the number of syrian refugees housed in camps in southern turkey is now over 100,000 according to the turkish disaster management agency. it is a level beyond which the capital has previously said it would struggle to cope with,. flags being flown at half mast in cambodia in an interview to the country's former king norodom sihanouk who has died at the age of 89. his body being flown back to beijing when he suffered a fatal heart attack.

european union member states are set to announce a new package of sanctions against the run over its nuclear program. diplomats said the measures would focus on dealings with the iranian banks, trade, and deficits. it's become one of the greatest concerns of parents, the possibility that a child sex offender might live in your neighborhood. people in one part ' now will be able to find out from a online register of convicted pedophiles which will indicate where they live. legal groups have questioned how useful it will be endeavoring concerns about the potential of vigilante attacks. >> named and shamed, the new web site where australians can go to find out if they have a convicted sex offender living near them. these pictures are not actual offenders because it is an offense to publicize their faces. parents can hand over their

name and a driver's license and access the web site. >> it provides parents with what would have been confidential information previously. >> the scheme has been launched in western australia. once visitors have long gone, they will be given the names of any pedophiles living in their area along with photographs and any distinguishing features like tattoos or scars. they will not be given an exact address. >> what i would like to put out to parents is there's no substitute for common sense and parental supervision. >> all requests will have to be approved by the police, but they will have to provide good reason to deny access. opponents say that sex offenders will be subject to a street justice. >> violence, damage to property, slashed tires and broken windows. these things will have no practical remedy. >> australia is one of the few countries to allow public access to sex offender registries.

after british girl went missing in 2007, there were calls for a european-wide sex offender registry. the united states is one of the exceptions, many states allowing the public log on to, but with safeguards. in australia it is an offense to share the information on web sites like facebook or youtube. this is a radical step in the fight against the most sensitive of crimes. bbc news reporting from sydney. >> still to why did the crew ships the costa concordia run aground, killing more than 30 people. the captain comes face-to-face with survivors in an italian courtroom. a party that wants to split up belgium appears to of made gains in local elections with most of the ballots counted. the slimmest national party has won more than 36% of the vote.

there is some flash photography in this report. >> involved in politics, he's the man of the moment. the leader of the flemish nationalist party and the newly elected mayor of antwerp. the message of his victory address was clear -- >> the force of change has won and we will continue. we want to give a flemish people the government they want at all levels. >> and they believe the dutch speaking part of belgium, flanders, has spent too much money subsidizing poorer french- speaking region, a view shared by some voters. >> every time, money, money, money. 30 or 40 years. it's finished now. >> and work has chosen a

new political leader. it remains to be seen as to whether belgium has embarked on a journey that one day could see the country split into two. >> the space shuttle endeavour has finally reached its new home in california after a three-day journey across los angeles. it traveled just 19 kilometers. in that time, it will now be a permanent exhibit capitola california science center. the biggest obstacles on the journey turned out to be the trees and overhanging cables. the average speed when it was moving was just 3 kilometers per hour. it could actually reach 17,000 kilometers normally. you're watching gmt from bbc world news. these are the headlines. a 14-year-old schoolgirl sent by a taliban in northwest pakistan is under way to britain

for medical treatment. a peace deal has been signed in the philippines in the hope of ending a long-running muslim insurgency. business news with aaron. another painful day for portugal. >> lisbon is bracing itself for street protests outside the parliament building today. thousands are expected to gather over the the 2013 budget. some of the hardest test measures ever introduced critics some of the harshest measures ever introduced by the portuguese government. they have to do this as part of the $100 billion bailout that the country receive the last year. in terms of, the tax of the finance minister of portugal described them as enormous. they could actually equate to three months' worth of wages for the average middle income

worker. on top of that, they have to make another 5 billion euros worth of cuts to public spending, tax increases, financial transactions, tax increases, pension cuts. this is a big risk, politically. a recent nationwide poll showed 70% of the portuguese people don't agree with the government policy. the portuguese economy is already in its worst recession since the 1970's. it just adds to hold abate. -- whole debate. does austerity work or does the bush economy into a wrong direction? >> the initial news of austerity caused a huge decline in growth initially. portugal, the more it cuts, the more likely -- the deeper the recession is likely to be, which is what makes the budget deficit gap even larger.

you cannot just tackle these things with austerity. you have to have a big economic reforms alongside them. some european governments are ok with doing the immediate austerity but not great at reforming social welfare programs and unemployment benefits for long-term. >> but the details coming out later this afternoon. >> we will bring them to you. >> chinese inflation rates are down for much of the year. >> i don't know if that's good or bad news. it's good news for the policy makers in beijing. the consumer price rises slowed to, at 1.9%. this time last year the food price rises were around 5%. so that's good news for policy makers in beijing. food prices in particular are a big problem in china. it shows the action the central bank in china has taken this year, lots of different interest

rate cuts, is starting to feed through the pipeline. news this week and that chinese exports for the month of september grew more than twice. -- more than twice that was expected. you have the global economic doldrums, but there's still demand for chinese-made goods. what does beijing do now? warring inflation gives them maneuverability to possibly cut rates or pump more money into the system. there's the debate with the euro zone and some troubled economies and there's the debate with china as well. china must increase what happens with spending on the ground domestically. what direction should beijing take? >> this gets to the heart of what the solution is to the tiny slowdown. does china need a new stimulus or a rebalancing? if you believe china needs to rebalance away from exports and investment-driven growth to more

domestic consumption, some people argue that china should not be cutting interest rates and it should instead be raising interest rates to help boost consumption, by giving people a greater return on their savings and tried to diminish some of the over investment that's been driving this economy and in many ways driving it into a whole. >> thursday is a big day for china, economic growth numbers, the gdp. all eyes will be on that. china growth was down at a three-year low the last time around. >> thank you very much. the captain of the costa concordia crew ships, which hit rocks and sank off the italian coast, appears for the first time at an inquiry into the disaster. the captain is attending the hearing that's likely to bring him face-to-face with survivors of the sinking in which more than 30 people died. our correspondent alan johnson joins us now from italy. i get the impression from some of the survivors that this is a

pretty emotional moment. >> certainly, the theater behind me has been the scene of that emotion and has been turned into a makeshift courtroom for the purposes of the hearing and takes its place alongside the experts has been the man at the center of this, the captain. it has brought him face-to-face for the first time with several survivors and families and an army of lawyers. no journalists allowed inside. one of the survivors, perhaps a former crew member, stepped forward and shook hands with him. out here on the streets, a german survivor said that he came because he wanted to be able to look into the captain's eyes and the accusations were read against him. the captain did listen to the case being compiled against him. we understand that his team

challenged the technicalities of some of what they have heard and the judge is considering the challenge now. >> this is a pretrial hearing. what do they need to straighten out at this stage? >> it's a huge case involving so many potential places and large amounts of evidence to be sifted through. and the black box and testimony from many witnesses. what they are trying to do is allow the judge to decide what the parameters of any criminal case, which is bound to follow, would be, in deciding who will be charged and how many people. it's not only the captain under investigation. there are nine people altogether, including three members opposed cruise ship operating company-- including

three members of the crew ships operating company. >> thank you very much. that's following the pretrial hearings in italy. the nobel prize for economics has been awarded to two americans. the nobel committee said that the prize was given for their work on market designs, the setting up of markets so that they work well. it is worth around $1.2 million and it's the final honor of the year. stephanie flanders is here to tell us a little about what it is they have achieved. >> the economics that we understand tends to be the macroeconomics, unemployment and inflation. that's not the part that has developed much in the last 30 years. now this is microeconomics, which is matching theory and market design.

it turned out to be very practical and useful. what they did -- and it was roth, he came up with a theoretical way of looking at matching. how do you bring in a market where you cannot necessarily have things decided by the cost of something, how do you match people together, buyers and sellers and other people? he had an abstract way of looking at it. no one had known how to apply it. then 20 years later shaffley said we could allocate students to high schools or to universities. you cannot use the normal market mechanism for that. how do you match people so that universities have the best lot they could have, given what the group of students or group of doctors want. roth, the algorithm or the

equation than the established for this stable matching solution, none of us would get much out of it, but it is applied to something practical. one of the big uses it has had in america and other countries is allocating a kidney transplant. how do you look at efficient distribution of a certain number of kidneys to people in need. you're not talking about individuals making a choice. it's usually a hospital or a doctor. >> americans have a virtual monopoly on winning this prize. >> if you look at academic economics and the leading journals in the world, the majority of people who are writing this leading stuff tends to be americans or people at american institutions.

in the past few years we have had british economists as winners. so it's not a monopoly, but you are right that you and usually have a good chance if you bet on the americans. >> not a golden bullet. >> usually the nobel prize rewards people for work that was done many decades ago. they tend to feel that is when a work has established its usefulness. this is one of those areas. we have shad some recent ones such as paul krugman quitting for his trade theory. this is very much an area of minute design, but actually. pretty useful actually governments >> i am better informed than i was a few minutes ago. thank you very much. a reminder of our top stories, the pakistani schoolgirl who was shot in the head by the taliban for campaigning for girls' education is now being flown to the uk for specialist medical treatment. malala yousafzai remains in

serious condition after the attack. she will be receiving treatment in a birmingham hospital, and a specialist, center. that's all for the moment. stay with us on bbc world news. thanks for watching. >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding for this presentation was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu, newman's own foundation, and union bank. >> at union bank, our relationship managers work hard to understand the industry you

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