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>> the international envoy kofi annan meets with assad on a peace mission. reports in italy. with as many as three people killed. >> and brev itch claimed to be preoccupied with money and looks. welcome to "bbc world news." i'm greet greet geeta guru-murthy with you. >> this guy doesn't take money. but i've come up with solutions.

>> the u.n. peace envoy kofi annan is meeting with basha al-assad today after international outrage over killings of over 100 in hula. kofi annan is warning the syrian government it needs to take serious steps if they want to solve this peacefully. it's explained how kofi annan's talking to assad will unlikely proceed well unless russia takes an act. >> what might have gone on between russia and damascus, because if the russians have done nothing to twist the regime's arm, kofi annan may go

away without progress. because russia may claim it's others that carried out the massacre. if he is stone walled that way, kofi annan will go away and there will be a sectarian civil war. that will be looming larger. the important thing is the russians are the only people who have the clout or influence in damascus to a -- to force them to give kofi annan reason to believe there is the cycle of violence breaking on the ground. if this plan so stand any chance of succeeding.

>> jim muir with breaking news coming into us. fewer than 20 confirmed 80 the rest including the children were summarily executed. today two syrian diplomats -- the australian foreign minister bob carr ordered the syrian diplomats to leave. the australians saw the bodies and said anyone who could orchestrate the killing of the men, women and children, with the way they deal and the way to deal with it so expel the

syrian diplomats from there. >> the olympic torch relay. these are the pictures on top of mount node at any highest peak in whales. even there, there is a crowd gathered, waving the welsh flag awaiting the torch. the mother flame in a miner's lantern. there they will take over the torch and carry it up the last leg. you can see there. there he is. right at the peak. surrounded by photographers. carrying the torch to the top of noden. it is a beautiful, sunny day, despite that this is

northerlyly one of the wettest parts of the country, and people have made their way up right to the top to help welcome the torch after its huge journey around the whole of the u.k. fantastic view there. it's been traveling previously through where prince william is based and traveling through many parts of whales before it all comes back to england. but these pictures with chris buddington, famous mountaineer, of course, carrying the torch to the top of mount and a fantastic turnout from the public. now to italy where it's said at least three people have been killed in a 5.8 magnitude earthquake that's shaken much of the northern part of the country. the quake struck around 9:00

a.m. and settled 30 kilometers northwest of blownya. there was the quake that hit italy nine days ago, and there are fatalities being reported inform one town. you can see the images from those tents set up there. more on that as soon as we can. details from italy all the time. nato says its forces have killed the second highest ranking lead they are in an air strike and the air strike that killed them is said to have taken place on sunday. they say he is responsible for commanding foreign insurgents and directing attacks against coalition forces.

>> brev simple coming under scrutiny with former school friends giving evidence to his trial. we heard some interesting evidence this morning. one of the friends. they don't want to be identified. but was involved in the clearup and talking about brev itch before they knew what would unfold. >> and repeating in court today that he appeared more of one of them. they worked together and lived together with him and say he was somewhat self-centered. a bit too much at times, he had an operation to make him look more airy and his friends commeshted on that, but apart from that, there was nothing

really other that was to say about him. >> they requested brev itch not to be present when they gave their testimony? >> yes. again, today his four former friends did not want to testify in front of him, because they said it would put too much pressure on them to be face-to-face with him and none of them have seen him since the attacks last year. we are expecting three more witnesses, former friends. the court will be very interested to find out if there was anything important that would indicate he was so much different than those he

surrounded himself with. >> and we have been following spain after the banking business news yesterday. >> no major new news but almost an update, because everybody's watching it very, very closely. after the bond interest rate, the yield spain has to paton imax 35, the main markets in madrid yesterday closed at a nine-year low. all this after the emergency press conference hoping to calm the markets. looking at the yields which touched nearly 6.7%. that's certainly an unsustainable level. the current lies number at 6.4%. still at levels that are very ugly indeed. the spanish markets down all on the back about the consistent worries about the spanish bank

issues. we saw those tumble after over the weekend over $24 billion for a bailout. the question is how many over banks in spain are going to need a bailout and the question is where is the bank boing going to get those levels? >> cook. >> yes. >> has a big company that's been in trouble for a while. >> yes. but they are having an ager shareholder approval on restructuring. more on that during the business report in about 20 minutes' time. >> thank you very much indeed. there have been more protests in cairo after the two candidates were confirmed. fire was set forth to one of the prime minister's.

the bbc's looking into how people reacted to monday's violent protest. >> i think clearly people are depressed. not just because of the choices between the two candidates but also the "here we go. more violence on the streets." as far as this attack was concerned, we know there were certainly tirade on -- whoever carried it out frankly has played into his hands. he is the law and order candidate, so the less law and order you have the more you think people would vote for him.

>> as we heard in the report, those from last year don't have a candidate of their own in this race. >> is it your sense most in egypt will swing behind whoever does twin final result in the election? >> i'm afraid not. there won't be any consensus behind either of these candidates. and many, many voters here, i suspect many of them simply won't vote. bose those repelled by the old regime. so many will not reportedly vote on these candidates. >> let's go now to the olympic report replay, and our correspondent, sean lady is winning and have been -- and

have decided to go. >> yes. really a party sat summit this morning. at 7:00 a.m., i was passing walkers and when i arrived here, there were many of them already here waiting for the olympic flame to be carried right to the summit of snowden. you come here often, but you've never seen this before. >> no. there's a first time for everything. it's normally busy here. but it's busy. there's an atmosphere here today, a definite buzz even though the flame's gone now. i think he is actually on his way up again with his distinguished torch.

>> we're hoping to get a chat with him. he is the highest man in england and whales when he stood there with the olympic flame, don't you think? >> yes. i'm sure he feels privileged to have done so and i'm sure everyone out here feels privileged to be involved in this special occasion. >> so those on the mountains, i hope they progress and so not in the world but in the country, you have the rail ways here. that seems attractive. putting the thick in the box to get the highest summit done. but people, some of which are not exactly mountaineers are trained to be up here, and that's where the problem starts, with safety issues. >> well, it's all very positive

and a happy day here today. the olympic flame has reached the highest point of its u.k. torch relay here at the summit of snowdon. >> thank you. indeed you can see all those people still gathered. the torch has just left the peek of snowdon. but you can follow the track. just go to the website, www.bbc.com/news. follow twitter with hash tag bbc torch relay. amazing day. you're watching "bbc world news." still to come, upwardly mobile. is new equipment leading to something more? now, increased levels of radioactivity have been found in pacific blue fin tuna. they say the tuna have picked

up the contamination while women swimming in the niche waters. >> the fukushima. radioactivity has been found in one of the pacific ocean's most iconic oum, it's the source of the chemicals found in some fish now. during the battles of the brain, the systems under control. large volumes of contaminated water went from the fukushima reactors into the sea. some far away from the coast have shown evidence of trace pollution. >> we can contrast blue and yellowfin tunas that the they were collected at the same time in the same location in san diego in august of 2011. but the yellowfin tuna tend to

be more residential fish, so they don't swim across the pacific. so their radioal activity was just background level. so by comparing the blue fin and yellow fin, we could conclude unequivocally that the blue fin tuna had to have come from japanese waters. >> scientists will continue to monitor tuna from there and researchers also to wanted to check other my grancht species like sharks and turtles. "bbc world news." >> this is "bbc world news." i'm geeta guru-murthy. the headlines for you. the human rights office in geneva say the first

investigation into the killings in hula show 20 people died as a result of tank or artillery fire and the rest, including children, were summarily executed. >> reports say as many as six people have been killed in the earthquakes in italy. they are suffering from the quake of nine days ago. more pictures coming to us from italy. it does lock as the numbers are all going up. the mayor said there were a number of candidates. two people reported dead in and some tents collapsed. in this area you can see the

damage of the buildings that have indeed fallen apart. going there to see if anyone is trapped. people were trapped underneath these two buildings which have been falling. the quake struck at 9:00 a.m. local time 40 kilometers west of bla loanya. >> police in denmark say they have stopped a terrorist attack. the two brothers are danish citizens of somali or gin. police are investigating the militant group, but what more details do you have? >> it's very limited. at this point right now, the brothers are 18 and 23. one was arrested in copenhagen airport. the over was arrested where he

lives in the second largest town in denmark and -- >> this is journalist janni pedersen. >> we know the two brothers have been living in denmark for 16 years. so that's what we know until now. and as something very new here in denmark. we know one of them will be charged with the fact that they think he has been in a training . that's what the danish intelligence service has told the press. it's historical. when this was changed leitner 2006, they actually made it prohibited or illegal to be a part of training camps with terror until now we know they

are going to be charged for planning a terror attacked and one will be charged for being seen in a terroristic training camp in somalia. >> thank you. the chief judge in the philippines has just been found guilty of corruption. the senate found it was failed to declare, the personal constitution. ever a two-year battle. the trial at the philippines top judge was always going to be divided. his supporters say he was a breath of fresh air keeping the area independent from the government. >> your honorible chief justice. >> others say he represents everything that's wrong with the judicial system and that

his close association with the former government meant he couldn't bo his job successfully. >> the rest between the judiciary goes back to the inauguration of president ha can i know. this one had been appointed just weeks before. the new president is not approved. he even insisted on being sworn in by another judge. rounding this late last year when gloria roara was trying to lead the philippines before charges were filed against her. the president insisted she stay. the president aquino. the case against ronaldo was a vital test in his administration's battle against corruption.

after nearly five months of deliberations over the guilt or innocence of the chief justice, the group went back to their original questions. >> you can leave your wallet at home and go on to pay your way. we asked one person to try to operate without cash or cards. >> here's the question. can these replace this? there are more and more aps sable on mobile phones allowing you to and i'm going to live for a few days without spending any money except by my mobile phone. ♪ >> i loaded on to my phone two mobile money services. ot wallet and another which allow you to transfer to a mobile phone. >> then i ordered the coffee.

i've gotten my first hit. my turn to do the coffee and tea round. this guy doesn't take money but anthony is going to pay, and i'm going to pay him via the mobile money app. let's see how it works. ♪ >> we're not doing well. give up and go somewhere else for a coffee. one thing i found does work is a whole range of apps that let you put taxis and mini cabs from your phone and have it charged directly to your card. let's try this now. pick me up here. of course once you start using one of these taxi apps, it's

too easy to spend money but buying shops that would let you pay by phone proved almost impossible. >> a few retailers have developed one of their own apps. i've ordered a couple of sandwiches and finally going to get one for my friend. >> well, did that work? >> yes, it did. >> excellent. well, while he's doing that, i should say i've been trying to do this for several days, live without cash, and i found cards will get me most place bus mobile money from this phone just isn't working. too complicated. far too many people understand it. it needs a lot of work. >> struggling there. i'm afraid the death toll is going up with as many as eight

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