gavin hewitt, bbc news, athens. >> you're watching bbc world news. coming up, the latest international sport and why the energy-rich state of the united arab emirates is facing petrol shortages. mexico's liquid gold is falling into the hands of criminals. that's according to one of the country's state-owned oil companies. it says it's facing massive losses because of criminal gangs tapping the pipes and stealing the contents. our report from mexico city. >> mexico is the world's seventh largest oil producer and profits from the state-owned oil giant make up a third of the state's revenues. but authorities now admit that illegal tapping on its pipelines around the country has reached an all-time high. and it's hurting its finances. this year, through april, our estimated losses for theft from pipelines amounts to $251 million. slightly above the total amount stolen in 2010. this means that almost 70% of the company's first quarter profits were lost to organized crime gangs. they steal the oil from pipelines using state of the art technology and then s

gavin hewitt, bbc news, belgium. >> and everyone of course looking at that new strain. and for more on how big of threat this outbreak poses i'm joined by the director of national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. thanks very much for joining us, dr. fachi. how does a new strain develop? is it all the strains get resistant to bacteria -- antibiotics that we have out there or how does this come about? because it seems to happen very suddenly. >> yes, it has. it's really unclear at this point. bacteria and other my crobes have uncanny -- and microbes have uncanny ways of exchanging genes and mutating so they react differently. we've not seen this strain in the united states and it's been rare that it causes outbreaks really anywhere. the extent of the outbreak and the seriousness of it with regard to the complications such as renal failure among some of the individuals, namely kidney failure, for a variety of reasons, is something that is distinctly unusual that has not been seen before. but bacteria have enormous genetic ways of changing and mutating and form

gavin hewitt, bbc news, luxemborg. >> thousands of people forced to leave their homes after days 6 -- after days of flooding in china. >> china's rainy season has arrived. this is the result. rivers turned into rapids. massive flooding caused by days of heavy rain. the flood waters tore through roads, bridges, homes. power lines are down, and water supplies have been effected. more than 60,000 people have been evacuated, but many are still thought to be stranded. some of the worst areas are in the town of quay jo. nearly half a million people have been affected. a disaster for what is already one of the poorest parts of the country. china has one of the poorest army -- largest armies in the world. they will shoulder the burden of helping people to safety, and beginning the slow difficult job of getting people help. others are trying to clear roads. but rains have just started. months of misery lie ahead for millions of people across china. daniel griffeth, bbc news. >> the soyez has carried a three-man crew. after traveling for two days they will dock at the international space statio

. >> gavin hewitt reports. >> a cabinet reshuffle greek style. european leaders and the financial markets watched as a new cabinet was sworn in. facing violent unrest the prime minister dumped his finance minister, a desperate gamble but a new team could more easily push through osterity measures and so prevent a devastating default. outside parliament the protestors remain at the gate. late evening, they were sitting in. they heard that the new finance minister might try and negotiate with his european pay masters to suffer some of the reforms. the protestors were skeptical. the mood here was uncompromising, no more osterity. >> the more osterity you have people are more unemployed, the economy's collapsing. it's an obvious thing. the protestor who is have been campaigning here for weeks are trying to make it impossible for the government to implement carts. >> away from these pro-tersors there have -- protestors there have also been division about how to protest this. their two leaders were meeting in berlin. >> the smiles didn't disguise the t