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Leader has been sentenced to death for war crimes. Welcome once again. The Syrian Free Army says a small group of Syrian Rebels have entered kobani to help extremist fighters. They are on route to syria. One group from iraq to turkish port. Another group carrying weapons including artillery are travel ago separately through r turkey. The battle has so far lasted six weeks. More than 800 are believed to have been killed during that time. The fighting has force 2d 00,000 to flee across the turkish border. The bbc joins me now from the syrian turkish border. What is the progress as far as we know on these troops a arriving in kobani . Reporter in different small groups. In one hand they dont want people, local people to actually see them. They dont want media to get close and get a picture of them. Most roads leading to kobani traveling through those roads have closed to People Like Us and all those people that want to see them. As you see, this is kobani behind me. Seems the fight has escalated today. We see whats going on here. I. S. Militantitants have manage move furtherer in the the i. Were experiencing difficulties with that sound. Well bring it back as soon as we can. An unmanned american rocket is exploded a few seconds after takeoff. Its the first accident since nasa turned to independent company to launch. Russia successfully launched its rocket to deliver supplies to the crew at the space station. The bbc reports. The rocket bound for the International Space station, six seconds after launch, this happened. Having just cleared the launch pad in virginia, the unman add commercial supply ship burst into flames. The 14 story rocket was built by a corporation contracted to nasa. Manufactures said it would now work to find out what caused the function. There were no injuries. Our team worked hard to prepare it, conducted a lot of testing and analysis to get ready for this mission. However, something went wrong. Well find out what that is. It was taken 2,000 kilograms of supplies to astrosnauts living on the International Space station. We keep logistics on board to protect us four to six months in the event other vehicles cant make it to i. S. S. This is the first accident since nasa began the commercial Flight Program in which it pays companies to deliver the supplies to the space station. Now its due to be examined as an investigation into what caused the explosion gets underway. Bbc news. A mud slide triggered by monsoon rains in controversy ran ka has killed ten and left 300 missing. Mud buried dozens of homes in the district. About 200 kilometers from the capital. Security forces are mobilized and search and rescue operations. Mud slide warnings were issued after much of the area after rain. The leader mr. Sata dies after days after zambia announcing the anniversary of independence. His death was announced several hours ago on state television. To inform the region our beloved president and leader mr. Sata has passed on. The bbc was recently in zambia speaking to me. She speaks how concerns over his health have been mounting if for some time. It sounds like people were expecting bad news to come from the presidency office. They had been complaining a lot because they have not been told or given enough news on the status of the president. Nothing official. Even last friday at the celebration, there was no mention of president Michael Satas Health Status the. The mood is subdued on the streets today. He was a domineering figure. One wonder who is might step into his shoes. There will be a small transition. The defense minister is currently also the acting president. What will happen, zambia will hold elections in 90 days to election a new president. At the moment, acting president is firmly in charge. As the president passes on, its clear that many things he promise had the he would do for zambia he failed to deliver upon. Thats correct. A lot of people were complaining about that but at the same time saying zambia celebrated jubilee last week. They were saying at least theres peace in the country. There were challenges particularly around impurement which they were hoping Michael Satas leader ship would actually tackle. Some other news. Hopes are fading for miner trapped in the coal mine will be rescued. The countrys Energy Minister warns time is running out as the water level is rising all the time. Slow moving red hot lava spew ago from the volcano is in the village. The lava is too a hot for firefighters to stop. The volcano on the big island has been erupting since 1983, but lava recently burst from a a new vent. The head of bang ladesbangl Largest Party has been sentenced to death for war crimes. He was found guilty of crimes against humanity including genocide, murder, rape. The state prosecutor said the sentence reflected the gravity of crimes. With me now from the bbc service. Welcome. How does this what does this man represent in bangladesh . At the moment hes the head of the largest Islamist Party in the country and third Largest Party overall. In 1971 he was the head of the youth front, also headed the force which was seen as a shadowy death squad. They were responsible for killing intellectuals days before the war in 1971. He was given the sentence for killing of those intellectuals. Thats been an issue last 42 years. This verdict reflects that kind of emotion that has been buckle up in bangladesh. The justice for the kill ofg intellectuals should happen. That explains much of the focus has been on him and his party. It is a very long time after a 1971 and the this particular war. How easy was it to convict him . These trial processes have faced a lot of criticism. After 40 years a lot of evidence has been destroyed, documents have disappeared, weaknesses have die witnesses have died. The Human Rights Organization and the government has plowed on and tried to establish that even though these are not up to Current International standards, they are delivers justice. Thank you very much. Do stay with us here on bbc world news. Still to come. More from the 100 womens series. How won woman is challenging stereo types by becoming a female barber. I thought itd be bigger. dad theres nothing i cant reach in my subaru. vo introducing the allnew subaru outback. Love. Its what makes a subaru,a subaru. You drop 40 grand on a new set of wheels, then. Wham a minivan tbones you. Guess what your Insurance Company will only give you 37thousand to replace it. Depreciation they claim. How can my car depreciate before its first oil change . You ask. Maybe the better question is, why do you have that Insurance Company . With Liberty Mutual new car replacement, well replace the full value of your car. See Car Insurance in a whole new light. Liberty mutual insurance. Camso anna switched him to rd to conceal. Iams indoor weight and hairball care. Now that hes lost the weight, hes a bit of a showoff. Just one of many iams formulas to keep love strong. This is bbc world news. Im tonya. Here with the headlines. The Free Syrian Army says it has forces inside kobani has peshmerga troops heads towards the town. Disaster in virginia as an unmanned nasa rocket explodes seconds after takeoff. Coming up in sports with me jim watson in half an hours time. Down to the wire. Kansas city giants take the deciding game at seven. The troubled league is a side for the lasting german cup. And the first match back since the birth of his child at the Paris Masters. Thats all coming cup. When north Korean Leader king jongun disappear ed from the public eye, it led to speculation. Now the spy agency says it has the answers to his absence. It claims he had surgery to remove a cyst from his ankle. Heres steve. Reporter the north korean intelligence officials told parliament here in seoul that a the north Korean Leader had first noticed a cyst on his left ankle back in may and then suffered increasing discomfort. Then either in september or earlier the this month, a team of doctors from europe have been flown to the area to remove the cyst. They didnt specify which countries they had come from. The officials said it had derived from tarsal tunnel syndrome, an ailment that comes when the nerves are pinched in the ankle and swelling erupts. What the official also said was that that condition would reoccur. Its been removed but could reoccur. Theres a bit of a Health Warning with this. Intelligence agencies deal in information and disinformation. Having said that though, south Korean Intelligence Agency has a reputation for whats called human intelligence. In plain english, spies on the ground. This official was giving information or disinformation to a properly constituted group within the parliament. That was steve evans. Alice is here to give us the story of qe. Thats right. We now we begin with the Federal Reserve looking to set the 4 trillion Bond Buying Program wednesday known as quantitative easing or qe. It was a life support system following the financial crisis. National outburst, employment, Government Debt are all back to precrisis levels. Already analysts are speculating when the first rise and cause of borrowing will come. A long running pilot strike at air france. Europes Biggest Airline majors, 247 euros ending in september. The dispute of pilot Retirement Benefits has forced the carrier to cancel thousands of flights costing the carrier 5 Million Euros a day. Nintendo could be on track for fast operating property in four years. The Japanese Firm said mario cart 8 game has boosted sales of wii console. More stories coming your way in ten minutes in your business report. See you then. I look forward to it. Thanks very much. A group of aid charities is launching appeal for donations from the public to fight ebola in west africa. Its the first time the committee has asked for donations in response to an outbreak of disease. Previous appeals have been for national disasters, conflicts. Heres our World Affairs correspondent. Reporter the dec says its launching the appeal because the ebola is no longer a medical emergency. It threatens a humanitarian catastrophe. In parts of west africa, that could happen in 60 days. Explosives spread in the region is not just killing infected but ripping apart health services, devastate ago communities, and destroying peoples ago to help themselves. Over 50 years, the deced appeals. Never before has it responded in this way to a disease. In this situation we see the impact of the ebola crisis on the communities of sierra leone, guinea and liberia is such a scale its caused a humanitarian crisis. Thats why they decided to launch appeal. From teams trying to insure safer burial practice to treatment routes of newly infected raises awareness of hygiene to keep it at bay and the psychological support for ever growing number. The appeal will support aid agencies that are already heavily involved in various ways on the ground. The Global Response to the ebola virus has accelerated in recent weeks after the aid agencies complained the International Community was too slow to respond said the agency msf on the front line. While individual companies have made separate final pledges, in september, u. N. Announced a Response Plan saying almost a billion was needed to address the outbreak. Europe says to pledge 180 million to fight the crisis. U. S. Promised 175 million. China has offered just over 37 million. But with these pledges and others from australia, can a ad and uk, it has not raised half the amount it says it needs. The plan is spend most of the money raise ed from the British Public in First Six Months and use the rest to help communities get back on their feet. An unprecedented appeal for outbreak of ebola. This isnt as a rare as once one. Increasing numbers of women are entering the career. Some still see female hairdressers as immoral. As part of our 100 women series, we hear from one woman making a career for herself cutting hair. Translator im 21 years old. Originally my customers were women. For the past a five years they have been men. I love my job overall but especially cutting mens hair. I thought since im a good hairdresser, i would do it for both men and women. I can prepare the bride and groom on their wedding night. Because people believe that a woman that works as a hairdresser is not a decent woman, i decided to prove them wrong. Im good in two areas, as a hairdresser for men and women and as a person. A woman isnt a character just because hes a hairdresser. I can do things male hairdressers cannot do. Im up capable of making ordinary customers feel and look like a star simply because i look at him from a girl as perspective, not a mans. I asked myself, if i see this man in the street, would i like his look or not . I sometimes face a difficulties while working. That happens when someone behaves inappropriately. I just focus and feel annoyed. It has never stopped me carrying on, but deep inside i dont feel good. I was really proud of myself when i was honored in a barbers competition. I felt confident and decided to sharpen skills as a barber. My family didnt object. My father encouraged me and motivated me to improve. He tells me be steadfast and careful at work and not let anyone bother me. The only time i regretted taking this job is the time i had to split from my fiance who i love sod much. He didnt accept my work. I had to pick the lesser of it would have evils. I chose my work. It was my choice. That was part of the bbcs 100 women series, special coverage looking at issues that particularly affect women and girls. Find what theyre doing and how you can join their conversations at bbc. Com 100 women or use 100 women. Its a slice of california cool on the outskirts of east london. A skate park is joining the ranks of homes and monuments in getting lifted heritage status. This is a rare survivor of the skateboarding craze that swept britain in the 60s. Its the second park to be protected in the world. John went to take a look. Reporter for almost 40 years, kids have been riding, jumping, spinning through the air here at the skate park. When skateboarding first leapt across the pond in the late 1970s, this park was built in the american style. Since then, its one of the view thats escaped demolition. Todays riders still appreciate its design. I like the fact its all concrete and all original. The concrete is original and good to ride. Its easy to learn on the rollin. For people just starting its quite easy. The transitions still work from when they were first built. Nothing has changed. Its great. Reporter each feature has its own characteristics, own personality, and own name. This is the snake. Reporter this is the snake. The four leaf clover. This is the performance bowl like a giant concrete egg box. English heritage decided to give this place grade two lifted status. Why has the organization that runs ancient stone hinge opted to protect a modern skate park . Im a afraid 1978 is old and heritage now. Heritage is all of our past. It can be from the great Country House to what were seeing here, more modern and youth culture. Can lifted status be a challenge . It can be for a purchaser or undertaker trying to take the development. Cost can be insurmountable. Reporter this house or University May be obviously examples. The power station are also protected by listing. Theres living heritage here too. Skaters who came when it first opened are today still here but now with the next generation. Some kids would rather play. Some many of these places left. Got to keep it going. How long have you been here . Since the outcome. Got drawn back. You may not know a fresco from free style, kicker or ramparts from a ramp, but now its all part of our history, all part of our heritage. Skateboarding is the winner here, hands down. Bbc news. A reminder of our top story. Fighters from the Free Syrian Army are reported to have arrived in kobani to fight Islamic State forces. Thats it for me. Bye bye. Go ahead and put your bag right here. Have a nice flight traveling can feel like one big mystery. Youre never quite sure what is coming your way. But when youve got an entire company who knows that the most ontime flights are nothing if we cant get your things there too. 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The Federal Reserve gets ready to end the biggest Stimulus Program in Global Economic history. Without a trace, our Technology Correspondent tries to live off grits for a day. Hello there. A warm welcome to you. This is World Business report with me. In just a minute, well look at the safest place to travel by train if youre a woman. First, the Federal Reserve looks set to end its 4 trillion Bond Buying Program on wednesday. Its known as quantitative easing or qe. It was intended as a life support system for the worlds biggest economy following the financial crisis. Reports now from washington. Reporter its the end of an era for the u. S. Central bank. It embarked on an unpress dentsed journey. On wednesday that will likely end. Ben bernanke was the head of the Bond Buying Program, he would be the one to niche wait the dismantling. This began the delicate process of tapering, the successor janet yellen is seeing the pollty so end and shes a Firm Believer in quantitative easing. These purchases have made a meaningful contribution to Economic Growth and improving the outlook. Reporter initial rounds of bond buying were meant to stabilize the Financial System this the wake of the crisis. The most recent stimulus was geared towards growing americas economy and with it is sluggish labor markets. As the u. S. Was still reeling from the recession in 2009, the Unemployment Rate hit 10 . By september 2012, it recovered but remained stubbornly high. Now the Unemployment Rate is under 6 for the First Time Since 2008. As the economy shows some signs of strength, americans are feeling more confident than they have in seven years. It begs the question whether it was quantitative easing that brought the u. S. Back from the brink. Weve gotten all benefits of expansion of qe, but until we see the consequences of deflating it back to normal, we cant do a broad appraisal of full context. In short, weve been on the upswing in this and now about to move towards not only tapering but the rise in interest rates. Reporter its back to normal here a at Federal Reserve. No more bond buying just the central bank setting ways. Its clear the next move will have to be a rate hike. Getting the timing right as not to do fresh damage to a still fragile economy will be tough. Its a decision that has global complications. Bbc news washington. American cities have the worlds most dangerous public transport systems for women. Three out of five women who traveled suffered some form physical harassment. The research looked at 15 of the worlds biggest capitals and found the worst three cities. Meanwhile, new york, tokyo and beijing came out as the safest places to travel for women. Joining me in the studio, mon monique. Talk me through the questions imposed to women. Two personal question, have you been personally verbally or physically harassed . We had four questions which were do you feel safe . Would bystander help you if anything happen to you . Do you feel safe authorities would investigate if you are going to say a crime was committed against me, et cetera, et cetera. Then we had thompson poll to gender specific in each city. To ask them most general questions. Interesting. It was all ranked together by division of thompson roiters. As the worst performing cities, bogota a, mexico city and lima, these used to have a terrible reputation in terms of safety. What did they do to change . Absolutely. They are different. New york 25 years ago, you could not go walking at night alone. I would never do that at the time. Or going you never felt safe. There was high crime level et cetera. They have been tough on crime and prosecuting, et cetera. It was the hard way. Also you have city tv everywhere. Thats the reason why of all bigger cities we have polled here. In tokyo theres female only carriages. Yes. Tokyo was also terrible for women. Because in tokyo theres very much culture. The two was completely packed. You had to push people in. When you have this, everything is possible. So in tokyo they created womensonly carriage. It has become better and safer for women. They have not tackled the root of the issue. It doesnt actually solve the problem. Economics implications are huge. If women are nervous about traveling, they cant go to work, et cetera. Thanks for joining us. Is it possible to spend a day in a city and not share data . We have been finding out. Reporter im an online addict. Normally before ive made coffee, i scan email, social media and texts. Not today. Im going to try not to share any data at all with the help of an Information Security expert george denise. How tough is it going to be for me to give up data for the day . Practically impossible. In theory you could not use internet, mobile phones and such things. In practice, many other activ y activities youll be sharing data with other party as. While in theory you could do it, in practice you will though the live normal life in the 21st century. George is making me lock up all gadgets. That has to go. It contains a radio. Bbc i. D. Card can log you into the network. It has to go. Im naked. Its difficult to move around the city. If i want to go out, driving is out of the question. It shares my whereabouts. I cant take a bus in london as its all driven by smart cars that collect every journey taking. Walking poses difficulties for those that want to stay completely private. If you have mobile devices with you your phone company would find out where you are at any time to route your calls. Even if you leave your device behind, most tvs can be used to track people around. Its possible to live off the grid. Youve been watching business. All story ises on our website. If youd like to get in touch with me is and the team. 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The the world series will come down to one game after kansas city beat the giants 100 at kaufman stadium to level the series at three each. After having their backs against the wall, royals have the chance to win their first championship many 29 years. Simon reports. Reporter after 15 innings without a run, some royals fans thought their world series dreams were fading. At this years post season, its taught you can never count anything out. Alex gordon got the first score on the board in the second. That was just the beginning. By the end of the inning, it was 70. Giants were left with a mounting decline. Royals had ventura to keep San Francisco out of the game. The inspirational rookie allowed three hits and pitched seven shut out innings. Theres no doubt the home crowd made a difference. When this home run was hit in the is seventh inning, the game was already won. When i was 10 years old, hitting rocks in the backyard, trying to hit it over the fence for a home run, i never one time thought okay bases loaded, two outs, bottom of the ninth, game five of the world series. Never. It was two out, bottom of the ninth, game seven of the world series. Its special. Secretly yeah youd like to come in and win it in four or five. When this start add, i really hoped we could play seven for the experience of it, thrill of it. After 162 game regular season, post season, the Major League Baseball championship will come down to one game. Bbc news. Its all set up for a dramatic finale. Kansas city are will have home advantage for the deciding game seven on wednesday. As we have done throughout the series, well keep you updated on sports today. That was the world series reaching exciting climax. Spurs opened with a win to open nba. Pelicans won over the orlando magic. Anthony davis looked to build on his fantastic first Year Campaign and did so as the team took the seven point lead before halftime. Harris finished with 25 including this three points that put orlando up in the third quarter. That was as good as it got as and areason went on a three point scoring spree to seal the win for the pelicans. Clevelands are the favorites to win the title come june. Some believe with lebron james on the team, they may not have things all their own way this season. It should be the chicago bulls. Bulls have their own big three with rose, noah. These are two of the best passing big men in the game. Noah is a tremendous defensive player. Theyve brought in a play frer rio madrid. Theyve brought in one from the lakers. Theyre every bit as likely to win 60 games as the cleveland cavaliers. They have a great coach. Cavs have a great coach. The eastern conference is a two team race sort of like the last two years. The only difference is it used to be miami against indiana. Now its chicago against cleveland. Two very, very strong games. They should both win three quarters of games. They make it through to the eastern conference finals. One will come out. Well see which has the better team and better big three. Dortman are three to the second win. Lets bring you all action. By sitting one place above the regulation zone, there were no signs of that tuesday. The scoring opened after the half hour mark. The italian was in the thick of the action as he made the score 2nil on the stroke of halftime. The victory was confirmed late in the game when an awful clearance from the goalkeeper went to japanese international. He made no mistakes taking his side through to the next phase. Also through to the last 16, defeated Third Division the 2 nil. They have second to claim the win. Bbc news. Chelsea through to the last eight of the English League cup after a scare and good fortune. The team is worth around 5 million. Struggled here after a goal first half. The veteran drogba escapeed scoring. Less than 15 minutes to go, they set up what could have been a huge upset which in the end had good fortune. It was diverted by one of their own players. Now hes a number one dad and on course to end the season as number one player. Novak djokovic started defense at Paris Masters with comfortable 63, 64 win on tuesday. Djokovic whos playing in the white shorts here at the top of your screen was in fine form following on from the birth of his son. Started the second set with ruthless efficiency. He nerved flicking the ball off his toes to force his opponent wide for that win. One of the tough 15. This is a set up for berdych in the french world cup. 67, 62 defeat. Lots more to come from the masters. Well keep you updated today. That brings you up to date to remind you you can get the latest sposht sports on our website. From me and the rest of our team, goodbye. 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This is ten times as much water than we previously thought mantle could contain. This is what my conviction began to change. I began to firmly believe there was a significant reservoir of h 20 in the earths mantle. I had a hard time convincing others. Truthfully, its a challenge to stop thinking about these things. It becomes more and more difficult to find time to stop is and think and really explore. Although im often a alone in my head in this journey, im certainly not alone on this path of wanting to understand our planet better. This story has changed a lot this year. Brandon, a seismologist approach. Brandon had been working on data recorded by usf net work array. Underneath most regions beneath the united states, we found evidence of partial. One of the only ways of explaining melt generation at these depths is presence of water. The other key event that occurred this year was a colleague of my, pierson, discovered a diamond. Inside the diamond he found a small crystal. This was a natural one that had come out of the earth millions of years ago in a volcanic eruption. It contained exactly about as much water as were able to put in there in the laboratory. When i heard about this, i was obviously excited because it had justified many of the experiments i had been doing over the past couple of decades. Thinking about the fact you may be the first person to see something for the first time. It doesnt happen often, but when it does, its thrilling. The desire the to see what might happen is in all of us from being a child and exploring our world. Whats going to happen if i poke this . Whats a amazing is were still making discoveries about our planet like this in the year 2014amazin. Hello. Im Tonya Beckett with bbc world news. Our top stories. Reinforcements reach kobani. The Free Syrian Army says forces are in the town. Peshmerga troops are heading to join the fight against Islamic State militants. The president of zambia michael sata has died in a London Hospital from an undisclosed illness at a 77. An unmanned rocket carrying supplies to the International Space station explodes seconds after takeoff. One