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BBC news 2016-01-15

Hello, I am Kathy Clugston with the BBC news.

Shares on China's main stock market have risen on thefirst day's trading without a state imposed safety net. After a rocky startwhen initial gains were soon reversed, shares on the country's BSHR index inShanghai close nearly 2% higher than on Thursday. China's currency is also upafter the Central Bank raised its guidance rate. Steve Evens is in Beijing. “Afterless than a week, the Chinese authorities have abolished a mechanism meant tocalm markets, but which actually appears to have made them more volatile. Theidea was that the so called circuit breaker would prevent a crash, but onMonday and Thursday investors couldn’t sell fast enough whenconditions for its use neared, so causing exactly the crash theauthorities want it to prevent.”

South Korea media says North Korea has resumed propaganda broadcast into thesouth just hours after South Korea restarted its own program of hostilebroadcasts across the border into the north. Seoul turned the louds becauseback-on as part of its response to Pyongyang's announcement on Wednesday thatit had tested a hydrogen bomb. The broadcasts which include light music andpolitical tongues infuriate both governments. Last August North Koreatraded artillery fire with its southern neighbor when Seoul briefly restartedits broadcasts.

Medical staff treating refugees in the Balkan say they are seeing a spike anda number of migrants falling ill because of cold weather. Temperatures arefallen as low as -14 Celsius. Tulip Mazumdar has this report from the Serbiaand Croatia border. “There are snow piled up either side of the traintracks here at Sheid railway station, people who stayed overnight to gettingready for the next train to arrive to take them into Croatia. Aid workers handup clothes and hot drinks here and there’s make-shift medical centertoo. Doctors say they see the sharp rise in chest infections, they alsoseen cases of frost bite and gangrene. They warn the people who areanxious to reach their final destinations for Ceria borders closing are notstopping for urgent medical care.”

The United Nations says it hopes to start delivering food to the besiegedSyrian town of Madaya where people are reported to have died from starvation.As part of the deal with the Syrian authorities, aid will also bedelivered to two besieged government held villages Foah and Kefreya near theTurkish border. Jim Muir reports. “Relief agencies are now working to getsupplies into Madaya and the other two other villages in the next two or threedays assuming there are no hitches that will ease the plight ofthose trapped there for the moment, but it's far from the lastingsolution. In at least 15 places around the country, around 400,000 people havebeen living under siege conditions in some cases for well over a year. The UNsays that over the past year the government has approved just 10% of itsrequests to get aid to those communities, and more than four million people livingin other troubled areas.” World news from the BBC.

President Obama has strongly criticized the most powerful US gun lobby during atelevised public forum. He said the NRA had deliberatelymisrepresented his proposed legislation on gun control. Here is Jon Sopel. “Whatwas striking about this tongue war of appearance by the president wasnot what he said that was new, he set out the executive actions he takeearlier in the week, but his determination to take the fight to the most powerfullobby group in the US, the National Rifle Association. He then embarrassed themfor refusing to appear in the program and said all his proposals thought to dowas to ensure that weapons didn't get into the wrong hands, and he ridicule theidea that he was engaged in the conspiracy to take away people's right to beararms.”

Dozens of homes and businesses in the town of Yarloop in Western Australia havebeen destroyed by a massive bush fire. Three people remain unaccounted for.Half of the buildings there have been destroyed and many others charred by the blaze.Firefighters are working to contain it.

Myanmar's military says it has clashed repeatedly with rebels in the westernstate of Rakhine. A statement of the army newspaper said several soldiers havebeen killed along with three fighters from Arakan army rebel group. The Arakanarmy is one of more than 15 armed factions active in Myanmar. Jonah Fisherreports from the Thai capital Bangkok. “The Burmese army is part of a long rallypeace process, but it hasn't stopped fighting. It's pursuing a complex, somewould say self-defeating strategy, negotiating with the few armed groups in thehope that others will join or trying to crash smaller rebel factions like the Arakanarmy. Founded six years ago, the Arakan army says it's fighting for the rightsof the people of Rakhine state in Myanmar's far west. According to thelatest army report, fifteen clashes took place over the new year with severalsoldiers including a commanding officer killed.” BBC news.