We offer expertise and tailored solutions for Small Businesses and major corporations. What can we do for you . And now, bbc world news. Bbc world news america. Reporting from washington, i am katty kay. Food runs out in the rebel held parts of damascus. They want to attack us with chemical weapons, just do it, but can they give us the smell of bread, so we can die happy . Brazil is about to make one of the biggest oil deals in history. Brazilians worry they are making losing a national asset. From the helm of the uss enterprise, to the studios of takld news tonight, george ei drops in on the bbc. Welcome to our viewers on Public Television in america and around the globe. The risk of starvation in syria is so severe that aid agencies are issuing a special appeal to allow safe passage for food relief, particularly concerned about People Living in the rebel. Eld areas of damascus our middle east correspondent has sent us special report from beirut. Surrender or starve that is what the Syrian Military calls its tactic of besieging rebel held parts of damascus. It is how the regime has been showing showing for recent weeks. It has been cut off. Nobody can get out, and nothing can get in. Struggle for existence was filmed by an activist. Conditions are so desperate, the cleric ruled people can eat cats and dogs. This 11yearold and his nine yearold sister have seen many of their friends die. My dream is to go back to school and play with my friends. Slogan, and one for all and all for one, but i do not think that can happen because a lot of my friends are dead. If they want to attack us with chemical weapons, do it, but can they make us at the smell of bread, so we can die happy. I asked the mother, who asked to not be identified, the mother, who asked to not be identified, i would rather die than eat cats and dogs. Just imagining people eating cats made me sick the whole day. On the trip into the market, a few radishes and leaves, all there is left to sell. The children already ill, the shortage of food is deadly. Activists say they are starting to record the first deaths of complications caused by malnutrition. Tens of thousands of people are affected in damascus, and the worst hit areas have been cut off since july. Comic eastern august chemical attack has also been cut off the site of the august chemical attack has also been cut off. On wednesday, the government told noncombatants, women, children, and elderly men, they could leave. The shelling began as one group caused crossed no mans land. Several thousands that escape. Many more meaning behind and willing to risk this. Council hasity passed a resolution instructing all sides to allow you military and supplies to cross the front lines. Humanitarian supplies to cross the front lines. That is not happening in damascus. There is access to weapons inspectors, not for aid for desperate people. Their one meales of the day, and full of lentils has made in broth and some bread. In four or five days, they say the little they have will be gone. The situation for those residents getting urgent now. Last night, we brought you the news that one of the gunmen in the nairobi mall attack has been identified as hassan abdi dhuhulow, a Norwegian National of somali origin. At the scene of the assault, three bodies were pulled out. Authorities say it is highly likely two of them were the attackers. Will ross has the latest. The moment of sheer terror when the gunmen strolled in, firing at random shot women andmen, children, hiding whatever they thought they might be safe. Here, one of the gunmen calmly shoots a man. Another returns to fire a second shot. Traces of bullets can be seen, and intense fear can be seen on the faces of those caught up in the habit. Even injured children are taken away at gunpoint to be held hostage. The gunman appeared composed. Lay down took time to their guns when it was time for muslim prayers. Part of the building collapsed during the siege. Almost four weeks on, charred bodies are being found. The bbc has learned that three bodies have been pulled out. The head of the Committee Investigating the attack told me that two of the bodies were likely to be those of the was likely the third a kenyan soldier. Authorities believe one of the gunmen was hassan abdi dhuhulow, a 23yearold man who had settled in norway. An investigation found that after becoming radicalized, he returned to africa to join the militant group, alshabab. It is not surprising that somebody who lives in the west took part in the attack. You are seeing different nationalities joining, and immigrants, people that have left somalia that have gone to the west, and some have gone to america. We see them coming back to wage their war. When the mall was under siege, kenyan government said between 10 and 15 gunmen were inside. Television shortage footage have only shown four men. It is not clear how many were killed, and how many escaped. Absolutely terrifying footage there. For more on who the attackers are, i spoke with the Deputy Director of the Africa Program at the center for strategic and international studies. We suspected they might have international links. Were you surprised when you heard it was norway . Somewhat, but it was important to recognize that because of 20 years of dysfunction in the country, there are millions of somalis living around the world. It is hard, on the other hand, to imagine why a somali living in norway, presumably a very comfortable life, would be willing to trade that in and fight for alshabaab. His house like he left when he was a kid. What is drawing it sounds like he left when he was a kid. What is driving these people back to somalia . It is hard to fathom, frankly. This individual left a country when he was very young, perhaps memories of how bad things were had faded. Those recruited to alshabab are commonly attracted by these nationalist elements of al shabab, the portray themselves they portray themselves as fighting interference. Many feel italian unit, perhaps attracted to what they see, attracted to what they see. What about expanding the reach with his video warning muslims not to be against jihad and the u. S. Embassy in uganda says it is concerned about the possibility of a westgate style attack in compile the ken pollack. Pala. M the primary threat in is in those neighboring somalia. I think it is wanting thing to attack a neighboring country, and quite another to attack the u. K. Or the u. S. That, a westgate attack illustrates the difficulties of preventing determined attackers. Especially if it was on the four people. Radcom a it begs the question exactly, and it begs the question of how four people were able to run around for four days without the authorities been able to deal with them. Could there be Something Like this in uganda . Uganda has been attacked before, so they certainly need to be on guard. Thank you for coming in. When brazil auctions off the rights to its libra oilfield, it is expected to be one of the history,eals in royal as it is thought to contain up to 12 billion barrels of oil, making brazil one of the Worlds Largest producers. Many brazilians are worried about the selling of a Major National asset. Brazil is about to join the big league, and anyone who is a player in the oil business is headed south. Deep beneath these ways is the field, one of the largest offshore deposits ever found, and brazil is selling the rights to develop the area with some pretty tight strings attached. It is one of the most mind boggling opportunities of the century. They could make 2 Million Barrels of Oil Every Day and trillions of dollars to help the economy. Just to the north of Rio De Janeiro oil is taking over. Contractors,onals, and their support vessels are filling up with their share. Companies are well established in brazil, including bp. They are not bidding for the rights to the libra field, but many smaller u. K. Supply firms say they have to be ready for use now. It is not seen on the downside. Every day, there is less oil, less gas. They do not look at africa and south america at the future, and their business is going to shrink. Brazil is already training hundreds of workers to work on the oil platforms. There are concerns that they have neither the experience or doublerastructure to daily output to nearly 4 Million Barrels of oil when libra comes online. The strike by oil workers opposed to the involvement of Foreign Companies in the Petroleum Industry has disrupted production. The head of resumes brazils National Oil Agency insists they can cope with the huge challenge. A corruptthink it is place, but we are very confident. Oil has always proved to be a blessing and a curse. Here, on the impoverished fringes, some improvements have finally been made to peoples lives, but what brazil does with the windfall from the libra auction will be watched closely here. We will know on monday how much the oil sells for. We will not know for a long time how the money is distributed. We are watching you are watching bbc world news america. Flexibleome, the discipline still to come, the flexible discipline. A famous face helps to kick things off. Wildfires continue to burn across australia, and so far it has been reported nearly 200 homes have been destroyed and at least three firefighters injured. One man has died of a heart attack. About 2000 firefighters are working aroundtheclock to try to contain the fire ahead of the hot weather that is expected. We are in one of the most affected areas in the Blue Mountains. For a second day, much of New South Wales continued to burn. The regions Blue Mountains turned orange. Smoke from the fire, at times giving the sydney skyline, around 70 kilometers away, and apocalyptic feel. Thousands of firefighters are being called up to make things under control. For some, the damage has been done. Of someall that is left communities. The fire swept through the brush and many of the houses are completely gutted. The families got away with their lives, but they have been left with not much else. I was two doors down. I knew that my house was gone. It is devastating, but it is all insured, i know, but we are all here, and that is the main thing. The fires have come after unseasonably hot weather. Last month was the hottest september on record, leaving the drynd and air dry timber. Australia has seen bigger fires, but the fact that it has come so spring it is still only has left many feeling a long, hot, and dangerous summer. Actor, author, gay rights activist and internet sensation they are all titles held by our next guest. Takge became was george ei was born in japan, and then on to be an actor. He sat at the home of the uss enterprise. Decades later, he is still making an impression of being a an outspoken advocate of gay rights, and entertaining many with his twitter and youtube presence. I spoke him about his life and career. Did you have any idea when you took on the role much fun it would be . It was a breakthrough opportunity for me as an actor, and certainly a breakthrough for the image of asians and asian americans. We were no longer the villain, the adversary, or the quiet servant, or the buffoon. I knew that it would be a fantastic opportunity, but then i met the other actors, and they are fascinating, engaging individualistic people. What was the most fun . We got to meet astronauts. I had dinner with buzz aldrin. We met neil armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon. So, that was the part that was most fantastic. Actors, common, working got invited to an historic event, a landmark event, the rollout of the first Space Shuttle named after the starship enterprise. You, of course, came from a very different background. Amazing transition. At the age of five, you intend internment camp during the interned in an internment camp during the second world war. It was a prison camp. There were machine guns pointed us. I made night runs to the latrine with searchlights following me, but i was too young to understand what that was all about and i thought it was nice that the search love searchlight live the way for me to pee. You and your family were taken at gunpoint. Concentration the camp, did it make you angry at america . It was i was too young to be angry at that time. For my parents, it was a humiliating, degrading experience, and when i became a teenager and started reading our history books and civics books, that talked about american ideals and the glorious chapters, i could not reconcile that with what i need to be my childhood incarceration. After dinner, i engage my child in long, and sometimes very heated conversations, and it was his take on that experience that shaped who i am. He said our democracy is a peoples democracy, and it can be as great as the people can be, but it is as fallible as people are. Do think that is what has advocate one you an gay rights, for example . We got news new jersey will allow gay marriage. I have not heard that. Bravo. Part of the progress you have been champion. Indeed. Michigan could be next, or hawaii could be next. It is close in hawaii. He will be the legislative route. In michigan, it will be the judicial route, but it is starting to happen because right now our nation is divided. Of the nation, 13 states and washington, d. C. , save equality, and twothird hunger for that equality but do not have it. Things are happening rapidly. Thank you for that update. One last question you are living proof you are never too old to learn social media. 76 years old and you have nearly one million followers. We have 4. 7 million. I apologize. You shave the lot off. Shaved years off to. Every year is wonderful. The delightful george takei. To f someone asked you perform a downward facing dog, you would guess they were talking about yoga. While the postures are familiar, that history might come as a surprise. The smithsonian gallery of asian throughexplored yoga ancient art. U. S. Is a 5e billion industry. A downward facing dog can promote fitness, emotional well ng, spiritual environment in light meant. They are the latest advocate, on hand to support the first exhibition excoriates visual history. I want to do more of that. It is called the practice for a reason. Right, but i will tell you that either yoga or Something Like yoga is what you need. Away from the bright lights of the opening, a more transcendental experience awaits. Ofs is an ancient world goddesses who would fly through the night. It is a world where mastery of the mind and body could lead to unrivaled power. A 16th century patent painting shows a fight over water rights. By the 18th century, they were so big and powerful that battles ineing in which thousands of yogis were killed. I would never have thought yields a would be violent, especially the way it is practiced in america today. For these guys, there is no contradiction because they see the spiritual practice as generating an inner power they can use in various ways, giving blessings, cursing, or, indeed, plating. There are many different styles practiced in the u. S. For different regions despite attempts by the Indian Government to patent some cultures, but it shows that it has changed continuously for nearly 2000 years. States thereted are a lot of debates about what is authentic. Deeply transformative individual practice, or is it a commercialized industry . There is no clear demarcation between the two. Yoga today is very multiple. When we look at history and visual culture, we see that it has always been multiple. This is the beginning of i anger yoga. At the time, the style was innovative, but it is now an established part of the tradition, another example of it ability to transform. Jane obrien, bbc news, washington. Look anything like that when i do yoga. It is friday evening, time to go to class. You can watch our 24 hour news channel. I am katty kay. Thank you for watching. Have a great weekend. Make sense of International News at bbc. Com news. 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