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turmoil in Egypt, as the sense of national crisis intensifies. In | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
central Cairo, once again tonight, many thousands gather, as supporters | :00:12. | :00:19. | |
and opponents of the president clash on the streets. More ministers have | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
resigned from the Morsi government, but the president is resisting | :00:21. | :00:31. | |
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pressure to compromise. government, the Muslim Brotherhood | :00:33. | :00:40. | |
has been inexperienced and times incompetent, but here on the | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
streets, it is a well-organised and tenacious movement. In clashes this | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
evening, seven people were killed and dozens were injured. We'll have | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
the latest from Cairo. Also tonight... Wales is to be the first | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
country in the UK to have a system of presumed consent for organ | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
donation. Stop-and-search powers in England and Wales are used too | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
widely and are unfair to people from ethnic minorities, say ministers. | :01:01. | :01:10. | |
Inside the Sharia justice system in Syria - we have a special report. | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
And at Wimbledon, the player who knocked out reigning champion Serena | :01:13. | :01:23. | |
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Williams is through to the semifinal line-up is complete at | :01:28. | :01:35. | |
Wimbledon, with Sabine BBC Arabic facing fourth seed Agnieszka | :01:35. | :01:45. | |
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thousands have taken to the streets of Cairo as the pressure on | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
President Morsi intensifies. The Egyptian army says it has drawn up | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
plans to set up an interim council if the president fails to reach | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
agreement with his opponents by tomorrow night. More senior members | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
of his administration have resigned during the day. Our Middle East | :02:07. | :02:17. | |
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editor, Jeremy Bowen, has just sent President, in the Muslim Brotherhood | :02:24. | :02:32. | |
and in the protection of God. This was a rally supporting President | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
Morsi at Cairo University, but there were others elsewhere in the city | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
and across the country. The Brotherhood can turn out big crowds, | :02:39. | :02:48. | |
too. Some young men with martyrdom on their minds brandished Ariel | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
shrouds. The Muslim Brotherhood says violence should play no part in what | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
is happening. But people should be able to express themselves however | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
they like. The Brotherhood has been working towards the power it has now | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
since it was founded in 1928. The Plaza outside the university shook | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
with their determination not to let the army take it away. When the | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
people are in the streets, the army cannot shoot the people. It must | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
listen to the voices of the supporters, as we listened to their | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
voices. Do you think that the Army's threats to intervene are | :03:30. | :03:40. | |
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effectively a cool? The army made a very big mistake. President Morsi | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
needs these supporters. He needs all the help he can get. His government | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
is crumbling, with that least six ministers having resigned. Even his | :03:50. | :03:59. | |
spokesman has gone. In government, the Muslim Brotherhood has been | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
inexperienced and at times incompetent. But here on the | :04:02. | :04:09. | |
streets, it is a well-organised and tenacious movement. Removing it from | :04:09. | :04:17. | |
power is not going to be easy, whoever wants to do it. Protests | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
were everywhere in Cairo today, and the Armed Forces released pictures | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
of anti-Morsi crowds on Sunday, taken from its helicopters. These | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
images must have come true but it do the decision of the generals to | :04:32. | :04:41. | |
intervene. On this street, they believe the Army is their last hope. | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
The street leads to Tahrir Square. Demonstrations were passing through | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
this morning, as they have so many times before. Like the whole | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
country, they have been hit badly by political chaos and economic | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
collapse since the regime went in 2011. Security walls attacked | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
government buildings from clashes which often happen here. Locals say | :05:03. | :05:10. | |
the walls have put many shops out of business. To taxi drivers, two | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
accounts clerks, in a cafe like many others, blame President Morsi. | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
TRANSLATION: He is responsible for everything that has gone wrong. Fuel | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
was available in Mubarak's time. Now, there is no fuel, there is no | :05:26. | :05:33. | |
food, we cannot find jobs. People are afraid to go out. Would you be | :05:33. | :05:43. | |
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better off now with a man like Mubarak? I think yes. Yes, Mubarak. | :05:43. | :05:51. | |
It was safer then, he said. Tahrir Square was full again with | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
anti-Morsi protesters. They know the Army is talking to the government, | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
but they are determined that whatever happens, Morsi must go. | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
This evening, there were armed clashes in parts of Cairo. This | :06:07. | :06:14. | |
Morsi supporter said he was hit by shotgun pellets. This country is | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
deep in a dangerous crisis, and violence seems to be spreading. They | :06:17. | :06:27. | |
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need a political deal badly, or even We will have more from Jeremy in | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
Cairo in just a few minutes time. President Morsi took office a year | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
ago, promising to govern for all Egyptians. But his administration | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
has struggled to contain an economic crisis and faced endless claims of | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
broken promises. Our diplomatic correspondent, James Robbins, | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
considers the nature of the challenge and the international | :06:44. | :06:54. | |
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years ago. President Hosni Mubarak, autocrat, had been brought down by | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
people power. Real, free elections beckoned. Today, it can look as if | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
that never happened. The light has given way to anger among a large | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
section of Egypt's people. How did it come to this, and so quickly? | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
Just one year ago, Mohamed Morsi took office as president, with his | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
Muslim Brotherhood, missing to govern for all Egyptians. But could | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
he unite the country and save it from economic collapse? He did win | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
Egypt's first free democratic elections, but by a narrow margin. | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
In the decisive second round, he got just over 51% of the vote. With a | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
population of at least 80 million, Egypt is by far the largest Arab | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
nation. Was that narrow victory a sufficient mandate for Mr Moore C to | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
move Egypt towards an Islamic state? For his critics, his priority should | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
be fixing a broken economy. They accuse him of failing on that. | :07:56. | :08:05. | |
Unemployment is rising alarmingly. Unofficial figures are much higher. | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
Youth unemployment is of special cause for concern. With poverty and | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
malnutrition rising, the economy is stumbling badly. Currency reserves | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
are running out. They have used about half of their savings account | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
and they have been relying on money from abroad, from their Arab allies. | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
If that money dries up, if multilateral money from the IMF and | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
so forth does not emerge, they have probably only got about six or 12 | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
months before the economy goes down the toilet. The Army has threatened | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
unspecified intervention. The high command see themselves as guardians | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
of a stable Egypt, kingmakers, if necessary. They also seem determined | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
to stop President Morsi eroding all of their power and huge economic | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
interests. Now, President Morsi is feeling the heat of international | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
alarm as well. Barack Obama, completing his African tour, | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
telephone Egypt's embattled leader and urged him to resolve the crisis | :09:06. | :09:16. | |
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through a political process. forces at work in politics, | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
economics, religion and security in this region are going to take a | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
decade or so to play at. President Morsi is under immediate | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
pressure, to bend, to find some middle ground to share with his | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
opponents. For the latest, Jeremy Bowen is in central Cairo. Jeremy, | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
the military's deadline is tomorrow - what options does President Morsi | :09:37. | :09:47. | |
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have? Well, in the last few minutes, President Morsi has put a statement | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
out on twitter, and he has called upon the Army to withdraw its | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
ultimatum, and he has said as well that they will not accept internal | :10:01. | :10:08. | |
or external dictation of what it is they have to do. Frankly, I cannot | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
see circumstances in which the Army would withdraw its ultimatum, unless | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
what it wants to happen has happened, which is for the two sides | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
to come together, to find a mutually acceptable way forward. But their | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
positions are so far apart. The people below me in Tahrir Square, | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
people against the President, say he must go, there must be an election. | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
On the other side, there is the president saying he will stay in | :10:34. | :10:41. | |
office, and that they will not be dictated to. There is a huge gap. It | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
looks very much as if the Army have will to find a way of going through | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
with its threat. It has not said exactly what he described to do. The | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
Reuters news agency has said that the Army is considering suspending | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
the constitution, which is a controversial document because of | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
the amount of religious law which is in it, and dissolving the National | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
Assembly, which is dominated by Islamist MPs. So, that is something | :11:09. | :11:10. | |
which clearly the Muslim Brotherhood would be very much against. | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
Unfortunately, at moment, and negotiations are going on, so who | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
knows, but at the moment, it is looking a bit like a collision | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
And there's more information on the deepening crisis in Egypt on the BBC | :11:27. | :11:37. | |
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Members of the National Assembly of Wales have voted in the past few | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
minutes to allow doctors to take a person's organs after death, unless | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
they have registered their objection. Wales is now set to | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
become the first country in the UK to introduce a system of presumed | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
consent for organ donation, despite concerns from church leaders and | :11:49. | :11:59. | |
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others. Our correspondent Hywel It is a choice that can change | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
lives. Britain's transplant system has always depended on card-carrying | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
volunteers choosing to become donors. But from 2015, every adult | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
living in Wales will automatically become a potential donor, unless | :12:18. | :12:27. | |
they choose to opt out. The organ donation bill Wales has passed. | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
decision was arguably the most important in the Welsh Assembly's | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
short history. There is nothing at all to be scared of. The legislation | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
makes it absolutely clear that if you are not comfortable with being | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
an organ donor, you have an absolute right in the centrist way possible | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
to opt out of the system. It is a change which cannot come quickly | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
enough for Martyn Griffiths. Born with heart and lung problems, he has | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
spent much of his life on a waiting list. This could bring him closer to | :12:57. | :13:07. | |
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a transplant. I am just crossing my fingers that it will happen in | :13:10. | :13:17. | |
Wales, and then we can all have a lot more hope for each other. | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
are currently more than 10,000 people across the UK waiting for a | :13:21. | :13:27. | |
transplant organ. But demand massively dwarfs supply. Changing | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
the law in Wales alone will not transform the numbers. Only 15 extra | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
donors are expected her year. At this transplant unit, they have | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
already seen an increase in donations in recent years. The | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
change in the law will not only have an impact here. Organs donated | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
within Wales do not just stay within its borders. They are matched with | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
patients from across the UK. That could benefit families like | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
Oliver's, who live in Oswestry, on the English side of the border. | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
Although his parents do not come under the new law, it could help | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
Oliver find a heart transplant. If we do not get an organ, Oliver will | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
die. It is black and white. It is tragic for those people that are | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
going to lose their life. But if they are going to lose their life, | :14:16. | :14:24. | |
then, to give life to somebody else is just massive. A similar change in | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
England, Scotland and Northern Ireland seems unlikely. There have | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
been consultations, but there have been vigorous objections. But Wales | :14:32. | :14:42. | |
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has now chosen to follow a different quarter of England's 111 health | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
advice lines, is to pull out of two of its contracts. | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
The move raises questions about the future participation of one of the | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
biggest providers of the NHS nonemergency telephone service, | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
which has already faced significant problems. Our health correspondent | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
is here with the details. This is a major blow to the helpline service | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
from nonemergencies. It is run by a number of providers. One of those is | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
NHS Direct, with a quarter of the contracts. Today NHS Direct said it | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
is pulling out of two areas, north Essex and Cornwall and the Isles of | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
Scilly. It also raises questions about nine other areas, saying that | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
they were not financially sustainable. NHS officials say they | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
are working to find a solution. This is not the first time a solution has | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
been required. The 111 number has been plagued with difficulties since | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
it launched at Easter, with patients facing extremely long waits and | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
calls just being abandoned by patients. But the government says it | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
is a good idea to have this service, that it is running well now. It says | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
95% of the calls are answered within 60 seconds. But it seems that there | :16:00. | :16:07. | |
are still problems behind-the-scenes. | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
A British man killed in a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan today has | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
been named as Mark Duffus, a 41-year-old security contractor from | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
Moray in Scotland. He was one of at least seven people who died in the | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
blast at a need to supply a's compound in the capital Kabul. | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
A court in South Africa has ordered that the bodies of three of nine -- | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
Nelson Mandela's children must be exhumed by tomorrow afternoon. The | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
court also ordered that they be reburied in the town of Qunu in the | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
Eastern Cape where Mr Mandela spent much of his early life. The bodies | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
were allegedly moved from a family graveyard by one of the former | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
president's grandsons. Mr Mandela remains in hospital in a critical | :16:51. | :17:01. | |
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but stable condition. Nelson Mandela was born in these | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
hills, and will be buried here, too, but where exactly? He has always | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
insisted that his grave should be here in Qunu, the village he grew up | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
in and where he retired to until his health crumbled. But now his | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
grandson, Mandla, is causing tensions in an already fractious | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
family. He recently exhumed the bodies of three of Nelson Mandela's | :17:19. | :17:28. | |
children and moved them from Qunu to this nearby village, Mvezo. Mandla | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
is now chief here. He has built this huge complex in honour of his | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
grandfather, and the suspicion is that he wants his grave here, too, | :17:37. | :17:45. | |
in order to attract more tourists. But opposition is growing. It was | :17:45. | :17:54. | |
totally wrong for Mandla Mandela to remove bones from Qunu to Mvezo. | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
According to our culture and tradition, you cannot just take a | :17:58. | :18:08. | |
decision. With Nelson Mandela in hospital, the rest of his family | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
sent lawyers today to try to force Mandla to return the graves. Then | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
the police opened a criminal case against him. Nelson Mandela's close | :18:14. | :18:21. | |
relatives are cosmopolitan, but old traditions remain in force. So this | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
uncomfortable dispute about the Mandela graves is being taken | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
extremely seriously by all concerned. Some worry that the row | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
is affecting Nelson Mandela's own condition. It is believed that an | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
elderly member of the family, or any member of the family, would not have | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
a smooth transition in their life to the afterlife if there was still | :18:41. | :18:51. | |
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some dispute in the family. So you can see the urgency? This is the | :18:56. | :19:05. | |
fierce urgency of the moment which cannot be overemphasised. Towards | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
the end of a grand, dignified life, an unseemly quarrel over tradition, | :19:08. | :19:18. | |
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family and power. The Home Secretary says she wants to | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
change the way police in England and Wales use their powers to stop and | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
search suspects. Theresa May said police were applying them to widely | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
and stopping too many people from ethnic minorities. According to the | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
Home Office, the police carried out one point 2 million searches last | :19:34. | :19:43. | |
year, but those searches lead to 108,000 arrests, less than 10%. | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
A man is stopped and searched in the London Borough of Lewisham today. | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
This one resulted in a caution for possession of marijuana. But too | :19:50. | :20:00. | |
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many end up with no action. Police adviser Ken Hynes has bitter | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
experience. He has been stopped and searched 100 times, never resulting | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
in a conviction. And it has happened to his nephew Jonathan six times | :20:08. | :20:15. | |
this year alone. Three weeks ago, going to the shops, me and my cousin | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
were stopped by seven police. Searched our pockets, made us feel | :20:18. | :20:25. | |
very uncomfortable, found nothing, let us go. But it was a humiliating | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
experience. The government says police across England and Wales need | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
to better target those they stop and search. I want to see stop and | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
search used only when needed. I want to see higher search to arrest | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
ratios and better community engagement and more efficient | :20:40. | :20:48. | |
practices. Across England and Wales, police carry out more than one | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
million stop and searches each year. Last year, only 9% of stop and | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
searches resulted in an arrest. In Lewisham, they have been piloting a | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
scheme where they use better intelligence to target those they | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
stop and search. They have cut the number of stop and searches without | :21:07. | :21:17. | |
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adversely affecting the crime rate. The practice divides people often, | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
but not always along the lines of race. Have you ever been stopped and | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
searched by the police? How many times? More than ten times.Have you | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
ever been arrested? No. It is necessary, because so many carry | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
weapons these days. Have you ever been stopped and searched? No, it is | :21:32. | :21:39. | |
mainly black people that get stopped and searched. Is that justified?Not | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
at all. The pilot scheme in Lewisham has been extended to police officers | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
at four areas in England. While they are using that power to put their | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
hand in somebody's pocket or search their bag on fewer occasions, they | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
are becoming more successful at targeting the right people. If used | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
well, stop and search is a powerful police tool. The government wants it | :22:04. | :22:14. | |
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used better. There is growing concern in Syria | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
about the use of sharia law in some of the rebel held areas. It follows | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
the death of a 14-year-old boy in the city of Aleppo. He was accused | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
of arson me and then beaten and shot in the street. This report includes | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
some distressing images and features where access to a sharia court by a | :22:34. | :22:42. | |
team from BBC Arabic. This is where 14-year-old Mohammed | :22:42. | :22:50. | |
Qataa lost his life. His brothers can hardly bear to work at the | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
family coffee stand any longer. Mohammed had been asked for a free | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
cup. Not even if the Prophet himself returns, he had said, laughing. That | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
remark was a death sentence. At the family's cramped apartment, close to | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
Aleppo's front-line, they tell us more about a killing that symbolises | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
what has gone wrong with Syria's revolution. They describe how armed | :23:13. | :23:20. | |
men overheard Mohammed. His mother saw everything. There were three of | :23:20. | :23:30. | |
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them. They said, whoever insults the Prophet will be killed, she recalls. | :23:38. | :23:48. | |
She goes on. "I heard the first shot and ran out barefoot. I felt the | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
ground. They shot him again and kicked him. I looked at them and | :23:51. | :24:01. | |
said, why are you killing him? He is just a child. " I looked right at | :24:01. | :24:08. | |
the killer, said Mohammed 's father. He looked at me. The men have not | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
been caught. Aleppo's religious authorities say their actions were | :24:12. | :24:19. | |
an Islamic, criminal. We are approaching the spot where Mohammed | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
Qataa was murdered. As you can see, it is busy and by all accounts, | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
there was quite a crowd when he was shot and killed, but everybody felt | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
too terrified to intervene. He was shot in the middle of the street | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
over here. There were lots of witnesses. But the men who did it | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
showed no fear of being caught. Their actions have now been | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
condemned all of the armed groups in Aleppo. But most of those groups are | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
Islamist in character, and they are starting to use their influence to | :24:47. | :24:54. | |
impose sharia law here. It is the same in the northern town of | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
Saraqeb. BBC Arabic filmed the sharia court here. Four men have | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
been convicted of trying to steal a taxi driver's car. They will be | :25:03. | :25:13. | |
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flogged in public. The instrument of punishment, an electrical cable. It | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
is 50 lashes for the leader, 44 his men, says the Sheikh reading the | :25:18. | :25:26. | |
sentence. God's law is the best protection for the week, he says. | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
When it starts, some of the crowd chant, the Prophet is our leader. | :25:31. | :25:41. | |
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Others just count the lashes. This may appal secular activist 's. The | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
uprising's rural, conservative religious supporters like it. | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
Increasingly, this may be the future of justice in rebel held parts of | :25:51. | :26:00. | |
Syria. In tennis, Sabine Lisicki, who | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
knocked out the defending champion Serena Williams, has reached the | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
ladies semifinals at Wimbledon. She will now face last year's runner-up, | :26:08. | :26:15. | |
Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska. It was not so much of a Who's Who of | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
women's tennis as a new's that? Rarely had the Wimbledon | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
quarterfinals look so unfamiliar. Instead of Serena or Maria, meet | :26:24. | :26:32. | |
Burl -- Alger's Kirsten Flipkens. Flipkens, or flipper to her friends, | :26:32. | :26:40. | |
can't judge yet another upset. Former champion Petra Kvitova could | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
scarcely believe it. It has got to the stage where a shock is almost no | :26:43. | :26:50. | |
surprise. It is ridiculous. Last year I didn't even get to the | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
qualifying of Wimbledon. Today I am in the semi-final. It is | :26:53. | :26:59. | |
unbelievable. Meanwhile, Sabine Lisicki followed her win over Serena | :26:59. | :27:07. | |
Williams by beating the less famous Kaia Kanepi. Once again, seemingly | :27:07. | :27:15. | |
the happiest woman in Wimbledon. There were also wins the Marion | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
Bartoli and Agnieszka Radwanska, who despite wasting seven at poise, | :27:18. | :27:25. | |
eventually beat China's Li Na. She concludes the unlikeliest of | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
semi-final line-ups. Tomorrow sees the return of a more familiar face, | :27:29. | :27:34. |