21/01/2012 BBC Weekend News


21/01/2012

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Good afternoon. Almost 150 people are now thought

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to have been killed in a wave of coordinated bomb attacks in

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northern Nigeria. A militant Islamist group said it carried out

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the killings - the latest in a string of sectarian attacks.

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Eyewitnesses spoke of as many as 30 separate explosions at government

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buildings in the city of Kano, north east of the capital Abuja. In

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the last few minutes, Foreign Secretary William Hague has said he

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was shocked and appalled by the attacks. From Nigeria our Africa

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correspondent, Andrew Harding, reports. Fires and chaos, the

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immediate aftermath of the devastating attacks. This was one

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of several police stations targeted in Kano. The carefully co-ordinated

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assault by armed militants spread panic across this huge northern

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Nigerian city. More than 100 people are now known to have died. The gun

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battles and bombings lasted several hours. As explosions, sounds of

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explosions, four of them before I came out. On my way out I saw a

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dead body. A young man was lying dead. Outside the city morgue,

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angry, anxious families have been waiting for news, with more bodies

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being brought in throughout the day. We think that the number will

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definitely rise. The number of attacks are multiple. There are so

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many buildings that were involved, so many people may be buried under

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the debris. A militant Islamist group, Boko Haram, said it carried

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out the attacks, by far the most devastating in a string of recent

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atrocities. On Christmas Day, Boko Haram targeted churches in the

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region, and warned Christians to leave the north of the country.

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These are uncertain times for Nigeria. Boko Haram has emerged as

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a sophisticated, ambitious, well organised threat. The President now

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says the group has infiltrated the government and the security

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services. Today, the city of Kano is under a strict curfew, with the

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attacks clearly designed as a show of force, and they have exposed the

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limitations of Nigeria's security services and badly shaken this vast

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nation. A woman's body was recovered this

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afternoon from the wreck of the Italian cruise liner, the Costa

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Concordia. It brings the confirmed number of dead to 12. Rescue teams

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are still searching for 20 other people who are unaccounted for.

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Live now to our correspondent at the scene, Luisa Baldini. Yes, the

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woman's body was found on the 4th deck of the ship, apparently in a

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very narrow corridor. She was wearing her life jacket. Many

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relatives of the missing passengers are here on Giglio, and they have

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been waiting for any news as the search operation has been

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continuing. Landing on top of the Concordia, Italian firefighters are

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winched down to continue their search of the drier parts of the

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ship. At sea level, divers who had been preparing since Dawn used

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explosive devices to blast holes into the side of the ship on the

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5th deck. We carry out some controlled explosions, to break

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down these big windows and these windows. Bruno, a navy commander,

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showed me where the divers had been working. On the ship, it is full of

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water. No air inside, at this moment. The search operation has

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been stopping and starting over the last few days, and that has

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prompted questions about how long, exactly, it is going to last. The

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Italian coastguards say they will continue until they are confident

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every part of the ship has been searched. But scouring this

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colossal steel carcass is taking time, so the authorities are now

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considering the possibilities of beginning to pump oil out of the

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Concordia, while the search continues. More than 2000 tonnes of

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fuel are still on board, prompting fears of an environmental disaster

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she did begin leaking. To that end, an Italian Navy ship, which

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specialises in oil spills, has been moored nearby as a precaution.

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is a semi- floating device, which basically will attract the oil and

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separate it from the water, and then we can use our ship equipment

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to pump this Seoul into our storing depots. -- this oil. For now, there

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has been no leak, the water is clear enough to see some of the

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passengers belongings, which were left when the Concordia keeled over.

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It has been confirmed that a Save has been recovered from Captain

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Francesco Schettino's cabin. Once it is open, the contents will be

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handed to the prosecutor as evidence. Also found are his

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passport, a data disk and his uniform. There are suggestions he

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changed out of it before abandoning ship.

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British officials in Iraq are preparing to fly home the body of

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the hostage Alan McMenemy, after it was handed over to the UK embassy

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in Baghdad yesterday. Mr McMenemy - a security guard - was one of five

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men taken by Shi'ite militants in 2007. Our security correspondent,

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Frank Gardner, reports. Alan McMenemy, speaking from

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captivity, before being killed by his Iraqi captors. After nearly

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five years, they have handed over his body. It marks a tragic ending

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to a murky story, that began on the streets of Baghdad in May 2007. In

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broad daylight, the five Britons were snatched from Iraq's finance

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ministry. Dozens of gunmen arrived in vehicles, dressed as policemen,

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and drove them off towards the Shi'ite district. The men were

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taken to the Sadr City area of Baghdad, beaten, stripped and

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eventually separated. Their captors, the Shia militia, demanded a

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prisoner swap. They wanted the release of their own leaders from

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this US detention centre. The British Government says it does not

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make substantial concessions to kidnappers, but it tried every

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other means to free them. In the end, only this hostage came out

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alive. Does he now think the government did enough? I believe

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what the Foreign Office did at the time was with good intentions, but

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it was a bad result. That is all I can say. I suppose they need to

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review it, and sort of not do whatever they did with the next

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hostage case, to try to get a better result. Alan McMenemy is the

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last of the five hostages to be returned. The bodies of Alec

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MacLachlan from South Wales, Jason Swindlehurst from Lancashire and

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chicken Creswell from Glasgow were all handed over in 2009 -- Jason

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Creswell. Peter Moore was released the same year. Britain's longest-

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running kidnap crisis for a generation is now over.

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A prominent Irish republican - who was cleared yesterday of murdering

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two British soldiers - is claiming his DNA was planted in a getaway

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car. Colin Duffy was accused of killing Royal Engineers Patrick

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Azimkar and Mark Quinsey in 2009, in a gun attack by dissident

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republicans. Our Ireland correspondent, Mark Simpson,

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reports. Colin Duffy spent almost three

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years in jail awaiting trial. Yesterday, he was found not guilty

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of murdering sappers Patrick Azimkar and Mark Quinsey. It was

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the third time he had been cleared of murder. Today, he spoke for the

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first time about the killings of the two soldiers at Massereene

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Barracks. We state quite categorically here that I had no

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involvement in what happened at Massereene. No involvement

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whatsoever. How can he explain his DNA being found in the getaway car?

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My DNA was, in my opinion, planted there. One man has been convicted

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of the murders. 46-year-old Brian Shivers. But the police say the

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investigation will continue. Detectives believe up to six people

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were involved in the killings, and next week, they are expected to

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appeal for more information from the public in Northern Ireland, to

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help bring them to justice. Sport now, and Andy Murray's hopes

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of winning his first Grand Slam at the Australian Open are still alive.

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He beat his opponent in straight sets to reach the last 16, and said

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he had "fun" on the way. Tim Franks watched the action.

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Andy Murray is a Scot who seems to feel at home in Australia. He is

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now gunning for his third consecutive final there. In his way

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today, the Frenchman, Michel Llodra. Defenceless early on against

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Murray's deadly peril at. The Frenchman had earlier questioned

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whether Murray might be too passive. The world number For first past the

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post riposte was unintentionally painful. Another undisguised

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account -- disguised backhand prompting mirth. Llodra was no

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fall-guy and patted a winner around the net. How to top that? Try set

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to link the second set with a last ditch hot dog following with a

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somersault. Llodra could only stand in awe as Murray swept the third

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set to love with a perfect lob. The Scot is through to the last 16, and

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