01/06/2014 BBC Weekend News

Qatar denies any wrongdoing after new allegations that bribery helped

win its bid to host the World Cup. There are demands for a new FIFA

inquiry and for Qatar to be stripped of the tournament if corruption is

confirmed. It certainly looks serious. There

certainly needs to be an investigation. If it's shown that

there was bribery and corruption going on, then obviously the whole

bidding process has to be looked at again.

French prosecutors say a man arrested over the attack on a Jewish

mewsium in Belgium may have spent time with Islamist fighters in

Syria. -- museum. The Met Office says more

summer storms and flash floods are likely as the world's climate warms.

Arsenal are the FA Cup winners... And it's a double for Arsenal, now

the women's team lift the FA Cup. Good evening.

Qatar has denied new allegations of corruption over the decision to

award it the 2022 football World Cup. Millions of leaked documents,

said to reveal payments made if return for votes, have been obtained

by the Sunday Times. Qatar says the man at the centre of the allegations

played no role in its bid. Here, the Head of The Football

Association has called for the contest to be rerun if corruption is

proven. Our Sports Editor, David Bond,

reports. England's World Cup voyage started

today, the team flying from Luton to Miami to fine tune their

preparations before heading to Rio to be part of football's biggest

party. But it wasn't Brazil that was making

headlines today. It was future hosts Qatar, who're once again facing

allegations that they broke FIFA's rules, to secure the 2022

tournament. The Sunday Times alleges that

Qatar's former FIFA Vice-President, Mohammed bin Hamam was at the centre

of a covert campaign to win his country the World Cup. Millions of

secret documents, some of which have been seen by the BBC, suggest he was

using a ?3 million fund to bribe officials in Africa in return for

supporting Qatar. Today, the Head of The FA told me that if the

allegations are proved, then FIFA should rerun the vote.

I think if it's shown that it was a corrupt system and that the people

who won used bribery and other influents to get the vote, of course

it's got to be done again. FIFA's chief investigator, Michael Garcia,

must now add these latest claims to his long-running inquiry into the

World Cup bid. Today, Qatar once again denied any wrongdoing and in a

statement said: But Qatar just can't shake off the

criticism, whether it's corruption, the heat or the treatment of migrant

labourers, the clamour for a revote is heightening. Before the claims

emerged, the Head of FIFA insisted there would be no U-turn. They want

to say that for me the World Cup today is 2018 Russia, in 2022 Qatar

and we are working on the next two World Cups in these two countries.

With stadium delays and concerns over protest, the World Cup in

Brazil is already causing FIFA enough headaches. Qatar! But it's

the tournament eight years from now in Qatar which threatens to pose

even bigger problems for world football.

French prosecutors say a man arrested in Marseille over last

week's deadly shooting at the Jewish museum in Brussels recently returned

from Syria. It's thought he may have been involved with Islamist groups

there. Three people died from where Chris Morris reports. A cold-blooded

killing caught on CCTV. Eight days ago, a man walked into the Jewish

museum in Brussels and opened fire with a hand gun. And then a

Kalashnikov. Three people were killed and another is clinically

dead. Now an arrest has been made. A bus station in Marseille after a

random drugs search. This is the suspect in custody,

named by prosecutors. He's now being questioned at the headquarters of

the French domestic intelligence agency. In his possession when

arrested were guns of the type used in Brussels, one of them wrapped in

a Jihadist flag and a video in which the authorities say he claimed

responsibility for the attack. He was probably radicalised the last

year and is presumed to have joined fighting Jihadist groups in Syria in

2013. At the scene of the crime, the

museum is still closed and security is highly visible. But all this

could be part of a rather disturbing bigger picture.

The potential connection between the shootings that happened here and the

Civil War in Syria will be of huge concern. The Government and

intelligence agencies across Europe will find it a concern. Groups are

known to have gone to Sir to fights for Jihadist groups. Monitoring

those who return is now a priority. Gone to Syria to fight for Jihadist

groups. The President of the museum said he took little satisfaction

from the arrest in France. They've got a few thousand people who can

replace this killer. So... It's the first step, but it's not finished.

Images like this inside a museum mean this is an issue now attracting

the highest level of political attention.

TRANSLATION: We are doing all we can so these Jihadists, either people

who've been in Syria or who are there now, are followed and

prevented from doing harm and notably when they return

and Europe. As people continue to pay their

respects, the Belgian authorities are applying for the ex-that digs of

the suspect. Many questions remain -- extradition of the suspect.

Our Security Correspondent, Frank Gardner is here in the studio with

me. What do you make of this potential connection to the war in

Syria? Well, he spent most of last year there. We don't know exactly

with whom, but it's believed to be with one of the more extremists

groups because he had his flag wrapped around the machine gun that

he was found with at the time of his arrest. The investigators are trying

to get some answers out of him, but he's not answering at the moment.

This is the tip of the iceberg of a much wider phenomena worrying

governments in Europe and particularly in Britain because an

estimated 500 or so Britons are believed to have left the UK to

fight in Syria. Quite a few have been arrested on their return. A

number of Syria related arrests from people coming back from Syria is

more in the first half of this year than the whole of last year. What

people are worried about is that they'll have mixed with people

who've witnessed such barbaric acts of atrocity, sometimes on the

receiving end of them, that their threshold for violence will be that

much lower and they'll be tempted to carry out acts of vice lens. The

ratio is one in nine, that people go out to fight and come back. There

will be an Interior Ministry meeting on Thursday on how the deal with

this as a whole with Europe. Thank you.

Police say that at least 40 people have been killed in a bomb in

north-east Nigeria. The blast targeted people watching a football

match in the town of Mubi, one of three areas under a state of

emergency due to ongoing violence by the group Boko Haram. A shake-up of

pensions is due to be announced in the Queen's speech on Wednesday.

Staff will be able to put their money into Dutch-style pensions for

the first time. It's believed it can keep the costs down, increasing

pension payments. Let's join Ross Hawkins at Westminster. How will

this work in the UK? The idea is you take out individual pots, put them

into a bigger collective fund. What the politicians hope is economies of

scale mean that you can have higher returns, maybe even 30% higher. But,

those returns aren't guaranteed. Your pension could even go down

after you started claiming it. The Government's going to have to work

out how this works alongside its other big pensions innovation which

would be to let people have more access to their savings after the

age of 55. This would start after the general election, but Labour

pretty much backed the idea. It's very likely to become a reality.

It's worth noting I think that the minister behind this is a Liberal

Democrat. On this Queen's Speech week, they'll be very keen to talk

about policy, rather than the arguments they have had internally

about who should lead their party. Thank you.

The parents of an American soldier freed from Taliban captivity say

that he'll need time to recover after his five year ordeal. Bowe

Bergdahl's family've not been able to speak to him since he was handed

over to US forces. He's being treated at a military hospital in

Germany. As David Loyn reports, the deal that saw him exchanged for the

release of five prisoners, has prompted criticism of the President

Obama administration. The ribbons were replaced by balloons of

celebration in Idaho. The soldier began recouperation in a specialist

medical centre in Germany. The tall Boon were celebrating as their five

captives reached Qatar and calling this a great victory. Those words

will enage President Obama's Republican opponents who see the

decision to release the Taliban from Guantanamo Bay as giving way to

terrorists. I don't think what we did in getting

our prisoner of war released in any way would somehow encourage

terrorists to take our American servicemen prisoner or hostage. He

said he hoped the prisoner exchange might lead to a wider peace

settlement with the Taliban. The Taliban said they got what they want

for now. President Obama appearing from Sergeant Bergdahl's parents

said he did not inform the after began government ahead of it.

Sergeant Bergdahl's missed birthdays, holidays, and the simple

moments with families and friends which we take for granted. While

Bowe Bergdahl was gone, he was never forgotten. We just can't communicate

the words this morning when we heard from the President. So we look

forward to continuing the recovery of our son which is going to be a

considerable task for our family. One family reunited, just months

before US combat operations end here.

The Met Office is warning there'll be more summer flash floods because

of climate change. A new report says while summers are expected to be

drier by the next century, intense rainfall means flash flooding will

become more frequent. Our Environment Correspondent,

Claire Marshall, explains. Boscastle, August 2004. A month's

worth of rain fell in a few hours, a sudden violent storm in mid summer.

Now the latest research from the Met Office suggests that summer time

downpours and flash flooding like this will become much more common.

Our warming climate means that this could be five times the number of

extreme rainfall events per hour. So many more of us could suffer like

this. There's the flood level. It's up to

the guttering. I saw the water actually burst through my kitchen

window and we had to evacuate. This is one of the world's most

powerful super computers, the Met Office has been using it to model

the future. It's taken nine months. Until now, climate models have not

been able to accurately simulate these kind of local storms. This

model is incredibly realistic and for the first time, it allows us to

look at this hourly rainfall which is responsible for the summer

intense downpours. Downpours like here in

Leicestershire last June. Now this is only one model. It uses the

international panel on climate change east mows extreme prediction

data and only the second half of the country was studied. Scientists say

it's a piece of hard evidence -- most extreme prediction data. Urban

areas are vulnerable because drains are easily overwhelmed. But there

are solutions. Look at what they are doing at this business park in

Bristol. This concrete is permeable. The water can be soaked in and can

be held as a store. If it gets through that, the water can come

down here to this grassy lined gully where it can soak away slowly. And

if that doesn't work, there's this tunnel. The scientists hope that

their model might help policy-makers plan for the challenges posed by our

future climate. Now time for the sport and let's

join Ore Oduba. Good evening. Good evening to you. The World Cup

squad are set to land in Florida in the next few hours as they finalise

preparations for their tournament in Brazil. With just over two weeks

until the opening match, Roy Hodgson says the team are looking forward to

beginning their World Cup journey. It's going to be a great adventure I

think. We are all very excited about it and we've got the perfect

send-off on Friday night, the crowd was quite magnificent. I think we

are in a positive mood. We feel positive, we'll do what we can. Our

chief sports correspondent, Dan Roan, is in mimeny. What are England

hoping to achieve over the next week -- Miami? It's all about

acclimatisation. England when they land in the next hour or so, will

discover exactly the kind of conditions that await them in Brazil

because it's very, very humid here in Miami. Very similar to the

sweltering temperatures that they'll face in the opening World Cup

fixture less than two weeks away now against Italy in the Amazon jungle.

So similar conditions and opponents too because they also face Uruguay

and Costa Rica in their group and Hodgson's lined up friendlies,

Ecuador on Wednesday and Honduras on Saturday. That will be useful for

the players. A real sense of optimism and calm is developing

around the squad. What they must do this week is avoid injuries and

controversies that is blighted build-ups to tournaments in many

years. Despite their position at the bottom of the women's Super League,

Arsenal ladies are celebrating after retaining their what cup title. A

2-0 victory over Everton saw Arsenal lift the trophy for a record #139

time. Tim Hague reports -- 13th time. The Arsenal men already have

the FA Cup locked away in their trophy Cabinet. Now for the women's

chance and the Gunners almost fired in after only nine minutes against

Everton. Yanky denied. Captain Kelly Smith had no such problems.

Here is Kelly Smith. Perfection. But that goal

Here is Kelly Smith. Perfection. Smith who scored in every round for

Arsenal coming so close to her second.

Soon after, she played provider instead. Kinga giving the parting

manager Shelley Kerr the perfect send-off.

The double achieved for Arsenal then, the men and now the women FA

Cup winners. Andy Murray's into the fourth round

of the French Open, but only after a tense deciding set against his

opponent. After bad light ended play yesterday, it took Murray until the

22nd game of the final set to eventually overcome the German.

He'll play for a place in the quarter-finals tomorrow.

That's all your sport. Thank you. A reminder of main news.

Qatar's denied wrongdoing after new claims that millions of pounds of

bribes were paid out during its successful campaign to host the 2022

football World Cup. More on that and all of today's

stories on the BBC News Channel. That's it for us. Stay