26/08/2011 BBC News at Six

The battle for Libya. At the end of the week in which the rebels

entered Tripoli, who's running the country?

Sporadic fighting continues in the capital as supplies run low. Some

of the wounded are left untreated in hospital.

In this hospital, and around this hospital, there are hundreds of

dead bodies. Men, women and children. They are lying on

trolleys every -- everywhere. We don't know who they were, if they

were fighters or African mercenarys. Also on tonight's programme:

The death of a mother and father within days of each other leaves

four children orphaned while on holiday in Morocco. Experts predict

40% of adults in the UK will be obese by 2030. Chips you can buy

microwave chips for what - a quid. That is quick and easy. Pizzas are

�1.75. Quick and easy meal for �3. If you have a lot of kids that is

what you'll do. A man who stole a T-shirt from this store in

Birmingham during the riots is jailed for 20 months. And coming up

in the sport: Joey joins QPR, Barton leaves Newcastle and joins

the newly promoted London side on a Good evening. Welcome to the BBC

News at 6pm. Five days after rebels entered the Libyan capital it's

still not clear if they are ready to take over the running of the

country. There remains sporadic firing in Tripoli. Essential powers

are -- supplies are running low. There appears to be no running

water in the capital. In one hospital many were left to die as

fighting forced medical staff to flee. The battle for Libya is

spreading to Sirte - the home town of Colonel Gaddafi, with British

Tornado jets bombing targets there. Leaders are ready to re-establish

law and order. They will move their transitional Government to the

capital. In Abu Salim district, just the

embers of battle remain today. Yesterday, there was fierce

fighting on these streets. By morning, Colonel Gaddafi's troops

had melted away. We found rebel units still

searching in other areas. They moved on foot, warning residents to

stay inside for their own safety. They exercised the -- exsore sized

the past, along the way. We know the area, we are trying to

clean this area from the Gaddafi enemy. How many Gaddafi troops do

you think there might be? Not up to 100, I think so. I'm not sure.

Maybe there's a lot, but I don't know. The hated Green Flag of the

Gaddafi era was torched wherever it was found. We're looking for

Gaddafi. Maybe we'll find him here. Another rebel unit and another

target. This was a club for Gaddafi functionrys.

-- functionaries. Well, they have been making their

way through the building here. They have been told by local people that

there are some Gaddafi forces inside. They are literally kicking

down doors. They are going room by room to make sure this area is

secured. They found documents and files.

The regime's men had no hiding place here.

Prisoners of the regime have freed themselves this week. This

extraordinary amateur footage shows a mass breakout from Tripoli's

notorious Abu Salim jail. This former prisoner came back to visit

today. He was released in 2001. He was

arrested for praying too much, he says and spent a decade in jail. At

that time, there was only one window here, he told us. We got

very little air. We slept packed together.

One of the regime's worst atrocities happened here in 1996,

when an estimated 1200 prisoners were killed.

Now the doors to the past are wide open.

More than 80 bodies have been found at an abandoned hospital in the Abu

Salim area of Tripoli. The area has been the scene of busy fighting.

The hospital was abandoned five days ago after medical staff

abandoned it after fire. This is the Abu Salim hospital in the

district of Tripoli where most of the heavy fighting has been taking

place. This is one of the most distressing sights I have ever seen.

In this hospital and around this hospital there are hundreds of dead

bodies, men, women and children are lying on guernieys, on trolleys

everywhere. We don't know who they were, whether they were fighters,

civilians or African mercenarys. We what we know is when injured people

were brought to the hospital here there were no hospital staff here

to treat them because of the fighting which was going on in

buildings just around here. Some people were left to die, were left

here injured and they slowly died. The result is there are now

hundreds of bodies in the wards, in the corridors lying on guernieys,

bodies everywhere. It is a distressing sight. Many are blaming

Colonel Gaddafi's Government, his regime for this. Who is responsible,

it's impossible to say. These are local people trying to clean up the

mess but it is a huge, huge task. Our correspondent there. We can

speak now to our world affairs editor who is in Tripoli. Seeing

the scenes there that we were seeing, the reports of no running

water, there are some pockets of resistance in the capital, is it

posstobl say how long before the rebels start to -- possible to say

how long before the rebels start to get the country up and running

again? It depends on the council and when they come here to form a

Government. You can hear the noise in the background. A lot of that is

just letting off steam really. There's very little fighting now.

It is starting to settle down, but there doesn't seem to be any proper

infrastructure. There's no television station. For a start,

they can't decide what to do. So the only television people can

watch is this weird television station which is dedicated to

putting out the views of Colonel Gaddafi and racing around the

streets trying to avoid any kind of arrest or capture. There's just a

sense of nothing quite happening at the moment.

Therefore, these terrible things, I was also at that hospital, one of

the most terrible scenes of my entire career, I think, was

watching the bodies, looking at the bodies and watching the blood-

stained floor. Very, very unpleasant indeed. These things

assume a much greater importance, as does the light fighting which is

going on here, simply because there's nothing else, because there

is no Government. I think that will have to be

addressed before this whole situation will start to calm down.

Thank you. And there's more about the

situation in Libya later in the programme. On our special live page

online. It brings together all the latest news and analysis. The

address is: Other news now and four children

have been orphaned after their parents died within days of each

other during a family holiday to Morocco. Mathilde Lamb fell from

the third floor balcony of their holiday apartment in Essaouira. She

later died in hospital. Her husband, Roger, fell down the stairs of the

hotel a few days later. Our correspondent is outside the family

home in Worcestershire. This is a terrible tragedy. What more can you

tell us? Well, Fiona details are sparse. The family here in rural

Worcestershire. Initial reports were that Mr Lamb, Tilly, as she

was known to family and friends had somehow fallen over the cliff and

her husband went to rescue her in some way. A family friend coming to

the home this evening. What we have discovered is that Mrs Lamb fell

from the window of her apartment. She died in hospital then on

Thursday. Her husband appears to have fallen down the stairs in a

hotel a couple of days later, over the weekend. His family was

informed of his death just on Monday. A statement has been

released on behalf of both families. It says "our principal concern is

to provide love and support to the four sons aged between nine and 16

who have had to suffer the loss of both a mother and father in swift

succession." The family say the boys are being well cared for here

in the UK. As regards the details of how their parents died, we'll

have to wait and hear from the Moroccan authorities.

Back to you. Thank you.

The UK economy remains sluggish, according to official figures

released today. The Office for National Statistics confirmed

growth was 0.2% in the second quarter. Manufacturing output fell

by 0.5% from April to June. But the construction and service sectors

each grew by the same amount. A 30-year-old man has been charged

with six murders including his wife and two young children.

The man, originally from Poland is accused of carrying out stabbing

during a family BBQ. His wife, parents, family friend and daughter

all died earlier this month. Nearly half the UK population could

be dangerously overweight in 20 years' time. This action is --

unless action is taken now to tackle obesity. Writing in the

journal, the Lancet, they say rich food, too little exercise and a

lack of political will to take on the food industry are combining to

cause the highest obesity rate in the developed world. Watching our

weight as a nation. Scientists and doctors are worried about the UK.

In 2009, 26% of adults were obese. By 2030, 40% of adults could be

obese. That's 26 million people whose weight compared to their

height is a lot higher than the normal range. What are the

challenges in slimming down the nation? Rotherham in Yorkshire is a

town with a weight problem. On every estate, fast food is easier

to find than fresh food. Many families are shopping on a tight

budget. All it is two minutes in a microwave. Chips you can buy

microwave chips for what, a quid. So that's quick and easy. Pizzas

are �1.75, something like that. A quick and easy meal for �3. If you

have a lot of kids that is what you'll do. You have to buy things

on offer. They tend to be things which are unhealthy. When you talk

to families it is clear that costs and convenience are the two big

influences on the choices they make about food.

Quite simply, it can be cheaper and quicker to buy fast foods than to

cook a meal with healthy ingredients.

Rotherham is storing up health problems. A lot of extra weight

increases the risk of serious diseases. The NHS here is spending

millions to help the town lose weight. So there are choices ahead

for Governments. Experts back programmes like this summer kam in

the town, but say tough action is - - camp in the town, but say tough

action is needed against the food industry, which is borrowing from

tobacco industry lobbying tactics. To prevent regulation, of doubting

the science and sowing the seeds of doubt. All those tactics we are

seeing played out in this battle on obesity. In England, the Government

wants to work with the food industry, not tell it what to do.

People will not get thinner by Government regulating or taxing.

There are a number of tools in the box we have to use.

Legislation and regulation is slow and can be counter pro-duckive.

Changing the habits of a nation is hard. -- productive. Changing the

A man has been jailed for 20 months after stealing a T-shirt during the

riots in Birmingham,. As the courts continue to jail hundreds following

the mass disorder the number of prisoners in England and Wales has

reached a record high for the third week running.

First a trickle and then a flood of looters.

The Armani store in Birmingham, 10pm, 9td August. �500,000 worth of

designer clothes gone in a flash. Among the looters was 25-year-old

Acer Harding. Identified by his blood left at the scene. The T-

shirt he stole cost him dearly. 20 months in jail, as the first

sentences were handed down in the This is so even where to date,

those who have carried out these acts have never appeared before the

courts before. These pictures outside Armani are just a few

seconds of up to 40,000 hours of footage being examined in England.

Half of it is in London. Day after day, police here are sifting

through the faces captured on the streets and in the shops of the

capital. This is going to take months. Six months, a year, it can

get into that. It's difficult to be precise. That is just one part of

the whole investigation, which is reviewing the CCTV. The multitude

of writing convictions means that more people behind the walls of

Prisons, like Wormwood Scrubs here in London. According to the latest

figures, 87,000 people are in jails across England and Wales, that's an

increase of 1300 over the past three weeks. Leading 1500 spare

places. Be enough to cope, says the government. There'll be plenty more

sentences like today's. Hundreds were arrested in Birmingham on the

night the Armani store was looted. But others simply vanished and the

police say that with each day that passes the chance that they will

Our top story - the battle for triple-A continues. Sporadic

fighting goes on as supplies of water and other basic supplies run

low. Many would apply and treated in hospital. Coming up... Foot

stamping and head-scratching in Scotland after a disastrous night

of European football. Inside F1 is back on BBC News at 645. The race

for the title resumes after the summer break, but is it still red

At least 18 people are believed to have been killed in a suicide car

bomb attack at the United Nations building in the Nigerian capital,

Abuja. At least 60 elders are thought to have been wounded. A

spokesman for the Nigerian radical Islamist group it had carried out

the attack. Stunned, bleeding and in shock. Survivors of this

morning's bomb blast were brought out one by one. The attacker had

driven a car packed with explosives through two ineffective barriers

before detonating it, destroying two stories and many of those

within. I counted five dead bodies, then the agencies came around. I

saw the whole window shattered. I gathered the other portion of the

building collapsed. A lot of casualties. The it's the worst

attack on the UN building in over three years. Suspicion immediately

fell on the local extremist group, Boko Haram. Soon afterwards, the

group rang the BBC in Nigeria to claim responsibility. Today's bomb

in a butcher marks a major escalation for Boko Haram. Up to

now they've targeted mainly Nigerian officials. Who are they?

Their name means Western education is sinful. Founded in 2002, they

are seeking a Taliban style government throughout Nigeria.

Human rights groups say they've killed around 250 people in the

last year, after a failed government attempt to crush them.

The UN Secretary-General was quick to condemn the blast. It was an

assault on those who devote their lives to helping others. We condemn

this terrible act utterly. We do not yet have precise casualty

figures but they are likely to be considerable. The investigation is

being led by the Nigerian authorities. But the UN's own

investigators will want to know how security was so badly breached, and

why the United Nations was singled out for this devastating attack.

They are boarding up or moving out along large parts of America's

eastern seaboard this evening, as Hurricane Irene closes in. It's

already claimed lives and week havoc throughout the Bahamas. It is

due to hit North Carolina tomorrow. America's most heavily populated

city, New York, on Sunday. People in the path of the storm had been

told to evacuate the area. Irene, the first hurricane of the Atlantic

season, could affect up to 65 million people in cities along the

east coast. In all, seven US states have declared a state of emergency.

Iris Robinson, the wife of Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter

Robinson, has been cleared of any wrongdoing over a council contract

that was awarded to her then teenage lover. An investigation was

commissioned in response to a BBC programme. Mark Simpson has the

details. Iris Robinson recently returned to public life after 18

months away from the media spotlight. She met the Queen during

the royal visit to Dublin, as well as being the wife of Northern

Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson, she was a high-profile

politician in her own right until she quit politics amid controversy

about her relationship with a young businessman. She had an affair with

a 19 year-old at the time he was 59. He won a council contract to run a

riverside coffee-shop near Belfast while she was a councillor in the

area. An investigation by the BBC Panorama programme alleged that Mrs

Robinson had failed to properly declare her interest when the

council agreed to award her love of the lease for the cafe. But an

independent report published today found that no local government

rules had been broken. The report exaggerates every one of wrong

doing. The entire Robinson family have been in our thoughts and

prayers during many difficult months. We hope that the final

conclusion of this episode will help Iris's recovery. Mrs Robinson

has been undergoing psychiatric treatment for the past 18 months.

There has been no comment from Iris Robinson about today's report, but

her solicitor is expected to issue a statement in the near future. As

for the BBC, they defended the Panorama programme. In a statement

a spokesperson said, the BBC stands by its journalism. We believe that

the issues were of significant public interest and were well

sourced. The allegations surrounding his wife threatened

Peter Robinson's career. But in the past year he has not only rebuild

his marriage but confirmed his position as leader of Northern

Ireland's most popular party. For the first time in half-a-century,

Scottish interest in European football is over before August has

ended. Last night, Celtic, Rangers and Hearts were all knocked out of

the Europa League. James Cook is that Scotland's national stadium in

Glasgow. It was a pretty miserable evening. Yes, there was nothing

beautiful about the game of football last night if you are

Scottish. It was the worst night in Europe for more than 50 years. Some

are even suggesting that this marks the death of Scottish football.

film is fading now, so are the memories. But these were the glory

days. The 60s, Celtic become the first British team to win the

European Cup. The 70s, a triumph for the other half of the old firm

a. Success matched by Aberdeen in the 80s. A side managed by a young

Alex Ferguson. But the glory days are long gone. It's a disappointing

time for Scotland. This is what he's talking about. Disaster for

Celtic. And last night went from bad to worse. Rangers struggled

against Maribor of Slovenia. Hearts fought a losing battle against

Spurs. At full-time there were all out. Frustrating, isn't it? There

is no money in the game appear. youngest son is a Rangers supporter

and the rest of the family of Celtic supporters, so nobody was a

winner last night. No money in the game, poor signings. The party is

over. But are changing times also to blame? There is no one single

reason for it. But underlying it is the fact that the natural route

from St football to the professional game has been over the

years devoted. So the glory days are gone and there's no sign of

them coming back. There is a glimmer of hope for Celtic at least.

They could be reinstated in the Europa League after their opponents

were accused of fielding ineligible players. But solving the underlying

problems of the Scottish game will require more than a bit of luck.

The situation in Libya now. One of the many unanswered questions

arising from the revolution there is what has happened to Abdel

Basset al-Megrahi, the man jailed for the Lockerbie bombing in 1988.

Criticism is being expressed in Scotland about the terms of his

release by the Scottish Government two years ago. We've been trying to

find out what has happened to him. He has sent this report. -- Daniel

Sandford has sent this report. Anti- Gaddafi fighters firmly in

control of a district that was once home to many Gaddafi loyalists.

This is the main road through Haider mask, where the man

convicted of the Lockerbie bombing has his home. He lives on a quiet

street full of mansions behind high walls. But when we called there

this afternoon at no one was answering the door. The gate hides

the bombers vast mansion. When he was released from prison in

Scotland because he was dying, one condition was that he should notify

any change of address. But the Scottish authorities have not heard

from him for over a week. Libya's official position has always been

that he is innocent. But on the streets in his district, some

believe the mansion was a payment. Gaddafi gave it to him as a reward

for killing all of the innocent people. And now you think he has

run away? Yes, he is in hiding. people who will working with the

Gaddafi regime have run away now. He was working with the Gaddafi

regime. He was convicted of killing 270 people by blowing up Pan Am 103

at Lockerbie in 1988 - something he's always denied. He was

sentenced to 27 years in prison, but was controversially released

after eight years because he had terminal prostate cancer. To the

anger of his victims' relatives, he returned to a hero's welcome. The

last time he was seen in public was here in Tripoli's Green Square, now

renamed martyr's Square. It was back in July and they were very

different times. He was at a rally in support of Gaddafi. He looked

frail but he was clearly still alive. He has since broken his

conditions of parole by moving without telling anyone. Scotland

now has to decide whether to try and recover him from war-torn Libya.

Let's take a look at the weather We've got a Met Office amber

warning out for rain in western Scotland. We can see some

disruption to travel and also some flooding. The showers are slow

moving around Glasgow and Loch Lomond areas. South Wales and

south-west England, some very heavy thunderstorms and more persistent

rain through the North East of England, which will last into the

first part of the night. A few showers will still be going into

the morning. It's a coolish night. Tomorrow will have some dry and

bright weather around, some of you will stick with it. But it's going

to be increasingly breezy, north east Scotland especially. The

breeze will bring showers across many parts throughout. Best

favoured areas for staying dry is probably the south coast. As we

travel northwards for the afternoon, you can see showers just about

anywhere. The heaviest will be through the Midlands and into the

Liverpool Bay area. One of two heavy ones across northern England,

southern Scotland and Northern Ireland. But Central, Northern and

Midland Scotland will have a dry day. But the breeze will be

strengthening into the afternoon and it will become significant of a

night and into Sunday, particularly to the far north. Persistent rain

to start Sunday, that will last all day long. South-east Scotland will

have a dry day. Elsewhere, it's a story of sunshine and showers. The

trend continues into Monday. A bank holiday for many of you. High

pressure starts to build in from the south-west. Still a few showers

and some gusty winds in the north- east. We have more details of the

Bank Holiday weather and more details of Hurricane Irene on the