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This is BBC World News Today. With me, Zeinab Badawi. A public inquiry | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
condemns the appalling violence carried out by British soldiers | :00:17. | :00:25. | |
that led to the death of an Iraqi civilian in 2003. My judgment is | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
that they constituted appalling effort and -- episode of serious, | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
gratuitous violence on civilians. President Medvedev condemns | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
Russia's air safety record after Wednesday's plane crash which | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
killed most members of a top ice hockey team. Guilty, the British | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
designer John Galliano was fined 6,000 euros for making anti-Semitic | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
remarks during a drunken outburst in Paris. Could the famine in | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
Somalia help end the conflict between the interim government and | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
the militant Al-Shabab group? The country's Prime Minister offers an | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
olive branch. Everybody who wants to talk to has come as big with us, | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
joiners, save Somalia from itself, we will talk to them. And the two | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
million-year-old fossils that could overturn conventional thinking on | :01:15. | :01:25. | |
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Hello, welcome. The death of Baha Mousa was one of the most appalling | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
incidents of abuse by Western soldiers during the Iraq War. The | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
young Iraqi hotel worker died after sustaining 93 external wounds | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
whilst he was in the custody of British troops in the southern city | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
of Basra. The language used by an independent public inquiry here was | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
blunt. It said, his death had left a great stain on Britain's armed | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
forces. Our world affairs correspondent Caroline Hawley has | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
this report. In a makeshift detention facility | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
eight years ago a killing that cast a shadow over the army's reputation. | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
Baha Mousa had just lost his wife to cancer when he was detained by | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
British troops. Over the next 36 hours he and nine other detainees | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
were hooded, forced into painful positions and badly beaten. When | :02:21. | :02:28. | |
Baha Mousa died he had 93 separate injuries. My judgment is that it | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
constituted an appalling episode of serious, gratuitous violence on | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
civilians which resulted in the death of one man and injuries to | :02:37. | :02:46. | |
others. They represented a very serious breach of discipline. | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
Footage from the detention facility shows Corporal Donald Payne | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
shouting obscenities at the Iraqis. He is the only man to have been | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
punished in any way for what happened here. The use of pudding | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
and stress positions are against international law and had been | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
banned by the British government in 1972 -- hoods. It was an Army major | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
that instructed the soldiers to use them. The inquiry heard it was | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
standard operating procedure. The report blamed they use on a | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
corporate failure that the Ministry of Defence. It said that stress | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
positions and hoods were wholly unacceptable in any circumstances. | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
It also found that many soldiers had a sort of the Iraqis, even more | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
had failed to intervene. There had been, it said, a lack of moral | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
courage. It is clearly a truly shocking and appalling incident. | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
Pictured not have happened. It should never be allowed to happen | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
again. -- it should not have happened. The British Army should | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
uphold the highest standards. inquiry found that Major Michael | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
Peebles had news that detainees had been assaulted. He is accused of an | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
acceptable failure. It said that if Lieutenant Craig Rodgers had acted | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
when he first knew what was happening, Baha Mousa would almost | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
certainly have survived. It found that the commander of the Regiment, | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
Colonel Jorge Mendonca, ought to have known what was going on. And | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
that Corporal Payne was a violent Paul Leigh who tried to cover up | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
what he had done. No doubt the Director of Public Prosecutions and | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
the Director of Public Service prosecutions are reading the report | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
and they will be considering the war crimes of torture, inhumane | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
treatment and submitting people to grossly humiliating behaviour. | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
There is a number of people who have every reason to be very, very | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
worried. Back in the Middle East family still grieving. Baha Mousa's | :04:37. | :04:47. | |
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father had to identify his son's body. In my heart I love Baha Mousa. | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
He was a good son. Baha Mousa's two children are now growing up without | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
a father. Today, the soldier who tried to resuscitate him expressed | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
deep remorse. I could not say in enough words how sorry but only for | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
myself but for those that were involved in his death, whether you | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
hit him or you did not hit him, you have your responsibility for his | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
desk that day. Baha Mousa is buried in Iraq's holiest city. Today's | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
reporting to his death is a big step towards accountability but the | :05:22. | :05:30. | |
scandal over what happened to him has not yet been laid to rest. | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
The death of Mark -- of Baha Mousa was one of several examples of | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
prisoner reduce by foreign troops during the past decade since the | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
September 11th attacks. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and detention | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
centre with the US in Guantanamo Bay have led to many criticisms of | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
human rights abuses. Kurt Volker is a former US ambassador to NATO and | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
also served in the Bush Administration and joins us from | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
Washington. Kurt Volker, how far do you think George Bush's war on | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
terror created a kind of climate whereby this kind of incident might | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
have happened more recently, more readily? You know, I think it is | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
wrong to blame it on a climate. I think when you look at the | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
inquiry's report, he made a very clear. About the rules and | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
procedures that are allowable and what are not allowable and making | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
sure that is well known in advance and part of the training that will | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
just get. We put soldiers and were very difficult climate, in a war- | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
zone, they are there to conduct combat, people were trying to kill | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
them. It is extremely stressful and they are asked to make decisions on | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
a split second sometimes. A very difficult environment to be in. | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
That is why it is so important they have clear routes -- rules and when | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
abuses do happen, as we have had from American and British forces, | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
it is important they be investigated and dealt with | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
appropriately, but the key thing is to make sure the rules are clear. | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
Just looking at the wider picture, ten years since the September 11th | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
attacks, we did see in the war on terror things like detention | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
without trial, you have the accusations of rendition, | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
extraordinary rendition, the invasion of Iraq was illegal by | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
make people's standards and so this kind of climate is not conducive | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
necessarily to do the observance of civil liberties, if that is what | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
the politicians are saying at the time? A think it is very important | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
to get the legal frameworks right and did we have not yet done this. | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
You have a gap between what is domestic criminal justice systems | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
and protection of civil -- civil liberties and so forth, and you | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
have an area where you are talking about the laws of armed conflict | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
and war, and you're talking about terrorist groups, suicide bombers, | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
Al-Qaeda, who do not follow the laws of war, do not belong to a | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
state, do not wear uniforms, so we are forced into a grey area of how | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
you deal with these situations. We have picked up people, held them as | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
combatants in a conflict, in a normal war you would hold them to | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
the end of the conflict, this is not a normal ward and we are not | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
comfortable saying we will hold people forever but we don't know | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
issues, there is ambiguity about treatment, certainly in the British | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
cases we have heard, also true in American cases, where we have a | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
clear prohibition against torture, where that line was drawn in terms | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
of what is a tough interrogation officers what is more physical | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
abuse, was not a clear line. That has since been clarified and the US | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
system but I do think... You are talking there about the enhancing - | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
- the enhanced Territt -- interrogation techniques, such as | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
waterboarding, which some people call torture. Do you think the | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
policies that we did see in the war on terror have actually resulted | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
now in making the world a safer place? I think in a number of ways | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
they have forced up in a number of ways we have seen terrible results | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
at the same time. Life happens in the world. We have significantly | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
weakened Al-Qaeda. Iraq now has a better government than it had under | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
Saddam per se. It has suffered tremendously through a civil war | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
however. You see people in the Arab world, the Muslim world, rise up to | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
demand rights from the Rhone leaders in ways that was not the | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
case before. They are being squeezed between this trap of on | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
the one hand being accused of being Islamist terrorists come on the | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
other hand seeing these harsh dictatorial regimes in their rent | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
societies finally caused people to come out to say we demand better | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
rights and freedoms in our own countries. I do think we are seeing | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
in the Arab world right now one of the most hopeful things that we are | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
seeing in this decade. Ambassador Kurt Volker, thank you for joining | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
us from Washington. Now the other main use. NATO forces | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
in Afghanistan have admitted that a BBC reporter killed in a July in | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
the south of the country was shot dead by a US soldier who was took | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
him for a suicide bomber. -- Mr Kim. Ahmed Omed Khpulwak was caught up | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
in a suicide attack. Initial reports suggested he was killed by | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
the Taleban. A group of 20 medical staff in | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
Bahrain, charged with incitement to overthrow the government earlier | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
this year, have been released on bail. They were the last of 47 | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
staff at the main hospital in the capital Manama who had been accused | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
of harbouring extremists and concealing weapons. Their families | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
say they were tortured into making confessions. | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
The Russian President Dmitri Medvedev says they must be so swift | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
action to improve aviation safety after a plane crash that killed | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
most members of one of Russia's top hockey teams -- ice hockey teams. | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
The players from Lokomotiv Yaroslavl were killed when their | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
plane failed to take off on Wednesday. President Medvedev said | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
the number of Russian bear characters -- carriers must be | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
reduced radically. Steve Rosenberg reports. | :11:04. | :11:11. | |
In the river to Russia are to search continued into the morning, | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
for survivors but wreckage of the plane and bodies. Dmitri Medvedev | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
had been due here for a political conference but he began his day | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
here. At the sight of the air crash he laid roses and bowed his head in | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
honour of the dead. Later President Medvedev criticised the safety | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
record of Russian airlines. He warned that if his country could | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
not produce reliable aircraft it would have to buy foreign aid | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
planes. The Yak-42 jet had crashed here in a ball of flames soon after | :11:43. | :11:51. | |
board were killed. Among the dead were players, coaches and officials | :11:51. | :11:57. | |
from one of Russia's Top ice hockey teams, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. The | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
team had a Canadian trainer and star players from Sweden, Slovakia | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
and the Czech Republic. Today, the fans gathered outside the club's | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
stadium. They laid fan -- flowers and lit candles and they stood | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
staring in disbelief that their hockey team had been wiped out. | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
Russians have grown used to hearing of these kinds of disasters in | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
their country. Of planes crashing, pleasure boats sinking, but this | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
latest tragedy has caused particular shock and anger here. | :12:27. | :12:37. | |
With a plane crash wiping out almost an entire ice hockey team. | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
The 50-year-old British fashion designer John Galliano has been | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
found guilty of anti-Semitic -- Anti-Semitism by a court in Paris. | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
He was given a suspended fine of 6,000 euros for a series of drunken | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
outbursts against fellow customers in a Paris bar. John Galliano was | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
sacked from the fashion house d'Or in March. The court also ordered | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
him to pay a symbolic one euros win damages to each of his victims. ILA | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
Paris correspondent Christian Fraser has the story. | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
The king of high fashion ruined by anti-Semitic insults that cost him | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
a million dollar career. Today, John Galliano's shame was complete, | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
a guilty verdict of the suspended fine tells you that judges had | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
certain sympathy. There is actually no penalty so to speak which is a | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
very strong signed by the court because it shows the court took | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
into account is sincere apology, the fact that Mr Galliano has | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
entered treatment for his addiction. He was arrested in July over a | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
series of complaints from people who he had abused. The court was | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
shown a video filmed in a bar in which Mr Galliano was heard | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
glorifying the Holocaust. On another occasion he told art | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
curator Geraldine Bloch she had, a dirty Jewish face. The designer | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
admitted on that particular night he had been drinking heavily at | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
this bar. On a cocktail of Valium and sleeping pills. John Galliano | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
was a regular at La Perle Bar but his behaviour, said staff, had | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
become increasingly erratic. He told the court he had no | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
recollection of the knights who was arrested but so common were these | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
outbursts the chauffeur had instructions to call the designer's | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
lawyer if the rows became too heated. Mr Galliano's friends | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
blamed the workload. He oversaw 12 new collections the year for the | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
Dior. The pressure dramatically decreased in 2007 with the death of | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
his partner at first assistant, Stephen Robinson, who died of an | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
overdose. -- increased. I think it is impossible for anybody to be | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
creative and respond to these demands that are increasing on one | :14:40. | :14:46. | |
single person. Of course Dior could also have accompanied him in a | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
different manner, could have tried to replace his first assistant who | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
was also his very, very close friend. He was fired by Dior after | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
his arrest. This summer he did pick up a pencil to start Kate Moss's | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
wedding dress, part of my creative therapy, he told Vogue magazine. As | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
for Dior, they are yet to appoint his successor but the rumours are | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
they like the look of Marc Jacobs, an American designer was Jewish | :15:12. | :15:22. | |
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The transitional federal Government in say Somalia is willing to talk | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
to a rebel group. It was said that an international gathering in | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
Nairobi that the head of the country would talking anyone | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
willing to save Somalia. 3 million Somali Zara Prescott dying from | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
famine within the next few months. Government representatives from | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
across the region are here at this summit on the famine. The aim is to | :15:54. | :16:02. | |
come up with an action plan to be signed by the heads of State. They | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
want to ensure that the next time a drought hits it does not cause a | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
humanitarian catastrophe. Right now more than 13 million people across | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
the region are addressed. This is the epicentre of the crisis, | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
Somalia, where the UN says the famine is still spreading. | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
Humanitarian agencies are still delivering food but the effort in | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
the south of the country is hampered by the ongoing war of. The | :16:32. | :16:42. | |
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group which controls the worst area is Neen there are not aid packages | :16:46. | :16:56. | |
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getting to people. Anybody who can talk to us or speak with us to help | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
as save so Malawians we will talk to them. There is a glimmer of hope | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
that the dire situation could provoke the warring factions to put | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
aside their differences. Kenya's foreign minister says if expensive | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
military campaigns could be funded by the West then surely money could | :17:17. | :17:25. | |
be found to save lives. We are continuously reminding the rest of | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
the world that if they can spend billions of dollars to drive out | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
Gaddafi they can spell a little of that to save the dying people in | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
the Horn of Africa. This crisis will not be solved by a few heads | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
of State flying in to sign a bit of paper but it will remind the world | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
that the famine is still causing misery for millions across this | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
region and the humanitarian response will be needed for months | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
to come. The United Nations envoy to Somalia took a break from those | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
discussions at the gathering in Nairobi to talk to us. He told us | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
that more donor funding is needed. There has been a very generous | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
response so far but out of the estimated $1 billion that is | :18:16. | :18:22. | |
required for the next six months to address the famine, or only 300 | :18:22. | :18:29. | |
million have been received so far. The effort is continuing. This | :18:29. | :18:38. | |
meeting is very important to help reach the target. What is the key | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
thing you want to see happen in this area to ensure people are not | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
starving? Firstly we must have policies that are addressing the | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
root causes of drought and implementing the measures that are | :18:54. | :19:04. | |
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needed in a full security, water management and land use. The whole | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
question of pastoralists in this part of the world has -- who have | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
lost their livestock in the past few months. We hear the Government | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
are trying to speak to members of the rebel groups so that they can | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
go to the areas where they are in control, is that the case and would | :19:23. | :19:30. | |
that not be legitimising a militant group? Humanitarian access and | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
security for humanitarian workers is one issue. Political | :19:34. | :19:44. | |
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negotiations is another. The group should renounce violence, laid down | :19:45. | :19:52. | |
their arms and joined the peace process. There may be promising | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
signals now that this is the moment and the opportunity where elements | :19:58. | :20:05. | |
of the rebel group are again invited to come into the political | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
discussions, this would be the time. The door remains open and an olive | :20:10. | :20:18. | |
branch has been extended by the ruling Government and by the | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
international community through the United Nations Security Council. | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
That was the UN envoy for Somalia are talking to me from Nairobi. | :20:29. | :20:36. | |
Nearly one in 10 Americans are looking for her work. Their economy | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
needs to create thousands of jobs each year just to stand still. In a | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
few hours' time Barack Obama will unveil a plan to get Americans back | :20:46. | :20:56. | |
to work. You may not guess it from this crowd, but Barack Obama's | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
popularity is at a new low placing him under more pressure to get | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
Americans back to work. Given the lack of appetite for more | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
Government spending, his suggestions for cranking up the | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
economy might not get far. depends what kind of stimulus will | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
be called for, if it is a waste ranging spending package the chance | :21:21. | :21:28. | |
of getting it through the house is rather slim. -- wide-ranging. | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
President is expected to roll out a 300 billion dollar plan which will | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
include tax credits for companies that hire new workers as well as | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
funding for infrastructure projects and assistance for the long-term | :21:43. | :21:50. | |
unemployed. With 14 million Americans out of were one training | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
programme in Georgia is getting a lot of attention. It lets companies | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
try out employees for eight weeks, it cuts the cost of training for | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
business while allowing the worker to continue to receive an | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
unemployment cheque. This woman has a job at a college today because of | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
the programme. I decided if I could go somewhere and volunteer for a | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
while to see if it is a fit for me and if I am a fit for them, there | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
is nothing to lose. For millions of Americans the great recession of a | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
couple of years ago and never ended. Without an increase in-demand, | :22:32. | :22:41. | |
there may not be jobs for them. It joining as now from New York is an | :22:41. | :22:48. | |
expert from a school of business. Does this 300 billion dollar job | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
plan sound good to you? Some parts are better than others. You get the | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
most in terms of short-term stimulus if you are actually | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
creating jobs. If you are spending money on things to benefit the | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
economy in the long term like infrastructure. In terms of tax | :23:09. | :23:19. | |
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cuts, you have to aim at people on lower levels of pay, they will | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
probably be trying to pay off their debt rather than spending. For | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
companies that are worried about the uncertainty in their economy, | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
they will not hire people because it is a little cheaper. It will | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
take more of a push to make them feel good about the prospects for | :23:37. | :23:43. | |
the economy in the long term. people think there is another | :23:43. | :23:50. | |
recession on the cards in the US? People have been talking about two | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
recessions and a double Decker. I think we are looking at a period of | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
slow growth which will take us a lot of time to generate that demand | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
and see a return to the higher growth levels of earlier. This is | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
not a recession, it is a severe contraction. What about printing | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
more money? I think there is a lot of pressure for inflation all | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
around the world because there are a lot of countries that have huge | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
debts. Inflation is one way to make them go away. Countries such as | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
China are seeing do not use inflation because it will alter the | :24:29. | :24:39. | |
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terms of trade. Thank you. -- China are saying. It is a question that | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
has baffled scientists for generations, how did we become | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
human and who are our closest ancestors? Scientists in South | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
Africa believe they may have found a hidden link between chimps and | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
humans. They have been studying two skeletons which are more than 2 | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
million years old. South African scoreless park the cradle of | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
humankind. It turns out that it may well be. These remains were found | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
in a cave at the park. They are of an ape-like creature who lived 2 | :25:18. | :25:25. | |
million years ago. Research shows they are the most human-like tapes | :25:25. | :25:34. | |
of their time. These hands may have been able to use tools. News Gans | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
of its skull shows that the brain was shifting to being more human- | :25:37. | :25:46. | |
like. We are looking for something that is potentially tool using, | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
there are the potential origins of language, something that is looking | :25:51. | :25:59. | |
like us. This is the story of human evolution so far. The first apes | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
emerged 20 million years ago, then came three humans, apes with some | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
human characteristics. Then came the first true Schumann's, this | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
happened around 2 million years ago. The new species is thought to be | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
right at the transition point between the human and Schumann. | :26:19. | :26:29. | |
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Some say it actually was the very first human. -- human. This new | :26:30. | :26:37. | |
discovery challenges the theory that the first human arrived in | :26:37. | :26:44. | |
East Africa. Scientists once thought there was a linear | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
progression from monkey to ape to Schumann. We now know the picture | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
was far more complicated. There were many similar species which | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
became fewer over the years until there was just one, us. Never | :27:01. | :27:08. | |
before have our origins been studied in so much detail. There | :27:08. | :27:17. | |
are a deeper questions about what it truly means to be human. Now let | :27:17. | :27:23. | |
us remind you of our main story. An independent inquiry here has | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
concluded that British soldiers serving in Iraq took part in | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
unjustified and brutal violence that led to the deaths of an Iraqi | :27:32. | :27:39. | |
civilian. A sustained assault on the Baha Mousa and other detainees | :27:39. | :27:48. | |
in 2003 had left a very great stain on Britain's armed forces. That is | :27:48. | :27:58. | |
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often now. Goodbye. -- that is all After the cool and breezy weather | :28:06. | :28:13. | |
we have some warmth to end the week. It will be as sticky day tomorrow. | :28:13. | :28:19. | |
The warmth is spreading up from the south. There will be some moist | :28:19. | :28:25. | |
area and so coastal or hill fog. During the day tomorrow it will | :28:25. | :28:32. | |
warm up. That comes after a morning of a good deal of cloud. These will | :28:32. | :28:38. | |
see the sunshine breaking through the cloud. By 4 o'clock there is | :28:38. | :28:43. | |
quite a difference in temperatures. Not necessarily clear blue skies | :28:43. | :28:48. | |
but it will be brighter, warmer and more humid than it has been. There | :28:48. | :28:53. | |
will be coastal fog on the south coast and into South Wales. We will | :28:53. | :29:00. | |
see some patchy outbreaks of rain or showers developing here. If you | :29:00. | :29:05. | |
catch a shower it could be on the heavy side, especially late in the | :29:05. | :29:10. |