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The Benghazi is the birthplace of the revolt. The people here are | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
fiercely proud of that fact. This is still a country where groups of | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
armed men wield disproportionate influence and one year on, the | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
revolution still feels like unfinished business. Away from the | :02:35. | :02:42. | |
jubilation, militias squabble over territory with violent consequences. | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
Most of these lawless brigades of formal fighters answer to no one | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
but their own commanders. Libya's new government is trying to | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
incorporate them into the National Army but they have met with limited | :02:53. | :03:00. | |
success. Last spring at the start of the revolution, he swapped his | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
stethoscope for a gun. He and thousands of young men risked their | :03:05. | :03:12. | |
lives to overthrow Colonel Gaddafi. Now, as reports emerged of rebels | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
torturing enemies, he says Libya needs a new psychological | :03:16. | :03:26. | |
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revolution. The regime and his ideas are still | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
imprinted in many minds. So, we have to change these mines and | :03:32. | :03:42. | |
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When he wasn't singing and playing, he also fought on the front line, | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
now he says it is important those who took up arms lay down their | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
weapons. Most Libyans agree the freedoms that have come with the | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
revolution have changed their lives for the better. Until the militias | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
disarmed, behind the facade of a new unstable life looks the danger | :04:03. | :04:13. | |
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of renewed violence. A former co- ordinator for the NCC in London | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
joins me. The assertion is the militia are out of control and the | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
government lacks the political will to get them under control. I think | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
that is a hugely exaggerated... The government is trying to establish | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
its authority. It has only been there for less than three months. | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
It is trying to rebuild a country. The process of State Building is | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
daunting and not easy. The government is trying to rebuild the | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
National Army, police service, security, the border guards and so | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
on. They are trying to accommodate and assimilate these freedom | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
fighters. It is going slowly, it is not going fast enough but I think | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
they will get there and things are not out of control as some media | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
outlets project. Amnesty International says there are many | :05:09. | :05:18. | |
cases of torture, the use of beatings and whips. That is not an | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
isolated case. Absolutely. These incidents are condemned, they are | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
to be rejected. This is not what the new Libya is all about. Because | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
of the lack of national institutions to take over the | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
prisons and the detentions and interrogations, these are done a | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
voluntary by Freedom fighters and they are people who want to settle | :05:42. | :05:50. | |
scores. This is not to be condoned. We say whenever the government | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
finds out about these incidents are they intervene and to rectify it | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
and make sure it does not happen and doesn't go on. With a little | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
patience, we do know what these violations to go on but in the | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
weeks and months ahead will seek a measured improvement and when the | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
institutions take over security, the incidence should disappear | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
totally. You have elections looming so time is of the essence. What | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
proactive moves will the government take to try to get the situation | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
under control? Every week we will see a strengthening of the national | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
institutions, the army and police and also a preparation is on for | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
the elections in five months and then we will have a new elected | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
council with legitimacy and political mandate to take over | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
running the country. By then, we would have a army and police | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
service and the judiciary need to be reactivated and that is going on | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
and hopefully by then we would have much more institutions and state | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
institutions that are running things and adhering to the law and | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
respecting the human rights of individuals irrespective of their | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
political background. A resolution calling for President | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
Assad to step down will be voted on it surely by the UN General | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
Assembly. It is supported by France's foreign minister says the | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
status quo is an acceptable. The draft says Syrian authorities are | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
involved in systematic violations of human rights and freedoms. It is | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
expected to be passed unlike the last draft at the security council | :07:36. | :07:46. | |
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which Russia and China vetoed 12 months ago. The resolution is | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
similar to the one Russia and China vetoed in the Security Council. It | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
calls on the government to end violence, to stop the crackdown and | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
calls on all parties to stop violence and backs and Arab League | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
political transition plan for Syria and calls on the Secretary-General | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
to appoint a special envoy to deal with Syria. The General Assembly | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
doesn't have the legal authority of the Security Council has so in a | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
way it is a symbolic move but the General Assembly is reflective of | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
world opinion. 193 members representing the world. If there is | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
a strong Yes vote it would give political and moral authority to | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
the plan. The idea is to use that yes vote to put more pressure on | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
the regime of Bashar Al-Assad and to illustrate Russia and China are | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
increasingly isolated in the opposition. Does it also provide a | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
stronger background -- backdrop for humanitarian exercises? No, it has | :08:54. | :09:01. | |
nothing to do with that. The French foreign minister has been talking | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
about exploratory conversations about the basis for a possible | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
Security Council resolution to bring it back to the Security | :09:08. | :09:16. | |
Council. He has been emphasising his idea of humanitarian quarters | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
saying they may be a way to get a Security Council agreement, | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
including Russia and China, to get humanitarian goods to people in | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
need. This is very early days and the whole issue of is something | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
that almost the Russian and Chinese would oppose if it involved troops | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
and other Western countries have concerns about that kind of thing. | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
They are wary about putting boots on the ground. After a meeting with | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
the Russian foreign minister, the Frenchman said fundamentally the | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
differences remain, Russia and France see the conflict in | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
different terms, Russia sees it as an Arab conflict, France sees it as | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
a government attacking the opposition in a brutal crackdown. | :10:02. | :10:12. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 75 seconds | :10:12. | :11:27. | |
The Ugandan parliament is considering a Bill proposing harsh | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
penalties for gay people. Homosexuality is illegal in Uganda | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
but increasing levels of homophobia have caused some who the to flee | :11:36. | :11:43. | |
the country. But East African correspondent reports. | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
To Ugandan men are living in exile. They told me they were forced to | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
flee to Kenya after being physically attacked for being gay. | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
Still fearing repercussions, they did not want their identities | :11:56. | :12:05. | |
revealed. People screaming outside, they broke into my house. They were | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
beating me. The police came. you saw this mob that were shouting | :12:10. | :12:17. | |
we want to kill you, what people were made up of the group? They | :12:17. | :12:25. | |
stay in the same village, old men, women. Women as well? They are | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
wanting my blood. He said when he went to the police he was jailed, | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
humiliated and abused. What did the police say to the other people who | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
were locked up in the cell when they took it in? He is a day. He | :12:39. | :12:47. | |
loves men. You love fellow men and you are gay. We should treat you | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
like that. I was abused by 50 people in the room. They were | :12:52. | :12:59. | |
beating you up, and the sexually abused you? Yes. Amongst Ugandan | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
MPs there is strong support for an anti- homosexuality bill. It calls | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
for life imprisonment and in some cases the death sentence. We have | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
five weeks of tension. Danny worked with American activists to oppose | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
the bill. They said there was an arrest, torture by soldiers and | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
ExCel. If the law is passed, he says the gay community will be | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
hunted down. It will promote homophobia because it would give | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
ordinary people the confidence and legal mandate to prosecute the | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
group. -- persecute. There is no doubt the gay community in Uganda | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
is living in fear. The Ugandan government told the BBC it had no | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
information about any people being detained or tortured because of | :13:48. | :13:55. | |
their sexuality. Across much of Africa, homophobia is rife. | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
Changing attitudes may take generations. Those forced into | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
exile have not given up hope of returning home. I have to keep | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
running and keep on the run-up to save my life. My hope is Sunday I | :14:09. | :14:17. | |
can live as a Ugandan and clean my right a citizen. -- cleaner my | :14:17. | :14:27. | |
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The families of prisoners held inside the Honduras jail continue | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
to wait for news of casualties. It is known that more than 350 people | :14:34. | :14:43. | |
died but the cause is not clear. The Governor has been suspended. | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
For more than 24 harrowing hours they have been waiting and praying. | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
The family members gathered outside the prison in Comayagua now just | :14:53. | :15:01. | |
want to hear some news, a name used, about their relatives. Some of them, | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
like this woman, already have. Her two brothers were killed as the | :15:07. | :15:14. | |
flames swept through the building. I understand there were 900 inmates | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
inside a building only designed for 300. It is illogical. They have | :15:21. | :15:28. | |
made mistakes but they are human beings and have the right to live. | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
As the time passed the bodies continued to appear. This is the | :15:33. | :15:40. | |
grim scene which has been unfolding here in Comayagua. Body back after | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
a body bag being taken to the more. And just a few hundred metres | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
outside the prison pullup ones are waiting desperately for a news. -- | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
the loved ones. There is still no clear explanation. Different | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
officials have provided different versions as to how the blaze | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
started. Some claim a fight between rival gangs, others, an electrical | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
fault in the crumbling building. But most all government officials | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
agreed that they prison system needs wholesale reform. | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
We need to modernise the system in Honduras. The government is aware | :16:22. | :16:29. | |
of that. I hope so. We will start doing that because we have to | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
guarantee the security of the inmates. | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
Human rights groups say that the Government has been here before. In | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
2004 A prisoner fire killed 100. The Government then present that -- | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
promised there would not be a repeat. This fire has put a small a | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
rural community under the spotlight and suggests that those lessons | :16:53. | :17:01. | |
still have not been learned. Japanese police have arrested the | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
former president of the camera firm, or Olympus. He is suspected as | :17:06. | :17:16. | |
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being part of a cover up which had the embezzlement of $1.7 million. | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
Japanese prosecutors as well as the police and the regulators had been | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
investigating or Olympus for months. Their inquiries brought them to | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
this home. Until October, this man was the chairman of the camera | :17:34. | :17:42. | |
maker, a major Japanese company. But now he has exchanged the | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
executive suite for the prosecutor's office and has been | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
questioned about one of the biggest swindles in Japanese history. The | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
former Auditor of the company has also been searched. | :17:56. | :18:04. | |
I feel a heavy responsibility. I sincerely regret what I have done. | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
It was Michael Wood 4-who blew the lead off the cover up which went | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
back decades. The chief executive was fired last year when he went | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
public with his concerns about large and unusual takeovers. The | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
company later admitted it had been hiding investment losses of $1.5 | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
billion. The company has lost around half its value. The signs | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
are that it will survive but the scandal has shaken confidence in | :18:36. | :18:43. | |
corporate governance in Japan. He may be gone but he is not | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
forgotten. The regime in North Korea has gone to town to celebrate | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
what would have been the 70th birthday of the late Kim Jong-Il. | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
The man known as the Dear Leader have died in December but the | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
anniversary of his birth was marked by a lavish parade with | :19:02. | :19:12. | |
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celebrations led by his son, Kim North Korea is having to pack a lot | :19:13. | :19:19. | |
into its ceremonies these days. On the 70th anniversary of his birth, | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
the country's late ruler shared the limelight with his son. Kim Jong-Un | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
has a big shoes to fill and these events are designed to help him do | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
it. Won his father's birthday the new leader got a pledge of | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
allegiance from the army. His father got fireworks and waving | :19:40. | :19:47. | |
flowers. But then Kim Jong-Il has already received several birthday | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
gifts from the nation. This a bronze statue in the capital. A | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
giant carving in the side of the mountain. North Korean television | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
has been doing its part as well, selecting scenes from his a long | :20:02. | :20:09. | |
history of on-site inspections. Part of a birth date documentary | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
designed to highlight his key ringside. But many believe that | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
these suggestions are as much about bolstering the hold on power of his | :20:19. | :20:28. | |
son. But Kim Jong-Un has looked thoroughly at home in his new role, | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
taking a standing ovation in his side, and motioning to the ranks, E | :20:32. | :20:39. | |
Knuth, sit down. It is impossible to tell from outside the country, | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
even from South Korea, just how much influence Kim Jong-Un has over | :20:44. | :20:53. | |
his father's comrades. But this was a chance to represent yet again the | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
unique authority of the family name and the friend, but priceless | :20:57. | :21:04. | |
credentials, of the new leader. -- thin. | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
Switzerland is now turning its attention to space with a special | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
satellite designed to scoop up junk orbiting Earth. Nasser say that | :21:14. | :21:24. | |
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more than half a million pieces of deadbeat orbit Earth. -- NASA. -- | :21:28. | :21:38. | |
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debris. 55 years a gross but Nick was launched. Followed over the | :21:39. | :21:49. | |
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next five decades to buy more. And more. And more. The earth's | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
superpowers battled for control of the universe. But in space what | :21:58. | :22:05. | |
goes up does not necessarily come down. Over half a million pieces of | :22:05. | :22:12. | |
junk are orbiting the Earth. Bits of old rockets, debris from | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
outdated satellites. Many pieces are quite small but they are | :22:17. | :22:24. | |
travelling at 28,000 kilometres per hour. They threaten the 700 | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
satellites which provide us with the essentials of modern life. Help | :22:30. | :22:36. | |
is however at hand. Scientists at this space centre in Switzerland | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
have developed a modest satellite on a wall of a mission. It will | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
grab pieces of junk and force them back into the atmosphere, where | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
they will burn up. The launch is expected within five years and the | :22:52. | :23:02. | |
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first task will be to identify and destroy to obsolete Swiss satellite. | :23:02. | :23:09. | |
-- two. It is expected to be just the first in a whole family of | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
cleaners intent on restoring the heavens to their original pristine | :23:13. | :23:21. | |
state. Claude Nicollier is a Swiss | :23:21. | :23:29. | |
astronaut who has flown on many missions and is now involved in the | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
project. This sounds a fantastical but is it necessary? | :23:35. | :23:42. | |
It certainly as. Eyes was mentioned there is lots of debris. If we do | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
not do anything then nobody will want to go because it will be too | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
hazardous and too dangerous in space. Not just human spaceflight | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
but satellite will collide and have a short lifespan if we do not do | :23:56. | :24:03. | |
something about it. Who will pay for this? | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
Well, we are after a demonstration and we are looking for public money | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
but private money also. It will be a combination of government money | :24:14. | :24:22. | |
from Switzerland and private funds. The fact that it is an academic | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
institution, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
leading the project, there will be some big money. But there will also | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
be some private money. How well the satellite make sure it | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
comes across the path of John? It sounds like it could be a lengthy | :24:42. | :24:50. | |
process. -- comes across the path of junk. There are thousands of | :24:50. | :25:00. | |
tons of debris. If collisions take place that will | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
create more could be. It happened in 2009 when an American satellite | :25:05. | :25:15. | |
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collided with a Russian satellite. That cost about two, 3,000 more | :25:16. | :25:25. | |
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tons of debris. It propels do rubbish towards air. | :25:27. | :25:35. | |
For people who do not understand, that sounds frightening. -- earth. | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
Well, it needs to be done. If we do not do it we will be in trouble and | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
a short space of time. But there are a number of technologies and | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
that's what the students here, research workers, the technicians, | :25:48. | :25:55. | |
and that is what they will work on. The detection system, the capture, | :25:55. | :26:04. | |
all with their robotic system, the orientation, in the such a manner | :26:04. | :26:14. | |
as to control the orbit of the Earth's atmosphere. | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
A reminder of our main news - armed militia groups are threatening the | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
safety and security of lippy according to Amnesty International. | :26:23. | :26:33. | |
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They say that rebel brigades are committing torture. -- Libya. | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
A resolution calling for President Assad to step down will be voted on | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
by the UN General Assembly. It is backed by France, where the foreign | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
minister claims that the status quo when Syria is unacceptable. Next we | :26:50. | :27:00. | |
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have the weather report. From the Temperatures Het 13 degrees today | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
but it will get much colder over the weekend. There will be lots of | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
cloud and outbreaks of rain arriving also. Patchy rain and | :27:13. | :27:19. | |
drizzle for these are Weston Hills. Probably dry off a touch in | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
Northern Ireland. Not much rain across the Pennines. But a damp | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
afternoon for the north-west of England. But at least it is mild. | :27:29. | :27:37. | |
Lots more cloud than we had today. Perhaps a few spots of drizzle. | :27:37. | :27:43. | |
Most of that in the South West will be in the morning. Lots of cloud | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
for Wales and it will be North Wales that will see most of the | :27:48. | :27:53. | |
rain. It make dry off a little in Northern Ireland during the | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
afternoon where temperatures will still reached double figures. | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
Eventually it will cloud over in Scotland but the rain could be | :28:00. | :28:06. | |
quite heavy in the West, not so much in the east. The real cold | :28:06. | :28:12. |