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This is BBC World News Today with me, Katya Adler. | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
Controversy amid the celebration as four Frenchmen return home from Mali | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
where they were held at gunpoint for three years. | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
The men were captured by Al-Qaeda militants and held hostage in the | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
Sahara desert. Did France pay a multi-million dollar ransom for | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
their release? Chinese police now call Monday's car | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
crash in Tiananmen Square a terrorist attack. Five people are | :00:33. | :00:42. | |
arrested. Also coming up. Rare video from the | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
front line in Syria, evidence that Iranian soldiers are supporting | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
Assad's forces despite Tehran's denials. | :00:49. | :00:57. | |
And the stars of British and Irish music await the winner of this | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
year's Mercury Prize. Could David Bowie become the oldest winner yet? | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
We will take a look at the nominees. | :01:10. | :01:22. | |
Fellow and welcome. The French government has denied that a | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
multi-million dollar ransom has been paid for the release of four men who | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
were held hostage by gunmen linked to Al-Qaeda leader. They were | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
kidnapped three years ago in the north of Niger were a French company | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
runs a uranium mine. A French newspaper claims the French | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
government handed over $27 million for their release. | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
They spent over 1000 days in captivity, in constant fear of their | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
lives in the baking heat of the African desert. Their wives and | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
loved ones have lived every day of that torment. Their homecoming was a | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
tearful celebration for them and, perhaps, for the whole country. They | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
have followed every twist of this story. When Thierry Dol, Daniel | :02:16. | :02:23. | |
Larribe, Pierre Legrand, Marc Feret were seized in the northern -- in a | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
Northern town of Niger, Francois Hollande was still a minor | :02:31. | :02:38. | |
politician. These negotiations have been long, difficult and intense, he | :02:39. | :02:46. | |
says. We must express gratitude to the president of Niger. We now have | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
to win the release of the other still being held. On the first night | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
of freedom, the men slept on the floor, said the foreign minister, it | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
will take time to readjust. The questions motoring to how their | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
release was secured. The newspaper Le Monde says 20 million euros was | :03:09. | :03:18. | |
paid from a secret fund. But report echoes earlier comments from a | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
member of the family 's group that a ransom was paid. At least seven | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
other French hostages are being held by Al-Qaeda linked groups. President | :03:31. | :03:38. | |
Hollande has said his government does not ransom hostages. | :03:39. | :03:52. | |
As we heard there, the homecoming of these four men was some welcome news | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
for Francois Hollande on what is otherwise a miserable week for the | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
French leader. He's now officially the most | :04:00. | :04:01. | |
unpopular French president on record. His approval rating stands | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
at just 26 per cent according to the latest BVA poll, the worst score for | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
a French leader since it began polling 32 years ago. | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
French political commentator Anne-Elisabeth Moutet joins me from | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
Paris. What is going so wrong for him? He | :04:21. | :04:37. | |
has slapped many taxes on the French, and they have been | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
increasingly badly received. First, there was a feeling he was taxing | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
the rich, then a feeling he was taxing the entire middle classes. He | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
does not seem to be able to make his mind up about practically anything. | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
The only evidence of decisiveness was when he went to war when Marley | :04:56. | :05:06. | |
was threatened by jihadists. -- Mali. Le Monde, which are not - | :05:07. | :05:19. | |
which is not newspaper on the right, is saying a ransom has been paid. | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
Do you think that is credible? Officially, it no longer pays ransom | :05:28. | :05:37. | |
is, the French government that is. Would he be so desperate? In one | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
word, yes, I think this is something they have been considering for weeks | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
and months. There is the real tragedy of the hostages, but it is | :05:49. | :05:59. | |
well known that we have always paid. France does now that part of Africa | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
are quite well but it would have been part of genital negotiations. | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
Tipping the balance would always have had to happen. We are looking | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
at these disastrous poll ratings for Francois Hollande, but is this not | :06:16. | :06:24. | |
actually more of a crisis for French politics in general? Or middle of | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
the road politics. President Sarkozy, just before he left power, | :06:31. | :06:38. | |
he had 30% approval rating. The National front is doing incredibly | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
well. Is this a general crisis in French politics? There certainly is | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
a general crisis in mainstream politics. President Sarkozy was | :06:50. | :06:59. | |
unpopular, yes, but for different reasons. But Francois Hollande, even | :07:00. | :07:08. | |
in his own party, he is being increasingly questioned, by the left | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
of his party as well. He is questioned by his green allies. But | :07:15. | :07:24. | |
mostly, he is questioned by everyone because he is incapable of sticking | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
to a decision. Whether it is the 75% supertax, or the ecological tax | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
which was withdrawn last weekend, or the tax on savings, or any kind of | :07:35. | :07:46. | |
decision. He looks at things and if it does not work too well, it is not | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
even scientific, he will take things back. He was a fairly efficient head | :07:52. | :07:59. | |
of our party when the party was in a position. But this republic is not | :08:00. | :08:10. | |
geared for compromise. You always have to bang your fist on the | :08:11. | :08:19. | |
table. I am sorry to interrupt, it was a pleasure to talk to you. | :08:20. | :08:29. | |
Return to China. China's national broadcaster, CCTV, says police have | :08:30. | :08:38. | |
confirmed that the calf ration - car crash and fire in Tiananmen | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
Square on Monday was a terrorist attack. Five suspects have now been | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
arrested. It is now clear this was no accident | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
but a terrorist attack say Chinese police. They say the Jeep was driven | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
by a man, his wife and his mother who deliberately crashed the vehicle | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
and died when the ignited petrol inside it. Two tourists also lost | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
their lives. After the incident in Tiananmen Square, police cleared | :09:09. | :09:16. | |
away the evidence. They now say the vehicle had licence plates licensed | :09:17. | :09:24. | |
in the western region of Xinjiang and they found knives and a banner | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
inside it. Five suspects have been arrested. They were detained within | :09:32. | :09:41. | |
hours of it happening. In Beijing, there are still extra police checks | :09:42. | :09:49. | |
in place. The name police have given for the driver of the Jeep indicates | :09:50. | :09:57. | |
he may be from China's minority Uighur people. There is a fielder | :09:58. | :10:07. | |
mean OBR security clamp-down in Xinjiang. -- there is a fear there | :10:08. | :10:18. | |
may be a security clamp-down. Alim Seytoff is a spokesman for the World | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
Uighur Congress. He joins me from Washington. | :10:23. | :10:24. | |
Was this a terror attack by the Uighur minority? We are not exactly | :10:25. | :10:33. | |
sure of what took place. The Chinese government claims this was a | :10:34. | :10:42. | |
terrorist attack, but without independent evidence, it cannot be | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
accepted as fact. In the past, the Chinese government have attempted to | :10:48. | :10:57. | |
link Uighurs with acts of terrorism. On the day, when foreign news | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
agencies went to report, they were detained by Chinese police. This was | :11:04. | :11:12. | |
a terror crime scene, that the government claimed the scene | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
immediately. -- cleaned. So far the government is saying... Sorry, the | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
government is now saying that in the car they found extremist banners and | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
knives and that the three people in the car, their names suggest that | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
they could have been from the Uighur men are pretty -- from the Uighur | :11:36. | :11:45. | |
minority. Yes, the name suggests that the meal is a Uighur -- male is | :11:46. | :11:59. | |
a Uighur, but this raises more questions than answers. Why would a | :12:00. | :12:10. | |
man bring his own wife and his mother to do such an act? If he did, | :12:11. | :12:19. | |
there were witnesses that he was honking his horn while he drove into | :12:20. | :12:28. | |
the crowd. The Chinese government claimed that they found jihadist | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
banners in the car. But the whole car was burned and individuals | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
inside burned to death, and we are surprised that a banner survived | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
such a fire. Questions are being raised. Briefly, could you just tell | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
us a little bit about the Uighur minority. There is definitely an | :12:54. | :13:09. | |
rest in the western province where the Uighur are half the population. | :13:10. | :13:18. | |
Yes, there have been a lot of protests against the Chinese | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
government's brutal rule. In one instance, in July of 2009, Chinese | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
security forces attacked and killed hundreds of Uighurs. Unfortunately, | :13:30. | :13:39. | |
Chinese also died and the government called it a terrorist incident. The | :13:40. | :13:49. | |
Chinese government used 9/11 to crackdown on the Uighur people, | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
labelling of eager people as terrorists. -- Uighur people. Since | :13:55. | :14:09. | |
the new president took power, several hundred Uighur people have | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
been executed. The Chinese government's ethnic policies have | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
basically failed but instead of addressing the legitimate grievances | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
of the Uighur people, the government has introduced more depression and | :14:27. | :14:34. | |
pointing -- more repression and pointing the finger of blame at the | :14:35. | :14:42. | |
Uighur people. The court in London where two former editors of a | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
British tabloid newspaper are facing charges related to phone-hacking has | :14:46. | :14:47. | |
been told that three journalists on the same paper - the now-defunct | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
News of the World - have pleaded guilty to similar charges. Rebekah | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
Brooks, and David Cameron's ex-spin doctor Andy Coulson, are accused of | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
conspiring to intercept telephone voicemails. A warning, this report | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
from Tom Symonds contains flash photography. | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
Former tabloid editor, former media executive. For Rebekah Brooks the | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
fight for her reputation and possibly her liberty has started for | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
real. Andy Coulson, once a spokesman for David Cameron, arrived | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
separately. But Rebekah Brooks was seated alongside Andy Coulson in the | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
dock. Some defendants were accused of phone hacking, some of paying | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
public officials for stories. Some from hiding evidence from police. | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
Rebekah Brooks was accused of all three. The prosecutor denied that | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
the trial would be an attack on the freedom of the press but he said | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
journalists were not entitled to break the law and there was no | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
justification for them to get involved in phone hacking. When | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
public officials took payments for stories, he said, it is not the same | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
as a conscience driven whistle-blower. Where there is a | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
payment there is a crime. And on allegations of hiding evidence from | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
police, there can be no justification for anyone interfering | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
with the police enquiry. The revelation in 2011 that murdered | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
schoolgirl Milly Dowler 's phone targeted lead to News International | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
admitting widespread hacking. This trial is about who knew it was going | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
on. The prosecution says it has built a case licking Glenn | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
Mulcaire, the private investigator contact that the newspaper called | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
on, with Ian Edmondson, a News of the World desk editor. It is claimed | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
his name appears in Glenn Mulcaire' notebooks. The money is followed to | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
the man in charge of keeping the financial records. And that the | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
phone hacking continued after Rebekah Brooks's successor, Andy | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
Coulson, took over. For the first time we can reveal that three other | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
journalists, Greg Miskiw, James Weatherup and Neville Thurlbeck | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
pleaded guilty to conspiracy to hack phones. Glenn Mulcaire has admitted | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
new hacking charges. The defendant left court tonight having been told | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
that this complex case will continue with further prosecution statements | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
tomorrow. Now a look at some of the day's | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
other news. Government forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo have | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
captured one of the last remaining strongholds of the M23 rebel group. | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
Officials say the town of Bunagana on the Ugandan border is now back in | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
government hands. It's the latest in a string of Congolese army victories | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
against the M23, which took up arms last year, allegedly with Rwandan | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
backing. Police in Egypt have detained Essam | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
el-Arian, the fugitive deputy leader of the Muslim Brotherhood's | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
political wing. He is expected to go on trial next Monday accused of | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
inciting the killing of ten protesters during clashes last | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
December. Mr al-Arian's detention sparked angry protests by some | :18:18. | :18:19. | |
students at Cairo's al-Azhar University. | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
President Putin has beaten President Obama to the title of Most Powerful | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
Person in The World, as ranked by the US business magazine, Forbes. | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
Its annual list penalises the American leader for what it calls | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
his "lame duck period" during the US government shutdown and says the | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
Russian president has solidified control over his country, after 12 | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
years dominating the Kremlin. Now, to an extraordinary insight | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
into the role Iran is playing in the Syrian conflict. Officially, Tehran | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
says it is assisting Damascus by sharing its "experience" by sending | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
advisers from its elite Revolutionary Guards. But now we can | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
show you pictures of Iranian fighters on the front line. The | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
video was captured by an Iranian cameraman, who had been embedded | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
with the Revolutionary Guards. His camera was later obtained by rebels. | :19:12. | :19:23. | |
The BBC's Yalda Hakim has more. This story begins in September when | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
a group of Syrian rebels said they had captured video footage after a | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
battle. They said it proved that Iranians armed forces were on the | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
ground in Syria and supporting the Assad regime. The captured footage | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
was filmed by a cameraman embedded with Iranian Revolutionary Guards. | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
Its authenticity has been verified by BBC experts. In this segment of | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
the footage the cameraman is being driven to the Iranians will it in | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
southern Aleppo. The man sitting on the right-hand side is a | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
Revolutionary Guards commander. He is relaxed and humorous. But he | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
nevertheless has an ideological view of the Syrian conflict and the role | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
of Iran in it. The captured footage shows the | :20:09. | :20:31. | |
Iranians instructing and organising a new pro-regime militia known as | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
the National defence Force. But it seems the body are not just been | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
trained on the ground in Syria. And the Revolutionary Guards are not | :20:41. | :21:01. | |
just providing training. They also engage in behind the lines combat | :21:02. | :21:03. | |
operations. The sun rises over Aleppo. But this | :21:04. | :21:39. | |
will not be a peaceful day. Reports are coming in that a force of rebels | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
is moving in on a nearby regime stronghold known as the poultry | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
farm. This is a military emergency. Two truckloads of fighters head to | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
the poultry farm as fast as they can. There are about 40 fighters now | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
gathered here and all these men know that an attack is coming. The leader | :22:05. | :22:12. | |
leads his men out of the base to secure the right-hand flank of the | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
battlefields. At first glance the remaining group look well equipped | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
for a fight. They spot movement on the horizon. But there are far more | :22:23. | :22:36. | |
than just three rebels. This footage was filmed by the rebels cameraman. | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
It shows the rebel force both outnumbers the Iranians squad and | :22:44. | :22:45. | |
has much heavier weapons, including this tank. The Iranians are heading | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
into an ambush. The others tried to retreat but it | :22:49. | :23:08. | |
is too late. These are the last images that were filmed. Two days | :23:09. | :23:22. | |
later Revolutionary Guards commander is buried with military honours in | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
Iran. It is final confirmation of his important role in the | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
Revolutionary Guards. In spite of continued denials of military | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
involvement, this story has shone a light on the covert war of Iran in | :23:36. | :23:48. | |
Syria. Here in Britain, rock and pop stars | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
are right now attending the Mercury Prize ceremony, which celebrates the | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
best new album by a British or Irish band. Among the contenders is David | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
Bowie, who could become the oldest ever winner at 66. | :24:00. | :24:13. | |
But the favourite to scoop the award is Laura Mvula, who just a year ago | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
was working as a receptionist for the City of Birmingham Symphony | :24:18. | :24:27. | |
Orchestra. With me is Sam Wolfson, Executive Editor of the music | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
website Noisey.com. The Mercury Prize is seen as cutting edge. The | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
very new in British and Irish music and bands. Who can we expect to win | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
and in your opinion would they deserved to win? I think David Bowie | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
is in with the good shot. That is reflect off quite as safe list | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
overall. He probably does not need the prize-money! If you look at past | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
awards that money has really changed the lives of young artists at street | :25:04. | :25:11. | |
level. So there is a question of whether these awards are doing the | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
job that they should or that they claim to do, which is to be urgent | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
and reflective of British music It is judging process in mystery. We do | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
not find out who the judges are until the awards are actually handed | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
out. Presumably so that they do not come under pressure from individuals | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
or record labels. But there have been some complaints about this It | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
is a good idea in the sense of if you look at the Oscars and the | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
financial pressures put on the judges, but when the list was come | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
out you find it is quite a narrow group. From rock back ground, | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
middle-aged, Normandy. It does not seem that they could find the next | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
kind of new scene, the young scene on the street. Well you are an | :26:05. | :26:13. | |
expert on what is new in Britain and Ireland. Where did you go if you | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
want to hear cutting edge and the new front line? I think Kim Krool, | :26:17. | :26:24. | |
he is from south London and is speaking to a new wave of young | :26:25. | :26:31. | |
people at the moment. Swindall, that is a mixture of grime and jazz. | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
There are records that are proud of their political connections. And | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
these guys just do not seem to follow that line. | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
That is all from us on the programme. Next the weather. But for | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
now from me and the rest of the team, goodbye. | :26:52. | :27:01. | |
No sign of the weather settling down in the next few days. We have a | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
weather front crossing the country right now which has brought rain too | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
many areas. It is reaching the | :27:12. | :27:12. |