04/11/2013 World News Today

This is BBC World News Today with me, Zeinab Badawi.

Chaos in court as Egypt's deposed president Mohammed Morsi goes on

trial over the killing of protesters. His supporters say it's

just a show trial. Proceedings are interrupted twice as

Mr Morsi proclaims he is still Egypt's president. His opponents

shout in court that he and his fellow defendants should face the

death penalty. The trial is adjourned until

January. Manhunt in Britain. What has

happened to the terror suspect who walked into a London mosque like

this, but left dressed in a full-faced burka?

Also coming up. A special BBC report from the Central African Republic

where the UN says the country is at risk of descending into genocide.

And a hunt for their rightful owners. A huge collection of art

looted by the Nazis during the Second World War is found hidden in

a flat in Munich. Hello and welcome.

He has not been seen in public for four months but, today, Egypt's

deposed president Mohammed Morsi made a dramatic appearance in a

court outside Cairo where he and 14 other Muslim Brotherhood members are

on trial. They are accused of inciting the killing of protesters

last year. Mr Morsi refused to wear the prison outfit. He said he was

still president and told the judge the case against him was therefore

illegitimate. The hearing was interrupted when some of those

attending the trial, including journalists, shouted that the

defendants should be given the death penalty. Orla Guerin was in court

and sent this report. Our relaxed arrival at court for

Mohammed Morsi. The ousted Islamist war of smart navy blazer. Egyptian

state media said he refused to put on a prison uniform. Inside, he

joined his co-accused in a cage in the same court room where his

predecessor Hosni Mubarak has been tried. Egypt's first democratically

elected president behind bars but still defended. -- defiant.

Chaos erupted several times with shouting matches between supporters

and opponents of Mohammed Morsi The judge called in vain for quiet.

Security for this hearing was incredibly tight. It was several

layers deep. What we witnessed inside the courtroom was a deposed

president who was determined to have his say. Mohammed Morsi spoke out

repeatedly, shouting at the judge, even when his voice became hoarse.

Throughout the hearing, he and his fellow accused kept repeating that

they did not recognise the court. It was a very different picture last

June when Mohammed Morsi was triumphant at the ballot box. 1

months on, massive protests at his alleged misrule. The army ousted him

saying it was the will of the people. The authorities deny his

trial is politically motivated. The system is independent. Hosni Mubarak

has been under trial and the same goes for Mohammed Morsi. Nobody is

above the law. Supporters of Mohammed Morsi were met with tear

gas on the streets today. But his Moslem brotherhood could not deliver

the mass protests it promises missed -- it promised. The former

president, say campaigners, is at the mercy of selective justice.

With me is Abdullah El-Haddad, a spokesperson for the Muslim

Brotherhood. What is going to happen now? When

this trial resumes in January, is Mohammed Morsi going to defend

himself against charges or just carry on saying that he does not

accept the authority of the court? First of all, it is not about

Mohammed Morsi and this trial, it is about this military coup that has

destroyed democracy in Egypt. People will carry on protesting. Is

Mohammed Morsi irrelevant? He represents the idea of democracy. He

said he should not be tried by this court, and he is right about this.

The Constitution said that if the president is tried by a court, he

should be tried by a special court. He wants to be tried by a special

court? He said, the will of the people should be respected. So he

will not respect the authority of this court or defend himself? That

is how the Muslim Brotherhood will take these cases forward? It is not

the Muslim Brotherhood. It is his decision? But here you are, faced

with your president in court, other leaders of your movement are also in

court, others are imprisoned, your organisation is banned, you are

basically defeated? No, we are not. We have seen in the last four

months, millions of Egyptian people, not related to any political party,

protesting in the streets. We have seen mass protests around Egypt

Nevertheless, the US secretary of state John Kerry visits Kyle and

says to the transitional government that he can work with them, that

must disappoint you? First of all, we are shocked to see the Western

countries who have always argued for democracy be the first people to

recognise the military coup in Egypt. The Americans are originally

back Mohammed Morsi and did not want to see removed, but BCB will work

with the new government? We want the world to back a specific sensible.

-- they say they will work. We'll be staying on the streets? Yes, they

will stay on the streets. There are protests all over Egypt every

Friday. Thousands and thousands have been killed, arrested and tortured.

Thank you. In Kenya, four men have appeared in

court charged in connection with the Westgate shopping mall attack. All

the defendants are believed to be Somali nationals. They pleaded not

guilty to charges which included helping terror groups and entering

Kenya illegally. The Somalia-based militant group Al-Shabab says it

carried out the attack which killed at least 67 people.

Here in the UK, Scotland Yard detectives are searching for a

terror suspect who managed to abscond by going into a mosque and

disguising himself in a burka. Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed, who was born

in Somalia, was electronically tagged. But he has not been seen

since he left the mosque on Friday with his face completely covered.

June Kelly has more. Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed, not

convicted of any offence in the UK, but said to be a security threat.

This is how he arrived for Friday prayers at his local mosque. And

this is how he was dressed when he left, caught on CCTV in a burka He

was allowed to attend the mosque regularly in Acton, west London But

he was subject to the TPIM regime and his movements restricted. He was

fitted with an electronic tag, and at some stage it was deactivated.

What do we know about 27-year-old Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed who is now a

British citizen? He was born in Somalia where he is said to have

been trained and fought with the terrorist organisation Al-Shabab. In

the UK, it is claimed he is part of a network funding terrorism in

Somalia. In the Commons, the Home Secretary was up against a neighbour

front bench have always opposed TPIM arrangements. The police do not

believe he is an active threat. He was put on TPIM arrangements to

prevent his travel to support terrorism overseas. This is the

second man in ten months subject to a TPIM who has now absconded. There

were only ten of them to start off with, and two have now gone. One in

a black cab, the other in disguise. Ibrahim Magag went in a taxi. He

disappeared last Boxing Day and has still not been found. Like the

latest fugitive, eat is said to have links to Al-Shabab. He is also of

Somali origin. -- he is said. Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed is not the

first meal territories subject to use the burka disguise. Ports and

borders are on alert, but 72 hours on, he is still on the run.

The United Nations has warned that the Central African Republic is at

risk of spiralling into genocide and that the government there is unable

to control armed groups. A meeting of the UN Security Council also

heard that Islamist militants are also gaining strength, creating more

tensions between Christians and Muslims. The country has been

virtually lawless since rebels seized the capital and ousted the

president in March. Stability in the Central African Republic is crucial

because it is surrounded by some already volatile countries like DRC,

Chad and the two Sudans. The country gained independence from France in

1960, but it ha been subject to a series of coups since then, the most

recent in March when rebels from the Seleka coalition seized power.

Claims of atrocities quickly emerged and hundreds of thousands of people

were displaced. Aid groups are calling for urgent help and the UN

chief Ban Ki-moon said there has been a total breakdown in law and

order there. For the past two months, the town of Bossangoa has

been at the crossroads of the violence between the Muslim and

Christian communities. Our team has gained rare access to the Central

African Republic, Laeila Adjovi reports.

Inside the church. In Bossangoa over 35,000 Christians have sought

refuge in the Catholic mission after their homes were attacked by a loose

alliance of former rebels known as Seleka. Life is hard in the camp,

but people are too afraid to leave even when their homes are just down

the road. This woman's brother tried to go to town this morning. She has

just been told he was beaten and shot dead. But the story had a happy

ending, her brother was found, badly beaten but alive. This man dearest

to go home whenever he can. There is nothing left after the furniture was

stolen. His brother was killed. He says silicate and Muslims are the

enemy. -- Seleka. All of this is nothing. My studies can take me

somewhere, but for now I want revenge. This is what I want. On the

other side of town, the imam preaches peace. This is a community

living in fear. The suffering, he says, is on both sides and many

hundreds have died. This woman was shot in the neck and left for dead

when her village was attacked by Christian militia. She is the sole

survivor of her family. She tells me that when she" this, she found the

bodies of her father, husband and children lying dead around her. --

when she regained consciousness What started as a political

rebellion is now threatening to turn into a full-scale religious conflict

and the vicious circle of attacks and reprisals mean that the

humanitarian situation continues to worsen. The new government is yet to

make a plan to end the violence With me is Catherine Teya, the

founder and president of the charity organisation SEWA Europe - which

aims to promote education among children in the Central African

Republic. Also here is Mamadou Moussa Ba, BBC

Africa Analyst who was in the CAR earlier this year. I know your

family are in the capital, give us an idea of what you are hearing from

inside the country? I would like to see that a lot of my family members

have had to leave the country because of the violence, especially

for the young children in my family, their parents decided to take them

away. For those who have stayed they live in fear because of the

instability and uncertainty about the future. They are not happy to be

there but they do not have the choice. What kind of violence are

you talking about? Everyone knows people are being killed on a daily

basis, places are being looted and women are being reaped. Everyone can

be the victim of rebel groups. I said the United Nations has been

warning about the spiral into genocide, it is not a word to use

lately, the UN said this will end with Christian and Muslim

communities killing one another which means if we do not act now and

decisively, I would not exclude the possibility of a genocide occurring.

What lies behind that? We must be a bit careful in the way we use the

terms. If you look at the whole picture, remember what happened a

few years ago in the wind. It is similar. -- in the wind. -- in

Rwanda. People are starting to buy all sorts of weapons. If the

international community does not act, it could be very dangerous The

majority of people are Christians, is that correct? The vast majority

of the population are Christians and they live in the south of the

country. The north of the country, at the border with Sudan, is a

majority of Muslim people. Within the rebels, there are also Arab

militias. It is a very volatile parts of Africa. What is behind this

hatred, between these communities? They have coexisted for many years.

They did not used to be any problem in terms of religion. This is

something new, compared to previous disturbances. Everyone was living in

peace and getting on well. So what lies behind it? We know the

president is now in exile in France, but why the animosity? I

think there are different reasons. The rebels were fed up with the

government. The previous president was not respecting the agreement.

Also, people were living in poverty. Even although rebels came to help

the current president take power, a lot of other people decided to

join. We do not know what is the rationale behind all of this. I

think everyone is defending their own interest. What can the

international community do? The French have troops there. We have

the possibility of the African union, the UN or what? Certain

actions must be taken. The international community should

increase the number of troops there. This should ensure that as a

disarmament of all these malicious. The rebels and all the people who

are coming from neighbouring countries. -- of all the militia.

And mentally, I think the organisation for free and fair

election is important. The country needs legitimate leaders. The

current president came to power using force. It was the same

situation with the previous president. The trips will have to go

in, the French like they did in Mallaig? I think France is trying to

send additional troops. -- in Mali. They have troops controlling the

airport and they have more troops they intend to send them. Thank you

both very much indeed. Now a look at some of the days other

news. Heavy fighting is continuing in the

Democratic Republic of Congo between government forces and M23 rebels on

the country's eastern border with Uganda. The army says it is trying

to clear the last areas held by the M23 group. The violence has sent

thousands of refugees flooding towards and over the border with

Uganda. French police have issued a sketch

of a motorcyclist they are looking for in connection with last year's

killings of a Iraqi-British family at Lake Annecy. The man in the image

is sporting a goatee beard and is wearing a rare type of motorcycle

helmet. A husband, wife and her mother died in the attack - the

couple's two daughters survived You would think a collection of 1500

paintings, including works by Mastisse and Picasso, would adorn

one of the world's great galleries. Instead, this remarkable collection

has been found gathering dust in a flat in Munich. They were uncovered

by tax inspectors investigating the son of an art dealer. It's thought

the collection was confiscated by the Nazis during the second World

War, raising questions as to who the pieces really belong to. Our Arts

Editor Will Gompertz has more. This is a small flat in Munich in which

hundreds of millions of pounds of modern art was discovered. 1500

artworks by 20th-century masters like Picasso and Matisse were kept

here I Gurlitt, the son of a German art dealer who said they had been

destroyed. They are thought to have been looted by the Nazis from Jewish

homes in the 1930s and 40s. They represent only a fraction of the

16,000 pieces they are believed to have plundered. We know that the

cases we have, the art we are trying to find which numbers thousands 90%

are still missing. That is true for everyone working in this field,

despite expert researchers who try and trace these works. When I say

missing, some of them are in collections like this and some are

in museums which do not publish what they have. The German authorities

have not revealed which pictures have been found, but this picture

which Gurlitt sold after he was detained, is an example of what

Hitler and the Nazis considered degenerate art. Very modern in style

and contact -- content. There were some art he disapproved of which he

wanted to remove, which is art with the Jewish content. There are also

quite clever in keeping a lot of good art. The intended to split that

up into collections. This elegant modernist painting is by a German

Jewish artists who emigrated to London in 1933. He left several of

his artworks back in London, including one in the degenerate art

show of 1937. The Nazis gathered several hundred works of art by

respected artist and presented them for public ridicule. There has been

some criticism of the German authorities for not doing enough to

find art looted by the Nazis, not helping to restore it to its

rightful owners. Marc Masurovsky from the Holocaust

Art Restitution Project joins me from Washington. How difficult will

it be to track down who owns this art? That is a great question. It

depends where the art comes from. And under what circumstances it was

misappropriated by Gurlitt and his colleagues. The way I see it is 1500

works of art, probably a larger stalk than most average galleries

which is astonishing. Since he was deeply in white in the purchasing of

German collections in the 1930s we would expect the percentage of that

to revert back to German institutions. Another group might

consist of works which were sold under duress, whereby Jews were

forced to sell their assets because they have lost their homes and their

jobs. They had nothing left and had to sell what they could to gather

cash to get out of Germany. That is the second group. The third group,

is a group of works which would have been acquired as a result of the

German occupation of Western Europe and other countries. In terms of

Gurlitt and his uncle, they were especially active in France, Belgium

and Holland. One should expect naturally that these works

ultimately will revert to individual owners in those countries. One

concern is that the governments in those countries would ask for the

paintings to be returned and hopefully we can trust them to

return them to the rightful owners. So what does this tell us, the Nazis

claimed to have destroyed Jim degenerate art? I would say purging

was more of an intention than a reality. We know there was violence

in the early days, but I think the Nazis realised quickly that

everything they had been seizing could be transformed into cash. I

believe that most of the arts, unless it was incinerated by bombs

or caught in the crossfire, is still sitting in collections or warehouses

or whatever. We have to leave it there. Thank you very much. That is

all from the programme. The weather is next. Goodbye.

It is going to be a cold night tonight under clear skies.

Temperatures will fall we, minus five in parts of rural

Aberdeenshire. This Atlantic front starts to move in during the second

part of the night. It will bring cloud and