26/08/2011 BBC News at Ten

Hundreds of bodies pile up in the Libyan capital, as sporadic

fighting continues. In one hospital the wounded were

left to die, as medical staff fled the gunfire. They've returned to

horrific scenes. When I entered inside, there was no body inside.

They will not help to clean the hospital, to bring life back to the

hospital. This is catastrophic. Never ever seen like this.

We're with rebels as they take the fight to Sirte, Gaddafi's home town.

RAF jets bomb key targets there. like it better than England, the

best country all over the world, we would like to be a safer country.

We'll be looking at how long that might take and whether the rebel

leaders are ready to re-establish law and order in Libya.

Also tonight: At least 18 people have been killed

after a suicide bombing at the United Nations building in the

Nigerian capital. All packets of the pain killer

Nurofen Plus have been recalled amid fears they may have been

sabotaged. Why 40% of adults in Britain are

expected to be obese by 2030. you can buy a microwave chips for a

quid, so that is quick and easy. Pizza is �1.75. Quick and easy for

�3. If you have a load of kids, that is what you will do.

And as Hurricane Irene sweeps towards New York, the mayor orders

their biggest ever evacuation. In sport, Joey Barton joins QPR. He

hits out at the club's board at Good evening.

More than 100 decomposing bodies have been found at an abandoned

hospital in a part of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, where there has

been fierce fighting between rebels and pro-Gaddafi forces. The

hospital and its patients were deserted five days ago after

medical staff were forced to flee sniper fire. Rescuers finally

reached the hospital this afternoon, finding just 21 surviving patients.

John Simpson has been to the hospital. His report contains

distressing images. What happened here at the Abu Salim

hospital over the past four days is one of the most terrible incidents

of this entire revolution. Doctors have come in from across Tripoli to

help out. We were told that, like the doctors, we would have to wear

surgical masks inside, for our own safety. The hospital staff here all

ran away days ago because of the for a tear. But seriously injured

people kept on being Broughton, dozens of them, perhaps as many as

100 altogether. -- kept being brought in. And here, they died of

their injuries, entirely untreated. The stench of death is overpowering,

far too strong for the feeble efforts of this volunteer with his

air freshener. The floor is thick with blood. The scenes which took

place here defies the imagination. In one ward, Colonel Gaddafi's

picture smiles down a genially over the horror. We simply cannot show

you the pictures in this room because they are too horrible. I

have got to where three of these surgical masks, and even so, the

stench is absolutely nauseating. When you walk along the corridor,

you have to be really careful because there is blood everywhere

and you could slip over so easily. The doctors are deeply shocked by

what they have seen. I was in the mosque. The Imam said that they

needed some help at Abu Salim hospital. I thought they needed

medical help. OK, I volunteered to give some medical help to my people.

But when I entered inside there is nobody inside. They want help to

bring the hospice -- to clean the hospital, to bring life back to

this hospital. And this is a catastrophe. Never ever seen like

this. More and more of these scenes are starting to come to light now.

This suburb is silent and largely deserted. We came here with a group

of rebels who are taking over the area. The sum Gaddafi loyalists had

been living here and the green flags of the old regime were still

flying, although the inhabitants were probably gone. But they had

left their mark. They had shot down eight ordinary people who had come

back to see if their homes were still safe. Death, and more death.

And new cases are being discovered all the time.

British jets have joined in the military offensive against the city

of Sirte, regarded as Colonel Gaddafi's last major stronghold in

Libya. The advance by the opposition has run into fierce

resistance. The town, 250 miles east of Tripoli, is Colonel

Gaddafi's birthplace. It's home to around 100,000 people, including

tribes still loyal to him. NATO has confirmed that RAF Tornados fired

missiles at a large bunker in the city and destroyed 29 armed

vehicles. Opposition fighters are advancing

on two fronts, from Misrata in the west and from Ras Lanuf in the east,

from where Paul Wood sent this report.

Though they can expect more hard fighting yet, the rebels are

jubilant. Ahead lies Sirte, where thousands of Gaddafi troops are

expected to make a last stand. The rebels plan to take it with a

pincer movement from east and west. All around, signs of the advance.

Behind the fighters come the civilians. One man returned to find

his home looted by the old regime's soldiers. They have polluted the

house completely. Where are my children's clothes? Nothing. Also

the toys of my children. This, he says, is a small price to pay for

freedom. He remembers when Secret Policeman took away a neighbour.

They did not see him for 14 years. I was afraid at any time the same

situation would happen with me. I will miss my family, my children,

and they will take me without any reason.

But loyalist artillery has halted the rebel advance at Ras Lanuf.

NATO is helping with air strikes, but the rebels say they are patient.

That dictator provoked us for 42 years. He kept promising us every

single six months and changing systems. We said, give him a chance,

he will do better, but he never did. What are people fighting for? What

is the new Lydia that you want to see? Better than England, the best

country around the world, freedom and everyone can do what they like

and we like to be a safer country. And nobody be afraid for anything.

You can do anything, say anything, not be afraid anybody will catch

him and kill him for nothing. rebels are a mixture of people who

have never really held a gun before, students, shopkeepers, businessmen.

They are a pretty idealistic bunch, and they certainly talk the

language of democracy. The question is, what will happen if a new

government disappoints their expectations? There are certainly a

lot of guns in Libya today. Let's talk to John Simpson in

Tripoli. As we were hearing, the rebel leaders, the National

transition Council, say they are ready to form a government, but

given the uncertainties on the ground, the number of weapons out

there and the horrific scenes that you have witnessed, presumably it

will take them some time to get the infrastructure up and running again.

Absolutely, Fiona. You can probably hear the gunfire behind me. Also,

you can probably see some lights on. They are almost the only lights in

the hold of Tripoli, -- in all of Tripoli, because the electricity

supplies have been interfered with. We are not sure why. They have been

cut. Water supplies have been cut also too much of the city, perhaps

most of the city. People are driving all the way to the Tunisian

border, four hours away, to buy a water and bring it back. Bottled

water here is hugely expensive. This is disturbingly like what

happened in Iraq after Saddam Hussein fell. You do not have to

like a dictator to like the order and the controls that dictatorship

brings. So I think there are big dangers here unless there is quick

movement by the new government. Nearly half the UK population could

be dangerously overweight in 20 years' time unless action is taken

now to tackle obesity, according to medical experts. Writing in the

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

lack of political will to take on the food industry are to blame.

Among the options they say Government should consider is a tax

on unhealthy, high fat foods. Branwen Jeffreys reports.

Watching our weight as a nation. Scientists and doctors are worried

about the UK. In 2009, 26% of adults were obese. By 2030, 40% of

adults could be obese. That is 26 million people whose weight,

compared to their height, is a lot higher than the normal range. So,

what are the daily choices feeding the rise? Rotherham in Yorkshire is

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

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

budget. If you want a pizza or something, chips, you can buy

microwave chips for a quid. That is quick and easy. Pizza is �1.75.

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

you will do. Sometimes you have to buy the things that are on offer,

which tend to be things which are unhealthy. When you talk to these

families, it is clear that cost and convenience are the big influences

on the choices they make about food. Quite simply, it can be cheaper and

quicker to buy it fast food a van to cook a meal with healthy

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

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

spending millions to help the town lose weight. So is it time for

tougher regulation by government? Today's research says that taxes on

some food and drinks would save money, helping reduce consumption

and saving health costs. Some states in the US are already

looking at sugary drinks. Writing in the Lancet, researchers warn

that industry will resist this. Many compare the food industry to

the tobacco business. Experts say it is not enough to give advice.

Regulation changes the landscape. This is the whole point about the

policies which are aimed at not telling me or you what we should be

eating, or telling me that I need to go exercising, but to make that

environment healthier, so that the healthy choice is the easy choice.

But in England the Government wants to work with the food industry, not

Tenet what to do. People will not get them a buy government

regulating or taxing. There are a number of tools in the box that we

have to use. Legislation and regulation is slow and can be

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

say we cannot do it on our own, but ministers believe it is down to us.

And Branwen Jeffreys is here with me because, Branwen, news has just

broken that all packets of the pain killer Nurofen Plus are being

recalled. A lot of people are likely to have this on their

shelves at home. What more can you We've got an initial report

yesterday that in some pacts of Nurofen Plus strips of the tablets

have been taken out and other medicine slipped in. Today there

have been further reports. We now know there are a total of five

cases involving 32 packets of tablets where two other medicines

have been found - one that's used to treat epilepsy and one that's

used to treat some common mental illnesses, though those medicines

aren't dangerous, they should only be taken by those who have a

prescription for them. The police and the drugs manufacturer are

working together. They believe that this is a case of sabotage. The key

thing is they think around a quarter of a million packets are

sitting on people's bathroom shelves, in their handbags, on

their kitchen table. It's very important people check for Nurofen

Plus, not the other types of Nurofen, and if found, they should

return them immediately to the pharmacy while the investigation

continues. Thanks.

At least 18 people have been killed after a car, packed with explosives,

was driven into the United Nations building in the Nigerian capital,

Abuja. At least 60 others are thought to have been wounded in the

suicide attack. A spokesman for a Nigerian radical Islamist group has

told the BBC it had carried out the bombing. Our security correspondent

Frank Gardner reports. Stoned, and in shock. Survivors of

this morning's bomb blast were brought out one by one. The driver

drove through two ineffective barriers before detonating it,

destroying many of two storeys and many within. I counted five dead

bodies, then the security agencies came around. From where I stood, I

saw the whole windows shattered. The other portion of the building

was actually collapsed and a lot of casualties. It's the worst attack

on a UN building in three years. Suspicion immediately fell on the

local extremist group. Soon afterwards, the group rang the BBC

in Nigeria to claim responsibility. Today's bomb in Abuja marks a major

escalation for Boko, Haram. Who are they? They are Nigerian Islamists.

Their name means Western Education is Sin. Founded in 2002, they're

seeking a Taliban-style Government throughout Nigeria. Human rights

groups say they have killed around 250 people in the last year after a

failed Government attempt to crush them. The UN Secretary-General was

quick to condemn the blast. This was an assault on those who devote

their lives to helping others. We condemn this terrible attack

utterly. We do not yet have a precise casualty figures, but they

are likely to be considerable. The investigation is being led by

the Nigerian authorities, but the UN's own investigators will want to

know how security was so badly breached and why the United Nations

was singled out for this Coming up on tonight's programme:

we built the tradium, but on the eve of the World Athletics

Championships, we asked Team GB's Dutch coach if a we have the

athletes to bring us medal itselfs at London 2012. We can have the

greatest stadiums and transport system, but we don't win medals in

athletics, I'm afraid that the British crowd would consider us

maybe not such a big success. The Mayor of New York has ordered

the biggest mandatory evacuations of parts of the city tonight ahead

of the arrival of Hurricane Irene. It's already claimed lives and

wrought havoc through the Bahamas. It's due to hit North Carolina

tomorrow and America's most densely populated city, New York, Sunday.

This teeming metropolis doesn't do hurricane, but tomorrow lunch time,

the city that never sleeps will see its entire transit system grind to

a halt, while more than a quarter of a million New Yorkers are being

ordered to abandon homes at risk of flooding. In Coney island today,

the unprecedented evacuation had already begun, as the sick shuttled

to hospitals on higher ground. Up the road, we found residents of a

nursing home waiting for transport and busloading up passengers from

sheltered housing for adults with learning difficulties. We were told

that the power may go off if the hurricane hits at full force, so I

think it's a wise decision to evacuate people. Some in this

beach-side community are unmoved, but if Irene does take a bite out

of the big apple, the low of income housing blocks which have seen

better days will be in the front line. So many strange things have

been happening in New York lately with the earthquake on Tuesday and

now this - I don't know what's going on. The forecasters say it's

still too early to be precise about where Irene might make landfall,

but all along the east coast, the authorities are erring on the side

of caution because they've already seen what this hurricane is capable

of. In the Dominican Republic, Irene claimed two lives. Barrelling

through the Bahamas, destroying homes, and in southern Florida, a

glancing blow as a tidal surge swept holiday-makers off a pier.

North Carolina is next. Its outer banks braced for a direct impact

tomorrow morning. If you are in the projected path of this hurricane,

you have to take precautions now. Don't wait. Don't delay. We all

hope for the best, but we have to be prepared for the worst. From

space, Irene is immense, 600 miles wide, with winds of 100mph,

slightly slower than before, but that's of little comfort to those

Four children have been orphaned after their parents died within

days of each other during a family holiday from Morocco. Mathilde

Lambe fell from the balcony of their holiday apartment in

Essaouira. She later died in hospital. Her husband Roger fell

down the stairs of the hotel just a few days later.

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

Robinson, has been cleared of any wrongdoing over a contract that was

awarded to her then-teenaged lover. An investigation was commissioned

in response to a BBC Panorama programme that alleged she abused

her position on Castlereagh Council to help her lover open a business

with money from two developers. The BBC says it stands by its

journalism. The economic growth figures are out

on both sides of the Atlantic. US growth in the second quarter was

revised down, while here in the UK the latest estimate of growth

between April and June was unchanged at 0.2%. The US Federal

Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the outlook for the months ahead

was weaker than previously forecast. But he stopped short of announcing

new measures to boost the economy. Assessing the implications is our

chief economics correspondent Hugh Pym.

It's the world's biggest economy, and a drop in activity in the

United States sends ripples around global markets. Today the US growth

figure between April and June was revised down. So all eyes on this

man, Ben Bernanke, the Central Bank chief, head of the Fed. He said

today the growth outlook was weaker and all options to boost the

economy would be discussed next month. When trading opened on Wall

Street, shares fell at first, with some dealers disappointed the fed

chief hadn't done more now, including pumping new money into

the economy, with a policy known as quantitative easing, but other

experts said there was no quick fix. So here's the problem - if you drew

up a list of the 15 things in Washington that would help

invigorate the US economy, quantitative easing by the Federal

Reserve is probably number 14 or 15 on the list. The real problem is

everything above it on the list requires a political decision, and

the political process is gridlocked. Shares in New York picked up when

traders noted the Fed chairman was more optimistic longer term. All of

this has implications far beyond this skyline. Here in London's

financial markets, the mood can be strongly influenced by developments

on the other side of the Atlantic, and with the United States being

one of the UK's major trading partners, what goes on over there

can have a big impact on companies and workers over here.

Companies like this, for example. It makes conveyers for trucks and

warehouses. Half its sales are exports, but right now it isn't

getting any help from the United States. We've not done any business

with the US for some time now. It's been very quiet, and when you hear

about the slowdowns and double-dip recessions, obviously it is

worrying that it will make people sort of start to try and keep hold

of their money again and not invest in capital equipment. Advertising

is a good barometer of the economy with so many clients in different

industries. This leading agency boss gave me his take on the UK.

We're marooned, you know? It seems that things are just sort of stuck

for awhile, and we have to hold tight until some - comes back into

it. I don't think you'll see things crashing, but on the other hand,

there is not a lot of momentum in the right direction. Figures show

the UK has grown at the same pace as the United States and ahead of

Germany. Things are dull, but not altogether gloomy.

Team GB will put their ambitions for the Olympics on the line

tomorrow with the start of the the World Athletics Championships. The

team are in South Korea to put their medal-winning potential to

the test in the biggest track-and- field event before the Olympics

themselves. Our sports editor David Bond is with them and has just sent

this report. Everywhere you look in Daegu, there

are signs that something big is going on, but even here, the

presence of the world's best athletes doesn't seem to be

distracting people from their daily routines. Despite the low-key

build-up, these Championships are crucial for Britain's athletes.

With a year to go until 2012, the pressure is on to deliver success.

Charles van Commenee is the uncompromising Dutch coach who has

the task of ensuring the sport doesn't disappoint. Because we can

have the greatest stadium and transport system, but we don't win

medals in athletics. I'm afraid that the British crowd would

consider us as maybe not such a big success, so medals in athletics are

important. Medal targets for these World Athletics Championships

reflect his desire to bring back the glory days. Britain's best

World Athletics Championships came in Stuttgart when the team won a

total of ten medals, but more recently the sport has been going

backwards with the low point coming in in Beijing when the country just

won ten medals. There has been some improvement with six medals. In

Daegu they're hoping to go a world better. Britain's raining

heptathlon world champion is convinced the team are on track.

The past couple of years has shown our past performances in Berlin and

in Barcelona, we started winning a lot more medals and improving - I

think we've got some really impressive performances to have out

here. These Championships are a crucial staging post for Britain's

athletes on the road to next year's Olympics, but the task for the

sport is not only to deliver success this London but to create a

new generation of stars who can dominate for years to come. The so-

called golden generation of the 1980s is the benchmark being used

by Van Comenee, but is it too much to expect this team to emulate

those achievements? This is a young team. Yes, we should be proud of

our history, but it shouldn't be so burdensome that they feel they're

sort of permanently competing against what was going on. Like

Daegu, London knows its mob in the global sporting spotlight won't be