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Why America marks the end of nearly nine years of military operations | :00:10. | :00:19. | |
in Iraq. The US flag is lowered at ceremony | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
in Baghdad, all troops will have left within days. | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
With thousands of US soldiers and many more Iraqis killed, the | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
arguments continue about whether the war was a success or a failure. | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
They committed serious mistakes, especially in the retreatment and | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
in the treatment of normal Iraqi people. This is the opportunity for | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
Iraq to forge ahead on the path to security and prosperity. | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
We are reporting live from Baghdad and looking at what lies ahead now | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
for Iraq. Also tonight: Guarding the Olympics with up to 13,500 | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
military troops, helicopters and Navy warships. | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
David Norris is accused of killing Stephen Lawrence, now for the first | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
time his mother provides him with an alibi. | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
The village in China where the Communist Party has lost control. | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
The villagers are calling for the overthrow of corrupt officials. | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
They want to see safeguards for their land. They say that the way | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
to protect themselves is by uniting and speaking out. | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
A mixed response to Government plans to tackle England's most | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
troubled families. Coming up in Sportsday on the BBC | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
News Channel. All of the Europa League action incluing | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
disappointment for Spurs. They put four past the Shack rocks, | :01:49. | :01:59. | |
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but it was not enough to reach the knock-out stage. | :01:59. | :02:08. | |
-- sham rocks. Good evening. After nearly nine years of war, the | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
American flag has been lowered in Baghdad. Formerly marking the end | :02:12. | :02:19. | |
of US military operations in Iraq. It was in 2003 that America | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
launched its controversial shock and awe campaign. In the following | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
years of conflict, 4,5,000 US soldiers were killed and countless | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
Iraqis lost their lives. Within days all American troops will be | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
gone, bar a few left behind to secure the rust embassy. | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
Our World Affairs Editor John Simpson, who covered the war in | :02:42. | :02:51. | |
Iraq, reports now from Baghdad. A quiet, downbeat ceremony, marking | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
the end of an occupation that lasted 100 months, cost the lives | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
of 4,500 Americans and of an unknown, but far greater number of | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
Iraqis. This is the time for Iraq to look | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
forward. This is an opportunity for Iraq to | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
forge ahead. To forge ahead on the path to security and prosperity. | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
Welcome to Sadr City, a sprawling, working-class, Shi'ite suburb of | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
Baghdad. The occupiers are going, says the | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
poster, thanks to our government. Yet things have changed here out of | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
all recognition. The last time I was here in Sadr | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
City was about three years ago. I had to say, I was pretty nervous. | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
Kidnapping was rife, and there were bombs here just about every day, | :03:43. | :03:50. | |
but now, well, you can see for yourself how relaxed everything is. | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
But not everything is necessarily better. There are power cuts every | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
day here and everywhere in Iraq. The Americans never managed to fix | :03:58. | :04:08. | |
the electricity supply. In Sadr City, the US army engineers | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
put in the first decent sewers and water supplies, but that's been | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
forgotten. Instead, the people remember the American attacks on | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
Sadr City, this man keeps the pictures on his mobile phone. | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
These are pictures from the internet and that's American | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
laughter. The meat market k as everywhere | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
else here, you don't find any love for the United States. The butchers | :04:33. | :04:40. | |
of Baghdad are happy to see the back of the Americans. | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
Saad, the chicken seller, says that they brought poverty and killed our | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
children. According to Jabbar, who sells cow | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
hearts, "They destroyed our country." Tamir, the seller of | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
sheep's heads, even thinks that things were better under Saddam | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
Hussein, yet the United States has done a really good job of training | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
the security forces here. That's checkpoints are everywhere. They | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
are the front line of the continuing Civil War. There are | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
attacks on them every day. Can the Iraqis sort out their own | :05:16. | :05:25. | |
defence now? The answers are almost certainly yes, you can see how | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
well-trained and confident these men are, how well-equipped as well. | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
On the other side, the insurgents are finding it difficult nowadays | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
to get people to volunteer to be suicide bombers. | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
There were 79 bomb attacks last month. This one targeted the Prime | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
Minister. Still, in 2007, there were 1,000 | :05:47. | :05:55. | |
bomb as month. The suffering does not stop, but the insurgents is | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
visibly winding down. Fatally, the US invasion and | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
occupation was done on the cheap. There was far too much brutality. | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
The Iraqi government thinks that the Americans simply did not | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
understand the country. They tried to help the Iraqis, to | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
free them from dictatorship and build democracy, prosperity and ro | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
gres in Iraq, but they committed very, very serious mistakes, | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
especially in the treatment of the normal Iraqi people. | :06:29. | :06:36. | |
For 40 years, not just the eight years of the American occupation, | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
Iraq has known little more than dictatorship, war and isolation, | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
now, though, people here are daring to hope that their luck may finally | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
be changing. We can talk to John Simpson in | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
Baghdad now. John, in your assessment, what does the future | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
hold for Iraq now? I think that there are two really important | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
points, Fiona. One is that Iraq it plays an important part from now on | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
in relationships, if there is a relationship, between the United | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
States, which it is friendly and Iran, Which? It is friendly. It | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
makes it pivotal in this highly important region. Then you have to | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
remember that we have not seen Iraq as a serious oil-producer for many | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
years, but it will soon start to produce oil on the kind of | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
extremely high level that it used to. That will nake rich and | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
important. You know, all we have seen of the -- that will make it | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
rich and important. You know, all we have seen of this country is | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
that it's been dominated by unpleasant and aggressive | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
dictatorships, that its been subjected to heavy sanctions or | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
else that it has had a Civil War. Now there is a good chance that all | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
of those things will be overturned soon, it will be then a very | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
different Iraq. Thank you very much. | :08:02. | :08:11. | |
Up to 13,500 military personnel are to join the security operation for | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
London 2012, far higher than expected. Members of the armed | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
forces are to help to guard the Olympic venues and providing | :08:18. | :08:27. | |
support to the police. Royal Navy ships and RAF jets will also be on | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
standby. Its been on the radar, with the | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
Olympics venues an obvious target for terrorists, securing the | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
Olympics is one of the biggest priorities, but perhaps we did not | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
expect it on this scale. Fighter aircraft on 24 standby, a warship | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
on the Thames and now more troops than the number deployed in | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
Afghanistan. Military hardware will be used. We | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
are deploying helicopters, tie feen fighters, to defend London's air | :08:57. | :09:04. | |
space. We are deploying ground-to air missile systems so the military | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
using its full range of capibilities and equipment to keep | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
London safe. The MoD are providing 13,500 thirt | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
for the security. 7,500 are acting as security guards along with | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
civilians at all venues. Another 6,000 are on standby and providing | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
back-up support. The last time in Beijing, China's military might was | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
paraded for all to see. Britain can't possibly match that, but the | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
authorities are still focusing on what will be the country's largest | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
peace-time security operation. The military weren't supposed to | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
patrol venue checkpoints like these, they will now after the number of | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
guards needed more than doubled. Officials admitted to MPs yesterday, | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
that they didn't do their homework properly. | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
This is realistic. Thats with a slightly finger in the air, we | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
think it is 10,000, that will cost us �282 million. | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
London's 2012 is to rely heavily on military personnel to safeguard the | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
main venues after they got their original estimates wrong. That is | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
had a significant impact on the Olympics budget, with only eight | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
months to go, it is clear that nearly all of the �9 million will | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
be spent. One Olympics ticket holder said that peace of mind was | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
paramount. I think when I first heard it takes | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
you back, but the reality is that it is a potential target. Anything | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
that helps with the security is good. It is reassuring. | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
The Olympics are supposed to be a peaceful celebration of sporting | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
achievement, the trick for organisers is to deliver that | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
whilst ensuring that London does not feel under siege. | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
On the last dau of evidence at the Lawrence Lawrence Lauren murder | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
trial, the mother of one of the accused has for the first time in | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
18 years provided her son with an alibi. Norris nrs' mother said that | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
her son was at home the night that Stephen Lawrence was murdered. | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
David Norris said he could not remember where he was that night, | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
but insisted he was innocent. We have this report. | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
David Norris is now 35 years old. Today he entered the witness box to | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
be questioned about a murder that happened when he was just 16. | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
Mr Norris was asked repeatedly by the prosecuting barrister where was | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
he on the night that Stephen Lawrence was killed in the London | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
suburb of Eltham. Each time he said he could not remember, but was sure | :11:44. | :11:52. | |
he was not in Eltham. He was asked again by the | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
prosecution barrister, Mark Ellison QC where he was at the time of the | :11:54. | :12:03. | |
murder. He said: Clothing fibres found on this | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
sweatshirt, seized from David Norris' house allegedly link him to | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
the scene of the crime, but Clifford Norris testified that the | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
top had been his 18 years ago. Possibly these stain anys as well | :12:15. | :12:22. | |
on which a hair matching Stephen's DNA was found. Then David Norris's, | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
mother, Theresa Norris took the stand. She insisted he had been at | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
home that night. Mark Ellison QC, prosecuting said, "You have made | :12:32. | :12:39. | |
that up." She said." I have made nothing up." But he went on, "There | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
is not a breath uttered that you had an alibi for him." She | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
maintained he had been at home that night. | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
David Norris said he is was a visitor to Bournbrook Road where | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
Neil and Jamie Acourt lived close to the murder scene, but he lived | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
seven miles away and his mother did not allow him out late. The | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
following year he was seen in a police video, discussing how he | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
wanted to attack and maim black people. He told the jury, I | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
apologise you had to listen to that I would not dream of doing it. I | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
had been accused of a terrible murder. I was angry, especially | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
with the Police Force it was all part of growing. He later said he | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
was not suggesting for a moment he was an angel, that he was not, but | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
it did not make him capable of murder. | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
Today's witnesses mark the end of the evidence in the Stephen | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
Lawrence trial. The case is to be summarised for | :13:40. | :13:49. | |
the jury before they consider their The Communist Party in China has | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
lost control of a village in the south of the country. It has become | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
an open revolt. Officials fled the village on Monday and thousands of | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
people have flocked armed police from moving in. Martin Patience | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
sent this report from Wukan village in Guangdong. | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
This is what a rebellion looks like in China. These villagers are | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
locked in a bitter land dispute with the authorities. But instead | :14:18. | :14:26. | |
of being silenced, they have chosen to stand and fight. Party officials | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
have fled and the authorities have lost control of the village. But in | :14:31. | :14:39. | |
China, such open defiance can be deadly. This video shows a brutal | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
police crackdown in the village last week. There are thousands of | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
incidence of social unrest in China every month, often when local | :14:48. | :14:56. | |
officials confiscate the land to sell it to developers. But these | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
disputes erode support for the Communist Party. One villager was | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
negotiating with the a authorities to end the dispute. But he died in | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
police custody earlier this month - - this week. His family are | :15:11. | :15:18. | |
preparing to bury him tomorrow. But his daughter, Xue Jianwan, is | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
struggling to cope. She says the authorities have yet to hand over | :15:23. | :15:29. | |
the body. TRANSLATION: I know my father's | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
body is not likely to return. His wish was to get the land back and | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
punish corrupt officials, so we will put aside our emotions to | :15:37. | :15:44. | |
achieve this. He sacrificed himself, and we will, too. In a country | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
where dissent is rarely tolerated, people here believe there is safety | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
in numbers. Villagers are calling for the overthrow of corrupt | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
officials. They also want safeguards for their land. They | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
insist the only way to protect themselves is by uniting and | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
speaking out. But at night, many fear reprisals. | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
Five men have already been snatched, most likely by undercover police. | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
We joined locals as they went out on patrol. | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
TRANSLATION: We volunteer day and night to prevent people being taken | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
away. When we see police, we sound the alarm and alert everyone. We | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
fight them off as a group and protect our land. People here are | :16:32. | :16:41. | |
on guard. They know a fresh crackdown could come at any time. | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
Coming up: She was jailed for being raped. Now | :16:46. | :16:55. | |
this Afghan woman is under pressure to marry her attacker. | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
David Cameron has announced plans for a network of troubleshooters to | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
tackle England's most troubled families. It is likely to cost | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
nearly �450 million over four years. With local government expected to | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
provide much of the funding, some critics have questioned whether | :17:10. | :17:17. | |
councils will be able to afford it. Chris Buckler reports from Wigan. | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
The troubles of individual families can cause problems for whole | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
communities. From a simple lack of respect to criminal behaviour, the | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
Government thinks that residents should not suffer because of their | :17:28. | :17:36. | |
neighbours. We have had 12 months of hell with them. Doing what? | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
Everything. Drugs. We had to go to court to get them evicted. Do you | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
think they will listen? No. They will do their own thing because | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
they always have, haven't they? Government says there are 120,000 | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
troubled families in England and the problems they cause are costing | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
the taxpayer billions. There is no simple recipe to solve these issues, | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
but today David Cameron pledged �450 million for intervention | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
schemes like this one right across England. But only if councils pay, | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
too. And that is at a time of cuts. We will fund 40% of the cost if | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
they matched the other 60%. Crucially, the payment depends on | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
results. Have they stopped, and I mean completely, anti-social | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
behaviour? What David Cameron is proposing today is not completely | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
new. When he was Prime Minister and Tony Blair pushed the idea for | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
family intervention projects as part of attempts to deal with anti- | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
social behaviour. There are existing intervention schemes | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
operating in each part of the UK, including here in Wigan. Between | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
them, David and and have 10 children. All but two were placed | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
with adoptive or foster parents, and they accept that their money | :18:55. | :19:04. | |
troubles started at home. I would stay in bed. She would be looking | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
after the kids and I would stay in bed. Workless Nissan mental health | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
issues were just two of their problems but the charity Action for | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
Children has been helping them keep the remaining family together. | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
there was nothing like this, I would definitely have lost the kids. | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
The money promised to help more families has been diverted from | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
existing Government budgets, but the real worry for charities is | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
whether that councils can afford to take advantage of the funding. | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
has to be matched by over �600 million worth of local government | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
money, and I do not see any evidence that local government has | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
prioritised this money. What is more, councils know that in order | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
to get any cash they will have to prove that the troubleshooters have | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
made a difference to the troubled families. | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
More tensions have emerged tonight between Britain and France, with | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
the head of the French central bank suggesting the UK should have its | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
Triple A credit rating downgraded, rather than France. Christian Noyer | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
said the UK's economy was in worse shape. Let's cross to Paris and | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
Christian Fraser. What more can you tell us? You might say that the | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
French are not playing by the Queensberry rules. First we had | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
these comments from Christian Noyer, and now the same comments from the | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
Prime Minister, who is touring Brazil at the moment, again | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
pointing to the fundamentals of the British economy and saying, yes, | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
they have a bigger deficit than us, similar levels of debt, higher | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
inflation and lower growth, all of which is, of course, true. But it | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
is France in the eurozone and they face the pressures that come with | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
membership, and it is France that are the weakest of the triple-A | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
rated economies in the eurozone. In the past few days Mr Sarkozy has | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
been downplaying the risk of a downgrade, but perhaps these | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
comments give away perhaps that they have more concerns them they | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
are letting on. Certainly the markets are reflecting those | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
concerns. It increases speculation that the downgrade is imminent. | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
There appears to be some development on whether Britain | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
might after all have some involvement in these talks on a new | :21:05. | :21:12. | |
EU treaty. I understand that Herman van Rompuy, the European Council | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
president, has invited all 27 EU members to a summit in January, the | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
beginning of February, and I have just had a statement from Downing | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
Street saying that they will participate in technical | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
discussions to take forward the work on the new fiscal agreement. | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
What is not clear is how much involvement they will have, whether | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
they will be there in observer status, as suggested by some in | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
Brussels, or whether they will have active negotiations. But it looks a | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
little bit like an olive branch. Perhaps this splendid isolation of | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
Britain that we have been talking about is not as rigid as we might | :21:47. | :21:54. | |
first have thought. She was a young woman raped by a | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
relative and then, under Afghan law, jailed for so-called forced | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
adultery. Known only as Gulnaz, she then gave birth to a daughter | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
behind bars. The case provoked an international outcry and after two | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
years in prison she has been freed by presidential pardon. But now she | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
is under pressure to marry her rapist. She has been speaking in | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
Kabul to our correspondent Caroline Wyatt. | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
Are facing an uncertain future, Gulnaz's baby daughter, Moska, was | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
conceived when her mother was raped. It is her first taste of freedom | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
after her daughter was born in a women's prison while she was | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
serving a 12 year sentence for the crime of being raped. Until this | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
week, mother and baby were here in prison, where many of the women are | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
serving sentences for what the justice system in Afghanistan terms | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
moral crimes, such as adultery, orange Gulnaz's case, adultery by | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
force. The case attracted international attention which put | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
pressure on the Afghan President to pardon her. | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
TRANSLATION: I do not want anything to do with the government again, | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
because they put innocent people in jail. What kind of Afghanistan is | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
this? What kind of government is this? My attacker committed a crime | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
and they arrested me. The first court gave me two years in prison | :23:18. | :23:27. | |
but on appeal the second court gave me 12 years. | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
A decade since the Taliban were toppled from power, women's | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
position in Afghanistan remains precarious. Human rights groups say | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
hundreds of women in Afghan jails are the victims of rape or domestic | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
violence. The -- the lawyer working for Gulnaz says her case is far | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
from unique. Women are here unfortunately are treated as | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
second-class citizens. They are quite often mistreated, quite often | :23:50. | :23:57. | |
not only just mistreated in community but within the justice | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
system. Gulnaz's case is a good illustration of that. Despite the | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
presidential pardon, there is still a question over what happens next | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
for Gulnaz. The relative who raped her is still imprisoned but she is | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
willing to marry him if it preserves her family's honour. | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
TRANSLATION: I will marry him if his family find a wife for my | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
brother and pay a dowry for me. There is no other way. If our | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
families cannot agree with each other they will become enemies. | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
Gulnaz says the prosecutor told her if she went home her brothers would | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
kill her because of the shame she has brought on them. She insists | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
they are good men who would not hurt her, but whether her family | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
will take Gulnaz and Moska back is not yet clear. For now, they have | :24:46. | :24:53. | |
few other options. Hears the first French President to | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
be convicted as a criminal since the Second World War. -- he is. | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
Jacques Chirac has been found guilty of creating fake jobs for | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
cronies and embezzling funds. It is a humiliating blow for a man who | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
was a giant on the French political stage in a career that spanned four | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
decades. Allan Little reports. He has been at the heart of things | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
for as long as France can remember. He is the great, familiar, ever- | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
present survivor. He entered politics under his hero, General de | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
Gaulle, but at 41 he was already Prime Minister. Under a president | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
he did not much admire. Chirac sold a nuclear reactor to young Iraqi | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
leader called Saddam Hussein. Later, Israeli warplanes destroyed the | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
nuclear plant. As mayor of Paris using, we now know, public funds, | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
he built a powerful electoral machine that would win him the | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
highest office in France on his third attempt in 1995. As mayor of | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
Paris using, we now know, public funds, he built a powerful | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
electoral machine that would win him in 1995 the presidency. The man | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
they called the bulldozer had bulldozed his way into the Elysee | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
Palace. As President, his government's promised radical | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
reform but they always backed away in the face of public protest. | :26:13. | :26:21. | |
France began to seem impossible to reform. In 2002, he was re-elected | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
by a landslide but only because his second round opponent was the far | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
right leader. The French Left voted for Jacques Chirac. Tony Blair | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
tried to persuade him to back a UN resolution authorising war against | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
Iraq. He declared he would veto that resolution no matter what. | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
TRANSLATION: Iraq does not represent today in a prison threat | :26:46. | :26:53. | |
which justifies an immediate war. The Americans were furious but in | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
his heart, Chirac believed in France as a vital counterbalance to | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
American power. The Jacques Chirac charmed his way to the top of | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
French politics. His love of life was evident. Even his critics liked | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
him. They could not help themselves. Jacques Chirac was the man that the | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
French used to love to hate, the French left. He was also an | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
endearing figure. Everybody loved him. Everybody who approached him | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
loved him because he was genuine. The charge of corruption has | :27:25. | :27:29. |