04/09/2011

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:00:13. > :00:17.New allegations that Britain was complicit in the rendition of a key

:00:17. > :00:22.terror suspect back to Libya. The BBC is shown further documentary

:00:22. > :00:25.evidence on the extent of links between the CIA, MI6 and the

:00:25. > :00:29.Gaddafi regime. Opposition fighters in Libya say

:00:29. > :00:33.talks with Gaddafi loyalists to hand over a regime stronghold have

:00:33. > :00:36.failed. Amid a leadership race, the

:00:36. > :00:40.Scottish Conservatives consider a call to break away from the

:00:40. > :00:46.Westminster party. I think there is real interest in

:00:46. > :00:51.creating a modern, progressive, centre-right party that will

:00:51. > :01:00.broaden its appeal. The former Chancellor, Alistair Darling, talks

:01:00. > :01:05.of a permanent air of chaos when Gordon Brown was Prime Minister.

:01:05. > :01:15.And a win for Mo Farah in the 5,000 metres at the World Athletics

:01:15. > :01:25.

:01:25. > :01:29.Good evening. The commander of anti-Gaddafi forces in Tripoli has

:01:29. > :01:34.told the BBC he wants an apology from Britain and America for the

:01:34. > :01:39.way he was transferred to a prison in Libya in 2004. Abdul Hakim

:01:39. > :01:42.Belhaj, then a terror suspect, says he was tortured after being

:01:42. > :01:52.arrested in Bangkok and taken to the Libyan capital in an operation

:01:52. > :01:52.

:01:52. > :01:59.organise nielzed by the CIA and MI6 -- organised by the CIA and MI6.

:01:59. > :02:04.Jeremy Bowen has sent this report from Tripoli.

:02:04. > :02:08.As Libyas cell doors open, so do some of its secret files. Routine

:02:08. > :02:11.torture in Libyan jails was no secret. But the document showed

:02:11. > :02:17.that didn't stop Britain and America working closely with the

:02:17. > :02:23.regime. Their main contact was Colonel Gaddafi's right-hand man,

:02:23. > :02:28.Moussa Koussa. He defected to Britain earlier this year. In 2004,

:02:28. > :02:33.Prime Minister Tony Blair visited Libya. By then, MI6 was working

:02:33. > :02:37.with the CIA to send people they believed to be jihadist terrorists

:02:37. > :02:41.to Libya's notorious jails for interrogation. After Colonel

:02:41. > :02:45.Gaddafi came in from the cold, Libya and its prison system became

:02:45. > :02:49.an important part of the war on terror, strong working

:02:49. > :02:54.relationships were formed. As the pressure was tightening on the

:02:54. > :02:57.Gaddafi regime back in March and April, senior officials would

:02:57. > :03:02.express their astonishment about the speed with which their Western

:03:02. > :03:06.friends had turned on them. A close advisor to Colonel Gaddafi told me

:03:06. > :03:12.that MI6 had been working with them here in Tripoli right up until the

:03:12. > :03:17.start of the uprising, on February 17th. The military command let me

:03:17. > :03:24.see some of the CIA and MI6 documents but a Libyan arrested in

:03:24. > :03:28.Bangkok in 2004 and transported to Tripoli. In one, an MI6 official

:03:28. > :03:34.tells Moussa Koussa not to forget that the intelligence which caught

:03:34. > :03:39.the suspected Al-Qaeda sympathiser came from Britain. A comeerical

:03:40. > :03:44.flight... That man is Abdul Hakim Belhaj, now military commander of

:03:44. > :03:48.Tripoli, always an anti-Gaddafi fighter, he says, but never Al-

:03:48. > :03:53.Qaeda. He said he was tortured by the CIA and the Libyans after his

:03:53. > :03:57.arrest. TRANSLATION: What happened to me is

:03:57. > :04:03.illegal and it deserves an apology. Especially from people who claim to

:04:03. > :04:08.have worked with human rights. he's about the most powerful man in

:04:08. > :04:13.Tripoli. Mr Belhaj says that after the CIA and MI6 got him here in

:04:13. > :04:17.March 2004, they didn't witness his torture, but interrogated him

:04:17. > :04:26.afterwards. And Moussa Koussa told him he would die in his cell.

:04:26. > :04:30.top people in MI6 lpts A few months earlier, on Christmas Day, they

:04:30. > :04:35.sent Moussa Koussa an affectionate note. He is coming for Christmas

:04:35. > :04:40.lunch today. It is a pity you cannot join us. Isn't it fair

:04:40. > :04:46.enough that these people would have a working relationship on the

:04:46. > :04:50.Libyan side? He was useful to them. He was useful in sending terror

:04:50. > :04:56.suspects to Libya where he would torture them, basically, and get

:04:56. > :05:01.the answers from them that the CIA and MI6 want. I found these

:05:01. > :05:05.photographs of prisoners bound, battered and terrified in one of

:05:05. > :05:09.Tripoli's jails. Britain and the US now condemn Colonel Gaddafi's

:05:09. > :05:13.regime. But once it was useful to them.

:05:13. > :05:17.Jeremy Bowen joins us live from Tripoli. Some of these allegations

:05:17. > :05:22.do date back a few years. What about this revelation that MI6 had

:05:22. > :05:27.an agent working in Tripoli right up until the start of the protest?

:05:27. > :05:32.I think not just an agent, regular contacts according to very senior

:05:32. > :05:37.people in the old Gaddafi regime who on a nightly basis when I used

:05:37. > :05:42.to talk to them in March, April, May, would still be saying they

:05:42. > :05:44.were amazed how the people they had regarded as friends had turned on

:05:45. > :05:48.them. I think there have to be questions about the way Moussa

:05:48. > :05:52.Koussa, when he defected, was treated as well. He may have felt

:05:52. > :05:58.that he was coming to Britain to see friends at that particular time

:05:58. > :06:02.and he has been allowed to go to Qatar with no kind of charges or

:06:02. > :06:07.investigations against him. The Foreign Office in London say that

:06:07. > :06:11.they are not going to comment on matters of intelligence. The

:06:11. > :06:17.Government in Britain has announced that it will be looking in to the

:06:17. > :06:23.whole question of torture and that rendition, this process of bringing

:06:23. > :06:26.suspects back for the kind of treatment that was meted out here,

:06:26. > :06:30.that will be part of the investigation. Tonight, opposition

:06:30. > :06:34.fighters who have surrounded one of the regime's last strongholds say

:06:34. > :06:38.talks with Gaddafi loyalists have failed. Hundreds of fighters in

:06:38. > :06:41.trucks mounted with heavy weapons are stationed just outside the town

:06:42. > :06:51.of Bani Walid. Ian Pannell spent the day with them and sent this

:06:52. > :06:53.

:06:53. > :06:58.report. They certainly have the passion.

:06:58. > :07:03.They now have the political power and the guns as well. But they

:07:03. > :07:07.don't have control of all of Libya just yet. Bani Walid is a few miles

:07:07. > :07:13.down this road and it is still under the control of Colonel

:07:13. > :07:19.Gaddafi's men. Talks have been under way for days, to negotiate a

:07:19. > :07:23.surrender. But this is sensitive work. Some regime loyalists fled to

:07:23. > :07:30.Bani Walid when Tripoli fell and intelligence on the Colonel's sons

:07:31. > :07:36.may lie here. According to my sources, Saif al-Islam left and he

:07:36. > :07:42.was sighted there. When did Saif leave? Yesterday. Where did he go?

:07:42. > :07:48.To the south. To Sabha? We don't know. To the south. In many ways,

:07:48. > :07:53.Bani Walid has little strategic value. But the new national army

:07:53. > :07:56.must consolidate its hold over all of Libya if it is to form an

:07:56. > :08:03.effective government. They have tried to do that peacefully here.

:08:03. > :08:07.It hasn't worked. Tonight, talks between representatives from

:08:07. > :08:10.Colonel Gaddafi's military and the Transitional Council have collapsed.

:08:10. > :08:13.What they said was that if the negotiations didn't work, then they

:08:14. > :08:19.would go in by force. They are now waiting for word from Benghazi and

:08:19. > :08:26.Tripoli as to whether or not that happens. If it does, then it means

:08:26. > :08:34.military action in Bani Walid. This rebellion has been fired by two

:08:34. > :08:38.things above all else - a desire for dignity and justice.

:08:38. > :08:42.Colonel Gaddafi's troops are accused of committing grave human

:08:42. > :08:46.rights abuses in Bani Walid and the new army wants those responsible to

:08:46. > :08:51.be put on trial. They had hoped to do it without spilling more blood,

:08:51. > :09:01.but that may now be impossible. Their revolution is almost complete.

:09:01. > :09:05.

:09:05. > :09:08.But it is not quite over yet. In other news: Dominique Strauss-

:09:08. > :09:12.Kahn has returned home to France. It comes following the collapse of

:09:12. > :09:17.a sexual assault case against him in the United States. Mr Strauss-

:09:17. > :09:20.Kahn and his wife faced a crowd of photographers but made no comment.

:09:20. > :09:23.The front-runner for the leadership of the Scottish Conservatives,

:09:23. > :09:27.Murdo Fraser, has called on his party to break away from their

:09:27. > :09:30.Westminster colleagues. He says the creation of a new centre-right

:09:31. > :09:39.party with a distinct Scottish identity working in partnership

:09:39. > :09:43.with the Conservatives would attract more voters.

:09:43. > :09:47.The idea is for the Scottish Conservative Party to change its

:09:47. > :09:51.name and logo, make all its own decisions and rebrand as something

:09:51. > :09:55.else. There is real interest in creating a modern, progressive,

:09:55. > :09:59.centre-right party that will broaden its appeal and attract many

:09:59. > :10:02.people who share our values but don't want to vote for the current

:10:02. > :10:08.Conservative Party. There was a time when the Scottish Tories did

:10:08. > :10:11.better. In the mid-'50s, they had a majority of votes and MPs in

:10:11. > :10:16.Scotland, although they were called the Scottsih Unionist Party then.

:10:16. > :10:19.By the '90s there were 11 Conservative MPs with Scottish

:10:19. > :10:24.constituencies. In 1997, they were all wiped out. They won no seats

:10:24. > :10:29.and have never had more than one Scottish MP at any time since.

:10:29. > :10:33.Murdo Fraser thinks an independent Scottish party would do better in

:10:33. > :10:37.elections to both Westminster and the Scottish Parliament. But that

:10:37. > :10:44.doesn't mean he supports an independent Scotland. In fact, he

:10:44. > :10:49.plans to fight the SNP's proposals to take Scotland out of the UK. But

:10:49. > :10:53.one rival leadership candidate fears a breakaway party would play

:10:53. > :10:56.into Nationalists' hands. This is the wrong decision. Alex Salmond

:10:56. > :11:00.must be the happiest man in Scotland right now. The way we take

:11:00. > :11:07.our party forward is by talking to Scotland about the things that

:11:07. > :11:11.matter. The Education Secretary told Andrew Marr Cabinet ministers

:11:11. > :11:14.like him will keep out of the debate. One of the things I have

:11:14. > :11:17.learnt, as a politician from Scotland but representing an

:11:17. > :11:21.English constituency, is that the reality of devolution means that

:11:21. > :11:25.you should allow the party in Scotland to determine its own

:11:25. > :11:28.destiny. David Cameron once apologised for his party's legacy

:11:28. > :11:35.in Scotland. In Braemar with the Queen this weekend, he may be

:11:35. > :11:38.wondering if a new tartan Tory Party would do better in future.

:11:38. > :11:42.A 21-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the murder of

:11:42. > :11:44.two women in Oxfordshire. Their bodies were discovered at a

:11:44. > :11:47.property in Thame earlier this morning. The three people involved

:11:47. > :11:51.are said to have known each other but the details of their

:11:51. > :11:55.relationship have not been disclosed.

:11:55. > :11:58.The former Chancellor, Alistair Darling, has spoken about how his

:11:58. > :12:02.relationship with Gordon Brown got worse as the then Prime Minister

:12:02. > :12:05.tried to replace him during the banking crisis in 2008. The former

:12:06. > :12:12.Labour minister has been speaking to the BBC in his first broadcast

:12:12. > :12:17.interview since parts of his memoirs emerged.

:12:17. > :12:20.He was the softly-spoken Chancellor in charge of the Treasury

:12:20. > :12:23.throughout the financial crisis. For the cameras, he and Gordon

:12:23. > :12:27.Brown were close, but with scores to settle and a book to sell,

:12:27. > :12:31.Alistair Darling has denounced the former Prime Minister and a regime

:12:31. > :12:37.he describes as "brutal". He says Mr Brown's behaviour was appalling.

:12:37. > :12:41.It was deeply unpleasant. I really don't mind and relish attacking

:12:41. > :12:44.Tories and them attacking me, that is the stuff of politics. What is

:12:44. > :12:47.so debilitating is when your own lot are doing it to you. Mr Darling

:12:47. > :12:50.says his relationship with the former Prime Minister was strained

:12:50. > :12:56.beyond breaking point and that he wanted to be more candid about the

:12:56. > :13:01.need for cuts than Gordon Brown was apparently willing to be. At the

:13:01. > :13:04.time, reports of feuds and fights in Gordon Brown's Government were

:13:04. > :13:08.dismissed as tittle-tattle by Number Ten. Alistair Darling is the

:13:08. > :13:10.latest witness to describe a poisonous atmosphere, a

:13:10. > :13:15.dysfunctional Downing Street and serious disagreements about how to

:13:15. > :13:21.handle the financial crisis. For Labour, this is painful history.

:13:21. > :13:25.But Alistair Darling has advice for the present Government, too. The

:13:25. > :13:27.Bank of England and its current governor come in for some criticism.

:13:28. > :13:31.Alistair Darling says the bank was slow to recognise the scale of the

:13:31. > :13:35.crisis and believes it is badly structured. The present Government

:13:35. > :13:39.wants to make the Bank of England not just responsible for interest

:13:39. > :13:43.rates but also for the supervision of banks where its track record is

:13:43. > :13:49.mixed. And also it's got this overall responsibility for trying

:13:49. > :13:54.to iron out the peaks and troughs of the economic cycle. So far,

:13:54. > :13:57.there's been no comment from Gordon Brown. But his former Chancellor's

:13:57. > :14:01.memoirs describe a time the Conservatives will try and focus on

:14:01. > :14:04.in Labour's new leadership -- and Labour's new leadership will want

:14:04. > :14:07.to forget. Now the news from the last day of

:14:07. > :14:11.the World Athletics Championships with Sean.

:14:11. > :14:14.The World Championships ended on a high for the British team with a

:14:14. > :14:21.gold medal for Mo Farah in the 5,000 metres. He is the first

:14:21. > :14:27.British man to win a world or Olympic long distance title and it

:14:27. > :14:31.helped Great Britain to sixth in the overall medals table.

:14:31. > :14:36.Mo Farah, Somalian born but tonight Britain's first-ever World Champion

:14:36. > :14:41.in an event which has over the years become a victory procession

:14:41. > :14:46.for Africans. A week on from his heartbreaking defeat in the 10,000

:14:46. > :14:51.metres, Mo Farah celebrated with his family, redemption over half

:14:51. > :14:55.the distance. No doubt the medal will have felt double the value.

:14:55. > :14:59.Like last Sunday, he kicked for home with a lap to go. He said his

:14:59. > :15:04.coach had told him to relax and run like a sprinter. And this time

:15:04. > :15:09.there was to be no ambush on the line. His speed was too much for

:15:09. > :15:15.the opposition. It feels awesome to have that gold medal. I came so

:15:15. > :15:19.close before. I can't quite believe it. Defending World Triple Jump

:15:19. > :15:24.Champion, Phillips Idowu, looked like adding a second gold for

:15:24. > :15:27.Britain. Despite producing his best jump of the year, he had to settle

:15:27. > :15:32.for silver behind America's Christian Taylor. I am content. I

:15:32. > :15:35.will take the silver medal. It was a tough competition. My competitor

:15:35. > :15:41.only needed one jump to win. He nailed that big one. Sometimes that

:15:41. > :15:49.is the way it goes. So, at the end of these World Championships,

:15:49. > :15:54.Britain has finished sixth in the medals table.

:15:55. > :15:59.In fact, it's one gold more than the head coach predicted. It is an

:15:59. > :16:05.awesome performance for British athletics. Not many times we have

:16:05. > :16:09.done better. Very pleased. Exceeded expectations? I never do

:16:09. > :16:14.expectations. We hit the target. That is more important to me. The

:16:14. > :16:19.targets are set in order to get the great platform for the London Games.

:16:19. > :16:23.Every time we hit it, we are coming closer to success in London.

:16:23. > :16:28.have all by now become accustomed to world records involving Usain

:16:28. > :16:34.Bolt. But he kept us waiting until the very last race in Daegu,

:16:34. > :16:40.leading home his Jamaican quartet in the 100 metres relay in a time

:16:40. > :16:43.of 37.04 seconds. But even that couldn't overshadow another

:16:43. > :16:47.impressive night for Mo Farah and Britain's athletes.

:16:47. > :16:51.Britain's team have enjoyed one of their best World Championships for

:16:51. > :16:56.years. And thanks to Mo Farah and Phillips Idowu, they have exceeded

:16:56. > :17:03.their medal targets. The question now is whether they can do even

:17:03. > :17:06.better in London next year. Not to be outdone by the athletes,

:17:06. > :17:10.there was further success for Britain's rowers on the final day

:17:10. > :17:14.of their World Championships in Slovenia. The men's four missed out

:17:14. > :17:19.on a medal last year but this time they won, seeing off a challenge by

:17:19. > :17:23.Greece. It was one of seven gold medals for the team. The men's

:17:23. > :17:26.lightweight double of Mark Hunter and jack purchase won gold as Great

:17:26. > :17:31.Britain finished top of the medals table.

:17:31. > :17:39.As England's footballers prepare to take on Wales at Wembley, their

:17:39. > :17:43.manager has received the news that Jack Wilshere will miss the rest of

:17:43. > :17:48.the qualifying campaign because of his ankle injury. He is expected to

:17:48. > :17:52.be out of action for another two months. It is a huge blow for his

:17:52. > :17:56.club, Arsenal. Andy Murray will play Feliciano

:17:56. > :18:00.Lopez overnight at the US Open for a place in the fourth round. There

:18:00. > :18:04.were distressing scenes earlier when Rafael Nadal collapsed in the

:18:04. > :18:08.press conference after his victory over David Nalbandian in very humid

:18:08. > :18:12.conditions. He slumped under his chair clutching his leg but ten

:18:12. > :18:17.minutes later, the world number two appeared to have recovered and was

:18:17. > :18:22.laughing about it revealing he had suffered from cramp.