22/10/2011 BBC Weekend News

Good afternoon. Libya's interim Prime Minister,

Mahmoud Jibril, says that elections will be meld held in the country in

eight months' time. He is facing pressure to explain how Colonel

Muammar Gaddafi died. A coroner is expected to carry out a postmortem

later today in Misrata, where his body is being held.

This reports contains strong images. Libyans, young and old have been

queuing up to see what has become of their old leader. Not liing in

state, but alongside his son in a cold storage unit unit. For Colonel

Muammar Gaddafi there will be no state funeral and few, if any

mourners. For the people here, there is no controversy over the

way in which he met his end. He has been killing us for eight

mons to rule ut us, I mean, he was ruling Libya with steel fists.

REPORTER: So he deserved what he got? Yes, of course! He deserved it

in my opinion. Yes. We want this to end.

Some human rights groups have called for an inquiry in to what

looked to many like a killing, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi allegedly

shot dead by his captors. Last night in Misrata, a huge party in

the city centre, celebrating the demise of the hated tyrant and the

prospect of a new Libya. New elections were announced by the

interim government. The first elections should take

place within a period of eight months maximum.

This is a sad, sorry and rather pathetic end to the life of one of

the most feared and hated dictators in the Middle East. Colonel Muammar

Gaddafi's body, bloodied and bruised, liing in a fridge in

Misrata. The Chancellor, George Osborne, has

warned that the eurozone debt crisis pose as real danger to

Britain's economy. He was speaking as he arrived in Brussels for a

meeting with the European finances ministers where they are to discuss

a solution to the crisis. Our correspondent is in Brussels,

what are they hoping to achieve? They have given themselves five

days of what amounts to a crisis meeting. They are trying to come

come up with a solution that is workable and credible to the

following host of problems. The facts that governments across the

continent are mired in debt. The banking system is deep in debt.

There are, even in Germany, Spain, Greece, the southern economies are

stagnating. They are looking at trying to work

out a way of coming up with a big enough bail out fund to manage with

the problem of all of this debt. It is now five days rather than the

original two days for this summit. I don't think that anybody is

expecting come Wednesday, in the final day of the summit, that there

will be a total solution to the crisis.

George Osborne has said that this has to make were gres, is there is

sense it is -- has to make progress, is there a sense it is doing so?

saying that it will move to a conclusion. They are dealing with

the problem of trying to ensure that the banking sector has the

capital inside of it to make sure that the banks do not collapse

under the weight of all of the government debt that is around. It

looks like they are moving towards a solution of being able to

recapitalise the banks in such a way as to save them, but again,

there is a lot of becomes-ticking to be done on that. We still don't

know if they are making significant progress.

An elderly British couple have been killed in flash-floods near the

Spanish resort of Benidorm. The pair were swept away from a cafe

bar in a street market town called Finestrat.

Alex Salmond is expected to tell the SNP's conference meeting in

Inverness, that independence will give Scotland the opportunity to

flourish as never before. James Cook is there for us. Some

people may say that the SNP is hedging its bets here? Alex Salmond

will not see it like that he is making a point this afternoon of

stressing that he still cease independence as his and his party's

primary option. As you say, the quote that we know he is to use is

"it will see our nation flourish as never before" but he is to talk

about the second option, a light or devolution max, what thauld would

do is to have powers for tax, tax- raising powers transferred to

Edinburgh and to control donk spending, while defence and foreign

affairs would remain the reserve of Westminster. Alex Salmond is

expected to say that is a legitimate proposal and he women

signal his willingness to include that along those lines.

How is it likely to go down with the grass roots? They are inclined

to trust the man who has delivered them with a stunning victory. They

are riding high here. One described what he is doing have having this

is an insurance policy. So there is a feeling if they won the second

option but did not win full independence in the referendum,

that they may get a chance for the push for the final powers to be

give no-one the future. This has been said that this is a once in a

generation experience for the party, that they must focus on this. This

party was formed 1934, the delegates are feeling in fine mood

that perhaps their goal of independence is there.

There are talks to find the resolution to the anti-capitalist

demonstration that has forced St Paul's Cathedral to close for the