08/04/2012 BBC Weekend News


08/04/2012

Similar Content

Browse content similar to 08/04/2012. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!

Transcript


LineFromTo

The Home Office website is targeted by hackers, a group called

:00:32.:00:38.

Anonymous claims responsibility. Hopes for a UN-backed ceasefire in

:00:38.:00:40.

Syria fade as President Assad demands new guarantees from his

:00:40.:00:50.
:00:50.:00:53.

opponents. On the lining. Who was it? And joy for Hoy as Sir Chris

:00:53.:01:03.
:01:03.:01:12.

wins Gold at the World Cycling The BBC has been given rare access

:01:12.:01:15.

to North Korea, one of the world's most secretive nations, as it

:01:15.:01:19.

prepares to launch a long-range rocket that some fear is a test for

:01:19.:01:23.

a ballistic missile. The international community has warned

:01:23.:01:26.

of sanctions if the launch goes ahead as planned in the next few

:01:26.:01:34.

days. Japan and South Korea have threatened to shoot it down. Our

:01:34.:01:36.

correspondent Damian Grammaticas was the only British broadcaster

:01:36.:01:38.

invited to witness the launch preparations, in Tongchang-dong in

:01:38.:01:46.

the north west of the country. Hidden in the hills, a birthday

:01:46.:01:51.

gift for a long dead dictator. Kim Il-Sung died 17 years ago, but he

:01:51.:01:56.

is officially the eternal president of North Korea. So to celebrate the

:01:56.:01:59.

centenary of his birth this week, his country is preparing to put a

:01:59.:02:05.

satellite in space. America and other nations are out rage. It is

:02:05.:02:10.

not what but Warwick -- rocket is carrying, but what is meant the. It

:02:10.:02:13.

is meant to be an international ballistic missile tests. North

:02:13.:02:18.

Korea possesses nuclear bombs and is developing missile technology to.

:02:18.:02:22.

The regime believes that is what guarantees its survival in the face

:02:22.:02:27.

of threats from America and elsewhere. Our journey to the

:02:27.:02:30.

launch site took five hours by train. The satellite is meant to

:02:30.:02:34.

show the world that the North Korean nation is strong and

:02:34.:02:39.

prosperous. We saw little that looked stronger or prosperous. The

:02:39.:02:43.

country ruled by Kim Il-Sung's grandson, remains isolated,

:02:44.:02:48.

stubbornly socialist and unable to feed all its people. And suspicious

:02:48.:02:56.

as well. Three times we were searched by security. North Korea

:02:56.:03:00.

insists launching a satellite is its sovereign right. The this has

:03:00.:03:06.

been planned long ago. This is done on the occasion of the 100 birthday

:03:06.:03:09.

of our President Kim Il-Sung. We are not doing it for a provocative

:03:09.:03:15.

purpose. We were shown at the satellite itself. It will broadcast

:03:16.:03:21.

songs glorifying the dead President. North Korea wants it -- a CSO it

:03:21.:03:26.

can say has nothing to hide and its intentions are peaceful. The UN

:03:26.:03:29.

Security Council has banned it from missile launchers. In the control

:03:29.:03:33.

room they say everything is ready for a list of this week. North

:03:33.:03:36.

Korea has problems begin its own people. Does he think it is right

:03:36.:03:43.

to spend this much money and effort on this Robert -- programme? If we

:03:43.:03:46.

do not develop our own technology, says the launch director, will

:03:46.:03:51.

become slaves. We need our own technology to be in advanced

:03:51.:03:55.

country and be a powerful space nation. The launch could trigger a

:03:55.:03:59.

dangerous sequence of events. South Korea and Japan say they will shoot

:03:59.:04:02.

down the rocket if it goes over their territory. America may seek

:04:02.:04:06.

new sanctions, and the North says any of those would be seen as BOP -

:04:06.:04:14.

Hackers who claim to have brought down the Government's Home Office

:04:14.:04:20.

website last night are threatening to strike again. A Twitter message

:04:20.:04:23.

from the group Anonymous UK, says the Government can expect attacks

:04:23.:04:25.

every Saturday from now on. Here's our Political Correspondent Ben

:04:25.:04:31.

Wright. They are called Anonymous, an online activist group who

:04:31.:04:35.

claimed to have attacked the Home Office website. It is the latest in

:04:35.:04:38.

a number of incidents involving official site since the start of

:04:38.:04:41.

the year. From 9pm last night, the department will website could not

:04:41.:04:48.

be accessed for several hours. People rely on a side like that for

:04:48.:04:51.

information and things that are akin to safety. People must realise

:04:51.:04:56.

there is no advantage in trying to block the site. The battle is

:04:56.:05:02.

between the people, us, Anonymous, and those who are in power. If you

:05:02.:05:10.

care at all about this stuff, then you are Anonymous. Anonymous is a

:05:10.:05:14.

loose global organisation and the Vatican and Mastercard websites

:05:14.:05:19.

have been previous targets. But why the Home Office? Some messages on

:05:19.:05:22.

the social networking side Twitter claimed it was in protest against

:05:22.:05:27.

the extradition of US -- UK citizens to the US, including Gary

:05:27.:05:30.

McKinnon and the student Richard O'Dwyer, accused of breaching

:05:30.:05:35.

copyright laws. Politicians of all parties have condemned the attack.

:05:35.:05:39.

I don't think it is very helpful. If you have grievances with

:05:39.:05:42.

government policy you should raise it in the usual way. We can't have

:05:42.:05:46.

a situation we have people hacking different government websites

:05:46.:05:50.

willy-nilly. Technology experts say it was not one of the most

:05:51.:05:54.

sophisticated cyber attacks. they have done is flooded the

:05:54.:05:58.

website with traffic so it is unavailable for legitimate requests.

:05:58.:06:02.

You can do this by getting a bunch of mates together and say click

:06:02.:06:07.

like crazy, or you can rent compromised computers, so there are

:06:07.:06:10.

millions of compromise computers that have some bitter that the

:06:10.:06:14.

virus where and you can rent them by the hour. It is easy and cheap.

:06:14.:06:19.

A Home Office said the public website was subject to an online

:06:19.:06:21.

protest but denied it had been hacked. A spokesman said the

:06:21.:06:24.

website contains no sensitive information and people here will

:06:24.:06:29.

carry on monitoring the situation. A soldier from the Queen's Royal

:06:29.:06:33.

Hussars has died two months after being injured by a roadside bomb in

:06:33.:06:35.

Afghanistan. The Ministry of Defence said tonight he'd been

:06:35.:06:37.

treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham since the

:06:37.:06:44.

beginning of February. His next of The prospects of a ceasefire in

:06:44.:06:46.

Syria to meet the Tuesday deadline backed by the United Nations

:06:46.:06:49.

suffered a severe setback today. The Syrian government says it now

:06:49.:06:51.

wants "written guarantees" from the opposition before it withdraws

:06:51.:07:01.
:07:01.:07:02.

troops and artillery. From Beirut, An unusual show of air power by the

:07:02.:07:05.

Syrian regime, flying military jets over the north of the country as

:07:05.:07:09.

troops and tanks battled on the ground below. Unlike Libya,

:07:09.:07:15.

Damascus knows there is no risk of getting shot down by NATO here.

:07:15.:07:19.

Further south, in Homs, several districts continue to be pounded by

:07:19.:07:22.

artillery and tanks. The bulk of the casualties inflicted by heavy

:07:22.:07:28.

weapons like these may be civilians, but as the opposition fighters are

:07:28.:07:33.

entrenched year, that is to the regime are after. After months of

:07:33.:07:36.

battering it has not been able to regain control. That is why just 48

:07:36.:07:40.

hours before it was meant to pour the military out of towns and

:07:40.:07:44.

cities, the foreign ministry announced its insistence on written

:07:44.:07:47.

guarantees that the rebels would stop fighting and surrender arms.

:07:47.:07:51.

It also wants guarantees that countries backing them, Saudi

:07:51.:07:56.

Arabia, Qatar and Turkey will promise to stop. The demands though

:07:56.:08:02.

the whole Kofi Annan plan into doubt. Government troops backed by

:08:02.:08:06.

tanks and artillery heavily art gone -- heavily outgunned the

:08:06.:08:09.

lightly armed rebels. Activists on the ground were scathing about the

:08:10.:08:19.
:08:20.:08:31.

But the government is taking hits. An armoured vehicle and the tank

:08:31.:08:36.

were knocked out in Homs. The government -- the rebels then they

:08:36.:08:40.

cannot conduct a peace plan, because if they pulled out the

:08:40.:08:48.

opposition would take over in many areas. Pakistan's President Asif

:08:48.:08:51.

Ali Zardari has visited India to try and ease strained relations

:08:51.:08:53.

between the two nuclear states. He's the first Pakistani leader to

:08:53.:08:56.

make the journey in seven years. Relations have been tense since the

:08:56.:09:02.

2008 Mumbai terror attack by Pakistani extremists.

:09:02.:09:05.

A teenager and his father have been killed in a car crash which has

:09:05.:09:08.

left his mother and nine-year-old sister in a critical condition in

:09:08.:09:11.

hospital. A pensioner also died when her car collided head-on with

:09:11.:09:17.

the family's VW Golf on a bridge in East Yorkshire. Fiona Trott reports.

:09:17.:09:20.

The the family from Birmingham were travelling over this bridge when it

:09:20.:09:24.

collided with a Volvo being driven by a 70 old woman. She died at the

:09:24.:09:33.

scene, along with the father and son. It was a head-on collision.

:09:33.:09:39.

There was smoke coming out of the Volvo. Children screaming. It was

:09:39.:09:44.

terrible. The pensioner's daughter was following close behind and

:09:44.:09:47.

arrived just seconds later. The woman has been named as Sheila

:09:48.:09:52.

Stavert-Lee, who lived near York. The other driver was Derek Sarkar.

:09:52.:10:02.
:10:02.:10:03.

His son Ethan was just 14. The two survivors, who were the wife of the

:10:03.:10:06.

driver and the nine-year-old daughter from the same family, they

:10:06.:10:10.

are in the General Infirmary in a critical condition. The road has

:10:10.:10:13.

now reopened. The police are asking anyone with information to come

:10:13.:10:21.

The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has used his last Easter

:10:21.:10:24.

sermon before standing down to remind the Church of England of the

:10:24.:10:26.

basis of its faith. Our religious affairs correspondent Robert Pigott

:10:26.:10:36.
:10:36.:10:36.

reports. Happy Easter, archbishop! Greeted

:10:36.:10:40.

by well-wishers, Rowan Williams entered Canterbury Cathedral for

:10:40.:10:47.

his final Easter service as archbishop. He used his sermon to

:10:47.:10:51.

reinforce what he said was the central claim of Christianity, that

:10:51.:10:56.

God really did raised Jesus from the dead. Almost a decade, Dr

:10:56.:11:00.

Williams has been warning that religion is being marginalised in

:11:00.:11:05.

public life. Today he spoke of a change in attitude. There are a few

:11:05.:11:11.

signs that the climate is shifting ever-so-slightly. Not towards a

:11:11.:11:16.

mass return to face, but at least towards a reluctant recognition

:11:16.:11:22.

that religion can't be blamed after all for absolutely everything.

:11:22.:11:26.

Archbishop Williams said a secular society was coming to regard

:11:26.:11:30.

Christianity is socially useful, as a tool, for example, for reforming

:11:30.:11:35.

what he called Our ludicrous and destructive economic habits. But Dr

:11:35.:11:38.

Williams warned that Christianity could not be stripped of its

:11:38.:11:46.

awkward beliefs such as the literal resurrection of Jesus, and

:11:46.:11:49.

continued to make sense. The archbishop who last week quashed

:11:49.:11:54.

the film -- ft of pilgrims said people could act in the world even

:11:54.:11:59.

to make peace in the Middle East. It was a view acute by the leader

:11:59.:12:02.

of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales. -- Abu echoed.

:12:02.:12:07.

The very fact of rising from the dead gives everyone hope in those

:12:07.:12:10.

circumstances, which is why I believe that this time we really

:12:10.:12:14.

should appreciate afresh and support with our prayers those who

:12:14.:12:20.

patiently work for peace. The Queen celebrated Easter at St George's

:12:20.:12:25.

Chapel in Windsor. In 60 years as head of the Church of England she

:12:25.:12:31.

has seen several archbishops, and A cruise retracing the route of the

:12:31.:12:33.

Titanic has set sail from Southampton, almost a century to

:12:33.:12:37.

the day since the liner left the same port on its ill-fated maiden

:12:37.:12:41.

voyage. Among those on board the MS Balmoral is our correspondent Jon

:12:41.:12:51.
:12:51.:12:53.

1,300 passengers, the same number as Titanic, about to set off from

:12:53.:13:00.

the same dogs following the same route. It is just emotional,

:13:00.:13:05.

phenomenal, so exciting. It has been two and a half years of

:13:05.:13:12.

planning, this. There are people from 28 different countries on

:13:12.:13:17.

board. Tickets sold out two years ago. Some have questioned whether a

:13:18.:13:22.

cruise is an appropriate way to mark the centenary of a disaster in

:13:23.:13:27.

which 1,500 people perished, but Susie Miller from Belfast, whose

:13:27.:13:31.

great-grandfather died on the Titanic is proud to be on board.

:13:31.:13:36.

is not mawkish or ghoulish, it is about setting down a marker that

:13:36.:13:42.

week as a family are proud of what he did. -- we as a family. As the

:13:42.:13:47.

Balmoral pulled away from the very birth that the Titanic left, some

:13:47.:13:56.

passengers were clearly thinking about certain aspects of history.

:13:56.:14:01.

It will be fine. Absolutely fine. Icebergs are less of a hazard these

:14:01.:14:05.

days. The captain has technology to guide his ship across the Atlantic.

:14:05.:14:11.

The voyage is about 2000 miles. From Southampton to Cherbourg in

:14:11.:14:17.

northern France, where Titanic picked up extra passengers. Then

:14:17.:14:20.

tomorrow to County Cork, where most of titanic's Irish passengers

:14:20.:14:25.

joined. Then we will head to the site of the wreck, in time for a

:14:25.:14:30.

remembrance service next weekend, precisely 100 years after the

:14:30.:14:35.

disaster. After all the excitement of the departure, tonight, in open

:14:35.:14:39.

seas, the mood on this ship has changed as people reflect on where

:14:39.:14:49.
:14:49.:14:51.

they are going and what this is all Sport now and Lizzie Greenwood-

:14:52.:14:55.

Download Subtitles

SRT

ASS