:00:09. > :00:16.Members of the British military are severely criticised for the assault
:00:16. > :00:19.and death of Iraqi man in its detention in 2003. Baha Mousa was
:00:19. > :00:29.arrested in the southern city of Basra, and died after sustaining 93
:00:29. > :00:34.injuries, the inquiry head gives a damning report.
:00:34. > :00:44.I find that hooding and stress conditions as a form of
:00:44. > :00:46.
:00:46. > :00:56.conditioning were wholly unacceptable in any circumstances.
:00:56. > :00:57.
:00:57. > :00:59.Welcome to GMT. I'm Naga Munchetty. Also in the programme: Staying
:01:00. > :01:05.defiant, Libya's Colonel Gaddafi contacts a Syrian TV station and
:01:05. > :01:13.denies that he has fled to neighbouring Niger.
:01:13. > :01:21.Hand, an emotional journey to Pakistan, for the adoption of a
:01:21. > :01:23.baby daughter. It's 7am in Washington, 1pm in Tripoli, midday
:01:23. > :01:26.here in London. Where several soldiers and officers of the
:01:26. > :01:30.British military have been severely criticised for assaulting an Iraqi
:01:30. > :01:33.man who was held in their custody in 2003. Baha Mousa was arrested in
:01:33. > :01:36.the southern Iraqi city of Basra, after British soldiers found
:01:36. > :01:39.weapons and fake identity cards. He was beaten during interrogation,
:01:39. > :01:42.and died after sustaining almost 100 injuries. The chairman of a
:01:42. > :01:52.British inquiry into the death, Sir William Gage, says the treatment of
:01:52. > :02:02.
:02:02. > :02:08.the prisoner was completely unacceptable.
:02:08. > :02:13.And done by units in Iraq. My judgment it is that they
:02:13. > :02:18.constituted an appalling episode of serious, gratuitous violence on
:02:18. > :02:24.civilians, which resulted in the death of One man and injuries to
:02:24. > :02:28.others. They represented a very serious breach of discipline by a
:02:28. > :02:35.number of members of 1 QLR. world affairs correspondent
:02:35. > :02:42.Humphrey Hawksley joins us. This is a damning report. Very
:02:42. > :02:47.clear the message. It is very clear cut. As we absorb the information
:02:47. > :02:51.taken from 388 witnesses over many months, coming in such a measured
:02:51. > :02:57.way we detail of what happened, if we go over that, videos have been
:02:57. > :03:02.shown of this. A man, held in a stress position, handcuffed,
:03:02. > :03:09.deprived of sleep, in very high temperatures. Many of those things
:03:09. > :03:15.breaking laws brought in, in 1972, and entrenched in Army culture,
:03:15. > :03:21.everyone knows this is not have to do things. This is a rogue group?
:03:21. > :03:26.What comes out of this is, there was no oversight into what they
:03:26. > :03:31.were doing. The Colonel, the major, the lieutenant, were fought
:03:31. > :03:36.strongly criticised for not intervening, not checking. Because
:03:36. > :03:42.of that, if those couple of days this happened, Baha Mousa ended up
:03:42. > :03:47.dead, under British military care. The inquiry found it and did so
:03:47. > :03:53.much work that the British troops were trying to do in Basra, which
:03:53. > :03:57.British foreign policy was to try to do in Iraq. This now demands a
:03:57. > :04:02.period of intense reflection by the British Army. The after 70
:04:02. > :04:06.recommendations from the inquiry. If you look at them, they seem to
:04:06. > :04:10.be common sense. When a prisoner is taken in under British military
:04:10. > :04:16.care, you should check they are all right. After four hours, they
:04:17. > :04:22.should have a medical. There should be a detention officer, who will
:04:22. > :04:25.check things are not going wrong. Is it surprising such basic
:04:25. > :04:32.requirements are now being recommended? Shouldn't this had
:04:32. > :04:37.been in place before? This is the question. What defence people are
:04:37. > :04:43.saying is if this was an entrenched culture, of which the inquiry found
:04:43. > :04:49.it wasn't, we would be having many more Baha Mousa inquiries. This was
:04:49. > :04:54.a rogue group, that warren green probably about an attack on their
:04:54. > :04:58.friends. But then, what officials say is, they might have been angry
:04:58. > :05:03.but there were rather British regiments whose friends were being
:05:03. > :05:08.killed and they did not act like this. This is not institutional
:05:08. > :05:14.within the British Army. From training, they are told this must
:05:14. > :05:18.not happen, but somehow it did. The command from the colonel down did
:05:18. > :05:26.not do enough to check that things were going all right during the
:05:26. > :05:29.interrogation. Colonel Gaddafi called a Syrian
:05:29. > :05:32.television station to dismiss claims that he's fled to Niger as
:05:32. > :05:36.'lies". He says that the reports are "part of the psychological war"
:05:36. > :05:40.waged by his opponents. Meanwhile, Libya's National Transitional
:05:40. > :05:50.Council says that it is sending representatives to Niger to ask the
:05:50. > :05:52.
:05:52. > :05:57.government not to shelter Colonel The demise of Colonel Gaddafi has
:05:58. > :06:03.put Niger in a dilemma. The northern town of Agadez has long
:06:03. > :06:08.been the gateway for vital trade between the two countries. That
:06:08. > :06:13.trade and political ties have centred on the man who ran Libya
:06:13. > :06:17.for four decades. He invested large sums of money here, here and some
:06:17. > :06:24.respect. Now there is fear about the spillover from a war he seems
:06:24. > :06:29.to have lost. TRANSLATION: These people will bring instability. We
:06:29. > :06:34.do not know what will become of it afterwards. There is concern about
:06:34. > :06:39.how instability could spread across the region south of Libya.
:06:39. > :06:43.TRANSLATION: I am very afraid. All the countries bordering Libya are
:06:43. > :06:49.afraid because it is something which will stagnate development.
:06:49. > :06:55.The government here does not want to alienate the opponents or
:06:55. > :06:58.supporters of Gaddafi. TRANSLATION: The government would
:06:58. > :07:05.like to tell the national and international community that
:07:05. > :07:10.Colonel Gaddafi is not on Niger's soil at the moment. But it hasn't
:07:10. > :07:15.ruled out allowing Gaddafi to come hit in a humanitarian gesture.
:07:15. > :07:20.There is pressure on Niger from the west and the National Transitional
:07:20. > :07:30.Council not to do this. It is a dilemma this poor and often
:07:30. > :07:37.
:07:37. > :07:41.unstable country could well do without.
:07:41. > :07:45.We now go to Benghazi where the National Transitional Council is
:07:45. > :07:48.based and we ask how concerned they are about Gaddafi fleeing the
:07:48. > :07:54.country. Overall, they don't seem concerned
:07:54. > :07:58.about the situation. People, the opposition want to make it clear
:07:58. > :08:03.there is no deal, they are not prepared to see Colonel Gaddafi
:08:03. > :08:07.leave the country in return for the restoration of stability and peace.
:08:07. > :08:13.They want to capture Colonel Gaddafi and put him on trial inside
:08:13. > :08:17.Libya. They are not concerned his forces control parts of the country
:08:17. > :08:27.or whether he is still in the country. They want to bring him to
:08:27. > :08:33.
:08:33. > :08:37.justice here in Libya. Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev
:08:37. > :08:40.has visited the site of the plane crash that killed most of one of
:08:40. > :08:43.the country's top ice-hockey team, Lokomotiv. More than 40 people were
:08:43. > :08:46.killed including 36 players and officials of the squad. The Yak-42
:08:46. > :08:55.came down near Yaroslavl, north east of Moscow, shortly after take-
:08:55. > :08:57.off. In Germany, two men have been arrested in Berlin on suspicion of
:08:57. > :09:00.plotting to set off bombs. The suspects are a 24-year-old
:09:00. > :09:03.German of Lebanese descent, and a 28-year-old from Gaza. Police
:09:03. > :09:05.allege that they had purchased chemicals suitable for bomb-making.
:09:05. > :09:09.Kenya's Prime Minister, Raila Odinga, has confirmed that the
:09:09. > :09:11.country will host a two-day summit to discuss ways of tackling the
:09:11. > :09:14.region's humanitarian crisis, triggered by severe drought. The UN
:09:14. > :09:17.this week announced that famine conditions had now spread to a
:09:17. > :09:27.sixth area of Somalia, and that three-quarters of a million people
:09:27. > :09:37.
:09:37. > :09:45.were facing famine. Nora macro is trying to -- is
:09:45. > :09:50.bringing a campaign to the United Nations over the killing of his son.
:09:50. > :09:57.It was a very warm reception in New York. The city's councillors
:09:57. > :10:02.honoured his kidnapped son, proclaiming this Gilad day. And but
:10:02. > :10:07.the father has come to make his case at the un, arguing against a
:10:07. > :10:12.bid to seek recognition by the Palestinians. He says this status
:10:12. > :10:22.should not be granted as long as his son is held captive in Gaza.
:10:22. > :10:23.
:10:23. > :10:27.We are not against a Palestinian state. We just claim recognition as
:10:27. > :10:35.a legitimate state or membership of the United Nations, on one hand,
:10:35. > :10:40.and on the other hand, holding a hostage for more than five years.
:10:40. > :10:50.It is clearly a breach of international law. Those two things
:10:50. > :10:51.
:10:51. > :10:56.cannot live together. Gilad was kidnapped five years ago. Soon
:10:56. > :11:02.after, Israel launched an offensive to secure his release, it said, and
:11:02. > :11:07.to stop Palestinian rocket attacks. 300 Palestinians were killed. In
:11:07. > :11:11.2009, Hamas, the group holding him, released a video of him reading a
:11:11. > :11:16.newspaper to prove he was alive. Negotiations for his release have
:11:16. > :11:19.been on and off. It is that the United Nations that his father is
:11:19. > :11:23.increasing pressure on the Palestinians. But they are divided
:11:23. > :11:26.between the Palestinian operative in the west Bank and Hamas which
:11:26. > :11:31.controls Gaza. And the ones who want to upgrade their status here
:11:31. > :11:38.on what the ones who hold his son. That's a distinction his father
:11:38. > :11:43.rejects. From my point of view, it is a poor decision. The perceived -
:11:43. > :11:53.- Palestinians are one and the same. After five years, Mr Gilad Shalit
:11:53. > :11:58.
:11:58. > :12:07.it is not that a confident it will bring his -- -- Mr Shalit does not
:12:07. > :12:10.feel so confident. Contenders for the US Republican
:12:10. > :12:17.Party candidacy in next year's presidential election have appeared
:12:17. > :12:21.in a televised debate in California. May eight candidates, two hours of
:12:21. > :12:25.questions on live TV, and the election one year away. That's
:12:25. > :12:31.American politics. There was one thing clear amid the tangle of
:12:31. > :12:35.specifics, it was how far to the right the Republican party -- the
:12:35. > :12:39.Republican Party has been moving can a band to the Tea Party
:12:39. > :12:49.movement. For if the Republican Party is for
:12:49. > :12:49.
:12:49. > :12:54.helping us create jobs, I am for the tea party -- Tea Party.
:12:54. > :13:02.The all eyes were on the Texas Governor Rick Perry, the current
:13:02. > :13:07.favourite. The newest candidate in his first debate. He held his own.
:13:07. > :13:14.Michael Dukakis created jobs five times faster than you did. George
:13:14. > :13:18.Bush created jobs at a faster rate than you did, governor. Jobs and
:13:19. > :13:24.the economy dominated. They all agreed on one thing. Whoever the
:13:24. > :13:28.nominee is, we're all for defeating Barack Obama. The applause was for
:13:28. > :13:33.Nancy Reagan, the event hosted in the library devoted to her late
:13:33. > :13:38.husband. Devastate in as our economy is with the policies of
:13:38. > :13:43.Barack Obama. Michele Bachmann led a poll a few weeks ago but her
:13:43. > :13:53.campaign has lost its momentum. A lot of talk, all eyes will be on
:13:53. > :13:58.the next opinion polls. But Sarah Palin is still waiting in the wings
:13:58. > :14:04.who might yet joined the race for the White House.
:14:04. > :14:09.Still to come. Will remember 9/11. BBC News
:14:09. > :14:19.viewers share their memories. I couldn't take in what I was
:14:19. > :14:22.
:14:23. > :14:27.seeing was real, it seemed like a Jobs are in focus. We look to the
:14:27. > :14:29.tows get an investigation of global recovery. Yeah, absolutely. All
:14:29. > :14:33.eyes and ears on this speech by President Obama. It's aimed at
:14:33. > :14:36.getting Americans back to work. I mean, the jobless picture in
:14:36. > :14:41.America has always been the dead weight around the US economy. It's
:14:41. > :14:45.been a jobless recovery. You have an unemployment rate in the US of
:14:45. > :14:49.hovering around 9% for the past two years, 14 million Americans are out
:14:49. > :14:56.of work. That's why the expectation and the hope that when President
:14:56. > :15:00.Obama delivers this speech, it's been much anticipated. He will
:15:00. > :15:03.deliver a $300 billion back to work programme, to include tax
:15:03. > :15:07.incentives for companies who take on employees, infrastructure
:15:07. > :15:11.programmes, building roads, bridges etc, but here's the thing, you have
:15:11. > :15:16.got to remember, since the financial crisis the US government
:15:16. > :15:23.has pumped in $1 trillion into the ulz economy. The question with this
:15:24. > :15:27.programme is will it work and will it be passed by Congress? If it's a
:15:27. > :15:31.wide-ranging spending package, the chances of it getting through the
:15:31. > :15:37.Republican House are rather slim. I think tax cuts probably have a
:15:37. > :15:41.better chance of getting through. OK, so tax cuts, but that speech 12
:15:41. > :15:44.midnight, UK time is when he delivers that. So the reaction
:15:44. > :15:47.tomorrow will be very interesting, certainly on the markets around the
:15:47. > :15:53.world, Asian markets will be the first to react. Well we can look
:15:53. > :15:59.ahead to that, but we've had news in the last 30sebgdz. Yes. And?
:15:59. > :16:02.haven't haert it yet? Have you got it The ECB have left interest rates
:16:02. > :16:08.on hold. No surprises. It is interest day for many countries
:16:08. > :16:16.around the world, butt Bank of England, less than an hour ago,
:16:16. > :16:20.left interest rates on a record low, 0.5%, two-and-a-half years at that
:16:20. > :16:23.left. -- level. They say there's been no stimulus. There were
:16:23. > :16:27.expectations of a stimulus programme. We can expect interest
:16:27. > :16:31.rates in this country to remain at that level for two years. The ECB
:16:31. > :16:34.is interesting. The talk about the ECB, they decided to raise interest
:16:34. > :16:36.rates. July was the last time. Going against the grain of what
:16:36. > :16:40.everyone else has been doing, because it was worried about
:16:40. > :16:44.inflation, that seems to have been the wrong strategy. Inflationary
:16:44. > :16:50.worries are off the table. The worry is growth or a lack of growth,
:16:50. > :16:53.in particular, of course, in the core of the eurozone, where we're
:16:53. > :16:56.seeing really Germany and France slowing considerably, manufacturing
:16:56. > :17:00.numbers down, consumer confidence is down. So, it's a worry. Growth
:17:00. > :17:04.is the focus for the eurozone now. Interest rates unchanged by the
:17:04. > :17:07.European Central Bank at 1.5%.. Thanks for giving me that news. Any
:17:07. > :17:13.time! Let us know what you think of what
:17:14. > :17:23.we're doing at GMT. The best way is through the website bbc.co.uk/gmt.
:17:24. > :17:25.
:17:25. > :17:29.You can watch highlights from the This is GMT from BBC World News.
:17:29. > :17:32.I'm Naga Munchetty. The headlines this hour - a long awaited report
:17:33. > :17:40.has found evidence of assault and illegal techniques were used
:17:40. > :17:43.against the Iraqi detainee, Baha Mousa. It amounted to a very
:17:43. > :17:47.serious breach of discipline said Sir William Gage.
:17:47. > :17:57.Colonel Gaddafi denies he's fled to Niger. He phones a Syrian
:17:57. > :18:00.television station to say so. OK, let's move on now. We're
:18:01. > :18:06.talking about adopting a child. As it's an emotionally charged process
:18:06. > :18:09.at the best of time. Adopt ago broad adds new layers of stress,
:18:09. > :18:13.uncertainty and even danger, making the experience a journey fraught
:18:13. > :18:17.with challenges. My next guest, Saira Khan, took this journey when
:18:17. > :18:21.she and her husband decided to adopt a baby girl from Pakistan. We
:18:21. > :18:27.speak to her in a moment. First, here's a taste of what she found
:18:27. > :18:30.when she arrived in Karachi, Pakistan's financial capital.
:18:30. > :18:34.Babies are abandoned every week on the streets of Karachi. Sometimes
:18:34. > :18:44.they're left in this cradle, which stands just outside the Edhi
:18:44. > :18:49.
:18:49. > :18:59.Abandoned newborns, most of them girls, are usually found homes
:18:59. > :19:02.
:19:02. > :19:09.locally by the woman who runs the orphanage. It is this woman alone
:19:09. > :19:13.who will decide whether or not to give Saira a baby.
:19:13. > :19:17.Saira Khan is with us now, for British viewers, we know you from
:19:17. > :19:21.the first series of the show The Apprentice. Time has moved on since
:19:21. > :19:25.then, as has your family as well. It's interesting, because when you
:19:25. > :19:30.read about people who adopt from abroad, and please don't take this
:19:30. > :19:38.offencively, you think OK, stars wanting some attention. They go to
:19:38. > :19:41.another country, Madonna, Joel Joel Joel, what drove you to do this?
:19:41. > :19:45.wantsed to complete my family and for me, it was the fact that I
:19:45. > :19:50.can't have children naturally and my second IVF attempt failed.
:19:50. > :19:54.already have one child? Yes, I have a son. He was IVF. I was lucky to
:19:54. > :19:58.have him. At the second, when the second one failed, I just thought,
:19:58. > :20:02.you know, that's enough. Can you just get onto this cycle of IVF,
:20:02. > :20:05.and I thought actually, there are so many children out there that
:20:05. > :20:10.want loving parents and we want a child, so let's do it. Tell us what
:20:10. > :20:13.you saw in Pakistan. You decided to go to Pakistan. Yes, can I add
:20:13. > :20:17.though, that in order to adopt in this country, you have to go
:20:17. > :20:22.through the British adoption system, which takes eight months. You have
:20:22. > :20:26.to be approved before you can go. I couldn't just say, hey there's a
:20:26. > :20:31.child that needs help in Pakistan, let's rock over. You absolutely
:20:31. > :20:35.cannot do that. Right. Have you to follow a process. But Pakistan,
:20:35. > :20:39.because my heritage is there. My father's buried out there. I can
:20:39. > :20:44.speak the language. I know the culture. I visited the orphanage a
:20:44. > :20:47.few years ago, when I made another documentary for the BBC. The images
:20:47. > :20:50.and the stores stuck with me and the children stuck with me, so I
:20:50. > :20:54.went back. Tell us about your little girl. Tell us about the
:20:54. > :20:58.process when you first met her? don't want to spoil it because the
:20:58. > :21:02.documentary is on tonight. I'll never forget the first moment I saw
:21:02. > :21:07.her. It was totally emotional. I bonded with her as soon as I set my
:21:07. > :21:11.eyes on her. I just, I had a lot of apprehensions and pre-conceived
:21:11. > :21:17.ideas about what that moment would be like, but it was a natural, I
:21:17. > :21:23.love you instantly and a natural motherly kind of connection.
:21:23. > :21:27.will shaedapt? She's a baby, she won't really know that she's moving
:21:27. > :21:31.from countries. What culture will you instil in her? Will she know
:21:31. > :21:35.that she is from Pakistan? Will you make sure she has that connection?
:21:35. > :21:39.In order tore me to adopt from Pakistan, I had to prove to social
:21:39. > :21:42.workers and the social system that I would respect her heritage and
:21:42. > :21:46.culture and make sure that she always had ties back with that
:21:46. > :21:51.country. So we have plans to go back every year, when it's safe.
:21:51. > :21:58.And also, we have to do a story book for her. I've kept every
:21:58. > :22:02.single thing for her from her time that she spent in Pakistan. But she
:22:02. > :22:06.will have issues in terms of her identity later on. She may ask
:22:06. > :22:11.questions about who, you know, where do I come from? She's
:22:11. > :22:14.experienced loss. That's how the whole adoption process helps you to
:22:14. > :22:19.cope. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you for telling us your story.
:22:19. > :22:22.Thank you. A French court has just passed
:22:22. > :22:26.verdict in the trial of the British fashion designer John Galliano. He
:22:26. > :22:33.was accused of making anti-Semitic remarks to customers in a Paris bar
:22:33. > :22:38.six months ago. We can bring you those, a French court has sentenced
:22:38. > :22:43.John Galliano, a further 2,000 euro fine over that behaviour in this
:22:43. > :22:47.second complaint. 9/11 changed the world forever. It
:22:47. > :22:50.was one of those moments most of us will be able to remember for many,
:22:50. > :22:54.many years to come. Many of us will remember exactly where we were when
:22:54. > :23:04.we heard and saw the news. BBC World News has asked viewers to
:23:04. > :23:06.
:23:06. > :23:11.I remember going into the science technician's room at school. She
:23:11. > :23:17.was leaning against the work bench and gazing at a small television on
:23:17. > :23:22.top of a filing cabinet. She said, "Andy, come and see this." And I
:23:22. > :23:29.remember standing and watching in silence and I just really couldn't
:23:29. > :23:35.take in that what I was seeing was real. It seems like some kind of
:23:35. > :23:45.disaster movie. We stood and we watched and slowly, others joined
:23:45. > :23:48.
:23:48. > :23:54.us. They watched too. I remember just the silence and the kind of
:23:54. > :24:00.numbness, the inability to accept what I was seeing. It wasn't really,
:24:00. > :24:07.I suppose, even maybe until the next day that I really began to
:24:07. > :24:13.dawn on me how awful what I'd seen had really been. Interestingly, on
:24:13. > :24:17.the day of 9/11 event, I was at a friend's house. There was a very
:24:17. > :24:23.small room fully covered, because during that regime you were not
:24:24. > :24:29.allowed to watch movie or TV. So we turned on the TV and there was a
:24:29. > :24:32.News Channel. I saw that there are two big buildings headed by planes.
:24:32. > :24:37.On that night I didn't know what's going on. The next day when I went
:24:37. > :24:44.home, I found out that Al-Qaeda attacked the US Twin Towers in the
:24:44. > :24:48.United States. We didn't know that that's going to end up that the
:24:48. > :24:51.Taliban regime would collapse in Afghanistan and the US would come
:24:51. > :24:55.to Afghanistan and fight against the Taliban regime.
:24:55. > :25:00.We were sitting in the conference, listening to the instructor, when
:25:00. > :25:03.somebody walked in and spoke to him quietly. At that point, the
:25:03. > :25:07.instructor informed us that there was something going on in New York
:25:07. > :25:13.and that a television had been set up in the next room, in the
:25:13. > :25:18.refreshment room, by the hotel. We walked into the room, just as the
:25:18. > :25:23.second plane was hitting the tower. Initially we all thought it was
:25:23. > :25:28.just awe repeat of the first plane. Once we real aislesed what was
:25:28. > :25:32.going on, it stunned us. It was a day I've never forgotten, a day
:25:32. > :25:36.that will probably live with me for the rest of my life. It was only a
:25:36. > :25:41.few -- there are only a few days like, that but that's definitely
:25:41. > :25:47.one of them. BBC world viewers giving us their memories of 9/11.
:25:47. > :25:52.Well, in other news, we've had a ruling on the John Galliano case.
:25:52. > :25:56.Our correspondent Christian Fraser, is joining us from Paris. Yes, he's
:25:56. > :26:04.been handed a 6,000 euro suspended fine, which means that he won't
:26:04. > :26:07.have to pay the fine, if he carries himself in good behaviour and
:26:07. > :26:11.doesn't repeat what he did back in March. I think that is probably
:26:11. > :26:14.about the lightest sentence he could possibly expect. It really
:26:14. > :26:18.shows the pity and sympathy I think the prosecuter had for him by the
:26:18. > :26:22.end of this trial. We saw the figure of a very fragile man, who
:26:22. > :26:26.was in a downward psych until his life and addicted to drink and
:26:26. > :26:30.drugs and I think, the court has been lenient on this occasion. He
:26:30. > :26:34.has, of course, paid the ultimate price. He lost his �4 million job
:26:34. > :26:37.at Dior and the job at his own label. The cost to his own personal
:26:37. > :26:41.reputation is immense. The question now, having been passed this
:26:41. > :26:45.sentence, is whether he will ever be able to attain the heights he