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Members of the British military are severely criticised for the assault | :00:09. | :00:16. | |
and death of Iraqi man in its detention in 2003. Baha Mousa was | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
arrested in the southern city of Basra, and died after sustaining 93 | :00:19. | :00:29. | |
injuries, the inquiry head gives a damning report. | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
I find that hooding and stress conditions as a form of | :00:34. | :00:44. | |
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conditioning were wholly unacceptable in any circumstances. | :00:46. | :00:56. | |
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Welcome to GMT. I'm Naga Munchetty. Also in the programme: Staying | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
defiant, Libya's Colonel Gaddafi contacts a Syrian TV station and | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
denies that he has fled to neighbouring Niger. | :01:05. | :01:13. | |
Hand, an emotional journey to Pakistan, for the adoption of a | :01:13. | :01:21. | |
baby daughter. It's 7am in Washington, 1pm in Tripoli, midday | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
here in London. Where several soldiers and officers of the | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
British military have been severely criticised for assaulting an Iraqi | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
man who was held in their custody in 2003. Baha Mousa was arrested in | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
the southern Iraqi city of Basra, after British soldiers found | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
weapons and fake identity cards. He was beaten during interrogation, | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
and died after sustaining almost 100 injuries. The chairman of a | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
British inquiry into the death, Sir William Gage, says the treatment of | :01:42. | :01:52. | |
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the prisoner was completely unacceptable. | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
And done by units in Iraq. My judgment it is that they | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
constituted an appalling episode of serious, gratuitous violence on | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
civilians, which resulted in the death of One man and injuries to | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
others. They represented a very serious breach of discipline by a | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
number of members of 1 QLR. world affairs correspondent | :02:28. | :02:35. | |
Humphrey Hawksley joins us. This is a damning report. Very | :02:35. | :02:42. | |
clear the message. It is very clear cut. As we absorb the information | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
taken from 388 witnesses over many months, coming in such a measured | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
way we detail of what happened, if we go over that, videos have been | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
shown of this. A man, held in a stress position, handcuffed, | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
deprived of sleep, in very high temperatures. Many of those things | :03:02. | :03:09. | |
breaking laws brought in, in 1972, and entrenched in Army culture, | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
everyone knows this is not have to do things. This is a rogue group? | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
What comes out of this is, there was no oversight into what they | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
were doing. The Colonel, the major, the lieutenant, were fought | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
strongly criticised for not intervening, not checking. Because | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
of that, if those couple of days this happened, Baha Mousa ended up | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
dead, under British military care. The inquiry found it and did so | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
much work that the British troops were trying to do in Basra, which | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
British foreign policy was to try to do in Iraq. This now demands a | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
period of intense reflection by the British Army. The after 70 | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
recommendations from the inquiry. If you look at them, they seem to | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
be common sense. When a prisoner is taken in under British military | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
care, you should check they are all right. After four hours, they | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
should have a medical. There should be a detention officer, who will | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
check things are not going wrong. Is it surprising such basic | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
requirements are now being recommended? Shouldn't this had | :04:25. | :04:32. | |
been in place before? This is the question. What defence people are | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
saying is if this was an entrenched culture, of which the inquiry found | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
it wasn't, we would be having many more Baha Mousa inquiries. This was | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
a rogue group, that warren green probably about an attack on their | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
friends. But then, what officials say is, they might have been angry | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
but there were rather British regiments whose friends were being | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
killed and they did not act like this. This is not institutional | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
within the British Army. From training, they are told this must | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
not happen, but somehow it did. The command from the colonel down did | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
not do enough to check that things were going all right during the | :05:18. | :05:26. | |
interrogation. Colonel Gaddafi called a Syrian | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
television station to dismiss claims that he's fled to Niger as | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
'lies". He says that the reports are "part of the psychological war" | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
waged by his opponents. Meanwhile, Libya's National Transitional | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
Council says that it is sending representatives to Niger to ask the | :05:40. | :05:50. | |
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government not to shelter Colonel The demise of Colonel Gaddafi has | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
put Niger in a dilemma. The northern town of Agadez has long | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
been the gateway for vital trade between the two countries. That | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
trade and political ties have centred on the man who ran Libya | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
for four decades. He invested large sums of money here, here and some | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
respect. Now there is fear about the spillover from a war he seems | :06:17. | :06:24. | |
to have lost. TRANSLATION: These people will bring instability. We | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
do not know what will become of it afterwards. There is concern about | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
how instability could spread across the region south of Libya. | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
TRANSLATION: I am very afraid. All the countries bordering Libya are | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
afraid because it is something which will stagnate development. | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
The government here does not want to alienate the opponents or | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
supporters of Gaddafi. TRANSLATION: The government would | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
like to tell the national and international community that | :06:58. | :07:05. | |
Colonel Gaddafi is not on Niger's soil at the moment. But it hasn't | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
ruled out allowing Gaddafi to come hit in a humanitarian gesture. | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
There is pressure on Niger from the west and the National Transitional | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
Council not to do this. It is a dilemma this poor and often | :07:20. | :07:30. | |
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unstable country could well do without. | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
We now go to Benghazi where the National Transitional Council is | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
based and we ask how concerned they are about Gaddafi fleeing the | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
country. Overall, they don't seem concerned | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
about the situation. People, the opposition want to make it clear | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
there is no deal, they are not prepared to see Colonel Gaddafi | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
leave the country in return for the restoration of stability and peace. | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
They want to capture Colonel Gaddafi and put him on trial inside | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
Libya. They are not concerned his forces control parts of the country | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
or whether he is still in the country. They want to bring him to | :08:17. | :08:27. | |
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justice here in Libya. Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
has visited the site of the plane crash that killed most of one of | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
the country's top ice-hockey team, Lokomotiv. More than 40 people were | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
killed including 36 players and officials of the squad. The Yak-42 | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
came down near Yaroslavl, north east of Moscow, shortly after take- | :08:46. | :08:55. | |
off. In Germany, two men have been arrested in Berlin on suspicion of | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
plotting to set off bombs. The suspects are a 24-year-old | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
German of Lebanese descent, and a 28-year-old from Gaza. Police | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
allege that they had purchased chemicals suitable for bomb-making. | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
Kenya's Prime Minister, Raila Odinga, has confirmed that the | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
country will host a two-day summit to discuss ways of tackling the | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
region's humanitarian crisis, triggered by severe drought. The UN | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
this week announced that famine conditions had now spread to a | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
sixth area of Somalia, and that three-quarters of a million people | :09:17. | :09:27. | |
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were facing famine. Nora macro is trying to -- is | :09:37. | :09:45. | |
bringing a campaign to the United Nations over the killing of his son. | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
It was a very warm reception in New York. The city's councillors | :09:50. | :09:57. | |
honoured his kidnapped son, proclaiming this Gilad day. And but | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
the father has come to make his case at the un, arguing against a | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
bid to seek recognition by the Palestinians. He says this status | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
should not be granted as long as his son is held captive in Gaza. | :10:12. | :10:22. | |
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We are not against a Palestinian state. We just claim recognition as | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
a legitimate state or membership of the United Nations, on one hand, | :10:27. | :10:35. | |
and on the other hand, holding a hostage for more than five years. | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
It is clearly a breach of international law. Those two things | :10:40. | :10:50. | |
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cannot live together. Gilad was kidnapped five years ago. Soon | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
after, Israel launched an offensive to secure his release, it said, and | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
to stop Palestinian rocket attacks. 300 Palestinians were killed. In | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
2009, Hamas, the group holding him, released a video of him reading a | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
newspaper to prove he was alive. Negotiations for his release have | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
been on and off. It is that the United Nations that his father is | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
increasing pressure on the Palestinians. But they are divided | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
between the Palestinian operative in the west Bank and Hamas which | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
controls Gaza. And the ones who want to upgrade their status here | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
on what the ones who hold his son. That's a distinction his father | :11:31. | :11:38. | |
rejects. From my point of view, it is a poor decision. The perceived - | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
- Palestinians are one and the same. After five years, Mr Gilad Shalit | :11:43. | :11:53. | |
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it is not that a confident it will bring his -- -- Mr Shalit does not | :11:58. | :12:07. | |
feel so confident. Contenders for the US Republican | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
Party candidacy in next year's presidential election have appeared | :12:10. | :12:17. | |
in a televised debate in California. May eight candidates, two hours of | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
questions on live TV, and the election one year away. That's | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
American politics. There was one thing clear amid the tangle of | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
specifics, it was how far to the right the Republican party -- the | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
Republican Party has been moving can a band to the Tea Party | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
movement. For if the Republican Party is for | :12:39. | :12:49. | |
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helping us create jobs, I am for the tea party -- Tea Party. | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
The all eyes were on the Texas Governor Rick Perry, the current | :12:54. | :13:02. | |
favourite. The newest candidate in his first debate. He held his own. | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
Michael Dukakis created jobs five times faster than you did. George | :13:07. | :13:14. | |
Bush created jobs at a faster rate than you did, governor. Jobs and | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
the economy dominated. They all agreed on one thing. Whoever the | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
nominee is, we're all for defeating Barack Obama. The applause was for | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
Nancy Reagan, the event hosted in the library devoted to her late | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
husband. Devastate in as our economy is with the policies of | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
Barack Obama. Michele Bachmann led a poll a few weeks ago but her | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
campaign has lost its momentum. A lot of talk, all eyes will be on | :13:43. | :13:53. | |
the next opinion polls. But Sarah Palin is still waiting in the wings | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
who might yet joined the race for the White House. | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
Still to come. Will remember 9/11. BBC News | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
viewers share their memories. I couldn't take in what I was | :14:09. | :14:19. | |
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seeing was real, it seemed like a Jobs are in focus. We look to the | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
tows get an investigation of global recovery. Yeah, absolutely. All | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
eyes and ears on this speech by President Obama. It's aimed at | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
getting Americans back to work. I mean, the jobless picture in | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
America has always been the dead weight around the US economy. It's | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
been a jobless recovery. You have an unemployment rate in the US of | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
hovering around 9% for the past two years, 14 million Americans are out | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
of work. That's why the expectation and the hope that when President | :14:49. | :14:56. | |
Obama delivers this speech, it's been much anticipated. He will | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
deliver a $300 billion back to work programme, to include tax | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
incentives for companies who take on employees, infrastructure | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
programmes, building roads, bridges etc, but here's the thing, you have | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
got to remember, since the financial crisis the US government | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
has pumped in $1 trillion into the ulz economy. The question with this | :15:16. | :15:23. | |
programme is will it work and will it be passed by Congress? If it's a | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
wide-ranging spending package, the chances of it getting through the | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
Republican House are rather slim. I think tax cuts probably have a | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
better chance of getting through. OK, so tax cuts, but that speech 12 | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
midnight, UK time is when he delivers that. So the reaction | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
tomorrow will be very interesting, certainly on the markets around the | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
world, Asian markets will be the first to react. Well we can look | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
ahead to that, but we've had news in the last 30sebgdz. Yes. And? | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
haven't haert it yet? Have you got it The ECB have left interest rates | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
on hold. No surprises. It is interest day for many countries | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
around the world, butt Bank of England, less than an hour ago, | :16:08. | :16:16. | |
left interest rates on a record low, 0.5%, two-and-a-half years at that | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
left. -- level. They say there's been no stimulus. There were | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
expectations of a stimulus programme. We can expect interest | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
rates in this country to remain at that level for two years. The ECB | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
is interesting. The talk about the ECB, they decided to raise interest | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
rates. July was the last time. Going against the grain of what | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
everyone else has been doing, because it was worried about | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
inflation, that seems to have been the wrong strategy. Inflationary | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
worries are off the table. The worry is growth or a lack of growth, | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
in particular, of course, in the core of the eurozone, where we're | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
seeing really Germany and France slowing considerably, manufacturing | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
numbers down, consumer confidence is down. So, it's a worry. Growth | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
is the focus for the eurozone now. Interest rates unchanged by the | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
European Central Bank at 1.5%.. Thanks for giving me that news. Any | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
time! Let us know what you think of what | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
we're doing at GMT. The best way is through the website bbc.co.uk/gmt. | :17:14. | :17:23. | |
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You can watch highlights from the This is GMT from BBC World News. | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
I'm Naga Munchetty. The headlines this hour - a long awaited report | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
has found evidence of assault and illegal techniques were used | :17:33. | :17:40. | |
against the Iraqi detainee, Baha Mousa. It amounted to a very | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
serious breach of discipline said Sir William Gage. | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
Colonel Gaddafi denies he's fled to Niger. He phones a Syrian | :17:47. | :17:57. | |
television station to say so. OK, let's move on now. We're | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
talking about adopting a child. As it's an emotionally charged process | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
at the best of time. Adopt ago broad adds new layers of stress, | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
uncertainty and even danger, making the experience a journey fraught | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
with challenges. My next guest, Saira Khan, took this journey when | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
she and her husband decided to adopt a baby girl from Pakistan. We | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
speak to her in a moment. First, here's a taste of what she found | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
when she arrived in Karachi, Pakistan's financial capital. | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
Babies are abandoned every week on the streets of Karachi. Sometimes | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
they're left in this cradle, which stands just outside the Edhi | :18:34. | :18:44. | |
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Abandoned newborns, most of them girls, are usually found homes | :18:49. | :18:59. | |
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locally by the woman who runs the orphanage. It is this woman alone | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
who will decide whether or not to give Saira a baby. | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
Saira Khan is with us now, for British viewers, we know you from | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
the first series of the show The Apprentice. Time has moved on since | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
then, as has your family as well. It's interesting, because when you | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
read about people who adopt from abroad, and please don't take this | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
offencively, you think OK, stars wanting some attention. They go to | :19:30. | :19:38. | |
another country, Madonna, Joel Joel Joel, what drove you to do this? | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
wantsed to complete my family and for me, it was the fact that I | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
can't have children naturally and my second IVF attempt failed. | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
already have one child? Yes, I have a son. He was IVF. I was lucky to | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
have him. At the second, when the second one failed, I just thought, | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
you know, that's enough. Can you just get onto this cycle of IVF, | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
and I thought actually, there are so many children out there that | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
want loving parents and we want a child, so let's do it. Tell us what | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
you saw in Pakistan. You decided to go to Pakistan. Yes, can I add | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
though, that in order to adopt in this country, you have to go | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
through the British adoption system, which takes eight months. You have | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
to be approved before you can go. I couldn't just say, hey there's a | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
child that needs help in Pakistan, let's rock over. You absolutely | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
cannot do that. Right. Have you to follow a process. But Pakistan, | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
because my heritage is there. My father's buried out there. I can | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
speak the language. I know the culture. I visited the orphanage a | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
few years ago, when I made another documentary for the BBC. The images | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
and the stores stuck with me and the children stuck with me, so I | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
went back. Tell us about your little girl. Tell us about the | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
process when you first met her? don't want to spoil it because the | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
documentary is on tonight. I'll never forget the first moment I saw | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
her. It was totally emotional. I bonded with her as soon as I set my | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
eyes on her. I just, I had a lot of apprehensions and pre-conceived | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
ideas about what that moment would be like, but it was a natural, I | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
love you instantly and a natural motherly kind of connection. | :21:17. | :21:23. | |
will shaedapt? She's a baby, she won't really know that she's moving | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
from countries. What culture will you instil in her? Will she know | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
that she is from Pakistan? Will you make sure she has that connection? | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
In order tore me to adopt from Pakistan, I had to prove to social | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
workers and the social system that I would respect her heritage and | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
culture and make sure that she always had ties back with that | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
country. So we have plans to go back every year, when it's safe. | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
And also, we have to do a story book for her. I've kept every | :21:51. | :21:58. | |
single thing for her from her time that she spent in Pakistan. But she | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
will have issues in terms of her identity later on. She may ask | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
questions about who, you know, where do I come from? She's | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
experienced loss. That's how the whole adoption process helps you to | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
cope. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you for telling us your story. | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
Thank you. A French court has just passed | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
verdict in the trial of the British fashion designer John Galliano. He | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
was accused of making anti-Semitic remarks to customers in a Paris bar | :22:26. | :22:33. | |
six months ago. We can bring you those, a French court has sentenced | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
John Galliano, a further 2,000 euro fine over that behaviour in this | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
second complaint. 9/11 changed the world forever. It | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
was one of those moments most of us will be able to remember for many, | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
many years to come. Many of us will remember exactly where we were when | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
we heard and saw the news. BBC World News has asked viewers to | :22:54. | :23:04. | |
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I remember going into the science technician's room at school. She | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
was leaning against the work bench and gazing at a small television on | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
top of a filing cabinet. She said, "Andy, come and see this." And I | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
remember standing and watching in silence and I just really couldn't | :23:22. | :23:29. | |
take in that what I was seeing was real. It seems like some kind of | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
disaster movie. We stood and we watched and slowly, others joined | :23:35. | :23:45. | |
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us. They watched too. I remember just the silence and the kind of | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
numbness, the inability to accept what I was seeing. It wasn't really, | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
I suppose, even maybe until the next day that I really began to | :24:00. | :24:07. | |
dawn on me how awful what I'd seen had really been. Interestingly, on | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
the day of 9/11 event, I was at a friend's house. There was a very | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
small room fully covered, because during that regime you were not | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
allowed to watch movie or TV. So we turned on the TV and there was a | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
News Channel. I saw that there are two big buildings headed by planes. | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
On that night I didn't know what's going on. The next day when I went | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
home, I found out that Al-Qaeda attacked the US Twin Towers in the | :24:37. | :24:44. | |
United States. We didn't know that that's going to end up that the | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
Taliban regime would collapse in Afghanistan and the US would come | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
to Afghanistan and fight against the Taliban regime. | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
We were sitting in the conference, listening to the instructor, when | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
somebody walked in and spoke to him quietly. At that point, the | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
instructor informed us that there was something going on in New York | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
and that a television had been set up in the next room, in the | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
refreshment room, by the hotel. We walked into the room, just as the | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
second plane was hitting the tower. Initially we all thought it was | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
just awe repeat of the first plane. Once we real aislesed what was | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
going on, it stunned us. It was a day I've never forgotten, a day | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
that will probably live with me for the rest of my life. It was only a | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
few -- there are only a few days like, that but that's definitely | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
one of them. BBC world viewers giving us their memories of 9/11. | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
Well, in other news, we've had a ruling on the John Galliano case. | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
Our correspondent Christian Fraser, is joining us from Paris. Yes, he's | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
been handed a 6,000 euro suspended fine, which means that he won't | :25:56. | :26:04. | |
have to pay the fine, if he carries himself in good behaviour and | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
doesn't repeat what he did back in March. I think that is probably | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
about the lightest sentence he could possibly expect. It really | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
shows the pity and sympathy I think the prosecuter had for him by the | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
end of this trial. We saw the figure of a very fragile man, who | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
was in a downward psych until his life and addicted to drink and | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
drugs and I think, the court has been lenient on this occasion. He | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
has, of course, paid the ultimate price. He lost his �4 million job | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
at Dior and the job at his own label. The cost to his own personal | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
reputation is immense. The question now, having been passed this | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
sentence, is whether he will ever be able to attain the heights he | :26:41. | :26:45. |