08/09/2011 GMT with George Alagiah

Members of the British military are severely criticised for the assault

and death of Iraqi man in its detention in 2003. Baha Mousa was

arrested in the southern city of Basra, and died after sustaining 93

injuries, the inquiry head gives a damning report.

I find that hooding and stress conditions as a form of

conditioning were wholly unacceptable in any circumstances.

Welcome to GMT. I'm Naga Munchetty. Also in the programme: Staying

defiant, Libya's Colonel Gaddafi contacts a Syrian TV station and

denies that he has fled to neighbouring Niger.

Hand, an emotional journey to Pakistan, for the adoption of a

baby daughter. It's 7am in Washington, 1pm in Tripoli, midday

here in London. Where several soldiers and officers of the

British military have been severely criticised for assaulting an Iraqi

man who was held in their custody in 2003. Baha Mousa was arrested in

the southern Iraqi city of Basra, after British soldiers found

weapons and fake identity cards. He was beaten during interrogation,

and died after sustaining almost 100 injuries. The chairman of a

British inquiry into the death, Sir William Gage, says the treatment of

the prisoner was completely unacceptable.

And done by units in Iraq. My judgment it is that they

constituted an appalling episode of serious, gratuitous violence on

civilians, which resulted in the death of One man and injuries to

others. They represented a very serious breach of discipline by a

number of members of 1 QLR. world affairs correspondent

Humphrey Hawksley joins us. This is a damning report. Very

clear the message. It is very clear cut. As we absorb the information

taken from 388 witnesses over many months, coming in such a measured

way we detail of what happened, if we go over that, videos have been

shown of this. A man, held in a stress position, handcuffed,

deprived of sleep, in very high temperatures. Many of those things

breaking laws brought in, in 1972, and entrenched in Army culture,

everyone knows this is not have to do things. This is a rogue group?

What comes out of this is, there was no oversight into what they

were doing. The Colonel, the major, the lieutenant, were fought

strongly criticised for not intervening, not checking. Because

of that, if those couple of days this happened, Baha Mousa ended up

dead, under British military care. The inquiry found it and did so

much work that the British troops were trying to do in Basra, which

British foreign policy was to try to do in Iraq. This now demands a

period of intense reflection by the British Army. The after 70

recommendations from the inquiry. If you look at them, they seem to

be common sense. When a prisoner is taken in under British military

care, you should check they are all right. After four hours, they

should have a medical. There should be a detention officer, who will

check things are not going wrong. Is it surprising such basic

requirements are now being recommended? Shouldn't this had

been in place before? This is the question. What defence people are

saying is if this was an entrenched culture, of which the inquiry found

it wasn't, we would be having many more Baha Mousa inquiries. This was

a rogue group, that warren green probably about an attack on their

friends. But then, what officials say is, they might have been angry

but there were rather British regiments whose friends were being

killed and they did not act like this. This is not institutional

within the British Army. From training, they are told this must

not happen, but somehow it did. The command from the colonel down did

not do enough to check that things were going all right during the

interrogation. Colonel Gaddafi called a Syrian

television station to dismiss claims that he's fled to Niger as

'lies". He says that the reports are "part of the psychological war"

waged by his opponents. Meanwhile, Libya's National Transitional

Council says that it is sending representatives to Niger to ask the

government not to shelter Colonel The demise of Colonel Gaddafi has

put Niger in a dilemma. The northern town of Agadez has long

been the gateway for vital trade between the two countries. That

trade and political ties have centred on the man who ran Libya

for four decades. He invested large sums of money here, here and some

respect. Now there is fear about the spillover from a war he seems

to have lost. TRANSLATION: These people will bring instability. We

do not know what will become of it afterwards. There is concern about

how instability could spread across the region south of Libya.

TRANSLATION: I am very afraid. All the countries bordering Libya are

afraid because it is something which will stagnate development.

The government here does not want to alienate the opponents or

supporters of Gaddafi. TRANSLATION: The government would

like to tell the national and international community that

Colonel Gaddafi is not on Niger's soil at the moment. But it hasn't

ruled out allowing Gaddafi to come hit in a humanitarian gesture.

There is pressure on Niger from the west and the National Transitional

Council not to do this. It is a dilemma this poor and often

unstable country could well do without.

We now go to Benghazi where the National Transitional Council is

based and we ask how concerned they are about Gaddafi fleeing the

country. Overall, they don't seem concerned

about the situation. People, the opposition want to make it clear

there is no deal, they are not prepared to see Colonel Gaddafi

leave the country in return for the restoration of stability and peace.

They want to capture Colonel Gaddafi and put him on trial inside

Libya. They are not concerned his forces control parts of the country

or whether he is still in the country. They want to bring him to

justice here in Libya. Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev

has visited the site of the plane crash that killed most of one of

the country's top ice-hockey team, Lokomotiv. More than 40 people were

killed including 36 players and officials of the squad. The Yak-42

came down near Yaroslavl, north east of Moscow, shortly after take-

off. In Germany, two men have been arrested in Berlin on suspicion of

plotting to set off bombs. The suspects are a 24-year-old

German of Lebanese descent, and a 28-year-old from Gaza. Police

allege that they had purchased chemicals suitable for bomb-making.

Kenya's Prime Minister, Raila Odinga, has confirmed that the

country will host a two-day summit to discuss ways of tackling the

region's humanitarian crisis, triggered by severe drought. The UN

this week announced that famine conditions had now spread to a

sixth area of Somalia, and that three-quarters of a million people

were facing famine. Nora macro is trying to -- is

bringing a campaign to the United Nations over the killing of his son.

It was a very warm reception in New York. The city's councillors

honoured his kidnapped son, proclaiming this Gilad day. And but

the father has come to make his case at the un, arguing against a

bid to seek recognition by the Palestinians. He says this status

should not be granted as long as his son is held captive in Gaza.

We are not against a Palestinian state. We just claim recognition as

a legitimate state or membership of the United Nations, on one hand,

and on the other hand, holding a hostage for more than five years.

It is clearly a breach of international law. Those two things

cannot live together. Gilad was kidnapped five years ago. Soon

after, Israel launched an offensive to secure his release, it said, and

to stop Palestinian rocket attacks. 300 Palestinians were killed. In

2009, Hamas, the group holding him, released a video of him reading a

newspaper to prove he was alive. Negotiations for his release have

been on and off. It is that the United Nations that his father is

increasing pressure on the Palestinians. But they are divided

between the Palestinian operative in the west Bank and Hamas which

controls Gaza. And the ones who want to upgrade their status here

on what the ones who hold his son. That's a distinction his father

rejects. From my point of view, it is a poor decision. The perceived -

- Palestinians are one and the same. After five years, Mr Gilad Shalit

it is not that a confident it will bring his -- -- Mr Shalit does not

feel so confident. Contenders for the US Republican

Party candidacy in next year's presidential election have appeared

in a televised debate in California. May eight candidates, two hours of

questions on live TV, and the election one year away. That's

American politics. There was one thing clear amid the tangle of

specifics, it was how far to the right the Republican party -- the

Republican Party has been moving can a band to the Tea Party

movement. For if the Republican Party is for

helping us create jobs, I am for the tea party -- Tea Party.

The all eyes were on the Texas Governor Rick Perry, the current

favourite. The newest candidate in his first debate. He held his own.

Michael Dukakis created jobs five times faster than you did. George

Bush created jobs at a faster rate than you did, governor. Jobs and

the economy dominated. They all agreed on one thing. Whoever the

nominee is, we're all for defeating Barack Obama. The applause was for

Nancy Reagan, the event hosted in the library devoted to her late

husband. Devastate in as our economy is with the policies of

Barack Obama. Michele Bachmann led a poll a few weeks ago but her

campaign has lost its momentum. A lot of talk, all eyes will be on

the next opinion polls. But Sarah Palin is still waiting in the wings

who might yet joined the race for the White House.

Still to come. Will remember 9/11. BBC News

viewers share their memories. I couldn't take in what I was

seeing was real, it seemed like a Jobs are in focus. We look to the

tows get an investigation of global recovery. Yeah, absolutely. All

eyes and ears on this speech by President Obama. It's aimed at

getting Americans back to work. I mean, the jobless picture in

America has always been the dead weight around the US economy. It's

been a jobless recovery. You have an unemployment rate in the US of

hovering around 9% for the past two years, 14 million Americans are out

of work. That's why the expectation and the hope that when President

Obama delivers this speech, it's been much anticipated. He will

deliver a $300 billion back to work programme, to include tax

incentives for companies who take on employees, infrastructure

programmes, building roads, bridges etc, but here's the thing, you have

got to remember, since the financial crisis the US government

has pumped in $1 trillion into the ulz economy. The question with this

programme is will it work and will it be passed by Congress? If it's a

wide-ranging spending package, the chances of it getting through the

Republican House are rather slim. I think tax cuts probably have a

better chance of getting through. OK, so tax cuts, but that speech 12

midnight, UK time is when he delivers that. So the reaction

tomorrow will be very interesting, certainly on the markets around the

world, Asian markets will be the first to react. Well we can look

ahead to that, but we've had news in the last 30sebgdz. Yes. And?

haven't haert it yet? Have you got it The ECB have left interest rates

on hold. No surprises. It is interest day for many countries

around the world, butt Bank of England, less than an hour ago,

left interest rates on a record low, 0.5%, two-and-a-half years at that

left. -- level. They say there's been no stimulus. There were

expectations of a stimulus programme. We can expect interest

rates in this country to remain at that level for two years. The ECB

is interesting. The talk about the ECB, they decided to raise interest

rates. July was the last time. Going against the grain of what

everyone else has been doing, because it was worried about

inflation, that seems to have been the wrong strategy. Inflationary

worries are off the table. The worry is growth or a lack of growth,

in particular, of course, in the core of the eurozone, where we're

seeing really Germany and France slowing considerably, manufacturing

numbers down, consumer confidence is down. So, it's a worry. Growth

is the focus for the eurozone now. Interest rates unchanged by the

European Central Bank at 1.5%.. Thanks for giving me that news. Any

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You can watch highlights from the This is GMT from BBC World News.

I'm Naga Munchetty. The headlines this hour - a long awaited report

has found evidence of assault and illegal techniques were used

against the Iraqi detainee, Baha Mousa. It amounted to a very

serious breach of discipline said Sir William Gage.

Colonel Gaddafi denies he's fled to Niger. He phones a Syrian

television station to say so. OK, let's move on now. We're

talking about adopting a child. As it's an emotionally charged process

at the best of time. Adopt ago broad adds new layers of stress,

uncertainty and even danger, making the experience a journey fraught

with challenges. My next guest, Saira Khan, took this journey when

she and her husband decided to adopt a baby girl from Pakistan. We

speak to her in a moment. First, here's a taste of what she found

when she arrived in Karachi, Pakistan's financial capital.

Babies are abandoned every week on the streets of Karachi. Sometimes

they're left in this cradle, which stands just outside the Edhi

Abandoned newborns, most of them girls, are usually found homes

locally by the woman who runs the orphanage. It is this woman alone

who will decide whether or not to give Saira a baby.

Saira Khan is with us now, for British viewers, we know you from

the first series of the show The Apprentice. Time has moved on since

then, as has your family as well. It's interesting, because when you

read about people who adopt from abroad, and please don't take this

offencively, you think OK, stars wanting some attention. They go to

another country, Madonna, Joel Joel Joel, what drove you to do this?

wantsed to complete my family and for me, it was the fact that I

can't have children naturally and my second IVF attempt failed.

already have one child? Yes, I have a son. He was IVF. I was lucky to

have him. At the second, when the second one failed, I just thought,

you know, that's enough. Can you just get onto this cycle of IVF,

and I thought actually, there are so many children out there that

want loving parents and we want a child, so let's do it. Tell us what

you saw in Pakistan. You decided to go to Pakistan. Yes, can I add

though, that in order to adopt in this country, you have to go

through the British adoption system, which takes eight months. You have

to be approved before you can go. I couldn't just say, hey there's a

child that needs help in Pakistan, let's rock over. You absolutely

cannot do that. Right. Have you to follow a process. But Pakistan,

because my heritage is there. My father's buried out there. I can

speak the language. I know the culture. I visited the orphanage a

few years ago, when I made another documentary for the BBC. The images

and the stores stuck with me and the children stuck with me, so I

went back. Tell us about your little girl. Tell us about the

process when you first met her? don't want to spoil it because the

documentary is on tonight. I'll never forget the first moment I saw

her. It was totally emotional. I bonded with her as soon as I set my

eyes on her. I just, I had a lot of apprehensions and pre-conceived

ideas about what that moment would be like, but it was a natural, I

love you instantly and a natural motherly kind of connection.

will shaedapt? She's a baby, she won't really know that she's moving

from countries. What culture will you instil in her? Will she know

that she is from Pakistan? Will you make sure she has that connection?

In order tore me to adopt from Pakistan, I had to prove to social

workers and the social system that I would respect her heritage and

culture and make sure that she always had ties back with that

country. So we have plans to go back every year, when it's safe.

And also, we have to do a story book for her. I've kept every

single thing for her from her time that she spent in Pakistan. But she

will have issues in terms of her identity later on. She may ask

questions about who, you know, where do I come from? She's

experienced loss. That's how the whole adoption process helps you to

cope. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you for telling us your story.

Thank you. A French court has just passed

verdict in the trial of the British fashion designer John Galliano. He

was accused of making anti-Semitic remarks to customers in a Paris bar

six months ago. We can bring you those, a French court has sentenced

John Galliano, a further 2,000 euro fine over that behaviour in this

second complaint. 9/11 changed the world forever. It

was one of those moments most of us will be able to remember for many,

many years to come. Many of us will remember exactly where we were when

we heard and saw the news. BBC World News has asked viewers to

I remember going into the science technician's room at school. She

was leaning against the work bench and gazing at a small television on

top of a filing cabinet. She said, "Andy, come and see this." And I

remember standing and watching in silence and I just really couldn't

take in that what I was seeing was real. It seems like some kind of

disaster movie. We stood and we watched and slowly, others joined

us. They watched too. I remember just the silence and the kind of

numbness, the inability to accept what I was seeing. It wasn't really,

I suppose, even maybe until the next day that I really began to

dawn on me how awful what I'd seen had really been. Interestingly, on

the day of 9/11 event, I was at a friend's house. There was a very

small room fully covered, because during that regime you were not

allowed to watch movie or TV. So we turned on the TV and there was a

News Channel. I saw that there are two big buildings headed by planes.

On that night I didn't know what's going on. The next day when I went

home, I found out that Al-Qaeda attacked the US Twin Towers in the

United States. We didn't know that that's going to end up that the

Taliban regime would collapse in Afghanistan and the US would come

to Afghanistan and fight against the Taliban regime.

We were sitting in the conference, listening to the instructor, when

somebody walked in and spoke to him quietly. At that point, the

instructor informed us that there was something going on in New York

and that a television had been set up in the next room, in the

refreshment room, by the hotel. We walked into the room, just as the

second plane was hitting the tower. Initially we all thought it was

just awe repeat of the first plane. Once we real aislesed what was

going on, it stunned us. It was a day I've never forgotten, a day

that will probably live with me for the rest of my life. It was only a

few -- there are only a few days like, that but that's definitely

one of them. BBC world viewers giving us their memories of 9/11.

Well, in other news, we've had a ruling on the John Galliano case.

Our correspondent Christian Fraser, is joining us from Paris. Yes, he's

been handed a 6,000 euro suspended fine, which means that he won't

have to pay the fine, if he carries himself in good behaviour and

doesn't repeat what he did back in March. I think that is probably

about the lightest sentence he could possibly expect. It really

shows the pity and sympathy I think the prosecuter had for him by the

end of this trial. We saw the figure of a very fragile man, who

was in a downward psych until his life and addicted to drink and

drugs and I think, the court has been lenient on this occasion. He

has, of course, paid the ultimate price. He lost his �4 million job

at Dior and the job at his own label. The cost to his own personal

reputation is immense. The question now, having been passed this

sentence, is whether he will ever be able to attain the heights he