:00:10. > :00:14.Anniversary under high alert. A terror threat is uncovered as
:00:14. > :00:19.America prepares to mark ten years since the September 11th attacks.
:00:19. > :00:23.The US authorities say intelligence points to possible car bombs,
:00:23. > :00:26.targeting strategic points in Washington or New York.
:00:27. > :00:30.The NYPD is deploying additional resources around the city and
:00:30. > :00:36.taking other steps to keep our city safe, some of which you may notice
:00:36. > :00:40.and some of which you will not notice. In New York I'll be
:00:40. > :00:43.reporting live from Ground Zero on the preparations for the 9/11
:00:43. > :00:53.anniversary and how the city is dealing with the latest security
:00:53. > :01:00.
:01:00. > :01:05.Welcome to GMT with me, Zeinab Badawi. Also in this edition of the
:01:05. > :01:09.programme: Obama's multibillion dollar plan to try to get the US
:01:10. > :01:15.working again, will it succeed and will he get it past a divided
:01:15. > :01:21.Congress any way? Interpol calls for the arrest of Colonel Gaddafi,
:01:21. > :01:27.his son and the regime's intelligence chief.
:01:27. > :01:31.It's 12.30pm here in London, 1.30pm in Tripoli and 7.30am in New York,
:01:31. > :01:36.where Americans are awakening to the grim news that there is a high-
:01:36. > :01:41.level terror alert in the US, as the country prepares to mark the
:01:41. > :01:46.10th San rers I of 9/11. In New York, the mayor has increased
:01:46. > :01:50.security across the city. Laura Trevelyan is there and joins us now.
:01:50. > :01:55.Uncorroborated but they're taking no chances presumably? That's right.
:01:55. > :01:59.And the mayor of New York, David Bloom, has been at pains to say
:01:59. > :02:03.this is an uncorroborated threat. Nonetheless, security has been
:02:03. > :02:09.increased this morning, increased security at bridges, at the tunnels,
:02:09. > :02:12.more random checks on the subway. With just two days to go until the
:02:12. > :02:16.10th anniversary, New York city official s are taking no chances at
:02:16. > :02:19.all. As New York prepares to mark the
:02:19. > :02:23.tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, there's a specific,
:02:23. > :02:29.credible, but unconfirmed threat against America, according to US
:02:29. > :02:34.officials. US news organisations have reported that it could be
:02:34. > :02:39.aimed at either New York or Washington. New York's mayor had
:02:39. > :02:45.this to say: The threat at this moment has not been corroborated. I
:02:45. > :02:50.want to stress that. It is credible, but it is not corroborated. We live
:02:50. > :02:53.in a world where we must take these threats seriously and we certainly
:02:53. > :02:58.will. ABC News reported that three people, one believed to be an
:02:58. > :03:06.American citizen, came into the US by air in August intending to
:03:06. > :03:11.launch an attack using vehicles N May 2010, an American -- Faisal
:03:11. > :03:14.Shahzad who attended a militant training camp in Pakistan, tried to
:03:14. > :03:17.set off a bomb in Times Square. President Obama was briefed on the
:03:17. > :03:21.threat say White House officials and called for counter-terrorism
:03:21. > :03:25.workers to redouble their efforts. Security in New York is already
:03:25. > :03:30.heightened ahead of Sunday's anniversary of the 9/11 attacks,
:03:30. > :03:34.which killed nearly 3,000 people. And now that security will get even
:03:34. > :03:38.tighter. There will be more bomb dogs on patrol, increased
:03:39. > :03:42.deployment of radiation monitoring equipment and vehicle check points
:03:42. > :03:47.in particular. There will be increased focus on tunnels and
:03:47. > :03:53.bridges and infrastructure in general. As well as landmark
:03:53. > :03:56.locations, houses of woreship and government buildings. This is an
:03:56. > :04:01.unconfirmed threat, but given how specific it is and how close the
:04:01. > :04:07.9/11 anniversary is, US officials are taking no chances. However, one
:04:07. > :04:15.news agency is reporting a national security official has -- is
:04:15. > :04:19.cautioning that experts think this threat may not ultimately check out.
:04:19. > :04:23.So increased security is something that New Yorkers have simply got
:04:23. > :04:26.used to living with in the ten years since the 9/11 attacks, which
:04:26. > :04:30.brought down those landmark Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
:04:30. > :04:34.Now there is, despite everything that has gone on, there is now
:04:34. > :04:37.finally something of a rebirth and a renaissance at lower Manhattan.
:04:37. > :04:41.Can you see behind me the foundations of the Twin Towers of
:04:41. > :04:44.the World Trade Center themselves, and in those foundations now, is
:04:44. > :04:48.the memorial, the official memorial to the nearly 3,000 people who were
:04:48. > :04:53.killed in the September 11th attacks, and on Sunday, there will
:04:53. > :04:57.be a very solemn ceremony of remembrance here, as that memorial
:04:57. > :05:00.is formally opened, a ceremony that will be attended by the President
:05:01. > :05:07.of the United States, Barack Obama, and the former President, George W
:05:07. > :05:11.Bush. Thanks very much indeed. Laura
:05:11. > :05:19.Trevelyan there in New York. Well, staying in the city of New York,
:05:19. > :05:23.let's bring in the BBC's Ros Atkins at the South Street sea port. So a
:05:23. > :05:28.very significant anniversary of 9/11, tell us more about what to
:05:29. > :05:32.expect for the memorial? Well, to be honest, I think New Yorkers in
:05:32. > :05:37.their own ways are beginning to commemorate those lost ten years
:05:37. > :05:40.ago already. I spent the last couple of days walking around near
:05:40. > :05:43.Ground Zero, it's astonishing the amount of people when you stop to
:05:43. > :05:48.speak to them, who have been personally affected by the attacks,
:05:48. > :05:51.who lost loved ones or relatives or know people who were killed or
:05:51. > :05:56.injured in the attacks. In their different ways they are
:05:56. > :06:00.commemorating already. I met one woman yesterday who was walking
:06:00. > :06:04.around a nine -month-old son. She lost both of her brothers on the
:06:04. > :06:07.attacks. Every month she brings her child down to show him where his
:06:08. > :06:10.uncles lost their lives. You're right to say of course, there are
:06:10. > :06:15.official commemorations as well. I'm staying in a room which looks
:06:15. > :06:20.down over Ground Zero. You can see preparations being made to allow
:06:20. > :06:24.the public to come into the two, to see the two footprints of the two
:06:24. > :06:28.towers, which now are huge pools into which enormous amounts of
:06:28. > :06:31.water are pouring. There's trees all around them. The public will be
:06:31. > :06:36.able to come into that memorial in the next few days, something which
:06:36. > :06:42.hasn't been possible before. There's a lot of focus on that.
:06:42. > :06:46.Also, down a couple of blocks from Ground Zero, there are plany flags,
:06:46. > :06:50.flags for every person killed on 9/11, fluttering in the cool
:06:50. > :06:54.morning breeze. I I passed them in the car a few minutes ago. Many
:06:54. > :06:57.people are stopping to look at the flags. The flags bring home to you,
:06:57. > :07:03.more than a figure does, quite how many people lost tir lives. Thanks
:07:04. > :07:08.very much. As we've been reporting memorial
:07:08. > :07:13.services are planned for Sunday in New York. In Afghanistan, they are
:07:13. > :07:21.marking the exact tenth anniversary today of the assassination of the
:07:21. > :07:25.Afghan commander Ahmed shaz shaw Massoud who was killed just before
:07:25. > :07:30.the 9/11 attacks. He was leading the resistance to the Taliban, who
:07:30. > :07:35.were in power at the time. The Taliban were provided Al-Qaeda with
:07:35. > :07:42.safe havens. They were ousted by the us-led invasion in 2001. We're
:07:42. > :07:46.joined from the Afghan capital by the brother -- by his brother,
:07:46. > :07:49.Ahmed Wali Massoud. It is interesting to say what would have
:07:49. > :07:53.happened had your brother survived. Would Afghanistan have been
:07:53. > :08:03.different? Do you think he would have signed up to the US War on
:08:03. > :08:05.
:08:05. > :08:07.Terror? Well, let me say that the national hero of Afghanistan, he
:08:07. > :08:14.fought against the terror before the United States even realised
:08:14. > :08:18.what was all about the terror. He was fighting the terror alone.
:08:18. > :08:22.After he was assassinated on the 9th of September, if only he was
:08:22. > :08:28.alive today, of course, Afghanistan would have been much different. I'm
:08:28. > :08:31.pretty sure that he would have been able to save the rest of the world
:08:31. > :08:39.from this terror network, spreading from the region to different
:08:39. > :08:46.countries across the globe. He was dedicated leader, dedicated leader,
:08:46. > :08:51.committed Muslim and also, a man, a charismatic man who fought the
:08:51. > :08:54.terror until he was killed in 2001. With all respect, though, can you
:08:54. > :08:58.say with confidence that Afghanistan would have been a
:08:58. > :09:02.different place, presumably you mean peaceful, because he was an
:09:02. > :09:08.ethnic Tajik, of course, that could have led to divisions with the
:09:08. > :09:12.Pashtun majority in Afghanistan. The resistance which were born
:09:12. > :09:17.under Massoud, it was a national resistance, from across the globe,
:09:17. > :09:22.from across the country. Therefore that was not a question of Pashtun,
:09:22. > :09:26.Tajik, the Taliban were a project of Pakistan. They were imported
:09:26. > :09:32.from Pakistan to Afghanistan. So therefore it did not have nothing
:09:32. > :09:38.to do with ethnic conflict or anything. If only he survived, I'm
:09:38. > :09:41.pretty sure that he was the man would could have rooted out
:09:41. > :09:44.terrorism and Al-Qaeda from Afghanistan. By doing so, they
:09:44. > :09:50.could have saved the rest of the world. He was the man with the
:09:50. > :09:52.experience. You made that points. - - that point. I want to ask you
:09:52. > :09:56.briefly, the government in Afghanistan and the international
:09:56. > :10:00.community now want to talk to moderate members of the Taliban in
:10:00. > :10:06.order to get a political settlement in Afghanistan. Would your brother
:10:06. > :10:10.have backed this, talk to the Taliban? First of all let me say
:10:10. > :10:14.that there is no moderate Taliban. Taliban are Taliban. There's a
:10:14. > :10:18.school of thought that the Taliban believe in that one, therefore you
:10:18. > :10:23.cannot separate the Taliban into hod rat or extremists. Of course,
:10:23. > :10:30.my brother was the first to propose peace with Taliban. He himself
:10:30. > :10:34.risked his life. He went to the Taliban, but then he realised that
:10:34. > :10:38.the Taliban were not the people to make peace. There forethis Taliban
:10:38. > :10:43.continued their war against him and against the rest of the people of
:10:43. > :10:49.Afghanistan. If he was alive, of course, by knowing and
:10:49. > :10:53.understanding Taliban, he could pretty manage how to start this
:10:53. > :10:58.onslaught coming from Al-Qaeda and Taliban to Afghanistan. What are
:10:58. > :11:02.people like you now saying in Afghanistan, as we come up to the
:11:02. > :11:09.tenth anniversary exactly of the September 11th attacks, preskreeded
:11:09. > :11:15.of course by the death of your brother? Well, of course, there was
:11:15. > :11:18.connection between the ninth September and 11th September. Al-
:11:18. > :11:22.Qaeda and Taliban wanted to make sure that the leader of the
:11:22. > :11:27.resistance and the leader of anti- terror, they wanted to make sure
:11:27. > :11:31.that he is not in Afghanistan. And his territory being under control
:11:31. > :11:36.of Taliban, then they could have launched their activity to the rest
:11:36. > :11:42.of the worldment Ahmed Wali Massoud, in the Afghan capital, Kabul, thank
:11:42. > :11:46.you very much for talking to us on the anniversary of the death of
:11:46. > :11:50.your brother. Now the other stories making headlines around the world
:11:50. > :11:56.today: An enormous power cut has affected millions of people in
:11:56. > :12:00.Southern California, Arizona and Mexico. All out bound flights were
:12:00. > :12:04.cancelled at San Diego airport and traffic came to a stand still in
:12:04. > :12:08.the city. Electricity companies say human error is to blame and power
:12:08. > :12:13.won't be back for some time. The North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il
:12:13. > :12:18.and his son and heir apparent Kim Jong Un watched a massive military
:12:18. > :12:22.parade on Friday, marking the 63rd anniversary of the country's
:12:22. > :12:26.founding. Kim Jong Un, believed to be in his late 20s, is already a
:12:26. > :12:30.four-star general and vice chairman of the Communist Party's military
:12:30. > :12:33.commission in North Korea. There have been more protests
:12:33. > :12:38.across Chile in favour of education reform. Students clashed with
:12:38. > :12:41.police in the capital Santiago. It's the third month of protests,
:12:41. > :12:45.with stuends putting pressure on the government to raise standards.
:12:45. > :12:51.The mass mobilisation has caused the President's approval ratings to
:12:51. > :12:56.plurching. -- plunge. Still to come: Rock gods
:12:56. > :13:06.up close and personal. A candid look at U2's premiere at the
:13:06. > :13:09.
:13:09. > :13:15.First of all, let's get all the business news with Aaron. First of
:13:15. > :13:21.all, there is a G7 summit in France tackling the financial downturn or
:13:21. > :13:26.trying to. Trying to. With a capital "T". G7 ministers gathering
:13:26. > :13:30.and the aim, to try to come up with some way it avoid another global
:13:30. > :13:32.economic downturn basically. The task is huge, because how do you
:13:32. > :13:36.stimulate growth without hiking public spending? I can tell you
:13:36. > :13:40.what the markets would love to see, they would love to see the G7
:13:40. > :13:43.invents a new way to revive flagging growth. But all the
:13:43. > :13:48.experts tell us that's just not going to happen. Listen to this:
:13:48. > :13:53.The problem is that the action that is needed is that surplus countries
:13:53. > :13:57.have to expand their demand in order to permit deficit countries
:13:57. > :14:03.to both have some growth and, at the same time, reduce their
:14:03. > :14:06.government deficits. The surplus countries, primarily China and
:14:06. > :14:10.Germany, are artificially keeping their exchange rates down, in the
:14:11. > :14:15.German case by being in the euro. And as a result, in they stimulate
:14:15. > :14:21.demand, they get inflation, which is what the Chinese have got. We're
:14:21. > :14:28.stuck until either the euro breaks up and Germany appreciates or until
:14:28. > :14:33.the Chinese relax their linkage of the Chinese yuan to the dollar.
:14:33. > :14:37.also went on to say that's not likely to happen either. So, we are
:14:37. > :14:42.stuck. From Germany and China to Japan, where there have been new
:14:42. > :14:45.revised figures and they're looking not very good. It's Japan's economy
:14:45. > :14:51.facing big problems. They were revised the second quarter numbers.
:14:51. > :14:57.We had a negative number of 1.3%. They revised it and said no we fell
:14:57. > :15:01.2.1%. That's a steep drop. Problem for Japan, of course, the terrible
:15:01. > :15:05.devastating earthquake and tsunami earlier this year, has had a big
:15:05. > :15:10.impact. The big problem is the global slowdown. Japan exports,
:15:10. > :15:15.relying on a healthy global economy. That ain't happening. The strong
:15:15. > :15:20.yen hurting Japan. Will the new Government take any action? I feel
:15:21. > :15:24.that this government headed by Mr Noda is a much more proactive than
:15:24. > :15:27.the one before and the one before that as well. This is a government
:15:27. > :15:34.that clearly depicts about increasing taxes and rejuvenation
:15:34. > :15:39.of nuclear energy side. He is much more a realist. So So optimistic
:15:40. > :15:42.going forward to the latter half of this year. We may see some new
:15:42. > :15:52.methods coming from this new Japanese government. Do you want to
:15:52. > :16:28.
:16:28. > :16:30.This is GMT from BBC World News. I'm Zeinab Badawi. The headlines...
:16:30. > :16:33.Officials in the United States say they're investigating a specific,
:16:33. > :16:43.credible terror threat to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the
:16:43. > :16:46.
:16:46. > :16:52.9/11 attacks. Interpol has emerged -- urged forces around the world to
:16:52. > :16:58.arrest Colonel Gaddafi, Saif al- Islam and Abdullah al-Senussi. The
:16:58. > :17:01.International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for them in June
:17:01. > :17:06.but while the colonel is a large negotiations for the surrender of
:17:06. > :17:12.forces loyal to him are proving difficult. Our world affairs
:17:12. > :17:17.Correspondent joins us from Tripoli. We are getting reports that more
:17:17. > :17:23.Gaddafi key people have fled into neighbouring areas. Can you tell us
:17:23. > :17:28.more? These are reports coming to us specifically from the town in
:17:28. > :17:35.central major, where a large convoy passed through the earlier in the
:17:35. > :17:38.week travelling south from Libya over the border. According to
:17:38. > :17:45.officials in the last 24 hours another convoy of three vehicles
:17:45. > :17:51.has gone through the town in the same direction carrying General Ali
:17:51. > :18:00.Khan a, he was in charge of Colonel Gaddafi's forces. This convoy was
:18:00. > :18:09.accompanied by security forces. you able to tell us anything more
:18:09. > :18:12.about what is going on? What are the NTC saying? The first thing to
:18:12. > :18:17.say is we have had really no information that sheds any new
:18:17. > :18:23.light on the possible whereabouts of Colonel Gaddafi. The Prime
:18:23. > :18:29.Minister of the NTC gave his first news conference here yesterday.
:18:29. > :18:36.Most of the former rebels have been in their stronghold of Benghazi and
:18:36. > :18:40.are trying to facilitate the move to Tripoli. Mahmoud Jibril said it
:18:40. > :18:46.was not wise to disclose Colonel Gaddafi's whereabouts, even if he
:18:46. > :18:56.did know. But clearly at this stage they do not seem to know. There is
:18:56. > :19:01.
:19:01. > :19:10.a possible scenario that he is One of the big fixtures in the
:19:10. > :19:20.movie business, the Toronto Film Festival, has begun with an
:19:20. > :19:23.
:19:23. > :19:27.eagerly-awaited a documentary on the you to. -- U2. Bono and the
:19:27. > :19:31.edge of the opening night of the Toronto Film Festival. The
:19:31. > :19:36.documentary from the sky down revisit a crucial moment from the
:19:36. > :19:41.band's history, the making of their album in Berlin. It is seen as a
:19:41. > :19:51.time that they reinvented themselves. The reason we are still
:19:51. > :19:52.
:19:52. > :19:56.here probably as a band is because we went through that moment in
:19:56. > :20:01.Berlin in 1991 where we ended at all that people love to about a
:20:02. > :20:06.band and began afresh. There is an environment out of which music
:20:06. > :20:13.grows. A kind of faith which is necessary to move from one no to
:20:13. > :20:18.the other. The film uses animation, archive footage, it shows the band
:20:18. > :20:23.returning to the studios where they filmed the album. -- are recorded
:20:23. > :20:30.the album. His estranged to look at this and see yourself 20 years ago?
:20:30. > :20:34.It is. I thought I would be taller, better looking, it is the same.
:20:34. > :20:40.This is a moment we forced ourselves to look back. In a funny
:20:40. > :20:44.way it is the reason we are here now. The film-maker David Gugenheim
:20:44. > :20:49.was given free range to make this. Those who have seen it maintain
:20:49. > :20:52.there is not much in it that could tarnish the brand. No uncomfortable
:20:52. > :21:02.references to recent criticism of their alleged arrangements to
:21:02. > :21:05.
:21:05. > :21:12.enable them to avoid taxes in This documentary is the first time
:21:12. > :21:17.the documentary has opened the Toronto Film Festival. It is one of
:21:17. > :21:20.250 pictures being screened over the next 11 days. Three years ago
:21:20. > :21:24.Slumdog Millionaire was unveiled here and went on to pick up eight
:21:24. > :21:28.Oscar trophies. And The King's Speech premiered here and won the
:21:28. > :21:38.four Academy Awards. For Oscar watch has Toronto is a festival
:21:38. > :21:40.
:21:40. > :21:43.Britain's prime minister is preparing to travel to Russia on
:21:43. > :21:46.Sunday. He'll hope to repair relations between the two countries
:21:46. > :21:48.which went into sharp decline following the murder in London of
:21:48. > :21:51.Alexander Litvinenko five years ago. Investigators in the UK blamed a
:21:51. > :22:01.former KGB member who they want extradited. Danield Sandford
:22:01. > :22:05.
:22:05. > :22:09.He remains one of Britain's most wanted men. Andrei Lugovoi is
:22:09. > :22:14.accused of a shocking murder in a luxury London hotel. But he agreed
:22:14. > :22:18.to let us join him for two days and the Russian will then us. He then
:22:18. > :22:23.urged Britain to get over the crisis the killing caused.
:22:23. > :22:27.TRANSLATION: Are we going to fight about it for 100 years? We should
:22:27. > :22:32.be looking for a way out. The ball is not in the Russian court, it is
:22:32. > :22:38.in the English court. While he can visit this remote peninsula 5000
:22:38. > :22:43.miles from Moscow he has not left Russia since 2006. If he does he
:22:43. > :22:47.will be detained on an international arrest warrant. For
:22:47. > :22:51.almost five years now he has been the source of huge diplomatic
:22:51. > :22:58.friction. Britain wants to put him on trial for murder and Russia will
:22:58. > :23:04.not give him up. Alexander Litvinenko died be slow, painful
:23:04. > :23:11.death, poisoned by polonium 2010, lethally radioactive. He had also
:23:11. > :23:16.been a KGB officer but had recently become a British citizen. Andre
:23:16. > :23:23.look for it was the key suspect, having left a trail of polonium
:23:23. > :23:27.across Europe -- Andrei Lugovoi. Confident that he will never face
:23:27. > :23:32.trial David Cameron is about to be the first British Prime Minister to
:23:32. > :23:42.visit Russia since the poisoning and he will meet Vladimir Putin.
:23:42. > :23:43.
:23:43. > :23:46.Besides the 9/11 anniversary, a major preoccupation in the US right
:23:46. > :23:49.now is the state of the economy. America's employment figures are
:23:49. > :23:52.the worst for decades, 14 million are jobless and President Obama is
:23:52. > :23:55.trying to get the US working again. He's announced a multi-billion
:23:55. > :23:57.dollar jobs plan to a rare joint session of Congress. As our
:23:57. > :24:07.Washington correspondent, Marcus George reports, the President is
:24:07. > :24:08.
:24:08. > :24:12.far from assured of success. Smiles and handshakes marked the arrival
:24:12. > :24:17.of President Obama but is easy demeanour did not last long. At the
:24:17. > :24:21.start of the address he laid down a challenge to both chambers, stop
:24:21. > :24:26.the political gamesmanship and pass this plan to get America working
:24:26. > :24:32.again. I am sending this Congress a plan that you should pass right
:24:32. > :24:36.away. It is called the American jobs act. There should be nothing
:24:36. > :24:40.controversial about this piece of legislation. Everything in here is
:24:40. > :24:45.the kind of proposal that has been supported by both Democrats and
:24:45. > :24:50.Republicans. At a cost of more than $400 billion the plan aims to jolt
:24:50. > :24:55.America's ailing economy into gear. It would create a construction jobs,
:24:55. > :24:59.safeguard employment and extend tax cuts for employees in small
:24:59. > :25:03.businesses. The President also urged lawmakers to surrender tax
:25:03. > :25:06.breaks for big business. Should we keep tax loopholes for oil
:25:06. > :25:11.companies, or use the money to get small business owners the tax
:25:11. > :25:15.credit when they hire new workers? We cannot afford to do both.
:25:15. > :25:19.Unemployment is dark at just over nine per cent and there were zero
:25:19. > :25:23.jobs created last month. Even if it survives Congress There are no
:25:23. > :25:33.guarantees the plan will breathe life into the economic outlook for
:25:33. > :26:01.
:26:01. > :26:05.The Rugby World Cup is due to get under way soon. Tom all take on the
:26:05. > :26:11.nation in the first match. This four-legged friend is planned to be
:26:11. > :26:19.as accurate as the late Paul the octopus who picked a winner in last
:26:19. > :26:24.year's football World Cup. We have special coverage this weekend
:26:24. > :26:28.marking the 10th anniversary of 9/11 on the BBC website. We look at
:26:28. > :26:31.one of the most notorious attacks in history. You can view a timeline
:26:31. > :26:41.tracking all the key events, starting from when the hijackers
:26:41. > :26:46.
:26:46. > :26:51.Our main story... Officials in America are investigating a