15/09/2011 GMT with George Alagiah

They were the first to support military action against Gaddafi's

regime, now they're the first international leaders to visit the

new Libya. Hetdz of France and Britain are in Tripoli to talk to

the country's National Transitional Council. They've praised the

rebel's ousting of Colonel Gaddafi's regime. I pay tribute to

those people throughout Libya today. It's your revolution, it's their

bravery that's enabled this to Welcome to GMT.

Also in the programme: A man is arrested in London after the Swiss

banking giant UBS reveals a $2 billion loss to rogue trading.

Our ever changing world - the new Times atlas shows ou politics,

climate change and human impact has affected the planet.

It's midday here in London, 7an London and 1.30pm in the Libyan

capital, of course it's 12.30 here in London. Britain's Prime Minister,

David Cameron, and the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, are

preparing for talks with the country's new authorities. The two

men, whose forces spearheaded the NATO campaign, that helped drive

out Colonel Gaddafi, are the first foreign leaders to go to Libya

since the National Transitional Council took over. Here is our

World Affairs Correspondent. A dramatic moment indeed. The two

chief architects of the international intervention set foot

on Libyan soil to be greeted by the country's new custodians, political

and diplomatic theatre yes, but powerful diplomatic symbolism too

of international support for a new Libyan.

REPORTER: How does it feel to be in Tripoli? I'm delighted to be here

and to show support for the NTC here in Libya. There's still a long

way to go, but to show international support for the NTC,

for Mr Djibril and Mr Jalil, it's great, I'm delighted to be here.

REPORTER: What does it feel like to be here? Democracy, peace and

reconciliation. Then on to a Tripoli hospital. Mr Cameron and Mr

Sarkozy will be happy to accept the plaudits. As they met victims of

the months of Libyan crisis and conflict, a reminder of the cost of

this huge political upheaval. a great honour to have met you. Are

you getting everything you need here...

Libyans may be grateful for the outside help they received, but

their leaders are also keen to underline that they are their own

masters too. There's also much still to be done.

The country's top leaders acknowledge they will need

continuing help, something they've already been discussing with their

very important visitors. TRANSLATION: We look forward to

establishing a state of peace, security and political transition.

I salute everybody and I salute my guests. The UN Security Council

which cleared the way for the original international intervention

is having to look to the future and how the outside world will support

the Libyan leadership from now on. For the new UN Libya mission, the

UK is circulating a draft Security Council resolution, among other

things it would lift sanctions on the national oil corps, allow the

resumption of commercial flights and provide political and technical

assistance to the new authorities. A vote on all this is expected soon.

For all the jubilation and gratitude on show in trifplt right

now, the new Libya remains a fragile thing with many challenges

ahead -- Tripoli. Joining me from Tripoli is our

correspondent Peter biles. We have been listening to this press

conference and I suppose what Nicolas Sarkozy and Prime Minister

David Cameron have made clear is that although they were among the

first to help with the transition, they are not going anywhere, their

support is still strong for the new Libya?

I think what struck me about the news conference, the comments by Mr

Sarkozy and Mr Cameron was the impression that they'd been quite

moved by what they've seen and heard in this very brief visit this

morning. They're only on the ground for a matter o of a few hours but

have obviously expressed unequivocal support for Libya's

rulers, the NTC. While acknowledging at the same time that

there are difficulties ahead, that the fighting goes on in a number of

areas where Gaddafi loyalists are putting up stiff defence and, of

course, the fact that Colonel Gaddafi himself is still on the run.

There's no way back for him to Libya, to Tripoli, but he's not yet

captured. Some of David Cameron's strongest remarks referred to

Colonel Gaddafi, saying "it's over, give up" he said "the mercenaries

should go home, it's time for Gaddafi to give himself up and face

international justice". Both countries making clear that they

are willing to support in many ways in the releasing of assets in

medical aid as well? Yes. The consistent theme is that

Libyans will take charge of this process, that this is not something

that's going to be thrust upon them by the international community. The

destiny of Libya lies in Libyan hands, that's the very firm message

from all in the international community at the moment. But

Britain and America and France and others stand ready to provide what

assistance is needed, what the Libyans think they might need help

with and David Cameron, the British Prime Minister, has today announced

a number of practical steps, including 50 places in UK

specialist hospitals for those critically injured during the war,

�600,000 for help with demining operations, �60,000 for a

communications system for the police. Crucially perhaps, the

unfreezing of assets worth �500 million and that will be done as

soon as possible. Of course, Peter, we have heard the

phrase "Arab Spring dtiondtion and David Cameron mentioned the phrase

"Arab Summer" as if the Libyans should be an example for other

countries and other people who wish to take back, in David Cameron's

words, their country? Well, clearly people around the

region will be watching very closely what happens, as they have

been over the last six to seven months. The other thing that David

Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy made clear is that this is not over yet.

It's far from over and the most difficult time could still lie

ahead, in spite of what we have seen in the fall of Tripoli just

over three weeks ago. Peter Biles, thank you very much.

The other stories making headlines now around the world today:

Pakistan's Prime Minister is calling for unity within his

country to overcome challenges including the ongoing floods. More

than 200 people have died and more than a million homes have been

destroyed by severe flooding in the south. Aid workers say this year's

floods in some areas are more serious than those that devastated

the country last year. Chilean students have once again

clashed with police during ongoing protests to demand a boost in

educational spending. Water trucks dispersed demonstrators armed with

rocks and Molotov cocktails. Police have made several arrests in the

capital, Santiago. Palestinians are due to submit a bid for full

membership at the UN Security Council on the 23rd September. The

announcement ends speculation over whether Palestinians would risk a

threatened US veto of their statehood bid.

The International Space Station crew is preparing for its staff to

be reduced by half. Two Russians, along with an American, are leaving

and are stead yuled to land in Kazakhstan on Thursday night --

scheduled. The three remaining astronauts depart the post in mid-

November. The Swiss banking giant UBS says

it's discovered unauthorised trading in its investment bank

leading to a possible loss of around $2 billion. Police in London

have arrested a man in connection with the loss, UBS said it may

report an overall loss for the third quarter because of this

unauthorised trade. We are joined by the Assistant editor at Reuters

Breaking Views. Thank you very much for joining me. I suppose what many

people are going to be asking today is, how on earth has this happened,

we have heard of Jerome Kerrville and Nick Leeson, how has this

happened, people will be saying? The fact of the matter is that in

these investment banks with the large trading operations they have,

it's unfortunately, despite the controls and risk management, it's

possible for people to take matters into their own hands, to cover

things up and to run up unauthorised positions which lead

to losses. I think what is shocking here really though is that

especially after the Kerviel scandal, the regulators were

pressuring for tighter regulations. It's not the case that people can

run up losses, it's the fact that they don't get discovered until

they run up the losses. It seems to be the case that however hard they

try, banks are unable to control that. Have we had any explanation

from UBS over how something so huge managed to be missed? No, I think

the details are leaking out as we speak. Basically, we've - UBS s

said they discovered this recently, and so we have to believe that

that's the case. But then again, that begs the question, how is it

possible that something of this scale does not come to the

attention, is not caught by the risk management systems sooner, and

that's the real question they'll have to answer. UBS has a very

significant wealthy private client base. This is not going to do much

for UBS's reputation among these investors, is it? No, it's a

terrible setback for UBS. They had a near death experience in the

crisis in 2007 - 08 when it suffered heavy losses in the

investment banking and its private banking clients, a lot of them ran

for cover, Swiss banks moved elsewhere. UBS has spent the last

three years persuading private banking clients that the risks had

been reduced and therefore it's safe to have UBS as a private bank

again. This will be a real setback for UBS in that effort and I think

it will lead to renewed calls for UBS to separate or shut down invest

vestment bank entirely -- investment bank entirely.

Thank you very much. Police in Haiti have used tear gas

to disperse hundreds of protestors demanding the withdrawal of UN

peacekeeping troops from the country. The protests were

triggered by allegations that UN troops from Uruguay raped a Haitian

man. Emerging from the rubble of last

year's earthquake, a crowd vents its anger against the UN's forces.

The latest allegations, about an alleged rape, have inflamed an

already sensitive situation. In July, a young man is alleged to

have been raped by Uruguayan members of the international

peacekeeping force. TRANSLATION: You and the troops are

abusing our children and they're committing all sorbts of crimes.

Since the rape case, we are launching a protest until the UN

mission leaves. Uruguay has apologised to Haiti and

four troops have been arrested over the allegations. But that's little

comfort to the people already furious about an outbreak of

cholera blamed on another group of UN troops.

As the protest grew, police Fireed tear gas to disperse the protestors,

driving them back into a camp which still houses many thousands made

homeless by the earthquake. As Haiti struggles to get back on its

feet, there's a growing debate over the future role of the United

Nations. The country's President has said

the peacekeepers are still needed but should be gradually replaced by

haition Security Forces. The UN says it's enforce ago zero

tolerance policy for misconduct but that's unlikely to satify all these

protestors. Still to come on GMT: A new atlas

highlights our ever changing world. Also - monks on wheels, a new

documentary filmed by three skateboarders show a different

perspective of Burma. Time now to get all the business

news with Jamie. So much going on, but perhaps some growth in Europe?

Well, no, that's the big problem of course. Oh! I was hoping... We've

had word from the European Commission, a breakdown of what

their growth forecasts are for the rest of the year for Europe and

it's not good. Growth will have come to a virtual stand still by

the end of the year and they are not expecting anything to get going

again until spring, strength analysts think it will be later.

The monetary affairs commissioner said this about it. Economic growth

in the European Union is expected to be coming to a virtual

standstill towards the end of the year. Compared to our spring

forecast, prospects are gloomier and risks to their growth outlook

are tilted to the downside. Downbeat to say the least. What

does this all mean for countries struggling with austerity plans?

That's where it starts to hurt. Countries like Greece which are

going through austerity measures and the other countries, Italy

passed theirs yesterday, so those sorts of things will make growth

more difficult and then, as growth becomes slower, then of course in

proportion to their GDP, the deficit gets bigger. This is

explained by a member of Deutsche Bank. The problem we have right now

in Europe is that we have a kind of vicious circle. The markets and the

European peers are requesting from this peripherals that they stick to

the budgetary targets but since growth is weaker, they need to give

us more additional fis dal austerity measures which in turn

makes their growth outlook even bleaker -- fiscal.

Over the ocean now, the American markets open later? One weird thing

that's been happening over the last three days is despite the negative

news in Europe about the debt crisis, markets have been fairly

buoyant. There's a feeling at the moment that perhaps they've written

the idea of a Greek default into the prices possibly. Some are

saying they are being unrealistic. The big story at the moment,

interesting story, though it won't get a market reaction is that

Facebook has featured in the Financial Times, it won't be

offering a public offering until next year. They want to make more

developments but other companies have stopped IPOs because thng the

market is in a mess. A debate about I will show you what the European

markets are are doing. The FTSE is up 10 points. We are expecting the

American market to open about 0.5% higher. Generally positive.

This is GMT from BBC World News. The headlines:

Leader of France and Britain join Libya's National Transitional

Council for a news conference in Tripoli. A clear message to Gaddafi

loyalists, it is over, go home. Let's stay with that story and hear

what David Cameron had to say when he addressed the Libyan and

international press in Tripoli. This was your revolution, not our

revolution. It was those brave people in Misrata, in Benghazi, in

Brega, in Tripoli in the the mountains who were incredibly brave

in removing the dreadful dictatorship of Gaddafi and I pay

tribute to those people throughout Libya today. It is your revolution.

It is their bravery that has enabled this to happen, but let us

be clear, this is not finished. This is not done. This is not over.

There are still parts of Libya that are under Gaddafi's control,

Gaddafi is still at large and we must make sure this work is

completed. The French President, Nicolas

Sarkozy spoke of the need of unity among the people of Libya.

TRANSLATION: France is committed to Libya's unity, to the

reconciliation of Libya. France would like to tell its friends in

Libya, look forward to the future together. There should be no

sorting of accounts and you should respect Human Rights and law. And

that forgiveness should be shown by everybody, every single Libyan

person should know that those who committed crimes or those who have

robbed the Libyan people will be The changes to our world's cart to

go graphy has been highlight in the Times Times. The the Times Atlas.

We are joined by Sheena Barclay. I want you to explain the changes.

Greenland, take us through what has been going on? There is 25,000

changes which has been made between the at lasses and some significant

ones are to do with environmental change and to the change in the

landscape. If you look at Greenland, what we are seeing is a significant

reduction in the ice cap itself. The reduction over the last 12

years is about 15% which is 300,000 square kilometres which is the size

of France or the size of the UK and Ireland combined. That's the sort

of area and extent that we're talking about. If you look down the

East Coast of Greenland that's where the most changes are. So the

brown and green areas is the land cover that's now there compared to

what was there before and there is new islands appearing from

underneath the ice cap. This is aptly named as Warming

Island. We have a picture. Talking about climate change as well, we

have seen worrying, there it is, there is Warming Island, we have

seen the break-up of the Wilkins Ice Shelf? That's right. We have

seen accelerated regional warming. The air temperatures over the

Arctic are ten times the global average in terms of the increase

and for the likes of Western Europe, there is a significant potential

impact. So whilst the Earth is warming, what we are seeing in

Times Atlas that could result in a cooling over the winter months

which could increase our snow cover by 50% to 100%. Whilst we think

about global warming making the temperatures warmer, the impact on

certain regions could be the opposite.

You mentioned climate change. There has been massive political change

as well? We highlight in the atlas as the new country. The first

edition of this particular Times Atlas came out in 1967. There is 29

countries in the last 29. There is south Sudan and Kosovo and for the

first time we have introduced the category of international disputed

territory which actually highlights the case for some of the other

potential countries of the future. It is fascinating and to go through

one of these is charming as well. Thank you for explaining the

Something different! Skateboarding monks aren't the usual images you

associate with Burma, but a recently released documentary aims

to show a new side to the country. Despite media access being tightly

controlled by the ruling military Junta, three skateboarding friends

from Britain managed to gain access to do the filming. It's called

Altered Focus and explores Burma behind the headlines. Filmmaker

James Hammond spoke to the BBC to give this first person account of

his time in a country rarely seen by the outside world. As three

film-makers interested in the political situation within Burma,

we wanted to see what the one was like on a day-to-day basis, a Burma

behind the headlines. As skateboarders we had a means to

explore the country. I think one of the advantages we had going into

Burma was that we all look quite young, you know, we are skateboard

clothing, a journalist doesn't walk into a country with a skateboard,

no one would think they are coming here to do something that isn't

allowed to be done. That was one of our biggest advantages and going

through passport security, you know, we went through with a camera bag

and tapes. That was the hairyest moment. We thought this is the

moment when we get turned away or arrested, but no one batted an eye

lid. Often what is great about Burma is

the stunning scenery, the rich culture and the kindness of its

people is overshadowed by what is bad. The potential here is left

unex-- unexplored. The film is a different angle from

the normal sort of angle on Burma and how it is reported. It is

positive. It is looking at how people get on with their lives and

they are oppressed and that's one of the reasons we went out there.

We didn't go out there as a journalist to report what is

happening. We went out there to show how people are living day-to-

day. They were all intrigued by our

skateboards and we tried our best to explain how to stay on the

board! Such simple experiences make you

realise how fortunate we are in the West.

One thing we found really interesting was that a lot of the

skateboarders that we met watched the same videos that we watched.

Knew a a lot of the same companies and the same professional

skateboarders. Under this regime that is is super oppressive and

doesn't let Western media in. It is interesting to know they know the

I think one of the great things that the film highlights is that we

as Westerners take a lot of things for granted. There is a lot of

youth out there who aren't politicised. It was a fantastic

The Guinness World Records has announced its pick of global

records for 2012 and what an interesting bunch they are. Here's

the world's most elastic woman, Skye Broberg from New Zealand,

squeezing herself through a tennis racket and folding herself into a

box the size of a small suitcase. That's telecoms computer expert

Rolf Buchhol, or the world's most pierced man, shows off just some of

his 453 body piercings. If you let your nails grow for 18 years, this

is what they'd look like. These belong to Chris Walton from Las

Vegas. She's the new Guinness World Record holder for the world's

longest finger nails. And to end on a high note, take a look at the

longest line of skipping dogs on one rope. They're in Eastern Japan.

The star of Happy Days has been awarded an honorary OBE, the Fonz

was given the award for his more recent work in Britain, raising

awareness of dyslexia in children. He said he was honoured and proud.

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