:00:10. > :00:18.A revolution delayed, at least 33 dead as Egypt's activists demand
:00:18. > :00:28.for changes more quickly. Back to square one, as they did in the
:00:28. > :00:40.
:00:40. > :00:47.February uprising, the protesters Hello. Welcome to GMT. I'm George
:00:47. > :00:51.Alagiah. No time for an election honeymoon for the popular People's
:00:51. > :00:55.Party. Do they have a solution for the financial crisis?
:00:56. > :01:05.It's only a game, why an invasion of Iran in battlefield three is
:01:06. > :01:06.
:01:06. > :01:09.It's 12.30pm in London, early morning in Washington and 2.30pm in
:01:09. > :01:14.Cairo, where the sound of protest is once again spreading out from
:01:14. > :01:21.Tahrir Square. Nine months after the remarkable 18-day uprising that
:01:21. > :01:24.ended the rule of Hosni Mubarak, it seems it's back to square one, no
:01:24. > :01:29.pun intended. The activists fear the military are trying to enTrench
:01:29. > :01:32.their hold over the country. At least 33 people have died in the
:01:32. > :01:34.last two days of clashes and Egypt's culture minister has just
:01:34. > :01:37.resigned in protest at the government response to
:01:37. > :01:47.demonstrations. Emily Buchanan has this report on a revolution re-
:01:47. > :01:48.
:01:48. > :01:52.The battles on Cairo's streets are ferocious. Police fire tear gas and
:01:52. > :01:57.rubber bullets, protesters hold their ground. Their weapons -
:01:57. > :02:02.stones, pieces of pavement and grim determination. The future of the
:02:02. > :02:06.country is at stake. Tahrir Square, the scene of so much jubilation
:02:06. > :02:11.nine months ago, now filled with those desperate to stop their
:02:11. > :02:15.revolution unraveling. Activists had believed the army to be their
:02:15. > :02:19.ally, but now there's fury that promises by the generals to oversee
:02:19. > :02:24.an orderly transfer from dictatorship to democracy have been
:02:24. > :02:31.broken the there's -- broken. There's little faith in
:02:31. > :02:36.Parliamentary elections. The military will hold power, enjoy
:02:36. > :02:38.immunity from prosecution and avoid execute any of budgets.
:02:38. > :02:41.TRANSLATION: The military Council said up to six months they would
:02:41. > :02:46.hand over power. Nine months have passed and there's no indication
:02:46. > :02:49.they are doing that. Vi no faith in these elections at all. The
:02:49. > :02:54.interior ministry is supposed to safe guard the elections and
:02:54. > :02:59.they're the ones attacking us right now. Near Tahrir Square, a fire in
:02:59. > :03:03.a six storey apartment building has become another flash points. People
:03:03. > :03:07.are enraged the police wouldn't let firefighters deal with the blaze.
:03:07. > :03:11.TRANSLATION: The tear gas landed inside an apartment. The police
:03:11. > :03:15.won't allow fire trucks in. Tear gas was not meant to be the
:03:15. > :03:21.currency of the Arab Spring. Western governments are urging the
:03:21. > :03:26.military rulers to loosen their decades old grip on power. We do
:03:26. > :03:30.want to see Egypt a transfer of people. We want to see robust
:03:31. > :03:36.guarantees of human rights, including the accountability of
:03:36. > :03:39.security forces enshrined in future laws or constitutions As the
:03:39. > :03:45.running battles take their toll, make-shift field hospitals have
:03:45. > :03:48.been set up. Some of the wounded say they're too afraid to go to the
:03:48. > :03:52.city hospitals for fear of being arrested. Elections are supposed to
:03:52. > :03:57.be in a week. But with little trust in them and with such a volatile
:03:57. > :04:00.atmosphere, it looks unlikely they can take place. The army's
:04:00. > :04:04.determined to have the streets clear for polling, but thousands of
:04:04. > :04:11.ordinary people are equally determined to risk their lives and
:04:11. > :04:18.defy the order to go home. Our correspondent, Yolande Knell,
:04:19. > :04:28.joins me live now from Cairo. We were both in Tahrir Square back in
:04:29. > :04:31.
:04:31. > :04:36.February. This is a case of day Jew view isn't it? -- de jav? It seems
:04:36. > :04:38.this is the worst violence we have seen since the revolution. The
:04:38. > :04:44.latest figure suggest that more than 30 people have been killed.
:04:44. > :04:48.That's coming from a morgue, close to Tahrir Square. Now we're also
:04:48. > :04:53.seeing an encampment in the square, people re-occupying the central
:04:53. > :04:59.area, at the symbolic heart of Egypt's revolution. This is all
:04:59. > :05:04.something quite new for Egypt in this post-revolutionary period.
:05:04. > :05:07.Still the violence continuing. Still a lot of volatility there and
:05:07. > :05:13.numbers continuing to swell in Tahrir Square. It's quite a dilemma
:05:13. > :05:17.for the ruling military about how to proceed. What effect is this
:05:17. > :05:24.likely to have on elections, Parliamentary elections, staggered
:05:24. > :05:29.elections, due to start next week.? Exactly one week from now the
:05:29. > :05:32.election process is due to start. Elections are due to place here in
:05:32. > :05:37.Cairo and other provinces on November 28. Now the ruling
:05:37. > :05:42.military was quick to come out and say that it was sticking to that
:05:42. > :05:45.time table, but it remains to be seen whether in this security
:05:46. > :05:50.environment and the bitter atmosphere that we now see whether
:05:50. > :05:53.those elections can take place as planned. Certainly there's been an
:05:53. > :05:58.appeal to the new political parties that have been campaigning, they
:05:58. > :06:05.have posters up around the city, at the moment, for them to get
:06:05. > :06:09.involved and try to help clear Tahrir Square, but the anger of the
:06:09. > :06:12.protesters has only been magnified by the brutality that we've seen
:06:12. > :06:16.from the police, who are being backed up by the military police.
:06:16. > :06:21.Thank you very much. Let's look at some of the other
:06:21. > :06:24.stories making headlines around the world today: All change in Spain,
:06:24. > :06:28.the centre-right Popular Party has won a victory in the Parliament'
:06:28. > :06:32.election. With all the votes counted, the new Prime Minister is
:06:32. > :06:37.assured of a clear majority in the lower house. Mariano Rajoy is
:06:37. > :06:41.expected to tackle the country's debts amid slow growth and high
:06:41. > :06:45.unemployment. Addressing supporters last night Mr Rajoy said there
:06:45. > :06:48.would be no miracle to restore Spain to financial health. Spain is
:06:48. > :06:52.the fifth eurozone country embroiled in the financial crisis
:06:52. > :07:01.to change its government, after Greece, Italy, Portugal and Ireland
:07:01. > :07:05.did the same. Joining me now is an eeconomist from LSC Europe
:07:05. > :07:09.institute. He has no honeymoon period. Most election victories,
:07:09. > :07:14.especially with this kind of majority, you expect a bit of
:07:14. > :07:18.leeway. We will have to perform the reforms as soon as possible.
:07:18. > :07:22.There's no way Spain can wait a single minute. He has a mandate
:07:22. > :07:26.from the people. The mandate is very clear, absolute majority. It's
:07:26. > :07:31.time to reform. You say he's got a mandate from the people, what has
:07:31. > :07:34.he got a mandate for? Because with one in five people unemployed, the
:07:34. > :07:38.mandate could be make the economy grow, expand things so we have more
:07:38. > :07:44.jobs. Actually, what the rest of Europe want him to do is shut
:07:44. > :07:49.things down. That's true. In many ways these elections show a protest
:07:49. > :07:53.votes primarily against the incumbent. Even if we look at the
:07:53. > :07:59.distribution of power in the country, we see the Nationalists
:07:59. > :08:09.won in Catalonia. Clearly the mandate is unclear. I would say
:08:09. > :08:09.
:08:09. > :08:15.that the people in Spain expect the country to move forward, to get out
:08:15. > :08:19.from under this, there are serious reforms to be done. You mention
:08:19. > :08:23.labour market, what does that mean? The flexibility in the labour
:08:23. > :08:27.market, the exit course or protection of employees in Spain is
:08:27. > :08:32.far too high. When people say flexible labour market I know what
:08:32. > :08:36.workers are going to think, this means the bosses can sack us more
:08:36. > :08:41.easily. That's right. That's right, that's what he has to do? It is
:08:41. > :08:46.right because that will be the way that new, let's say, jobs will be
:08:46. > :08:52.created. Really? Sack more people, you get even more unemployment and
:08:52. > :08:56.you're going to create jobs. No of course sacking some people and then
:08:56. > :09:01.hiring other people in return. It's not necessarily negative. By
:09:01. > :09:06.reducing the excess cost in the labour market you will encourage
:09:06. > :09:09.firm owners and business in general to keep on a highering new jobs,
:09:09. > :09:14.sorry new people and that essentially means that new jobs
:09:14. > :09:19.will be created, new activities put forward. As an economist and
:09:19. > :09:24.looking at this through your eyes, what's Mr Rajoy's first big test?
:09:24. > :09:30.When is he going to have to show he's got what it takes? I would say
:09:30. > :09:36.putting forward the labour market reform will be the main thing. Then
:09:36. > :09:42.being able to contain public finance. At the moment public
:09:42. > :09:48.expenditure is still contained compared to last year, but it's
:09:48. > :09:53.growing far too much as what it should grow. Spain needs
:09:53. > :09:57.significant stability at the moment. It's not being attained by the
:09:57. > :10:01.previous government. You say this is a protest vote, protest against
:10:01. > :10:05.the socialist government. What was wrong with that? They presided over
:10:05. > :10:11.a housing boom. That's right. They identified the problem or went
:10:11. > :10:16.public with the problem too late. It took a year or more actually for
:10:16. > :10:22.Zapatero to recognise that Spain was in a weak position. That was
:10:22. > :10:26.very much opportunistic. He wanted to be re-elected in 2008. I think
:10:26. > :10:33.that is when Spain started to act too late about one year, one year-
:10:33. > :10:35.and-a-half late, that actually shows. Thank you very much.
:10:35. > :10:41.US authorities say that they've arrested a man, who they believe
:10:41. > :10:45.was plotting to bm a number of targets in New York. Jose Pimentel,
:10:45. > :10:50.who is a US citizen, originally from the doe minical republic,
:10:50. > :10:55.appeared in court late on Sunday. He's charged with conspiracy,
:10:55. > :11:00.possession of a weapon as a ciex terrorism and soliciting support
:11:00. > :11:04.for a terrorist act. He was denied bail and remains in custody.
:11:04. > :11:08.Aung San Suu Kyi has confirmed she will stand as a candidate in
:11:08. > :11:11.Parliamentary by-elections later this year. The party decided to
:11:11. > :11:17.return to mainstream politics after the new civilian-led administration
:11:17. > :11:22.in Burma began a series of reforms. The NLD won a general election in
:11:22. > :11:26.1990, but this was overturned by Burma's then military rulers.
:11:26. > :11:31.The German government has agreed to compensate the families of victims
:11:31. > :11:35.killed by an alleged Neo-Nazi cell accused of killing ten people over
:11:35. > :11:39.a decade. Angela Merkel described the murders as a national disgrace
:11:39. > :11:43.and questioned how a group, known to police, could have, as she put
:11:44. > :11:47.it, slipped under the radar. Thousands of air passengers are
:11:47. > :11:52.facing delays and cancellations because of weather condition as
:11:52. > :11:57.cross Europe. Worst affected is Heathrow Airport, where more than
:11:57. > :12:05.100 fligts have been grounded. You can see how the advise --
:12:05. > :12:11.visibility is there from these pictures. Amsterdam, Brussels and
:12:11. > :12:16.Zurich has also been affected. Still to come: Libya insists the
:12:16. > :12:20.trial of the country's former intelligence chief, Abdullah Al-
:12:20. > :12:25.Senoussi should take place on home soil not The Hague. We'll look at
:12:25. > :12:32.how his arrest and that of Saif Al- Islam is a real challenge for new
:12:32. > :12:36.Libya. First, let's get all the business
:12:36. > :12:40.news. We've been talking,s you just heard,
:12:40. > :12:44.talking about debt in Europe, Spain and so on, there is a much bigger
:12:44. > :12:49.debt somewhere else, isn't there? If we think the eurozone debt
:12:49. > :12:53.crisis is a worry, the US debt crisis could be a monster one,
:12:54. > :13:03.could dwarf anything we're looking at in Europe. It's back in the news.
:13:04. > :13:06.
:13:06. > :13:11.US national debt has ticked past the $15drl. -- $15 trillion. People
:13:11. > :13:14.may remember when this was in the news in July, at the 178 hour the
:13:14. > :13:19.government agreed to raise the debt -- 11th hour, the Government agreed
:13:19. > :13:24.to raise the debt ceiling. They agreed to form a super committee,
:13:24. > :13:28.12 panel members who were going to work together on how to cut $1.2
:13:28. > :13:32.trillion from the budget over ten years. They haven't agreed to do
:13:32. > :13:37.that. We could hear from them today that they are acknowledging defeat.
:13:37. > :13:42.It is a very serious situation. we don't do something, I'm afraid
:13:42. > :13:46.we're heading down a road that leads to the Greek kind of
:13:46. > :13:50.situation, really terrible sovereign debt crisis. It's hard to
:13:50. > :13:57.say when that would occur. I don't think we have ten years. It could
:13:57. > :14:01.occur next month. There's a worry right there. If they don't agree,
:14:01. > :14:05.automatic triggers come into place in 2013 where money will be taken
:14:05. > :14:09.from the defence budget and things like welfare budgets. I hate to be
:14:09. > :14:13.the first BBC presenter to talk about Christmas, but people are
:14:13. > :14:16.thinking about travel and holidays and that kind of thing. There's
:14:16. > :14:21.news from Qantas, not resolved their problems. The flying kangaroo
:14:21. > :14:26.as we call it at home. There's not a lot of spring in its hop of late.
:14:26. > :14:31.Good line. The workers and the airline have, the latest talks have
:14:31. > :14:36.failed. The deadline was set today. It means that both sides will have
:14:36. > :14:41.to take and abide by a future settlement from an independent
:14:41. > :14:44.umpire. Of course, this has been going on, last month the CEO
:14:44. > :14:48.grounded the entire fleet. He was fed up with all the strike action
:14:48. > :14:52.that's been taking place. This is a bitter row over pay and the airline
:14:52. > :14:57.wanting to move jobs to the likes of Indonesia and other places in
:14:57. > :15:05.Asia. Let's listen from the CEO what he said about today's
:15:05. > :15:08.development. This brings certainty to our customers, employees and
:15:08. > :15:11.shareholders. Qantas will be happy to accept the adjudication of the
:15:11. > :15:15.umpire. We know the unions are going back to the court to get
:15:15. > :15:18.their rights back to strike. If they win that, there could be
:15:18. > :15:28.disruption over the Christmas holiday period. Anything on the
:15:28. > :15:31.
:15:31. > :15:41.markets? Markets downment -- are Much more on the outcome of the
:15:41. > :15:41.
:15:41. > :15:47.Spanish election on the BBC website. And a profile of the new leader.
:15:47. > :15:52.This is GMT. I am George Alagiah. Here are the headlines: Egypt's
:15:53. > :15:56.health ministry says 22 people have died and 1,800 have been injured as
:15:56. > :16:04.protests against the country's military rulers continue in Tahrir
:16:04. > :16:13.Square. Spain's new government, Popular
:16:13. > :16:16.Party, has been voted in. Cost of borrowing have risen to nearly 6.5%.
:16:16. > :16:24.A new video game depicting an American invasion of Iran in search
:16:24. > :16:29.of nuclear warheads has proved to be a great hit. But battlefield 3
:16:29. > :16:35.has angered the young of game players in Iran itself and many say
:16:35. > :16:45.the plot is insensitive. Our reporter has been playing the game
:16:45. > :16:50.
:16:50. > :16:57.and assessing the impact of Shame. You come to our country to
:16:57. > :17:01.murder us, get we are the terrorists! The game is set in 2014,
:17:01. > :17:06.and following an earthquake, the Iranian government is replaced by a
:17:06. > :17:11.radical militia. America's sense in the Marines to find a secure
:17:11. > :17:17.weapons of mass destruction and all of this calls for sanctions against
:17:17. > :17:22.Iran over its nuclear programme. But do games like this have an
:17:22. > :17:26.impact on public opinion? average player does not think twice
:17:26. > :17:31.about the story. They are just looking to run around and have fun
:17:31. > :17:37.in the game world. You can appreciate that by the popularity
:17:37. > :17:40.of the multi-player games. Some people play terrorists and some
:17:40. > :17:46.people play counter terrorists and there is no more agenda. It is just
:17:46. > :17:53.a colourful backdrop. But what if you live in the Middle East? What
:17:53. > :17:58.if you are playing the game in your apartment in Tehran? I spoke to a
:17:58. > :18:02.game designer from Iran. TRANSLATION: Westerners can never
:18:02. > :18:08.understand our situation because they have not seen what I have. But
:18:08. > :18:13.I remember playing a game called Generals eight years ago. I played
:18:13. > :18:17.an American soldier attacking Iraq. Six months later, I turned on the
:18:17. > :18:21.TV and the stuff I was playing before was now in the news. Our
:18:21. > :18:30.neighbouring country was attacked and we could see the impact on our
:18:30. > :18:36.own. 5 million copies of Battlefield 3 sold in his first
:18:36. > :18:43.week. For enthusiastic buyers, the dual politics in the game were not
:18:43. > :18:48.of relevance. I am not sure of much about the story. I just know it
:18:48. > :18:54.impulse gums and Iraq. I think it is Iraq... I would assume it is
:18:54. > :18:58.somewhere around the Middle East. Not too sure. Battlefield 3 has
:18:58. > :19:08.been condemned in the Iranian press and some Iranian game players have
:19:08. > :19:09.
:19:09. > :19:14.launched a petition calling for an apology. Video games are as popular
:19:14. > :19:24.in Iran as anywhere else in the world, but this was just too close
:19:24. > :19:25.
:19:25. > :19:31.to home for comfort. The British Foreign Secretary,
:19:31. > :19:36.William Hague, has insisted that Colonel Gaddafi's son must be
:19:36. > :19:41.prosecuted and international standards even if his trial takes
:19:41. > :19:45.place in Libya and not in the International Criminal Court. Saif
:19:45. > :19:50.Al-Islam was captured on Saturday, while Abdullah Al-Senussi was
:19:50. > :19:54.captured on Sunday. Both are wanted by The Hague but Libya will seek to
:19:54. > :19:59.try them at home, we think. To talk about the latest developments in
:19:59. > :20:01.the country, I am joined by it John Oakes, author of Libya: The History
:20:02. > :20:05.Of Gaddafi's Pariah State. It is a book that includes the most recent
:20:05. > :20:11.developments in the country's history. Thank you for being with
:20:11. > :20:16.us. I found it interesting that you talk about Gaddafi's Bedouin troops
:20:16. > :20:25.and say that this somehow shape of 40 years that followed? I did. He
:20:25. > :20:31.was born in a tent somewhere south of Sirte. This is what I call it.
:20:31. > :20:36.For 10 years of his life, he lived in a Bedouin tent. They were
:20:36. > :20:42.completely isolated and if you drive around Sirte, you find how
:20:42. > :20:46.very isolated it is, and without communication from the outside.
:20:46. > :20:52.lots of leaders in Africa that high North started in very humble
:20:52. > :20:58.beginnings in small villages. And often -- Nelson Mandela himself did.
:20:58. > :21:05.That does not mean they end up being what Colonel Gaddafi was?
:21:05. > :21:11.You have to resume that he is particularly involved in his
:21:11. > :21:20.revolution from the age of about 14. And if you look at his history, you
:21:20. > :21:29.see that he left Sirte when he was in primary school and went on to a
:21:29. > :21:34.very interesting place because the capture of Abdullah Al-Senussi took
:21:34. > :21:40.place there. He went there way started his revolution at about the
:21:40. > :21:45.age of 14. What do you think the chances are, as I just mentioned,
:21:45. > :21:50.of both sides of a Islam and Abdullah Al-Senussi that they will
:21:50. > :22:00.get a trial and not end up like Colonel Gaddafi? -- of psi leaf al
:22:00. > :22:01.
:22:01. > :22:06.Islam? Well, his son was caught by a Zintan Brigade, and they were the
:22:06. > :22:10.rebels at the back of Tripoli, and for a long time they had been anti-
:22:10. > :22:16.Gaddafi because of his suppression of their system that was very
:22:16. > :22:23.powerful. They wanted to get into power so they have got his son, and
:22:23. > :22:29.with whom they can negotiate a place in power. The other capture
:22:29. > :22:34.of Abdullah Al-Senussi is from another group, and they, too, want
:22:34. > :22:39.a place in power. So you are suggesting that far from justice
:22:39. > :22:44.being of a key motive, this could be part of a power play? Yes, and
:22:44. > :22:47.it seems very likely that is the case. If you look at the people of
:22:47. > :22:53.Misrata, and you will remember how they fought like crazy to become
:22:53. > :22:57.free, they, too, one to have a place on the board somewhere.
:22:57. > :23:01.interesting that you say in your book, I cannot remember where, that
:23:01. > :23:10.the problem for Libya is that it does not have a reconciliatory
:23:10. > :23:16.chief or a Mandela or a Desmond Tutu? Yes, and it needs them.
:23:16. > :23:20.Benghazi has always been a separate entity. I lived there for four
:23:20. > :23:25.years and being separate is very important to Benghazi. It used to
:23:25. > :23:30.be the capital of a place that had Greig background. I am so sorry to
:23:30. > :23:34.interrupt you. We have run out of time. Thank you.
:23:34. > :23:38.A Hollywood director Joe Wright is best known for films like Pride and
:23:38. > :23:43.Prejudice and Atonement, but his latest project is a little more
:23:43. > :23:47.modest in scale and has swapped film stars or puppets. Joe has gone
:23:48. > :23:57.back to his roots in London to puppet theatre, where you watched
:23:58. > :24:03.
:24:03. > :24:08.his parents pulling the strings. The expressions don't change, the
:24:08. > :24:18.acting is perhaps a little bored and. But there is something here
:24:18. > :24:19.
:24:19. > :24:25.that is spellbinding. -- a little wooden. It is a very magical place
:24:25. > :24:30.and it is a place where anything is possible. A very optimistic place.
:24:30. > :24:37.And on the front row of his opening night, a film director, Joe Wright,
:24:37. > :24:42.who is today... I am not sure what my credit is for this show. Is it
:24:42. > :24:51.producer? Story boarding. There you go! How long is it since you have
:24:51. > :24:58.worked on a puppet show? About 25 years. Twenty-five years! You see,
:24:58. > :25:03.Joe grew up here. Here he is with his parents, John and Lyndie, who
:25:03. > :25:08.created the Little Angel Puppet Theatre. It is an extraordinarily
:25:08. > :25:12.magical experience here backstage, with all these creatures who seem
:25:12. > :25:19.to have lives of their own. They are now all celebrating their 50th
:25:19. > :25:29.birthday. Stand outside and it has barely changed since it began in
:25:29. > :25:33.1961. The building had been a derelict hall. Got you! My bird! My
:25:33. > :25:41.lovely bird! But building the audience for puppet shows was not
:25:41. > :25:45.easy. You shot it! There have been rocky moments. When we first opened,
:25:45. > :25:51.there would be three people to a show and very often, they would end
:25:51. > :25:56.up having supper with us at the end. But they did build an audience,
:25:56. > :26:00.brought here by the stories and all we can see in those wooden faces.
:26:00. > :26:07.think it is the audience's ability to project emotions onto an
:26:07. > :26:15.inanimate object that is uncanny. particularly like this guy. He is
:26:15. > :26:23.looking at a map. Where am I? What is going on? Happy, sad, uplifting,
:26:23. > :26:27.uncanny. We can see it all in little box of a chiselled wood.
:26:27. > :26:33.-- little blocks. I just want to show you some
:26:33. > :26:37.pictures of the US, where heavy rain has caused a street to
:26:37. > :26:43.collapse. This is in the San Pedro area of Los Angeles and the Street
:26:43. > :26:46.slipped into the ocean on Sunday. The road had already been closed