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judge in Ohio has sentenced aerial Castro to life in prison for holding

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three women captive -- aerial Castro. -- Ariel Castro. He

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addressed the court shortly before he was sentenced. I am a person,

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just sick, I have an addiction, just like an alcoholic has an addiction.

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Alcoholics are not in control of their addiction, I couldn't control

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mind. I would like to apologise to the victims. I am truly sorry for

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what happened. I am trying to answer my own questions. I don't know why.

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I had everything going on for myself. I had a job and a home, my

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musical talent, I had everything going on for me, your honour. I had

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a good history with working, providing. I can -- I hope they can

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just find it in their hearts to forgive me.

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Let's go to our correspondent who joins us from Cleveland. He avoided

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the death penalty in a plea bargain. We also heard from the

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victims themselves which painted a very different picture from the

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statement he read out. The judge in this case has just

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wrapped up his long sentencing, he said you still pose a grave danger

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to the community, you don't deserve to be out in our community, you are

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too dangerous, those his remarks to Ariel Castro. He has been sentenced

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to life in prison, without the possibility of parole, after

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pleading guilty to 937 charges. Those include kidnap, sexual assault

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and torture. We will not be seeing very much of him after this. He had

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given a rambling statement earlier on in which he blamed everybody else

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for his travails, it seems, including his ex-wife, the pressures

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of his job and so on. He said I am not a monster, I am just sick and he

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likened his situation to a love of pornography, and said it was a bit

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like an alcoholic seeking drink. I don't know how that will go down.

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Clearly deluded statement he gave and one point he actually turned to

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address the shell night he was in the court just behind him --

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Michelle might. She refused to return his gaze -- Michelle Knight.

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He was quite clearly deluded man and his assertion towards the end of his

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remarks that a lot of the sex that took case in his house was

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consensual, apart from the fact it is out and is, that will be seen as

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evidence he was deeply deluded. But not psychiatrically ill, because

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that was made clear in the middle of this trial. What have the victims

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themselves, what sort of lives are they able to rebuild now?

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There was an FBI agent who gave evidence and said they had managed

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to rebuild their lives to a large extent, these three women. They are

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clearly quite exceptional individuals. We also heard from a

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doctor who made a similar claim will stop he said they would -- they had

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in heroic in the way they had dealt with the serpents fancies and the --

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circumstances, and the mental progress they have made since the

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release, who thought was quite remarkable. A lot of people have

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been making the point that this is something that these three women

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will have to live with for the rest of their lives.

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You are watching BBC News. Our headlines, we start with the

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fugitive American whistle-blower, Edward Snowden, who has been granted

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temporary asylum in Russia. The White House is disappointed. Lloyds

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Banking Group which is part owned either taxpayer is back in the black

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for the first time in three years. Ariel Castro who kidnapped three men

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and -- three women and subjected them to a decade of sexual and

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physical abuse has been sentenced to life in prison without trial --

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parole. from Italy. It is regarding Silvio

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Berlusconi. The top court, five judges have been looking at the case

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in terms of fraud and tax fraud will stop they have confirmed

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Berlusconi's tax fraud conviction stands, and ordered a review of a

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political ban. This is a case which Blake -- dates back several years.

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There have been two days of argument, but crucially this

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threatens the fragile coalition government that is now in place in

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Italy. Berlusconi has no official role in the government but he is

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influential. 76-year-old Silvio Berlusconi and three others were

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convicted in October last year of tax fraud. This is all to do with

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buying television rights of the network owned by Silvio Berlusconi.

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He was then sentenced to four years in prison with a five-year ban on

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public office which was confirmed in another appeal earlier this year. In

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the last few weeks it is highest court of five judges have confirmed

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that conviction and ordered a review of the ban on his political career.

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More on that as soon as we can. Let's turn to events in Zimbabwe

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because President Robert the garden with -- Robert Gabi Grob party says

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it has on an emphatic victory in the election on Wednesday if no official

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results have yet to be released. His main ramble -- rival said

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intimidation and ballot rigging were right. He called the election farce

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and the result null and. Let's speak to a Zimbabwean who lives in

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London. During 2008 she supported her mother who was standing as an

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independent candidate in the upper house. Are we entering a dangerous

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time when you look back to what happened in 2008? Violence followed

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the election result. It seems to have been largely

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peaceful so far, although there are these allegations of rigging. But I

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think they have been peaceful and was the same as 2008, until there

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was this one off until we have the act shall fact -- run-off will stop

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-- run-off until we had at shall fact it is.

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It seems in certain strongholds of the rival they have lost to

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Mugabe's party. You acknowledge there is significant support for

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Robert Mugabe. There has been a lot of change that

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has happened in 2008. 2006, 2007, hyperinflation, a political

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environment that was polarised, it landed up in this terrible situation

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of cholera in which hundreds of people died, and the last few years

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have seen the thing possibility -- seen something of stability due to

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work on the economy and much must -- stability. There have been slow

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changes, academic reports showing the land redistribution has been

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positive, and there has been a Dilshan -- disillusionment of

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constituents and politicians in general so it is a muddy water.

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The international election observers have been chosen from quite

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polarised countries, no Britain or America, but the South Africans,

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they will be giving the verdict on the legality and transparency of

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these elections tomorrow. How significant will that be bearing in

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mind South Africa brokered that unity government five years ago?

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I had understood the elections were free, and my sense is that South

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Africa will say the same. Environment in 2008 in the run-off

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where there was widespread intimidation at in the countryside

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and people were locked in the houses, under a curfew state, that

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was not a free or fair time. You were arrested then. Did you fear

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for your security and safety but what happened to your mother was to

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mark that was for something very minor, there are lots of rules, you

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are not allowed a camera in a polling station, be out without your

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IDE, so I was arrested on very rocky errors.

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Many people will have suffered that situation, but that was not harsh or

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extreme in that during the run-off there were 250 people who were

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actually killed. It wasn't as extreme as that, and that ever it is

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not present right now. We have seen how we can slip towards violence and

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is a choice being made to be more peaceful.

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What should the West do if other African countries say these results

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stand, if Morgan Shand I, should more punishments be meted out for is

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about way? Obviously the allegations have to be

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investigated properly. In terms of similar people seem to

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be saying there are question marks over this, what should the West do

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if that is the final conclusion? Do I think sanctions are a helpful

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solution to the problem? I would say no. The situation, how it affects

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individual people, the hyperinflation was largely due to

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some criminal and corrupt elements in government but also due to the

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fact that as a country that hasn't been running with any credit, and I

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suppose we want to encourage a situation where people don't revolt,

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