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judge in Ohio has sentenced aerial Castro to life in prison for holding | :15:19. | :15:25. | |
three women captive -- aerial Castro. -- Ariel Castro. He | :15:25. | :15:35. | |
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addressed the court shortly before he was sentenced. I am a person, | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
just sick, I have an addiction, just like an alcoholic has an addiction. | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
Alcoholics are not in control of their addiction, I couldn't control | :15:50. | :16:00. | |
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mind. I would like to apologise to the victims. I am truly sorry for | :16:08. | :16:18. | |
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what happened. I am trying to answer my own questions. I don't know why. | :16:22. | :16:29. | |
I had everything going on for myself. I had a job and a home, my | :16:29. | :16:39. | |
musical talent, I had everything going on for me, your honour. I had | :16:39. | :16:47. | |
a good history with working, providing. I can -- I hope they can | :16:47. | :16:54. | |
just find it in their hearts to forgive me. | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
Let's go to our correspondent who joins us from Cleveland. He avoided | :16:59. | :17:08. | |
the death penalty in a plea bargain. We also heard from the | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
victims themselves which painted a very different picture from the | :17:11. | :17:18. | |
statement he read out. The judge in this case has just | :17:18. | :17:25. | |
wrapped up his long sentencing, he said you still pose a grave danger | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
to the community, you don't deserve to be out in our community, you are | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
too dangerous, those his remarks to Ariel Castro. He has been sentenced | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
to life in prison, without the possibility of parole, after | :17:38. | :17:46. | |
pleading guilty to 937 charges. Those include kidnap, sexual assault | :17:46. | :17:53. | |
and torture. We will not be seeing very much of him after this. He had | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
given a rambling statement earlier on in which he blamed everybody else | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
for his travails, it seems, including his ex-wife, the pressures | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
of his job and so on. He said I am not a monster, I am just sick and he | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
likened his situation to a love of pornography, and said it was a bit | :18:13. | :18:20. | |
like an alcoholic seeking drink. I don't know how that will go down. | :18:20. | :18:27. | |
Clearly deluded statement he gave and one point he actually turned to | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
address the shell night he was in the court just behind him -- | :18:31. | :18:39. | |
Michelle might. She refused to return his gaze -- Michelle Knight. | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
He was quite clearly deluded man and his assertion towards the end of his | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
remarks that a lot of the sex that took case in his house was | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
consensual, apart from the fact it is out and is, that will be seen as | :18:53. | :19:00. | |
evidence he was deeply deluded. But not psychiatrically ill, because | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
that was made clear in the middle of this trial. What have the victims | :19:05. | :19:12. | |
themselves, what sort of lives are they able to rebuild now? | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
There was an FBI agent who gave evidence and said they had managed | :19:16. | :19:24. | |
to rebuild their lives to a large extent, these three women. They are | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
clearly quite exceptional individuals. We also heard from a | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
doctor who made a similar claim will stop he said they would -- they had | :19:33. | :19:42. | |
in heroic in the way they had dealt with the serpents fancies and the -- | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
circumstances, and the mental progress they have made since the | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
release, who thought was quite remarkable. A lot of people have | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
been making the point that this is something that these three women | :19:53. | :20:00. | |
will have to live with for the rest of their lives. | :20:00. | :20:09. | |
You are watching BBC News. Our headlines, we start with the | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
fugitive American whistle-blower, Edward Snowden, who has been granted | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
temporary asylum in Russia. The White House is disappointed. Lloyds | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
Banking Group which is part owned either taxpayer is back in the black | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
for the first time in three years. Ariel Castro who kidnapped three men | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
and -- three women and subjected them to a decade of sexual and | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
physical abuse has been sentenced to life in prison without trial -- | :20:34. | :20:44. | |
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parole. from Italy. It is regarding Silvio | :21:01. | :21:08. | |
Berlusconi. The top court, five judges have been looking at the case | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
in terms of fraud and tax fraud will stop they have confirmed | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
Berlusconi's tax fraud conviction stands, and ordered a review of a | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
political ban. This is a case which Blake -- dates back several years. | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
There have been two days of argument, but crucially this | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
threatens the fragile coalition government that is now in place in | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
Italy. Berlusconi has no official role in the government but he is | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
influential. 76-year-old Silvio Berlusconi and three others were | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
convicted in October last year of tax fraud. This is all to do with | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
buying television rights of the network owned by Silvio Berlusconi. | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
He was then sentenced to four years in prison with a five-year ban on | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
public office which was confirmed in another appeal earlier this year. In | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
the last few weeks it is highest court of five judges have confirmed | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
that conviction and ordered a review of the ban on his political career. | :22:07. | :22:15. | |
More on that as soon as we can. Let's turn to events in Zimbabwe | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
because President Robert the garden with -- Robert Gabi Grob party says | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
it has on an emphatic victory in the election on Wednesday if no official | :22:25. | :22:35. | |
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results have yet to be released. His main ramble -- rival said | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
intimidation and ballot rigging were right. He called the election farce | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
and the result null and. Let's speak to a Zimbabwean who lives in | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
London. During 2008 she supported her mother who was standing as an | :22:51. | :23:01. | |
independent candidate in the upper house. Are we entering a dangerous | :23:01. | :23:08. | |
time when you look back to what happened in 2008? Violence followed | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
the election result. It seems to have been largely | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
peaceful so far, although there are these allegations of rigging. But I | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
think they have been peaceful and was the same as 2008, until there | :23:23. | :23:30. | |
was this one off until we have the act shall fact -- run-off will stop | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
-- run-off until we had at shall fact it is. | :23:34. | :23:43. | |
It seems in certain strongholds of the rival they have lost to | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
Mugabe's party. You acknowledge there is significant support for | :23:49. | :23:56. | |
Robert Mugabe. There has been a lot of change that | :23:56. | :24:02. | |
has happened in 2008. 2006, 2007, hyperinflation, a political | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
environment that was polarised, it landed up in this terrible situation | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
of cholera in which hundreds of people died, and the last few years | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
have seen the thing possibility -- seen something of stability due to | :24:16. | :24:26. | |
work on the economy and much must -- stability. There have been slow | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
changes, academic reports showing the land redistribution has been | :24:30. | :24:37. | |
positive, and there has been a Dilshan -- disillusionment of | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
constituents and politicians in general so it is a muddy water. | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
The international election observers have been chosen from quite | :24:47. | :24:55. | |
polarised countries, no Britain or America, but the South Africans, | :24:55. | :25:02. | |
they will be giving the verdict on the legality and transparency of | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
these elections tomorrow. How significant will that be bearing in | :25:05. | :25:15. | |
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mind South Africa brokered that unity government five years ago? | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
I had understood the elections were free, and my sense is that South | :25:22. | :25:28. | |
Africa will say the same. Environment in 2008 in the run-off | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
where there was widespread intimidation at in the countryside | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
and people were locked in the houses, under a curfew state, that | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
was not a free or fair time. You were arrested then. Did you fear | :25:41. | :25:48. | |
for your security and safety but what happened to your mother was to | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
mark that was for something very minor, there are lots of rules, you | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
are not allowed a camera in a polling station, be out without your | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
IDE, so I was arrested on very rocky errors. | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
Many people will have suffered that situation, but that was not harsh or | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
extreme in that during the run-off there were 250 people who were | :26:10. | :26:16. | |
actually killed. It wasn't as extreme as that, and that ever it is | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
not present right now. We have seen how we can slip towards violence and | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
is a choice being made to be more peaceful. | :26:24. | :26:30. | |
What should the West do if other African countries say these results | :26:30. | :26:40. | |
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stand, if Morgan Shand I, should more punishments be meted out for is | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
about way? Obviously the allegations have to be | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
investigated properly. In terms of similar people seem to | :26:47. | :26:54. | |
be saying there are question marks over this, what should the West do | :26:54. | :27:00. | |
if that is the final conclusion? Do I think sanctions are a helpful | :27:00. | :27:07. | |
solution to the problem? I would say no. The situation, how it affects | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
individual people, the hyperinflation was largely due to | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
some criminal and corrupt elements in government but also due to the | :27:14. | :27:21. | |
fact that as a country that hasn't been running with any credit, and I | :27:22. | :27:29. | |
suppose we want to encourage a situation where people don't revolt, | :27:29. | :27:38. |