10/04/2012 BBC News at Six

Britain can extradite the radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza and four

other suspects to the United States to face terrorism charges.

The European Court of Human Rights dismissed claims they would face

conditions amounting to torture in America's high security jails, a

ruling welcomed by the government. The courts have ruled that the

extradition would not be a violation of the human rights and

we will be working to ensure we can hand over these individuals to the

United States as soon as possible. Abu Hamza is one of five terrorism

suspects who have spent many years fighting extradition. They still

have up to three months to appeal. Also on tonight's programme: Syrian

troops renew their attacks on opposition strongholds as hopes of

a UN-backed ceasefire fade. The latest violence comes as the

international envoy Kofi Annan visited some of the tens of

thousands of refugees who have fled to Turkey.

An 18-year-old woman falls to her death from a tower block in London

as police arrive to carry out an arrest.

The billion dollar smart phone app. Why Facebook has snapped up the

photo-sharing software company Instagram.

And the quick thinking children who saved their school bus from

crashing after the driver fell ill Coming up on the BBC News channel:

The referee Chief Mike Riley apologises to Wigan after mistakes

by officials cost them points at Good evening. Welcome to the BBC

News at six. The radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza can be extradited

from Britain to the United States to face terrorism charges. That is

the ruling by judges at the European Court of Human Rights, who

dismissed his claim that he would face inhuman and degrading

treatment if convicted in America. Abu Hamza is one of five terrorism

suspects who have used numerous legal challenges over many years to

fight extradition. But the judges also said the men can't be

extradited until a three-month deadline for a final appeal has

expired. Here's our home affairs correspondent, June Kelly.

Just do it! If it is killing, do it! Eight typical Abu Hamza tirade.

He is urging his followers to kill. He has already been convicted in

British courts for inciting murder and now he is one of five terror

suspects facing American justice. Europe has cleared the way for them

to be put on a plane, acknowledging they could face life in prison. In

a statement, the European Court I welcome the decision that has

been taken by the European Court of Human Rights. This now permits the

extradition of Abu Hamza and a number of others to the United

States. The courts have ruled that would not be a violation of the

human rights and we will be working to ensure we can hand over these

individuals to the United States as soon as possible. Abu Hamza are

once spoke about the UK's desire to get rid of him. As a human, I am

worried but as a preacher, you cannot deport me outside of the

planet. You can only put me in God's kingdom. Abu Hamza is said to

have been involved in a plot to kidnap Westerners in Yemen. Four

Britons died. Inside the US he is accused of conspiring to set up a

terrorist training camp in Oregon. For years his power base was

Finsbury Park mosque. In the late 90s, Reda Hassaine worked as an

informant inside the mosque, gathering intelligence for the

police and MI5. He I described Abu Hamza as the terrorist in chief. A

very dangerous person. But before 9/11, that was not the British will

dilute his new team. He was seen as a clown, a big mouth. -- not how

the British authorities saw him. With Abu Hamza in charge, a

Finsbury Park Mosque became a breeding-ground for extremists.

Here praying with him, Hussein Osman, one of the 7/7 terrace cell

who tried and failed to cause carnage for a second time. Others

include Zacharias Masami, the only person convicted in relation to

9/11, Richard Reid, de shoe bomber, and the men jailed over the murder

of a policeman. Four of the men could end up in a modern day

Alcatraz, ADX Florence. Abu Hamza will not be sent here because of

his disabilities. He has lost both his arms and is blind in one eye.

Babar Ahmad is one of those facing life in ADX Florence. His family

believe he should be tried in the UK. British justice appears to have

been sub-contracted to the US. This should be immediately rectified by

putting Babar Ahmad on trial in the UK. The five facing extradition are

wanted on a range of charges, including providing support for

terrorists and bombing US embassies. One is accused of Rover 269 counts

of murder. -- of over 269. And these appeals have been going

on for years. Is this the end of the road? No, not quite. They have

one avenue left, an appeal to the grand chamber at the European Court

of Human Rights. Many try and use exceed to get a hearing there but

if they do, this case could take who knows how long. If they do not

get a hearing there, the expectation is that they will be on

a plane to Colorado in three months' time. People will be saying,

how come it has taken so long? One of the suspects, his case goes back

to 2004. The answer is that this is part of the Americans global "war

on terror". Their determination to hunt down and bring to justice

people commit him wherever country they happen to be. -- People, in

whatever country they happen to be. Inevitably that takes a lot of time

and in this case you end up with Egyptian nationals held in English

prisons, wanted by the American authorities and have in the future

of their case decided in a French court, so the determination of the

Americans to have global justice is producing all kinds of

international complexities and I suspect there will be other cases

to follow. Syrian opposition groups say a

thousand people have been killed by government forces in the last eight

days. Today there were fresh clashes, shattering hopes for a

peace plan, brokered by the former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.

That was due to be implemented today. The worst of the unrest has

been in the cities of Homs, Aleppo The fresh violence happened as Mr

Annan was visiting Syria's border with Turkey where tens of thousands

of people have fled to escape the attacks. He spoke to refugees at

the Yayladagi refugee camp. From there, Fergal Keane sent this

If peace is about to dawn, there is This is the voice of the camera man

recording the violence. This is Homs, it is being destroyed by

random shelling today, April 10th! God is great! In Homs and other

embattled towns, the destruction seemed to be escalating, if

anything. And with time running out for his peace mission, Kofi Annan

claim to visit the refugees of Syria's violence. There was a

welcome. Most of these people have fled from the north of the country,

with stories of killing and torture. All day, Mr Annan's cavalcade moved

from camp to camp. Some of the refugees we met clung to the hope

that his mission might still work. Maybe something will happen, this

woman told us, and became go back to our families and children.

Kofi Annan is being asked for solutions he cannot deliver. For

some it is a question of achieving a ceasefire and been able to go

home, but a growing number of voices are demanding that the

opposition be armed and achieve military victory. The mood of

militancy is growing. These men told us they were from the Free

Syrian Army and had little faith now in the Annan plan.

TRANSLATION: We want NATO to come to Syria and give weapons to the

Free Syrian Army and we want a liberated zone so we can free our

country. The clock ticks on the UN's deadline. Kofi Annan's mission

looks increasingly forlorn. Though he continued to press Damascus to

pull its forces back. Let me appeal to the Syrian government and

parties to cease violence in accordance with the plan, and I

believe there should be no preconditions for stopping the

violence. But in Moscow, where he met his Russian counterpart,

Syria's foreign minister claimed his side was a bar are deemed by

the agreement. -- was abiding by the agreement. We have withdrawn

some military units, we have allowed more media channels to

enter Syria and we have reached agreement to allow humanitarian aid

and transfer it to be needed. Annan asked today what the world

would do if his plan failed. It is the question now bearing down with

growing urgency. An 18-year-old woman has fallen to

her death from a tower block in London as police arrived at the

flat. Scotland Yard say she fell from her bedroom window in Woolwich

just before officers arrested a man on suspicion of assisting an

It was from a bedroom on the 17th floor of this block of flats that

the young woman plunged to her death. It happened at around 9:30am

this morning, shortly after police arrived at the flat to carry out

and the rest regarding a recall to prison. The 18-year-old was

pronounced dead at the scene. A man was arrested on suspicion of

assisting an offender and is currently in custody. My mate but

phoned me and told me to look out of the window. I saw the police

cars, I was like, what is coming on? Not nice, not a nice feeling.

Just to see someone diet that sudden, just outside. It is scary.

-- to see someone die. circumstances leading to the

woman's falling, we do not yet know, but the Metropolitan Police are

making it clear that the flat was not raided and that the police

officers were let in. It was only in the late afternoon that the

young woman's body was taken away. She is yet to be formally

identified. The Independent Police Complaints Commission has been

informed and the Met Police's Directorate of professional

standards is now investigating. Six men have been arrested

following a rally in Londonderry to mark the anniversary of the 1916

Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland. Several hundred people

attended the event yesterday, at which a masked man read out a

statement from the Real IRA, threatening to attack police

officers. Severn Trent Water in the Midlands

has announced its in talks to sell water to an area affected by

drought. It aims to pump 30 million litres a day to Anglian Water. That

is enough for 100,000 homes. Anglian Water is one of seven

companies that imposed a hosepipe ban last week to help ease the

shortage. The Prime Minister and a delegation

of 40 British businessmen have spent the day in Japan on a trip to

boost trade. The visit to Tokyo coincided with an announcement from

the car maker Nissan that it would build a new model at its plant in

Sunderland, creating hundreds of new jobs. The trip is intended to

generate millions of pounds of business for UK companies. Japan is

the world's third largest economy. But currently only the 17th largest

export market for the United Kingdom. From Tokyo, James Landale

sent this report which contains flash photography.

The Prime Minister is on tour, selling Britain to the world. His

mission this week, to secure trade deals across south-east Asia. Old

friends and allies with Japan, he says, but an opportunity that must

be renewed. A chance to pay his respect to the 78-year-old Emperor

but also a chance to forge new relationships, not just secure more

Japanese investment at home but more British exports over here.

is part of the job for the Prime Minister to drum up British

business, load up aeroplanes of British business, so that we can

make more from Britain, sell more, export more and that is one of the

ways we can get our economy moving. He came to the headquarters of

Misanp to thank them for choosing the Sunderland plant to make their

new car. I have seen the hatchback but I will not tell anybody what it

looks like! It is the secret and you can trust me! But he will let

on that the deal could create 200 new jobs at the plant and many

hundreds more at its suppliers and there could be more jobs to for

another deal in Japanese Investment for infrastructure. He and his

counterpart also agreed a deal to boost Britain's defence. He will

get access to Japan's previously closed markets. No doubt, to break

into Japan is difficult. We manufacture helicopters and we have

had an arrangement here for a number of years but it is a tough

market. With this new arrangement, we hope that will become a lot

easier and we will be able to jointly develop and manufacture

more products in Japan. In the wake of last year's Fukushima nuclear

plant crisis, David Cameron also agreed to share expertise in

decommissioning nuclear power plants. He will then go to Malaysia,

Indonesia and ultimately Burma, where he will meet Aung San Suu Kyi.

Japan's economy is the third largest in the world and win more

business will be worth a huge amount of money to Britain. David

Cameron comes after weeks of trouble at home but he insists that

he is focused on the bigger picture of fixing the economy, and that he

says means drumming up business in places like this of.

Our top story tonight: The European Court of Human Rights has ruled

that five terrorism suspects, including the radical preacher Abu

Hamza, can be extradited to the US. Southampton remembers the Titanic

100 years after the liner set sail from the port.

Later on the BBC News channel: European stocks slip over worries

about economic growth. And a jobs boost for Sunderland as Nissan

announce it is will build a new car It's every entrepreneurs dream, a

computer software company that was set up less than two years ago and

has just 13 employees has just been snapped up by the social networking

giant Facebook for $1 billion. Instagram came up with a smartphone

app that allows people to share their photos easily online. So

why's Facebook prepared to spend so much on it? Our business

correspondent Emma Simpson reports. It's the hot new app from President

Obama, to Jamie Oliver, millions of people are using this photo-sharing

programme on their smartphones, but is it worth $one billion? The

founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, thinks so. Analysts say

it's a tactical move by the world's biggest social media network.

think the strategic rationale to acquire one of the fastest growing

apps is clear, they prevent Instagram from becoming a threat in

its own right or being acquired by competitor-like Google but they are

paying a very high price for it. Here is The company they started

less than two years ago is now about to make them incredibly rich.

It's a small company, there are only 13 employees. But they do have

30 million users uploading five million new pictures every day. So

what's all the fuss about? Well, you can take a picture, and then

treat it like an old polaroid for instance, and you can share it and

post the picture instantly to another site, like Facebook. In

this fast-changing world it's the smartphone that's an increasingly

important battle ground and Facebook, ahead of its floatation,

is determined to stay on top. In some countries 30%, 40% of all

Facebook activity is purely on mobile, so this is an area where

Facebook is very much keen to not only retain a certain sense of

dominance, but also defend its position. They've paid a lot for an

app that doesn't appear to generate any money. Facebook says Instagram

will continue in its current form. Some are wondering if all this is a

sign of another technology bubble. The gunman who killed 77 people in

attacks in Norway last July has been declared sane. It means Anders

Breivik could be sentenced to life imprisonment if found guilty when

he goes on trial next week, rather than being committed to psychiatric

care. There's been a dramatic development

in the investigation following the death of the British businessman

Neil Heywood in China last November. Initially, the Chinese said that Mr

Heywood had died from excess alcohol, but today Chinese state

television reported that the wife of a leading Communist Party

politician, Bo Xilai, is being investigated. Our diplomatic

correspondent James Robbins is here. What more can you tell us about

this? This is an extraordinary series of developments. One of

China's most senior politicians, senior member of the Communist

Party has been stripped of all his posts within the party and it was

in the city where he was party boss that Neil Heywood died last

November. Officially it was given out he died of alcohol poisoning

but his body was quickly cremated. There were suspicions about his

death and about the links he may have had with Bo Xilai, the

business relationship. The local police chief was himself suspicion,

he was sacked by Bo Xilai, and now his wife has been detained by the

authorities on suspicion of involvement in the murder. This all

follows Britain's insistence that there be a re-investigation of the

death and a few minutes ago William Hague gave us this reaction.

It is a death that needs to be investigated in its own terms, on

its own merits, without political considerations and so I hope they

will go about it in that way and I welcome the announcement that they

will have an investigation. I am sure we are going to hear a

lot more about this in the hours and days ahead, because this is the

largest political scandal in China for over 20 years and it comes in a

run-up to the major internal elections in which Bo Xilai stood a

real chance of advancement and his wife now, of course, facing

involvement in investigation for possible murder. Thank you.

A minute's silence has been observed in Southampton to remember

more than 500 people from the city who died on the Titanic. A

recording of the ship's whistle was then played at the docks to mark

the exact moment, 100 years ago, that the liner set sail on her

maiden voyage. Robert Hall was at the ceremony.

The sparkling waters of the dock where excited crowds watched a

giant prepare for sea. A century on, Southampton paused to remember the

disaster which followed just five days later. Titanic's physical

presence filled the city with excitement, 500 locally recruited

crew members crowded her gangways for the maiden voyage.

Today, their descendants exchanged stories of that morning, of those

they lost, and the few who survived. As far as we know he was a boot

steward, and he was one of the survivors. He was in charge of

lifeboat 5 and we believe from the records that we have got that he

saved somebody's life as well. just feel that what happened that

night to him and so many others, I have a connection. I just want to

News of the disaster brought frustration and despair to the

streets around the port. Day and night the crowds strained to read

the casualty lists. A century on, a busy port was stilled, as this

marine community turned its thoughts to the horrors of one

night on a distant ocean. Silence broken by a sound which

hasn't been heard since it echoed across the roof-tops a century ago

when Titanic said her farewells. From around the sprawling docks

came the response, as one by one the visitors laid their tributes

and looked back to that departure. On Southampton water the tug

Calshot, a survivor from that era, led a flotilla away. Away from

Southampton, news that the MS Balmoral, which is retracing the

Titanic's route across the Atlantic, has been forced to turn back due to

a medical emergency on board. The ship will move closer to the Irish

coast so the passenger, whose family have been informed, can be

evacuated. Balmoral is still expected to reach the wreck site to

hold a commemorative service this weekend. In Southampton, Titanic's

loss will forever be a painful part of the city's history, and families

will return home tonight knowing that the story is still being told.

Two quick thinking children in the American state of Washington

managed to stop their school bus from crashing after the driver fell

ill at the wheel. CCTV footage from inside the bus reveals the dramatic

moment when one of the boys realised what was happening and

raced to the front to try to take control. Steve Kingstone reports.

It began as a typical school run, filmed by an on board camera. Watch

the driver in the bottom right of the shot, and 13-year-old Jeremy

Wuitschick watching him. He looked like he was choking, he was making

a weird noise. I just went up, grabbed the wheel, turned it right

and took the keys out of the ignition. A life-saving reaction.

How did he know what to do? I was reading a book about the

superheroes and this guy was on a bus and the guy was telling him to

turn the ignition off. He wasn't the only hero. Somebody call 911

shouts another pupil, then Jeremy is joined by a second boy to

perform CPR. I ran up and tried doing chest compressions, I could

tell it was getting harder for him to breathe. The driver was taken to

hospital in grave condition, but the children escaped injury. All

thanks to a young man who would later say I didn't think, I just

just did it. If we look back to the records, and

100 years ago in Southampton it was just short of 12C as Titanic set

sail and largely sunny. It wasn't the same everywhere. Low pressure

to the east of the UK, with that we saw blustery cool winds and plenty

of showers. Now, if we take the chart 100 years forward, that same

position of a low pressure system very, very similar to what we have

at the moment. We have showers across the country,

some of those heavy and thundery into the evening. The rain we have

seen in the south-east of Scotland and north-east England could remain

in place, but lighter. The showers will fade back to the coasts.

Inland, it becomes clear and rather chilly as well. Temperatures

dropping away quite considerably, we could see a frost in some

gardens to start the morning. A frustrating week for gardeners,

welcome rain and sunshine, but to temper that chilly nights as well.

A chilly start to Wednesday across the board. Showers around the coast

of Scotland. One or two for Northern Ireland, but largely dry T

will be dry inland across much of Scotland, although still lots of

clouds towards the borders and across north-east England. Away

from that, showers dotted around the coasts of England and Wales.

Most inland will wake up to sunshine tomorrow. A bit of chill

in the air, but compared with this morning the winds are lighter and

the strength of the sun will probably temper that chill. Through

the day with lighter wind the showers will be slower moving once

they crop up later in the morning into the afternoon. Focus for them

probably parts of central and eastern Scotland, through central

England. Again with hail and thunder mixed in. Some of the

coasts probably stay dry and sunny. In the sunshine temperatures around