:00:10. > :00:16.Explosives open up the Italian cruise ship as divers continue the
:00:16. > :00:20.search for survivors. New pictures released by the
:00:20. > :00:23.Italian coastguard of the night the Costa Concordia capsized show
:00:23. > :00:27.passengers trying to escape. The Islamic cleric, Abu Qatada, who
:00:27. > :00:32.is being held in a British prison will not be sent back to Jordan
:00:32. > :00:37.following a European ruling. Most Chinese how live in cities and
:00:37. > :00:45.not in the countryside for the first time in the country's history.
:00:45. > :00:49.Welcome to BBC World News. Also In this programme, it is
:00:50. > :00:59.Foreversus Mitt Romney as the presidential hopefuls turn on each
:01:00. > :01:11.
:01:11. > :01:15.other in the latest primary debate. The captain of the cruise ship
:01:15. > :01:19.which capsized off the coast of Italy is due to appear in court
:01:19. > :01:23.around now. Francesco Schettino has been questioned over several
:01:23. > :01:28.offences including manslaughter. The rescue operation is continuing
:01:28. > :01:33.in the waters off Tuscany with experts blasting holes in the Costa
:01:33. > :01:41.Concordia to help divers get better access. 29 people are still missing
:01:41. > :01:44.and six people are known to have The rescue teams adopted a new
:01:44. > :01:49.strategy today, Navy divers approached the Costa Concordia and
:01:50. > :01:53.prepared to blast holes into the vessel in a last desperate search
:01:54. > :01:59.for survivors. The controlled explosions opened
:01:59. > :02:04.new routes into the cruise liner which is stranded on its starboard
:02:04. > :02:08.side. The local coastguard says there is
:02:08. > :02:12.a glimmer of hope that that people may have survived in air pockets
:02:12. > :02:18.inside the ship. The missing are thought to include four crew
:02:18. > :02:22.members as well as passengers from America, Germany, France and Italy.
:02:22. > :02:26.These pictures released, show the danger confronting the the divers
:02:26. > :02:31.who have edged their way into the wreck. It is slow and difficult
:02:31. > :02:35.work. There are now fears about a possible environmental disaster,
:02:35. > :02:39.booms have been placed around the ship in case oil leaks into the
:02:39. > :02:43.press teen waters off the Italian coast. The Government says it will
:02:43. > :02:53.declare a state of emergency, but on shore, local people are worried.
:02:53. > :02:55.TRANSLATION: We are concerned about it and not only the people from
:02:55. > :02:59.here, people from the whole area are worried about it.
:02:59. > :03:05.These pictures from a helicopter on Friday night, were taken during the
:03:05. > :03:09.rescue operation. The video, shot using an infra infrared camera,
:03:09. > :03:13.shows passengers moving one by one down a rope. They are dwarfed by
:03:13. > :03:23.the vastness of the ship. The central question remains unanswered
:03:23. > :03:29.
:03:29. > :03:34.for now, how did the Costa Well Dr Simon Boxall is from the
:03:34. > :03:42.oceanography centre. I asked him how worried should we be that there
:03:42. > :03:46.could be a fuel leak? The risk is small. The plan is to move the fuel.
:03:46. > :03:49.As far as we are aware, it is not in danger of leaking at the moment,
:03:49. > :03:52.but the problem is that if the ship is moved, when the ship is moved,
:03:52. > :03:56.it could create new holes in the hull and that could lead to the
:03:56. > :03:59.leakage of this oil. The first priority is to take out as much of
:03:59. > :04:06.this material as possible. How much of a danger is there by
:04:06. > :04:10.the ship just being there that the water and the tides buffet the ship
:04:10. > :04:15.or should the tank be able to with stand that pressure? The tanks
:04:15. > :04:18.should. The tides in this area are weak, but the the waves, can be
:04:18. > :04:22.significant. There are storms brewing out there. There is a
:04:22. > :04:26.concern that the ship could slide off its current hold and into
:04:26. > :04:30.deeper water. If this happens, the salvage
:04:31. > :04:34.becomes more difficult so speed is of the essence, but it will take
:04:34. > :04:38.months before they can move the ship. The ship will still pose a
:04:38. > :04:45.threat to the region. Bearing in mind, you are looking at something
:04:45. > :04:49.that weighs in the region of 5115 identifyle -- 15 Eiffel Towers
:04:49. > :04:53.worth of weight and moving this is no simple task.
:04:53. > :04:58.Can you explain how they remove the oil and then the ship itself?
:04:58. > :05:01.oil will be removed by pumping the tanks. If they can get to the
:05:01. > :05:04.proper pipes into the tanks, that will be straightforward, but if
:05:04. > :05:08.they can't, they will have to drill into the tanks. In terms of the
:05:08. > :05:12.ship, we don't know yet how they're going to do that. The easiest
:05:12. > :05:16.option will be to refloat the ship to take as much weight off as
:05:16. > :05:20.possible, taking the oil out, taking the water out, it will carry
:05:20. > :05:26.several thousand tonnes of water as well, fresh water for passenger use
:05:26. > :05:29.obviously. So they can lighten the ship significantly and then try to
:05:30. > :05:33.refloat it by patching the hole, pumping the water and hoping to
:05:33. > :05:37.refloat it, but throughout this, there is a risk that more damage is
:05:37. > :05:47.done and the ship does actually slide into deeper water. So it is
:05:47. > :05:48.
:05:48. > :05:51.too early to say how they will do The radical Muslim cleric, Abu
:05:51. > :05:54.Qatada, should not be deported to Jordan from the UK. That's
:05:54. > :05:59.according to a ruling from the European Court of Human Rights. Abu
:05:59. > :06:03.Qatada has been convicted of terror offence ins Jordan and the court
:06:03. > :06:10.ruled that evidence obtain by torture may have been used in his
:06:10. > :06:14.trial. He has been dubbed a truly
:06:14. > :06:21.dangerous individual with links to the leadership of Al-Qaeda. Abu
:06:21. > :06:26.Qatada, the radical cleric, accused of preaching holy war and exalting
:06:26. > :06:29.his followers to become martyrs. I would describe Abu Qatada as an
:06:29. > :06:34.individual who poses a significant threat to the United Kingdom. I
:06:34. > :06:40.base that on a number of reasons, not just material that is in the
:06:40. > :06:45.public domain about his con contacts worldwide, his influence,
:06:45. > :06:48.his views, his motivations. Abu Qatada came to the UK as an
:06:48. > :06:54.asylum seeker in the early 1990s and began holding prayer meetings
:06:54. > :06:57.on the site of what is now a youth centre in Central London. This is
:06:57. > :07:01.the neighbourhood where Abu Qatada used to preach. In the late 90s, he
:07:01. > :07:07.is reported to have made a speech in which he authorised the killing
:07:07. > :07:10.of Jews, including Jewish children. He is said to have told his
:07:10. > :07:15.congregation that Americans should be attacked wherever they are and
:07:15. > :07:20.there was no difference between Jews and the English.
:07:20. > :07:23.It was at this time in Jordan that he was convicted in his absence of
:07:23. > :07:27.of involvement in two terrorist plots, although it was claimed that
:07:27. > :07:32.evidence against him had been obtained through torture and this
:07:32. > :07:36.is why the European Court ruled today, he cannot be sent back.
:07:36. > :07:41.In 2001, tapes of Abu Qatada's speeches were found in a flat used
:07:41. > :07:46.by the ringleader of the 9/11 plot. A month after the American attacks
:07:46. > :07:56.in a BBC interview, he praised the Al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden.
:07:56. > :07:59.
:07:59. > :08:02.TRANSLATION: Bin Laden n the image that I have of him, that is the
:08:02. > :08:04.image of a Muslim man who defends the causes of his nation against
:08:04. > :08:06.its enemies. He should be supported by every Muslim.
:08:07. > :08:10.A couple of months later he went into hiding, the start of what
:08:10. > :08:15.would become a ten year battle with the British British authorities. In
:08:15. > :08:18.In October 2002, he was detained as a risk to national security. In
:08:19. > :08:23.December 2004, his detention was ruled unlawful and he was released
:08:23. > :08:29.on bail. The following August, he was re-arrested as moves back to
:08:29. > :08:33.deport him. In February 2007, came the first of a series of appeals,
:08:33. > :08:43.culminating in today's decision in Europe. Today, in a statement, the
:08:43. > :08:47.
:08:47. > :08:53.The Home Secretary said that in the meantime Abu Qatada would remain in
:08:53. > :09:00.detention in the UK. He is being held in Long Lartin Prison in
:09:01. > :09:05.Now the Chinese economy is slowing down a little. Jamie Robertson has
:09:05. > :09:10.more. Thank you very much indeed. China's
:09:10. > :09:14.economy is being watched. Official figures showed that it is slowing
:09:14. > :09:18.down, not in a drastic manner though. The Government has been
:09:18. > :09:27.trying to cool the economy down and it is worried about inflation and
:09:27. > :09:33.in particular, rising food prices. Alistair Thornton is an analyst and
:09:33. > :09:36.I asked him if a slowdown is likely to get worse? The story of 2011 has
:09:36. > :09:40.been the Government grappling with inflation and the property market
:09:40. > :09:45.in trying to slow down growth and the figures we got this morning
:09:45. > :09:48.showed that, so growth has slowed. The headline figure that we got,
:09:48. > :09:52.8.9% masks a lot of what has been going on in the economy. Some of
:09:53. > :09:55.the other indicators we look at show things are slowing faster than
:09:56. > :09:59.that and coming into this first quarter, growth is coming off
:09:59. > :10:02.significantly. What about food prices? The
:10:02. > :10:08.inflationary pressures, have they gone away now? Are they under
:10:08. > :10:13.control? Yes, I mean what we're looking at
:10:13. > :10:17.going into 2012 is persistent inflation. Inflation is above the
:10:17. > :10:23.Government's 4% target, but they have managed to tackle it
:10:23. > :10:28.successfully from a peak of 6.5% in July, now we are at 2% below that
:10:28. > :10:32.and the trend is downward. So the onus of policy will be on
:10:32. > :10:35.preserving growth rather than battling inflation this year.
:10:35. > :10:40.So what about the property market? There has been fear that is could
:10:40. > :10:44.have been a bubble which is in the process of bursting as prices are
:10:44. > :10:50.beginning to fall in many cities? You are right, I mean I think
:10:50. > :10:54.whilst we characterise the eurozone as China's greatest down side risk
:10:54. > :10:58.this year, it is clear the property market is a risk. Prices are
:10:58. > :11:01.falling rapidly in major cities along the coast and we only see
:11:01. > :11:05.that spreading. The Government feels they have to gain crucial
:11:05. > :11:09.credibility with the market and that means holding the tough
:11:09. > :11:15.tightening line that they put in place since the beginning of 2010.
:11:15. > :11:19.We see that policy in place into the middle of this year and that
:11:19. > :11:22.means there is plenty more down side for the the property prices
:11:22. > :11:28.which means downturn for construction, investment and growth
:11:28. > :11:33.overall in in China. The European Union may launch legal
:11:33. > :11:37.action against Hungary today. The EU is concerned that legislation
:11:37. > :11:43.has jeopardised the independence of Hungary's Central Bank and allowing
:11:43. > :11:48.the Government to interfere with the judiciary. The dispute is
:11:48. > :11:57.holding up Hungary's negotiations with the IMF over a loan.
:11:57. > :12:01.Our reporter is in Budapest. What is the Hungarian Government saying?
:12:01. > :12:04.They have had enough of opinion that they have been the butt, of
:12:04. > :12:07.international criticism for some months now. They say that finally
:12:07. > :12:10.when the legal committees of the commission come up with their
:12:10. > :12:15.arguments, that if necessary, they will change anything at all. They
:12:15. > :12:20.are saying they passed 300 laws last year and if three of them
:12:20. > :12:24.happen to have gone against the EU Charter then they will change them,
:12:24. > :12:28.but please present the arguments first, that's the Hungarian
:12:28. > :12:32.Government position. I presume they need the money, I
:12:32. > :12:37.mean they are in dire financial straits? They are over the barrel
:12:37. > :12:41.effectively and the money that they need from the IMF gives the
:12:41. > :12:46.international community, if we can put it in those terms, a tool with
:12:47. > :12:51.which to, a leaver leaver with which to put pressure on them. The
:12:51. > :12:54.IMF said last week that they will not do anything without EU approval.
:12:54. > :12:58.The Hungarian Government has to convince the EU that any laws that
:12:58. > :13:05.go against the treaties will be changed and somehow win back its
:13:05. > :13:11.credibility within the EU in order to to pave the way for the IMF loan.
:13:11. > :13:16.Thank you very much indeed. Airbus delivered 534 aircraft last
:13:16. > :13:24.year. This is a record, the ninth year in a row that it has beaten
:13:24. > :13:32.Boeing. The company company won orders for over 400 aircraft.
:13:32. > :13:37.Samsung expects to invest $41.5 billion in 2012. It is focusing on
:13:37. > :13:47.computer ships for mobile devices. Samsung expects to higher an extra
:13:47. > :13:52.26,000 staff this year. Burberry reported profits of $880 million.
:13:52. > :13:57.Sales in the Asia-Pacific region jumped almost 40%.
:13:57. > :14:02.Let's look at markets. We saw a positive reaction to what has been
:14:02. > :14:12.coming out of China because those figures, the slowdown in growth is
:14:12. > :14:15.
:14:15. > :14:18.better than had been expected. The The European markets responded very
:14:18. > :14:22.well particularly the mining sector which is dependant on that demand
:14:22. > :14:32.for raw materials in China. That's the business news.
:14:32. > :14:39.
:14:39. > :14:46.Thank you very much indeed. In Japan there has been snow.
:14:46. > :14:51.Japanese meet roeolgists can't say say how much snow has fallen. Some
:14:51. > :14:56.train and bus services have been cancelled and this island is the
:14:56. > :15:06.most northern of Japan's main islands, it is used to having snow,
:15:06. > :15:11.
:15:11. > :15:15.You're watching BBC World News. Still to come, the fate of
:15:15. > :15:23.thousands of supporters of Colonel Gadaffi, imprisoned in a country
:15:23. > :15:28.with no functioning legal system. The trial of former Egyptian
:15:28. > :15:32.president Hosni Mubarak has resumed in Cairo. He and some of his former
:15:32. > :15:36.aides face charges of killing unarmed protesters during the
:15:36. > :15:40.uprising last January. He also faces separate charges of
:15:40. > :15:46.corruption. Our correspondent explains the significance of these
:15:46. > :15:50.hearings. This is when Hosni Mubarak begins his defence. The
:15:50. > :15:57.press are excited about whether there will be any surprises coming
:15:57. > :16:03.out of court. The kind of surprises you might expect could be if no
:16:03. > :16:10.Barak himself decides to try to spread the blame, especially on
:16:10. > :16:15.Egypt's current -- current military rulers. Everyone waiting to see
:16:15. > :16:20.what his lawyer has to say. And the key question is, how scared is
:16:20. > :16:24.Hosni Mubarak? We know the prosecution has asked for the death
:16:24. > :16:28.penalty and many people believe that the case against him has not
:16:28. > :16:34.really been made, there has not been much stronger evidence
:16:34. > :16:40.directly implicating him. But he made have an interest in spreading
:16:40. > :16:44.the dirt, you might say, on those in power at the same time is him.
:16:44. > :16:49.Is the perception so far that the trial is being carried out in a
:16:49. > :16:52.fair manner? I do not think that the victims or relatives of the
:16:52. > :17:01.victims who were killed during the revolution would put it that
:17:01. > :17:09.strongly, I am afraid. Firstly, the current judge they say has close
:17:09. > :17:12.ties to the old regime. And also, that the authorities here have not
:17:12. > :17:17.really cooperated enough for the prosecution. The prosecution
:17:17. > :17:27.claimed they did not have access to documents from the Interior
:17:27. > :17:28.
:17:28. > :17:37.Ministry and have not been able to get details that they wanted.
:17:37. > :17:39.The headlines. Rescuers blast holes in capsized Italian cruise ship as
:17:39. > :17:45.they continued the search for survivors. And the European Court
:17:45. > :17:52.of Human Rights has ruled that the radical cleric Abu Qatada cannot be
:17:52. > :18:01.deported to Jordan. The latest live pictures of that ship, the Costa
:18:01. > :18:05.Concordia, still on its side on the Tuscan coast of Italy. It is
:18:05. > :18:15.reported that more than 70 passengers from the Costa Concordia
:18:15. > :18:19.
:18:19. > :18:25.have joined a class action against the owner. There is going to be a
:18:25. > :18:32.huge investigation and legal battles ahead. The captain is
:18:32. > :18:36.supposed to be in court at the moment.
:18:36. > :18:39.China says more of its people are living in cities than in the
:18:39. > :18:46.countryside for the first time in its history. City dwellers now
:18:46. > :18:50.account for over half of its 1.3 billion people according to the
:18:51. > :18:54.National Bureau of Statistics. China has historically been an
:18:54. > :18:59.agricultural society that that has changed as people try to benefit
:18:59. > :19:03.from its rapid economic growth by moving to find work.
:19:03. > :19:07.More people now live in China's cities and towns than in its
:19:07. > :19:12.countryside. All part of the largest wave of migration in
:19:12. > :19:16.history. 30 years ago China undertook economic reforms which
:19:16. > :19:20.propelled millions into the cities in search of work and opportunity.
:19:20. > :19:26.Many of them found jobs in factories which form the backbone
:19:26. > :19:31.of China's remarkable economic growth. China of course is now the
:19:31. > :19:35.world's second largest economy. Last year were than 20 million
:19:35. > :19:41.people moved into its cities and that trend of rapid urbanisation is
:19:41. > :19:47.set to continue. According to analysts, by 2030 almost three-
:19:47. > :19:51.quarters of the population will live in cities.
:19:51. > :19:55.A train driver has died and 22 people have been injured after a
:19:55. > :20:00.collision in Taiwan. The train hit a truck at a level crossing in the
:20:00. > :20:06.north of the country. The impact of the accident but the trade up onto
:20:06. > :20:09.the track and it came to rest in a nearby station. A study from the US
:20:09. > :20:14.suggests there has been a big increase in the number of
:20:14. > :20:18.pedestrians killed or injured fast wearing headphones. Researchers at
:20:19. > :20:25.the University of Maryland hospital say the accident rate has trebled
:20:25. > :20:29.in six years. The emergence of fake and poor
:20:29. > :20:34.quality anti-malarial drugs in Africa is threatening efforts to
:20:34. > :20:39.control disease. Scientists from Oxford University says that
:20:39. > :20:45.counterfeit medicine is on sale in many African countries which can
:20:45. > :20:49.promote drug resistance. The only winner was Barack Obama,
:20:49. > :20:52.of the opinion of one political expert on the debate last night
:20:52. > :20:57.between the five remaining Republican presidential hopefuls.
:20:57. > :21:06.The men spent most of the evening attacking each other to try to gain
:21:06. > :21:10.the edge. If the front runner, Mitt Romney, wins in Carolina, he is
:21:10. > :21:14.almost certain to win the Republican domination. And then
:21:14. > :21:18.there were five. The dwindling field and if Mitt Romney wins again
:21:18. > :21:25.on Saturday the Republican race will be all but over. So his rivals
:21:25. > :21:30.attacked him on deficit reform... His form is simply not bowled. We
:21:31. > :21:36.have Dev has its and he wants to say, we will not touch anyone now.
:21:36. > :21:40.And his reluctance to release their tax returns... A we need you to
:21:40. > :21:47.release your income tax so the people of this country can see how
:21:47. > :21:55.you make your money. But the fiercest exchanges were over the
:21:55. > :21:58.messaging war that has raged in South Carolina. A group of
:21:58. > :22:04.corporate raiders. There has been a barrage of television
:22:04. > :22:13.advertisements attacking the favourite and a swift counter punch
:22:13. > :22:16.targeting made Romney's rivals. These advertisements were made by
:22:16. > :22:19.well-funded groups which cannot legally support individual
:22:19. > :22:28.candidates as long as they remain outside the official campaign
:22:28. > :22:36.structure. On stage Mitt Romney was challenged to rein in the
:22:36. > :22:43.advertising company which has helped him by attacking others.
:22:43. > :22:50.would help if he took falsehoods of the air. He'll have an
:22:50. > :22:55.advertisement that attacks me. It is probably the biggest hoax since
:22:55. > :23:00.Big Foot. It was bruising stuff and can only intensify between now and
:23:01. > :23:08.Saturday. Because for many of these candidates, South Carolina is and
:23:08. > :23:14.dill or dying moment. -- Addo or died moment. How to
:23:14. > :23:19.bring peace to post conflict Libya is a concern for many. The United
:23:19. > :23:22.Nations estimates over 7000 people have been detained without a fully
:23:22. > :23:27.functioning legal system. The National Transitional Council has
:23:27. > :23:33.published a draft law that would bar members of the Gadaffi regime
:23:33. > :23:39.from running in elections. It is barely three months since the
:23:39. > :23:43.liberation. Three months since they reduced him to this. The new order
:23:43. > :23:52.imposed, the ruler crushed. But the euphoria of that day has begun to
:23:52. > :23:56.fade. And it is the supporters of Gadaffi who are now left locked up.
:23:56. > :24:01.Thousands remain stuck in the country's cramped prisons, with no
:24:01. > :24:06.functioning legal system. And they tell of serious abuse from guards.
:24:06. > :24:11.One shows me his scars from when his arms were smashed with hammers.
:24:11. > :24:16.Put us on trial if necessary, I do not even know what I'm accused of,
:24:16. > :24:24.he says. I do not understand what this revolution is. I'm 60 years
:24:24. > :24:26.old. This is making us hate the revolution. It is a pattern that is
:24:26. > :24:32.widespread according to human rights campaigners who say that
:24:32. > :24:40.some Gadaffi supporters have been tortured to death in detention.
:24:40. > :24:44.This will continue, our community is divided. Like the past. We do
:24:44. > :24:53.not need this in the future. What would happen if those divisions
:24:53. > :25:00.continued? May be civil war, may be anything. But it will disturb that
:25:00. > :25:02.security in the country. Even the sick are segregated. This hospital
:25:02. > :25:10.is for pro Gadaffi loyalists while the revolutionaries are cared for
:25:10. > :25:14.upstairs. It is for their safety - these pits remain too deep. That is
:25:14. > :25:18.partly why so many Gadaffi supporters have been detained,
:25:18. > :25:23.according to the Justice Minister, who admits his government is
:25:23. > :25:26.running scared. These people were arrested because on the one hand we
:25:26. > :25:30.were afraid that they might do something against the revolution
:25:30. > :25:35.and on the other hand because we must protect them in case someone
:25:35. > :25:38.attacks them in revenge. It is in these still staunchly pro Gadaffi
:25:38. > :25:43.areas that the government's attempts at reconciliation will be
:25:43. > :25:47.judged. There are no revolutionary flags flying here. Those who sided
:25:47. > :25:51.with the uprising say that they were long abused under the Gadaffi
:25:51. > :25:56.regime but the fear is that revenge could now stock the new Libya. That
:25:56. > :26:01.will take time for the ones of civil war to heal. For a post
:26:01. > :26:07.Gadaffi generation to grow up. Libya's ability to unite will be
:26:07. > :26:13.tested and the cost of failure would be high.
:26:13. > :26:19.That is it for now all. Before we go, we leave you with these
:26:19. > :26:24.pictures. It is the 70th birthday of the world's most famous boxer,
:26:25. > :26:29.Muhammad Ali. He became amass a celebrity when he was stripped of
:26:29. > :26:35.the Heidi White title after refusing to fight for the US
:26:35. > :26:44.military in Vietnam. He changed his name from Cassius Clay when he