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France suspends military training operations in Afghanistan after | :00:11. | :00:17. | |
four of its soldiers are shot dead. The founder and officials of their | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
websites face extradition as the US Government charges the with | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
Copyright infringements. New footage from the wreck of the Costa | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
Concordia show the desperate conditions faced by search teams. | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
Welcome to BBC World news. Also coming up - in business, the | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
Italian government ignores the protests and prepares to open up | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
big parts of the economy to more competition. And how to bring a | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
personal touch to your own funeral, the movement to make it reflect | :00:50. | :01:00. | |
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France has announced it is suspending all training and joint | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
military operations with the army of Afghanistan after an Afghan | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
soldier shot dead four French troops and wounded 16. The attack | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
is amongst the most deadly for French forces in the Thames years - | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
- in the 10 years they have been serving in the country. The Foreign | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
Minister of France is on his way to Afghanistan. Our correspondents in | :01:33. | :01:41. | |
Kabul and Paris gave us the latest on the story. Nicolas Sarkozy was | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
already giving a speech before the country's ambassadors and foreign | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
ministry representatives today, and he used the occasion to come out | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
with a very strong statement condemning what has happened, and | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
dispatching his emissary to the area, and hinting, I say hinting, | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
at a possible early withdrawal of French troops. He certainly | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
announced a suspension of aid and training to the Afghan army. But he | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
also said, and I quote, we will have to make a difficult decision | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
in the coming days. And he said, if the security conditions of French | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
troops are not satisfactory when the emissary comes back, then this | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
question of an early withdrawal will be seriously posed. There are | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
supposed to be coming out in two years, but this is a pre-election | :02:32. | :02:40. | |
period, and one does not know what decision he will take. I can just | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
see from our office in Kabul that they are being told that the French | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
Foreign Minister is also on his way to Kabul. Let's see if we can go | :02:49. | :02:59. | |
quickly to Kabul. What is the likely response there to this news? | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
I just spoke to a senior commander of the international mission and he | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
said, we are speechless. Another diplomatic source at I staff | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
headquarters said, this is unprecedented. There are many | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
nations which make up the international force, but very few | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
of them have more than 1,000 troops, and the French have something like | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
3,500. There are one of the nations who do the heavy lifting in this | :03:24. | :03:34. | |
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war, said my source. There is no doubt about it, if France withdraws | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
from Afghanistan, it means that fighting the war here against the | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
Taliban just got a good deal more difficult for the international | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
mission. Specifically they're talking about the training | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
operation - that is key for the smooth handover to be carried out, | :03:52. | :04:02. | |
isn't it? That's right. This is a sizable fours remember. There's | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
something like 130,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan, but that | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
number is rapidly diminishing. We are expecting the French to | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
announce an accelerated withdrawal, that announcement was expected | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
within the next week. But those French troops, along with the | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
British and Americans, are trying to get the Afghan army and the | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
Afghan police ready so that they can take responsibility for | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
security of this country, when combat operations by international | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
forces end at the end of 2014. It now looks like that timetable has | :04:35. | :04:45. | |
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In a separate incident, the Taliban now say they shot down a helicopter | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
which crashed, killing six soldiers serving with the NATO force in | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
serving with the NATO force in Afghanistan. It came down in the | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
volatile southern province of Helmand. Initial reports indicated | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
no insurgent activity at the time. The nationalities of the dead are | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
not yet he'd known. America's attempts to clamp down on what it | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
considers to the Internet piracy has resulted in one of the world's | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
most popular content sharing sites being closed down, and the people | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
behind it being arrested. Four people from the Megaupload site | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
have been accused of Copyright infringement, and arrested in New | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
Zealand. They insist they have done nothing wrong. This is the house in | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
Auckland, known as.com mansion, where the police carried out their | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
raid. Three arrests were made, and another one nearby. A total of 18 | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
luxury vehicles were taken away by the police, including this 1959 | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
Cadillac. In New Zealand we have seized in excess of $6 million | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
worth of motor vehicles, and more worth of motor vehicles, and more | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
than $10 million in cash from several finance companies. | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
Megaupload had 150 million users, and 50 million daily visitors. They | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
were able to access films, games, TV shows and music which had been | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
uploaded to the servers by people around the world. The US Justice | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
Department has said more than 20 search warrants were executed in | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
nine countries relating to breach of copyright, money laundering and | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
racketeering. This particular type of action around Entombment | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
copyright infringement is a first for New Zealand in terms of an | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
overseas person being attempted to be extradited. These were the four | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
men who were brought to court in New Zealand. On the right, one of | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
the founders of Megaupload, who calls himself a Achilles. The | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
accused say the allegations against the company are grotesquely | :06:51. | :06:58. | |
overblown. It is a big day in Europe's ongoing debt crisis, both | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
Italy and Greece affected today. Yes, let's start with Italy, | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
because we're going to she a raft of controversial measures presented | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
by Mario Monti, and the new government there. These are | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
measures, not austerity, we have heard all about that, this is to | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
open up certain sectors within the Italian economy, and basically make | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
them more competitive. They're going to start the ball rolling in | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
sectors like taxi licences, they want to look at public transport, | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
they want to look at stores where they can hold sales. Apparently it | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
is very strict at the moment. Things like that. There is a lot of | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
controversy, as I said. Many people in Italy say, hang on, why is the | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
government target in the small guys, not going after the bigger sectors, | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
the energy sector, the companies that run the motorways, things like | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
that? But despite that, the government does have some backing, | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
because people know that the alternative is so bad. The | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
government admits that they have not got any other options in their | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
arsenal than these kind of measures. Will they get fast results, though? | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
That is the big test, when it starts to kick in in a couple of | :08:13. | :08:23. | |
months. But this is what the experts say. The government has | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
made it very clear that fiscal policy cannot be used to create | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
growth. Actually, Italy needs more austerity because of its debt | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
burden. Monetary Policy and currency devaluation are no longer | :08:38. | :08:46. | |
an option, therefore, the only stimulus can come from giving more | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
power to the private sector, to private initiatives, and also to | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
young people. Let's move on, because it is all happening in | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
Greece as well. Talks between Greece and its private creditors | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
will do them for a third day. Greece has to get its banks, | :09:04. | :09:13. | |
insurers and hedge funds to agree to accept new bonds, effectively | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
writing off 50% of what Greece currently owes them. Greece's | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
official lenders, the European Union and the International | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
Monetary Fund, say this deal must be struck before they can get the | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
next slice of the International rescue plan. Without it, it will | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
default on $18 billion of bonds. Those are due in March. I put the | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
question, why are Greek debt holders willing to agree on a deal | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
in the first place, and we'd be the final saviour? The other option for | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
those investors would be that they would not get anything, or even a | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
much smaller amount than they will get in this bond swap. The other | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
issue here is that a lot of people are arguing even this reduction, | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
which will knock about 100 billion euros worth of debt off Greece's | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
books is relatively small beer in the big scheme of things. It sounds | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
a lot but it will not necessarily make Greek debt sustainable. The | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
economy is shrinking all the time, and people are asking, where is the | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
growth going to come from for Greece to pay the rest of its debt | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
back? Some Other stories - Vodafone will not have to pay a massive tax | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
bill in India. It comes after the Supreme Court there rejected a | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
ruling that Vodafone should have to pay a $2.5 billion in taxes | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
relating to its purchase of a local mobile phone company. The ruling is | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
very important for other international firms thinking of | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
investing in India. Late on Thursday you may have heard, in New | :10:46. | :10:56. | |
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York, Google reported quarterly results, it made $ 2.7 billion | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
profits. But shares fell sharply, because the results were not as | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
good as had been expected. Monday marks the start of the year of the | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
Dragon in the Chinese calendar. Many Asian investors will be on | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
holiday for that week, but they could be in line for a roller- | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
coaster ride on their return, if Chinese horoscope experts are to be | :11:21. | :11:31. | |
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believed. The story that we have this year is one of two hops. The | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
first half will be lacklustre, an extension of 2011, and the turning | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
point will come in August. One has to remember that when the dragon | :11:41. | :11:48. | |
appears, the Chinese consider it to be a game-changer, a marker of a | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
watershed event. So if you look at the previous five years of the | :11:52. | :11:59. | |
Dragon, no matter if the markets are up or down, they all delineated | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
by a very sharp turning point. After this Turning Point, the | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
market will either go ballistic or collapse outright. Well, very | :12:09. | :12:19. | |
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dramatic indeed! Signs from these figures that the US economy is | :12:21. | :12:28. | |
doing a lot better than we have seen. Looking at the European | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
markets, they have been hovering around, the FTSE 100 flat, as you | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
can see. Basically, the European markets are waiting to see any | :12:39. | :12:49. | |
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possible resolution of these crucial talks in Athens. As soon as | :12:53. | :13:03. | |
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we hear any more from those talks, we will bring them to you. Still to | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
come - we meet the most powerful religious leader in northern | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
Nigeria and ask him what can be done to stop the bloodshed between | :13:19. | :13:28. | |
Christians and Muslims. Now, it got a bit personal in South Carolina at | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
the debate ahead of the latest Republican Party primary. Jonathan | :13:32. | :13:39. | |
Blake as the latest on the battle for the White House. And then there | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
were four. This 16th debate in the campaign to find a challenger to | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
Barack Obama was billed as a knockout round. It comes two days | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
before the crucial South Carolina Primary, and the fireworks came | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
early. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich came out fighting after | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
claims from his ex-wife that he had wanted an open marriage. This story | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
is false, every personal friend I have who knew us said the story was | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
false. Front runner Mitt Romney faced fewer questions on his record | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
as a venture capitalist this time round, but he was booed when he | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
ducked the question on releasing multiple years' worth of tax | :14:18. | :14:26. | |
returns. Maybe! I do not know how many years I will release. I will | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
take a look at what our documents are. I will release multiple years, | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
I don't know how many years, I would be happy to do that. The man | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
in last place according to recent polls, Rick Santorum, went after | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
his opponents aggressively. On health care, he attacked Mitt | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
Romney for his record as governor of Massachusetts, where he signed | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
into law a partly public funded health care system. It was a | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
government-run health care system that was the basis of Obama care, | :14:57. | :15:07. | |
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and it has been an abject failure, did not get much of a look-in. At | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
one point he was heckled. Mitt Romney is still the favourite. Now, | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
the talking in South Carolina is almost over. There have been many | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
twists in the campaign so far. It is up to the voters of that state | :15:20. | :15:30. | |
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whether known -- whether another is This is BBC World News. The | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
headlines. France is suspending military | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
training operations in Afghanistan, after four French soldiers were | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
shot dead and others wounded by an Afghan soldier. France is | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
suspending military training operations in Afghanistan, after | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
four French soldiers were shot dead and others wounded by an Afghan | :15:48. | :15:49. | |
soldier. Megaupload, one of the internet's | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
largest file-sharing sites, has been shut down by officials in the | :15:52. | :15:59. | |
US. The site's founders have been charged with violating piracy laws. | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
The rescue teams searching the cruise ship Concordia have | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
suspended their operation, after the ship moved once again on the | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
ocean floor. Fears are growing the wreck could fall into deeper water, | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
making it harder to prevent pollution leaking into the sea. | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
Meanwhile, new video has emerged, apparently from just after the | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
moment the Concordia ran aground, showing crew members telling | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
passengers that nothing is wrong and that they should return to | :16:19. | :16:29. | |
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their cabins. The Italian authorities say the | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
position of the Costa Concordia has shifted position again, forcing | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
rescue work to be temporarily suspended. More bad news for | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
relatives who will take little comfort from an amateur video | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
released to the Italian media. It was shot shortly after the ship ran | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
aground, and shows a crew member reassuring passengers there is | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
nothing to run a worry about. TRANSLATION: We kindly ask you to | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
return to your cabins or go for a walk in the hall. We will resolve | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
the electrical problem with the generator. Everything will be fine. | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
If you want to stand here it is fine, but I am kindly asking you to | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
go where you will be seated and tranquil. Everything is under | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
control. Shortly afterwards, the ship | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
capsized. Other personnel also appeared to have played down the | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
seriousness of the situation. In a phone conversation with a port | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
official, a crew member said they had had a blackout. Eight weeks ago | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
on the Costa Concordia, captain Francesco Schettino was being | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
applauded by his passengers. Now under house arrest, he continues to | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
plead his innocence, although it is reported he has admitted to making | :17:36. | :17:44. | |
a navigational error. Italian investigators are looking at claims | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
made by this Moldovan woman, a former crew member, and who was | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
with the captain at the time of the accident. She says he tried to save | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
passengers. TRANSLATION: I have heard in the | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
Russian media the captain left the ship first, or was among the first. | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
But this is not true. The events leading up to the tragedy and its | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
aftermath are still being investigated. But questions are | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
being asked whether the apparent delay to its evacuate the ship cost | :18:11. | :18:19. | |
lives. The Italian authorities have | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
released pictures of the rescue teams inside the Concordia. You saw | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
some of them at the end of that report. These images were filmed on | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
Thursday. You can see them using ropes and ladders to access the | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
vessel. The ship is lying on its side, making it impossible to move | :18:38. | :18:45. | |
around using the stairs in a conventional way. There is some | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
natural light on the upper decks. But, as the rescue teams move down, | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
it becomes dark, and sea water has flooded the ship. There is a lot of | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
wreckage floating inside the Concordia, including furniture and | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
fixtures, making it harder to move around. The rescuers have been | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
trying to check every cabin, although they've said it could take | :19:02. | :19:12. | |
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weeks to go through all 1,500 of them. | :19:14. | :19:22. | |
Joining me from the island of Giglio is the BBC's Alan Johnston. | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
Do work has been suspended, after they realised early this morning | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
the wreckage had shifted a little. Perhaps not moving laterally on the | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
seabed but settling down further on to the rocks. But it too dangerous | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
for rescue work to continue. Divers are working in very confined spaces. | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
The wreckage could suddenly lurch. Where there is any instability | :19:51. | :19:58. | |
detected, all work has to stop. The situation will be reviewed at 1,300. | :19:58. | :20:06. | |
Can you bring us up to speed on the speculation as to how this all | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
happened in the first place? Speculation about the actions of | :20:10. | :20:19. | |
the captain. Very much so. The most significant recent insight we have | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
had it into that, actually came a little earlier, late yesterday. We | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
heard that very interesting sounding conversation between port | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
officials, and the ship, not necessarily the captain but a crew | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
member. The port officials had heard there was trouble of some | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
kind, this conversation takes place about 30 minutes after that | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
almighty collision. The port officials desperately want to know | :20:48. | :20:54. | |
what is happening. The crew man on event simply says there is an | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
electrical problem, he repeatedly says that and makes no reference to | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
that collision. Why wouldn't the ship want to alert the coast guard, | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
the potential rescue services of a problem of that size? | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
The There are reports that four senior Somali government soldiers | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
have just been killed in an ambush in Mogadishu this morning. The | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
killings follow a major operation against the Islamist movement Al | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
Shabab. Government forces, supported by African Union troops, | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
have sent hundreds of men and 20 tanks into bases on the outskirts | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
of the capital Mogadishu. Al-Shabab admitted losing territory, but said | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
it would strike back. I asked the BBC's East Africa | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
correspondent Will Ross what more he could tell us about the deaths | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
of the four Somalia government soldiers. | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
We understand that a group of the Somali government soldiers were | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
heading to the area that had just been captured from Al-Shabab. And | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
they fell into an Al-Shabab ambush. They are senior soldiers, we are | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
told, one being a logistics officer. This is a setback for the | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
government soldiers, we are awaiting confirmation from the | :22:08. | :22:14. | |
Government. It underlines the fact, even though territory can be seized | :22:14. | :22:21. | |
from Al-Shabab, it does not mean that there is then say. | :22:21. | :22:31. | |
The porridge and was a significant one, wasn't it? -- the operation. | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
The commanders have said there were close to 1000 soldiers and 20 tax | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
which took part in the attack. They were obviously a combination of | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
Somali government soldiers and African Union peace keepers. The | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
spokesman for the peacekeepers said the operation had significant | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
firepower, the first time these African Union troops had gone to | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
battle outside Mogadishu, it seems the aim was to push as about as far | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
as possible back from the capital itself. In recent months, most of | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
the capital has gone into the hands of the government and African Union | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
forces. But, although these territories are being taken from | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
Al-Shabab, it does not mean they are safe. 24 hours ago, there was a | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
suicide bomb attack in Mogadishu, six people left dead. In recent | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
months there have been several spectacular attacks by a radical | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
Islamic sect in Nigeria known as Boko Haram. The name translates | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
roughly into English as "Western Education is forbidden". Among the | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
deadly activities claimed by the group are the bombing of the United | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
Nations building in Abuja, and an attack on a Christian church on | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
Christmas day. Our correspondent Mark Doyle went to the main city in | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
the north of Nigeria, Kano, to find out what's causing the religious | :23:50. | :24:00. | |
:24:00. | :24:07. | ||
The most powerful religious leader in northern Nigeria. In southern | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
Nigeria, traditional Christian Kane's play a similar role. Here in | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
the north, for hundreds of years, traditional Islamic rulers have | :24:17. | :24:25. | |
maintained huge influence. Christians living in the north. A | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
Muslim cleric has come to their church. He explains that Jesus and | :24:31. | :24:41. | |
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Mary are in the Koran as well. name is Jesus, the son of Mary. | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
Thanks to two initiatives by this, this city, the capital of the North, | :24:49. | :24:56. | |
is largely peaceful. There is a big issue between Christians and | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
Muslims in Nigeria of which is what has led to the historic split in | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
the country. But these days, there is a potentially even more | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
dangerous separation between the conservative Islamic or authorities | :25:08. | :25:16. | |
in northern Nigeria, and the more radical groups. The Islamist group | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
Boko Haram claimed this isn't bombing of a church, 38 people were | :25:19. | :25:27. | |
killed, and there have been many other attacks. The Emir has no | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
shortage of visitors but he granted the BBC a very rare interview. How | :25:32. | :25:39. | |
are you? I asked him whether the existence of a violent Islamist | :25:39. | :25:48. | |
group in Nigeria meant his traditional power was being eroded? | :25:48. | :25:56. | |
TRANSLATION: The perpetrators are being told the texts of Islam which | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
do not allowed doing anything bad to anybody. So his Highness is | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
always telling his subject to embrace peace and live peacefully. | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
The vast majority of Nigerians, Christian and Muslim, say they want | :26:11. | :26:21. | |
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peace as well, but religion and politics often get in their way. | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
Some news coming in from Northern Ireland, a high-profile Republican | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
has been clear today of the murder of two British soldiers outside an | :26:31. | :26:41. | |
:26:41. | :26:42. | ||
army base, Colin Duffy has been acquitted at Antrim Crown Court. | :26:42. | :26:49. |