:00:10. > :00:14.Arrested and questioned. The founder of a breast implant company
:00:14. > :00:19.is held in France in the midst of an international health scare.
:00:19. > :00:21.Get back, stay back! Uncomfortable moments for Australia's Prime
:00:21. > :00:29.Minister, as Aboriginal activists disrupt a ceremony marking the
:00:29. > :00:31.The British Prime Minister warns EU leaders that it's time for bold
:00:31. > :00:37.decisions, if growth is to return to the eurozone.
:00:37. > :00:40.Welcome to BBC World News. Also in this programme: New laws in
:00:40. > :00:45.Pakistan to fight domestic violence. But why are attacks on women so
:00:45. > :00:48.often considered justified? A 20-storey building collapses in
:00:48. > :00:58.the centre of Rio de Janeiro. Several are thought to be trapped
:00:58. > :01:09.
:01:09. > :01:12.The founder of the breast implant company at the centre of an
:01:12. > :01:15.international health scare has been arrested and questioned in France.
:01:15. > :01:18.Jean-Claude Mas ran PIP, which the French health watchdog said was
:01:18. > :01:21.producing implants made from a sub- standard, industrial-grade gel. Up
:01:21. > :01:31.to 500,000 women around the world are believed to have PIP implants,
:01:31. > :01:35.
:01:35. > :01:41.as our world affairs correspondent This is a picture of Jean-Claude
:01:41. > :01:44.Mas, taking in France 10 years ago. His company, PIP, is now defunct
:01:44. > :01:52.and it is understood he has been questioned before. Police have been
:01:52. > :01:56.searching his home. The problems for PIP date back to 2001 when
:01:56. > :02:03.industrial grade silicon usually used to fill mattresses was used in
:02:03. > :02:08.implants. Concerns about safety came to light in 2009, when doctors
:02:08. > :02:15.are new -- noticed unusually high rupture rates. The French have
:02:15. > :02:20.authorities this year finally recommended their removal. Germany
:02:20. > :02:24.and the Czech Republic have taken a similar stance, as has Venezuela.
:02:24. > :02:29.The medical advice in Britain where 40,000 women are affected his there
:02:29. > :02:34.is no need for all of the implants to be removed, only those causing
:02:34. > :02:39.problems such as pain or tenderness. Jean-Claude Mas has claimed through
:02:39. > :02:45.his lawyer, despite the high rupture rate, his arm -- his
:02:45. > :02:49.implants are safe. He said victims had been filing complaints simply
:02:49. > :02:52.to make money. A suicide bomber has attacked a vehicle in the Afghan
:02:52. > :02:55.city of Lashkar Gah, killing at least four people. The attacker
:02:55. > :03:05.targeted a vehicle from a NATO- sponsored reconstruction team. Four
:03:05. > :03:08.Afghan civilians are dead, one of them a child. More than 30 people,
:03:08. > :03:11.including three foreign nationals, have been taken to hospital. The
:03:11. > :03:14.explosion happened near an outside the gates of an aid office.
:03:14. > :03:20.Hundreds of Egyptians have spent the night camped out at Cairo's
:03:20. > :03:22.Pro-democracy groups are planning to stay there until Friday, when
:03:22. > :03:25.another rally is planned. On Wednesday, demonstrations were held
:03:25. > :03:30.in the square to mark the first anniversary of the uprising that
:03:30. > :03:33.eventually toppled President Hosni Mubarak.
:03:33. > :03:36.The authorities in Iraq say insurgents have carried out a bomb
:03:36. > :03:39.attack on a house south of Baghdad, killing two brothers, both
:03:39. > :03:42.policeman, and eight of their relatives. Their house in the town
:03:42. > :03:49.of Musayyib was reportedly destroyed by the blast which took
:03:49. > :03:52.place while their families were sleeping.
:03:52. > :03:56.The Australian Prime Minister and opposition leader have been at the
:03:56. > :03:59.centre of a security scare in the capital Canberra. Julia Gillard was
:03:59. > :04:02.handing out medals during Australia Day celebrations when protesters
:04:02. > :04:05.gathered outside and started banging on the windows. Ms Gillard
:04:05. > :04:07.and Tony Abbott were rescued by security services after about 20
:04:07. > :04:17.minutes. Our correspondent, Duncan Kennedy gave us the latest from
:04:17. > :04:21.
:04:21. > :04:27.The Eid two main political figures in Australia were subject to a
:04:27. > :04:35.scramble to get them to safety. They were at an awards ceremony. A
:04:35. > :04:41.few hundred yards away from a cab set up by its original --
:04:41. > :04:48.Aboriginal people. When they heard about the ceremony, they went up to
:04:48. > :04:52.the ceremony and started to ban on the window. When they realise
:04:52. > :04:56.things were getting out of hand, they made a dash for it. Julia
:04:56. > :05:01.Gillard was grabbed by her bodyguard, literally raising her
:05:01. > :05:07.along the ground. At one point, the Prime Minister and nearly hit the
:05:07. > :05:12.ground, up almost horizontal, losing her footing. The opposition
:05:12. > :05:18.leader Tony Abbott is following behind. Surrounded by 50 police,
:05:18. > :05:24.some wearing riot dear. In a mad rush to get them to the safety of
:05:24. > :05:29.their car. Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott were bundled into their car.
:05:29. > :05:39.Protesters were still chasing after them, banging on the roof, the bar
:05:39. > :05:40.
:05:41. > :05:47.that. -- the bonnet. Susannah joins me now with the business.
:05:47. > :05:52.We have just been hearing from David Cameron, endeavours, the
:05:52. > :05:57.message of being bowled and competitive.
:05:58. > :06:02.The lack of competitiveness is Europe's Achilles heel. He said
:06:02. > :06:08.European leaders needed to take action and really show they are
:06:08. > :06:14.bald, and show leadership in this difficult time for the eurozone. He
:06:14. > :06:19.was also talking about the proposed transaction tax. He says, although
:06:19. > :06:23.bankers need to play a role and play their share in solving the
:06:23. > :06:27.current crisis, he did not believe this type of tax was the way
:06:27. > :06:31.forward. If you look at the European
:06:31. > :06:36.Commissioners own original analysis, that showed a financial
:06:36. > :06:44.transactions tax could cost the GDP of the European Union, and could
:06:44. > :06:48.reduce it by 200 billion euros. It could cost almost 500,000 jobs. And
:06:48. > :06:53.force as much as 90% of some markets away from the European
:06:54. > :06:57.Union. Even to be considering this at a time when we are struggling to
:06:57. > :07:05.get our economy is growing is simply madness.
:07:05. > :07:15.The World economic Forum is taking place in the backdrop of the crisis
:07:15. > :07:16.
:07:16. > :07:19.in Europe. Greece is trying to get its private
:07:19. > :07:22.creditors to swap their government bonds for new ones with half their
:07:22. > :07:29.face value, thereby slicing some $130 billion off its debt. But
:07:29. > :07:36.agreement has stalled over the interest rates on the new bonds.
:07:36. > :07:41.This is just the first step. One of the most important periods in
:07:41. > :07:47.economic history. You may or may not get an agreement, in any case,
:07:47. > :07:52.the Greek government will introduce legislation to force creditors and
:07:52. > :07:57.hedge funds to join in, in the debt reduction. Then some sort of deal,
:07:57. > :08:01.maybe in time, maybe the fault. Then the issue, what happens to
:08:01. > :08:04.Greek banks, will they be recapitalised?
:08:04. > :08:07.The French bank BNP Paribas is one of the biggest creditors to Greek
:08:07. > :08:11.banks. Its share price has plummeted amid investor fears that
:08:11. > :08:14.a Greek default could lead to huge losses for the lender. Given the
:08:14. > :08:17.recent gloom about those Greek debt talks, the BBC's business editor
:08:17. > :08:24.Robert Peston asked BNP's chief executive Baudoin Prot why he
:08:24. > :08:29.remained confident of a solution to the eurozone debt crisis?
:08:29. > :08:33.I think we are over the worst, up on the right track but not finished.
:08:34. > :08:39.We have definitely, we cannot go on neutral, we have to continue to
:08:39. > :08:47.move forward. We all know that means individual country's
:08:47. > :08:53.continuing to implement fiscal Budget measures. And also, I agree
:08:53. > :08:59.with the Americans, we need initiatives to impose higher growth
:08:59. > :09:04.and deregulate the Labour market, more competition. Higher
:09:04. > :09:09.sustainable growth in Europe is as essential as cutting budgets and
:09:09. > :09:16.deficit. What has been the biggest contributor to your increased
:09:16. > :09:23.optimism? Three-year long-term financial operation was a catalyst
:09:23. > :09:33.in Italy. But, this was very important also in the context where
:09:33. > :09:34.
:09:34. > :09:40.individual countries have started movement. The arrival of Monti was
:09:40. > :09:49.important. Those initiatives are very welcome. Now we need them to
:09:49. > :09:53.deliver. We have seen talks between private sector lenders in Greece,
:09:53. > :09:58.with the government, reducing what the Greek government will pay.
:09:58. > :10:03.Those talks have stalled. Are you optimistic they will reach a
:10:03. > :10:08.positive outcome? Those of creditors have gone to the maximum
:10:08. > :10:14.they could do, to keep it a voluntary agreement. It is an
:10:14. > :10:20.enormous sacrifice, unprecedented, voluntary. The private sector
:10:20. > :10:23.involvement, if we accept we can finally get there, it will be
:10:23. > :10:25.historical. 10,000 jobs are to go at
:10:25. > :10:28.electronics giant NEC. The Japanese maker of computer and
:10:28. > :10:33.telecommunications equipment also warned it would make a $1.3 billion
:10:33. > :10:35.loss for the year to March. Most of the lay-offs will be in Japan, with
:10:35. > :10:38.3,000 jobs going overseas. More bad news from Japan. The
:10:38. > :10:41.Japanese gaming giant Nintendo warns its annual losses will be
:10:41. > :10:43.three times bigger than forecast. Nintendo, like many of its
:10:43. > :10:47.compatriots, is struggling with the strong yen, which makes its
:10:47. > :10:50.consoles more expensive than those made by rivals in the US and other
:10:51. > :10:54.countries. The group has also had to slash prices in a very
:10:54. > :10:57.competitive industry. Across the Korea Strait, it's a
:10:57. > :11:00.different story. Car maker Hyundai has reported record profits. It
:11:00. > :11:03.made $7.2 billion last year. That's up 3%. South Korea's biggest motor
:11:03. > :11:06.group benefited from reduced production by Japanese rivals like
:11:06. > :11:16.Toyota who were hit by the tsunami. Hyundai has particularly well in
:11:16. > :11:17.
:11:17. > :11:25.the world's two biggest markets, China and the United States.
:11:25. > :11:27.The world's biggest mobile phone maker has reported a fall in profit.
:11:27. > :11:32.The Norwegian group started making smartphones much later than rivals,
:11:32. > :11:36.such as Samsung, LG and Apple. Nokia is now selling more cheap
:11:36. > :11:45.phones in emerging markets such as India which, in turn, reduces its
:11:45. > :11:48.profit margins. Swedish budget fashion chain Hennes
:11:48. > :11:52.and Mauritz, or H&M, sold more clothes in the fourth quarter than
:11:52. > :11:55.it did in the same period a year ago. Profits were down slightly
:11:55. > :12:05.though, by 2.5%, as higher costs and stiff competition ate into its
:12:05. > :12:11.margins. Let us take a look at how the
:12:11. > :12:20.markets are faring so far today. We can see what happened yesterday, in
:12:20. > :12:30.the United States, closing up 0.6%. After interest rates were kept on
:12:30. > :12:39.
:12:39. > :12:49.hold for another two years. And in Some optimism around for the
:12:49. > :12:56.
:12:56. > :13:01.markets in Europe today. With events happening in Davos.
:13:01. > :13:10.Still to come in the programme. 30 years on from the Falklands war,
:13:10. > :13:19.many boy in a Sara's people think Britain should return the island to
:13:19. > :13:21.Argentina -- Buenos Aires. A senior commissioner responsible
:13:21. > :13:24.for ethics and sustainability surrounding the London 2012
:13:24. > :13:27.Olympics, has resigned over the sponsorship of the main stadium.
:13:27. > :13:30.The commissioner has urged the organisers to drop Dow Chemicals
:13:30. > :13:39.because of unresolved issues surrounding the Bhopal gas leak
:13:39. > :13:45.disaster. The way this stadium is to be decorated his being
:13:45. > :13:49.criticised. Controversial because of an American companies
:13:49. > :13:53.association with the Bhopal disaster. A key member of the only
:13:53. > :13:58.sustainability watchdog for 20 top has said she is quitting her post
:13:58. > :14:02.because of this sponsorship deal. am not willing to be part of a body
:14:02. > :14:06.which has become apologist for a company responsible for one of the
:14:06. > :14:13.worst corporate human rights abuses of my generation. 15,000 people
:14:13. > :14:17.have died as a result of the leak from the plant in the 1980s.
:14:17. > :14:21.Victims and the Indian government are seeking compensation from Dow
:14:21. > :14:25.Chemical after it bought the company 11 years ago. The
:14:25. > :14:31.sponsorship deal has already led to demonstrations in Britain and India.
:14:32. > :14:37.Last month, campaigners burnt an effigy of the Olympics are chairman.
:14:37. > :14:43.The government said it was firmly behind the sponsorship. The fact,
:14:43. > :14:47.as you know, they did not own the company at the time of the Bhopal
:14:47. > :14:52.disaster in 1985, 0 at the time of the final settlement with the
:14:52. > :14:57.Indian government in 1989, that has been upheld three times in the
:14:57. > :15:02.Indian Supreme Court, makes me confident that it was a very
:15:02. > :15:12.reasonable decision. It is an embarrassment to the London mayor,
:15:12. > :15:16.
:15:16. > :15:21.and to the government, who fund the This is BBC World News. French
:15:21. > :15:25.police have arrested a founder of the company at the centre of an
:15:25. > :15:28.international scare over breast implants. Australia's Prime
:15:28. > :15:33.Minister Julia Gillard was forced to abandon a ceremony marking
:15:33. > :15:37.Australia day after it was interrupted by Aboriginal activists.
:15:37. > :15:45.Papua New Guinea's prime minister, Peter O'Neill, says an army mutiny
:15:45. > :15:54.had taken over the army barracks in Port Moresby, holding the defence
:15:54. > :15:58.achieve positive -- captive. A dawn raid in Papua New Guinea's battle
:15:58. > :16:03.over leadership. Rebel soldiers stormed the army barracks in Port
:16:03. > :16:08.Moresby, replacing the defence chief with the their own. They were
:16:08. > :16:15.demanding former prime minister Sir Michael Somare return to power. But
:16:15. > :16:20.they insisted it was not a coup. They have seven days to implement
:16:20. > :16:29.the Supreme Court's orders, to resolve the Prime -- political
:16:29. > :16:39.impasse. The Deputy Prime Minister hit back, setting a deadline for Mr
:16:39. > :16:44.
:16:44. > :16:49.Sasa's surrender. He has until 4 o'clock to surrender himself. He is
:16:49. > :16:53.illegally occupying the office of the commander. Both current Prime
:16:53. > :17:01.Minister Peter O'Neill and Michael Somare are claiming to the Papua
:17:01. > :17:05.New Guinea's rightful leader. Michael Somare was receiving
:17:05. > :17:09.medical that it -- medical treatment overseas when Peter
:17:09. > :17:13.O'Neill took over. It has been concluded that Michael Somare was
:17:13. > :17:19.removed from power illegally. The governor general is now throwing
:17:19. > :17:22.his support behind Peter O'Neill. Last week, Sir Michael was ejected
:17:22. > :17:29.from Parliament after showing up with court documents demanding to
:17:29. > :17:33.be reinstated. But now -- for now, Peter O'Neill remains leader.
:17:33. > :17:38.His it is all happening in Papua New Guinea at the moment. The
:17:38. > :17:41.mountainous interior in particular is struggling. Local media reports
:17:41. > :17:45.as many as 60 people are dead or missing after a massive landslide
:17:45. > :17:50.wiped out entire villages. The disaster struck at night as the
:17:50. > :17:53.residents were sleeping. At least 40 bodies have been found. Many may
:17:53. > :17:59.have been transit workers at the nearby liquified natural gas
:17:59. > :18:03.project. A 20 storey building has collapsed
:18:03. > :18:10.in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. Rescuers have managed to
:18:10. > :18:14.pull for people out of the rubble so far. -- four people. Others are
:18:14. > :18:19.still trapped. Dan will Griffiths has the latest.
:18:19. > :18:28.Cars buried where they were parked. All this in just a few devastating
:18:28. > :18:33.moments. I was walking on the path when all of a sudden the building
:18:33. > :18:40.collapsed. We ran out and tried to see if there was anybody inside,
:18:40. > :18:45.but we couldn't tell. At first, I thought someone was throwing rubble,
:18:45. > :18:50.but it was nothing serious. Then I started to take some steps back,
:18:50. > :18:54.and all the sudden the building collapsed. It came down completely.
:18:54. > :18:58.Anxious crowds gathered at the scene. Emergency services have
:18:58. > :19:03.begun a rescue operation. Some people have been pulled alive from
:19:03. > :19:07.the wreckage, but no one knows how many more are still trapped. What
:19:07. > :19:11.caused this is still unknown. Some officials have blamed it on a
:19:11. > :19:17.structural fault. But witnesses say they smelled gas and heard an
:19:17. > :19:21.explosion just before the collapse. Some of the rubble is already being
:19:21. > :19:25.cleared. This is the latest in a series of accidents that have
:19:25. > :19:35.raised concerns about the city's infrastructure as it prepares to
:19:35. > :19:35.
:19:35. > :19:39.host both the World Cup and the Pakistan is set to introduce new
:19:39. > :19:43.laws which will criminalise forced marriage and acid attacks on women.
:19:43. > :19:49.The laws will also mean tougher sentences in cases of domestic
:19:49. > :19:56.violence. Cases of brutality against women are still often
:19:56. > :19:59.justified in the name of honour. Soma was 16 years old when she says
:19:59. > :20:09.her husband were occur in the middle of the night and attacked
:20:09. > :20:09.
:20:09. > :20:14.her. TRANSLATION: He tied me up and grabbed a knife. He cut off my nose
:20:14. > :20:20.and my lips. Afterwards my mother- in-law came and and tied me.
:20:20. > :20:23.Neither of them told me what I had done to deserve it.
:20:23. > :20:26.She says she now believes her husband did it because she had
:20:26. > :20:30.taken longer than usual to get water from a well, and he thought
:20:30. > :20:35.she was having an affair. Her husband has been on the run since
:20:35. > :20:45.the attack. Soma says she won't be at peace until he is caught and
:20:45. > :20:51.punished. Pakistan's just past New Yorkers -- new laws to help protect
:20:51. > :20:54.women, and to make specific crimes of things like forced marriage.
:20:54. > :21:01.Human rights groups welcomed the laws, but believe legislation is
:21:01. > :21:06.only part of the problem. In the community, they have a mind set
:21:06. > :21:16.against the rights of women, and they don't want women to go outside
:21:16. > :21:19.
:21:19. > :21:23.of the home. They want them to stay in their homes. This woman was in
:21:23. > :21:27.her fifties. She was in her home after an argument with her son's
:21:27. > :21:31.wife when two men burst into the yard. She recognise them as
:21:31. > :21:37.relatives of her daughter in law. She says they forced her into a
:21:37. > :21:43.room, beat her and raped her. TRANSLATION: Death would have been
:21:43. > :21:48.better than this, she says. Since what happened to me, I am tired of
:21:48. > :21:52.life. It is like I have a disease with no cure. It is difficult to
:21:52. > :22:00.even eat. And there are council -- countless
:22:00. > :22:03.women in Pakistan for whom changes coming too slowly.
:22:03. > :22:10.Staying in Pakistan, the Prime Minister has now toned down his
:22:10. > :22:13.criticism of the country's army leadership. Yousaf Raza Gilani has
:22:13. > :22:17.said he wants to dispel the impression that the armed forces
:22:17. > :22:21.have acted unconstitutionally. He says Pakistan could not afford
:22:21. > :22:24.conflict among its institutions and the current situation. Earlier this
:22:24. > :22:28.month he accused Pakistan's army chief and the head of intelligence
:22:28. > :22:32.of breaking the constitution by making direct representations to
:22:32. > :22:35.the Supreme Court. Medecins Sans Frontieres has
:22:35. > :22:40.suspended operations in detention centres in the Libyan city of
:22:40. > :22:43.Misrata because of what it says are persistent cases of torture. The
:22:43. > :22:47.medical charity says it has treated more than 100 people for torture
:22:47. > :22:52.related injuries at those centres, and says in some cases, people were
:22:52. > :22:56.brought in for treatment midway through an interrogation, only to
:22:56. > :23:01.be tortured and taken back for more torture. The charity says it
:23:01. > :23:05.alerted local authorities, and yet no action was taken.
:23:06. > :23:11.The Falkland Islands are small enough, but the proxy war fought
:23:11. > :23:15.there 30 years ago has nonetheless left a very large thorn in the side
:23:15. > :23:19.of relations ever since. The Falklands remains British territory,
:23:19. > :23:24.but a recent hardening of attitude has seen some in Argentina demand
:23:24. > :23:32.their return. Fergal Keane reports from Buenos Aires.
:23:32. > :23:42.Every morning of every year, the ceremonial guard arrives. Here at
:23:42. > :23:43.
:23:43. > :23:48.the National Memorial to More than 600 Argentine servicemen
:23:48. > :23:54.died in the conflict. Many of them young conscripts. Their names are
:23:54. > :24:00.embedded in this war, reminders of an era that most people in this
:24:00. > :24:05.country wish to forget. It was the age of dictators who send their
:24:05. > :24:14.troops to the Falklands in a vain bid to restore their fading power.
:24:14. > :24:20.When the war was lost, the military Poynter was overthrown. Alonso was
:24:20. > :24:27.18 years old. Yet for him and many Argentines, the islands remained a
:24:27. > :24:32.passionate cause. A TRANSLATION: It has been 30 years.
:24:32. > :24:36.The anniversaries allow us to think of those we lost, but also give us
:24:36. > :24:40.the strength to continue fighting. As the diplomatic wrangle between
:24:40. > :24:45.Argentina and Britain escalates, protesters have converged on the
:24:45. > :24:49.British Embassy. The rights of the Falkland Islanders to remain
:24:49. > :24:54.British simply aren't recognised. Surely if the label on the islands
:24:54. > :24:58.want to remain British, that is their democratic right?
:24:58. > :25:06.TRANSLATION: We Argentinians also have a right to reclaim what is
:25:06. > :25:12.ours. In government, too, the mood has been hardening. David Cameron
:25:12. > :25:16.accusations that it was colonialism have been bitterly responded to.
:25:16. > :25:20.TRANSLATION: We were shocked by the British Prime Minister. Argentine
:25:20. > :25:25.history is far from colonialism. That is far more like the British
:25:25. > :25:34.history. It was ironic to listen to such an accusation from the British.
:25:34. > :25:37.When a series of rules out military action. Falklands ships are banned
:25:37. > :25:45.from the ports of several that Latin-American nations, including
:25:45. > :25:51.Brazil. A former planning minister says Argentina wants to use the
:25:51. > :25:58.growing political clout of Latin America. South America as a group
:25:58. > :26:03.is becoming more and more important. These countries and now the centre
:26:03. > :26:08.of economic growth. There may be no more military adventures, but
:26:08. > :26:16.Britain faces a real diplomatic challenge in a region asserting its
:26:16. > :26:21.new-found strength. I just want to take you back to
:26:21. > :26:26.pictures that we have for you of the Costa Concordia cruise ship. It
:26:26. > :26:32.is almost two weeks since it fell into this sorry state. The search
:26:32. > :26:36.is going to continue today in three different stages on the Costa
:26:36. > :26:41.Concordia. The rescuers are hoping to get to cabins they have not been
:26:41. > :26:45.able to get to up until now. We are told all systems are now in place
:26:45. > :26:51.for any potential environmental damage coming from this ship.