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Arrested and questioned. The founder of a breast implant company

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is held in France in the midst of an international health scare.

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Get back, stay back! Uncomfortable moments for Australia's Prime

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Minister, as Aboriginal activists disrupt a ceremony marking the

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The British Prime Minister warns EU leaders that it's time for bold

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decisions, if growth is to return to the eurozone.

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Welcome to BBC World News. Also in this programme: New laws in

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Pakistan to fight domestic violence. But why are attacks on women so

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often considered justified? A 20-storey building collapses in

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the centre of Rio de Janeiro. Several are thought to be trapped

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The founder of the breast implant company at the centre of an

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international health scare has been arrested and questioned in France.

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Jean-Claude Mas ran PIP, which the French health watchdog said was

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producing implants made from a sub- standard, industrial-grade gel. Up

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to 500,000 women around the world are believed to have PIP implants,

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as our world affairs correspondent This is a picture of Jean-Claude

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Mas, taking in France 10 years ago. His company, PIP, is now defunct

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and it is understood he has been questioned before. Police have been

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searching his home. The problems for PIP date back to 2001 when

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industrial grade silicon usually used to fill mattresses was used in

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implants. Concerns about safety came to light in 2009, when doctors

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are new -- noticed unusually high rupture rates. The French have

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authorities this year finally recommended their removal. Germany

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and the Czech Republic have taken a similar stance, as has Venezuela.

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The medical advice in Britain where 40,000 women are affected his there

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is no need for all of the implants to be removed, only those causing

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problems such as pain or tenderness. Jean-Claude Mas has claimed through

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his lawyer, despite the high rupture rate, his arm -- his

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implants are safe. He said victims had been filing complaints simply

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to make money. A suicide bomber has attacked a vehicle in the Afghan

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city of Lashkar Gah, killing at least four people. The attacker

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targeted a vehicle from a NATO- sponsored reconstruction team. Four

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Afghan civilians are dead, one of them a child. More than 30 people,

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including three foreign nationals, have been taken to hospital. The

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explosion happened near an outside the gates of an aid office.

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Hundreds of Egyptians have spent the night camped out at Cairo's

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Pro-democracy groups are planning to stay there until Friday, when

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another rally is planned. On Wednesday, demonstrations were held

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in the square to mark the first anniversary of the uprising that

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eventually toppled President Hosni Mubarak.

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The authorities in Iraq say insurgents have carried out a bomb

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attack on a house south of Baghdad, killing two brothers, both

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policeman, and eight of their relatives. Their house in the town

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of Musayyib was reportedly destroyed by the blast which took

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place while their families were sleeping.

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The Australian Prime Minister and opposition leader have been at the

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centre of a security scare in the capital Canberra. Julia Gillard was

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handing out medals during Australia Day celebrations when protesters

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gathered outside and started banging on the windows. Ms Gillard

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and Tony Abbott were rescued by security services after about 20

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minutes. Our correspondent, Duncan Kennedy gave us the latest from

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The Eid two main political figures in Australia were subject to a

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scramble to get them to safety. They were at an awards ceremony. A

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few hundred yards away from a cab set up by its original --

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Aboriginal people. When they heard about the ceremony, they went up to

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the ceremony and started to ban on the window. When they realise

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things were getting out of hand, they made a dash for it. Julia

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Gillard was grabbed by her bodyguard, literally raising her

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along the ground. At one point, the Prime Minister and nearly hit the

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ground, up almost horizontal, losing her footing. The opposition

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leader Tony Abbott is following behind. Surrounded by 50 police,

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some wearing riot dear. In a mad rush to get them to the safety of

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their car. Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott were bundled into their car.

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Protesters were still chasing after them, banging on the roof, the bar

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that. -- the bonnet. Susannah joins me now with the business.

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We have just been hearing from David Cameron, endeavours, the

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message of being bowled and competitive.

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The lack of competitiveness is Europe's Achilles heel. He said

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European leaders needed to take action and really show they are

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bald, and show leadership in this difficult time for the eurozone. He

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was also talking about the proposed transaction tax. He says, although

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bankers need to play a role and play their share in solving the

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current crisis, he did not believe this type of tax was the way

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forward. If you look at the European

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Commissioners own original analysis, that showed a financial

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transactions tax could cost the GDP of the European Union, and could

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reduce it by 200 billion euros. It could cost almost 500,000 jobs. And

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force as much as 90% of some markets away from the European

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Union. Even to be considering this at a time when we are struggling to

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get our economy is growing is simply madness.

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The World economic Forum is taking place in the backdrop of the crisis

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in Europe. Greece is trying to get its private

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creditors to swap their government bonds for new ones with half their

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face value, thereby slicing some $130 billion off its debt. But

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agreement has stalled over the interest rates on the new bonds.

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This is just the first step. One of the most important periods in

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economic history. You may or may not get an agreement, in any case,

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the Greek government will introduce legislation to force creditors and

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hedge funds to join in, in the debt reduction. Then some sort of deal,

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maybe in time, maybe the fault. Then the issue, what happens to

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Greek banks, will they be recapitalised?

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The French bank BNP Paribas is one of the biggest creditors to Greek

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banks. Its share price has plummeted amid investor fears that

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a Greek default could lead to huge losses for the lender. Given the

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recent gloom about those Greek debt talks, the BBC's business editor

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Robert Peston asked BNP's chief executive Baudoin Prot why he

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remained confident of a solution to the eurozone debt crisis?

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I think we are over the worst, up on the right track but not finished.

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We have definitely, we cannot go on neutral, we have to continue to

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move forward. We all know that means individual country's

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continuing to implement fiscal Budget measures. And also, I agree

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with the Americans, we need initiatives to impose higher growth

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and deregulate the Labour market, more competition. Higher

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sustainable growth in Europe is as essential as cutting budgets and

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deficit. What has been the biggest contributor to your increased

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optimism? Three-year long-term financial operation was a catalyst

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in Italy. But, this was very important also in the context where

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individual countries have started movement. The arrival of Monti was

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important. Those initiatives are very welcome. Now we need them to

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deliver. We have seen talks between private sector lenders in Greece,

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with the government, reducing what the Greek government will pay.

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Those talks have stalled. Are you optimistic they will reach a

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positive outcome? Those of creditors have gone to the maximum

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they could do, to keep it a voluntary agreement. It is an

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enormous sacrifice, unprecedented, voluntary. The private sector

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involvement, if we accept we can finally get there, it will be

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historical. 10,000 jobs are to go at

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electronics giant NEC. The Japanese maker of computer and

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telecommunications equipment also warned it would make a $1.3 billion

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loss for the year to March. Most of the lay-offs will be in Japan, with

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3,000 jobs going overseas. More bad news from Japan. The

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Japanese gaming giant Nintendo warns its annual losses will be

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three times bigger than forecast. Nintendo, like many of its

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compatriots, is struggling with the strong yen, which makes its

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consoles more expensive than those made by rivals in the US and other

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countries. The group has also had to slash prices in a very

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competitive industry. Across the Korea Strait, it's a

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different story. Car maker Hyundai has reported record profits. It

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made $7.2 billion last year. That's up 3%. South Korea's biggest motor

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group benefited from reduced production by Japanese rivals like

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Toyota who were hit by the tsunami. Hyundai has particularly well in

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the world's two biggest markets, China and the United States.

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The world's biggest mobile phone maker has reported a fall in profit.

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The Norwegian group started making smartphones much later than rivals,

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such as Samsung, LG and Apple. Nokia is now selling more cheap

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phones in emerging markets such as India which, in turn, reduces its

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profit margins. Swedish budget fashion chain Hennes

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and Mauritz, or H&M, sold more clothes in the fourth quarter than

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it did in the same period a year ago. Profits were down slightly

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though, by 2.5%, as higher costs and stiff competition ate into its

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margins. Let us take a look at how the

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markets are faring so far today. We can see what happened yesterday, in

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the United States, closing up 0.6%. After interest rates were kept on

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hold for another two years. And in Some optimism around for the

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markets in Europe today. With events happening in Davos.

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Still to come in the programme. 30 years on from the Falklands war,

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many boy in a Sara's people think Britain should return the island to

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Argentina -- Buenos Aires. A senior commissioner responsible

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for ethics and sustainability surrounding the London 2012

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Olympics, has resigned over the sponsorship of the main stadium.

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The commissioner has urged the organisers to drop Dow Chemicals

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because of unresolved issues surrounding the Bhopal gas leak

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disaster. The way this stadium is to be decorated his being

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criticised. Controversial because of an American companies

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association with the Bhopal disaster. A key member of the only

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sustainability watchdog for 20 top has said she is quitting her post

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because of this sponsorship deal. am not willing to be part of a body

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which has become apologist for a company responsible for one of the

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worst corporate human rights abuses of my generation. 15,000 people

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have died as a result of the leak from the plant in the 1980s.

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Victims and the Indian government are seeking compensation from Dow

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Chemical after it bought the company 11 years ago. The

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sponsorship deal has already led to demonstrations in Britain and India.

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Last month, campaigners burnt an effigy of the Olympics are chairman.

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The government said it was firmly behind the sponsorship. The fact,

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as you know, they did not own the company at the time of the Bhopal

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disaster in 1985, 0 at the time of the final settlement with the

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Indian government in 1989, that has been upheld three times in the

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Indian Supreme Court, makes me confident that it was a very

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reasonable decision. It is an embarrassment to the London mayor,

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and to the government, who fund the This is BBC World News. French

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police have arrested a founder of the company at the centre of an

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international scare over breast implants. Australia's Prime

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Minister Julia Gillard was forced to abandon a ceremony marking

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Australia day after it was interrupted by Aboriginal activists.

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Papua New Guinea's prime minister, Peter O'Neill, says an army mutiny

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had taken over the army barracks in Port Moresby, holding the defence

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achieve positive -- captive. A dawn raid in Papua New Guinea's battle

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over leadership. Rebel soldiers stormed the army barracks in Port

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Moresby, replacing the defence chief with the their own. They were

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demanding former prime minister Sir Michael Somare return to power. But

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they insisted it was not a coup. They have seven days to implement

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the Supreme Court's orders, to resolve the Prime -- political

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impasse. The Deputy Prime Minister hit back, setting a deadline for Mr

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Sasa's surrender. He has until 4 o'clock to surrender himself. He is

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illegally occupying the office of the commander. Both current Prime

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Minister Peter O'Neill and Michael Somare are claiming to the Papua

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New Guinea's rightful leader. Michael Somare was receiving

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medical that it -- medical treatment overseas when Peter

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O'Neill took over. It has been concluded that Michael Somare was

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removed from power illegally. The governor general is now throwing

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his support behind Peter O'Neill. Last week, Sir Michael was ejected

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from Parliament after showing up with court documents demanding to

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be reinstated. But now -- for now, Peter O'Neill remains leader.

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His it is all happening in Papua New Guinea at the moment. The

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mountainous interior in particular is struggling. Local media reports

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as many as 60 people are dead or missing after a massive landslide

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wiped out entire villages. The disaster struck at night as the

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residents were sleeping. At least 40 bodies have been found. Many may

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have been transit workers at the nearby liquified natural gas

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project. A 20 storey building has collapsed

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in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. Rescuers have managed to

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pull for people out of the rubble so far. -- four people. Others are

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still trapped. Dan will Griffiths has the latest.

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Cars buried where they were parked. All this in just a few devastating

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moments. I was walking on the path when all of a sudden the building

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collapsed. We ran out and tried to see if there was anybody inside,

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but we couldn't tell. At first, I thought someone was throwing rubble,

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but it was nothing serious. Then I started to take some steps back,

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and all the sudden the building collapsed. It came down completely.

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Anxious crowds gathered at the scene. Emergency services have

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begun a rescue operation. Some people have been pulled alive from

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the wreckage, but no one knows how many more are still trapped. What

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caused this is still unknown. Some officials have blamed it on a

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structural fault. But witnesses say they smelled gas and heard an

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explosion just before the collapse. Some of the rubble is already being

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cleared. This is the latest in a series of accidents that have

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raised concerns about the city's infrastructure as it prepares to

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host both the World Cup and the Pakistan is set to introduce new

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laws which will criminalise forced marriage and acid attacks on women.

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The laws will also mean tougher sentences in cases of domestic

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violence. Cases of brutality against women are still often

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justified in the name of honour. Soma was 16 years old when she says

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her husband were occur in the middle of the night and attacked

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her. TRANSLATION: He tied me up and grabbed a knife. He cut off my nose

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and my lips. Afterwards my mother- in-law came and and tied me.

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Neither of them told me what I had done to deserve it.

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She says she now believes her husband did it because she had

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taken longer than usual to get water from a well, and he thought

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she was having an affair. Her husband has been on the run since

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the attack. Soma says she won't be at peace until he is caught and

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punished. Pakistan's just past New Yorkers -- new laws to help protect

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women, and to make specific crimes of things like forced marriage.

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Human rights groups welcomed the laws, but believe legislation is

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only part of the problem. In the community, they have a mind set

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against the rights of women, and they don't want women to go outside

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of the home. They want them to stay in their homes. This woman was in

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her fifties. She was in her home after an argument with her son's

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wife when two men burst into the yard. She recognise them as

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relatives of her daughter in law. She says they forced her into a

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room, beat her and raped her. TRANSLATION: Death would have been

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better than this, she says. Since what happened to me, I am tired of

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life. It is like I have a disease with no cure. It is difficult to

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even eat. And there are council -- countless

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women in Pakistan for whom changes coming too slowly.

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Staying in Pakistan, the Prime Minister has now toned down his

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criticism of the country's army leadership. Yousaf Raza Gilani has

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said he wants to dispel the impression that the armed forces

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have acted unconstitutionally. He says Pakistan could not afford

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conflict among its institutions and the current situation. Earlier this

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month he accused Pakistan's army chief and the head of intelligence

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of breaking the constitution by making direct representations to

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the Supreme Court. Medecins Sans Frontieres has

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suspended operations in detention centres in the Libyan city of

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Misrata because of what it says are persistent cases of torture. The

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medical charity says it has treated more than 100 people for torture

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related injuries at those centres, and says in some cases, people were

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brought in for treatment midway through an interrogation, only to

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be tortured and taken back for more torture. The charity says it

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alerted local authorities, and yet no action was taken.

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The Falkland Islands are small enough, but the proxy war fought

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there 30 years ago has nonetheless left a very large thorn in the side

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of relations ever since. The Falklands remains British territory,

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but a recent hardening of attitude has seen some in Argentina demand

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their return. Fergal Keane reports from Buenos Aires.

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Every morning of every year, the ceremonial guard arrives. Here at

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the National Memorial to More than 600 Argentine servicemen

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died in the conflict. Many of them young conscripts. Their names are

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embedded in this war, reminders of an era that most people in this

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country wish to forget. It was the age of dictators who send their

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troops to the Falklands in a vain bid to restore their fading power.

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When the war was lost, the military Poynter was overthrown. Alonso was

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18 years old. Yet for him and many Argentines, the islands remained a

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passionate cause. A TRANSLATION: It has been 30 years.

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The anniversaries allow us to think of those we lost, but also give us

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the strength to continue fighting. As the diplomatic wrangle between

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Argentina and Britain escalates, protesters have converged on the

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British Embassy. The rights of the Falkland Islanders to remain

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British simply aren't recognised. Surely if the label on the islands

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want to remain British, that is their democratic right?

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TRANSLATION: We Argentinians also have a right to reclaim what is

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ours. In government, too, the mood has been hardening. David Cameron

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accusations that it was colonialism have been bitterly responded to.

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TRANSLATION: We were shocked by the British Prime Minister. Argentine

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history is far from colonialism. That is far more like the British

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history. It was ironic to listen to such an accusation from the British.

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When a series of rules out military action. Falklands ships are banned

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from the ports of several that Latin-American nations, including

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Brazil. A former planning minister says Argentina wants to use the

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growing political clout of Latin America. South America as a group

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is becoming more and more important. These countries and now the centre

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of economic growth. There may be no more military adventures, but

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Britain faces a real diplomatic challenge in a region asserting its

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new-found strength. I just want to take you back to

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pictures that we have for you of the Costa Concordia cruise ship. It

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is almost two weeks since it fell into this sorry state. The search

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is going to continue today in three different stages on the Costa

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Concordia. The rescuers are hoping to get to cabins they have not been

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able to get to up until now. We are told all systems are now in place

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for any potential environmental damage coming from this ship.

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