:00:11. > :00:16.Spain on strike. Union anger at labour laws the Government says are
:00:16. > :00:20.essential to boost the economy. An historic Baghdad summit of the Arab
:00:20. > :00:25.League with the violence in Syria at the top of their agenda. Japan
:00:25. > :00:30.carries out its first executions for more than a year and a half.
:00:30. > :00:34.Welcome to BBC World News. Also in this programme: Rivalling the World
:00:34. > :00:38.Bank. The plan being considered by the world's top five emerging
:00:38. > :00:48.economies. And on the run. How one elephant really did try to say
:00:48. > :01:13.
:01:13. > :01:17.The General Strike in Spain has got a grip of the country. It is in
:01:17. > :01:23.protest of Labour's reforms. By this time tomorrow, we should have
:01:23. > :01:28.a good idea of the fact so and figures which the Government is
:01:28. > :01:38.building its framework for austerity kerbs around. Rail and
:01:38. > :01:38.
:01:38. > :01:44.air transport is all due to be affected. Our correspondent is in
:01:44. > :01:49.Madrid. I asked him about the timing of the strike. Coming a day
:01:49. > :01:54.before the Budget, the government will announce the new Budget
:01:54. > :01:58.tomorrow. It is a lot about the labour reform to try to cut the
:01:58. > :02:03.huge unemployment that exists in Spain. It is also about the
:02:03. > :02:08.austerity measures we are due to expect from the Government. They
:02:08. > :02:11.are under pressure to cut the budget deficit target. The new
:02:12. > :02:18.government came in in December and said the public finances are worse
:02:18. > :02:22.than we were led to believe by the previous government. Brussels said
:02:22. > :02:29.the target is not good enough. There has been a lot of pressure to
:02:29. > :02:35.cut even further. Do expect to get any surprises were refined will
:02:35. > :02:40.have more -- how the finances stack up? The Government has said, at
:02:40. > :02:47.this strike call made no difference to what we plan to do. -- this
:02:47. > :02:53.strike will make. One economist said, either there is going to be a
:02:53. > :03:03.big surprise in the Budget or it will not be -- incredible. Spain
:03:03. > :03:07.
:03:07. > :03:13.has a raft of problems. Of course it is trying to get its debt in
:03:13. > :03:18.order so it can keep borrowing at sensible rates on the international
:03:18. > :03:28.markets. I went to Jerez, in Andalucia, in the south of Spain.
:03:28. > :03:29.
:03:29. > :03:37.There has a big problem. Most mornings they meet to make noises...
:03:37. > :03:43.Of an to mind their bosses -- and remind their bosses at the Town
:03:43. > :03:48.Hall that they have not been paid for five months. Antonia Dominguez
:03:48. > :03:55.of marches in the morning and in the afternoon he works. He still
:03:55. > :04:04.drives his bus, despite the fact he has not been paid.
:04:04. > :04:10.TRANSLATION: It is affecting life at home. I cannot even afford my
:04:10. > :04:15.children's books for schools. problem that exists here is
:04:15. > :04:22.mirrored to a lesser and greater extent in villages and cities and
:04:22. > :04:28.towns across Spain. The administration here has long been
:04:28. > :04:34.voted out of power. Many of the new administration's might have to be
:04:34. > :04:41.bailed out by the central government. Bills have been
:04:42. > :04:48.quantified at about 50 billion euros. That is about 5%. Unpaid
:04:48. > :04:57.bills mean small and middle-sized firms who supply it municipalities
:04:57. > :05:04.and regional government are having some money. Some of them are going
:05:04. > :05:11.bankrupt. This is what Jerez, the City, is really famous for. Jerez,
:05:11. > :05:19.the wind, which English speakers called Sherry. The Golden Whip --
:05:19. > :05:24.liquid from members when the city was not in the red. Now they wade
:05:24. > :05:32.outside the camp -- the town hall, waiting to be paid. Rich in
:05:32. > :05:36.tradition, the dire public finances are making people incredibly poor.
:05:36. > :05:42.On the streets of Madrid there is less traffic come up more rubbish,
:05:42. > :05:47.more police. The propaganda war has already begun. The Government says
:05:47. > :05:52.it is business as usual. The unions will say that lots of people are
:05:52. > :05:57.staying away. We will see hundreds of thousands on the streets as
:05:57. > :06:02.demonstration build throughout the day. Now for the latest world
:06:02. > :06:07.business news. We are talking about a new organisation been set up in
:06:07. > :06:17.opposition to the World Bank. talking about a summit which is
:06:17. > :06:20.
:06:20. > :06:25.taking place in Brazil. Let's not kid ourselves, they are a group of
:06:25. > :06:30.fast growing economies. They represent 45% of the world's
:06:30. > :06:37.population and a quarter of the global economy. We have been
:06:37. > :06:42.talking about this for some time. They are fed up with the global
:06:42. > :06:47.political and financial institutions - that is the IMF and
:06:48. > :06:55.the World Bank - that those institutions have not kept pace
:06:55. > :07:00.with the changing world. Emerging countries wanted to see a change.
:07:00. > :07:08.The leadership of the World Bank is being tussled for unlikely it would
:07:08. > :07:13.be an American. It is very interesting. Jim O'Neill, who
:07:13. > :07:21.coined the phrase of the organisation, said these economies
:07:21. > :07:25.would find it hard to gain Corran - - common ground. The wealth among
:07:25. > :07:33.these five different economies is very different. It might be
:07:33. > :07:40.difficult to find common ground. I put that to an expert back -- at an
:07:40. > :07:47.economic think-tank. There are lots of differences. It is about working
:07:47. > :07:55.on the convergence is. There are many of them. You said that Brazil
:07:55. > :08:01.and Russia are exporters of raw materials in China and India are
:08:01. > :08:10.consumers. These five countries have registered tremendous growth
:08:10. > :08:15.in the last decade. There are a lot of things. In this process we have
:08:15. > :08:23.new challenges and new problems. We can learn from each other. After
:08:23. > :08:28.the global crisis of 2008, it has become evident that global
:08:28. > :08:32.financial institutions need financial reforms. The five
:08:32. > :08:38.countries feel that they can contribute positively in this
:08:38. > :08:43.direction. If they can pull airy sources and co-ordinate their age
:08:43. > :08:45.strategies, some are suggesting this kind of bank would be a lot
:08:45. > :08:54.more powerful than the likes of the World Bank and the Asian
:08:54. > :09:02.Development Bank, do you agree? do not know have to put it. The
:09:02. > :09:09.whole idea is not to supplant the existing institutions. It will
:09:09. > :09:13.supplement the Royal -- the World Bank and regional development banks.
:09:13. > :09:20.H&M has seen strong sales of budget clothing despite the economic gloom
:09:20. > :09:25.in Europe. Profits were up 5% in the three months to February. The
:09:25. > :09:31.rise was less than expected. H&M has been having to discount heavily
:09:31. > :09:36.and it has been hit by rising costs of things like fuel and cotton.
:09:36. > :09:43.Given they are selling an awful lot of fashion despite the economic
:09:43. > :09:48.worries, I asked Robert Clark what the secret was. You have to see it
:09:48. > :09:52.in the global context and the long term. I think what they do in
:09:52. > :09:57.particular is that they think globally and act locally. You do
:09:57. > :10:02.have to do that. A lot of other retailers over time have not done
:10:02. > :10:11.that. They're in a very good segment of the marketplace. There
:10:11. > :10:19.in a fast Fashanu airier. They have this fashion element they are a
:10:19. > :10:23.younger element in the market place. They keep these brands moving on.
:10:23. > :10:29.Because they are in the fast fashion element and it is
:10:29. > :10:36.relatively expensive, you can -- inexpensive, you can buy the
:10:36. > :10:40.clothes and it does not break the bank. If you look at the likes of
:10:40. > :10:46.Gap, which used to be the largest fashion retailer in the world, it
:10:46. > :10:51.was basically overtaken by fast fashion. They had a format and a
:10:51. > :10:57.group it around the world. They did not evolve with it. It stayed the
:10:57. > :11:05.same and it was rather grey - literally. Consumers moved on. You
:11:05. > :11:10.have to keep evolving. They simply did not move on. They did not seize
:11:10. > :11:16.these other guys coming. Absolutely! One thing with all
:11:17. > :11:21.these retailers, they cannot escape. We have had rising prices of cotton
:11:21. > :11:28.for some time. Fuel prices are heading up through the roof. The
:11:28. > :11:34.rising wages in Asia for H&M. they have done, which has affected
:11:34. > :11:39.gross margins and profitability, it is they have kept prices down.
:11:39. > :11:45.Probably in the long term that will serve them well. You have to take
:11:45. > :11:51.these things into account. It affects everyone. They are
:11:51. > :11:57.outperforming their competitors. Research In Motion, at the
:11:57. > :12:02.manufacture of the BlackBerry, is likely to announce more weak
:12:02. > :12:08.results. It is the first set of earnings for the chief executive,
:12:08. > :12:14.who has the task of turning the business around. A quick flash of
:12:14. > :12:19.the markets in Asia. Another day in the doldrums. A lot of concerns
:12:19. > :12:25.about China and its economy. Last week manufacturing numbers
:12:25. > :12:31.suggested that China and the Chinese economy is cooling. The
:12:31. > :12:37.European markets, they are not clicking the European markets. I am
:12:37. > :12:47.trying! There they are. They are also following the Asian markets.
:12:47. > :12:48.
:12:48. > :12:53.That is it. You are watching BBC World news. Coming up: New evidence
:12:53. > :13:03.of a British honeymoon or's alleged involvement in the murder of his
:13:03. > :13:06.
:13:06. > :13:10.wife. Prosecutors in Chile say they will prosecute people accused of
:13:10. > :13:17.killing a young gay man. He was brutally beaten and had swastikas
:13:17. > :13:22.carved into his body. The case has prompted a national debate in Chile
:13:22. > :13:28.about hate crime. Daniel sold clothes for a living the dream of
:13:28. > :13:33.studying theatre. The attack on him lasted an hour. He was beaten,
:13:33. > :13:39.burned with cigarettes and Nazi symbols were carved into his body.
:13:39. > :13:45.Outside the hospital, and just kept vigil as he laid in a coma.
:13:45. > :13:50.According to prosecutors, it was a homophobic attack. There was anger.
:13:50. > :13:57.The crowd shouted, mergers, when a member of the Government visited
:13:57. > :14:01.the hospital. The President has promised he will not rest until an
:14:01. > :14:06.anti-discrimination law is passed. TRANSLATION: We will construct a
:14:06. > :14:11.better protected society with more love when no one is discriminated
:14:11. > :14:20.against for any reason because all Chileans have the same rights.
:14:20. > :14:23.Tuesday, the tape of Daniel's death, his mother thanked people for their
:14:23. > :14:28.support. I want to say we appreciate the support and all the
:14:28. > :14:38.beautiful things you have given us. From a Bow people have been jailed
:14:38. > :14:41.
:14:41. > :14:48.on attempted murder charges. -- four people. A large buyer has
:14:48. > :14:52.ripped through a plastics factory in Santiago. Nearby residents were
:14:52. > :14:56.evacuated. The city's mayor says the chemical content of the burning
:14:56. > :15:05.plastic was not known. The societies said the wind was
:15:05. > :15:12.carrying the smoke away from populated areas. It in Ankara that
:15:12. > :15:16.they are protesting against a government reform bill. They used
:15:16. > :15:21.tear-gas and water cannon to disperse the protesters. It pave
:15:21. > :15:25.the way for students to attend Islamic schools. One person has
:15:25. > :15:35.been killed and 17 wounded in clashes between riot police and
:15:35. > :15:40.
:15:40. > :15:44.This is BBC World News. With this is me, Peter Dobby with the top
:15:44. > :15:49.stories. Labour reforms to reduce the Budget
:15:49. > :15:55.deficit. An historic bag dad summit of the Arab League is taking place
:15:55. > :15:59.with the violence at in Syria at the top of the agenda. The Arab
:15:59. > :16:02.League are holding that summit in Iraq for the first time since the
:16:02. > :16:06.fall of Saddam Hussein. We are showing you live pictures coming to
:16:06. > :16:10.us there. The new security is very tight. The authorities are not
:16:11. > :16:14.telling journalists where the meeting is taking place, as there
:16:14. > :16:19.has been a series of militant bombings in the last week or so
:16:19. > :16:22.that threatened to derail the summit.
:16:22. > :16:26.The Arab League is expected to focus on Syria. We have been
:16:26. > :16:32.talking with our correspondent who has been following the story for us
:16:32. > :16:37.out of bank bag dad. There are varying interpret igss of
:16:38. > :16:44.how important the -- interpretations of how important
:16:44. > :16:48.the high-level attendance is. The security situation in bag dad
:16:48. > :16:53.is still not entirely stable, but in any case if they were all here
:16:53. > :16:57.it is not clear what they can achieve on issues that are tabled
:16:57. > :17:03.for discussion -- Baghdad. The Arab League has a history of issuing
:17:03. > :17:10.statements without having real impact on the ground. That is with
:17:10. > :17:14.regards to the Israel/Arab conflict and other issues around the world.
:17:14. > :17:18.So the level of attendance is significant, but it does not
:17:18. > :17:23.necessarily mean that it is going to go this way or that in terms of
:17:23. > :17:29.real impact on the ground. Do we know what they want to do
:17:29. > :17:33.about Syria? Has the Arab League, in effect, I guess, given up on
:17:33. > :17:38.Syria? Well, different countries want to do different things on
:17:38. > :17:42.Syria. We know that Qatar and Saudi Arabia have been pushing for more
:17:42. > :17:45.pressure on the Syrian regime. The Saudis have spoken of the need to
:17:45. > :17:50.arm the Syrian opposition or the Free Syrian Army and they have
:17:50. > :17:55.spoken about the possibility of sending troops to Syria. That is
:17:55. > :17:59.their opinion. The Iraqis are soldly against any kind of foreign
:17:59. > :18:05.intervention or arming of the opposition in Syria, saying that
:18:05. > :18:08.they would not allow Iran to arm anybody else through Iraq. Opposed
:18:08. > :18:13.to arming the Syrian oppositions. So there is a clear difference
:18:13. > :18:17.between the two positions. It seems as if what we have heard so far if
:18:17. > :18:22.the final statement is correct, and this is only from Iraqi sources
:18:22. > :18:26.that it appears that Iraq is taking a leading role in drafgt the final
:18:26. > :18:31.statement. Now, turning our attention to Japan. Japan has
:18:32. > :18:36.carried out the first executions for more than a year-and-a-half now.
:18:36. > :18:43.Three prisoners have been hanged. Japan has more than 100 inmates on
:18:43. > :18:50.death roll, including Shoko Asahara. He was the ring leader of the 1995
:18:50. > :18:57.sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subway. Our correspondent is Roland
:18:57. > :19:03.Buerk, I asked him if we knew the identities of the eex cuted inmates.
:19:03. > :19:08.-- executed inmates. -- one is a man who killed five
:19:08. > :19:14.people. Another is a prisoner who has been executed, he was the man
:19:14. > :19:20.who killed the parents of his estranged wife and step son. This
:19:20. > :19:26.is the first time that Japan has carried out the death penalty in 20
:19:27. > :19:31.months. The anti death penalty campaigners have been saying that
:19:31. > :19:36.perhaps the office in government was reconsidering the situation on
:19:36. > :19:41.this, so they are disappointed and have been protesting about the
:19:41. > :19:48.hangings today. These were convicted murderers, but
:19:48. > :19:50.death row in Japan is especially harsh? It is, according to Amnesty
:19:50. > :19:55.International yrl. -- Amnesty International international.
:19:55. > :19:59.Prisoners spend most of the day sitting down in the cells, there is
:19:59. > :20:04.little exercise. They are not told about the date of their execution
:20:04. > :20:08.in advance. They spend much of the day fearing that it could be their
:20:08. > :20:14.last. Amnesty International international says that sends most
:20:14. > :20:18.prisoners into madness, but 60% of the people here support the death
:20:18. > :20:22.penalty. Despite the last Justice Minister trying to prompt a public
:20:22. > :20:26.debate on the death penalty. She was a firm opponent of the death
:20:26. > :20:30.penalty. She went to witness the executions to try to prompt a
:20:30. > :20:35.public debate, but even so, the majority of the Japanese support
:20:35. > :20:39.the death penalty. Roland Buerk there talking to us.
:20:39. > :20:43.Breaking news coming from the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. We understand
:20:43. > :20:47.that there has been an explosion, close to where the Arab League
:20:47. > :20:53.meeting is taking place at the secure location. That is according
:20:53. > :20:56.to the Reuters News Agency. Eight out of 22 Member States of the Arab
:20:57. > :21:01.League are represented there. The security has been incredibly tight
:21:01. > :21:05.because of a series of bomb-blasts over the last week. There has been
:21:05. > :21:11.one explosion heard in the Iraqi capital in the past few minutes or
:21:11. > :21:16.More top stories: An American airline pilot whose plane had to
:21:16. > :21:20.make an emergency landing on Tuesday, after suffering a mental
:21:20. > :21:24.break down has been charged with interfering with the flight crew.
:21:24. > :21:29.He was yell about a bomb and urging people to pray.
:21:29. > :21:35.And 70 people have been killed in several days of tribal fighting in
:21:35. > :21:38.southern Libya. A spokesperson said that 150 people had been wuended
:21:38. > :21:44.and 1,500 government troops had been sent to the region.
:21:44. > :21:52.The founder of Amazon, says that an underwater expedition he financed
:21:52. > :22:00.has found the engines that launched the Apollo moon expedition in 1999.
:22:01. > :22:08.The engines were nearly 4,000 metres down in the Atlantic Ocean.
:22:08. > :22:11.The BBC has obtained new evidence that suggests that the British
:22:11. > :22:16.honeymooner's, Shrien Dewani, alleged involvement in his wife may
:22:16. > :22:20.not be as clear cut as has been portrayed. The High Court is to
:22:20. > :22:25.rule tomorrow on whether Mr Dune dune, sectioned under the Mental
:22:25. > :22:30.Health Act, and denies the allegations should be extradited,
:22:30. > :22:35.but as Panorama reports, CCTV footage, raises new questions about
:22:35. > :22:40.the prosecution case. A just-married couple start a new
:22:40. > :22:47.day of their South Africa honeymoon, but the end of it, the bride will
:22:47. > :22:52.be dead, executed, it is alleged, on the orders of her husband.
:22:52. > :22:57.Shrien Dewani denies involvement in the killing of his 28-year-old wife.
:22:57. > :23:00.CCTV never before shown of the couple in their Cape Town hotel,
:23:00. > :23:04.capture the moment that Shrien Dewani is alleged to have
:23:04. > :23:09.commissioned the murder. Anni Dewani checks in along, Shrien
:23:09. > :23:15.Dewani speaks to the taxi driver, Zola Tongo.
:23:15. > :23:20.This is where it was said he commissioned Anni Dewani's murder.
:23:20. > :23:24.After meeting Zola Tongo. Is he simply hiring the taxi driver as a
:23:24. > :23:31.honeymoon tour guide, or has he just commissioned his wife's
:23:32. > :23:36.murder? The following days, hours before the taxi was hi-jacked, the
:23:36. > :23:41.CCTV shows the couple kissing and posing for photographs. Zola Tongo
:23:41. > :23:47.was late to collect them. His lawyer says that the Shrien Dewani
:23:47. > :23:52.became agitated about the delay. Shrien Dewani insisted that the act
:23:52. > :23:59.be perpetrated that very day. The CC tment V tell as different
:23:59. > :24:06.story, Shrien Dewani can be seen calling Zola Tongo at 7 .4 5. He
:24:06. > :24:11.shows no sign of agitation. -- CCTV. On the way back from
:24:11. > :24:16.dinner, the taxi that they were travelling in was hi-jacked. Zola
:24:16. > :24:20.Tongo and Shrien Dewani were ejected from the taxi, Anni
:24:20. > :24:23.Dewani's body was found the next morning, killed by a single gunshot.
:24:23. > :24:27.Shrien Dewani is sectioned in the UK, under the Mental Health Act. He
:24:27. > :24:31.is fighting a British court ruling to extradite him to South Africa.
:24:31. > :24:35.His family have told the BBC that Shrien Dewani does intend to return
:24:35. > :24:41.to South Africa, to answer the police questions just as soon as he
:24:41. > :24:46.is well enough. Now to a story coming to us from
:24:46. > :24:52.the Irish Republic. An elephant in need of refreshment escaped from a
:24:53. > :24:58.circus in Ireland it went on a hunt for, apparently a cup of coffee.
:24:58. > :25:03.Baby shocked passers by, when she appeared outside a shopping centre.
:25:03. > :25:09.What to do with an escaped elephant, wandering outside of a coffee shop
:25:09. > :25:15.in a city centre. A little gentle persuasion was tried that did not
:25:15. > :25:20.work, there was only one option left, run. The two-and-a-half tonne
:25:20. > :25:22.elephant was not called knellie, but she had left the circus.
:25:22. > :25:27.Eyewitnesses say she ran away at bathtime.
:25:28. > :25:32.They were being washed. One fella did not want to be washed. He got
:25:32. > :25:35.upset, broke the barrier and ran out into the main road. Split
:25:35. > :25:40.seconds. It took longer to convince her to
:25:40. > :25:44.return to the circus, but she did. Panic over. Her keeper insisted
:25:44. > :25:47.that there had been no real danger to the Irish public.
:25:47. > :25:52.You cannot say danger. We know he does not hit people.
:25:52. > :25:58.Alright? You must understand that. She is now up to her old tricks
:25:58. > :26:02.again. Very old tricks. She is 40 years of age. They say that
:26:02. > :26:08.elephants never forget, whatever the truth of that, the people of
:26:08. > :26:12.Cork will long remember the day that the circus came to town.
:26:12. > :26:18.OK, wrapping up the half hour of BBC World News with the live
:26:18. > :26:24.pictures coming to us from the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. The Arab
:26:24. > :26:27.League there holding a special summit.
:26:27. > :26:32.An all-day curfew is in place for the summit in Baghdad. The back
:26:32. > :26:40.story to this is that in the past 20 minutes we have had reports of
:26:40. > :26:46.three lotions -- explosions close to the summit venue. Less than half