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:00:10. > :00:17.Days after fleeing house arrest in Guangcheng leaves the US Embassy to

:00:17. > :00:19.rejoin his family. overshadow a visit to China by

:00:19. > :00:28.Hillary Clinton. Beijing demands an apology from the Americans.

:00:28. > :00:36.Cairo during a protest against Welcome to BBC News. Also in this

:00:36. > :00:44.inquest into the death of the MI6 officer, Gareth Williams, rules out

:00:44. > :00:54.Find out how schools in Britain are hoping to encourage girls to keep

:00:54. > :01:00.

:01:00. > :01:06.The blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng has left the US Embassy

:01:06. > :01:10.and had been given medical care. Chen, a campaigner for disabled

:01:10. > :01:19.rights and victims of forced abortions, escaped from house

:01:19. > :01:26.arrest and was protected in the US Embassy six days ago. He was taken

:01:26. > :01:36.after the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, arrived in Beijing

:01:36. > :01:38.

:01:38. > :01:42.reports, China criticised the US spent the past six days inside the

:01:42. > :01:48.American Embassy in Beijing. But according to media reports, he was

:01:48. > :01:55.escorted out of the compound today by American diplomats, and taken to

:01:55. > :02:03.hospital where security was tight. China's Foreign Ministry complained

:02:03. > :02:07.the blind activist had been Embassy through abnormal means. It

:02:07. > :02:15.says this was unacceptable interference in China's domestic

:02:15. > :02:19.The incident being discussed in force the two sides to really

:02:19. > :02:22.confront Human Rights issues in China and how to resolve the case

:02:22. > :02:26.of Chen Guangcheng. The latest news of Chen Guangcheng

:02:26. > :02:30.came as the the American Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, arrived

:02:30. > :02:34.in Beijing for two days of talks due to take place on Thursday and

:02:34. > :02:39.Friday. Chen Guangcheng's wife has gone to the Beijing hospital where

:02:39. > :02:42.he is under going a medical check- up. She has confirmed that she and

:02:42. > :02:46.their children are well. US officials say he will be moved to a

:02:46. > :02:56.safe place and that he plans to remain in China, but how he is

:02:56. > :02:58.

:02:58. > :03:02.treated will be closely monitored. Well, the BBC's Martin Patience is

:03:02. > :03:06.outside the hospital. Chen Guangcheng has been brought to

:03:06. > :03:12.this hospital here in the centre of Beijing. He has been reunited with

:03:12. > :03:22.his family. Now until today, it was believed his daughter and wife were

:03:22. > :03:22.

:03:22. > :03:28.still under arrest -- house arrest in their village. In the State-run

:03:28. > :03:33.news agency a report has been put out. A spokesman said that Chen

:03:33. > :03:36.Guangcheng had been taken to the US Embassy through abnormal channels.

:03:36. > :03:40.He called on the US to apologise and said this amounted to

:03:40. > :03:45.interference in China's internal affairs. Now many questions

:03:45. > :03:50.surround this issue and with so many twists in this case, this is

:03:50. > :03:54.unlikely to be the end of the matter.

:03:54. > :03:58.Attackers armed with clubs, stones and fire bombs have killed at least

:03:58. > :04:02.eight people who were demonstrating outside the Egyptian Ministry of

:04:02. > :04:06.Defence. Over 100 people have been injured. The protesters were

:04:06. > :04:10.demonstrating against Egypt's military rulers who they blame for

:04:10. > :04:15.excluding a hard-line Islamist candidate from the presidential

:04:15. > :04:19.elections. Jon Leyne had more details about the protests.

:04:19. > :04:23.Yes, a military source is saying they are going to send in troops.

:04:23. > :04:28.We haven't seen them there yet, but there has been no intervention by

:04:28. > :04:32.soldiers or police that we have seen.

:04:32. > :04:40.Raising suspicion this attack was authorised or approved by the

:04:40. > :04:49.Government. It began at about dawn this morning when these

:04:49. > :04:59.unidentified thugs moved in and started attacking the protesters.

:04:59. > :05:02.

:05:02. > :05:08.Gunshots were heard. Eight people were killed and over 100 injured.

:05:08. > :05:16.Can you explain what led to today? Yes, both of the main Islamist

:05:16. > :05:20.candidates have suspended their campaigns in Cairo. This began when

:05:20. > :05:25.the more hard-line Islamist was excluded from the election on the

:05:25. > :05:30.grounds that his mother held an American passport which is against

:05:30. > :05:37.the rules, his late mother. His supporters deny this. He denies

:05:37. > :05:43.this and they have been staging protests. The death toll there in

:05:43. > :05:47.Egypt has gone up to nine. Nine people have been killed in the

:05:47. > :05:51.demonstrations. Disgraced former media mogul Conrad

:05:51. > :05:55.Black will be allowed to live in Canada when he finishes his prison

:05:55. > :06:04.term in the US. Mr Black has been serving time for fraud but may be

:06:04. > :06:07.released this week. He once controlled a media empire that

:06:07. > :06:10.included the Daily Telegraph in the UK and the Chicago Sun Times.

:06:10. > :06:13.Conrad Black gave up his Canadian citizenship to accept a peerage in

:06:13. > :06:17.Britain's House of Lords. Rupert Murdoch has hit back at

:06:17. > :06:24.criticism from a group of British MPs who said he was unfit to run an

:06:24. > :06:27.international business. Rupert Murdoch admitted mistakes had been

:06:27. > :06:37.made in an e-mail, but said his company was working hard to put

:06:37. > :06:42.Aaron is here and we are looking at eurozone numbers again, today.

:06:43. > :06:52.Another set of horrible numbers coming out of the eurozone. For the

:06:53. > :06:57.

:06:57. > :07:04.month of March, the 17 members of the single currency region. 17.5

:07:04. > :07:09.million were looking for work in the month of March. That's up by an

:07:09. > :07:13.extra 170,000 compared to the previous month. What is astonishing

:07:13. > :07:18.is the clear north/south divide. I don't know if we have got it, but I

:07:18. > :07:25.put numbers together. At the bottom of the list or the top of the list,

:07:25. > :07:30.there is the 17.5 million. Spain tops the list with 21.4%. Greece

:07:30. > :07:36.came second, Greece is living off bail out funds and has been since

:07:36. > :07:40.2010, 21.7%. If you head up north the rates are lower. The lowest

:07:40. > :07:46.unemployment in the region is Austria with 4%. You have got the

:07:46. > :07:50.Netherlands at 5% and Germany at 5.6%. There is no doubt, I have

:07:50. > :07:54.been told by the so-called experts, there are many now who will look at

:07:54. > :07:58.the jobless rates and say, "Something has to be done about the

:07:58. > :08:02.austerity only policies." They have to look at other alternatives and

:08:02. > :08:08.try to implement some form of growth strategy. Growth policies.

:08:08. > :08:13.The French French elections are coming up? That's at the top of the

:08:13. > :08:17.mind for the French elections. Let's get more and join Nigel

:08:17. > :08:23.Cassidy. Nigel, I was outlining this clear divide. I mean let's

:08:23. > :08:28.start with that. It is astonishing when you look down south at Spain

:08:28. > :08:33.with 21.4% and you look at Austria with 4%? That's right. This

:08:33. > :08:37.diversity across the European Union was one reason the EU was invented

:08:37. > :08:41.and the hole thing is based on a consent that countries in the north

:08:41. > :08:46.will in different ways help the south, not least by buying their

:08:46. > :08:51.products, but of course, it is not really happening at the moment.

:08:51. > :08:54.Manufacturing is incredibly tight particularly in the southern

:08:54. > :09:00.European countries. They are just not producing enough at a price

:09:00. > :09:07.that the world wants to pay and even issues in Germany which has

:09:07. > :09:13.seen consistent growth in employment hitherto, it has really

:09:13. > :09:19.stopped for the time being. Germany saw a fall off, I think it was

:09:19. > :09:23.19,000 people out of work. That maybe a pause for Germany, but even

:09:23. > :09:27.it with the bulk of the big manufacturing in Europe needs

:09:27. > :09:31.customers. I mean do the jobless numbers today

:09:31. > :09:36.give support to those out there there who have been saying for

:09:37. > :09:40.sometime, "The austerity only policies don't work." The

:09:40. > :09:44.international Labour Organisation told us on Monday that austerity

:09:44. > :09:49.only is counter productive. There is no growth and there is no job

:09:49. > :09:54.creation? Well, that's right. It is almost becoming the new orthodoxy

:09:54. > :10:02.within Europe. Mr Holland has been talking a lot about that. Many

:10:02. > :10:11.worry that countries may use it as a fig leave to not -- leaf to not

:10:11. > :10:14.make the difficult decisions. I think there will be a lot of

:10:14. > :10:19.support for a number of things. Firstly, to try and use money

:10:19. > :10:23.that's left in the euro rescue funds for specific projects. The

:10:23. > :10:27.difficulty with this investment in the regions, it does take a long

:10:27. > :10:32.time to trickle through. This is a small amount of money. More

:10:32. > :10:36.immediately, we might see the European Central Bank take interest

:10:36. > :10:40.rates below the 1%. They have their meeting next Thursday, that's

:10:40. > :10:44.something that might happen here. I think too we might see some kind of

:10:44. > :10:47.an effort to cut the punishing interest rates which some of the

:10:47. > :10:51.southern European countries, the countries being rescued that saw

:10:51. > :10:57.those really bad employment figures. We may see some kind of scheme to

:10:57. > :11:00.cut their interest rate. But Based on the willingness of the countries

:11:00. > :11:05.in the north to allow these things to happen as we have seen, most

:11:05. > :11:10.recently in Holland, people are getting resentful of those measures.

:11:10. > :11:13.These are really turbulent and difficult times for Europe, these

:11:13. > :11:19.employment figures will have made it worse.

:11:19. > :11:21.They are sure making it worse. Nigel, great stuff from you as

:11:22. > :11:26.usual. European Union Finance Ministers

:11:26. > :11:29.are meeting in Brussels today to try to make progress towards

:11:29. > :11:33.agreeing just how much capital the Continent's banks should be

:11:33. > :11:37.required to hold to set aside. They are hoping to overcome serious

:11:37. > :11:40.differences in order to have an agreement in place by the summer.

:11:40. > :11:44.The European Commission believes capital levels should be set and

:11:44. > :11:48.controlled centrally, but some members, notably Britain, Sweden

:11:48. > :11:53.want individual countries to be able to impose their own rules.

:11:53. > :12:01.Well, the senior economist, says the EU rules will be based on

:12:01. > :12:05.international changes devised in bastle.

:12:05. > :12:10.-- Basel. This is a typical European argument,

:12:10. > :12:15.not just in banking, but in many product markets. They have the

:12:15. > :12:19.tendency that some countries fear they need more specific national

:12:19. > :12:23.rules which are tougher than the general consensus and other

:12:23. > :12:29.countries are saying we should have the same rules for other countries

:12:29. > :12:33.so all countries can can operate. Now we have the argument between

:12:33. > :12:36.Britain and Sweden who have tougher rules and want the rules to keep

:12:36. > :12:40.their banks safe, whereas other countries have more the common

:12:40. > :12:45.market argument, we should have all the same rules and the rules have

:12:45. > :12:52.to be lower than some gold plated rules that we have in the UK or in

:12:52. > :12:56.Sweden. As the French Presidental election

:12:56. > :13:05.moves into its final stages, the two remaining candidates will

:13:05. > :13:08.square up to one another in a TV debate this afternoon. Many will

:13:08. > :13:12.see Nicolas Sarkozy defend his record and Francois Hollande

:13:12. > :13:16.explains how he will do things different. The economy will take

:13:16. > :13:23.centre stage, but what do the candidates have to offer?

:13:23. > :13:29.They seem as different as chalk and cheese. The dapper, flamboyant,

:13:29. > :13:33.Nicolas Sarkozy, up against Francois Hollande. When it comes to

:13:33. > :13:37.economic policy, Francois Hollande has been getting the loudest cheers.

:13:37. > :13:41.France is at a cross roads, the economy is stagnating and

:13:41. > :13:44.unemployment stands at nearly 10%, the Government is under pressure to

:13:44. > :13:49.bring its budget deficit under control and contain its debts and

:13:49. > :13:54.it is how they plan to do that which separates the two candidates.

:13:54. > :13:58.Nicolas Sarkozy, prefers the austerity preached by Germany,

:13:58. > :14:01.keeping a tight lid on public spending. It suits the markets, but

:14:02. > :14:05.it is proving unpopular as people worry about jobs and Social

:14:05. > :14:09.Security. Francois Hollande rejects that. He

:14:09. > :14:13.wants to focus on boosting growth instead. It is a strategy that

:14:13. > :14:21.seems to be winning votes, but there maybe less clear daylight

:14:21. > :14:27.between the two than meets the eye. There is no big desire with

:14:27. > :14:31.Francois Hollande and a new classical programme with Sarkozy.

:14:31. > :14:33.When you look at the figures for spending, for the deficit, it is

:14:33. > :14:37.close close. Perceptions matter when it comes to

:14:37. > :14:44.France's relationship with Europe. Francois Hollande pledged to

:14:44. > :14:52.renegotiate the fiscal compact, the new European treaty designed to to

:14:52. > :14:55.make eurozone members balance their emphasis from austerity to growth.

:14:55. > :15:01.It happened into a rich vein of anti-European feeling in France.

:15:01. > :15:09.Both candidates will have a final chance to show they know what is

:15:09. > :15:19.best for the country. know when I said that banking story,

:15:19. > :15:25.

:15:25. > :15:29.I said said Basil, it should be We are going to bring you some news

:15:29. > :15:33.on the MI6 intelligence case, because a verdict is expected

:15:33. > :15:38.shortly into the inquest of the death of the British MI6

:15:38. > :15:43.intelligence officer whose body was found in a sports bag in his flat.

:15:43. > :15:47.A short time ago the coroner said she would not consider an Berwick

:15:47. > :15:54.tic of unlawful killing and would deliver a narrative verdict instead.

:15:54. > :15:59.Let's go to the coroner's court in central London. Has a coroner

:15:59. > :16:06.started speaking? We were expecting her to start talking about 10

:16:06. > :16:11.minutes ago. Since then we found out that for Gareth Williams'

:16:11. > :16:16.family this is a huge day for them. It has been 20 months since his

:16:16. > :16:21.body was discovered. Since then the family have always insisted it is

:16:21. > :16:26.their belief a third party are agency was involved. They say that

:16:26. > :16:30.agency was one at that was familiar with what they called the dark arts

:16:30. > :16:36.of the Secret Service. The police investigation is still open as

:16:36. > :16:40.suspicious. There were met leading that investigation said she also

:16:40. > :16:47.believes a third party was involved. It is worth reminding viewers this

:16:47. > :16:50.is not a trial, this is an inquest. The coroner will be seeking to

:16:50. > :16:56.establish the cause of death and the facts surrounding the death of

:16:56. > :17:01.Gareth Williams was up he was a code-breaker in GCHQ, he was on

:17:01. > :17:07.secondment to MI6, the Secret Service at the time. He was found

:17:07. > :17:11.in that bag that you mentioned. He had asked for a request back to his

:17:11. > :17:17.home department because he was unhappy. We have had eight days of

:17:17. > :17:23.evidence, 46 witnesses and five of those anonymous on the grounds of

:17:23. > :17:27.national security. The coroner, Fiona Wilcox, has a big job on her

:17:27. > :17:32.hand and we are expecting that to start in the next 10 minutes and

:17:32. > :17:38.for the verdict to take up to two hours to deliver. It is a narrative

:17:38. > :17:43.verdict, she will talk about the validity of some of that evidence.

:17:43. > :17:49.Yes, she had various options open to her. She has said she is going

:17:49. > :17:54.to rule out unlawful killing and an open verdict. And narrative verdict

:17:54. > :17:59.says the evidence she has heard means she has not been able to

:17:59. > :18:04.reach a single conclusion. If she chooses, she will also have the

:18:04. > :18:10.time and space to raise concerns and criticisms. I can tell you over

:18:10. > :18:14.the last eight days there have been a number of those. One is concern

:18:14. > :18:19.over white MI6 did not follow its own procedures when it comes to

:18:19. > :18:24.reporting members of staff who have gone missing. Gareth Williams had

:18:24. > :18:30.missed three meetings and was on an unauthorised absence for seven days

:18:30. > :18:36.before the police were noticed. Notified. Certain parts of the

:18:36. > :18:39.evidence were not passed on to the detective investigating the death.

:18:39. > :18:45.Yesterday in a dramatic turn of events we heard that investigative

:18:45. > :18:50.squad had not been told MI6 had taken possession of nine memory six

:18:50. > :18:55.belonging to Gareth Williams and also had in their possession a bag,

:18:55. > :19:05.a hole Doc that was similar to the one he was found in under his desk.

:19:05. > :19:09.Those bits of evidence were heard of by the counter-terrorism Jurek -

:19:09. > :19:16.- unit, but they did not mention that to the police who were

:19:16. > :19:25.investigating the death. Still to come: South Sudan's foreign

:19:25. > :19:29.minister tells the BBC his country may halt oil exports. A year after

:19:29. > :19:35.US troops killed Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan the BBC has had an

:19:35. > :19:43.exclusive insight into the four Al- Qaeda's life on the run. Pakistani

:19:43. > :19:52.officials claimed he spent the last five years Cup DUP in his house

:19:52. > :19:57.Islamabad. I met a couple of members of this extended tribal

:19:57. > :20:02.family at a secret location. They did not want to be identified. They

:20:02. > :20:05.were alerted to this visit weeks earlier by someone who they

:20:05. > :20:11.described as an important person and they were not given any names.

:20:11. > :20:16.They were told a top military commander, a top military leader,

:20:16. > :20:20.was to come their way and would need to break his journey. Like any

:20:20. > :20:26.other tribal family they agreed to extend hospitality to this unknown

:20:26. > :20:31.guest. The family members tell me they were stunned to see Osama Bin

:20:31. > :20:37.Laden when he arrived in the dead of the night in a convoy of about

:20:37. > :20:43.one dozen Jeeps. He emerged from one of the vehicles, they say he

:20:43. > :20:48.was tall and wearing a long, white Arab robe and a white turban. He

:20:49. > :20:55.shook their hands and then he went into the room they had got ready

:20:55. > :21:01.for him. During the hours he spent with them he ate dinner which they

:21:01. > :21:06.had prepared, chicken curry and rice. He offered prayers and then

:21:06. > :21:11.he rested for a while. The convoy of jeeps left the compound about

:21:12. > :21:17.three hours later and all of them headed in different directions so

:21:17. > :21:23.the hosts never came to know which way Osama Bin Laden went. Do visit

:21:23. > :21:30.raises several questions. For example, what was Osama Bin Laden

:21:30. > :21:36.doing in the area? Who was planning his itinerary? Most importantly,

:21:36. > :21:39.how did he manage to get past those dozens of security checkpoints at a

:21:40. > :21:45.time when several military operations were going on in the

:21:45. > :21:50.area. There have been suggestions some Pakistani officials have been

:21:50. > :22:00.helping Osama Bin Laden, but this is something both the Pakistani

:22:00. > :22:02.

:22:02. > :22:07.Government and the military have consistently denied. This is BBC

:22:07. > :22:13.World News. The headlines: The blind Chinese rights across --

:22:14. > :22:19.activist has left the American embassy where he sought protection

:22:19. > :22:23.over the last few days. He Egypt at least nine people

:22:23. > :22:28.taking part in a demonstration outside the defence ministry in

:22:28. > :22:32.Cairo have been attacked and killed. Troops have been brought in to stop

:22:32. > :22:35.the violence. The Burmese pro-democracy leader

:22:35. > :22:40.Aung San Suu Kyi has been sworn in as a member of parliament after her

:22:40. > :22:44.party dropped a dispute over the wording of the oath of office. It

:22:44. > :22:50.is just over a month since her party enjoyed sweeping success in

:22:50. > :22:55.by-elections. 18 months ago, Aung San Suu Kyi was

:22:55. > :22:59.still under house arrest, a political prisoner. Now she is a

:22:59. > :23:03.member of parliament, elected to serve within the chamber. She swore

:23:03. > :23:08.that oath to safeguard the constitution, a document she and

:23:08. > :23:13.her party are opposed to, because it enshrines a central role for the

:23:13. > :23:17.military. Now they are sitting alongside members of the armed

:23:17. > :23:21.forces. Somehow they will have to learn to work together in the

:23:22. > :23:26.interests of the country, the opposition, the armed forces, at

:23:26. > :23:32.members of ethnic minorities, all coming together to work for the

:23:32. > :23:35.interest of the people of Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi has also said she

:23:35. > :23:40.believes in the role of law and she will have a chance to help draft

:23:40. > :23:44.the laws of this country. This is a moment in history for Berne and it

:23:44. > :23:47.represents a big change for politics, for Aung San Suu Kyi and

:23:47. > :23:53.for the way this political transition moves forward.

:23:53. > :23:57.South Sudan has said it is possible it may hold oil exports for another

:23:57. > :24:05.two ears. It stopped at oil production in January in protest

:24:05. > :24:09.over the charges its neighbour Sudan was imposing on oil. South

:24:09. > :24:15.Sudan's foreign minister said the halt in production could continue

:24:15. > :24:19.despite his country's dependence on oil.

:24:19. > :24:24.Did you mean two ears of difficulties or two years at where

:24:24. > :24:32.we anticipate we will not be exported oil? That is right. Which

:24:32. > :24:36.is it? For give me if I'm wrong, but I look at your ministry of

:24:36. > :24:42.finance figures and it is 98% of your state revenues. You cannot

:24:42. > :24:48.live without that for two ears. can put in place austerity measures.

:24:48. > :24:53.It will be more than austerity if you lose 98% of your income. We can

:24:53. > :24:58.survive. South Sudan has been at war for close to three decades and

:24:58. > :25:04.we have had nothing all this time. We can adapt. It will be tough and

:25:04. > :25:14.difficult, but we will survive. can watch the full interview with

:25:14. > :25:15.

:25:15. > :25:18.South Sudan's Prime Minister today. Schools are being urged to

:25:18. > :25:23.introduce more female-friendly sports like a zumba dance classes

:25:23. > :25:27.and rollerblading to try and encourage girls to keep fit. New

:25:27. > :25:33.research suggests half of girls are put off exercise for life because

:25:33. > :25:37.of their experience of PE lessons. It is not always easy to get girls

:25:37. > :25:42.to be active, but at Willofield School in East London sport is

:25:42. > :25:48.popular and they like the way it makes them feel. Competitive,

:25:48. > :25:52.determined comet inspired, bursting, energetic. They are the kind of

:25:52. > :25:59.attitudes many schools can only dream of. A lot of girls got less

:25:59. > :26:04.and less active at school. 51% said they were put off by sports lessons.

:26:04. > :26:09.45% said they found it too competitive and 48% said they

:26:09. > :26:13.thought getting sweaty was and feminine. Offering more choice,

:26:13. > :26:18.including things like the zumba classes is one way to get girls

:26:18. > :26:22.taking part and single-sex PE lessons can also help.

:26:22. > :26:26.For a lot of people memories of PE class is send shudders down the

:26:26. > :26:30.spine, but what they are hoping that this goal is that by getting

:26:30. > :26:35.girls to do things they really enjoy, they are helping to

:26:35. > :26:40.establish good habits that will last a lifetime. PE classes have

:26:40. > :26:46.come a long way in the last few decades, but not far enough to get

:26:46. > :26:52.all girls doing the exercise they need to be healthy. We all need to