02/05/2012 BBC World News

Days after fleeing house arrest in Guangcheng leaves the US Embassy to

rejoin his family. overshadow a visit to China by

Hillary Clinton. Beijing demands an apology from the Americans.

Cairo during a protest against Welcome to BBC News. Also in this

inquest into the death of the MI6 officer, Gareth Williams, rules out

Find out how schools in Britain are hoping to encourage girls to keep

The blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng has left the US Embassy

and had been given medical care. Chen, a campaigner for disabled

rights and victims of forced abortions, escaped from house

arrest and was protected in the US Embassy six days ago. He was taken

after the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, arrived in Beijing

reports, China criticised the US spent the past six days inside the

American Embassy in Beijing. But according to media reports, he was

escorted out of the compound today by American diplomats, and taken to

hospital where security was tight. China's Foreign Ministry complained

the blind activist had been Embassy through abnormal means. It

says this was unacceptable interference in China's domestic

The incident being discussed in force the two sides to really

confront Human Rights issues in China and how to resolve the case

of Chen Guangcheng. The latest news of Chen Guangcheng

came as the the American Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, arrived

in Beijing for two days of talks due to take place on Thursday and

Friday. Chen Guangcheng's wife has gone to the Beijing hospital where

he is under going a medical check- up. She has confirmed that she and

their children are well. US officials say he will be moved to a

safe place and that he plans to remain in China, but how he is

treated will be closely monitored. Well, the BBC's Martin Patience is

outside the hospital. Chen Guangcheng has been brought to

this hospital here in the centre of Beijing. He has been reunited with

his family. Now until today, it was believed his daughter and wife were

still under arrest -- house arrest in their village. In the State-run

news agency a report has been put out. A spokesman said that Chen

Guangcheng had been taken to the US Embassy through abnormal channels.

He called on the US to apologise and said this amounted to

interference in China's internal affairs. Now many questions

surround this issue and with so many twists in this case, this is

unlikely to be the end of the matter.

Attackers armed with clubs, stones and fire bombs have killed at least

eight people who were demonstrating outside the Egyptian Ministry of

Defence. Over 100 people have been injured. The protesters were

demonstrating against Egypt's military rulers who they blame for

excluding a hard-line Islamist candidate from the presidential

elections. Jon Leyne had more details about the protests.

Yes, a military source is saying they are going to send in troops.

We haven't seen them there yet, but there has been no intervention by

soldiers or police that we have seen.

Raising suspicion this attack was authorised or approved by the

Government. It began at about dawn this morning when these

unidentified thugs moved in and started attacking the protesters.

Gunshots were heard. Eight people were killed and over 100 injured.

Can you explain what led to today? Yes, both of the main Islamist

candidates have suspended their campaigns in Cairo. This began when

the more hard-line Islamist was excluded from the election on the

grounds that his mother held an American passport which is against

the rules, his late mother. His supporters deny this. He denies

this and they have been staging protests. The death toll there in

Egypt has gone up to nine. Nine people have been killed in the

demonstrations. Disgraced former media mogul Conrad

Black will be allowed to live in Canada when he finishes his prison

term in the US. Mr Black has been serving time for fraud but may be

released this week. He once controlled a media empire that

included the Daily Telegraph in the UK and the Chicago Sun Times.

Conrad Black gave up his Canadian citizenship to accept a peerage in

Britain's House of Lords. Rupert Murdoch has hit back at

criticism from a group of British MPs who said he was unfit to run an

international business. Rupert Murdoch admitted mistakes had been

made in an e-mail, but said his company was working hard to put

Aaron is here and we are looking at eurozone numbers again, today.

Another set of horrible numbers coming out of the eurozone. For the

month of March, the 17 members of the single currency region. 17.5

million were looking for work in the month of March. That's up by an

extra 170,000 compared to the previous month. What is astonishing

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

put numbers together. At the bottom of the list or the top of the list,

there is the 17.5 million. Spain tops the list with 21.4%. Greece

came second, Greece is living off bail out funds and has been since

2010, 21.7%. If you head up north the rates are lower. The lowest

unemployment in the region is Austria with 4%. You have got the

Netherlands at 5% and Germany at 5.6%. There is no doubt, I have

been told by the so-called experts, there are many now who will look at

the jobless rates and say, "Something has to be done about the

austerity only policies." They have to look at other alternatives and

try to implement some form of growth strategy. Growth policies.

The French French elections are coming up? That's at the top of the

mind for the French elections. Let's get more and join Nigel

Cassidy. Nigel, I was outlining this clear divide. I mean let's

start with that. It is astonishing when you look down south at Spain

with 21.4% and you look at Austria with 4%? That's right. This

diversity across the European Union was one reason the EU was invented

and the hole thing is based on a consent that countries in the north

will in different ways help the south, not least by buying their

products, but of course, it is not really happening at the moment.

Manufacturing is incredibly tight particularly in the southern

European countries. They are just not producing enough at a price

that the world wants to pay and even issues in Germany which has

seen consistent growth in employment hitherto, it has really

stopped for the time being. Germany saw a fall off, I think it was

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

it with the bulk of the big manufacturing in Europe needs

customers. I mean do the jobless numbers today

give support to those out there there who have been saying for

sometime, "The austerity only policies don't work." The

international Labour Organisation told us on Monday that austerity

only is counter productive. There is no growth and there is no job

creation? Well, that's right. It is almost becoming the new orthodoxy

within Europe. Mr Holland has been talking a lot about that. Many

worry that countries may use it as a fig leave to not -- leaf to not

make the difficult decisions. I think there will be a lot of

support for a number of things. Firstly, to try and use money

that's left in the euro rescue funds for specific projects. The

difficulty with this investment in the regions, it does take a long

time to trickle through. This is a small amount of money. More

immediately, we might see the European Central Bank take interest

rates below the 1%. They have their meeting next Thursday, that's

something that might happen here. I think too we might see some kind of

an effort to cut the punishing interest rates which some of the

southern European countries, the countries being rescued that saw

those really bad employment figures. We may see some kind of scheme to

cut their interest rate. But Based on the willingness of the countries

in the north to allow these things to happen as we have seen, most

recently in Holland, people are getting resentful of those measures.

These are really turbulent and difficult times for Europe, these

employment figures will have made it worse.

They are sure making it worse. Nigel, great stuff from you as

usual. European Union Finance Ministers

are meeting in Brussels today to try to make progress towards

agreeing just how much capital the Continent's banks should be

required to hold to set aside. They are hoping to overcome serious

differences in order to have an agreement in place by the summer.

The European Commission believes capital levels should be set and

controlled centrally, but some members, notably Britain, Sweden

want individual countries to be able to impose their own rules.

Well, the senior economist, says the EU rules will be based on

international changes devised in bastle.

-- Basel. This is a typical European argument,

not just in banking, but in many product markets. They have the

tendency that some countries fear they need more specific national

rules which are tougher than the general consensus and other

countries are saying we should have the same rules for other countries

so all countries can can operate. Now we have the argument between

Britain and Sweden who have tougher rules and want the rules to keep

their banks safe, whereas other countries have more the common

market argument, we should have all the same rules and the rules have

to be lower than some gold plated rules that we have in the UK or in

Sweden. As the French Presidental election

moves into its final stages, the two remaining candidates will

square up to one another in a TV debate this afternoon. Many will

see Nicolas Sarkozy defend his record and Francois Hollande

explains how he will do things different. The economy will take

centre stage, but what do the candidates have to offer?

They seem as different as chalk and cheese. The dapper, flamboyant,

Nicolas Sarkozy, up against Francois Hollande. When it comes to

economic policy, Francois Hollande has been getting the loudest cheers.

France is at a cross roads, the economy is stagnating and

unemployment stands at nearly 10%, the Government is under pressure to

bring its budget deficit under control and contain its debts and

it is how they plan to do that which separates the two candidates.

Nicolas Sarkozy, prefers the austerity preached by Germany,

keeping a tight lid on public spending. It suits the markets, but

it is proving unpopular as people worry about jobs and Social

Security. Francois Hollande rejects that. He

wants to focus on boosting growth instead. It is a strategy that

seems to be winning votes, but there maybe less clear daylight

between the two than meets the eye. There is no big desire with

Francois Hollande and a new classical programme with Sarkozy.

When you look at the figures for spending, for the deficit, it is

close close. Perceptions matter when it comes to

France's relationship with Europe. Francois Hollande pledged to

renegotiate the fiscal compact, the new European treaty designed to to

make eurozone members balance their emphasis from austerity to growth.

It happened into a rich vein of anti-European feeling in France.

Both candidates will have a final chance to show they know what is

best for the country. know when I said that banking story,

I said said Basil, it should be We are going to bring you some news

on the MI6 intelligence case, because a verdict is expected

shortly into the inquest of the death of the British MI6

intelligence officer whose body was found in a sports bag in his flat.

A short time ago the coroner said she would not consider an Berwick

tic of unlawful killing and would deliver a narrative verdict instead.

Let's go to the coroner's court in central London. Has a coroner

started speaking? We were expecting her to start talking about 10

minutes ago. Since then we found out that for Gareth Williams'

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

body was discovered. Since then the family have always insisted it is

their belief a third party are agency was involved. They say that

agency was one at that was familiar with what they called the dark arts

of the Secret Service. The police investigation is still open as

suspicious. There were met leading that investigation said she also

believes a third party was involved. It is worth reminding viewers this

is not a trial, this is an inquest. The coroner will be seeking to

establish the cause of death and the facts surrounding the death of

Gareth Williams was up he was a code-breaker in GCHQ, he was on

secondment to MI6, the Secret Service at the time. He was found

in that bag that you mentioned. He had asked for a request back to his

home department because he was unhappy. We have had eight days of

evidence, 46 witnesses and five of those anonymous on the grounds of

national security. The coroner, Fiona Wilcox, has a big job on her

hand and we are expecting that to start in the next 10 minutes and

for the verdict to take up to two hours to deliver. It is a narrative

verdict, she will talk about the validity of some of that evidence.

Yes, she had various options open to her. She has said she is going

to rule out unlawful killing and an open verdict. And narrative verdict

says the evidence she has heard means she has not been able to

reach a single conclusion. If she chooses, she will also have the

time and space to raise concerns and criticisms. I can tell you over

the last eight days there have been a number of those. One is concern

over white MI6 did not follow its own procedures when it comes to

reporting members of staff who have gone missing. Gareth Williams had

missed three meetings and was on an unauthorised absence for seven days

before the police were noticed. Notified. Certain parts of the

evidence were not passed on to the detective investigating the death.

Yesterday in a dramatic turn of events we heard that investigative

squad had not been told MI6 had taken possession of nine memory six

belonging to Gareth Williams and also had in their possession a bag,

a hole Doc that was similar to the one he was found in under his desk.

Those bits of evidence were heard of by the counter-terrorism Jurek -

- unit, but they did not mention that to the police who were

investigating the death. Still to come: South Sudan's foreign

minister tells the BBC his country may halt oil exports. A year after

US troops killed Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan the BBC has had an

exclusive insight into the four Al- Qaeda's life on the run. Pakistani

officials claimed he spent the last five years Cup DUP in his house

Islamabad. I met a couple of members of this extended tribal

family at a secret location. They did not want to be identified. They

were alerted to this visit weeks earlier by someone who they

described as an important person and they were not given any names.

They were told a top military commander, a top military leader,

was to come their way and would need to break his journey. Like any

other tribal family they agreed to extend hospitality to this unknown

guest. The family members tell me they were stunned to see Osama Bin

Laden when he arrived in the dead of the night in a convoy of about

one dozen Jeeps. He emerged from one of the vehicles, they say he

was tall and wearing a long, white Arab robe and a white turban. He

shook their hands and then he went into the room they had got ready

for him. During the hours he spent with them he ate dinner which they

had prepared, chicken curry and rice. He offered prayers and then

he rested for a while. The convoy of jeeps left the compound about

three hours later and all of them headed in different directions so

the hosts never came to know which way Osama Bin Laden went. Do visit

raises several questions. For example, what was Osama Bin Laden

doing in the area? Who was planning his itinerary? Most importantly,

how did he manage to get past those dozens of security checkpoints at a

time when several military operations were going on in the

area. There have been suggestions some Pakistani officials have been

helping Osama Bin Laden, but this is something both the Pakistani

Government and the military have consistently denied. This is BBC

World News. The headlines: The blind Chinese rights across --

activist has left the American embassy where he sought protection

over the last few days. He Egypt at least nine people

taking part in a demonstration outside the defence ministry in

Cairo have been attacked and killed. Troops have been brought in to stop

the violence. The Burmese pro-democracy leader

Aung San Suu Kyi has been sworn in as a member of parliament after her

party dropped a dispute over the wording of the oath of office. It

is just over a month since her party enjoyed sweeping success in

by-elections. 18 months ago, Aung San Suu Kyi was

still under house arrest, a political prisoner. Now she is a

member of parliament, elected to serve within the chamber. She swore

that oath to safeguard the constitution, a document she and

her party are opposed to, because it enshrines a central role for the

military. Now they are sitting alongside members of the armed

forces. Somehow they will have to learn to work together in the

interests of the country, the opposition, the armed forces, at

members of ethnic minorities, all coming together to work for the

interest of the people of Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi has also said she

believes in the role of law and she will have a chance to help draft

the laws of this country. This is a moment in history for Berne and it

represents a big change for politics, for Aung San Suu Kyi and

for the way this political transition moves forward.

South Sudan has said it is possible it may hold oil exports for another

two ears. It stopped at oil production in January in protest

over the charges its neighbour Sudan was imposing on oil. South

Sudan's foreign minister said the halt in production could continue

despite his country's dependence on oil.

Did you mean two ears of difficulties or two years at where

we anticipate we will not be exported oil? That is right. Which

is it? For give me if I'm wrong, but I look at your ministry of

finance figures and it is 98% of your state revenues. You cannot

live without that for two ears. can put in place austerity measures.

It will be more than austerity if you lose 98% of your income. We can

survive. South Sudan has been at war for close to three decades and

we have had nothing all this time. We can adapt. It will be tough and

difficult, but we will survive. can watch the full interview with

South Sudan's Prime Minister today. Schools are being urged to

introduce more female-friendly sports like a zumba dance classes

and rollerblading to try and encourage girls to keep fit. New

research suggests half of girls are put off exercise for life because

of their experience of PE lessons. It is not always easy to get girls

to be active, but at Willofield School in East London sport is

popular and they like the way it makes them feel. Competitive,

determined comet inspired, bursting, energetic. They are the kind of

attitudes many schools can only dream of. A lot of girls got less

and less active at school. 51% said they were put off by sports lessons.

45% said they found it too competitive and 48% said they

thought getting sweaty was and feminine. Offering more choice,

including things like the zumba classes is one way to get girls

taking part and single-sex PE lessons can also help.

For a lot of people memories of PE class is send shudders down the

spine, but what they are hoping that this goal is that by getting

girls to do things they really enjoy, they are helping to

establish good habits that will last a lifetime. PE classes have

come a long way in the last few decades, but not far enough to get

all girls doing the exercise they need to be healthy. We all need to