16/10/2012 BBC World News

The former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic denies charges of

mass murder at the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague.

TRANSLATION: Instead of being accused of the events in our civil

war, I should have been rewarded for all of the good things I have

done. Cuba scraps exit permits for travel overseas in the latest

reform by the Communist government. The start of Egypt's football

season is delayed indefinitely, in the wake of the deadly stadium riot.

Also coming up - how can food prices be kept in check after the

droughts in all of the key harvest nations? And regulators are making

changes at Google's privacy policy First, we have got some news on the

Pakistani teenager who was shot in the head by the Taliban because she

supported education for girls. Malala Yousafzai has spent a

comfortable first night in a British hospital, and doctors have

said today that her condition is stable. The 14-year-old had a

bullet removed from her skull, and her medical team of specialists say

that she has every chance of making a good recovery. Malala's Doctor

has just given this statement on her condition. I can tell you that

Malala has had a comfortable night. Her initial assessments have been

undertaken by the neurosurgical and other members of staff. We have

still got some detailed assessments to undertake from various

specialist teams who may be involved later on down the line,

but we are very pleased with the progress she has made so far. She

is showing every sign of being every bit as strong as we have been

led to believe that she is. There were a lot of questions yesterday

about security. I can tell you that we have had some irritating

incidents overnight, and I understand a number of people have

been arrested, but there are no security concerns. I am happy to

take any questions. Can you say more about those incidents

overnight? Clearly, it is a police issue, but I understand that a

number of people turned up claiming to be members of Malala's family,

which we do not believe to be true, and they have been arrested. We do

not believe there is any threat to her personal security, we think it

is probably people being over curious. How close did they get?

They did not get very far. Did they get inside the hospital?

Security is well under control, we are very comfortable with the

security measures, but I am not going to talk about them. I am not

going to discuss any details of the security, just to say that we and

the West Midlands Police are comfortable with the security.

the security only in the hands of the police? No. Who else is

involved? Am not going to discuss any details of the security. We had

more than one incident, that is all I am able to say. Tell us about the

detailed assessments... From what is already in the public domain, it

is obvious that Malala will need reconstructive surgery, and we have

international experts in that field. So, beginning to plan for Rican

structure if surgery, that is as much detail as I can give you. --

for reconstructive surgery. Did the bullet penetrate her brain?

really should not give that level of detail. I am not willing to

getting to that level of detail, I have to respect her privacy. No,

her family did not travel with her. The obvious next question is, are

they coming and when are they coming? I understand they will be,

but I do not know when. That is being dealt with by the Pakistani

high Commissioner. Will that be all the family? That is being dealt

with by the high Commissioner. It is difficult to go into some of

these questions without going into too much detail, I'm afraid. I have

not seen her myself, because we are trying very hard to deal with this

like a normal patient, because we know that this is how people get

the best results. I have spoken to the consultant co-ordinating

haircare today, and really, that is pretty much a quote from him, that

he is impressed by her resilience and strength. Is she still under

heavy sedation? I am not getting into that detail. How many

specialists are there in the team? I can count six off the top of my

head. Neurosurgery, radiology, intensive care, and has the easier,

paediatric specialists helping us from the Children's Hospital. I am

not actually involved in her clinical care. There could well be

more people than that involved. incidents last night, do you put it

down to over-enthusiasm, rather than bad intention? That's the best

I can conclude from what I have heard from the police. People will

want to know, will she make a full recovery? As I said yesterday, the

people who are looking at her in Pakistan obviously felt strongly

that she had the potential for a good recovery, otherwise they would

not have put her and everybody else through this traumatic period. From

what I understand today, there is no reason to doubt that that is the

case, she does have the potential to make a good recovery. Obviously,

there is a long way to go, and she is not out of the woods yet. There

is plenty that could go wrong, but we are optimistic that things are

going in the right direction. INAUDIBLE I have not asked them

that question. I know it they would not be able to

answer it anyway. I cannot tell you any more about that question, I'm

afraid. I do not know, I simply do not know. Was it your own security

staff? I am not going into any details about the security. They

were arrested by the police, but I do not know the details, and I

would not share the details of how initial contact was made. How many

were arrested? More than one. you roughly what time? I am sorry,

I could not hear that? There will be a detailed treatment plan, but I

am not able to share that. I am not looking after her myself, so I do

not need to get involved and the details, and I would not be able to

share them anyway. She will stay here as long as is necessary. It is

not possible to answer that question. Regarding the security,

is it possible that you might have to look at it again? We will keep

it under constant review, but at the moment, ourselves and our

security partners are very comfortable with the arrangements.

I mentioned the events of last night largely to demonstrate that

the security is working, to try to make sure that nobody else is

foolish enough to try to intrude. There was more than one incident.

On more than one occasion? That is my understanding. It is very much a

police matter. Inaudible as I keep saying, I'm afraid I do not know

all the details. On the campus, yes. What do you expect to be the first

step, will it be neurosurgery? Again, you're getting into details,

and it is not appropriate for me to share. I'm sorry. The medical staff

from Pakistan are not leading this any more, they are not the most

appropriate specialists. I can tell you that we have had more emerging,

more radiology undertaken overnight, and the care has been handed over

in detail to the most appropriate teams. -- imaging. Have you been

encouraged by what you have found? Yes, we are very pleased by her

progress overnight, yes. Thank you. That was the statement from the

doctor outside that hospital. Later today, you can see a documentary

made about Malala Yousafzai, made in 2009, following her family in

the days before the Taliban closed down her school. So, her story very

much to the fore. The other main news - the former Bosnian Serb

leader Radovan Karadzic has denied charges of war crimes at his trial

in The Hague. He is representing himself against 10 charges of

genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, during the war in

the 1990s. He told the court he did everything he could to avoid war,

and that he should be rewarded for his conduct during the conflict.

The opening day of the defence - until now, this tribunal has been

hearing the prosecution's case, that the former Bosnian Serb leader

Radovan Karadzic was a key architect of the worst atrocities

committed in Europe since the Second World War. Now, it was his

turn to have his say, and from the start, he offered a dramatically

different portrait of his role. TRANSLATION: Instead of being

accused of the events in our civil war, I should have been rewarded

for all the good things I have done, namely, that I did everything in

human power to avoid the war, that I succeeded in reducing the

suffering of all civilians and the number of victims in our war was

three or four times less than the numbers reported in the public.

Karadzic was leader of the Bosnian Serbs when the country was torn

apart by conflict. Forces loyal to him were accused of ethnic

cleansing, the devastating siege and shelling of Sarajevo and the

massacre of more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica.

For 14 years after the war, he was a fugitive, in disguise, in Serbia,

practising alternative medicine, until he was arrested in 2008. He

has laid out the themes of his defence, that he was a mild man,

defending his people, who were under threat, who did not even know

of the crimes of which he is accused.

TRANSLATION: There was no indication that anybody was killed

by Alas in Srebrenica, or after that. I never once received

information about that. Mr Karadzic could take up to two years to

present his defence - the culmination of a trial process for

the former Yugoslavia which remains a significant if controversial

development in the search for international justice and

accountability. Much more coming up on the programme. More than 30

Iranian state companies have been targeted by new EU sanctions

designed to encourage the country to abandon its nuclear programme.

The companies include oil and gas companies. The existing sanctions

are thought to have contributed to the fore in the value of the

currency in Iran. Tehran insists that its nuclear programme is just

for peaceful use. There is a battle going on between humans and baboons

in Cape Town. Some think the animals should be driven out

because they are run nuisance. It may look like a war zone, but it

isn't. It is hoped that a buffer zone will help keep the baboons in

their natural habitat. Kate town has employed monitors to keep an

eye on the baboons. They have adopted unusual techniques to keep

the animals at bay. This trip is notorious for raiding cars,

restaurants and campsites in search of tasty snacks. They just want the

fishermen's lunches? They are using animal behaviour methods to cent

market areas to deter the baboon's from entering human territory.

want to create an association so that if they smell Pepper and we

have pained bawled them at the same time, maybe it just a whiff of

Baboons are a protected species under South African law. These

rangers have got to know this trip by name, and as they encourage them

to return to the mountains for the night, they hope that this

The Rolling Stones have announced they will play live for the first

time in five years. The four concerts in York Mark the band's

50th anniversary, and they will be some of the most expensive concert

If this is BBC World News. The UK hospital teaching the Pakistani

teenager shot in the head by Taliban gunmen says she is stable

but not out of the woods yet. And the former Bosnian Serb leader,

Radovan Karadzic, has denied accusations of mass murder at his

war crimes trial in the Hague. The latest on Malala Yousafzai, the

Pakistani teenager in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham,

the police have queried a hospital statement but people were arrested.

This statement has just come through from West Midlands police

saying that to well-wishers arrived at a hospital overnight, but was

stopped in a public area of the hospital, questioned by police and

told they would not be allowed to see her. No arrests were made, and

at no point was there any threat to Malala. The hospital had earlier

indicated that they might have been arrests. But the good news is that

she has the potential to make a good recovery. Much more on our

website. Let's catch up now with New car sales, Cliff, over the edge,

kind of scenario. Google has been told by the EU to change the way it

Europe's new car market shrank at its fastest pace in 12 months in

September as the recession in the eurozone continued to take its toll.

Figures from European Automobile Manufacturers Association show

demand across the 27 European Union countries fell 10.8% from last year.

Germany, one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world, saw its

car sales drop 10.9%. France, Italy and Spain saw even bigger declines.

Of all the major markets, the UK was the only one to grow. Russell

Padmore is our business correspondent and joins me now.

These sales numbers are pretty nasty falls. But it has kind of

left nearly all of the major brands nursing double-digit falls.

worst thing is, it is about a million fewer cars sold from

September a year ago, but a year ago, the industry was already in

trouble, so this is a fall on top of a fall. The UK managed to make

an increase only because in Britain they register cars twice the year,

so they have a blip in the middle of the year. And what has changed

remarkably to the negative is the falls in Germany, right? That is

the thing. Car sales are even falling in Germany, overall 14% in

the last year. We are now seen confirmation that the real fear

that there eurozone debt crisis is starting to reach Germany. You can

imagine the scenario. If you and I are suddenly worried about the

future of our jobs, we may say to ourselves, I might hang on to my

existing car but longer, and that is what is hurting the industry.

Where does this leave the car makers? And they have gone through

restructuring and cost-cutting measures. One would imagine there

is not much fat to trim. How do they combat these falls? They are

talking about cutting jobs, particularly per share-Citroen. The

only place the likes of Vauxhall can sell cars is Europe. Italy, for

example, sales are down 20%, that will hurt Fiat. Analysts we have

talked to say that this confirms what they have known for a while.

All of the car manufacturers in Europe need to close one factory

each to deal with the overcapacity, it is estimated. That is a lot. The

economic scenario doesn't look like it will improve. Thank you, Russell

Google has been told by the EU to change the way it gathers personal

information to protect the privacy of its users. It follows a nine-

month investigation into the company's data collection practices.

Since March, Google has combined data from sites like YouTube and

Gmail to better target its advertising. It's meant 60

individual privacy policies for individual Google-owned sites were

merged into a single policy for all of its services. Google has

rejected that its new policy does not comply with EU law. Let's get

more on this. Auke Haagsma, a privacy expert and a former

European Commission official, joins me from Brussels. Great to have you

with us. What is the information that has the EU worried? That

Google has been Kennett -- I think it is important to keep in

mind that Google is for many people the gateway to the internet, so we

all use some Google products, and sometimes we don't even use about -

- know about them. And each time we use them, they collect data about

us, often more sensitive than we realise. It collects and stores

this data for one reason only, to sell targeted advertising. They

will send us advertising based on what they know about us. That is

fine if you agree with it, but on 1st March, they change their

policies, and didn't really tell people in a detail man of what they

were changing and how would they be using the information henceforth,

and that is what do you - you mentioned the EU, but it was also

backed by the Canadians and authorities in Asia-Pacific, they

all say that people should have been told what was being collected.

The experts who follow the industry say that Google got off pretty

lightly. There was no fine, this wasn't deemed illegal. They have

been asked to change their ways. Couldn't you have gone further?

This is not the end of it, what the EU have done. They have allowed

Google to correct the situation. What I fear is that we have seen a

lot of cases where Google did something similar, where they make

pictures of houses but also collected personal data, and they

then said that they would delete the information and they didn't. So

I feel that it is important that there is some sticks somewhere so

that Google does behave. This is important. Absolutely. We have to

leave it there for time's sake, unfortunately. Thank you for your

time. That is it with the business news for now.

From next January, Cubans will no longer need exit permits to go

abroad. Now travellers will only need a valid passport and a visa,.

Egypt's football Association has suspended the country's Premier

League indefinitely because of security reasons. It was first

suspended in February when 70 supporters were killed in a stadium

riot in port side. If today is World Food Day,

dedicated to raising awareness of the global so food supply problems.

The UN's World Food Index tracks Food prices on this World Food Day

are volatile, threatening disruption in many parts of the

world. With the population growing, demand for food is higher than ever,

and the price index is rising, although not yet at the level that

caused a major riot in 2008, nor the peak hit early last year. The

continued rise is mostly caused by rises in cereal prices - Mayes, of

wheat and rice. There are some factors driving this move. Serious

drought in the US and parts of Europe and Asia, climate change has

played its part making it hard to grow crops and keep animals in some

parts of Africa where deserts are spreading. And there is pressure on

Oxfam card late that the land used to grow bio Fuels to run cars in

the EU for one year could be 127 million people. China's growing

middle-class want more protein, and growing animals takes more land

than vegetarian food. We needed new green revolution in increasing

productivity, finding new land to feed the increasing population of

the world. You can hear from our

correspondents across the world today, and there is more on the

current situation in India as well. Hillary Clinton says she takes

responsibility for the failure in security at the US concert in

Benghazi which was attacked last month. Four Americans died,

including the US ambassador to Libya. She said that ensuring the

safety of US ambassadors abroad is her department, not that of the

White House. We don't need to focus on why that happened, that is for

the intelligence service to determine. We need to focus on what

happened and how it happened. We need to focus day and night to

intervene with governments in keep everything we can to keep our

people safe, which is my primary responsibility. A 115-year-old man

in western Japan has been named as the world's oldest man for the