:00:13. > :00:16.The DJs who made a prior call to the hospital treating the Duchess
:00:16. > :00:22.of Cambridge so they are heartbroken by the death of a nurse
:00:22. > :00:30.they spoke to. I am very sorry and saddened for the family and I can't
:00:30. > :00:35.imagine what they are going through. Gutted, shattered, heartbroken.
:00:35. > :00:38.UN appeals for emergency help for the Philippines, over 5 million
:00:38. > :00:48.people have been affected by Typhoon Bopha.
:00:48. > :00:51.
:00:51. > :00:57.The Italian government's borrowing costs rise. Scores of same-sex
:00:57. > :01:04.couples crowd to Seattle City Hall for a day of wedding ceremonies now
:01:04. > :01:14.the game marriage law takes effect. Mexico mourns the death of the
:01:14. > :01:22.
:01:22. > :01:25.singer Jenny Riviera. The Australian DJs who made a hoax
:01:25. > :01:35.phone call to the hospital treating the Duchess of Cambridge speak
:01:35. > :01:35.
:01:35. > :01:38.about the death of a nurse caught up in the prank. The radio hosts
:01:38. > :01:47.expressed their regrets and said they never foresaw the outcome of
:01:47. > :01:51.their call. Mel Greig, who impersonated the Queen, was asked
:01:51. > :01:56.about the moment she found out one of the nurses had taken her own
:01:56. > :02:01.life. A Unfortunately I remember that moment very well because I
:02:01. > :02:11.have not stopped thinking about it since I happened. My first question
:02:11. > :02:14.
:02:14. > :02:22.Winnie found out she was? I am very saddened for the family and I can't
:02:22. > :02:27.imagine what they are going through. What about you, Michael? Gutted,
:02:28. > :02:34.you know. Shattered, heartbroken. For does it even feel real to you,
:02:34. > :02:39.what's happened? We are still trying to get our heads around
:02:39. > :02:44.everything, trying to make sense of the situation. If it doesn't seem
:02:44. > :02:49.real because you could not foresee something like that happening from
:02:49. > :02:53.a prank call. It was never meant to go that far. It was meant to be a
:02:53. > :02:58.silly little prank that so many people have done before. This
:02:59. > :03:07.wasn't meant to happen. hindsight, would you do something
:03:07. > :03:12.like that again? I don't... I don't think that anyone could have
:03:12. > :03:16.predicted what could have happened. It was just a tragic set of
:03:16. > :03:23.circumstances that I don't think anyone could have thought that we
:03:23. > :03:29.would be here. Who came up with the idea of the thank? It was just in a
:03:29. > :03:37.team meeting before the show. wasn't either of you individually?
:03:37. > :03:43.If ever thing is done as a team. Did you have legal advice or senior
:03:43. > :03:50.producers nursing you through this? The call, to begin with, wasn't
:03:50. > :03:56.about speaking to Kate. It wasn't about trying to get the scoop or
:03:56. > :04:02.anything. The call was just... We assumed they would hang up and that
:04:02. > :04:07.was that. When that didn't happen, and let's be honest you thought it
:04:07. > :04:14.was a coup at the time - were you shocked that you got that far to
:04:14. > :04:20.talk to the nurse? Absolutely, and the accents were terrible. It must
:04:20. > :04:23.designed to be stupid. We were never meant to get that far. The
:04:23. > :04:30.little corgis barking in the background, we wanted it to be a
:04:30. > :04:36.joke. The joke was on us, not anyone else. We were not trying to
:04:36. > :04:45.fool someone. We assumed with the voices we put on, we were going to
:04:45. > :04:51.get told off and that was the joke. Do you get any training as to what
:04:51. > :04:56.you are allowed to put on the radio? Have you been taught that
:04:56. > :05:03.during your ten-year here? If this phone call is the same as with any
:05:03. > :05:08.pre-recorded segments that goes on the radio. There are processes in
:05:08. > :05:15.place. Oh role... Have you been taught that in a legal class?
:05:15. > :05:22.are people who make those decisions for us. So did somebody listen to
:05:22. > :05:26.that call? Be won through the same process, everything gets recorded
:05:26. > :05:32.and passed on to the appropriate people and we are told whether it
:05:32. > :05:39.is OK to play. Can you talk about the time spent from when you did
:05:39. > :05:45.that call to going on the radio - was it one hour? Two hours? We go
:05:45. > :05:50.about our work and keep going. in other things organised. But you
:05:50. > :05:56.were pretty giddy with what you have pulled off? Yes, we didn't
:05:56. > :06:02.expected to work, we didn't see it actually working. It wasn't to get
:06:02. > :06:09.something that nobody else had. book you are where you were trying
:06:09. > :06:16.to get a medical condition, and a medical condition for the Royal?
:06:16. > :06:21.but we didn't want that. We wanted them to hang up, and play the 22nd
:06:22. > :06:27.segment on the radio. The number of people being killed in the
:06:27. > :06:32.Philippines is continuing to rise following Typhoon Bopha. Although
:06:32. > :06:42.650 people are known to have died and many more are missing,
:06:42. > :06:44.
:06:44. > :06:47.President Aquino has declared a national calamity. The BBC's Kate
:06:47. > :06:52.McGeown brings us the latest from New Bataan in the province of
:06:52. > :06:56.Mindanao. If this is one of the worst-affected regions after the
:06:56. > :07:02.typhoon, and basically mud and boulders came crashing down into
:07:02. > :07:08.this area. In some cases whole villages have been obliterated.
:07:08. > :07:11.Very difficult to imagine they were even there. Now a week after the
:07:11. > :07:16.typhoon, you can still smell that sadly all the bodies have not been
:07:16. > :07:21.found yet. In the evacuation centres I found people looking
:07:21. > :07:29.through the lists of the missing, still hundreds in this area alone.
:07:29. > :07:36.One by one, bodies are being brought in and most are sadly dead.
:07:36. > :07:39.In Egypt, President Mohamed Morsi has given the army powers of arrest
:07:39. > :07:43.ahead of the referendum planned for this weekend. The announcement
:07:43. > :07:49.comes one day before mast protest planned by the opposition against
:07:49. > :07:52.the vote. Mohamed Morsi has ordered the security to protect state
:07:52. > :07:57.institutions ahead of the referendum due to take place on
:07:57. > :08:01.Saturday, and ordered the army to co-operate with the police until
:08:01. > :08:06.results are announced. It has been nearly two years since
:08:06. > :08:09.the Arab uprising began in Tunisia before it's worked across countries
:08:09. > :08:14.and the Middle East. Our correspondent has been back to
:08:14. > :08:19.Tunisia to see how life has changed, and she has gained rare access to
:08:20. > :08:25.one of the grand palaces of the deposed President's.
:08:25. > :08:30.The stunning view of the Mediterranean. You need money or
:08:30. > :08:35.power to afford to live here. President Ben Ali of Tunisia have
:08:35. > :08:44.both. We are going to show you at least one of the flaws in the grand
:08:44. > :08:52.palaces which will go on sale. This is a more intimate corner, the file,
:08:52. > :09:02.how to use the television remote. Copies of the Holy Koran, and a
:09:02. > :09:02.
:09:02. > :09:07.book he was perhaps Reading, about the French First Lady. This is a
:09:07. > :09:12.huge informal drawing room for entertaining with a lot of personal
:09:12. > :09:22.mementoes. Come and see, if you can, through the paper, photographs of
:09:22. > :09:28.the family. Ben Ali, his second wife Mailer, and their last child -
:09:28. > :09:35.their only son. He also had five daughters from two marriages. For
:09:35. > :09:45.all of this will go on sale, including this glittering
:09:45. > :09:46.
:09:46. > :09:50.collection of prayer beads or worry beads as they are sometimes known.
:09:50. > :09:58.Crystal, gold and candles for the lavish entertaining that must have
:09:58. > :10:03.gone on here. Ivory, Jade, even the desert scene in gold. This must be
:10:03. > :10:08.for adults. If you have six children, you need a place for them
:10:08. > :10:18.as well. Look at this play room. A lot of Tories, including this
:10:18. > :10:20.
:10:20. > :10:25.special car former -- for his son. The car bomb has killed a regional
:10:25. > :10:28.police chief in Afghanistan. General Mohammad Musa Rasoli's car
:10:28. > :10:31.was hit by the explosion as he drove to work. One soldier was
:10:31. > :10:41.injured. Although no group has claimed responsibility, the Taliban
:10:41. > :10:45.
:10:45. > :10:47.often target officials. A tour bus has crashed into a
:10:47. > :10:50.ravine in Taiwan killing 13 people. Ten survivors were rescued by
:10:50. > :10:53.emergency workers and taken to hospitals close to the area in
:10:53. > :10:56.Hsinchu County where the accident happened. The bus was taking
:10:56. > :10:58.passengers to a class reunion from a school they had graduated from
:10:58. > :11:01.more than 40 years ago. A television studio which collapsed
:11:01. > :11:03.killing 115 people during last year's New Zealand earthquake
:11:03. > :11:05.should never have been built. That's the conclusion of an inquiry
:11:05. > :11:08.which says the Canterbury Television building in Christchurch
:11:08. > :11:18.was badly designed, inadequately constructed, and should not have
:11:18. > :11:30.
:11:30. > :11:35.been approved. All eyes on Italy. Be yes, what we
:11:35. > :11:41.are looking at a day in particular, this time last year the borrowing
:11:41. > :11:47.costs for the Italian government was 7.5%. That is what investors
:11:47. > :11:52.basically demanded, forced them to buy Italian debt. It was one of the
:11:52. > :11:58.reasons we saw Silvio Berlusconi exit the government, and Mario
:11:58. > :12:01.Monti then had to walk this financial tightrope. He had to
:12:01. > :12:06.introduce some tough austerity measures and he can't have the
:12:07. > :12:15.markets. Now we have the situation back up and running with Silvio
:12:15. > :12:20.Berlusconi putting his bid in two Mario Monti so he will exit. You
:12:20. > :12:25.have the markets all over the place. The markets have dropped. Some of
:12:25. > :12:30.the banks in Italy taking big hits today, five, 6% down. The borrowing
:12:30. > :12:35.costs are approaching 5%, so the European Central Bank has said in
:12:35. > :12:40.the last few hours Italy must stick to its reforms. One former
:12:40. > :12:46.economist we spoke to earlier said he is not surprised. This has
:12:46. > :12:52.always been a crisis of confidence. Make no confidence has improved,
:12:52. > :12:55.the ECB safety-net has improved the mood a lot. This really doesn't do
:12:55. > :13:02.anything to improve things again. We could see a period of
:13:02. > :13:08.nervousness again, it could need more expensive countries to re-
:13:08. > :13:14.finance themselves leading to a more sustainable situation. Clearly
:13:14. > :13:18.this is not a good development. Let's go from one exodus to another,
:13:18. > :13:28.because a Hollywood actor has become the latest world the
:13:28. > :13:41.
:13:41. > :13:48.Frenchman to flee the country's wealth tax. He has of to property,
:13:48. > :13:56.and there is a 75% tax rate on people who earn over a million
:13:56. > :14:00.euros a year. Let's go over to Paris. This is an interesting story.
:14:00. > :14:06.This actor is joining the ranks of a few 1000 who have chosen this
:14:06. > :14:11.little Belgian village literally just across the border. Yes, it is
:14:11. > :14:16.interesting. He is quite open about it, it is obvious the reason for
:14:16. > :14:22.his exile, the fact that it is so near to the border. The house he
:14:22. > :14:27.will move into is an old customs offices house, just to show how
:14:27. > :14:37.close it is to the border. Quite evidently the purpose is for tax
:14:37. > :14:42.
:14:42. > :14:46.reasons and it is very emblematic, he is the most famous French actor.
:14:46. > :14:51.He is well known to be on the right, politically, a rather grumpy,
:14:51. > :14:55.temperamental character, the sort of person who would do this. Far
:14:55. > :15:00.more damaging I think to the government is the general
:15:00. > :15:04.disgruntlement that one hears of in business circles, and clearly that
:15:04. > :15:10.has much greater implications for the future of French economic
:15:10. > :15:14.development. If it's wealth creators, business types start
:15:14. > :15:21.thinking of moving abroad, that is where the focus should be but it
:15:21. > :15:26.draws attention to this 75% banning, and the wealthy are feeling
:15:26. > :15:36.victimised in France. From the outside, looking in, we say this is
:15:36. > :15:39.
:15:39. > :15:43.an interesting story but how is It is a mixture. Your political
:15:43. > :15:47.affiliation were determined to a point, your point of view. On the
:15:47. > :15:50.left, you say this is responsible and there are plenty of rich people
:15:50. > :15:54.staying behind and saying, conditions are difficult, but we
:15:54. > :15:57.have benefited from the French in for structure of social benefits
:15:57. > :16:02.and so on. And there are those who say that in France, we have a
:16:02. > :16:06.culture of hating wealth, and it is all Catholic tradition. We have
:16:06. > :16:10.always despised wealthy people and it goes back to the revolution and
:16:10. > :16:14.so on. I suspect most people are worried about this. They do not
:16:14. > :16:18.think it is a good thing. They are not stupid, they can look around
:16:18. > :16:23.the world and see how France risks becoming uncompetitive and it will
:16:23. > :16:28.not do much good to the economy if these wealth creators ago. They can
:16:28. > :16:33.hear the mood among business people. It is hard to get a true picture of
:16:33. > :16:39.this. The media really do play up every move abroad. On the other
:16:39. > :16:43.hand, the Government plays down the phenomenon. There are two extreme
:16:43. > :16:47.versions of what is going on. Actually telling how many people
:16:47. > :16:54.are going and how deep the feeling of fear is and how seriously big
:16:54. > :16:59.companies are thinking of moving abroad, it is difficult to know.
:16:59. > :17:04.The world's second largest economy, China, appears robust despite
:17:04. > :17:07.economic slowdown in much of the rest of the world. Chinese
:17:07. > :17:11.factories were busier in of November. Output from those
:17:11. > :17:15.factories rose 10% from the previous year. Chinese people are
:17:15. > :17:19.also spending their hard-earned cash, boosting retail sales, which
:17:19. > :17:27.were up nearly 15%. This has helped offset the slowdown in exports.
:17:27. > :17:31.They are still growing, but at a slower rate of 2.5%. A senior
:17:31. > :17:36.economic analyst said the Chinese government has had success propping
:17:36. > :17:40.up the economy with injections of cash. A industrial production is up
:17:40. > :17:44.10%, which is a positive number. Over the past couple of numbers, it
:17:44. > :17:46.-- over the past couple of months, it was lower. So there is an
:17:46. > :17:52.improvement there because the Government has been aggressive in
:17:52. > :17:55.trying to stimulate growth domestic live. They have been injecting
:17:55. > :18:00.liquidity into the banking system. There has been a huge amount of
:18:00. > :18:05.rail investment, up over 100% this month. The Government is focusing
:18:06. > :18:11.on trying to revive growth. There is also a boom Frasier's second
:18:11. > :18:18.biggest economy, the world's third largest, Japan. Wealth is shrinking
:18:18. > :18:22.in there today. The economy fell, or contracted by 0.9%, putting
:18:22. > :18:28.their country back into recession. Japanese exporters have also been
:18:28. > :18:32.struggling to sell goods overseas. Due to the strong value of their
:18:32. > :18:39.currency, the yen, a strong currency makes Japanese goods more
:18:39. > :18:46.expensive for us to buy overseas. It also makes sales at home
:18:46. > :18:56.difficult. You are watching BBC World News.
:18:56. > :19:00.Still to come: another US State gives gay marriage the go-ahead.
:19:00. > :19:03.In Ghana, President John Mahama has been declared the winner or
:19:03. > :19:07.Friday's election. But the opposition says the poll was
:19:07. > :19:12.fraudulent, and will meet on Tuesday to decide what to do. The
:19:12. > :19:16.Electoral Commission said Mr Mahama won 50.7% of the vote, avoiding the
:19:16. > :19:22.need for a run-off. He has urged leaders of all political parties to
:19:22. > :19:27.respect the voice of the people. Even before the results were
:19:27. > :19:30.announced, projections that John Mahama had won gonna's presidential
:19:30. > :19:35.election led to protests on the streets of across. The main
:19:35. > :19:38.opposition in Ghana, the New Patriotic Party, has accused the
:19:38. > :19:42.governing National Democratic Congress of conspiring with the
:19:42. > :19:46.Electoral Commission to fix the poll, a claim rejected by the party.
:19:46. > :19:56.Inside the Commission's offices, security was tight as the result
:19:56. > :19:58.
:19:58. > :20:08.was made official. Ladies and gentlemen, based on the results
:20:08. > :20:12.given, I declare John Mahama of President elect. This election was
:20:12. > :20:16.troubled even before the claims of vote tampering. Glitches with the
:20:16. > :20:20.new fingerprinting system meant that Friday's poll had to be
:20:20. > :20:26.extended into Saturday in parts of the country. But observers said the
:20:26. > :20:30.election had passed off largely peacefully. Mr Mahama was gonna's
:20:30. > :20:34.vice-president until the unexpected death of the president in July
:20:34. > :20:40.catapulted him into office. On the sombre occasion of his
:20:40. > :20:44.predecessor's funeral, he paid tribute to his leadership qualities.
:20:45. > :20:49.Now his own time as leader is to be extended, and his supporters are
:20:49. > :20:52.jubilant. But their celebrations could be short-lived if the dispute
:20:52. > :20:57.over Ghana's election result destabilises a country which boasts
:20:57. > :21:02.one of the world's fastest growing economies and is regarded as one of
:21:02. > :21:05.Africa's most well-established democracies.
:21:05. > :21:08.Thousands of people have held a silent march in the Netherlands in
:21:08. > :21:11.memory of a volunteer football linesman who died after being
:21:11. > :21:16.attacked last Sunday. Richard Nieuwenhuizen was assaulted after
:21:16. > :21:21.officiating at a junior club game. Four teenagers have been arrested.
:21:22. > :21:31.The crowds held banners decorated with ladybirds, the Dutch symbol of
:21:31. > :21:36.opposition to meaningless violence. This is BBC World News. The
:21:36. > :21:39.headlines: two Australian radio presenters who made a hoax call to
:21:39. > :21:43.the London hospital treating Prince William's pregnant wife say they
:21:43. > :21:47.are heartbroken by the death of a nurse caught up in the bank.
:21:47. > :21:53.The UN has appealed for emergency help for the Philippines, wherever
:21:53. > :21:56.5 million people have been affected by typhoon Bhopal.
:21:56. > :22:01.A pioneering Portuguese scheme which de criminalises drug abuse
:22:01. > :22:03.has been recommended by a British Parliament committee. A report by
:22:03. > :22:06.the Commons home affairs committee argues that Britain might benefit
:22:06. > :22:11.from the approach, which removes criminal penalties for people found
:22:11. > :22:15.with small quantities of drugs, if they go into an effective treatment
:22:15. > :22:22.programme. But the British government insists that drugs used
:22:22. > :22:26.in the UK is already falling. For 15 years, drug use has dropped
:22:26. > :22:29.in the UK, but it still costs the justice system and health service
:22:29. > :22:35.billions. A report by the Home Affairs committee says the
:22:35. > :22:38.Government should look overseas for suggestions, like here in Portugal,
:22:38. > :22:42.where drugs were effectively decriminalised. And other places
:22:42. > :22:47.where cannabis has been legalised. We need a programme that deals with
:22:47. > :22:52.treatment as well as punishment. If we can focus on the dealers and get
:22:52. > :22:58.them prosecuted, but also focus on those who are addicted, and also
:22:58. > :23:04.not forgetting that the victims are the people who suffer as a result,
:23:04. > :23:08.this approach is what is required. Today's report also calls for a
:23:08. > :23:12.royal commission to rethink the drugs problem. It wants better
:23:12. > :23:16.treatment for addicts and a focus on what it calls alarming increases
:23:17. > :23:21.in addiction to Prakash friction drugs like relaxants and sleeping
:23:21. > :23:26.pills. At this club clinic in London, the staff share the
:23:26. > :23:29.report's concerns about another growth area, so-called legal highs.
:23:29. > :23:35.As fast as the Government has outlawed substances like mephedrone,
:23:35. > :23:41.others become available. She it is crucial that as these new drug
:23:41. > :23:47.trends emerge, the treatment system and the policymakers adapt to these
:23:47. > :23:55.new patterns. The Government says a royal commission on drugs is not
:23:55. > :23:57.necessary, and says it has no intention of legalising cannabis.
:23:57. > :24:01.The Mexican Americans singing superstar Jenni Rivera has been
:24:01. > :24:07.killed and a plane crash in northern Mexico. The 43-year-old
:24:07. > :24:10.and six other passengers and crew boarded a plane from Monterey on
:24:10. > :24:14.Sunday after performing in a concert. Aviation authorities lost
:24:14. > :24:20.contact with the plane ten minutes after take-off. Born in California
:24:20. > :24:24.to Mexican parents, Jenni Rivera sold more than 20 million records.
:24:24. > :24:30.Valeria Perasso, a correspondent for BBC Mundo, based in Los Angeles,
:24:30. > :24:34.says Jenni Rivera left her mark on both sides of the US-Mexican border.
:24:34. > :24:40.She was a big superstar within the Latino community in the US and also
:24:40. > :24:46.in Mexico, where she was well known for being one of the leading
:24:46. > :24:51.singers for a particular musical genre, which is basically a mix of
:24:51. > :24:56.different musical styles from northern Mexico. It is a huge
:24:56. > :25:00.business in the US and the area around the border. So she was well
:25:01. > :25:03.known by fans on both sides of the border.
:25:03. > :25:07.Dozens of same-sex couples in the United States have taken their
:25:07. > :25:17.wedding vows after a vote to approve gay marriage law came into
:25:17. > :25:17.
:25:17. > :25:22.effect in Washington state. The ceremonies began at midnight.
:25:22. > :25:27.As soon as it became legally possible to do so, Washington
:25:27. > :25:33.State's same-sex couples were tying the knot. At Seattle's City Hall,
:25:33. > :25:37.they were saying their vows every half an hour. To celebrate the love
:25:37. > :25:40.we have for one another not only three our families and friends but
:25:40. > :25:45.also through the court system in Washington state, it is an
:25:45. > :25:50.exceptional opportunity to have for everyone here to recognise it. Our
:25:50. > :25:55.union is really between each other. Gay marriage is now illegal in six
:25:55. > :26:00.American states and in Washington DC, but the 38 states banned it.
:26:00. > :26:03.Public opinion is shifting, though. Recent polls showed that more are
:26:03. > :26:07.in favour of same-sex marriage them are against it, and supporters
:26:07. > :26:11.include President Obama. By have been going through an evolution on
:26:11. > :26:15.this issue. Money and Sasha have friends whose parents are same-sex
:26:15. > :26:18.couples. It would not dawn on them that somehow, their friends'
:26:18. > :26:22.parents would be treated differently. That is the kind of
:26:22. > :26:27.thing that prompts a change of perspective. Or all eyes are now on
:26:27. > :26:31.the Supreme Court. The justices have decided to review two laws
:26:31. > :26:36.concerning same-sex marriage. Many expect that they will rule that gay
:26:36. > :26:40.married couples have the same rights as heterosexual ones. It is
:26:40. > :26:46.possible that they might go further and make a gay marriage illegal in