:00:11. > :00:14.Hello. This is BBC World News. Our top stories: North Korea plans more
:00:14. > :00:17.nuclear tests and long-range rocket launches, in spite of the
:00:17. > :00:21.tightening of UN sanctions. The prosecution has begun its case
:00:21. > :00:25.against five men accused of the murder and gang rape of a medical
:00:25. > :00:28.student aboard a bus in Delhi. France cautions the Mali army,
:00:28. > :00:37.after reports of execution-style killings, while David Cameron calls
:00:37. > :00:42.for further action to tackle extremism.
:00:42. > :00:47.I believe we are in the midst of a long struggle against murderous
:00:47. > :00:51.terrorists, and a poisonous ideology that supports them.
:00:51. > :01:01.And, a miracle survivor, as a baby girl crawled away from this crash
:01:01. > :01:07.
:01:07. > :01:10.China is calling on all sides to show restraint, after North Korea
:01:10. > :01:13.ratcheted up the rhetoric on its nuclear weapons programme. Angered
:01:13. > :01:18.by a UN Security Council resolution earlier this week, the North
:01:18. > :01:22.Koreans are threatening to carry out a third nuclear test. Six weeks
:01:22. > :01:26.after it launched a long-range rockets and a day after perceiving
:01:26. > :01:36.extra United Nations sanctions, North Korea has raised the stakes
:01:36. > :01:36.
:01:36. > :01:41.with the news it would carried out a third nuclear test.
:01:41. > :01:44.State television made the announcement, saying North Korea
:01:44. > :01:51.was locked in a war of confrontation with its peoples arch
:01:51. > :01:57.enemy, the United States. It rocket launchers and nuclear tests were
:01:57. > :02:02.all carried out with the US in mind. That has given the US envoy
:02:02. > :02:07.something to talk about, he has just arrived in the region to talk
:02:07. > :02:12.to South Korea, Japan and China about relations. Another nuclear
:02:12. > :02:19.test, he said, would be highly provocative. Whether they will test,
:02:19. > :02:24.we hope they will not, we call on them not to do anything. We want to
:02:24. > :02:29.try to find a solution to these long-standing problems which have
:02:29. > :02:34.prevented the peninsula from becoming United. I take it is
:02:34. > :02:38.important they do not test. North Korea has proved resistant to
:02:38. > :02:43.sanctions and not to run its main ally China has been able to stop
:02:43. > :02:48.its young leader from showcasing his country's military might. This
:02:48. > :02:53.time, the north has described the test as high level, a sign perhaps
:02:53. > :02:59.it is moving forward with a new uranium based nuclear programme
:02:59. > :03:03.which it revealed in 2010. Here in South Korea, officials have been
:03:03. > :03:08.watching the preparations closely. Most analysts believe it hasn't yet
:03:08. > :03:13.been able to make a nuclear device small enough to fit on a wall head,
:03:13. > :03:17.but each successful Test and each successful rocket launch brings it
:03:17. > :03:27.a step closer to its goal. The question is, if sanctions do not
:03:27. > :03:38.
:03:38. > :03:43.work, what its neighbours and allies can do to stop it.
:03:43. > :03:53.China is calling on all sides to show restraint after North Korea
:03:53. > :03:59.has ratcheted up the rhetoric on this. I spoke to an expert, Mark
:03:59. > :04:03.Fitzpatrick. It was expected North Korea would
:04:03. > :04:10.respond aggressively to a Security Council action, whatever the
:04:10. > :04:19.council said, North Korea would be expected to do something. I expect
:04:19. > :04:25.they probably will follow through with a third nuclear test.
:04:25. > :04:34.How worried will the United States be about this? We are all worried
:04:34. > :04:37.about a third nuclear test. The second one was a partial fizzle, if
:04:37. > :04:43.they do a third one, they might perfect putting it on top of a
:04:43. > :04:52.missile which could hit South Korea, not the United States yet, but
:04:52. > :05:00.eventually. Neighbours to North Korea will be most concerned.
:05:00. > :05:08.heard about talks continuing, how much pressure can China put on the
:05:08. > :05:14.north? Its influence is limited. North Korea does not want to be
:05:14. > :05:24.beholden to anyone, even though China is the greatest supplier and
:05:24. > :05:24.
:05:24. > :05:30.trader and investor. North Korea is now saying, six party talks, no.
:05:30. > :05:34.There is not much prospect of diplomacy in the near future.
:05:34. > :05:39.you think this is a physical worry? It is a worried that North Korea is
:05:39. > :05:48.likely to go ahead with a third nuclear test, we have seen
:05:48. > :05:52.preparations from satellite images. Prosecution lawyers have begun
:05:52. > :05:55.their case against the men accused of the gang rape and murder of a
:05:55. > :05:59.23-year-old student in Delhi. Five of the suspects arrived on Thursday
:05:59. > :06:03.under heavy security at the fast- track court. A sixth will be tried
:06:03. > :06:06.as a juvenile. The death of the 23- year-old student has led to
:06:06. > :06:08.protests across India, at the way rape cases are dealt with. An
:06:08. > :06:11.official review on Wednesday recommended wide-ranging reforms of
:06:11. > :06:21.the legal system. Our India correspondent Sanjoy
:06:21. > :06:26.Majumder is following the trial and joins us now from Delhi.
:06:26. > :06:30.This is one of the most closely watched trials in India, but where
:06:30. > :06:36.so little information is available on what actually takes place in
:06:36. > :06:40.court. This is a closed trial. The men were brought in by a special
:06:40. > :06:45.police banned under tight security, taken into the court room.
:06:45. > :06:49.Proceedings lasted a couple of hours. The prosecution lawyers
:06:49. > :06:56.began their arguments and we believe the defence will respond on
:06:56. > :07:00.Monday. Tomorrow it is a public holiday in India. Then, the weekend.
:07:00. > :07:05.This is especially fast track caught with daily hearings. The
:07:05. > :07:14.media asked the judge to brief them on what it place in the court but
:07:14. > :07:20.the judge is adamant, it cannot be reported by the media. What level
:07:20. > :07:26.of confidence do people have there? We have had ongoing protests. The
:07:26. > :07:34.problem is immense, over a huge geographical area. Different areas
:07:34. > :07:39.of legal jurisprudence. The -- is very real change coming? Yesterday,
:07:39. > :07:44.we had a very comprehensive list of recommendations from a government
:07:44. > :07:49.panel, three members, headed by a former Chief Justice, two other
:07:49. > :07:55.experts. They received 80,000 suggestions from the public,
:07:55. > :07:58.women's groups, people around the world. The list is extensive,
:07:58. > :08:04.changes to the law to make sentences far stronger in cases of
:08:04. > :08:09.rape, widening the definition of what constitutes sexual assault.
:08:10. > :08:14.Two things they did point out, they said the existing laws are strong
:08:14. > :08:19.and work well, but the implementation let people down, the
:08:19. > :08:24.government, police system and judicial system have always let the
:08:24. > :08:30.victims down. And changes needed to attitude, a lot of people including
:08:30. > :08:35.police, judges, need to change the way debut women and victims of rape
:08:35. > :08:45.which until now has been heavily loaded against them. A change in
:08:45. > :08:49.
:08:49. > :08:52.mind set which will take a lot of doing.
:08:52. > :08:55.Let's take a look at some other stories from around the world.
:08:55. > :08:58.The Palestinians have threatened to take legal action against Israel at
:08:58. > :09:01.the International Criminal Court, if it goes ahead with plans to
:09:01. > :09:04.build new Jewish settlements on occupied areas east of Jerusalem.
:09:04. > :09:06.Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki told the UN Security Council
:09:06. > :09:09.his government would take legal action, if the newly-elected
:09:09. > :09:11.Israeli government goes ahead with a plan approved by the outgoing
:09:11. > :09:14.administration. General John Allen will be
:09:14. > :09:17.nominated as NATO's new supreme commander in Europe, after being
:09:17. > :09:19.cleared of misconduct in exchanging emails with a Florida socialite.
:09:19. > :09:22.The flirtatious messages from General Allen, currently the senior
:09:22. > :09:24.American commander in Afghanistan, came to light during a broader
:09:25. > :09:27.scandal which brought down the CIA director David Petraeus.
:09:27. > :09:30.Two Californian men are suing the disgraced American cyclist, Lance
:09:30. > :09:33.Armstrong, and his publishers, for fraud over the marketing of his
:09:34. > :09:36.memoirs as non-fiction. The complaint was filed just a few days
:09:36. > :09:39.after Armstrong admitted on television that he had used
:09:39. > :09:42.performance-enhancing drugs in all seven of his Tour de France wins.
:09:42. > :09:45.The lawsuit claims Armstrong deceived readers of his 2001 best
:09:45. > :09:48.seller in which he credited his Tour de France wins to training,
:09:48. > :09:51.diet and drive, while denying he ever used banned substances.
:09:52. > :09:54.France has warned Mali to rein in its soldiers, after Malian troops
:09:54. > :09:57.were accused of carrying out summary executions during their
:09:57. > :09:59.joint campaign against Islamist rebels. A Paris-based human rights
:09:59. > :10:02.group says Malian government soldiers have carried out at least
:10:03. > :10:06.30 execution-style killings in the past two weeks. France has sent
:10:06. > :10:09.2,000 troops to Mali, to help the fight against the rebels.
:10:09. > :10:12.A few hours ago, the British prime minister, David Cameron, reiterated
:10:12. > :10:21.his support for that French force in Mali. He was speaking at the
:10:21. > :10:28.World Economic Forum in Davos. The French are right to act in Mali,
:10:28. > :10:35.and I back that action. Not just with words but with lid is a core
:10:35. > :10:38.support as well. -- logistical. But we need to combine a tough security
:10:38. > :10:40.response with an intelligent political response. We need to
:10:40. > :10:44.address the poisonous narrative these terrorists feed on, close
:10:44. > :10:46.down the ungoverned space in which they thrive. And deal with the
:10:46. > :10:49.grievances they use to garner support.
:10:49. > :10:53.Most of Prime Minister's speech at Davos this morning was about tax,
:10:53. > :10:56.and David Cameron has had some very tough things to say about tax
:10:56. > :10:59.evaders and tax avoiders. Speaking to the great and the good at the
:10:59. > :11:04.World Economic Forum, he pointedly said multi-nationals need to listen
:11:04. > :11:09.to the public on tax or, as he put it, "wake up and smell the coffee".
:11:09. > :11:15.Simon Jack is in Davos to tell us more.
:11:15. > :11:19.A really interesting message, he was saying he was business-friendly,
:11:19. > :11:26.and yet his banking colleagues were urging him to clampdown on tax
:11:26. > :11:32.avoidance. He was saying he is a low tax conservative. But the only
:11:32. > :11:35.way you can have lower taxes is if everyone pays them and he had stern
:11:36. > :11:41.words for multinationals using complex structures to drive down
:11:41. > :11:48.their tax bill. He made a thinly veiled reference to Starbucks which
:11:48. > :11:51.was shamed into paying, even though what they did was perfectly legal.
:11:51. > :11:56.He said tax avoidance could not be acceptable morally even if it was
:11:56. > :12:00.legal. David Cameron is seen in this
:12:00. > :12:08.country from a privileged background, representing a party to
:12:08. > :12:14.the centre and right. It is a different -- difficult message.
:12:14. > :12:18.Difficult to see how he can get international consensus. Everyone
:12:19. > :12:25.wants to lower their own taxes to make them more attractive. He
:12:25. > :12:30.boasted the UK had some of the lowest tax rates in Europe. If you
:12:30. > :12:35.raise your tax rates, it drives away business. He said he would use
:12:35. > :12:44.his presidency of the g eight to tackle this, using a concerted
:12:45. > :12:48.approach. Calling on people at this conference to follow him. Take a
:12:48. > :12:52.look at these remarkable pictures, showing how a baby survived being
:12:52. > :12:55.thrown into the path of an oncoming lorry in Russia. Amateur video
:12:55. > :13:00.propped on a dashboard captured this accident in Novgorod, east of
:13:00. > :13:04.Moscow. As the car skidded, it smashed into a lorry, tearing open
:13:04. > :13:07.the back of the vehicle. A baby girl was flung out of the back
:13:07. > :13:11.window and into the oncoming traffic. Another large truck only
:13:11. > :13:15.just managed to swerve out of the way. The girl was trying to crawl
:13:15. > :13:19.onto all fours when her father rushed to her safety. Police say
:13:19. > :13:29.the one year old is OK, but that she was not belted into a child car
:13:29. > :13:47.
:13:47. > :13:49.At least three men are charged with creating the world's most
:13:49. > :13:54.financially destructive computer virus.
:13:54. > :14:03.And we ask why me of women smoking today are more likely to die of
:14:03. > :14:06.lung cancer than they were decades A French woman sentenced to 60
:14:07. > :14:11.years in jail in Mexico's on her way home after being set free by
:14:11. > :14:21.the Supreme Court. Her former boyfriend was the member of a
:14:21. > :14:23.
:14:23. > :14:27.They were the words Florence Cassez has been hoping for since 2005.
:14:27. > :14:31.Given the serious irregularities in the legal process against her, the
:14:31. > :14:35.Supreme Court judges ruled she should be immediately released from
:14:35. > :14:41.a 60 year prison sentence she received as an alleged member of a
:14:41. > :14:47.kidnapping gang. The case of Florence Cassez was controversial
:14:47. > :14:51.from the start. After being detained in December 2005, she was
:14:51. > :14:55.denied consular assistance before the authorities staged a televised
:14:55. > :15:00.police raid on the ranch where she had been staying with her boyfriend.
:15:00. > :15:04.Three hostages were found at the site, but Florence Cassez denied
:15:04. > :15:09.being part of a kidnap gang. The Mexican justice system ignored her
:15:09. > :15:13.claims, and sentenced her to almost 100 years in prison, reduced to 60
:15:13. > :15:18.on appeal. But that television montage and other questions over
:15:18. > :15:21.the legal process have led to her release. For her supporters and
:15:21. > :15:28.family back home, it is a moment to savour.
:15:28. > :15:34.TRANSLATION: I am full of joy. I still can't believe it. Until the
:15:34. > :15:37.last moment, I was saying to myself, she will probably get a retrial.
:15:37. > :15:43.It will doubtless help ease the strained diplomatic ties between
:15:43. > :15:47.France and Mexico over the case, too. Former French President
:15:47. > :15:51.Nicolas Sarkozy championed Florence Cassez's case, and clashed
:15:51. > :15:56.repeatedly with the administration of his Mexican counterpart, Filipe
:15:56. > :15:59.Calderon. Since then, new governments have been elected in
:15:59. > :16:04.Mexico and France, and both sides were keen to put the issue behind
:16:04. > :16:08.them. Her release is not universally welcomed, though. One
:16:08. > :16:12.of the hostages, who testified against Florence Cassez, said she
:16:12. > :16:19.received special treatment as a foreigner, and called the Mexican
:16:19. > :16:25.justice system fell. But as one of Mexico's most high-profile legal
:16:25. > :16:28.disputes draws to a close, the country's are looking forward to it
:16:28. > :16:38.resumed diplomatic relations, and Florence Cassez is looking forward
:16:38. > :16:42.
:16:42. > :16:45.This is BBC World News. The latest headlines: North Korea warns of
:16:45. > :16:50.more nuclear tests and long-range rocket launchers, responding to
:16:50. > :16:53.what it calls its American arch- enemy. And the prosecution has
:16:53. > :16:57.begun its case against five men accused of a murder and gang rape
:16:57. > :17:01.of a medical student on board a bus in Delhi.
:17:01. > :17:06.Three people have been charged in the United States with creating a
:17:06. > :17:10.computer virus to steal millions of dollars from people's bank accounts.
:17:10. > :17:14.The Gozi virus infected a million computers around the world, and it
:17:14. > :17:19.was used to steal people's bank details. Prosecutors are calling it
:17:19. > :17:24.a modern day bank robbery. Dr Thomas Rid, an expert on cyber
:17:24. > :17:32.crime, spoke to me earlier. It was not just one bank robbery. It was
:17:32. > :17:39.many bank robberies at the same time. And they hacked into of which
:17:39. > :17:43.group? They hacked into private customers' bank accounts. And they
:17:43. > :17:48.provided other criminals with the means to do so. And the virus
:17:48. > :17:55.affected millions of computers around the world, including Nasa's
:17:55. > :18:01.computers, too. They broke into bank accounts of private
:18:01. > :18:05.individuals, bank customers. So how do safeguard against this? How many
:18:06. > :18:09.groups could there be doing similar things? They could be more, but we
:18:09. > :18:13.don't know how many. It is important to recognise that they
:18:13. > :18:19.hacked not into the bank itself but actually into your computer at home.
:18:19. > :18:23.That is the weak link. And what do they do? There are many ways for
:18:23. > :18:28.them to hack into your computer, so it is difficult to generalise here.
:18:28. > :18:31.But you can do a couple of things to keep your money safe. One is to
:18:31. > :18:38.keep your operating system at home up to date, keep your browser up-
:18:38. > :18:44.to-date, and also you have to have a healthy amount of distrust.
:18:44. > :18:48.Whenever anybody contacted by phone or e-mail, be very sceptical.
:18:48. > :18:52.Thomas Rid. You have been told, be very careful, he says, on your bank
:18:52. > :18:56.details. Now to Egypt. News of a collapsed
:18:56. > :19:02.building is all too frequent there. Already this week a 75-year-old
:19:02. > :19:08.woman was among those killed when a house caved in in Old Cairo. Last
:19:08. > :19:12.week, 28 people were killed when an apartment block collapsed. The BBC
:19:12. > :19:19.has been to Alexandria to find out why the problem has got so much
:19:19. > :19:22.worse since the revolution. The clothes may still hang on the
:19:22. > :19:28.bedroom wall, but the building and the people who were inside it are
:19:28. > :19:34.all gone. This eight-storey apartment block collapsed early in
:19:34. > :19:42.the morning, and ours, body after body was pulled out. Men, women,
:19:42. > :19:48.children. But news like this barely has an impact in Egypt any more.
:19:48. > :19:52.Alexandria has a particularly bad record. Every year, engineers say,
:19:52. > :19:59.around 20 buildings collapse in this city alone, and many lives are
:19:59. > :20:03.lost. Muhammad knows all about that. He was made an orphan when a
:20:03. > :20:08.building collapsed last summer. They happened to find him wandering
:20:08. > :20:13.around the site where his home once stood. He told us a huge Tatar was
:20:13. > :20:18.being built illegally next door, and his family had complained. Then
:20:18. > :20:25.he describes how the new building toppled over. It crushed his home
:20:25. > :20:29.and smashed into two other blocks. 21 people died. My family were on
:20:29. > :20:34.the ground floor, he says. It took a day to find the bodies. Now most
:20:34. > :20:40.of the time I am just in the streets.
:20:40. > :20:44.We found out the new building going up where his house was also has no
:20:44. > :20:48.licence. That has become the norm here.
:20:48. > :20:52.Right across this city, it is easy to find buildings like these that
:20:52. > :20:57.look like they are on the verge of collapse. We have seen some leaning
:20:57. > :21:00.alarmingly. Many have already been condemned, but we are told by
:21:01. > :21:05.locals that when the police come, the building's owner gives them a
:21:05. > :21:08.bribe and they go away. Alexandria is a resort where
:21:08. > :21:12.building taller and taller is something greedy developers can't
:21:12. > :21:18.resist. All the signs are, while things were bad before, there has
:21:18. > :21:26.been more illegal building since the revolution. There is a
:21:26. > :21:32.combination of administrative corruption, greed and ignorance,
:21:32. > :21:35.and the grip of lawn mower is more lose than before. The authorities
:21:35. > :21:42.say that they are dealing with it, but dangerous buildings are not
:21:42. > :21:47.being pulled down. We found four towers, or leaning in different
:21:47. > :21:52.directions, all occupied. The poor, who have little choice, are risking
:21:52. > :21:56.their lives in hundreds of buildings with imminent danger of
:21:56. > :21:59.collapse. Scientists have announced plans to
:21:59. > :22:07.resume controversial research on creating a mutated highly
:22:07. > :22:10.contagious form of the h five m one bird flu virus. There has been a
:22:10. > :22:14.ban on research over fears that the virus could escape or fall into the
:22:15. > :22:24.hands of terrorists. But the Dutch and American scientists involved so
:22:25. > :22:25.
:22:25. > :22:30.that start in the project is vital The bird flu virus has killed 360
:22:30. > :22:34.people since 2003. They got infected after contact with birds.
:22:34. > :22:38.At the moment, the virus cannot pass from human to human, but that
:22:38. > :22:43.is the scenario health officials dread. So the news that scientists
:22:43. > :22:47.had created an airborne version of this pathogen in the laboratory was
:22:47. > :22:52.met with shock. And with concerns over containment, the scientists
:22:52. > :22:59.put the research on hold. But one year on, they say they are ready to
:22:59. > :23:06.resume their work. They claim that the laboratories made the highest
:23:06. > :23:11.safety standards, and finding the mutation is needed to help with
:23:11. > :23:14.surveillance and vaccines. But some other researchers say that these
:23:15. > :23:19.benefits are and weighed by the risks, and want the ban to stay in
:23:19. > :23:23.place. Even though the risk of the virus escaping his tiny, if it did,
:23:24. > :23:27.the consequences could be catastrophic. Despite this, the
:23:27. > :23:31.researchers say they are ready to return to the lab, and will be
:23:32. > :23:35.starting their work in the next few weeks.
:23:35. > :23:42.More science, because women who smoke have a much greater risk of
:23:42. > :23:45.dying from lung cancer, according to new research from America. This
:23:45. > :23:50.is partly because women are starting younger and smoking more
:23:50. > :23:53.than they used to. Dominic Hughes said it was an extensive study.
:23:53. > :23:56.There are a number of things going on in this study which looked at
:23:56. > :24:01.the health of more than 2 million people in the United States, and
:24:01. > :24:05.covered the period from 1959-2010, so it was looking at a huge number
:24:05. > :24:09.of people over a long period of time, so it is a pretty reliable
:24:09. > :24:13.study. One of the big things going on is that the general health of
:24:13. > :24:17.the nation has improved massively over the last 50 years, but the
:24:18. > :24:23.health of smokers has not kept pace with that. What they are saying is
:24:23. > :24:28.that women who started smoking in the 1960s, they roughly ran the
:24:28. > :24:33.risk of about three times compared to their non-smoking counterparts
:24:33. > :24:36.of developing diseases like lung cancer. Fast-forward to the decade
:24:36. > :24:42.between 20021010, and that risk of developing lung cancer for women
:24:42. > :24:47.who smoked had leapt to about 25 times higher than the non-smokers.
:24:47. > :24:53.What they think might be happening is that women are starting younger
:24:53. > :24:58.and smoking more heavily, and they also suggest that the marketing of
:24:58. > :25:02.low-tar or light a cigarette towards women means that they are
:25:02. > :25:05.smoking at heavier rates, but also taking the smoke in deeper into
:25:05. > :25:11.their lungs to get the same nicotine hit that they always
:25:12. > :25:16.needed, and that is causing increased damage. Any research as
:25:16. > :25:21.to why these behaviour patterns are changing? Why are they smoking
:25:21. > :25:24.more? They are mimicking the way that men have smoked. Women didn't
:25:24. > :25:29.really start smoking in greater numbers until the Fifties and
:25:29. > :25:34.Sixties, but we are seeing now, 50 years later, that the impact of
:25:34. > :25:39.that is coming home to roost. Women who smoke like men will die like
:25:39. > :25:45.men, they say. There has been a cold snap in the
:25:45. > :25:50.US, and in some parts, it is colder than the North Pole. It is actually
:25:50. > :25:56.worse in the US. Have a look at these pictures from the coast of
:25:56. > :26:00.Michigan. The extremely low temperatures have turned this light
:26:01. > :26:03.house into something resembling a massive icicle. Residents are
:26:04. > :26:13.bracing further freezing temperatures to continue for a few
:26:13. > :26:17.more days yet. Amazing pictures. And a reminder of our top stories
:26:17. > :26:22.today. China is calling for restraint after North Korea
:26:23. > :26:27.ratcheted up the tension over its nuclear weapons programme. North
:26:27. > :26:30.Korea says it will carry out another nuclear test, and further
:26:30. > :26:33.rocket launches, as a direct response to the tightening of the
:26:33. > :26:36.United Nations sanctions. North Korea says it is not seeking to
:26:36. > :26:43.hide the fact that various satellite and long-range rocket
:26:43. > :26:49.tests were being carried out, with Pyongyang's principal enemy, the