:00:16. > :00:20.$:/STARTFEED. This is BBC World News. Our top stories - a worldwide
:00:20. > :00:25.investigation into football match- fixing, finds evidence that
:00:25. > :00:28.hundreds of games, including World Cup qualifiers were rigged. This is
:00:28. > :00:34.match-fixing activity on a scale that we have not seen before,
:00:34. > :00:36.involving hundreds of criminals and corrupted officials and players.
:00:36. > :00:39.Pointers to securing regional stability. Britain's Prime Minister
:00:39. > :00:44.is hosting talks with the Presidents of Afghanistan and
:00:44. > :00:50.Pakistan. No bones about it - researchers in Britain say that DNA
:00:50. > :00:56.from a skeleton found under a car park is that of King Richard III.
:00:56. > :01:06.And tens of thousands are on the streets of Phnom Penh for the
:01:06. > :01:18.
:01:18. > :01:21.European police say they've uncovered evidence of football
:01:21. > :01:25.match-fixing on an unprecedented scale, both within Europe and
:01:25. > :01:29.beyond. They have pin-pointed hundreds of suspicious matches and
:01:29. > :01:33.say more than 400 corrupt players and officials may have been
:01:33. > :01:38.involved. After looking into games that include European Cup and World
:01:38. > :01:43.Cup qualifiers, the police agency says that match-fixing originates
:01:43. > :01:48.in organised crime syndicates in Asia. The head of Europe poll says
:01:48. > :01:57.he believes criminals have made millions of euros. We have
:01:57. > :02:02.uncovered an extensive criminal med work -- network. A total of 425
:02:02. > :02:07.match officials, club officials, players and serious criminals from
:02:07. > :02:13.more than 15 countries are suspected of being involved in
:02:13. > :02:19.attempts to mix more than 380 professional football matches. The
:02:19. > :02:23.activists form part of a sophisticated, ogged crime
:02:23. > :02:27.operation -- organised crime operation, which generated over
:02:27. > :02:32.eight million euros and involved the payment of at least two million
:02:32. > :02:37.euros in corrupt payments to those involved in the matches. I've been
:02:37. > :02:41.speaking to our sport roarer and he told me the scale of the corruption
:02:41. > :02:46.is shocking. This investigation has involved five EU countries and it
:02:46. > :02:51.would be fair to say that the German force has led the way. It's
:02:51. > :02:59.about 380 possible games that were rigged since 2009 in Europe. 300
:02:59. > :03:03.games outside of Europe, maybe also fixed. 425 suspects, officials,
:03:03. > :03:08.referees and gangsters and players arrested. It's a huge investigation.
:03:08. > :03:13.Large sums of money and very, very real criminality involved. Any idea
:03:13. > :03:18.of what will happen now in terms of individuals being pursued? Some
:03:18. > :03:23.people have already been charged. Some people have been charged and
:03:23. > :03:27.some people have been improved. The investigation started if 2005, and
:03:27. > :03:32.we have had some of the ringleaders imprisoned. One of the games that
:03:32. > :03:35.we talked about, or what Rob Wainwright talked about was the
:03:35. > :03:39.Champions League came that took place in England in the last three
:03:39. > :03:42.or four years. They can't identify the game because this is all on-
:03:42. > :03:47.going. The details are emerging and the press conference continues.
:03:47. > :03:50.It's very hard to nail down what actually happens next, but Europol
:03:50. > :03:59.is on it aand Interpol and the police forces in five EU states are
:03:59. > :04:01.all over it now. As western forces prepare to withdraw combat troops
:04:01. > :04:06.from Afghanistan, President Karzai has questioned whether they were
:04:07. > :04:12.fighting in the wrong place. He is in the UK for kaubgz with his
:04:12. > :04:17.Pakistani counterpart and the -- talks with the Pakistani -- with
:04:17. > :04:24.his Pakistani counterpart. He says the presence of foreign troops in
:04:24. > :04:34.the country has been fuelling the violence. With me now is a reporter
:04:34. > :04:34.
:04:34. > :04:42.from BBC Urdu and a reporter from BBC Pashtu. Anything knew that he
:04:42. > :04:46.is saying? He has repeated, but he has been saying that the western
:04:46. > :04:49.forces should be focusing on the militants and that is what the
:04:50. > :04:59.Government has been saying. They are saying they've moved to
:05:00. > :05:00.
:05:00. > :05:07.Pakistan in the tribal areas and he is also saying that some of the
:05:07. > :05:10.raids killed or captured civilians and then a lot of people are taking
:05:10. > :05:16.up arms and started fighting the Government and the international
:05:16. > :05:23.allies, so this is what he has been criticising that the force should
:05:23. > :05:29.focus on this and unshouldn't be arresting or killing civilians.
:05:29. > :05:34.These are very familiar themes. Obviously the allegation against
:05:34. > :05:38.the Pakistani Government's have been down the years and that
:05:38. > :05:46.including they've been supporting the Taliban. Over who influences
:05:46. > :05:52.the leaderboard there. Actually, they have been blaming Pakistan for
:05:52. > :05:56.supporting some Taliban groups, especially networks based in the
:05:56. > :06:01.northern tribal areas of Pakistan. I think the most important thing
:06:01. > :06:06.about these talks is that not only the President of Pakistan is here
:06:06. > :06:10.to negotiate terms, but the Pakistani army chief and the
:06:10. > :06:15.intelligence chief, the chief of ISIN is also there. What
:06:15. > :06:21.specifically are you expecting could come out of this? Well, there
:06:21. > :06:29.have been talks in the past and nothing concrete came out of those
:06:29. > :06:32.talks. What comes out of these talks, the thing is since Pakistan
:06:32. > :06:37.basically tried to convince the international forces that Pakistan
:06:37. > :06:43.is part of the solution, not part of the problem. No-one in the
:06:43. > :06:46.region sees it like that and that's here and in the United States.
:06:46. > :06:52.international community is realising that Pakistan is part of
:06:52. > :07:02.the solution, because these intelligence chiefs are there in
:07:02. > :07:04.
:07:04. > :07:08.these talks. From -- is that a line that will be plausible to people in
:07:08. > :07:12.Afghanistan now as they look ahead to 2014 and the NATO troops coming
:07:12. > :07:18.out. What are the fears of ordinary people living in Kabul and beyond?
:07:18. > :07:22.Well, the fears of the people in Afghanistan are the following -
:07:22. > :07:26.that there might be a repeat of the 1990s when neighbouring countries
:07:26. > :07:34.of Afghanistan were supporting their own favourite groups, who are
:07:34. > :07:38.fighting against each other. It was a proxy war of regional players.
:07:38. > :07:45.The fears have been building up for so many years. We see the talks.
:07:45. > :07:50.What do you think Mr Karzai wants from this? He wants two things. He
:07:50. > :07:55.wants Pakistan to play a positive and constructive role. He says that
:07:55. > :08:00.the Taliban leaderboard is based in Pakistan and he says that Pakistan
:08:00. > :08:05.can influence the Taliban to take part in the peace process and
:08:05. > :08:10.secondly, he also wants the international community to press
:08:10. > :08:14.rise or convince the regional players not to -- pressureise or
:08:14. > :08:20.convince the regional players not to get involved. The main focus is
:08:20. > :08:25.on the peace process. Afghanistan has a peace roadmap for 2015, so
:08:25. > :08:29.they want the Taliban to join the government and cease fighting and
:08:29. > :08:37.they'll talk about the withdrawal of foreign forces, which will
:08:37. > :08:40.happen by the end of 2014. They want the vacuum not to be filled by
:08:40. > :08:43.non-state forces so it's in the interest of Pakistan and
:08:43. > :08:47.Afghanistan that they co-operate and they come up with a plan and
:08:47. > :08:50.strategy to make sure that the vacuum is not filled by militant
:08:50. > :08:58.groups, which would destabilise both countries. Gentlemen, thank
:08:58. > :09:06.you. In other news, French war planes
:09:06. > :09:12.have carried out air strikes in Mali's north. 30 French jets
:09:12. > :09:16.targeted training centres and fuel depots near the border. A former UK
:09:16. > :09:21.Government minister has pleaded guilty to perverting the course of
:09:21. > :09:26.justice over claims that his ex- wife took blame for a speeding
:09:26. > :09:29.offence a decade ago. Chris Huhne had originally pleaded not guilty,
:09:29. > :09:33.but changed his plea hours before his trial was due to start. His
:09:33. > :09:40.former wife, Vicky Price, has previously pleaded not guilty to
:09:40. > :09:44.the same offence. The President of Niger, Mahamadou Issoufou has
:09:44. > :09:50.confirmed that French special forces are protecting the country's
:09:50. > :09:55.Uranium mines. This decision was taken after the recent hostage
:09:55. > :09:58.crisis. The former Cuban leader, Fidel
:09:58. > :10:02.Castro made a surprise public appearance to cast his vote in the
:10:02. > :10:05.general election. He hasn't been seen in public since last October,
:10:05. > :10:11.fuelling speculation about his health. He stood down as President
:10:11. > :10:16.six years ago. In the past hour, scientists have confirmed that a
:10:16. > :10:22.skeleton found in a car park in Leicester is almost certainly that
:10:22. > :10:28.of the notorious king, Richard III. If you know your Shakespeare, he's
:10:28. > :10:31.the hunchback king who had hifz nephews imprisoned and subsequently
:10:31. > :10:36.murdered in -- his nephews imprisoned and subsequently
:10:36. > :10:42.murdered in the Tower of London. Here is the moment. Beyond
:10:42. > :10:51.reasonable doubt the individual exhumed in September 2012 is indeed
:10:51. > :10:57.Richard III. We have just lost that clip. We will go live to Leicester
:10:57. > :11:03.and join Louise Hubble. You were in that dramatic press conference.
:11:03. > :11:06.What exact proof do they have? There was a real sense of drama
:11:07. > :11:10.here and spontaneous applause broke out in the hall which it was
:11:10. > :11:19.announced that the remains beyond reasonable doubt do belong to
:11:19. > :11:25.Richard III. As you say, it was a complex process to reach this stage.
:11:25. > :11:31.Basically, it is a DNA match between DNA recovered from the
:11:31. > :11:36.remains of Richard III and DNA from two living decepdants through the
:11:36. > :11:41.maternal line. -- descendants through the maternal line. One is
:11:41. > :11:45.Michael inson and the other one wishes to remain anonymous, but has
:11:45. > :11:49.provided that precise comparison and that is why the scientists and
:11:49. > :11:53.the archeologists are so sure that though remains do belong to Richard.
:11:53. > :11:57.So many fascinating details. So many details, in fact, that a
:11:57. > :12:03.literary expert is saying that literature will indeed have to be
:12:03. > :12:06.rewritten or reanalysed certainly, because of the findings. One of the
:12:06. > :12:12.findings from the skeleton expert was that Richard was very slender
:12:12. > :12:16.and feminine. And there are plenty of literary references to the fact
:12:16. > :12:20.he was described as weak and the experts here were saying that may
:12:20. > :12:25.be in fact because of his slightly feminine appearance, rather than
:12:25. > :12:30.his manner of his kingship. We heard far more details about the
:12:30. > :12:35.skeleton, the wounds that it sustained. He was killed after the
:12:35. > :12:42.battle of Bosworth in 1485. We heard the exol tonne had ten wounds.
:12:42. > :12:46.A large wound from bladed weapons, -- skeleton had ten wounds, a large
:12:46. > :12:52.wound from bladed weapons and one on the cheek. There was a real
:12:52. > :12:55.sense of excitement, not just at the announcement, but what it will
:12:55. > :13:01.mean for literature and literary reassessments and also the fact
:13:01. > :13:07.that here in Leicester it was announced that the bones will be
:13:07. > :13:12.put in the cathedral. Someone asked for a state funeral, because there
:13:12. > :13:17.is obviously much controversy around his life. He was massively
:13:17. > :13:23.vilified and referred to across so much literature and art? Absolutely.
:13:23. > :13:26.He does have a notorious reputation, I think it's fair to say. The
:13:26. > :13:29.Richard III Society, his appreciation society, they sparked
:13:29. > :13:34.off this whole search for his remains and they are hoping that
:13:34. > :13:37.the findings here will lead to a re-evaluation and the fact we know
:13:37. > :13:41.he had a crooked spine, which was described in literature, but there
:13:41. > :13:46.was no evidence at all for the fact he had a withered arm, which
:13:46. > :13:50.features in literature. I've been down to the cathedral down the road
:13:50. > :13:54.and certainly on Friday they were - - they have a memorial stone and
:13:54. > :13:58.that was being buffed and polished and I think there is a real sense
:13:58. > :14:03.of excitement there that Richard's remains will be re-Intered there
:14:03. > :14:09.and there is a feeling that for many years Richard has been
:14:09. > :14:13.presented as a villain and now we have far more information about him
:14:13. > :14:23.and hopefully people would like to see something of a rehabilitation
:14:23. > :14:29.
:14:29. > :14:33.of his character. Thank you very $:/STARTFEED. Plenty more coming up
:14:33. > :14:36.including: A semblance of normal life in the conflict zone, we
:14:37. > :14:41.report from Homs, a city in the centre of the very worst of
:14:41. > :14:46.violence. And on World Cancer Day we hear how
:14:46. > :14:50.a diagnosis is no longer a death sentence. The stories of three
:14:50. > :14:54.people who are now living with cancer.
:14:54. > :14:59.To Cambodia where hundreds of thousands of mourners have been
:14:59. > :15:02.paying their last respects to King Norodom Sihanouk. He died last
:15:02. > :15:09.October. After lying in state for three months his body will be
:15:09. > :15:15.cremated later today. Many see him as a hero and credit him with
:15:15. > :15:20.overseeing a rare period of stability in the country's history.
:15:20. > :15:26.For three days, a stream of people filing past the gilded sarcophagus.
:15:26. > :15:30.Much of the country has come to a halt as Cambodians of all ages paid
:15:30. > :15:36.their final respects to King Norodom Sihanouk in the royal
:15:36. > :15:40.palace that was at times his home and during the Khmer Rouge years, a
:15:40. > :15:47.virtual prisoner. We love him because we felt he was so close to
:15:47. > :15:49.the people, said this woman, and he did so many things for his country.
:15:50. > :15:53.The schoolgirls say their generation revere him just as much
:15:53. > :15:59.as older generations because they have all read about the things he
:15:59. > :16:05.did before they were born. He was crowned King more than 70 years ago.
:16:05. > :16:09.He was prime ministers six times, exiled twice and ousted by ecu.
:16:09. > :16:16.Today they were selling photographs from all the extraordinary faces of
:16:16. > :16:20.his life. King Norodom Sihanouk lived such a long and tumultuous
:16:20. > :16:25.life and one full of contradictions. It is very hard to sum up just how
:16:25. > :16:29.good or bad he was for Cambodia. Nobody is doing that. They are
:16:29. > :16:35.marking the loss of a giant personality who shaped much of
:16:35. > :16:40.their country's independent history. And given how bad that history has
:16:40. > :16:47.been in recent decades, many of them associate him with the former
:16:47. > :16:53.golden age of the 19 50s and Sixties. This is a very big moment
:16:53. > :17:01.for a Cambodia. I think Cambodians living in the country remember only
:17:01. > :17:06.the good things from him. Saying that until 1970 we were happy and
:17:06. > :17:12.we did not have war. Then he left in 1970 and we started having
:17:12. > :17:16.problems. It is a sentimental recollection of a flawed but bury
:17:16. > :17:26.romantic figure of a monarch. They know they will not see his like are
:17:26. > :17:28.
:17:28. > :17:34.again running the country. -- very romantic. This is BBC World
:17:34. > :17:39.News. The headlines: A worldwide investigation into football match-
:17:39. > :17:43.fixing has found evidence hundreds of games, including World Cup
:17:43. > :17:48.qualifiers, where rig. The British Prime Minister is host
:17:48. > :17:51.informal talks with the leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan to try to
:17:51. > :17:55.secure peace across their joint border.
:17:55. > :18:00.The city of Homs has seen some of the most ferocious fighting in
:18:00. > :18:05.Syria. Estimates suggest 20,000 people have died within its streets
:18:05. > :18:10.over the past two years. That is one-third of the total number of
:18:10. > :18:18.deaths in the whole of Syria. What is daily life like for those who
:18:18. > :18:23.remain in the City? A fight to win the game. In this
:18:23. > :18:28.part of Homs children get a chance to forget the war. Everyone is
:18:28. > :18:33.trying to make the breast of breaks between the fighting. This
:18:33. > :18:39.playground is part of a newly built market set-up by the local
:18:40. > :18:45.community. Backed by the Government, dozens of shops were hastily put up.
:18:45. > :18:50.This man is in charge. He told me there was an urgent need.
:18:50. > :18:54.TRANSLATION: We have a huge influx of displaced people who could not
:18:54. > :18:58.get to work. They started selling goods on the pavement, so the
:18:58. > :19:02.neighbourhood suggested building shops on a new piece of land.
:19:02. > :19:07.needed because so much of the city has been destroyed. People are
:19:07. > :19:12.eager to tell their stories, but do not want to appear on camera,
:19:12. > :19:17.fearing arrest by security forces if they speak their mind. This man
:19:17. > :19:22.tells me he used to have a well- paid job, but now he is selling
:19:23. > :19:27.fruit to try and make a living. He says he was forced out of his home
:19:27. > :19:33.for more than a year now and is living with 20 other members of his
:19:33. > :19:37.family in one single flat. Everyone is grateful to get back to normal,
:19:37. > :19:43.but behind the scenes, there is a lot of anger. This young man who
:19:43. > :19:48.also lost his well-paid job is selling cosmetics. He tells me
:19:48. > :19:52.everyone is tired and there will be no end to the suffering a less
:19:52. > :19:56.serious for give each other and make a new start. This project
:19:56. > :20:02.gives a window of hope for those who lost their means of living, but
:20:02. > :20:06.given the scale of the crisis it is not enough. What people make here
:20:06. > :20:13.hardly feeds them, but for most who were hit by the violence there is
:20:13. > :20:22.no such opportunity. You cannot forget the war altogether. Before
:20:22. > :20:26.we left the market a jet fighter screamed overhead. Look at the
:20:26. > :20:32.destruction here. It will take more than a small market to make up for
:20:32. > :20:36.this. The residents are not back yet in this area. It is deserted
:20:36. > :20:44.and destroyed and this is one of the many areas of Homs that are
:20:44. > :20:47.just as ruined. Belgium's most notorious convicted
:20:47. > :20:53.paedophile and murderer, Marc Dutroux, goes before a court today
:20:53. > :20:58.to put forward his case for early release. He was jailed for life in
:20:58. > :21:03.2004 for abducting, imprisoning and raping sheet -6 teenage girls in
:21:03. > :21:09.the 1980s. Marc Dutroux, a man whose crimes
:21:09. > :21:15.horrified a nation. Few in Belgium believe he should ever be freed so
:21:15. > :21:25.appalling were the acts which he was responsible for. Emotion is
:21:25. > :21:25.
:21:25. > :21:30.still raw in Marcinell, south of Brussels. The house where he lived
:21:30. > :21:36.has been dogged. The should not be released if he has not committed
:21:36. > :21:41.the full sentence. Four other cases, why not? But not in this case.
:21:41. > :21:47.There is a 90% chance of him reoffending. This person is not
:21:47. > :21:51.well in his head and we should not pay the price. But Marc Dutroux's
:21:51. > :21:57.lawyer says his bid for freedom is justified if only to highlight the
:21:57. > :22:01.solitary confinement he is kept in. TRANSLATION: He knows he does not
:22:01. > :22:06.have much to lose and this can draw attention to his condition, to his
:22:06. > :22:12.fate, because there is a lot to say on his detention conditions which
:22:12. > :22:19.are not worthy of a civilised state in the 21st century. Last year,
:22:19. > :22:24.Marc Dutroux's ex-wife, Michelle Martin, was released from jail 16
:22:24. > :22:27.years into her 30 years centres. The decision was met with fury,
:22:27. > :22:32.protesters demonstrating outside the convent that had given her
:22:32. > :22:37.refuge. She had been jailed for complicity in the deaths of two
:22:37. > :22:43.girls. The girls were Cup -- are held captive in the basement built
:22:43. > :22:47.by her husband and they had starved after she failed to feed them. For
:22:47. > :22:51.many the prospect of this man ever tasting freedom is unthinkable.
:22:51. > :22:56.Where he goes from here is once again in the hands of Belgian
:22:56. > :23:01.justice. Every year nearly 30 million new
:23:01. > :23:05.cases of cancer are diagnosed worldwide. Nearly two out of three
:23:05. > :23:10.of these are in developing countries. As treatments improve
:23:10. > :23:15.more people are surviving than ever before and on World Cancer Day we
:23:16. > :23:22.have been hearing the stories of three cancer survivors.
:23:22. > :23:32.TRANSLATION: I am 39 years old and I was diagnosed with breast cancer
:23:32. > :23:35.
:23:35. > :23:45.when I was 32. TRANSLATION: I am 29. I was diagnosed with Hodgkin's
:23:45. > :23:45.
:23:45. > :23:55.lymphoma in 1988 when I was five years. TRANSLATION: I am 56 years
:23:55. > :23:56.
:23:56. > :24:03.old and I had breast cancer. offer emotional and practical
:24:03. > :24:09.support to these people who are receiving treatment. Whenever they
:24:09. > :24:13.have cancer patients and they call me. TRANSLATION: When you first get
:24:13. > :24:18.the news that you believe it is a lie, that something is wrong. You
:24:18. > :24:25.want them to double check and that is what I did. I asked them to
:24:25. > :24:30.double check because I could not believe it. TRANSLATION: I knew
:24:30. > :24:34.about the disease, I am medically trained, but none of that matters
:24:34. > :24:39.when you are diagnosed. I was like every other patient, a scared pace
:24:39. > :24:42.and, afraid to visit the doctor. People on the whole have the
:24:42. > :24:47.information they need, there is more information and screening
:24:47. > :24:52.centres. But outside the capital there are villages with no
:24:52. > :24:56.information. We have very little knowledge about cancer, so even the
:24:56. > :25:01.patients themselves do not completely understand the disease
:25:01. > :25:06.that they have. They have very little knowledge about it.
:25:06. > :25:09.TRANSLATION: When I was in hospital other patients who came to the
:25:10. > :25:14.capital were on their own and I decided I wanted to help these
:25:14. > :25:19.people. I started my awareness campaign when I was still receiving
:25:19. > :25:23.treatment and I continued working on it for about a year. Now in this
:25:23. > :25:30.group we just want to spend time together, not only to top about the
:25:30. > :25:35.cancer, sometimes we want to share other family problems or good news.
:25:35. > :25:39.Cancer survivors. From Colombia, Uganda and torture.
:25:39. > :25:47.At least eight people have been killed in a bus crash in southern
:25:47. > :25:52.California. The bus was driving along a rural mountain road when it
:25:52. > :25:57.collided with a pick up truck. More than 25 people were injured. It
:25:57. > :26:02.took police one hour to free them from the wreckage. Our top story
:26:02. > :26:07.today: Within the last our European police say they have uncovered
:26:07. > :26:12.evidence of football match-fixing on an unprecedented scale. Both
:26:12. > :26:16.within Europe and beyond. They have pinpointed hundreds of suspicious
:26:16. > :26:20.matches and say more than 400 corrupt players and officials may
:26:20. > :26:25.have have been involved after looking into games that included
:26:25. > :26:30.European Cup and World Cup qualifiers. Match-fixing originates
:26:30. > :26:35.in organised crime syndicates in Asia. It covers the match officials,
:26:35. > :26:38.club officials, criminals and players involved from 16 different
:26:38. > :26:42.countries and the scale of corruption is larger than anything
:26:42. > :26:45.they have ever seen before. Also, the confirmation from
:26:46. > :26:52.Leicester in the Midlands that the skeleton they had buried underneath