07/02/2013 BBC World News

Hello, this is BBC World News. The top stories: It is a black day for

Australian sport. Widespread doping uncovered as well as aengss of

match-fixing. A culture of corruption in Afghanistan. A new

study reveals just how prevalent bribery is throughout the society.

India's government is under attack as a report says that thousands of

children are raped every year with many more assaulted in homes,

schools and care facilities. The race is on in Russia to finish

have beenures for s -- to finish venues for the winter Olympics, we

speak to anologyology who helped to stump up $2 billion to help pay for

it all. -- oligarch.

Hello. Australian sports fans are reeling

from the findings of a government investigation which found

widespread use of banned drugs across a range of professional

sports. The year-long study by the Australian Crime Commission

concluded that the doping was facilitated by sports scientists,

coaches, and medical staff. That some illegal drugs weredies Buted

by organised criminal gangs. From Sydney Chris Bryant has this report.

In a country that loves sport and hates cheats, the allegations of

such widespread doping have produced what many are calling the

blackest day in Australian sporting history.

The country's Crime Commission and its Anti-Doping Agency allege that

the use of performance enhancing drugs is facilitated by doctors,

sports scientists and coaches and also organised crime. Some athletes

are using substances not yet approved for human use. In some

cases, entire teams have been doped. The findings have shock.

They will disgust Australian sports fans. The work that the Australian

Crime Commission has done has found that the use of prohibited

substances, including pep tides, hormones and illicit drugs is

widespread amongst professional athletes.

Multiple criminal offences have allegedly been committed. Athletes

using illegal substances have been urged to come forward.

Standing with some of the CEOs of Australia's major sports is a

statement to those who sick to ruin sport. If you want to dope and

cheat, we will catch you. If you want to fix a match, we will catch

you. Because criminal investigations are under way, the

report is short on specifics, which tale teams, which players, which

sports, they are questioned left unanswered. The main codes of

Australian football and rugby league are under close scrutiny it

has left fans asking which athletes and which teams can they trust?

Well John Fey is the President of The World Anti-Doping Agency. He is

in the Australian state of New South Wales. He is Australian. I

asked if he was shocked by the findings? I'm disappointed. I'm a--

alarmed by the extent of this report. Without the specifics. It

clearly indicates that this problem is widespread.

It touches many sports. Many of our major sports.

It involves a connection with organised crime it covers not only

the prohibited drugs under the wider code that are performance

enhancing but also illegal drugs and possibly match-fixing. That

connection with the organised crime that shocks me. I have seen it in

other parts of the world. I hoped I would never see it in my country.

Today I know differently. When you hear some of the leading

figures within some of the sports, like Aussie Rules and rugby league

saying that they have a vigorous testing system, that they don't let

anything go, do you accept that? Look, there are all code-compliant

under the wider code but can they do more? Of course they can. Should

they have done more? Yes, they should have.

I don't especially single out Australian sport for that. This is

the story around the world. If you look at capacity under the manner

in which we do catch many cheats, that is by taking samples,

analysing those samples, the blood or urine, we have a small number in

the single figures of blood tests that are taken, of blood samples

that are analysed. Many of the prohibited drubs, including in the

hormone area can only be detected if you take blood samples. Staying

on that subject, the head of the American branch, the Anti-Doping

Agency in the US, Travis Tygart, says that Lance Armstrong wants to

help clean up the sport of cycling. Lance Armstrong is being sued for

$12 million for an money he was paid that he won in the Tour de

France back in 2004 by an American insurance company.

Now in the last few minutes, a spokesperson for the governing

party in Tunis areas confirmed that they have rejected the Prime

Minister's proposal to form a government of techno crats. Hamadi

Jebali proposed the plan after violent protests in the country

over the killing of an outspoken credit of the government. The BBC's

correspondent from there explains the situation.

It is a mess. Somebody is going to be upset

whatever happens. It is unclear what is going it happen. Nobody

knows who killed this critic. A vocal critic of the dom innocent

party of Tunisian politics. People took it the streets in their

thousands calling for the Government to step down. The Prime

Minister comes out, Hamadi Jebali, he said that they would have techno

crats, early elections but then there was supporters of the

shramentist party who say that they want elections at the end of 2011,

why should they step down? So there has been an interview the Vice-

President of the party, who is saying that they are not happy with

stepping down. As I sairbgs either the Prime

Minister is going to upset those opposition supporters that we saw

on the streets who want the government to step down, or he is

going to upset people within his own party. It feels like Tunisia,

which for so long was looking like the model for the Arab Spring is

suddenly in disarray. Now to two groups who have been bitter and

deadly rivals but could go into government together, Hamas says it

is working towards a national unity of administration with Fatah. In an

interview with the BBC's hard talk, the Hamas leader, Khalid Meshaal

says that they are preparing to hold new elections.

TRANSLATION: First, we are moving ahead in our reckon sillation

efforts. We are negotiating on the national unity government. Talking

about early presidential and party elections. We are moving forward.

I'm telling you, once we agree on the dates of elections, when there

are normal conditions on the grounds allowing Fatah, Hamas and

all other personalities to approach the polling stations without

difficulties, Hamas will respect and honour any results of the

election weather the winner is Fatah or Hamas. We believe in

democracy. However, we wish it to be respected by the whole world. We

don't want to be victims once again, as in 2006, whether democracy was

rejected by the world. Khalid Meshaal there. A report into

corruption in Afghanistan suggests that half of the population paid a

prescribe to a public official last year. Afghans paid the equivalent

of twice the country's domestic revenue, a total of almost $4

billion. The report says that the total cost of corruption went up by

40% compared with three years earlier. Many Afghans, though,

don't think it is a problem. 07% of people surveyed said it was

acceptable for a civil servant to top up the salary by accepting

bribes. Let's get more on this. Our

correspondent is in Kabul. Bilal, some extraordinary figures there.

Yet a casual attitude towards corruption, it seems? Well, the

revelations are shocking. They will shatter the confidence of the

Afghan people and their government. It will make it very hard for the

Afghan government, especially in the rural areas to win the support

of the local population. You have to remember that the Taliban

insurgents are campaigning exactly on corruption. They are saying that

there is no corruption in the areas that they control, that the Afghan

government is corrupt. It looks bad but it is a bizarre

survey. There are more people seemingly accepting that bribery is

a part of everyday life but also more people reporting that bribery

when it crosses their path? Well, the Afghan people have gotten used

to the problems of corruption in most cases. They really don't think

that the government will do anything about it.

They don't think that they will do anything about it as they see the

government's failure of the government to prosecute senior

officials. Even some Afghan ministers. What is

also shocking about the report is that it is not only the police or

the civil servants but even teachers and the education

department that have been involved in these corruptions. For example,

some teachers have been taking bribes or accept -- accepting gifts,

simply to help children better to help them pass an exam. That will

be shocking to many Afghans. There were extraordinary figures in that

survey. Thank you very much. Stay with us on BBC World News.

Coming up in a moment we are getting set for the great New Year

fireworks festival. We have a report for you from China's Hunan

Province. An exhibition of modern art in

India has sparked protest over nudity. The police had to be called

after the activists gathered outside of the Delhi Art Gallery.

They say that the paintings are offensive to women. The

exhibition's organisers will not be deterred, they say. Art galleries

are not normally so heavily guarded, but the security forces had to be

called in to keep the peace here. A new exhibition called The Naked and

The Nude has prompted an outcry of these members. They say that the

art inside the gallery is vulgar. That it shows women in a bad light.

TRANSLATION: We have an objection with the naked pictures of the

women. They don't match our moral, cultural, hind d'you and Indian

values. This is not a part of our Indian culture.

There has been a series of demonstrations across India against

the object fiction of Indian women, following the gang-rape of a

student in December. They say that this is an inflammatory time to

hold an exhibition like this and demand that it is closed, but

modern fans say it is wrong to link violence with the works of famous

artists. They are also on display here.

The rape case has aggravated this whole thing. That is what is

demeaning. That is what they should put down. That is what they should

protest against. These are just drawings sketches, works of arts.

This is an artists perogative. The gallery refused to remove the

works featured. The director says that the protesters misunderstood

the purpose of the exhibition. They are calling the pictures

vulgar, provocative. I would say if you look at Hindu culture and

mythology it is replete in art. It does not make sense. The human body

theme is a very popular theme in Indian art.

The gallery says that they will not bow to the demands of people.

They intend to keep the exhibition open as planned until mid-March.

As ever, more on this story and the others you see on BBC World News

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Let's have a look at our main stories this hour: There have been

allegations of widespread doping across a number of Australian

sports throughout the country. That's what we are going to focus

on for the moment. We can speak now to the ABC sports commentator Matt

Clinch. He is on the line from Australia. Matt, it is all focused

and all eyes on Australia at the moment. We heard the Justice

Minister say had is shocked. We spoke to John Fey, the head of the

World Anti-Doping Agency, who is not so much shocked as alarmed. How

do you view it? It is probably the day that the Australian sport lost

its incense, to be honest. We have watched the events taking place in

Europe and the rest of the world but to think it would happen.in

Australia, whether that is the naivety of the sporting bodies,

that they thought it would be minuscule, it has now led to

everyone being shocked. That is the most surprising and scary part

about it. The findings are believable as the result of good

police work. It reveal as problem that sport has not been able to

identify themselves. This is a revelation by the police. As I

mentioned, this is now figuring with international sporting events,

with Lance Armstrong, with all of the cycling stuff that came out and

in contrast, the difference is that it is crossing over into other

sports. It is evolving. You followed the sports closely. In

particular, Australian Rules, is this a bolt from the blew or have

there been rumours, suggestions, speculation for ages that there may

It's started when one of the most successful clubs had to say there

had been injections that had taken place throughout last season and

they were not sure what had been injected to their players. It was

suggested it had been vitamins but it has opened a legal loophole.

They're saying they acted under the advisement of doctors and club

officials. They did not know what they were being injected with but

followed the guidance of the club. Since more has come out, we have

had a variety of administrators from all Australian Rules football,

the national rugby, cricket all came together to try to give the

powers required to the Sports Commission to act on these cheats.

On the combination of legal crimes that had taken place and illegal

drug codes which has led to the present state Australia has to deal

with. It becomes a sense of what is the next step? People will be held

responsible. There is over 100 cases added on to the police and it

will be placed upon them to act upon that. Clearly a long way to go.

The Indian Government has been accused of failing to stop the

widespread sexual abuse of children, especially in schools and state run

childcare facilities. Human Rights Watch says more than 7,000 cases of

child rape on reported every year, but victims are mistreated and

humiliated by the police. Experts believe the true number is probably

much higher. We have a child rights campaigner and she agreed with the

findings. I am sure the findings have lots to reveal through

research like this. At the same time, the fact is people have known

these things have existed in this society for so long now. The report

throws light on some aspects which we intend to overlook and

simplified, so it is the whole area of what kind of investigation is

required, what kind of medical examination should take place. What

is going on in institutions. Or all institutions covered in the

existing law? It is looking at the whole area of problems in the law,

investigation, medical examination and the rehabilitation of victims.

President Putin has sacked a senior member of Russia's Olympic

Committee teams over delays to the completion of the ski jumping ahead

of next year's Winter Olympic Games. It is exactly a year away. It is in

the south of the country and the organising committee is saying

construction is still on schedule, but the cost has gone up, rising to

something like $50 billion. Daniel sand that has been talking to one

of the Russian oligarchs who is putting some of that bill at the

ski resorts he has built from scratch.

One of the interesting things from these Winter Olympics his irons

standing near the top of the men's downhill ski run. On A clear day

you can see the Black Sea. It is going to be skiing up here and palm

trees and skating on the coast. Another intriguing thing is the way

it has been finance, with some of Russia's richest men funding the

facilities. I have spoken to one of them to ask him why he agreed to

pay for part of the Games. It is mostly the payback issue. Because

we are talking a lot in Russia about the question of whether it is

there or not that we have a lot of rich people, and of course a lot of

poor people. And how do we change that? It is not possible to change

it overnight by doing something like paying some kind of find a

what about. Rich people have to work more for the country. That is

how they can change the image of somebody who is just rich, from

somebody who is doing something good for the country. It is the

legacy issue. Do you think some pressure has been applied on some

of the businessman saying, it is time you gave something back?

country is a young country in response to market regulations. We

are living in different times from when the Government and the state

did not decide a lot. Now it is a more powerful, may be too powerful.

We can have episodes when people are under pressure. That happens in

our country. We do not think the Olympics is the case. You have

spent more than $2 billion, what made it so expensive? It is a good

question, where there it is expensive or not. It is a whole

city which was razed from scratch. It will be the first big, new venue

in Europe that 50 years. Nobody has constructed such kind of green

field projects for many years. has been quite an achievement. It

is amazing to think five years ago there was nothing here apart from

mountains and trees. Today it is a ski resort that is good enough to

host the Winter Olympic Games. It is nearly Chinese New Year so

for the next week, the days and nights will echo with the sound of

fireworks. Every year there are reports of bad accidents, this year

also, there are concerns fireworks will make air pollution worse in

some of the bigger cities in China. But as we report from Beijing, for

most Chinese people, the New Year celebrations wouldn't be complete

without them. China's lunar New Year is welcomed

in with a bank. All, what seems like a million bangs.

TRANSLATION: Fireworks after the mythical beast. We like fireworks

to create noise and scare it away. Fireworks are part of Chinese new-

year. They were not only invented in China, but they have spent

centuries trying to perfect the dangers of art of making them as

well. China makes more than 90% of the world's fireworks and the

majority of those are produced here in central China. This village had

been assembling fireworks by hands for almost 1,400 years. Paper tubes

are rolled in bunches and then knitted together. Gunpowder is then

sifted, before it is packed in the tubes very, very carefully! This

part is done alone in tiny bunkers. TRANSLATION: We Designed the one

person, one workshop model. If there is an accident in one

workshop, it will mock hurt other people. Accidental explosions are

still common, like last week's destruction of this bridge by a

truck carrying fireworks. The Government is pushing to regulate

the industry, but there is little public support for an outright ban.

Children love fireworks, the whole family reunites and fireworks will

us with happiness. Fireworks may be dangerous, yes,

but most here are willing to take the risk with this reward.

After decades of neglect for one of the world's best preserved Roman

sites, a multi-million dollar site has been announced to protect the

ruins of Pompeii. And and $50 million is to be invested by the

Italian Government and the European Union. The money comes with

stringent conditions attached to prevent it being diverted to the

Mafia. Pompeii is a town frozen in a

catastrophic moment, when nearby Mount Sue Beesley erupted. It is an

invaluable record of Roman life in the first century. But it has been

allowed to fall in such neglect, it has been officially declared to be

in a state of emergency. Much of the site is so dilapidated it can

no longer be visited. The House of the Gladiators, where the fighters

used to train, has completely collapsed. Now a major effort has

begun to restore Pompeii. An EU delegation was present as work

started on one particularly famous villa in the ruins. A spokesman

said preserving Pompeii could have enormous economic benefits. He

talked of the potential for high quality tourism to attract new jobs.

But everyone involved knows the local Mafia, will also be drawn by

the money now being invested in the site. And the EU and Italian

Government officials stress their determination to prevent organised

crime from siphoning off the millions that Pompeii so badly

needs. Time to tell you about the real

business story of the day. It is all change on the Monopoly board.

They are not revaluing the real estate, but they are revamping

little tokens you play with. Very bad news if you're lucky token was

the iron. That is what is replacing the iron, it is a cat. The iron