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Hello, this is BBC World News, our top stories: The South African | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
athlete Oscar Pistorius is formally charged with the premeditated | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
murder of his girlfriend as his bail hearing continues. | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
Mourners attend the funeral of Reeva Steenkamp in her home city of | :00:25. | :00:33. | |
Port Elizabeth. We have to keep Reeva in our hearts | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
forever, and by her passing away, make a change in our lives of many | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
people. A computer security company says a | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
Chinese military unit based in Shanghai is behind a series are of | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
cyber hacking attacks. Armed robbers in Belgium smash-and- | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
grab that the international airport, they get away with diamonds worth | :00:55. | :01:05. | |
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Hello. Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius has been warned that he | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
faces the harshest possible restrictions it is given bail while | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
he awaits trial for murdering his girlfriend. He is charged with | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
premeditated murder. He has been in court this morning in Pretoria. | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
Reports from within the courtroom suggest he stopped during much of | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
the hearing, which is about whether he will remain in custody until he | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
stands trial. Prosecutors told the court that he fired several shots | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
through a bathroom door in his own, killing Reeva Steenkamp. His | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
defence team say he thought she was an intruder. The family of the | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
victim have held a private funeral this morning in Port Elizabeth. Ben | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
Ando as more. This is a bail hearing, lawyers for | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, known as the Blade | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
Runner, believe he should be allowed to remain at home until he | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
goes on trial accused of murdering his girlfriend, the model Reeva | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
Steenkamp. The athlete's sister was in court to support him. In his | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
last appearance in court in Pretoria, he broke down in tears as | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
he was accused of murdering his girlfriend on Valentine's Day. In | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
court, at the prosecutors said that Pistorius, a double amputee, got up, | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
put on his cross-species and walked seven metres and fired his gun | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
through the bathroom door. He fired four shots, three hit Miss | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
Steenkamp. The athlete's defence suggest he had mistaken her for a | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
burglar. Some believe his celebrity status means he should be allowed | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
bail. Everybody knows who he is, it is not as if he can hide or get a | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
passport and run away overseas without anybody noticing. In my | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
mind, I would suggest that the fact that he is a well-known person | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
might count in his favour in this instance. The court appearance | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
comes on the same day as Reeva Steenkamp's funeral in Port | :03:06. | :03:14. | |
As her private funeral got under way, her alleged killer, Oscar | :03:14. | :03:22. | |
Pistorius, waited to hear whether Just picking up from those pictures, | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
after the funeral, Reeva Steenkamp's brother made a brief | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
statement outside the chapel. Everyone is sad, understandably. At | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
certain points, we were smiling, remembering Reeva. Because we only | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
have good memories of her, and I think that is what we were all | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
thinking. Now, a US-based computer security | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
company says it believes the Chinese military is behind a series | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
of high-level cyber hacking attacks. The company, Mandiant, says that | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
his 12 storey tower block in Shanghai is actually the | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
headquarters of a global hacking operation. Mandiant says it has | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
pinpointed a secretive unit of the Chinese People's Liberation Army as | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
the most likely source of the attacks, which have lifted data | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
from a whole range of industries, mostly in the United States. The | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
Chinese foreign ministry says the accusations are groundless and | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
based on rudimentary data. Well, with me now is the BBC security | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
correspondent Gordon Corera. You have the report here. Rudimentary | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
data, is it? Fascinating report, one of the most detailed I have | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
ever seen in terms of attributing where these attacks have come from. | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
We have known for years that significant attacks have been | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
launched and have been tried to steal data, everything from | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
intellectual property, the designs of things, to negotiating | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
strategies, government secrets. It has always been suspected that | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
China was in some way behind this. The Chinese, as you said, have | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
denied it. What is so interesting about this report is that they have | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
gone right down into the detail and looked at one particular unit of | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
the Chinese military, Unit 61398. They have looked at its location | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
and the location where these cyber attacks have come from, and they | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
have said it is the same place, that tower-block, these are the | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
locations where you can see the links. They have even tracked some | :05:21. | :05:29. | |
of the people they think Ah'm not, you can see some of their names, | :05:29. | :05:36. | |
Ugly Gorilla, one of the pen names. -- they think are involved. So they | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
are pretty confident that they know where they are heading. What sort | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
of effect the thing these attacks are having? What sort of | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
information are they getting? it is very interesting, a mixture | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
of old-fashioned commercial information, the secrets to | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
designing something, whether it is the secret recipe of Coca-Cola or | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
the design of a new jet fighter. Then there is negotiating positions | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
that might be used, government information that they are after. | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
There was a famous attack by this group where they got hold of the | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
security keys which cut the government and others used to | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
secure their data. It was a means of getting that kind of information. | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
So it is a real spectrum of information over a long period. | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
What is fascinating, in his report, it talks about the hackers being | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
inside one network for four years and 10 months, four years and 10 | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
months working their way around a computer network, being able to | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
steal information. A massive amount of time. I suppose, in a way, what | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
is the upshot of this? What is the sanction? What can be done next? | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
Everyone has known about this problem for years, but governments | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
are very cautious about pointing the finger at China, partly because | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
there is this problem of proving it definitively. In the cyber world, | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
you can try to mask the real art, and it is very difficult to be | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
absolutely sure. And they are worried about economic links. There | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
is an issue for governments, and on the whole they have been reluctant | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
to say explicitly that they think it is China, and China, of course, | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
denies it. It says hacking is illegal, and they say, we get | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
hacked, which is no doubt true as well, their corporations and | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
government debt hack as well. But we are seeing a move towards people | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
being more open, and this report is very interesting, because even | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
though it is private sector, not the US government, a private sector | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
organisations saying, here is the detail, that will start a debate | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
about, well, if the detail is there, what do we do about it? For all | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
they can say, we have not done this, if they are all at it, that is not | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
much of an excuse either. No, and so do governments say, we will do | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
it back you? You end up in a war in cyberspace. There is a real debate | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
about how you put rules in place, how you agree norms which stop | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
people being willing to act in certain ways. Very challenging. | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
The world's largest food maker, ness Lake, has withdrawn two types | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
of ready meal from sale in France and Italy after tests uncovered | :08:09. | :08:16. | |
traces of horsemeat. -- mislays. It says that the lasagne and spaghetti | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
meals contained meat supplied by German firms. | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
It is a scandal that has engulfed Europe and refuses to go away. One | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
week after the world's biggest food maker said that its products were | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
clear, confirmation that some of its exports also contained traces | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
of horsemeat. Ministers meeting in Paris had some good news for the | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
company. It had been accused of labelling horsemeat as beef. | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
Representatives from Spanghero, the company at the heart of the | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
controversy, were told some operations could restart after all | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
work was suspended. While Spanghero denies all accusations, the French | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
government stands by its claims, but with most of the company's | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
stock now tested and cleared, it conceded hundreds of unwitting | :09:00. | :09:07. | |
workers should not be penalised. TRANSLATION: We have two objectives, | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
to guarantee consumer security and to allow workers to resume their | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
activities. They are not responsible for the fraud. In the | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
Netherlands, authorities have raided more than 100 businesses, | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
trying to establish whether fraudulent labelling had taken | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
place. German officials have banned to tighten controls on meat | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
products and enforce stronger penalties for companies that | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
violate the rules. TRANSLATION: We do expect more cases to be | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
uncovered, and that is why these controls are being put in place, to | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
get everything on the table, and in particular to resolve this. With | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
the extent of the scandal still widening, it is clear Europe's | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
complex relationship between meat suppliers, producers and | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
distributors has failed its consumers. What is less clear now | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
is how to ensure that what is inside Europe's meat products | :09:58. | :10:08. | |
Now, armed robbers in Belgium have crashed through the perimeter fence | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
of the international airport in Brussels and made away with | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
diamonds worth around $50 million. Belgian officials say that they | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
were maxed gunmen. -- mast. They snatched the Jules as they were | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
being loaded onto a plane. They did find one of the vans bent out quite | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
close to the airport. There you are, there is the proof. Audacious is | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
the work. Duncan Crawford joins me from Brussels, talk us through this, | :10:38. | :10:46. | |
quite a coup. Yes, certainly an audacious crime. It took a matter | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
of minutes, officials say, where these robbers cut a hole in the | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
perimeter security fence at the airport and drove two vehicles, | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
believed to be a van and a car on to the tarmac where a Swiss | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
passenger plane was getting ready to depart. A security van was | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
loading it up with diamonds in the loading area, and these robbers got | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
out of their vehicles, wearing masks, armoured, carrying guns, and | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
they took those diamonds and loaded them up on to their vehicles. They | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
did not fire any shots, no-one was injured, and they escaped the way | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
they had come from, through the hole in the security fence. As you | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
say, police later found a burnt-out van which is believed to have been | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
used by the robbers. They are conducting tests on that as we | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
speak, trying to find clues. One of the things is so extraordinary is | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
that this is a country where the diamond trade is very deep rooted. | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
People would have very standard security procedures, you would | :11:51. | :11:58. | |
imagine, every time they go through this sort of routine. Yes, very | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
heavy security would be expected. Of course, this is an international | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
airport as well that hundreds of flights going in and out every day | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
as well, so questions inevitably will be asked how they manage to | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
get through the perimeter fence, how the robbers managed to be there | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
for what was perhaps only around 10 minutes, but escaped with no | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
security at the airport trying to intervene, no police trying to | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
intervene. They do have CCTV footage, they will be going over | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
that. They have the burnt-out van which they will be analysing. But | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
police at the moment not really saying that much, still looking for | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
clues as to how this could happen. Duncan, thanks very much. | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
And thank you for watching here on BBC World News. Coming up later in | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
a programme, getting drunk, breaching curfews, misusing | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
prescription drugs even, this is the damning report into the | :12:53. | :12:54. | |
behaviour of the Australian swimming team at the London | :12:54. | :13:04. | |
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Now, you may not have noticed, but the universe is moving faster than | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
expected. Scientists are struggling to explain why the galaxies are | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
rotating at speed and planets are flying apart more quickly than they | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
should. Well, a team from America is going to use the Hubble | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
telescope to investigate what is called dark energy, and the results | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
could lead to a rewriting of the theories of physics that we have | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
depended on for the past century. Pallab Ghosh reports. | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
The world around us is made of atoms. They link up to form the | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
buildings we see, the water that flows, and all life on the planet. | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
But scientists have discovered that up in space there is something else | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
out there that makes up most of the universe, a force that was present | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
at the beginning of time. After the big bang, the current theory of | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
physics suggests that these expansion of the others would slow | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
down and then contract and there the force of gravity. -- the | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
expansion of the universe. Instead, galaxies seemed to be flying apart | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
faster than ever before. Scientists believe that this force is called | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
dark energy and accounts for nearly two-thirds of the universe. This | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
acceleration defies all the current theories of physics. Scientists | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
want to know where the seemingly endless energy that is driving the | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
universe apart is coming from. They are now using the Hubble space | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
telescope to find out. It will be measuring precisely how fast | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
galaxies are accelerating away from us. One of the researchers involved | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
in the project told me that the results may show that the universe | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
would continue to accelerate apart forever. The bigger it gets, the | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
faster it will go, and that will be a universe that just expands and | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
expands forever. The piece of the universe that we get to see will | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
have fewer and fewer galaxies in it. It will be a dark, lonely, cold | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
place 100 billion years from now. The mystery of dark energy is | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
arguably the most important puzzle of our time. The solution will | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
rewrite the theories of modern physics and change our own notion | :15:09. | :15:19. | |
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It's believed the military plane was on a training flight when it | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
came down in the the al-Qadissiya district of Sanaa, not far from the | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
central market place. Reports say the plane crashed into two houses, | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
injuring dozens of people. Rescuers are still searching the rubble for | :15:40. | :15:50. | |
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survivors. This is BBC World News. The latest headlines: the South | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
African athlete, Oscar Pistorius is formally charged with the pre- | :15:57. | :16:04. | |
meditated murder of his girlfriend. Mourners at turns the funeral of | :16:04. | :16:14. | |
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Reeva Steenkamp in Port Elizabeth. A report into the poor performance | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
of Australia's swimmers at the London Olympics has described the | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
team culture as toxic. The review, commissioned by Swimming Australia | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
said bad behaviour by team members, including getting drunk, breaching | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
curfews and misusing prescription drugs, went unchecked. | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
Here's what the team's head coach, Leigh Nugent, had to say in | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
response to the report. It is a pretty emotive word, toxic. | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
I'm not sure what that means. The overall issues were not over the | :16:40. | :16:50. | |
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obvious, what eyesore. We will be addressing all those issues now. | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
BBC Sport's Karthi Gnanasegarum followed one of the Australian | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
Olympic swimmers, Emily Seebohm, in the run up to the Olympics. Emily | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
was one of Australia's high hopes for several gold medals in the 2012 | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
Games, and broke down in tears of disappointment when she won Silver | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
in the 100m backstroke. It is interesting knowing she got a | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
gold medal and two silver medals. She was very disappointed. It is | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
one of the best performance of any of the Australian swimmers. It is | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
the one gold medal in swimming they got. When she got to her individual | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
part of the tournament, she got a silver medal in the backstroke and | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
was very disappointed. In the first interview when you come out of the | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
pool, she was incredibly disappointed and cried at that | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
point. Speaking to her during the Olympics, several times, there was | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
a sense of discipline and, despite a what someone would describe as | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
being a very good individual results. It did you get any idea | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
about the broader cam? One of the swimmers describe it as a lonely | :17:51. | :17:58. | |
Olympics. Some of them felt cut adrift. My dealings with the | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
Swimming Association of Australia changed. When they did not get the | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
medals they expected at the start, it got more difficult to do with | :18:08. | :18:15. | |
the press office. None of the swimmers were allowed to leave and | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
do any interviews until everybody had finished. They were not allowed | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
to leave the village and do any interviews with the BBC until | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
everybody had finished their events. Swimming is at the beginning of the | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
Olympics, and it you don't get that momentum at the beginning, | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
Australia did not get the gold medals they were expecting. There | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
is a lot of pressure. Everybody is outside playing sport and swimming, | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
because that is what the environment is like over there. | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
They do have a lot of pressure to compete. It is something the nation | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
expects, especially at the Sydney 2000, when they were so successful, | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
it comes as a real shock 12 years later. They are having a big Downer | :19:01. | :19:11. | |
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at the moment, Down Under. The conflict in Syria is becoming | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
increasingly violent, militarised and sectarian, according to a | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
United Nations report. It's accusing both pro and anti- | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
government forces of committing war crimes and it's calling for tighter | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
controls on the supply of weapons. The European Union has extended its | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
arms embargo against Syria for a further three months, but it's | :19:25. | :19:34. | |
promising more aid to protect civilians. The BBC's Tom Donkin | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
reports. This greater is on verified in | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
footage as a Scud missile attack in a leopard. This conflict has been | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
played out in videos uploaded to social Media website since it began. | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
Establishment -- establishing the veracity of the videos is not | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
always straightforward, but it is clear this is intensifying. More | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
amateur footage, said to be of an air strike in a suburb in Damascus. | :20:05. | :20:12. | |
The power imbalance between the two sides has led to calls from Britain, | :20:13. | :20:22. | |
for the fighting President, a she'll to step down. Sanctions have | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
been extended again Syria for another three months and amended | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
the arms embargo to allow greater, non-lethal support and technical | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
assistance to the opposition and Britain welcome that as a step in | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
the right direction. This is an important change. It shows we can | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
change the arms embargo. The worse the situation becomes, the more we | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
can change it. It will be reviewed again in three months. It | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
establishes an important precedent. As Syria was that subject of a | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
meeting in Geneva. A report says the civil war is becoming | :20:59. | :21:09. | |
increasingly sectarian and violent. Crimes continuing to be committed | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
in Syria. The number of victims are increasing. Justice must be done. | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
The plight of those caught up in the conflict is also deteriorating. | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
At the border with Jordan, Jordanian soldiers tap refugees | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
fleeing the bloodshed. For these people, and many more like them, | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
the latest international efforts to tackle the crisis in Syria are too | :21:32. | :21:40. | |
little, too late. We are getting reports from Syria | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
that eight people have died in a rock'n'roll -- rocket attack in | :21:44. | :21:51. | |
Aleppo. Those reports coming from Syrian opposition activists. They | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
say another 25 people are missing. It has seen some of the fiercest | :21:56. | :22:06. | |
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fighting during the uprising. There's been a surge in violence in | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
Thailand following the deaths last week of 16 Islamist militants. | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
They were killed as they attacked a Thai military base on Wednesday. It | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
was the largest loss of life the separatist movement has suffered | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
since it re-started its campaign for an independent Islamic state | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
nine years ago. I must warn you there are some disturbing images in | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
Jonathan Head's report. This is a land of fear, not smiles. | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
60,000 Tyne and soldiers trapped in a decade-long war of attrition with | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
insurgents who lived all around them, but are rarely seen. Last | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
week, the masks slip. The failed attack on a Thailand Marine base | :22:44. | :22:52. | |
left 60 militants dead. Their bodies strewn. No movement, no | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
longer faceless. Three of them live next door to each other, just a | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
short drive away from the base. A procession of friends and relatives | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
arrived the following day to console the families. Martin has | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
been left with three young daughters to look after. She knew | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
her husband was a wanted man. He stayed away and the army often | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
searched her home. Her feelings are mixed. She misses him, she says. | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
This man told me he was proud his son had died fighting for his | :23:25. | :23:32. | |
beliefs. So, would he let any of his six surviving sons join him and | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
joined the insurgents? I tried to stop them, he said. But they don't | :23:37. | :23:43. | |
always listen to me. The dead men were buried as martyrs to the cause | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
of an independent Islamic state. There was no emotion. Neighbours | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
seemed to accept that their deaths as a fitting end. The commander of | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
the raid was this man, a 30-year- old man with multiple arrest | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
warrants and the price on his head. But admired in his own community. | :24:02. | :24:08. | |
His widow grieves that her young son will never know his father. She | :24:08. | :24:16. | |
is adamant his death was worth it, his cause was a noble one. How many | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
others in this troubled region of time and feel the same? People do | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
not speak openly, but sympathy for the insurgents is certainly strong. | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
This failed attack may look like a victory for the authorities, but | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
they cannot break the powerful hold the insurgency has on so many young | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
Muslim men in this region, north or all of the defensive measures they | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
are taking, can they protect those the insurgency targets. This is, | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
believe it or not, a primary school. Government schools are seen as | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
legitimate targets by the insurgents. Last month, they killed | :24:53. | :24:59. | |
a teacher here in front of the children. Running this school takes | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
particular courage and dedication. Four of its teachers have already | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
asked to be transferred. TRANSLATION: We're all afraid. We | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
are afraid as soon as we leave the house. We do not know what we will | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
face on the road. We have the soldiers here to protect us and we | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
feel a bit safer. The soldiers keep doing what they had done for the | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
past 10 years, patrolling and hunting for an enemy which is every | :25:27. | :25:37. | |
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were and there were. -- everywhere and nowhere. | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
Italians will vote in a general election this coming Sunday and | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
Monday, and there's a lot at stake. The third-largest economy in the | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
Eurozone is deep in recession. Voters will have to choose between | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
more of the same, or Silvio Berlusconi's promise to relax | :25:50. | :25:58. | |
austerity policies. The former Italian Prime Minister says whoever | :25:58. | :26:05. | |
wins this election must tackle bureaucracy and corruption. The | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
election is due on Sunday and Monday. It is two weeks since the | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
last polls were out which suggested it could be difficult for anyone to | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
win a clear majority in the course of the elections. | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
Let me bring you up-to-date on the main story: it revolves around | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
Oscar Pistorius. He is in court again, at the magistrates' court, | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
where there is a bail application being heard. He is charged with | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
murder, premeditated murder to use the correct phrase, of his | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, who died on Thursday. Her funeral has | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
been taking place at precisely the same time in Port Elizabeth. | :26:49. | :26:54. |