:00:13. > :00:15.Hello I'm Nick Gowing with BBC World News. Our top stories:
:00:15. > :00:22.China's outgoing premier, Wen Jiabao, tells the country's
:00:22. > :00:27.Congress the country must do more to deal with corruption and deal
:00:27. > :00:30.with people's lives. The health of Hugo Chavez has
:00:30. > :00:36.treerted. A quarter of the results counted in
:00:36. > :00:41.the Kenyan election. Latest results show that Uhuru Kenyatta is ahead
:00:41. > :00:51.in the race. And anger as pop superstar Justin
:00:51. > :01:02.
:01:02. > :01:05.Bieber causes fans to miss his Hello everyone. It happens only
:01:05. > :01:10.once every ten years and it is Haning now. The handover of power
:01:10. > :01:14.to new leaders in China. The outgoing premier Wen Jiabao has
:01:14. > :01:17.given one of his last speeches. It's a work report delivered to
:01:17. > :01:24.3,000 members of the Chinese Parliament. There was a promise of
:01:24. > :01:28.a new focus on people's well-being, as well as corruption and pollution.
:01:28. > :01:33.He acknowledged the disparity between rural and urban communities
:01:33. > :01:37.and the conflict between economic growth and care for the environment.
:01:37. > :01:44.The spotlight now turns to the incoming President, Xi Jin Ping,
:01:44. > :01:47.and his vision for China. The 3,000 or so delegates are
:01:47. > :01:50.streaming in to the Great Hall of the People behind me. They are from
:01:50. > :01:56.all walks of life - the military, business, even sport. But the
:01:56. > :02:00.majority have one thing in common. They are members of the Communist
:02:00. > :02:07.Party. The National People's Congress is a rubber stamp
:02:07. > :02:13.Parliament. The agenda has been agreed long in advance. The
:02:13. > :02:18.highlight is premier Wen's work report. It marks his political swan
:02:18. > :02:22.song as he prepares to step down. He warned about some of the
:02:22. > :02:26.problems facing the country. TRANSLATION: Economic development
:02:26. > :02:30.is increasingly in conflict with resource conservation and
:02:30. > :02:35.environmental protection. The development gap between urban and
:02:36. > :02:40.rural areas and between regions large. And so are income
:02:40. > :02:45.disparities between individuals. Social problems have increased
:02:45. > :02:49.markedly. Premier Wen also spoke about tackling official corruption.
:02:49. > :02:54.It is an issue that's generating enormous public anger here and it
:02:54. > :02:58.is corroding support for the rule of the Communist Party.
:02:58. > :03:02.TRANSLATION: We should uphold democratic and public oversight to
:03:02. > :03:07.improve the system of checks over the exercise of power to ensure
:03:07. > :03:11.that power is compersitzed in a transparent manner. What we didn't
:03:11. > :03:16.get from this speech was any sense that China is headed in a new
:03:16. > :03:21.direction. That may change in the coming days, when Xi Jin Ping
:03:21. > :03:30.becomes the country's new President. One of his biggest challenges will
:03:31. > :03:34.be satisfying growing public demands to reform (Inaudible).
:03:34. > :03:37.Real pressure for reform. Far away from the Great Hall of the People
:03:37. > :03:41.in Beijing there are plenty of sharp messages for those Congress
:03:41. > :03:44.delegates. One comes from a small village on the coast. People in the
:03:44. > :03:49.village of Shangpu in Guangdong province claim that corrupt local
:03:49. > :03:53.officials and businessmen are stealing their land. And they are
:03:53. > :03:59.demanding what they call democratic elections. The BBC's John Sudworth
:03:59. > :04:04.is one of the few foreign reporters to gain access to Shangpu.
:04:04. > :04:09.The village of Shangpu on China's southern coast now a picture of
:04:09. > :04:13.carnage is simply the latest to vent its anger at local officials
:04:13. > :04:17.and businessmen accused of illegally grabbing land for new
:04:17. > :04:19.development. As the annual parliamentary gathering, the
:04:19. > :04:26.National People's Congress, convenes in Beijing, these scenes
:04:26. > :04:29.are a reminder of the simmering social conflict in China's vast
:04:29. > :04:35.countryside. With an estimated 3 million to 4 million farmers
:04:36. > :04:40.dispossessed of their land every year. The violence spilled out when
:04:40. > :04:48.a group of men arrived intent apparently on forcing the locals
:04:48. > :04:54.into line. One man can be seen firing a handgun into the air. But
:04:54. > :05:01.the villagers fought back, chased them off and are now manning their
:05:01. > :05:05.own checkpoints. They show me the field sold at a rock bottom price
:05:06. > :05:12.without their consent, they say, by their unelected village chief. It
:05:12. > :05:18.is now earmarked for a new factory. Like much of rural China, this land
:05:18. > :05:23.is collectively owned. One of the few remaining Communist principles
:05:23. > :05:29.still standing of course, but it is a Prince nal is increasingly in
:05:29. > :05:33.conflict with this country's burgeoning capitalist economy.
:05:33. > :05:37.Local governments are heavily incentivised to boost economic
:05:37. > :05:44.growth, add corrupt officials into the mix ready to take their own cut
:05:44. > :05:48.and China's farmers often don't stand a chance. For now, the
:05:48. > :05:53.protests, though growing in number, remain disconnected, but they may
:05:53. > :05:58.one day present a wider challenge. We strongly request legal,
:05:58. > :06:01.democratic elections this, banner reads. A demand for local reform it
:06:01. > :06:10.may be, but it is one with troubling connotations for the
:06:10. > :06:15.party elite now meeting in Beijing. There's a new setback in the
:06:15. > :06:21.ongoing health problems of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. He is now
:06:21. > :06:29.suffering from a severe respiratory infection. Mr Chavez has not been
:06:29. > :06:32.seen in public for two months. This picture was the first and only
:06:32. > :06:37.evidence of Hugo Chavez in the past three months. The Government
:06:37. > :06:41.released it in mid February. Soon after they announced that Mr Chavez
:06:41. > :06:46.had safely returned to Venezuela after his last bout of cancer
:06:46. > :06:50.treatment in Cuba. Officials have been saying he is running the
:06:50. > :06:56.country from this tightly guarded military hospital in Caracas, but
:06:56. > :07:04.on Monday night some bad news. TRANSLATION: Today there's a
:07:04. > :07:09.worsening of his respiratory function. Due to his (Inaudible)
:07:09. > :07:12.severe infection. The President has been receiving chemotherapy with
:07:12. > :07:17.other complementary treatments, with adjustments arising from the
:07:17. > :07:23.eve illusion of the clinical picture, his general condition
:07:23. > :07:25.continues to be very delicate. news confirms the worries of these
:07:25. > :07:29.pro-position students. They have been protesting against the
:07:29. > :07:33.Government, asking for more transparency. They say they can not
:07:33. > :07:38.be governed by a President who is absent.
:07:38. > :07:43.Mr Chavez was last seen in early December, when he announced he was
:07:43. > :07:47.going back to Cuba for more cancer surgery. After 14 years in power he
:07:47. > :07:52.remains extremely popular. He was elected for the fourth time last
:07:52. > :07:58.October. Monday's news be a blow to many Venezuelans, who are hoping to
:07:58. > :08:04.have their President back in charge soon.
:08:04. > :08:07.Vote counting is well under way in Kenya, after the country's first
:08:07. > :08:12.general election under a new constitution. More than 1,000
:08:12. > :08:16.people died in Kenya's last election, five years ago. Today's
:08:16. > :08:22.election was mostly peaceful. The country's elect ral commission
:08:22. > :08:26.estimates the turnout was more than 70%. Initial results put the Deputy
:08:26. > :08:36.Prime Minister, Uhuru Kenyatta, ahead of the current Prime Minister,
:08:36. > :08:36.
:08:36. > :08:40.Raila Odinga. The number of spoiled and rejected
:08:40. > :08:46.votes is worrying. One of the key issues of concern is the number of
:08:46. > :08:52.spoiled votes. We are talking about 250,000 and over, with that amount
:08:52. > :08:58.of votes, the little amounts of votes that's been counted so far,
:08:58. > :09:03.so we want to talk a little about these spoiled votes and why it has
:09:04. > :09:09.happened. Vincent is a director of the institute of Legislative
:09:09. > :09:17.Affairs. Thank you for joining us on BBC World. Thank you. Why do you
:09:17. > :09:21.think we are getting so many spoiled votes? I think it is the
:09:21. > :09:25.magnitude of the general election. We were voting in six people,
:09:25. > :09:33.whereas previously three people were voted for. The second thing is
:09:33. > :09:36.the threshold that they put on what does it constitute a spoiled vote,
:09:36. > :09:43.because the there are three ways you can get a spoiled vote. If you
:09:43. > :09:51.mark it wrongly, secondly if you put the wrong paper in the wrong
:09:51. > :09:54.box. Six colours and it is we don't have a local name for such, so you
:09:54. > :10:00.may find somebody putting a different paper in a different box.
:10:00. > :10:05.That's a major contribution. was it not considered by the
:10:05. > :10:11.independent electoral and boundaries commission to educate
:10:11. > :10:14.Kenyans on this? It was. One of the undoing was the amount spent on
:10:14. > :10:20.education, and the timing. This should have been done I believe
:10:20. > :10:24.three months down the line. We'll have much more here on BBC
:10:24. > :10:28.World News. Teenage fans of the singer Justin
:10:28. > :10:32.Bieber sair they are angry and disappointed after he arrived two
:10:32. > :10:37.hours late for a concert in London. Hundreds of parents accompanying
:10:37. > :10:43.children were forced to take them home before he even got on stage.
:10:43. > :10:50.He finally appeared at 10.30pm. He was booed by some of the audience.
:10:50. > :10:55.The O2 Arena has apologised on his behalf. He was also late nor a
:10:55. > :11:00.weekend concert in Nottingham. Justin Peters took his 14-year-old
:11:00. > :11:05.daughter and three of her friends to the concert and stayed in the
:11:05. > :11:10.restaurant until the concert finished. What was the mood like
:11:10. > :11:15.there Richard? Good to start with and it only became apparent at
:11:15. > :11:19.9.30pm that he hadn't appeared on stage. By 10.30pm he appeared on
:11:19. > :11:25.stage, but by quarter past ten we were thinking this was ridiculous.
:11:25. > :11:30.There seem to be many who had to take, particularly their girls,
:11:30. > :11:34.back home because they were travelling on bus or whatever.
:11:34. > :11:40.were staying in London. I felt sad for the younger kids. There were a
:11:40. > :11:47.lot there a lot younger and they had their little boards ready to
:11:47. > :11:52.wave at Justin Bieber. They were either falling asleep. He cut his
:11:52. > :11:56.concert short by half an hour, it is not really fair. To have no
:11:56. > :12:01.explanation is pretty poor really. Was it literally a matter of all
:12:01. > :12:05.the teenagers waiting and being told nothing for two hours? Yes,
:12:05. > :12:09.they were literally waiting. They listened to Michael Jackson, the
:12:09. > :12:12.same album, I understand, a couple of times. No, they didn't have any
:12:12. > :12:20.idea. There was no information to anyone. I wouldn't have thought
:12:20. > :12:24.white have taken much just to say a quick apology personally. What are
:12:24. > :12:29.your daughters and her friends saying about what happened? What do
:12:29. > :12:34.they think of him as a result? Sadly they idolise him, which is a
:12:34. > :12:39.great shame. So even if he is late, they don't care that much about it?
:12:39. > :12:44.They were getting pretty fid and exhausted themselves. Some of the
:12:44. > :12:49.girls had been -- getting pretty fed up and exhausted themselves. It
:12:49. > :12:53.was pretty unfair. Today, they wouldn't see him again, put it that
:12:53. > :13:00.way. What did you see among other parents who were less understanding
:13:00. > :13:04.than you? You were in a restaurant while this was going on. Our radio
:13:04. > :13:08.station, Radio 1 for example, said this was outrageous. People were
:13:08. > :13:12.tweeting, they are really upset. lot of angry parents were getting
:13:12. > :13:16.more I rate. It was difficult for the parents. All the effort to get
:13:16. > :13:22.to the O2, transport isn't brilliant, so it is an effort
:13:22. > :13:26.getting there, and getting away from the O2 isn't easy. Everyone
:13:26. > :13:30.had their arrangements made, so they were having to let their
:13:30. > :13:35.children stay, those who could, but a lot of younger kids were falling
:13:35. > :13:40.asleep at the show. A lot of the kids were booing Justin Bieber. The
:13:40. > :13:43.parents were pretty angry. A lot of them were very angry actually.
:13:43. > :13:48.clear PR challenge for Justin Bieber and his managers, thank you
:13:48. > :13:53.for joining me. Stay with us. We've got much more
:13:53. > :13:56.to come here on BBC World News. Clash of the titans: All eyes on
:13:56. > :14:06.Old Trafford later. Two of the biggest names in football face each
:14:06. > :14:13.
:14:13. > :14:20.other in the European Champions Its reputation for being free of
:14:20. > :14:26.corruption has helped Singapore become a business centre, but it is
:14:26. > :14:29.at the centre of allegations of football match-fixing.
:14:29. > :14:33.So in a poor's success story has made its people among the richest
:14:33. > :14:37.in the world, but look among -- beyond the efficiency and order,
:14:37. > :14:41.and you'll find not everyone playing by the rules. With money to
:14:41. > :14:45.spare, people are logging on to illegal gambling sites in ever
:14:45. > :14:53.increasing numbers. Millions of dollars at stake every day on
:14:53. > :15:00.football matches around the world. For illegal betting, you can bet
:15:00. > :15:06.while the game is still running. You can bet after half-time for the
:15:06. > :15:16.home team to score again. You can bet every minute if you want to.
:15:16. > :15:23.
:15:23. > :15:29.the midst of this is downtown. -- He has been linked to the rigging
:15:29. > :15:35.of many football matches. Stan is a journalist, and has spent years
:15:35. > :15:40.investigating how the fix his work. He probably pays the European match
:15:40. > :15:45.fixers about 200,000 euros to fix a game. With the information he gets
:15:45. > :15:50.from them, he will set up an illegal betting syndicate in China
:15:50. > :16:00.with dozens of guys on laptops and computers, and they will be kicking
:16:00. > :16:02.
:16:02. > :16:06.like betting, earning up to 3 million euros in return.
:16:06. > :16:12.despite the evidence, the Singapore authorities say they have spoken to
:16:12. > :16:16.Mr Tan, and there is nothing they can do. Singapore's local league
:16:16. > :16:20.now serves as a warning to the rest of the football world. After years
:16:20. > :16:25.of match-fixing scandals, it introduced lie-detector tests, and
:16:25. > :16:35.appears to have cleaned up its act. But those who watched the rig games
:16:35. > :16:42.
:16:42. > :16:47.haven't forgotten easily, and the You are with BBC World News. The
:16:47. > :16:50.latest headlines: In his last major speech at the China People's
:16:50. > :16:54.Congress, prime minister when Jiabao has said that the gap
:16:54. > :17:01.between rich and poor is increasing, and more must be done to improve
:17:01. > :17:04.quality of life. He said that means tackling corruption and pollution.
:17:04. > :17:09.Venezuela's government says President Chavez's Health has
:17:09. > :17:13.worsened. He has a severe respiratory problem.
:17:13. > :17:16.European Champions' League football is here again. The big game of the
:17:16. > :17:21.day is certainly the most hyped, that at Old Trafford where
:17:21. > :17:27.Manchester United host Real Madrid. The last 16 second-leg tie is
:17:27. > :17:37.poised at 1-1 after the first match. That means Jose Maria's side need
:17:37. > :17:41.to score to progress to the Two friends, two rivals, two of the
:17:41. > :17:51.most decorated managers in football. Sir Alex Ferguson will approach
:17:51. > :17:51.
:17:51. > :18:01.this game under less pressure. But for Jose Mourinho, there is no
:18:01. > :18:01.
:18:01. > :18:05.question of who is dominating the thoughts. Cristiano Ronaldo.
:18:05. > :18:10.don't want to going worrying about the damage that Cristiano Ronaldo
:18:10. > :18:14.can do and forgetting what we can do. Wayne Rooney has returned to
:18:14. > :18:18.form, and no one can match Ryan Giggs for experience as he prepares
:18:18. > :18:28.for his 1,000 game. But on the back of two victories against Barcelona,
:18:28. > :18:35.Real Madrid have confidence. It is better to come in a period where
:18:35. > :18:42.the players are happy. We have beaten a rivals twice. So the
:18:42. > :18:46.moment is fine. So I don't think it really has an influence on the
:18:46. > :18:51.match tomorrow. Real Madrid trained for this match but the ground of
:18:51. > :18:55.Manchester City, hoping for inspiration, perhaps. And they want
:18:55. > :18:59.that, too, for the player forged at United, but now the finished
:18:59. > :19:04.article in Spain. It was a banking collapse that
:19:04. > :19:08.threatened to bring down the entire economy - not in the city of London
:19:08. > :19:13.or on Wall Street, but Afghanistan. After being found guilty of massive
:19:13. > :19:16.theft, two top executives of the Kabul bank have been sentenced to
:19:16. > :19:23.five years in prison. They have also been ordered to pay back
:19:23. > :19:31.hundreds of millions of dollars. The BBC Afghan Service told us
:19:31. > :19:37.where the money had gone. The whole money has gone to 19
:19:37. > :19:43.individuals or companies, and the whole thing started backing 2009.
:19:43. > :19:46.This private bank loaned a lot of money to these individuals, and
:19:46. > :19:56.they purchased properties in Dubai and other foreign countries, and
:19:56. > :20:05.the money went from Kabul airport in bags. Why was there no oversight,
:20:05. > :20:11.no scrutiny? Here you had a bank, a fundamental institution of a
:20:11. > :20:15.modernised Afghan economy. It was the biggest private and most
:20:15. > :20:20.successful bank in Afghanistan. Everything was going smoothly. This
:20:20. > :20:26.was before the world banking crisis. Nobody talked about banks, and
:20:26. > :20:36.nobody even look into what the banks were up to. But when things
:20:36. > :20:36.
:20:36. > :20:42.went down, international donors looked into it, and people started
:20:42. > :20:52.suspecting their activities, and as a result this was discovered.
:20:52. > :20:53.
:20:53. > :20:57.has lost all Liz Smylie? The Afghan economy. -- all this money.
:20:57. > :21:01.billion has gone from this bank, and as I said, it was one of the
:21:01. > :21:07.most successful private banks in Afghanistan. A lot of people had
:21:07. > :21:11.accounts there. Will anyone get the money back? The Government has
:21:11. > :21:14.promised that people will not lose their money.
:21:14. > :21:17.Police in Moscow say they have detained a suspect for questioning
:21:17. > :21:23.over the acid attack on the artistic director of the Bolshoi
:21:23. > :21:30.Ballet in January. So gay fill-in was seriously injured in the attack
:21:30. > :21:36.outside his home. He gave no further details.
:21:36. > :21:46.If the 30 years, Joseph Stalin ruled Russia with the brutal iron
:21:46. > :21:50.fist. It largely relied on terror with the brutal iron fist. He died
:21:50. > :22:00.60 years ago today. Surveys today showed that almost half of Russians
:22:00. > :22:01.
:22:01. > :22:06.view Stalin as a positive figure to He called himself the man of Steel.
:22:06. > :22:10.Joseph Stalin had ruled the Soviet Union with an iron fist, but his
:22:10. > :22:14.death plunged the country into shock. In Moscow, hundreds of
:22:14. > :22:22.thousands of people queued to see the body of a man some believed was
:22:22. > :22:27.immortal. Boris says he will never forget the crowds that day. So
:22:27. > :22:32.densely packed, he could hardly move. It took him 15 hours to reach
:22:32. > :22:36.the hall where Stalin lay in state. At one point, he was pressed up
:22:36. > :22:46.against this lamp-post, and nearly suffocated. Some people were
:22:46. > :23:07.
:23:08. > :23:08.crushed to death. deserve to be remembered.
:23:08. > :23:17.place, at least 20,000 prisoners were executed by Stalin's secret
:23:17. > :23:20.police, and their bodies dumped into mass graves. Soviet workers
:23:20. > :23:23.and peasants, engineers and office clerks. They had been declared
:23:23. > :23:27.enemies of the people. What happened here was repeated
:23:27. > :23:33.across the Soviet Union. The wave of terror unleashed by Joseph
:23:33. > :23:37.Stalin against his own people claimed millions of innocent lives
:23:37. > :23:41.and turned the USSR effectively into a giant prison camp. And yet,
:23:41. > :23:48.astonishingly, today many Russians view Stalin it not as a murderer or
:23:48. > :23:52.a monster but as a hero. Surveys show that around half the
:23:52. > :23:58.Russian public to debut Stalin as a positive figure, as the man who won
:23:58. > :24:05.the Second World War for the Soviet Union. Even young Russians, like
:24:05. > :24:13.these 16-year-old students, have learnt to praise the late dictator.
:24:13. > :24:19.He was a very strong person. Because of Stalin, we rose and we
:24:19. > :24:26.became a very strong country. millions of people died or were
:24:26. > :24:33.sent to the Gulag. Not all of these people were good, and not all of
:24:33. > :24:37.these people were suffering because of nothing. 60 years after his
:24:37. > :24:47.death, Russia appears to be witnessing the rehabilitation of
:24:47. > :24:48.
:24:48. > :24:51.France is the original home of haute cuisine, but appetite for now
:24:51. > :24:55.changing. New research suggests fast food sales have moved ahead of
:24:55. > :24:59.table service restaurants in France for the first time. James Kelly has
:24:59. > :25:04.these details. It is not quite gastronomy on the
:25:04. > :25:08.go, and for some, it is an unpalatable fact, but a new study
:25:08. > :25:14.suggests fast food has become more popular in France and sitting down
:25:14. > :25:20.for a meal. Snacking has gained 54% of the market, traditionally
:25:20. > :25:24.dominated by bistros, brasseries and cafes. The change has been
:25:24. > :25:29.attributed to tough economic times and better choice and quality in
:25:29. > :25:36.the fast food market. TRANSLATION: Today we have sushi, soup bars,
:25:36. > :25:40.bagels, so on. We were left for 25 years with a sandwich and a burger.
:25:40. > :25:44.All of that is going upmarket, to the great joy of French consumers,
:25:44. > :25:48.who have less and less money to sit around a table and are discovering
:25:48. > :25:51.moving down a notch a fast food industry which is going upmarket.
:25:51. > :25:57.The news is proving hard to digest for owners of the traditional
:25:57. > :26:02.French bistro, but some are refusing to be down in the mouth.
:26:02. > :26:06.TRANSLATION: Today, if we offer customers bistros with the same
:26:06. > :26:12.quality, price and speed, they will come to us, because they like
:26:12. > :26:15.bistros. The French man is a fan of the bistro. It is part of our genes
:26:15. > :26:20.and in our culture. He doesn't get any pleasure from finding himself
:26:20. > :26:24.in a sandwich shop. It might be a number -- unwelcome
:26:24. > :26:29.development, but some restaurants in Paris are delighted by the
:26:29. > :26:33.growing fast food culture. They are the City's pigeons.
:26:33. > :26:37.It isn't Gotham City, but the town of Bradford has discover the
:26:37. > :26:42.identity of its very own bat man. These images went round the world
:26:42. > :26:45.on Monday, when he handed an alleged criminal into a police
:26:45. > :26:50.station in the middle of the night. Now a takeaway delivery man has