:00:15. > :00:21.Hello, I'm Katya Adler with the BBC World News. The top stories: The
:00:21. > :00:25.son of Pakistan's former Prime Minister, has been abducted by
:00:25. > :00:30.unidentified gunmen. An Islamist party leader is
:00:30. > :00:32.sentenced to death for genocide and torture by a war crimes tribunal in
:00:32. > :00:37.Bangladesh. The only suspect in the Ohio
:00:37. > :00:40.abduction case is due in court to answer charges of kidnapping and
:00:40. > :00:46.rape against three women held at his home.
:00:46. > :00:48.And football fans wait to find out who will take over at England's
:00:48. > :00:58.legendary club after Sir Alex Ferguson steps down after more than
:00:58. > :01:10.
:01:10. > :01:15.With days to go until Pakistan goes to the polls in an historic general
:01:15. > :01:21.election, one of the sons of the former Prime Minister, has been
:01:21. > :01:26.kidnapped by unidentified gunmen. He was Ann election rally when
:01:26. > :01:30.running for a priv inshall assembly seat.
:01:30. > :01:33.We spoke to the BBC's Mike Wooldridge in Islamabad.
:01:33. > :01:38.The police in the area are suggesting that this is an act of
:01:38. > :01:45.terrorism. It is difficult to know what to make of it at the moment.
:01:45. > :01:49.In the circumstances we have this from Gilani himself, the former
:01:49. > :01:54.Prime Minister, that his son, a candidate in the regional elections
:01:54. > :01:59.there was taking part in a rally on the edge of the city in southern
:01:59. > :02:04.Punjab when apparently gunmen, unidentified, arrived in a car and
:02:04. > :02:13.on a motorbike. They started to fire. Or at least two did. They
:02:13. > :02:18.dragged the son into their car and sped off with him. The other genman
:02:18. > :02:22.were on the motorbike shooting in the air ahead of the car. So very
:02:22. > :02:31.dramatic indeed. Nothing has been heard since. The police have
:02:31. > :02:35.launched a manhunt, saying that they have sealed off the city but
:02:35. > :02:40.there is no indication as to whether or not they are having
:02:40. > :02:45.progress. The Gilani family are a powerful family in the area.
:02:45. > :02:50.Mr Kill any was one of the Prime Minister's here in the last
:02:50. > :02:54.outgoing go. He was disqualified from running in the general
:02:54. > :02:58.eelection himself, but his son was participating and now having been
:02:58. > :03:03.abducted. The military are sending tens of
:03:03. > :03:07.thousands of troops to the polling stations for the vote on Saturday,
:03:07. > :03:11.but this campaign has been marred by violence through all of it?
:03:11. > :03:15.has. The number of people killed in
:03:15. > :03:20.attacks either on candidates like this or on election rallies is now
:03:20. > :03:23.at least 100. The strongest threat of attacks had
:03:23. > :03:29.come from the Pakistan Taliban. They admitted responsibility for a
:03:29. > :03:33.lot of them. Saying that they were targeting the secular parties, or
:03:34. > :03:38.the Pakistan People's Party. The Gilani family are associated with
:03:38. > :03:41.one of those, but this is not clear if this goes in that or under the
:03:41. > :03:45.threat that the Taliban have made or whether this is something that
:03:45. > :03:51.is separate and more local to the area, but this will unnerve people
:03:51. > :03:55.even more. This is a new kind of attack. It puts even greater
:03:55. > :04:00.challenges before the caretaker administration, overseeing the
:04:00. > :04:05.elections and the security forces. Hundreds of thousands of security
:04:05. > :04:11.forces of all kinds are supposed to be protecting the final stages of
:04:11. > :04:18.the campaigning. Today is the last day, then the counting is to begin.
:04:18. > :04:24.Now until a few days ago, he was an unemployed bus driver living in a
:04:24. > :04:28.low-key suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, but in a few hours, Ariel Castro is
:04:28. > :04:32.to appear in court on several counts of kidnapping and rape. The
:04:32. > :04:36.world's media will be watching. This follows the dramatic rescue of
:04:36. > :04:40.three women and a child, held against their will for the past
:04:40. > :04:42.decade. Ariel Castro was arrested on Monday
:04:42. > :04:48.together with two brothers. Investigators say that the brothers
:04:48. > :04:53.have no case to answer. The focus is squarely on Ariel. He will
:04:53. > :04:57.appear before a judge in a few hours' time. He faces four counts
:04:57. > :05:02.of kid nal -- kidnapping. Four not three because of the child involved
:05:02. > :05:05.and three counts of rape. His two brothers are not being charged.
:05:05. > :05:10.There is no evidence that these two individuals had any involvement in
:05:11. > :05:15.the commission of the crimes committed against Michelle, Gina
:05:15. > :05:20.and Amanda and the minor child. The house where the women were held
:05:20. > :05:24.is silent now, but a newly-released police recording captures the
:05:24. > :05:29.moment of their dramatic rescue. We've found them. We've found them.
:05:29. > :05:36.We have a female. She has a young child with her. Make it two.
:05:36. > :05:41.We also have a Michele Knight in the house. Yesterday two families
:05:41. > :05:45.and communities celebrated the return of long-lost daughters. The
:05:45. > :05:50.parents of Gina DeJesus never gave up hope, holding vigils every year.
:05:50. > :05:54.The most recent was two weeks ago. I'm the one who had the heart and
:05:54. > :05:59.soul to fight to see ethis day. Cos I knew that my daughter was out
:06:00. > :06:05.there alive. The victims are all apparently in
:06:05. > :06:08.good health but their ordeal was long and would have taken its toll.
:06:08. > :06:13.The full, harrowing picture of what they experienced in the house on
:06:13. > :06:22.Seymour Avenue is only now beginning to emerge.
:06:22. > :06:28.Well griefgriefgrief is a professor at the university --
:06:28. > :06:31.griefgriefgrief -- Dr Geoffrey Grieff is with us. He explains how
:06:31. > :06:36.they will deal with this after their experience.
:06:36. > :06:42.You have a number of things going on. You have the natural
:06:42. > :06:46.developmental changes in the family members. You have the trajectory
:06:46. > :06:52.that the girls were on, the girls, now women were on. It is difficult
:06:52. > :06:56.enough for people to grow up together as a family when you have
:06:56. > :07:01.separation of this length. People tend to go in different directions.
:07:01. > :07:08.So there are two main tacks for these folks. Number one, there is
:07:08. > :07:11.the adjustment of the family. The adjustment of the return to these
:07:11. > :07:14.women and then there is the I justment of the women. They are
:07:14. > :07:19.going to have to figure out together how to communicate in the
:07:19. > :07:26.present and not try to recapture a past that cannot be recaptured. So
:07:26. > :07:29.there is the notion of how do these daughters fit back in with these
:07:29. > :07:33.families. The second interesting piece for them, is going to be to
:07:33. > :07:37.separate from each other. I think that people are going to
:07:37. > :07:42.expect that they should be progressing at the same speed, but
:07:42. > :07:45.these are very different women who were very different before they
:07:46. > :07:53.were kidnapped and they were kidnapped at very different ages.
:07:53. > :07:59.I think we are going to have to allow the media -- I think we are
:07:59. > :08:03.going to have to allow them, and the media to allow them 20 adapt at
:08:03. > :08:08.paces best-suited to their family. In Bangladesh, eight people are
:08:08. > :08:14.thought to have died at a fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka. Hundreds
:08:14. > :08:21.of workers had gone home when the fire broke out at the factory. The
:08:21. > :08:25.flames fed by piles of acrylic yarn. The fire comes two weeks after a
:08:25. > :08:31.multi-storey collapse of a factory also in Dhaka, up to 900 people are
:08:31. > :08:34.known to have died in that collapse. In Bangladesh, a fourth Islamist
:08:34. > :08:39.leader has been sentenced to death for his role in the country's
:08:40. > :08:47.independence 40 years ago. He is the assistant Secretary-General of
:08:47. > :08:55.the opposition party. His crimes include torture and
:08:55. > :09:01.genocide. I have been speaking to our report about the case.
:09:01. > :09:07.He says that the ruling is two- fold? He was the Secretary-General
:09:07. > :09:13.of the country's biggest party. So this conviction make it is a
:09:14. > :09:23.powerful statement against them, but also he has been prove tonne
:09:23. > :09:27.have led a group called the AlBathar Force. They were set up to
:09:27. > :09:32.fight Bank of England alley nationalists at the time. So this
:09:32. > :09:37.confiction ties in with this role. When you talk about the roles and
:09:37. > :09:41.the political impact, that would suggest that the tribunals are
:09:41. > :09:46.politicised. There had been severe criticisms of the tribunals, if
:09:46. > :09:50.they meet international standards and so on? Yes. The defence, one of
:09:51. > :09:56.the defences is that all of the leaders of the party are being
:09:56. > :09:59.targeted, therefore it is an attempt to cut down in size the
:09:59. > :10:06.country's main opposition parties, but the response of the Government
:10:06. > :10:11.has been that these people were involved in the 1971 atrocities. So
:10:11. > :10:18.whether they are leaders at the time or not is not relevant. They
:10:18. > :10:24.are prosecuting crimes committed in 1971, not any opposition leader.
:10:24. > :10:28.Now in other news: The Slovenian government is introducing a crisis
:10:28. > :10:35.tax at measures aimed to avoid a European Union bail out. It will
:10:36. > :10:41.range from 0.5 to 5% but those on lowest incomes will be absent.
:10:41. > :10:48.The government is hoping that this will help tackle Slovenia's debt
:10:48. > :10:51.problem ps and reduce its borrowing. Lawyers for victims of Haiti's
:10:51. > :10:55.cholera epidemic have given the United Nations 60 days to talk
:10:55. > :11:00.about compensation, otherwise they warn to begin legal proceedings
:11:00. > :11:06.over the outbreak. It killed over 7,000 people. The victims accuse
:11:06. > :11:10.the UN of allowing peacekeepers to spluet their swaert supply.
:11:10. > :11:14.An 834-year-old South American facing a hefty prison sentence for
:11:14. > :11:16.breaking in to protest about nuclear weapons.
:11:16. > :11:21.The protesters kout through the security fence and made their way
:11:21. > :11:27.to a secure part of the site to hang out banners and chipped a
:11:27. > :11:30.small piece off the wall. It will be a tough act to follow. On
:11:30. > :11:35.Wednesday Sir Alex Ferguson announced his retirement of manager
:11:35. > :11:40.of Manchester United at the age of 71. The favourite to take over is
:11:40. > :11:43.David Moyes, currently the manager of Everton. The BBC understands an
:11:43. > :11:48.announcement could be possible later on Thursday.
:11:48. > :11:52.The baton that has taken years to hand over. It looks like moving
:11:52. > :11:57.from one Glaswegian to another. David Moyes has waited patiently.
:11:57. > :12:00.He has been at Everton for 11 years, bringing them forward from the
:12:00. > :12:05.brink of relegation to the brink of the Champions League. Done it
:12:05. > :12:08.without the millions that others have spent. The success based on
:12:08. > :12:13.the teameth yink, now not the superstar signing, but maybe that
:12:13. > :12:17.can only take you so far. We are competing with the top teams,
:12:17. > :12:21.they are spending large amounts of money. I want to make sure that
:12:21. > :12:26.Everton is doing that that is why the end of the season is the right
:12:26. > :12:29.time to do that. David Moyes has been ambitious.
:12:29. > :12:34.Taking coaching badges will a -- while a young player. Manchester
:12:34. > :12:38.United will have noted his role in developing the career of their
:12:38. > :12:43.striker Wayne Rooney. David Moyes was sitting next to him when he
:12:43. > :12:48.became a professional, but Moyse mouse Moyse has never won a top
:12:48. > :12:53.trophy and Manchester United are a club where winning things are a
:12:53. > :12:57.requirement. So is the lack of medals a problem? He is well
:12:57. > :13:01.respected for coaching. My only thing I would say is that for a guy
:13:01. > :13:05.going into Manchester United at that has not won a trophy, perhaps
:13:05. > :13:11.that would be the only gamble, I suppose.
:13:11. > :13:14.Also, it will be a very, very hard job for anyone going in there, let
:13:14. > :13:19.alone David Moyes. To follow Sir Alex Ferguson is a job in itself.
:13:19. > :13:26.Sir Alex Ferguson is a master of timing. Officials everywhere know
:13:26. > :13:32.that. Now as he picks his moment to step down, it seems his fellow Scot
:13:32. > :13:36.will take over his watch. It is proving to be a busy 24 hours at
:13:36. > :13:40.Manchester United with Wayne Rooney believed to have handed in yet
:13:40. > :13:44.another transfer request. The club insist that the 27-year-old who
:13:44. > :13:49.joined from Everton in 2004 will not be sold. It emerged that the
:13:49. > :13:53.striker had asked to leave for the second time in three years. It is
:13:53. > :13:57.understood that the England international wanted to see the
:13:57. > :14:01.manager a fortnight ago to explain that the time was right to move on
:14:01. > :14:07.after nine years at Old Trafford. Still to come: A top diplomat tells
:14:07. > :14:17.for the first time what really happened at the US embassy in
:14:17. > :14:28.
:14:28. > :14:32.Benghazi where ambassador Christopher Stevens was killed.
:14:32. > :14:42.Police say anyone who spoke at the rally could face sedition charges.
:14:42. > :14:44.
:14:44. > :14:49.This report was sent from near the capital. Opposition supporters here
:14:49. > :14:54.are wearing black to show their anger. They save the election on
:14:54. > :15:00.Sunday was fraudulent. Among the allegations, they are saying that
:15:00. > :15:08.governing politicians brought in dubious... Who support in key
:15:08. > :15:13.states, and an indelible ink approach was supposed to prevent
:15:13. > :15:17.fraudulent voting. They say the ink washed off. These allegations have
:15:17. > :15:23.been dismissed entirely by the coalition. They say the election was
:15:23. > :15:30.free and fair. They have accused the opposition, the leader who is
:15:30. > :15:40.speaking right now, of trying to incite unrest. This is the beginning
:15:40. > :15:48.
:15:48. > :15:56.of the battle. We will continue this struggle and we will never
:15:56. > :16:00.surrender. Police say this rally is illegal and could take action
:16:00. > :16:03.against anyone who attends. But these Malaysians have chosen to defy
:16:03. > :16:10.the ban, and this is just the start. The opposition says they will
:16:10. > :16:14.continue a fierce and paying for electoral reform. It was one of the
:16:14. > :16:18.world 's biggest ever diamond heists and now police have arrested more
:16:18. > :16:23.than 30 people. In February, $50 million worth of stones disappeared
:16:23. > :16:29.from a plane on the tarmac at Brussels airport. They were stolen
:16:29. > :16:36.by men disguised as police officers, complete with machine guns. Now
:16:36. > :16:46.stage -- rates have been staged across Europe, making arrests and
:16:46. > :16:53.
:16:53. > :17:02.receiving a large quantity of former kidnap -- Stanley
:17:02. > :17:05.reminisced's some, Ali Haider. A fourth Islamist leader is sentenced
:17:05. > :17:11.to death in Bangladesh for crimes committed during the country 's war
:17:11. > :17:15.of independence. A Pakistani prisoner who was assaulted by a
:17:15. > :17:20.fellow inmate at a jail in Indian administered Kashmir has died in
:17:20. > :17:26.hospital. He was attacked just days after a high-profile Indian prisoner
:17:26. > :17:29.died after being assaulted in a Pakistani prison. The BBC's South
:17:29. > :17:37.Asia correspondent is in Delhi. He told me about the reactions so far
:17:37. > :17:41.to the deaths. Certainly in India, there's been quite a lot of coverage
:17:41. > :17:45.on this latest attack and the subsequent death of the Pakistani
:17:45. > :17:49.prisoner. But in Pakistan, while it has made news, obviously we know
:17:49. > :17:53.they are in the midst of a very critical national election, so it's
:17:53. > :17:59.not surprising to find out that in Pakistan, while it has made news,
:18:00. > :18:03.perhaps it's not had quite the impact that the death of the Indian
:18:03. > :18:07.prisoner last month in Pakistan had made in India, where it was
:18:07. > :18:12.front-page news, it was received with outrage by Indian officials.
:18:12. > :18:17.When the body was handed over to India, he received a state funeral.
:18:17. > :18:24.A lot was made of this. Many are now watching to see what the reaction is
:18:24. > :18:27.going to be once the body is sent back to Pakistan. We understand that
:18:27. > :18:30.both countries are in touch with each other. There are medical
:18:30. > :18:37.formalities that need to be completed before the body is sent
:18:37. > :18:42.back home. A former US diplomat in Libya has given a dramatic account
:18:42. > :18:49.of the attack on the US compound in Benghazi last September, in which
:18:49. > :18:52.four Americans died. His testimony showed bitter political differences
:18:52. > :19:02.over the deaths. Republicans are trying to pin the blame for what
:19:02. > :19:08.happened squarely on President Obama. Raise your right hand.
:19:08. > :19:11.Swearing to tell the truth about Benghazi. Ambassador Christopher
:19:11. > :19:15.Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the attack on the
:19:15. > :19:21.compound last year. Now the first public account by a US official who
:19:21. > :19:27.was in Libya at the time. I received a call from the Prime Minister of
:19:27. > :19:36.Libya. I think it's the saddest phone call I've ever had in my life.
:19:36. > :19:39.He told me that the ambassador had passed away.
:19:39. > :19:46.In the immediate aftermath of the attack, President Obama
:19:46. > :19:50.Administration gave conflicting details of what happened. The UN
:19:50. > :19:56.ambassador, Susan Rice, initially said it erupted spontaneously. The
:19:57. > :20:06.result of a protest over an anti-Islamic video. I was stunned.
:20:06. > :20:09.My jaw dropped. I was embarrassed. Republicans have accused the
:20:09. > :20:12.administration of failing to protect the Benghazi compound and then
:20:12. > :20:16.trying to cover up a terrorist attack in the run-up to the
:20:16. > :20:21.presidential election. The testimony of Greg Hicks has done nothing to
:20:21. > :20:23.lay that the route to rest. But Democrats maintained that the
:20:23. > :20:32.confusion was the result of the incomplete information and that
:20:33. > :20:36.there was no demo -- no attempt to mislead the public. An appeals court
:20:36. > :20:40.in Italy has upheld a four year prison sentence against the former
:20:40. > :20:44.Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi. He'd been convicted of
:20:44. > :20:47.tax fraud in connection with one of his media companies. He is now
:20:47. > :20:53.expected to take his appeal to Italy's highest court, which may
:20:53. > :21:00.mean he avoids jail altogether. Silvio Berlusconi knows these
:21:00. > :21:05.courtrooms well. Over the years he has been accused of fraud, perjury,
:21:05. > :21:09.bribery and corruption, charges he's always denied. But in this latest
:21:09. > :21:12.trial, his conviction for tax evasion has been upheld. Not only
:21:12. > :21:22.that, but the four-year jail sentence he received last October
:21:22. > :21:23.
:21:23. > :21:27.has been reinstated, after a lower court had reduced it to one year.
:21:27. > :21:31.TRANSLATION: It has no logic to condemn an individual who has no
:21:31. > :21:38.connection with a company, exactly the opposite has been decided on
:21:38. > :21:43.today. The appeals court in Italy has also confirmed a five-year ban
:21:43. > :21:46.from public office. But the former Prime Minister is unlikely to accept
:21:46. > :21:50.this latest ruling and is expected to appeal to the country's highest
:21:50. > :21:56.court. Experts say it could end his political career but even if his
:21:56. > :22:01.appeal is rejected it is unlikely he will go to jail. Mr Berlusconi's
:22:01. > :22:09.trials content with this one. He is also a defendant in a trial for
:22:09. > :22:12.having sex with an underage prostitute. When shoppers in Europe
:22:12. > :22:16.found themselves unwittingly buying horse meat earlier this year,
:22:16. > :22:20.companies rushed to take it off the shelves. But in China there is a
:22:20. > :22:24.seemingly endless diet of food safety scandals. Just last week,
:22:24. > :22:34.more than 900 people were arrested for selling what they said was lamb.
:22:34. > :22:36.
:22:36. > :22:39.In fact it was Matt and Fox meet. -- racked and Fox. It's a corner of
:22:39. > :22:44.Beijing where the countryside comes to the city. There's no shortage of
:22:44. > :22:50.choice when it comes to the produce. But in a country rocked by food
:22:50. > :22:56.safety scandals, people here are extremely picky about what they buy.
:22:56. > :23:02.TRANSLATION: There are pesticides in vegetables, chemicals in pork and
:23:03. > :23:06.dead pigs floating in the river. Nobody seems to be in charge.
:23:06. > :23:09.Memories of Europe's horse meat scandal may be fading, but in China,
:23:09. > :23:13.rarely a day goes by without a reminder of the country's terrible
:23:13. > :23:22.food safety record. In the latest shocking scandal, consumers buying
:23:22. > :23:28.lamb were in fact being sold racked meat. Police arrested almost 1000
:23:28. > :23:31.people and seized 20,000 tonnes of meat. But Beijing has been unable to
:23:31. > :23:35.clean up the country's food supply chain. Corruption and lax
:23:35. > :23:42.regulations often means corners are cut, with no regard for public
:23:42. > :23:46.safety. At this hotpot restaurant they present the cooking oil. It is
:23:46. > :23:52.to prove it has not been dredged up from the gutter. That was yet
:23:52. > :23:59.another scandal that turned people stomachs. Translation-macro --
:23:59. > :24:05.TRANSLATION: The manager says that unless we reassure the customers,
:24:05. > :24:08.they simply walked out of the door. People in China are eating out far
:24:08. > :24:15.more than ever before, but the authorities are facing public anger
:24:15. > :24:20.over what is being served up. You might wonder what you can learn from
:24:20. > :24:24.looking at rhino dung, but scientists at Chester Zoo in
:24:24. > :24:28.north-west England say it has helped them make a brief dash back
:24:28. > :24:35.breakthrough inbreeding rhinos. We have been to meet the latest baby
:24:35. > :24:40.arrival at the zoo. Dakina is just seven weeks old. She is the latest
:24:40. > :24:43.addition to Chester Zoo's group of ten black rhinos. Her arrival was
:24:43. > :24:48.particularly special because she belongs to a species on the
:24:48. > :24:51.critically endangered list. Although the numbers of black rhinos... There
:24:51. > :24:56.are only 5000 animals left. The threat of poaching continues,
:24:56. > :24:59.fuelled by demand for their horns. That is why the researchers who have
:25:00. > :25:04.invested so much time and effort in a conservation breeding programme,
:25:04. > :25:10.studying every aspect of the animals behaviour and their hormones. And
:25:10. > :25:14.this is where the research gets messy. This box contains dozens of
:25:14. > :25:17.samples of rhino dung. The scientists analyse these samples,
:25:17. > :25:22.looking for the hormonal clues that will tell them when a female rhino
:25:22. > :25:29.is most fertile. It also enables the team to monitor the animals health
:25:29. > :25:32.and to confirm when a female is pregnant. When we started using
:25:32. > :25:35.hormonal analysis to understand the reproduction of the species here at
:25:35. > :25:41.Chester Zoo, we realised there were differences between individuals in
:25:41. > :25:48.how well they were breeding. We expanded that properly, that
:25:49. > :25:54.question to the whole of the European population, to try and
:25:54. > :25:58.understand how we can improve reproductive success. Before this
:25:58. > :26:02.project, no baby rhinos had been born at Chester Zoo for ten years.
:26:03. > :26:10.They have now been four new babies. The hope is that this study can
:26:10. > :26:11.achieve similar results in zoos around Europe. The goal is if the
:26:11. > :26:15.captive population is self-sustaining and growing at a
:26:15. > :26:19.healthy rate, there's a potential for those rhinos to go back to
:26:19. > :26:25.Africa. It has happened already from a couple of zoos in Europe over the
:26:25. > :26:30.last four gears. We need to be working towards that. For now, the
:26:30. > :26:35.baby and her mother are being left to rest. Oblivious of the efforts
:26:35. > :26:38.being made to make sure that there are many more baby rhinos going to
:26:38. > :26:43.be born. People across the UK have reported seeing a large meatier
:26:43. > :26:49.flashing across the night sky. Witnesses described a blue or green